The Old Hack

By now I've gone over to EZ-Pass. Saves so much time.

Did your duplicate happen to be chasing a lion and a unicorn and end up drumming them out of town?

Madness takes its toll!

Everything is up in the air again! Are Susan and Diane really sisters? Will Tedd confront Magic about his disappointment? Will PharaohRutinTutin's pyramid mortgage be foreclosed? Is mlooney's dishwasher secretly summoning Nyarlathotep? Is CritterKeeper really The Old Hack's maiden aunt? FIND OUT IN THE NEXT YEAR OF EGS! SAME EGS-HOMEPAGE, SAME EGS-FORUMS!

Err, I think it is slang. "I don't know jack" is another way of saying "I have no idea."

Ugh. Sorry to hear. Get better soon.

I think mine is in the Lost and Found somewhere. I haven't really missed it so I didn't go to check.

I dunno, don't they both involve getting a lot of people in a pyramid structure beneath you to get the darn thing set up? Only real difference I can see is that the Pharaoh has the structure set up in advance.

I know exactly what you mean. If I started to do the smart thing, I'd completely ruin my reputation.

Big talk from the man who thinks that a pyramid scheme is a proper way to arrange a burial.

I think I understand. My family was broken up by a divorce as well. Suffice it to say that it happened when I was only seven years old but that learning the whole story behind it when I was in my twenties turned out to be intensely traumatic. I cannot imagine Susan is having any easier a time of it now.

So it does.

She is a member of the FBI. You don't get to be that without a lot of training, testing and education. The spell itself might get her a position as outside consultant. It wouldn't be enough to get her the actual badge.

It was January 16, 2015. So a bit less than two years.

YAY! <3

That does not necessarily indicate her power level. It could be any of a number of reasons ranging from skillset, brains, reliability, security clearance and so forth, or even all of them.

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.

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.

Right. You tell those blinkin' Hyksos to keep their chariots out of there, Pharaoh. The place is confusing enough already.

"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.

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.

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.

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Actually, you'll be a dirt eater. All those plants grew from dirt.

You are what you eat. Ergo, a cow is vegetation.