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  1. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    When kissing, Sarah was too close to them to be checked separately. Then he though about aliens and forgot he wanted to check Sarah. And were you actually so good to realize Sarah was marked when he didn't checked her? Of course, when we found she's marked we remembered this ... He presumably was around Tedd more often at that time - remember, godfather. I don't believe he wasn't in true form at least once. Yes, that's my theory as well. Maybe better than Adrian having affair with Noriko but that doesn't say much. I think it took years before Tedd's magic became visible - possibly it happened while experimenting with TF gun, or even later when experimenting with magic - and the breakup happened meanwhile and he didn't saw (nor tasted) Tedd since. That page also confirms something I wasn't quite sure of earlier: Luke has not noticed yet that Tedd's hair isn't pink any more, and that Tedd was female for awhile. So without his mark, Luke is less observant than either Rich or Larry. It's not about him being less observant. Well, maybe with the hair, but Rich was much closer at the time Tedd was female.
  2. Story, Friday June 30, 2017

    You can make thinner wires with gold, but it must be pure gold, not just gold-coated. Unless you talk about diamond coated copper.
  3. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Yes, THAT was what I was talking about. If Adrian nor the wand can't detect anything about Tedd, why Luke can? Doesn't make more sense than "just because". My solution of "They actually could sense something different NOW, they just weren't before" makes more sense. No he wasn't. I mean, with the way he was looking around, it's unlikely he never "hit" her. Unless she was deliberately avoiding his look. Or wait ... maybe he would be blinded only if he saw her ON PHYSICAL PLANE. (Although yes, he also missed Sarah ...)
  4. Again, the tea can affect shoes as well. Also, I wear tennis shoes and I never played tennis. I mean, not the non-beach variant. Wait, that's badminton and it's not usually played on beach ... (shows how seriously I was playing it)
  5. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Where did you get that idea? Luke was blinded by Tedd's aura, meaning Tedd had to have much more magical power than anyone Luke had seen before. Exactly. If Adrian would be blinded by Tedd's aura, he would say something. (Possily "ouch, turn that off, it hurts!" ) Machine might show zero for something outside it's operation parameters, but human (or half-human) wouldn't. The idea that Tedd was NOT shining so bright when young seems more and more attractive to me. And I already responded that the second part of his statement seems to not make sense (but only because ...) if what Tedd is doing still counts as spells, even not his own. Seer can not only observe spells but also understand it. It's possible Tedd is going to observe essentially random magic actions of previous magic users and helps them to find order in it again, then teach resulting spells to others. IF there is any "creating the new rules", it would be the second purpose. And maybe that's why he needs to not know about it - it would only work if he THINKS he's just finding out existing rules but he's actually making them subconsciously ... It would match all the other cases of Tedd thinking something he's doing is more normal than it is. I dismiss this possibility as boring. Also, I think that finding family who has no royal ancestors would be very hard. Unless her family records go thousands years into past proving that noone with her magic was royal ... But, yes, the connection between royalty and magic is apparently stronger on the other half of the world. ... hmmm, this reminds me I didn't had Hot Dog for long time ...
  6. NP Monday July 3, 2017

    Also in color.
  7. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Luke doesn't seem to be a capital-S Seer. All he can really detect so far is magical auras, and he can't tell much more than that some auras look similar to other auras. Tedd can actually see magic as it does its thing and analyze it well enough to make wands that reproduce and even modify spells. You misunderstood. I was wondering why Luke was able to detect Tedd as obviously not non-magic while others weren't (meaning Luke saw more than Adrian). Of course he isn't seer. Unless, of course, Tedd's talent is even harder to detect before it's activated. Adrian likely didn't saw Tedd for years. ... or is that ONLY hard to detect before activation? I don't think they re-tested Tedd recently ... The Emissary of Magic told Pandora about the rare wizards. Heka told Pandora that the rare wizards were Seers, and that Tedd was a Seer. We already knew Tedd was a Seer from something Voltaire said when he was talking to himself. And from another one of Voltaire's conversations with himself, we know that Tedd's role as a Seer is critical to whatever amazing crackpot master plan Voltaire has to finally make them all listen to his flawless advice. Or at least Voltaire thinks so, so he must believe that Tedd will likely be the special Seer with that so-so-secret second purpose, unless something happens to make him ineligible. I looked at all of those. Nowhere I can find that other wizards can have own spells. Sure it's nitpicking, but give the "own spells" is being so important plot point and the solution seems to be those are not his own spells ... In fact, the Dream Wizards "... wouldn't be affected, but only because they don't get spells in the first ..." is suspicious because the same reason should make normal wizards not affected as well - or, like, partially affected because just their own spells will be affected, not the learned ones. So, no, it can't be "only because of" that.
  8. ... can you really trip in way which makes the cup of tea end up on your head like this? What makes you think those were shorts before the tea happened?
  9. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Wait. Who said that (and where)? While it was implied, I can't find it ... Noriko and Edward likely didn't had anything better than the magic analysis wand, which seems to not detect seers at all. And again, I don't think Adrian would be be such asshole - generally, based on what he talks about, seems the thing he's blaming himself of is to teach Noriko (and possibly Edward) incorrectly, not withholding information from them (or cheating with Noriko). Meaning, whatever it is which makes seers harder to detect, Adrian seems also affected. It's weird Luke isn't. I consider it more likely than Nanase actually being closely related to any current monarch. Her relation with royalty is probably either too remote, or she's related to royal line which was kicked out of throne by someone else - but both cases leaves her with blood of kings.
  10. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Seers are born, but I think only one is chosen in the end for that secret second purpose. Otherwise why would Heka have used the word "eligible"? Eligibility implies a selection process. Oh yes that is possible. Looks like awakening to me, although he was already using his abilities before that, so I'm giving this a definite maybe. Or maybe Seers go through MULTIPLE awakenings? In any case, wizards in general may never realize they are wizards if they never see any spell they could learn. Most seers likely never realize any more potential than being wand maker. Judging by Tedd, it is possible to do all sort of magic and not realizing it, so similarly even if seers are better than other wand makers in wand making, they may not realize they are different and assume they are just little more experienced or talented. Voltaire likely knows about seers because his previous incarnation was smarter in what to note than Pandora's. And Arthur might be aware something like Seer exists, but I don't think he knows Tedd is one specifically - if he would, he would likely act on it already, OR not expect Moperville ceases to be paranormal tourist magnet after reset. There may be someone on DGB who suspects Tedd is wand maker, based on them not being able to repeat some of his research and realizing what he is actually doing, but the "Seer" knowledge seems very obscure.
  11. NP Monday July 3, 2017

    You know, someone mind-controlled arguing for mind-control is not exactly convincing. There might be conflict of interest.
  12. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Thanks. We have first. Now, was there anyone else? Jeanne d'Arc heard voices, or said she did. Now, schizophrenia comes to mind (I've dated three schizophrenics), but the only Immortal we've seen do that is Voltaire, and he needed an amulet to do it. He needed the amulet to channel power into him. It wasn't ruled out immortals CAN speak to humans invisible - just, presumably, most humans would conclude they went crazy so it may not be most effective. (Also, I think with just little more evading and little ventriloquism this could end up being described as "hearing voices") I think the second purpose of seer has integrated time limit of it's own - and the first purpose is not THAT much OP. Also, Seers are not chosen, they are born that way.
  13. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Well, I think "empower and guide" can start wars just fine. They only need to empower and guide the correct people. Joan of Arc comes into mind ... or, well, there is one war which supposedly started by three immortal beings who let human decide which one of them is the fairest and the winner then guided him to some girl. If your sandbox game can't do war, don't blame the concept, blame the game. Unless they have special agreement in place for such case, it might happen as escalation which surprised them and they weren't able to stop it without breaking rules in time.
  14. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Interesting, the whole "adding rules to themselves..." bit seems like it would fit how EGS Fairies came to be, with the "Guide and empower" rule, and then on the other half of the world, Ancient's can't lie, another rule. Yeah ... maybe EGS fairies are fairies which little overdid it with those self-imposed limits and as a result are now trapped in EGS.
  15. NP Monday July 3, 2017

    Actually, even if non-consensual, it would be much less creepy if they would JUST be hit with Nanase-like form instead of also being mindcontrolled.
  16. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Soo ... WHO was it? Actually they are fairies but that's almost same. ... actually, as you see, fairies in EGS are weak compared to other fairies
  17. Story, Friday June 30, 2017

    Cray X-MP was 105MHz computer with 16 MB RAM, with the Cray X-MP/48 version having four CPUs. Obviously the smartphones are already better, but noone is really interested in that kind of effects. In fact, I think some games running at those smartphones are rendering better animations in real time just because it's simpler than having it pre-rendered ... for example, look at this: While the ways the player can influence the battle are pretty limited, the number of combinations ensure that it can't be pre-rendered, so ... ... so it's really only question of making configurable editor for it. The computing power is there, the libraries are there, just the GUI. PS: Also, this application might work. Again, not tested, just found it by google. Or this.
  18. NP Monday July 3, 2017

    I think that 1) her spells are very focused and do only what they are described to do, and specifically 2) can only target humans. Well, living beings or something, she could target Brownie with copy beam so maybe she can target it with other spells as well. Meanwhile, Rhoda has generic shrink/grow spell which can be applied to anything, including just part of body or just sleeve of shirt. Also she used the paste on two people in that strip. Hmm.. undetermined numbers of Nanase. That has promise. We almost had it already. Also, presumably, Fox can cast the Color Clones spell for total of 8.
  19. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Well, we can't rule out other seers are developing similar stuff Which is why I would consider it important question. I would expect that, yes. And after reset, there may be no awakening. But, it would likely be one way to restart the magic. They are standard issue. Cranium might not be wizard and Edward and Agent Wolf might decide to not bother learning the spells themselves when they can get them on wand. If he would know Tedd is Seer, he would AT LEAST say he's wand maker and that the detection wand is broken. (Of course, it IS possible he found out after Noriko left. But I'm not buying he lost Noriko due to keeping too many secrets from her.) Because agent Cranium looks depressed and sad and ... actually wait, she looks pretty happy with her life and with agent Wolf. If she's not called from party to case, at least. It may be different now, but when Edward was the director, I don't think he would have any problem having Tedd as agent. Of course, after finishing university. I'm bad at remembering who said what ... is anyone else than Tom Sewell liking that "Tedd is new immortal" theory?
  20. Story, Friday June 30, 2017

    I think you misunderstand what they are talking about here. The IHS that they write about is the Integrated Heat Spreader, and Intel has used solder or a TIM back and forth ever since they started using these. So Intel not soldering the IHS on a series is nothing remarkable. The core however is, and has always been, soldered. The point is that soldering the IHS would make the CPUs much cooler (pun intended). Especially considering how cheap paste they are using there (I guess it would be OK if they used something better, like liquid metal paste). And that's top line CPUs. I can assure you I have chips around - not CPUs, smaller chips of course - which have contacts totally not looking gold. So, unless they put additional effort in recoloring it ... (on the other hand, I suspect that several those who DO look gold are actually copper). So when are we going to be able to get a cheap and easy-to-use computer graphics program capable of making a full-length feature film's special effects, that fits on our smart phones? ;-) Never ; you need mouse for the graphics program to be easy-to-use. Otherwise, I'm not sure ... Video Maker Movie Editor is missing something? (Never used it.)
  21. NP Monday July 3, 2017

    Seems we are getting close to finish, Dan is getting out of ideas. This is last hand pose, for example. Note that she can still do the "clothing only" effect with TWO hands: just like she did shorter and taller on Susan, she can do the effect and opposite effect but just one changing clothes.
  22. Story: Monday, July 3rd, 2017

    Yes: If it works on first try it's really suspicious. Usually it means you didn't noticed the bugs. Well ... likely I was both wrong and right. Wrong, because the device does something more than just convincing Tedd it works. Right, because he could still turn the watches into wand with sticks and duct tape, only it would be harder to remember all parameters. ... actually, this is not just training wheels. Sure, if he does things like dynamic height morphs (BTW, I think he needs to observe Rhoda's spells - or Ellens resize beam with clothes resize option - to get the dynamic height morphs right; he likely based them on Elliot's spell but those probably resize too manually) but I wouldn't be surprised if getting clone form into wand without computer help would be almost impossible - too many parameters. I'm actually surprised Seers can't be other type of wizard. But yes: Seer is a type of wizard, who on top of that has the ability to see and understand magic, even after reset. Other wand makers don't get the insight - or, maybe, get some but not as many details as Tedd. Question: will the glove works just for Tedd, just for seers (which is what Pandora said) or for any wand maker? Can wand makers parametrize spells at all or are they limited to copy them verbatim? (Would match the difference between Uryuoms and Grace: with Lespuko genes, Grace can mix&match forms.)
  23. Story, Friday June 30, 2017

    "Smart Phone" was more or less invented to cover Android phones and other things that look like an iPhone but are not an iPhone Actually, Symbian was already considered OS for SmartPhones. With that, I would say that it was quite a feat, coining a term for phones looking like something which didn't appeared until eight years later. Also, while Apple was first to get multi-touch to mainstream, the previous phones weren't looking THAT differently, because multi-touch isn't visible
  24. Story, Friday June 30, 2017

    ... ok, quartz is technically crystal and while it's likely miniature it may count. But I don't believe anyone would put gold coated pins on chip for gadget watches when Intel is not soldering their CPUs. Question is, is he doing it deliberately or subconsciously? Because I can totally believe he is doing it subconsciously, but it would be harder to convince me it's how he designed it. Because, again, everything he's SHOWN doing implies he is convinced to engineer technology devices which should work for anyone who can power them with the little magic even he knows he have. I don't think Tedd would be able to hack USB interface. That's packet-based protocol. He would be more likely to use RS-232 or some GPIO like on Raspberry Pi - OR he would use standard chips, in which case he can go with bluetooth or wifi directly. Of course, the glove doesn't seem to have ANY cable or connector, but they may be hidden. Or the mentioned bluetooth/wifi. Alternatively, perhaps the thing on back of the glove is not fixed there - maybe he puts it in something connected to the computer, transfers the data there, then disconnects it and connects to glove (and we don't see the connector because it's "inside").
  25. Story, Friday June 30, 2017

    Pile of electronic components is not technology. Technology is when it works BECAUSE of those components and how they are connected. Considering they are supposed to be gadget watches for prices at arcades, I would say the required material needs to be tin, aluminium, glass or something similar. What would gold or crystal do in gadget watches? Of course, maybe if there would be actual gold or crystal, they would even hold the energy. Yeah ... WE didn't. Between here and here, Tedd modified the morph, prepared the spell and transferred it to watches. Both Grace and Sarah could clearly saw it, but WE were watching them. That said, based on "it would be worth showing otherwise", I don't think Tedd was doing anything visibly interesting. I really think if Tedd would be putting anything into those watches, it would be shown or mentioned, which suggests he really just designs something on computer, maybe "compiles" it, transfers it to glove and then uses the glove to infuse it onto the watches.