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The Old Hack
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Story, Monday March 12, 2018
The Old Hack replied to Servant of Tara Gilesbie's topic in Comic Discussion
Christine was exactly what I had in mind. Of course, it might also just have been a Ford Pinto. -
Actually... no. Dan himself stated that Sirleck avoided it due to being on another plane while possessing Ellen. When between possessions Sirleck enters the physical plane and becomes visible as well as vulnerable to effects on that plane. He is safe from such effects as long as he is possessing someone.
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If they can do that where you live, then your laws are criminally lax. In Denmark the only way to buy antidepressants is with a doctor's prescription. And ordinary doctors in Denmark will decline to write prescriptions for this kind of drug if there hasn't been a psychiatrist involved initially and judged the use of such medication necessary. And superstitions are all well and good (or bad) but I entirely fail to see what they have to do with the level of happiness anywhere, save possibly indirectly.
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Story, Monday March 12, 2018
The Old Hack replied to Servant of Tara Gilesbie's topic in Comic Discussion
Maybe the car was actually an Aberration and got destroyed when Pandora cast her last big spell. -
Story, Monday March 12, 2018
The Old Hack replied to Servant of Tara Gilesbie's topic in Comic Discussion
The Moderator: Please. No political comments. They serve no purpose in the discussion thread and all they achieve is baiting flame wars. ~tOH. -
Story, Monday March 12, 2018
The Old Hack replied to Servant of Tara Gilesbie's topic in Comic Discussion
I believe the expression goes "Situation normal, all effed up." -
That was also the joke in our playing group. We envisioned Torm 'stealthily' entering Zhentil Keep and imagined Fzoul Chembryl, Lord Manshoon and all their guards and henchmen going, "Oh crap, there's Torm again. Everybody, pretend you don't notice him!"
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Oh, we can go still further back.
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And a bit further back, too.
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That happened to me once when I was reading a densely printed D&D rulebook. I managed to skip a line with the following result. The book was describing one of the paladin-god Torm's avatar shapes. Twelve feet tall, surrounded by divine light, causing awe and fear in all of evil alignment who beholds him and wielding a great flaming sword. I then went on to read, "It is this form he uses when he intends to be discreet." I did a rather large double take, then noticed the line I had skipped. It covered a more reasonable six feet tall form in traveler's clothes who looked like a weatherbeaten mercenary. That made a bit more sense.
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Ah yes. Kitsune.
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Exceptions do exist, mind.
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Foxes can be surprisingly gnomic. I know of one nearby who communicates entirely in Zen koans.
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Yeah, it can be a real bitch when you've gone through the fifth ergonomic mouse in less than a week. I wouldn't be surprised if more foxes didn't switch to trackballs.
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If Inger Støjberg got sacked, kicked out of Parliament and sent down to Den Haag to stand trial for crimes against humanity, I would party for at least a week. But I freely admit I wouldn't expect the American populace to care very much. Because antidepressants have nothing whatsoever to do with happiness. That is sheer superstition. It is medication prescribed for a biochemical imbalance in the brain that causes depression. It allows those who suffer from clinical depression (such as me) to operate at a level much closer to normal. It takes the edge off the worst depressive episodes so I, for example, don't actively contemplate suicide. What it doesn't do is make me happy. In order to be happy, I need something in my life that would, say, make people who AREN'T subject to depression happy.
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http://www.egscomics.com/?id=2470 Uh-oh intensifies.
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I always did wonder about that kind of survey. My problem with it was twofold: one, that happiness is such a nebulous thing that I have NO idea of how to quantify it -- seriously, how do you do that? Pour it into a cup and weigh it? And two, I wonder how much good this sort of thing did for unhappy people in the 'winning' countries. It was like they were essentially being told, "Shut up, you live in a 'good' country so you don't get to have an opinion." I think that instead of trying to measure something that is essentially an argument about the weight of a shadow you should focus a bit more on hard numbers. Number of alcoholics and those dependent on them. It is a safe bet that they probably aren't happy. Number of homeless people. Number of sick people. And so forth. And even that won't yield accurate numbers as they will only be able to detect physical causes that prevent the possibility of happiness. So frankly speaking, don't ask me, I don't know how to do this shit either.
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There's also symbionts who get real sad if they lose their partners from their list of Contacts.
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It is not limited to Danes; it merely defines some of our principal traits. The list was meant as a highly critical deconstruction of Danish society and comes from some of that literature I so passionately despise. But there is a great deal of truth to it.
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Where Mensa is concerned, I am of the Groucho Marx school of membership. I'd never join a club that would sink so low as to allow me into it. Admittedly this is pure Danish prejudice born of the Jante Law. The very concept of Mensa is just a little bit odious to most Danes. And to be perfectly truthful, objectively speaking that doesn't make Mensa bad, it just makes Danes snobbish.
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Fruitcake has quite a long shelf life.
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This is true. I think I would hesitate to attempt it even within the confines of the esteemed Mr. Adams' own universe. I would take it even further. I would say that elites and elitism are both actively harmful. They accept members regardless of the actual quality in many cases and in others keep extremely talented people out based on some irrelevant criteria of family, social standing, gender, sexual orientation and so forth. In Danish schools working class children were discouraged from seeking scientific or artistic occupations because they weren't good enough. It took most of the 20th Century to beat this attitude even partly down.
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Mind you, in exactly Hitchhiker's, the secret to unpowered human flight was to throw yourself at the ground -- and miss. Nonetheless, I'd hesitate before trying that in the real world. I know, right? Cheaters. It is amazing how useful a little math can be. I wish I had had fewer idiots for math teachers in school, I might have learned some more.
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I agree 100%. Mind you, I personally feel an urge to at least attempt to do the math before doing something dangerous, like trying heavier-than-air flight by jumping off a cliff. This may stem from my conviction that the Wright brothers did a good deal of theory before building their aircraft.
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I admit I am not overfond of them. But it is a way for Dan to relax and take it easy without putting the comic on hiatus and some people do like them, so I usually shrug and let them pass. The regular comic will eventually return.
