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    Yes I know the original Warcraft game series was just called Warcraft THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT RIGHT

    Actually, the first game in the series was called Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. Then you had Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, the expansion for that called Beyond the Dark Portal, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and its expansion, The Frozen Throne. Then, of course, after all that, you've got World of Warcraft, the only game in the series to not have a subtitle.

     

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    3 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    If you turn the table upside-down it might, but if the hourglass is glued to the table so that it can't be turned over again, then putting the table on its side would just lead to an hourglass sticking out perpendicular to it, presumably with the sand falling to the "side" of the hourglass and coming to rest, no longer pouring from top compartment to bottom.

    And that's what you want anyway. If the hourglass is intended to be a metaphor for the aging process, you don't want to reverse it.  You'd eventually get too young and blink yourself out of existence. You want to stop it, no longer becoming younger or older.  Turning the hourglass on its side is the way to do that.

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    50 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    But the paint still counts! ... well, not for much, but at least a little. :)

    (Waaaait ... what will appear under the "Death Star" paint? It's pretty important plot element and IMHO hard to replace with something from pure fantasy. You can replace other starships with normal ships, but Death Star would then still end up being something on too big technology level to be acceptable in fantasy - carrier maybe. Unless ... maybe you can replace Death Star with flying island and fighters with dragons. That might work, although it still sounds at least little technological as the island will still need to be build. Likely by dwarves or gnomes.)

    Scratch off the Death Star paint and you get Sauron. Wherever he gazes, doom follows.

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    I'd like to point out that the word "parsec" shouldn't be in Star Wars at all.

    The distance of a parsec is calculated based on Earth's orbit around the Sun. It's useful because you can calculate how far a celestial body is from Earth by calculating what it's angle in the sky is, then waiting half a year, and making the same calculation again. Because the Earth is on the other side of the Sun when you make the second calculation, the angle will be slightly different, and you can use basic trigonometry to calculate the distance. (A parsec is about 3.26 light years.)

    As Earth isn't in Star Wars (it takes place in "a galaxy far, far away"), there's absolutely no reason to have a unit of distance that's based on the size of Earth's orbit.

    QED

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    3 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    So far as I've been able to tell, when a pledge is made, that money is taken out of the patron's account,

    Well there's your problem right there. Unless you're a creator, why would you have any money in your Patreon account at all? I certainly don't. I have it set up to take my pledge out via paypal at the beginning of each month, and I'm sure a lot of other people either do that or have a credit card set up as well.

    I'm sure that IF you have cash in a Patreon account, it will take that first, and might even do it right away (not sure on that part, as I've never tried it), but I'm sure that people who actually do it that way are a tiny percentage of the total number of donators.

    The amount pledged is never ever the amount you get when cards get charged, because cards get declined.

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    1 hour ago, Scotty said:

    I recall back when it got to $3200, it was around the time of voting as well but then it dropped below due to the change of pay cycle but Dan still added the second "my choice" just because the $3200 for that month was covered, so Dan's guaranteed to be getting $3600 from May so he should still honour the second place 2 character pinup for June.

    Except we don't actually know it's been covered. Some of that is probably from Patron adjusting minor this due to fee changes and what not, but I guarantee that a lot of it is due to declined credit cards.

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    18 hours ago, Howitzer said:

    I've seen it hovering between 3599 and 3604 for the past couple days. Totally expecting it to drop by 40 or 50 dollars once the cards actually start getting charged in a day or two though. If it doesn't I will be (pleasantly) shocked.

    Well, the charging has begun, and it suddenly dropped down to 3512, which is actually a bit more then I expected. No second place two character pinup.

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    7 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Odd, I haven't seen it drop below 3600 since it was met, though whats weirder is it's gone up to $3607 but only gained 2 more patrons, it made me wonder if a bunch of existing patrons upped their pledge from $1 to $3 or $5. I'm bracing for tonight though when the month switches over and patreon dumps those that don't have recurring pledges.

    I've seen it hovering between 3599 and 3604 for the past couple days. Totally expecting it to drop by 40 or 50 dollars once the cards actually start getting charged in a day or two though. If it doesn't I will be (pleasantly) shocked.

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    3 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    ... I was already assured that any interesting character that still survived would die soon.

    Well that's just wrong.  Do interesting characters die? Yes, yes they do. But just as many survive as well. As much as people like to say that George RR Martin likes to kill off his characters, it really doesn't happen that often. It's just that when it DOES happen, it tends to have immediate and huge ramifications. Also, a lot of the time you don't see it coming.

    As for the plot, I'd say most of it happens in books two and three, which are all about the War of the Five Kings. Book one is mostly setup for the war, while books four and five are mostly about the aftermath of the war.

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    1 minute ago, Scotty said:

    I can safely say this works, my mom bought "A Dance with Dragons" not realizing that it was book 5 of the "Song of Ice and Fire" series, so refused to read it until I went and bought the other 4 books for her as a Christmas present. :)

    Well, at least it's a really good book series.  She should wait to read them until The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring are released though.