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The Old Hack
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The Semitic language group is funny in that it only has comparatively few distinct vowel sounds. This meant that they could get away with a simplified alphabet that only included consonants; vowels could usually be deduced from context. It is for the same reason that the Egyptian hieroglyphs did not include vowel sounds. Of course, more vowel rich languages like English (or God help me, Danish) kinda need those vowel indicators for legibility when written down.
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That explains this comic.
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http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/gam-08 Independent little things, aren't they.
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Err, I must have misunderstood you then. Sorry. With the possible exception of things like Not-Tengu, yes. They might not be quite Immortal level but they would still stand out from the crowd, possibly to an unpleasant degree.
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If they could handle Immortals -- big if, mind you -- lesser monsters might be seen by them as a welcome relief and light exercise. Frankly, I don't see them as being quite that nitpicky but I do take your point.
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Maybe a female burger?
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I don't think Haylo meant the label but the purpose. I think she was speculating whether the Immortals used to be the worst of the 'monsters' around and if Nanase's family might have been part of what kept them in check. Then, when Immortals made the law that kept themselves from interfering directly, hunters like that switched their focus to non-Immortal dangers.
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http://www.egscomics.com/comic/sister3-308 MONTAGE!
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http://www.egscomics.com/comic/sister3-307
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That almost happened to me when I was four years old. A near hurricane strength gust of wind took hold of me and would have sent me flying if not for my father who happened to be holding on to me at the time. What? Gusts of wind are pretty random.
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Or if he is really unlucky, the dreaded Gate 35X.
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Look, the comic took place in the year of the phone revolution. That is to say, the year where most everyone still used land lines early in the year, then started to carry early cell phones with expensive plans, then went to smartphones mere months later. That should be easy to pinpoint.
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Wait, what? Sarah is in the panel just below Diane with her new hairstyle and they do not remotely look the same.
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Look, the comic was released in 20XX, where XX represents a number between the minus square root of pi and E=MC2.
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It was still a damned good try. And to be fair, not a single Tunguska meteorite fell on the Nile in all the time you used that calendar.
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The one important part that I can't believe you omitted is that it also has to correctly predict when the Nile floods. Farmers resent having crocodiles all over their harvest.
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And not for the first or last time either. Archimedes was hard at work with his theorems when some nameless legionary cut him down against specific orders not to do so. Performer: "The show must go on." Mathematician: "Hold my beer."
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The Vasa was the biggest warship ever built at the time and the pride of the Swedish fleet. When it was launched on August 10, 1628, it made it halfway out of the harbour before a gentle breeze almost made it capsize. It slowly, slowly recovered. Then an actual gust of wind hit it and it rolled so far over that it started to take water in through its open gunports. And that was all she wrote. On the plus side, being this close to land much of its crew could be rescued. Only fifty-some people actually drowned.
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Yes, it is dead simple. All you need is something to write with, write on and THE INVENTION OF ASTRONOMY, MATHEMATICS AND SOME FORM OF WRITING. ...right. I know whom I am talking to. I am just saying that you of all people ought to have a little respect for how much damn effort it took to come up with the first one. *muttermuttergrumble*
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Yes, but it was Ellen who destroyed the Goo cell, not Tedd. If Tedd had destroyed it, LT might have been satisfied.
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No. You see, this is the sad thing. History isn't stupid in and of itself; it is attempts at retelling past events. But interpretations of history can be stupid or even outright lies. Stupidity feeds into stupidity and lies isolate it from exposure to anything that might mitigate it. In either case, history itself is incidental and only its uses or abuses partake of the process.
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You can omit the history part of that feedback loop. Stupidity feeds into itself without any need for outside interference or encouragement. It is self-sustaining and accelerating in a manner to defy the Laws of Thermodynamics.
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History doesn't actually repeat itself. Stupidity does, however.
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It was actually fairly harsh for financial crimes. There are alleged businessmen out there who will launch huge unsustainable schemes, hide their profits, declare bankruptcy and then start over again, never spending a day in jail. When the banks get tired of lending them money (around the sixth time they declare bankruptcy or so) they switch to money laundering and politics. Now if he had been a black man trying to sell tobacco without a license, he'd have been jumped by six cops and choked to death instead. Much more fair.
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Big talk from the Pharaoh from the kingdom that thought the perfect disguise was to wear a huge golden mask with the face of a beagle on it. Or was that an eagle?
