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The Old Hack

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  1. Story Wednesday November 30, 2016

    It depends on precisely how old 'that age' is. Dan's art was rather stylised at the time; Susan might have been anywhere from five to eight years old. I do not think I would have understood the precise mechanics at age eight myself but I do think I would have understood what was going on, had it been me. I'd read enough at the time to have an idea. But then I'd been a voracious reader since I was six. Also, I think that Susan did not consider that her father might still want anything to do with her as she considered it irrelevant. She was the one who cut him off when she told the truth to her mother.
  2. Story Monday November 28, 2016

    Personally I consider one likely possibility that pre-reset Jerry in his state of growing omniscience saw that Susan had a half sister before he passed on and 'saved' the information for post-reset Jerry.
  3. Story Monday November 28, 2016

    Right. You tell those blinkin' Hyksos to keep their chariots out of there, Pharaoh. The place is confusing enough already.
  4. Story, Friday November 25, 2016

    "It is more machine than cow now. Twisted and evil." "No! There is still dairy inside it! I can feel it!" ...I am sorry. But phrases like 'from a certain point of view' are guaranteed to trigger bad Star Wars jokes from me.
  5. Story Monday November 28, 2016

    I actually consider it reasonable. If Susan had been happy up to the moment where she caught her father's infidelity, one way to preserve those happy memories would be to tell herself that until then at least he had been faithful. If she suddenly has to accept the fact that his infidelity predated that by her entire life, she will also have to face the fact that her belief in those early years of happiness were based on a soothing lie she had told herself. I can see her reacting strongly to this initially rather than just accepting it. Part of it may also have been her mother's attitude that his infidelity was reflexive simply because he was a man. It would have made it possible for Susan to tell herself that her father's infidelity was due to a moment of weakness rather than a long term pattern going on from since before she was born.
  6. Story Wednesday November 30, 2016

    This may be the most painful page of EGS that I have read in quite a while. I don't think I have seen anything even near it since the time Tedd acknowledged Mr. Verres' transphobia. It is clear that Susan has held a mental image of her father close in which she tried to preserve at least some sort of person worthy of love. It would be easier to think of him as someone who started with good intentions but stumbled into a bad mistake. Being brought face to face with the possibility that not even this much was true... yes, anger and denial are two of the first steps. Having it all intermixed with her immensely traumatic experience with the vampire back in France would not make it any better, to put it mildly. I am torn. Nanase unquestionably meant well. But I am starting to think that she would have done better to think this more carefully through. Even so, I am doing this from hindsight so I am not precisely in a position to criticise her. Her intentions are obviously good and based on the fact that not only is Diane in danger, she also deserves to know of her half-sister's existence... and that Susan deserves to know the truth as well. The problem with that is that while truth indeed has the power to set you free, it can also open old wounds and do grave harm. It is for that very reason that Ellen rejected the notion of telling Tedd what they had learned about his mother. This situation is of similar complexity and may well reopen old wounds for Susan... and possibly even make them worse.
  7. Story Monday November 28, 2016

    The Moderator: 1) Please do not use the word 'crazy' about other posters, or at all if possible. It is rude. 2) Monastic orders are not limited to Christianity. They exist in Buddhism, Shinto, Islam, Confucianism and a number of other religions.
  8. Story, Friday November 25, 2016

    Actually, you'll be a dirt eater. All those plants grew from dirt.
  9. Story, Friday November 25, 2016

    You are what you eat. Ergo, a cow is vegetation.
  10. NP Monday November 28, 2016

    Look, I said it was the voice of my personal generation. I said nothing whatsoever about my generation's ability to stand up to the test of time.
  11. NP Monday November 28, 2016

    Well, here is the voice of my generation. That is to say, the generation of garrulous old cynical hacks.
  12. Things That Are Just Annoying

    Oh, it won't help, obviously. But it will make you feel better.
  13. Things that make you go WTF

    I was watching that show with a friend and we made many of the same observations. He also came up with a good example of why high speed cars are not necessarily a great idea. Some dude in a sports car was amusing himself by driving at 125 mph on some back roads. He then arrived at a train crossing. As it happened, a freight train carrying construction elements for the bridge between Denmark and Sweden happened to be going past at the time. He hit one of the wagons loaded with construction elements right into its side. I won't comment too much on the aftermath except to say that the bridge construction element wasn't that badly damaged but that the sports car had been compressed into a length of about three or four feet.
  14. Things that make you go WTF

    Come to think of it, I saw somewhere that if you drive that Bugatti Veyron at top speed, it empties its gas tank in something like twenty minutes. I think they tested that in Top Gear or some kind of program like that. Admittedly that's twenty minutes where you are going about 260 mph, but still.
  15. Things That Are Just Annoying

    It's these summoning rituals. They cause occasional spikes in power consumption. Keep an eye out for the timing and if one happens when the stars are right, run.
  16. NP Monday November 28, 2016

    No, as I am not a member of the Royal House. It looked like this, sans rank insignia and with an ordinary beret instead of the officer's hat.
  17. Things that make you go WTF

    Well, it looks awesome and I bet it is a sweet experience to drive or ride in it, but I would honestly have absolutely no use for it myself. It would be like using a purebred dressage-trained Arabian as a draft horse. This is leaving out the price -- if I had that kind of money, I would not spend it on a car like that.
  18. NP Monday November 28, 2016

    I remember back in the eighties when I served in the Danish Army that we had carnival in town. I despised the carnival in all possible ways. I hated the music, the noise, the way people got drunk and how everybody littered and left trash everywhere. I was off duty that day but I was so disgusted that I deliberately put on my dress uniform complete with jacket and tie. Then I walked right through the middle of the carnival to visit a friend. It was a great experience. Everyone gawked at me, and the capper was unquestionably when someone yelled at me for being a conformist. That made my entire day.
  19. Things that make you go WTF

    So which would you say was weirder, EDS or EGS?
  20. Story, Friday November 25, 2016

    Excuses. Besides, I can't give them warning points, so I'll just give them to you instead.
  21. Things that make you go WTF

    Odd. It reminds me of when I and my wife are at Barnes & Noble. My wife keeps complaining that it shouldn't be possible to lose track of a 6'4" Dane who weighs above 200 lbs so fast, but it still happens. Fortunately she has a good idea of which shelves I prefer to haunt and usually manage to find me again there.
  22. Story, Friday November 25, 2016

    Quite. Mind you, certain kinds of shenanigans are unacceptable. As I've already informed mlooney, summoning elder entities that wipe out large areas of civilised land will be seriously frowned on.
  23. Things that make you worried.

    ...crap. Look, it may have it in for your HVAC. Keep a careful eye on it, you do NOT want a household appliances feud going on in your home. If they start competitive summonings, well, these can get out of hand really really fast.
  24. What Are You Ingesting?

    Would this be it?
  25. Things That Are Just Annoying

    I bet it is envious of the attention that your dishwasher used to get. It is trying to summon elder gods but hasn't quite mastered the evil chanting yet.