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Yes, when they were little kids. People can drift apart, through no fault of either of them. We know Elliot is pretty passive; he and Sarah didn't even speak for several days, while they were supposed to be dating, because Sarah was waiting for him to call her. If Tedd had stayed near-mute, he wouldn't have been any competiton for Elliot's attenton versus people he'd meet at ASMA, school, etc. Elliot isn't most people. He wouldn't abandon him because unlike Sarah he would be afraid something would happen to him. Also, Tedd IS going to school with him. He wouldn't likely spent as much time with him, but still wouldn't let him go evil. No, I think it's not just drifting apart. I think Elliot is dead in Lord Tedd's universe AND his death was one of events which put Tedd on track to become Lord Tedd.

Yes. Her save wasn't exactly stellar but good enough. No, our Tedd is Lord Tedd's sister Although who knows, maybe Lord Tedd is genderfluid as well? (Hmmm ... as far as we know, our Tedd doesn't have sister, but DOES have brother.) She might had relatively good idea when Blaike was alive, but since then ... well, Adrian already commented that. She desires magic for the fun, IMHO. She doesn't seem to go on any dangerous quests unless someone leads her there ... Also, we already knows it's Elliot and Grace who is keeping the group good. Without Elliot and with Grace replaced with General Shade Tail, well ... maybe THEN Sarah went to dark path. She DID like goth ... No. Elliot was his friend even when he was muttering a lot, which means BEFORE TFG, in time Nanase though he was mute. But, his second oldest friend is IMHO Sarah and she's only friend with him due to Elliot ... Nanase is his cousin but might never hang with him without Elliot ... Justin would likely transfer to different city without Elliot ... Susan got into group due to Nanase, so indirectly by Elliot again ... He might be very alone with general Shade Tail as only friend, TF gun or not. To "her normal" maybe.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=638 Well, she WAS not aware of this on New Year Eve, but she could discover meantime - oh wait that was less than month ago. In that case it makes sense. Shrinking is clear - she's already on limit. And I guess you can't get more blonde than blonde. Not sure why muscles, it could be used as example of how single beam muscles makes person stronger but double beam muscles don't make her more stronger, just looking worse. And heavier? Heavier Nanase isn't even as fat as George ...

The fire monster wasn't really hot, much less burning. There IS possibility there is magic component of Cheerleadra shielding - no matter if Elliot is or isn't aware. But I agree there doesn't seem to be any real fire in that either. Which we shouldn't generalize, but we can take it as another proof there wasn't real fire inside buldog dragon fire. Nothing about other monsters, but definitive confirmation this one was mostly magic. Also, suggests that the reason WHY the fireball disappeared was drama, specifically will of magic's flair for drama. Hmmm ... maybe we will have less stuff like this after reset? Seems unlikely, but if the question would be "would all projectiles created by magic we will see in EGS be considered summoned entities" it would be harder to answer. Griffins didn't summoned anything fire-looking and the vampire had something looking as classical bombs ... (there are lot of things which certainly exists in EGS world but Dan doesn't want to show them in comics ; sometimes he deliberately leaves the door open, as with the "timetravel is only thing we know for sure can't be done with magic")

Based on Dan mentioning what Ellen is NOT canonically aware of, I would assume she IS canonically aware of most of those abilities. She already mentioned she has multiple beams in canon. And yes, we can expect that some of those beams will be used when dealing with Vampires ... I'd modify that slightly, because of what I think an enchantment is: an effect of a spell, that requires ongoing consumption of magical energy to sustain it. Not all spells create enchantments, the most obvious example being Tedd's changing default form but the first apparent example being Tamashii Gekido. Yes, obviously the description would be only correct for spells which creates enchantment. Also note that only Tedd can shrug off an enchantment instantly - for most people, enchantment resistance is about how fast they get rid of it if they don't want it to keep going. This actually depends on fireball. Fireball might be magic fire which disappears when you remove the magic, or it can be real fire just held together by magic. Or something between that. Maybe the fireball will cool down and disappears in half of second if you remove magic. In extreme case, removing magic from fireball can make it explode. Although that's more related to attempt to dispel it middle-flight: if it hits you, it explodes anyway and the magic is not targeted to you so you can't resist it.

I'm sorry. My computer does not accept or give cookies. The fact you are logged in on this forum proves that's not true. I am thinking that maybe they don't have any. The magic analysis wand registered near zero for Tedd, whereas Luke's magic prowess detection spell obviously detected something amazing about Tedd (even if it was just that he has enough power to create feedback in the detection). It would seem the Agency might not have the technology to detect Seers. You would think if they had one, they would be studying him or her to figure out how to find more. Just a thought. Honestly, they might not even know that Seers exist. They might know they exists from historic books but not know enough about them to know how to identify them. Would be funny if they would be searching for seer and actually HAD one and just not realizing it. Hmmm ... she just said Tedd has exceptionally good spell resistance. Maybe he can ... As long as the only thing of her which is on hair trigger are dramatic speech it's manageable. Of course, I suspect it already isn't the only thing ... but we didn't saw anything worse yet, not counting the case with werewolves. Remember that she described Tedd to Heka - she knew lot about him for long time, including the "lots of energy" part.

I'm pretty certain the difference between the two is that Spell resistance is the ability for a person to resist an attempt to enchant them, and enchantment resistance applies to being able to shrug off an enchantment after it's been applied. What I'm not completely certain of is if they are actually 2 separate types of resistances, or 1 type that works differently depending on the situation, like a spell has more power when it's cast so one would have to resist more to prevent them from being enchanted, but if they end up getting enchanted then they can still shorten the duration (unless it's permanent like changing a person's default form) by resisting it. It's gotta be a matter of willpower "I will not be enchanted" and "I will not stay enchanted" kind of thing, different situations, but still the same method of resisting. One obvious difference, as mentioned in that link, is that surprise impacts spell resistance but not enchantment resistance. Most likely, there are other modifiers which apply differently, but to rephrase the question, we don't know if "base" person spell resistance and enchantment resistance is always same, if they might differ but usually are similar or if there is commonly difference. (Alternatively, if one can train one but not the other, in a way how one can train upper body and not lower body although generally is recommended to train both.) Even Tedd's ability to shred any enchantment may be matched with just as high ability to resist spells, in fact Pandora mentioned something like that.

I think that the idea is that magic is too dangerous to be available to general public is 1) Considered really important in DGB - no matter if true, their fears of being overwhelmed by lot of bad guys getting dangerous spells seems real 2) Hard to explain to said public, considering everyone would quickly find out several ways how magic can help the public even if it wouldn't be him getting it. 3) Also, keeping magic secret might be (declared by Supreme Court to be) against first AND second amendments. Even if Leifield didn't do anything "unofficial" he wouldn't want to get public, he may be high enough for being endangered if the basic premises of organization would be found unacceptable. In fact, even Arthur Arthur might be high enough.

Even if she was aware of being able to use both hands to make her spells more difficult to resist, it still wouldn't have worked on Not_Tengu, so really the only effect it would have had would have been to make us speculate if she got a new spell that required both hands. I think DAN didn't known about that option when drawing it. But yes it wouldn't change much. Dan could even SAY that using both hands make the spell harder to resist in commentary to keep most of us from speculating (not everyone reads the comments of course). Personally I would guess that higher resistance IS sideefect of his form, on the other hand he WAS aware he will be fighting another magic user so he might've been prepared. Note that while Noriko was able to get him, it wasn't easy as they though she might be ONLY person capable of getting him. And that was without ambient magic. He is not some just-get-magic-let-me-try-it person - he started like that but now he's experienced. So, high resistance makes sense. BTW it was his spell resistance, not enchantment resistance.

It is also possible Liefeld didn't agreed with Arthur's plan until the Abraham incident convinced him it's needed / worth it. Also, regarding "other excuse" ... it's possible he would WAIT for other excuse. He might've already be waiting for some time. I think that Dan went to the trouble of drawing all that exercise equipment  he complains about because he wanted this scene to take place at a public gymnasium to give an excuse for Carol Brown to overhear the discussion. Notice that in the first panel when Arthur is telling Leifeld that this gym isn't the most secure location for the discussion while looking to his left. When the view widens to show the gymnasium, Arthur is still looking to his left, and he seems to be looking at Carol Brown, whose eyes have widened, unlike the dude that Leifeld is checking out. First, even agency gymnasium might be mostly containing people with LOWER clearance than Arthur Arthur and Liefeld - higher than public gymnasium but not on the super top secret level they speak on. Second, I would still say she's not Carol Brown. Third, he's looking at her ass. Note that Voltaire MIGHT be less obvious than when he was stopping Ashley helping Elliot. His plan with Dex, for example, didn't involved giving out his identity, much less plans. And yes, deporting Adrian might've been professional jealousy. Or, like, learning jealously? I mean, he might've been jealous he didn't had as good teacher when he needed him (or EVER). Or he just considered elf to be too risky person to have around. Either the assistant was supplied to him by HR, or he hand picked her, and just because he hand picked her doesn't mean it was because he prefered the way she looked, she could have been someone he knew personally and gave her the job because he knew she'd do it well, or maybe he picked her to give everyone else the impression that he wasn't the kind of person that would watch ladies exercising in the gym. Even if he hand-picked her, he had limited options. There may not be anyone more attractive with required clearance. Or, maybe he picked her BECAUSE he know that when he picks blonde he would be too distracted to work properly. Despite lot of jokes, I don't think recognizing people by their asses or other parts of bodies is effective. It's the face which makes recognizing easiest, we evolved that way. That's what I'm wondering. The agency has a bunch of trained and experienced mages who would lose their magic. Any police-type organization relies heavily on being able to bring more training and experience to bear on a problem than nearly-any of the people causing the problem have, and a reset will take that away. The agency will have to find the new magic-users, scope them out, recruit them, and then give them any necessary procedural and teamwork training, while the newly-developed versions of Not-Tengu will simply start magically doing evil. If most magic-users in agency have actual talent/affinity, they will lose the spell but not magic - so they won't need to recruit new ones, just re-train the ones they have. Still doesn't seem like good idea. Maybe they expect the wands will keep working? Even if it's not true, there may be some reason for them to expect that. Like, if magical items certainly older than last reset still works, they may expects wands to work as well. Yup, IF the agency would have some seer, they would know enough about him to recognize Tedd as being one as well. And I think Edward has clearance high enough to know about it AND enough personal connections they wouldn't consider not telling him for conflict of interest being good idea.

You really CAN'T make something impact something else at .999c unless you speak about particles. At that speed, the bonds holding the projectile together are completely irrelevant and it moves so fast it can fly several meters before it starts fusing. No way something as small and sparse as bread would stop it. And while the idea of using relativistic speeds (just little smaller) to get marmalade INSIDE the bread is appealing, you need to remember that when the atoms DO hit they FUSE, meaning it won't be marmalade (or bread) anymore (probably will be mostly consisting of magnesium). Also, the energy will sublimate both the bread and marmalade.

... may still mean wizards without own spells are more common than seers.

Well ... actually, I'm not sure ... maybe if you would put enough current into the superconductor and it would be bent around the bread it would warm it with induction alone ... but the principle of superconductor is that it will NOT get hot when you put current into it, while principle of toaster and/or electric kettle is that it WILL get hot when you put current into it.

That wouldn't work. Basically, there are places in CPU where you NEED to disappear the energy which brought the signal. NAND gate, for example. Obviously, there are non-deliberate energy loses as well, but I wouldn't be sure which are bigger. Also, the temperature of CPU core is not "room", it's "boiling water" ... or "boiling oil" in case of GPU. Although ... if we WOULD build CPU on room-temperature superconductors, it would likely require completely different construction which MIGHT have less thermal loses ... Superconducting toaster will leave the bread cold.

Definitely. Maybe Pandora is talking about the second purpose right now? Just a guess, but it does seem like she's talking about more than just the first purpose there. She's talking about him having lot of energy which she already knew WHEN MARKING LUKE. I suspect that Leifeld might have understood Edward's feelings at the time, and that he only injured Abraham which mean Edward still had some restraint, but if Edward had actually killed Abraham after Abraham had already surrendered, then Leifeld might have had to take more drastic action. Yes, I would be afraid of that as well.

So can Grace on occasion. Yes - and even if she means it seriously. In fact, while Pandora can do the "insane" angle better, Grace looks more dangerous there than Pandora here, IMHO.

And it would be even worse if her attempt succeeded, probably. I'm pretty sure she predicted how THAT meeting will go based on her already having the plan to empower Moperville in progress. And unlike the Magus case, she didn't looked that much angry. Also, Voltaire's setup was pretty convincing on itself. I don't care why but I do hope she'll tone down. Or at least disappears and let Tedd think about it. Yeah ... Pandora can be very dramatic. Did she get that from magic?

It certainly will, although maybe not as much as they though. Maybe the whole flow of magic is to spread magic from Seers to rest of world. Worlds. Both halves of world. Solution to WHAT? Although unless Pandora exaggerate, this solution is likely to find some problem ... would be funny if next page Pandora was non-scary again and saying "... although maybe you shouldn't do that, it's more boring than it sounds."

Good thought. Tedd is trying to restrain his reactions; he reminded himself that she can't hurt him unless he attacks. But if Tedd doesn't say something, Pandora is more likely to keep on going ballistic. That actually means "out of control", BTW, as when a guided missile loses its lockon and just keeps going on in the same direction. Ballistic is predictable. Pandora isn't going to get predictable. We can't even predict if she does "diminish" like Galadriel or continue getting scarier. ... Tedd might be lucky to not having the gauntlet now. Also, with this I'm sure Heka did the right thing when he didn't told Pandora the second purpose. She WOULD blab that out. Hmmm ... is Voltaire watching?

Hey, listen! Of course. And the "Lord" title suggests that he practically tested that. Or it DOES store magic and Tedd actually used more power than Sarah when looking at the Whale. Or it DOES store magic and Tedd just didn't noticed it's full three seconds after starting. She already looked scarier. But it may not be good look for (Fairy God)motherly talk. Considering the rules depend on how they understand them, it can be matter of live or dead. Well, reset. I'm pretty sure Galadriel is older than Pandora. She remembers the trees. But she's also saner. Even in this scene.

That's why I had the thinking that maybe the divorce caused an angst induced awakening or something in Tedd and his near mute behaviour for years after was a symptom of it. Susan's awakening nearly caused her to go into a murderous rage if not for a quick serenity spell from Jerry. Greg may have had an awakening caused by depression due to being dumped by his girlfriend and the subsequent anime marathon. Tedd going into a deep depression over the divorce of his parents doesn't seem too far off really. I think angst and depression are very different emotions and that you are more likely to have awakening on getting OUT of depression instead of in. Which might mean Tedd had awakening while working on TF gun - or asking to work on TF gun. Traditionally all the emperors are supposed to descend from a majo named Himiko. Most are supposed to descend from a Korean princess who married one of the earliest emperors considered to be historical. BTW, when Akihito, the reigning Emperor, pointed this out in public sixteen years ago, it began a stir in Japan that hasn't down yet. This might've been more useful if my knowledge about Korea wouldn't be even worse than my knowledge about Japan Oh. Wait. Himiko is supposed to be from first few centuries AD, definitely enough for all Japan people being descended from her.

Hadn't heard about the diamond coated wire. That article talks about using it in processors so I think it will conduct, but it's not for bonding chips but rather for connecting individual components on the chip. Compared to the internal signals on a chip the external signals are quite "crude", using relatively high voltages and currents. I just found that article searching for something about the thinnest wire. But yes, it might be usable as logic/signal wire, but half of pins for modern CPUs are power supply and grounding and while partially it's to get current to all necessary places mostly I think it's because fewer wouldn't be able to transfer the current needed. After all, from physics point of view, CPU is device for turning electric energy into heat very similar to electric kettles.

Yeah, already talked about that. Great-grandparents are last step I can do, after that I'm SURE to not know them. Question is what is the breakpoint if you look at Japan. Japan is island, but their emperors are not that old (also, if we were literal we would need to only count literal kings) and blood of other kings might've been isolated from them ... (Nanase's family IS from Japan, right?) Basically, while every human is related, the kings are relatively recent phenomena, so the question if first kings happened early enough to already spread to all humans is open. Europe, yes, we had lot of kings pretty early. Asia? Africa? America? Aztec empire is not that old ... Yeah ... truly manly Tedd would be good addition to the Ellen Demo storyline Wait: What about blending Nanase's male form with Tedd?

You can make thinner wires out of gold, but as gold isn't as good a conductor they have to be thicker than the equivalent copper wire. And thicker means more expensive, so unless corrosion resistance is very important, or it needs to withstand a lot of vibrations copper is often the preferred material. For common components vibration is not a problem, thermal expansion can be a problem, but in low power electronics it's not a big problem and copper is usually good enough. Yeah ... didn't though about if those thin gold wires would conduct good enough. Speaking about it, that diamond coated copper wire might not conduct good enough either.