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Vorlonagent

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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from Tuscahoma in Story Wednesday August 16th, 2017   
    I think "trickster" primarily.  In that mode she wasn't "bad" per se....   But humor, especially practical joke sort of humor is hard to pull off without some cruelty.  Which in turn often requires some indifference to the object of the prank.
    I'd like to credit Blaike with putting Pandora in touch with her empathy.  Maybe Pandora's experience with Blaike was enough to bring about a change to basic nature.  I expect we'll find out eventually.
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    Vorlonagent reacted to CritterKeeper in Question for readers of ebooks and dead tree books.   
    Page size is an important factor here.  A paperback novel sized book is better one column per page.  An 8.5x11 or larger handbook or text is usually better either two columns, or with lots of boxes and charts and graphics that break up the monotony.  If a column of text gets too wide, then it's more difficult to track back from the end of one line and find where the beginning of the next is, instead of accidentally re-reading or skipping a line.  It can be done, but it slows the reader down unnecessarily.
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    Vorlonagent reacted to CritterKeeper in Story Wednesday August 16th, 2017   
    Pandora's dilemma definitely reminds me of Ashildr, from Doctor Who, a Viking girl who became immortal sort of by accident.  Infinite lifespan, finite memory.  She started keeping a journal with the most important things in her life, to re-read when she had forgotten who she used to be.  It filled a respectably-sized library in her home and spilled out into the halls the second time the Doctor encountered her.  There were places pages were stained with tears, places where pages had been torn out because she wanted to forget what those pages held.  But she only knew what was in the diary as something she had read about.  One wonders whether someone like that could actually learn the important lessons in life, or whether they too would be forgotten along with the details of how they were learned.  Apparently she could, though, because the person who the Doctor met at the end of the universe was very different from the girl he saved from dying.
    They did something visually similar with Methos's diary in Highlander, kept since writing was invented, with parts of the diary on papyrus scrolls and cuneiform tablets.  In that series, however, Immortals have excellent memories so I never really got the impression Methos needed the diary.
    From what Pandora and the Emissary of Magic said, it sounds like an Immortal only passes along what the most recent incarnation chooses to pass along.  There isn't an ever-growing library of mental tomes.  Or, if there is, the older ones must be much harder to access than the most recent one.  Perhaps they're nested, like a hard drive archive with files for a previous archive that contains a previous archive which contains the recovered files from a crash which contains....  Hmm, wasn't there an xkcd on that?   ....yup, there sure is!
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from Drasvin in NP Wednesday August 9, 2017   
    Also how could one not involve the Hammer Queen in the forging of a new hammer artifact.
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from The Old Hack in NP Monday August 7, 2017   
    I'd rather Greg's achievement remain his own.
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from The Old Hack in NP Friday August 4, 2017   
    Not at all.  The way I heard it Ug was always happy to have someone join his club....
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    Vorlonagent reacted to The Old Hack in Story, Monday July 31, 2017   
    HEY! Be nice to the members of the Danish Parliament! You can't just... just...
    ...excuse me. I was trying to come up with a reason as to why you should be nice to them, but for some reason I came up with a complete blank.
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from mlooney in Brownie   
    And then pounces upon them because dancing lesser beings are irresistible to cats.
    Lord Borwnie never plays for long before suddenly falling asleep.  Much to the relief of the lesser beings.
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from mlooney in Brownie   
    And then pounces upon them because dancing lesser beings are irresistible to cats.
    Lord Borwnie never plays for long before suddenly falling asleep.  Much to the relief of the lesser beings.
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from mlooney in Brownie   
    And then pounces upon them because dancing lesser beings are irresistible to cats.
    Lord Borwnie never plays for long before suddenly falling asleep.  Much to the relief of the lesser beings.
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from mlooney in Brownie   
    And then pounces upon them because dancing lesser beings are irresistible to cats.
    Lord Borwnie never plays for long before suddenly falling asleep.  Much to the relief of the lesser beings.
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from animalia in Story, Friday July 28, 2017   
    I don't know about you but I can't push a 14-ton can of anything anywhere it doesn't naturally want to go.  
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    Vorlonagent reacted to ProfessorTomoe in I need to vent.   
    OH! Oh! I'm sorry! This is abuse!
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from The Old Hack in I need to vent.   
    I tend to avoid unmoderated forums for exactly this sort of thing. 
    I get into enough arguments on moderated forums. 
     
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from CritterKeeper in What Are Your Brushes With Fame?   
    I like to think Sierra's choice to produce the B5 game had some small influence on Turner eventually picking up B5's 5th season.  If so, then I also like to think I had a small influence on Sierra's choice to make the game. 
    I was a very enthusiastic fan and had VCR recordings of all B5 episodes that had aired.  Several times over the decision-making process Sierra's management needed to look at an episode, so they would ask me for it.  I'd run home (literally..I lived that close to work), find the tape with the episode and cue it up.  So I like to think I had a (small)squared hand in helping B5 get its 5th season.    Probably between 1/100% and 1/10% at most.
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    Vorlonagent reacted to The Old Hack in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    I am sorry to hear. As always, I hope you will manage to cope with all this until things improve.
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from The Old Hack in Things That Make You Happy   
    This should need no further introduction...
     
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story, Monday July 17, 2017   
    I'm a bicyclist and I approve of this statement.

    Sometimes I'm even one of them. 
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from CritterKeeper in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    I'd suggest asking just to be sure.  Even if your age doesn't qualify you, your condition might.
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    Your coffee maker is a self-aware AI.  It passed the Keurig  test...
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    Your coffee maker is a self-aware AI.  It passed the Keurig  test...
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    Your coffee maker is a self-aware AI.  It passed the Keurig  test...
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    Your coffee maker is a self-aware AI.  It passed the Keurig  test...
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    Your coffee maker is a self-aware AI.  It passed the Keurig  test...
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    Vorlonagent got a reaction from mlooney in NP, Wednesday July 12, 2017   
    "thank you suh, may I have another?"