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The Old Hack
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Man. Sometimes the world seems bound and determined to drive you crazy. >.<
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I dunno, it looks a bit dog-eared to me.
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It is possible to keep at a higher speed if you bring a string of horses. Once the one you are riding gets tired, you switch to another one. This obviously won't let you gallop all the time but it will allow you to keep moving at a walk or even alternating between trot and walk for longer distances. Thing is, just having horses requires infrastructure. Especially good riding horses. At the very least it requires stores of food that will allow you to travel without having to spend inordinate amounts of time allowing the horse (or horses) to graze. Those bags of grain or horse feed that are so popular took farms and craftsmen to prepare. So did the saddle and tack, for that matter. And the horseshoes.
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She is clever and intelligent. She might not be able to save the day with a well-aimed soccer ball, but I am sure she'll think of something.
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There is a Youtuber who calls himself Skallagrim who does some excellent videos on various weapons used through history as well as HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts). It is possible to learn a good deal from them; I recommend them highly. Some of them, as shown in the Ultimate Fighting Style I posted earlier, are more humorous than others. "No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style." It is possible, but remember that the aberrations refer to one of Susan's powers -- potential or actual -- as the Bane. For all we know, a well placed stab from it might be enough for it to do its work. Then again, it might require her to pick them up, sling them across her shoulders and break their backs. But that seems a little roundabout to me.
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In a serious fight, even a couple of seconds or three can make all the difference. If Susan had had more experience with a blade, she could just have stabbed him in that moment he needed to recover. Sure, big dramatic swings like the one she beheaded the first aberration with look cool, but they take time and effort you can't always spare. In comparison a stab is faster to execute, won't bring your blade as far out of line and it may quite often be lethal in its own right.
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She could learn the ULTIMATE FIGHTING STYLE! O.O
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Yeah, I wish him good luck with that. >.<
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We'll find out if one does.
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Preparing for the next bad weather horror movie, set in Florida: Alligatornado.
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Don't mind me, I was off on a tangent. Conning towers notwithstanding, submarines are not ideal as targets for pigeons to home in on. Especially when submerged.
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I somehow don't see it becoming standard for communication between submarines, no. To be fair, the Pigeonnet was a huge mess of numerous nonstandard codes and poorly mapped routes. They never did manage to come up with a common IP (InterPigeon) address system and each pigeon more or less picked its own path in its own good time. Given the extreme redundancy forced by the packet losses of this system it is a miracle that there was even bandwidth enough left for the pigeons to flap their wings in.
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Hrm. I am wondering if carrier pigeons might be one of the closest things we have to an exception. After all, all you need to do is bring it with you and keep it fed and happy, then set it loose with a letter attached to it. An infrastructure would still be immensely helpful in getting the pigeons to where the messages would be sent from, but in theory at least someone could travel into the wilds and then release pigeons with messages as they please. This latter case is obviously only one-way communication and I do not think it fully counts; even ONE destination point with a tower to receive pigeons could in some way be considered infrastructure. Then, of course, there is always the problem of the pigeon getting intercepted by hunting birds or keen eyed archers. I suppose you could call that a case of lost packets?
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If you don't, I won't either.
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I feel Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the better observer. At the very least his observations are more cosmic in scope. He is prone to painfully astute comments?
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Micro Mouse was Mickey's evil cousin. He was so evil that he escaped from the one episode Disney ever made and ran off to found his own evil empire. After secretly creating Microsoft, he said good enough and retired to the Caiman Isles to enjoy his massive wealth.
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video games Video Game Discussion Part 3
The Old Hack replied to Zorua's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Not to worry, old friend. It's fine. I am interested but very strapped for cash at the moment. Maybe someone else here might be interested, though? -
He might have expected a possible need to pay it. I still don't think he cared.
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Ouchie.
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Obélix of Astérix fame once made a spear come back when he threw it. Admittedly he did that by throwing it so hard that it orbited the planet and came back from the other direction. I am not sure if that should count. You'll have to get it out, then.
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I've once seen a story a bit like that. Two nations, one suppressing the use of magic, the other suppressing science. They were constantly at war or at least at a very uneasy detente and smuggling was considered a big problem in both nations. By the governments, at least.
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Manatee season!
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I don't think Sirleck actually cared. That provision was there for one reason and one reason only: to keep them from infighting until the show started. He never actually expected to pay it and would likely have been disappointed if it had worked. Mjolnir? o.o
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Oh, I am sure, and I am equally sure that these would prove helpful to any children and adults who wanted to learn English. Beats me. I just live there.
