The Old Hack

It is so in every human society I have ever heard of. They all have rules and these may all too often be treated in a manner that follows them to the letter while utterly breaking them in spirit.

EAT .44 MAGNUM MARSHMALLOWS! Such as the plot of the first Half-Life game. Extremely popular FPS, but the plot is somewhat... incoherent at best. Ross Scott's excellent serial Freeman's Mind spends a good deal of time making fun of some of its worst inconsistencies. (If you should happen to try it, the first three episodes are the slowest due to basically being the very long trailer of the game, but after that it speeds up and never slows down till the end. Be warned: it is LONG. Also, you may risk laughing. A lot.)

A completely random thought of mine. I have for a while been wondering if Sirleck has a disgruntled ex out there named Madamleck.

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It is more heinous than that. They know perfectly well that most transgender people are already under tremendous social pressure. To quote Cerberus from the Dumbing of Age patreon:

The Grant Morrison run? That one was rather surreal. Also one of the very few 90s comics I really liked.

Sports Illuminated July Tour de France Special: How every single rider in the Tour is on performance enhancers and the men and women that make it happen.

I just thought of how amazing the main character's power would be for disease prevention alone. Take the Zika outbreak, for example. She could shield an entire city from it, or alternately, by moving from area to area, vastly reduce the possibility of spread by making all the mosquitoes in a given zone suicide or something. Like making them all fly into a confined area with an insect toxin in it.

Indeed.

I have long considered this a supremely offensive notion in so many ways. That it is a large part of the mindset that makes it possible to blame victims for being sexually assaulted does not precisely further endear it to me.

Compared to this time, I think she was only mildly annoyed. I think the last time we saw her this angry was when she was dealing with Not-Tengu. We still do not know everything about them. But they are certainly not looking good right now. Except possibly to those who would otherwise have been victims of the vampires. What truly makes what they do problematic is that they seem to have alternatives -- other mages, the DGB, the French version of the DGB -- and for some reason they are not making use of them.

You mean, at this point, Tedd still hasn't had a bunch of the revelations about himself that he's had by the furthest-forward times we've seen, and so here we see little bits of inner conflict welling up and out? Yeah. The Moderator: Ahem. I just realised that I did WR...S an injustice when I initially posted a remark speaking out against his post. I misread it as a rather rude criticism and now I see that it clearly was not intended so. My apologies to both WR...S and the forum at large. ~tOH.

I really like this theory. It may even make sense in that the whales are actually incapable of feeding in an oversaturated area -- the food is simply too 'rich' for them.

Sure I am. Moperville is close to the Canadian border, isn't it? You aren't shifting this one to the Mexicans, Canuck.

It is hilarious (read: creepy and disconcerting) how this narrative tends to be propagated by men who clearly give the impression that they think it would be a really cool idea if they could get away with it.

Why not. We already have magic-eating whales, magic-damming beavers is not that large a stretch.

The Monkey Island series. Arrrr!

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Locking this thread to avoid confusion now the new one has been started.

I thought it was supposed to cool homes down, not turn them into bake ovens.

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Quite likely. It would explain his 'to **** with keeping a low profile' comment just before he pulled out the bombs. Of course, afterwards Dame Tara set him up the bomb.

Health care.