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While we see characters talking about drama and humor, the examples we were given includes Ellen having blond hair when burned out. It may be deliberate trolling of course ... or magic might not be THAT good in distinguishing humor from non-humor and drama from non-drama. Or, possibly, what is called "magic flair for drama" might not be actually about drama but about something similar, easier to determine. Or, as I said, it's something local, not related to whatever decides it's time for reset. Oh. One part of my reasoning I didn't shared yet: If the part of magic deciding reset have sense of humor, it's not GOOD sense of humor, it's more like trolling and "practical" jokes. I would be very afraid to live in world with magic like that. And if it has flair for drama, then the reset won't happen, because Tedd, Adrian or someone will prevent it at last moment ... no matter how illogical it will be. Except ... few months back, I was saying I'm convinced the reset will not happen or wouldn't be as tragic as they fear. The more the story unveils, the less I'm convinced about that ...

What makes you think FBI is NOT pulling the strings? In EGS, on our world or in Amber, whatever. I don't think it's "not worth his time". I think he really wants to write about events in two schools and don't like that the rest of world keeps interfering. I didn't mean to suggest that Noriko's exploits were at all public, just point out the lady has been busy. There have been plenty of incidents around the world happening that we haven't been told about. Now apply the normal curve with respect to how public a given incident ends up. My post was supporting the idea that Magic is not considering a rules change just because of what's happening in Moperville but it's likely that stuff has been happening elsewhere that contribute to the decision. It's just Mopereville is at the likely flashpoint for the decision. If the reason magic considers reset is due to knowledge of magic and how to obtain it going public, those other incident might not matter at all, simply because they don't endanger status quo. Normal curve may not apply: situation in Moperville is different because Pandora interferes. Incidents in Moperville may be harder to hide than elsewhere. Tell that to tens of thousands of Mages all over the world who are upset that he took their fun and useful spells away--including a possibly sizable fraction of them who feel that their magic is a definitive part of their sense of identity. I'm certain we could find a few hundred out of those who would be willing to personally put a bullet through the man responsible for their loss - - Arthur Arthur. Most of them are unlikely to be aware of Leifeld.

We know that Moperville is the flashpoint for a reset. If someone is thinking "this is the last straw", there's a whole lot of before-the-last-straw incidents out there. Those could be spread across the planet. There were several incidents in Moperville and none mentioned outside meanwhile. There wasn't even any mention of "the UFO seekers moved from Moperville because something happened elsewhere". Sure, Agent Cranium fears "next Roswell" ... but even if Roswell was incident with magic (and not with extraterrestrial, meaning likely Uryuom), it happened long ago and things were quite quiet meanwhile.

We also know Magic seems to have a sense of humor and occasionally trolls. That argues for some kind of consciousness. I wouldn't be so sure about that, but more importantly, again, that might be some local reaction, not able to utilize all power of magic.

If this two strips are example how it would go, I would be complaining about pacing. Unless they get naked. Which they probably will, so there shouldn't be any problem. Unless Akiko is actually spying on Nanase for Mrs. Kitsune ... Regarding her father, it's good Edward Verres explained there will be no true undead in EGS. Otherwise, I would suspect he is dead and raised by Mrs. Kitsune. Either he is living on his own (or with other students) or when he will realize he needs to return home he will take back that "don't change me back". Sure, Dunkels might be able to handle this, but I don't think there will be second family like them. Really, this is something Dan should have though in advance. Considering how both Tedd and Catalina totally failed to notice transforming ... although, maybe you only feel something when you cast on someone else?

I don't think majority of kids are that determined and that focused. I know I wasn't. On the other hand, I always planed to get on university to avoid the stupid people around (especially the ones who made fun of me) as much as possible. (Obviously, I didn't understand politics back then.) You can't just "teach" someone to believe. That's why it's so hard. But, yes, it's also only option: if those kids won't see any reason to make effort, they won't.

What's unknown is how much knowledge an Immortal can carry over to their next life. It sounds like an Immortal can pick and choose the knowledge they feel will help them, so maybe most immortals might carry over some bit of knowledge in one reset but not the reset after that. I see a system change being a significant event so it would most certainly be carried over one reset, but what are the chances of it being considered significant enough to carry over a second reset? A third? A fourth? Pandora had almost completely forgotten about the system change, mind you having lived well passed her reset point it's not surprising, but even after 200 years it might be easily missed unless the Immortal vowed to carry that knowledge with them. Maybe the place she's going to is a type of library maintained by an Immortal that made such a vow to keep the extremely important knowledge from being forgotten. I think that Pandora almost forgetting shows that problem is how much knowledge an Immortal CAN carry but how much it WILL. Important stuff might be forgotten because it's considered NOT important. Note that based on how Pandora describes it, seems that the carried memories usually DO contain information from multiple past incarnations. And yes ... immortal who made a vow to preserve knowledge, possibly also to never lie about what that knowledge contains ... poor guy. Or girl. But it would be useful. And I can imagine someone making that vow not realizing how boring it will became. I'm not sure the vampires would die off. It's been stated that magic will be changing for humans, and aberrations are explicitly not human anymore. They likely fall into the broad category of beings with magic interwoven with their very nature, so likely their vampiric magic is unlikely to change drastically. ... that sounds like VERY bad news ... although, while explicitly not human, I'm not sure they count as (separate) species. First, how would they even know? Magic is not going to get all huffy over Moperville if it were a one-off. Odds are good that all the organizations across the planet that are working in the shadows are having trouble keeping magic a secret. Actually, yes it is. Based on what we know, Moperville is THE reason keeping magic secret is harder and harder, no other place generate similar kind of news. Also, Pandora's actions seem to be limited to Moperville and are considered big part of problem. On the other hand, FBI might just claim that it wasn't their policy, that they just failed to handle the situation. Also, it's possible then can plausibly claim they were not aware about the reset. Only thanks to the magic reset he will at least have a CHANCE to dodge them. Although, I would suppose that Arthur will be primary target. There will be considerable number of people who are not enough in the know to know about Leifeld but everybody saw Arthur in TV ... him being director of DGB, even if not already known, is more likely to get to the magic users than Leifeld being his superior.

If things are TOO deterministic, then there's no need for an aware mind at all, since it's just pure processing at that point. Yes. Nothing Disco Wizard said confirms magic has aware mind. He's fairly certain magic has objectives, but being aware? Or, to be little less drastic, "needing being aware?" ... it's possible that magic is aware for purpose of optimizing drama, but that operates locally inside some set of rules. Meanwhile, the big stuff like when to reset is deterministic and doesn't utilize awareness at all. If magic has conscious (big if), doing reset may still NOT be conscious decision and is decided on subconscious level instead.

I'm sure depressingly high Naaah ... depressions appeared only few centuries ago. Ok, few millenias.

Director Liefeld appears to be checking out the guy's butt in the same way. On second frame, yes. On third, his eyes seem to point higher ... ... on the other hand, Arthur might be looking higher on first frame. Assuming what she already recited wasn't everything she remembers. Also, it may not mean much if every reset is different. Probably ... but WHAT it is? And it's possible that Voltaire used it to find his informations already?

Actually, we know that the *dynamic* morphing watches have a cumulative effect. Tedd specified "that would have a cumulative effect with these morphs," implying that such is not the case with regular morphs. Granted, it's ambiguous whether she's referring to morphs from watches in general versus other types of morph, or specifically to dynamic morphs versus preset morphs, but that means we can only be certain it applies to dynamic morphs unless/until there's clarification. On the other hand, we can't be sure it does NOT apply to other watches, and in fact, you notice that the presented case was FIRST using dynamic morph THEN clone morph. It's possible that clone morphs cancel each other but most other watches have cumulative effect.

By teaching them about the consequences, and giving them a sense of self-worth so that they'll believe they have a future worth protecting. Note: it's important that THEY believe they have a future worth protecting. Things YOU might consider worth protecting might not be things THEY consider worth protecting. Anyone else flashing back to Blue Lagoon? Yes, that may be one of the few examples. Although, is that realistic? Could an island with enough food to keep two people alive for years really NOT be visited all those years? Soon and more often is one of the current theories. I would assume "more often" being much more important than "soon". Although ... what was the mortality rate for woman giving birth back then?

More easily said than done in some cases... We are not developing completely reliable solution, we are just trying to make something better than current situation ... "Superior nutrition and disease control means you can get busy sooner"... "There are not enough blood relatives around you. You should work on fixing that." also possibly "You are overweight. Obviously, you have enough food for more people. Make those people and share."

Then Pandora/Box is making a heavy assumption that she'll be able to help Sarah get magic if the system changes. Yes, she is making similar assumption. Although I think that her situation is better - both because she's (presumably) more powerful and because it's more likely she will be able to help in cooperation with Sarah than Voltaire being able to offer help to people as trade. Note also that I don't think she's risking breaking the vow if there will be nothing she can do to help ; IMHO only not helping when she can would count as breaking that vow.

It does kind of look like they each are sizing up one the other 2 people in panel 2, with their gazes not changing until panel 5-6 I'm not sure what is "sizing" but I think Arthur is looking directly at that woman's butt and I completely understand him. Count me as well, he does look like Justin to me. That's assuming even after reset it will be possible for immortals to give people magic. Of course, Voltaire MIGHT be making such assumption, warranted or not ... Based on Arthur claiming the problem will be solved for (only) several decades, I think he underestimate how big problem the reset will be. Or ... maybe we are overestimating it. His idea about how a magic reset works might not be correct ... They, however, may not be willing to share with DGB ...

Alternatively, kernel can have multiple APIs, with Uryoums using stable API (like POSIX) and humans using mostly something newer, with more features but unstable. DOS (originally Quick&Dirty Operation System) was mostly build from fixes and patches, with minimal amount of "core" code. Windows 95 itself were extender running on TOP of DOS instead of replacing it. Most code of windows must be for providing backward compatibility including compatibility with bugs. If magic would be anything like this, the world would already not exist. ... unless magic don't want to get public for similar reason while nVidia don't want to get public with it's hardware specifications for building device drivers: being afraid that too much use will reveal how much bugs are there.

Given that Voltaire is manipulating Sirleck, it is highly probable that Voltaire knows something of Sirleck's plans, which in turn would lead to Magus. Voltaire's plans don't seem good enough to make this certain, but yes, there is considerable probability he knows something ... ok. Sirleck, Pandora and Voltaire.

I was thinking more of the consequences of an unexpected pregnancy on a kid's present and future, but whatever works... Well, first step of that road is to accept the kids will have sex sooner than they will be ready for pregnancy. Only then you can start making sure the kids won't end up being pregnant without being ready for it. Physical maturity, not emotional maturity. Interesting. Most people are postponing having kids and those kids reach physical maturity sooner ... maybe nature is trying to tell us something?

Shh... can't a bunny dream? Especially since this is already such a weird thing to happen in canon... Besides, it's been established that enchantments last longer if the affected person likes them, especially if they don't already have a time limit in mind. Enchantment from novice magic user, not even awakened yet, will nevertheless not last indefinitely even if the affected person likes them and even inside the ambient magic field. On the other hand, I suppose duration close to one day is reachable. Meaning, sleeping will become important point - the enchantment might end while he OR Kitty will be sleeping.

I know it was a rhetorical question, but my answer is sort in context: No, Neanderthal were simple out breed by "modern" humans. That and interbreeding with Homo sapiens. About 1-2% of European DNA is Neanderthal and a like amount of Denisovans farther east. So, yeah, that sort of was the reason. ... you mean modern humans having sex sooner was sort of reason Neanderthal went extinct? Hmmm ... that should make having sex sooner GOOD idea. The kid who was never fed will get there first. The teenagers who've never heard of sex will tie with the pegasi who've never heard of flying. ... took a while to realize what you mean. Remember, there are griffins on other half of EGS universe, there may be pegasi as well, and most birds are taught how to fly by mother. Meanwhile, finding teenagers who never heard of sex will be challenge even when searching multiple dimensions. That may help. Make it boring enough and they may not try. I'm still waiting for source of this claim. Sure, exposure to sex at age 4 will be damaging, but after puberty? Isn't there quite a lot kids who refuse to leave parent's basement even after age of 30? How is that "maturing at younger and younger ages"? Maybe it would be better to protect kids from the actual danger of pregnancy (and STDs) and not care so much about sex itself.

This is The Dan. Of course he has prepared some one. Example, Sam. He had the character chosen before he know what he looked like. ... this possibility was already mentioned

Sequels? I though those are parts. (wikipedia mentions that it was author's final try for a game: if it wouldn't work, he would quit and the company would go bankrupt)

You mean TNG Borg Collective, First Contact one or VOY one? Yes, it can be superorganism reaching consensus without debate in some distributed way. Or it can work WITHOUT the need of consensus. If you have deterministic rules for reaching decision, you don't need to contact anyone else: you can just execute the process and reach the same decision any other part of organism would reach anyway. Difficult? It can be provably undecidable question.

Well, for comparison, Dan did do an Engineer Tess sketchbook about 8 years ago. Oh hey! We also have Engineer Susan! Right. Forgot about this. At least on conscious level.

Kids who start having sex too young also often end up jaded and emotionally numb. How young is too young? Was it a serious issue for Homo erectus? Is this the reason Neanderthal went extinct? (Sorry but I find hard to believe something like this ... unless it's related to sexual abuse.)