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The Old Hack
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That explains the Colossus. They clearly cheated. It started out much smaller and then one of Rhoda's ancestors supersized it.
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Not again. The last time I asked him about you did not go well. First he laughed hysterically, then he cried, and afterwards it took emergency services most of an afternoon to coax him down from the clock tower again.
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Then where did all those obelisks come from?
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Not really. You just build them several stories tall and make sure that your second story place has access to the kiln.
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I thought you preferred massive kilns built from stone.
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I love you. Scandinavia has its own share of dragons or wyrms. There was the great serpent that lay coiled around the tower the maiden Thyra was trapped in; apart from its massive size, it spewed mortal clouds of poison and even its blood was so deadly that if even a single drop of it touched your skin you would suffer an agonising death. It was slain by Regnar Lodbrokk, so named for the heavy suit he sewed together from the furs of bears and which protected him for long enough so he could slay the serpent. There was Nidhogg that lay coiled around the roots of Yggdrasil the World Tree and gnawed at them. And not least the Midgard Serpent which lay coiled around the whole world and bit its own tail. Several spring to mind; the most immediately obvious of them is Tyke Bomb. Very well put.
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My basic ideology states that there should be room for everybody and that freedom -- be it of thought, belief or lifestyle -- is a human right. Theirs states that I must die, my wife must die and my whole family must die and that freedom is only for the privileged few. The differences are not readily reconcilable, if I may indulge in a small understatement. That kind of depends on the Orcs. Tolkien Orcs do not have many sympathetic traits. Warhammer Orks (especially WH40K Orks) and their close cousins the Warcraft Orcs have numbers of them and many people are greatly fond of them. But this is actually due to the level of humour and once again the presence of even violent comedy takes the game far enough away from reality that neither side minds a high body count very much even though one of the sides is often human. There is a reason I am not a pacifist. Should members of the ideology I hinted at above come a-knocking, I would resist them with violence if need be and would kill if I had to. Not gladly, but nonetheless.
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I kind of get that. This is when the story is lying on the border of the real rather than being, say, high fantasy. When Legolas and Gimli competes for highest bodycount at Helm's Deep, it is played for laughs. When WW2 soldiers are fighting a desperate rearguard battle against attacking enemies, the mounting casualties grow horrific. This is not unheard of. At TVTropes, it is called berserker tears. I am not actually linking it as I would rather not be responsible for luring innocent forumgoers into that dreaded black hole of time consumption.
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I loved the Dorsai stories. Thing is, it isn't just in fiction that we are sometimes cool with high body counts. There are people or creatures we despise so much that we consider it extermination rather than killing when they get dropped. I will not give specifics but there are certain political ideologies where I do not believe the world is left any poorer if their adherents die.
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Well, the Dorsai weren't exactly known for their low body count, either.
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Then let's drop it. I am tired and in a bad mood. I'll go sleep a while.
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I concede that the phrasing was hostile, but the unfortunate fact is that as soon as you baldly stated 'REAL dragons' as opposed to the dragon in the comic, you were by inference also claiming the right to decide which dragons count as real and which do not. And at that point, it becomes impossible to respond to your assumed position. Once one does so, one also cedes you the right to define reality as you please at which point no amount of arguing will ever lead to a fair outcome.
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Scroll up. Or look below. You said: in response to mlooney's quote: Put them together, and it comes out as 'Noah had an easy time killing the dragon because it is not actually a real dragon according to my definition, which trumps everything else.' Thank you. It is the difference between 'harmless' and 'mostly harmless.' The latter indicates that it takes a great deal of either bad luck, incompetence or both to manage to be harmed by the involved factor. Ah, so now you attack my linguistic competence? Thank you very much. And here I thought you were actually interested in settling this fairly. My mistake.
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I thoth that was what they meant.
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Really? Then who wrote this? Oh. You did. Oh, I see. Wait, no, I don't. You claim that it wasn't really dangerous, then you say that you never said it wasn't dangerous, and that this means 'it could have been more dangerous.' I am now completely lost. Oh, I am terribly sorry. The positions you never held only as shown above you did hold them? And yes, I was talking about your prejudices as you described them in your attempt to delegitimise the Taurcanis as a dragon. Ah yes, I suppose I am a child of the elder generation where reality could not be easily changed merely by declaring it fake. I apologise for actually going with the dictionary definition of the word where, if used in the way you used it above, it is a means of deligitimising opposing opinions. I would feel really sorry for you if you showed even the slightest sign of wishing to meet me halfway. Until you do, enjoy your martyrdom.
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No. I simply reject your apparent position that your definition of reality is the only true one and that all others must yield way. Then I suggest you do so by means of compromise rather than simply baldly setting forth your own and saying that you will reject any position that differs from it. Which is what you did the same moment you spoke of 'real' dragons without considering that the Taurcanis might just as well serve as the baseline as anything else. There are numberless different kinds of dragons out there ranging from the komodo dragon (which actually exists, and therefore has a MUCH better claim to being 'real' than any of your personal idealized 'dragons' do) through Terry Pratchett's innocuous swamp dragon (one of which still managed to best the far larger and more powerful Draco Nobilis) to Ancalagon the Black (greatest of all Tolkien's winged wyrms, and supposedly Smaug didn't hold a candle to Ancalagon's power). ANY of these dragons might be a 'real' dragon in the context of any given story. Your position that the Taurcanis isn't a 'real' dragon is as absurd as your claims to it being easily killable (it wasn't) and that it was not dangerous (it almost killed Elliot, and might have if Noah had not appeared to run interference. Let alone that it might have killed at least one and possibly a large number of innocent drivers on that road if Elliot hadn't blocked its blast.)
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Okay, so they are as real as your prejudices about what makes a dragon. Got it. Now, could you explain why everybody else has to accept your definition as the true one and that their personal ones don't count?
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Bah! The most appropriate weapon is a BATH'LETH, you BLOODLESS P'TAHK!
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It very nearly killed Elliot with one fireball and would have destroyed a segment of major road during heavy traffic if Elliot hadn't sacrificed herself. This is an odd definition of 'not really dangerous.' Okay, you got me. I never heard of any such thing as a real dragon before. I thought they were just creatures of our imagination. Mind giving me a source for them so I can see how tough they are?
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I find it interesting that you define 'unkillable' as 'easy.'
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Big talk from the Pharaoh who has a whole extended family of mummies.
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Before you get too enthused on this trip down nostalgia lane, remember that your lawn is a huge sandbox now before you tell people to get off it.
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The aberrations may find it painful for reasons beyond mere memories. Alternately, if they escape, this event may be a source of painful memories for them.
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Zeus, huh? Yeah, he is acting exactly like the original... sort of... well, not really at all. Eh, I am sure it will be okay, nothing could possibly go wrong with a name like that. Susan is preparing to kick arse and take names. I could almost feel sorry for those stupid vampires. I guess we'll see how far Diane runs now; I suspect not very, I admit.
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I've heard it's fun to stay at the YMCA.
