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Why are you very allergy-resistant?

DBZ: 5 minutes of high-octane action packed into 22 minutes of recaps and coming attractions.... For those without the attention span for DBZ Abriged, there's also DBZ Abriged Abriged, which covers the entire Namek plotline in under 7 minutes...

You say this like it's a bad thing...

I disagree with your disagreement

Both of your experiences have been very different from mine. I used google's RSS reader until they discontinued it, and had few problems. Replacing google was more a matter of ease-of-use interface issues. The feeds themselves have been rock-solid. EGS, for example, comes off without a hitch week-in, week-out. I have settled on a web-based reader called Feedley. It's been trouble-free, and I've even come to like it well enough to have bought a subscription. Feedly's organization features are nothing spectacular, but enough to keep chaos at bay. Every feed is its own folder and I can drop feeds in a topic folder on top of that. That's all I need. Sure it can be a mess if I look t everything at once, but I don't have to. Most of my RSS issues have been problems that the source was having, not the reader. I've had webcomics neglect their feeds (PvP) or rebuild their feed, forcing me to re-subscribe (Trying Human), but RSS has never failed me when it came irregularly-updating content(Megatokyo, Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki). There's even one webcomic (Day by Day) that I need Feedly to read. For whatever reason the local internet backbone doesn't like the comic so 9 days out of 10, so it simply doesn't display on my web browser. I can always get it through Feedley.

Since someone can be awakened without their knowledge (Justin) and nobody knows what their spells are short of a spellbook or accidental castings (Elliot, Sarah respectively), I'd definitely say that when a person with the Wizard talent is awakened, they wouldn't automagically know they had the talent. They'd have to figure it out or be told, or something like that.

Maybe that's my first problem. I don't *read* hundreds of webcomics, news sites and other assorted things...

And Tame Theories....

I'd say there's a yes and a no to that. Uryouom "enchantments" do not stack. Earth-stuff can.

Not-Tengue may not be familiar with the shades of difference between Uryouom magic and earth-magic...

Namek was the best part to date of DBZ Abridged...

RSS means never having to check for updates...

Trigger warnings can be overdone. Anytime someone thinks, "maybe I should put a trigger warning on that", their heart and mind are in the right place. Anytime someone yells "You should put a trigger warning on that!", they aren't...

Actually Ellen's FV5 beam is NOT an enchantment in the Earth-magic sense...

Agreed, but the juggling three hammers and lunch tray is mundane hammer skill, but not any kind of magic skill. To do what it does, the Hammer-Artifact would have to require next-to-no magic energy, or none. Compare to Tedd's watches, which use a tiny bit of energy. They *won't* work for a normal human (or Tedd) outside Moperville's magic buildup, while the Hammers did. So in terms of usefulness for magic training: Watches > Hammers. There's evidence that the Hammers did not require any magical energy at all. We know that Uryouom-brand magical energy does not activate Tedd's watches. Grace can't use them, even with Moperville's high-magic concentration helping her. But Gillian (a full-blooded Uryouom who also shouldn't have any earth-brand magic energy available) summoned a hammer accidentally after humanized-William made his first sexist comment. If the Hammers required any magical energy to work, she shouldn't have been able to do it at all, let alone without really trying. I'd argue that female "offendedness" = drama and the Hammer Artifact manifested Hammers substituting drama for magical energy. In Gillain's case, Magic may have allowed "humor value" to activate the Hammer Artifact.

Elliot definitely built up his magical abilities using his martial arts. That's canon, as far as I know. However, Eliot has no issues with his martial arts that I can remember. There's no reason to assume his energy-handling system was poorly defined when more obvious and in-canon explanations exist. Elliot and Ellen both had improper forms of Awakening and that is why they both got buildups. OTOH, I don't think Susan used her Mark that much before awakening. The only Mark-uses I can think of is Susan summoning a katana during Sister and her first time creating Little Nase during Hammerchloreons. Using the Hammers could have developed her magical ability, but I'm inclined to doubt it. The Hammers were something any woman could use to club an offensive man, even outside moperville's extra-high magical energy, so I'd expect there'd be no or next to no magical training derived from using them. The big factor in Susan's favor was her natural talent for making stuff out of magic. The Paris Immortals were able to Mark Susan with a spell tailored to her talent without having to frame it within any deep needs or desires she might have. Pandora was able to Mark Sarah the same way. I'd say the threshold both being Markable and Awakable is having enough (magic energy + drama + innate talent]

I suspect that Dan 1) Has other social outlets where he can properly filter negativity and 2) No longer has the time to pay attention to every possible point of contact with fans.

I'd tend to agree. Susan has no reported magic buildup issues.

It's Monday. Give me a break...

What he said...

It hasn't been stated anywhere I know of either. I am assuming that Sirleck gradually evolved into what he is now

What he said...

Sirleck at least has the minor excuse that he comes from a culture where women were less respected and he is paying his secretary to dance to Caribbean music at lunch. Probably a lot if she's not bringing a sexual harassment lawsuit. By comparison, Rich just doesn't know any better and has closed his mind to the possibility of any "better" to know. Being undying and being poor sucks. That could be Sirleck's entire motivation when it comes to money. We don't know the living conditions of the Paris Vampire, but Spider-Mage wasn't exactly in the lap of luxury. Sirleck could be greedy too, but Dan hasn't given us enough evidence for use to conclude that greed is a central motivation to the character.

I'm not sure it's appropriate to extrapolate "greed" as a central feature of Sirleck's personality...

Burn!....