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  1. Posted

    52 minutes ago, Tobyc said:

    Any specific examples of that? By which I'm hoping you don't mean the crew siding with the Ba'ku against the people trying to kidnap and rob them?

    Screw the Ba'Ku. With a fusion-powered monofilament chainsaw. Those hypocritical Luddite festering sores on the rectum of the Universe are some of the most repellent creatures I have ever seen in the Star Trek universe. The Prime Directive did not apply to them -- they HAD the technology to travel in space, they just refused to use it on a piecemeal basis that made no sense just so they could be all holier than thou about it. It wasn't even their planet, they just moved there and then refused to accept others moving in, too. Sitting like a bunch of parasitical squatters on a health resource of vital value to the Federation which was in the middle of LOSING A WAR with the Dominion.

    What makes the least sense to me is why anyone would bother to relocate them at all. Just move in and establish your own outposts and settlements. What would they do about it, look disapprovingly at you while bleating about the evils of technology?

  6. Posted

    5 minutes ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

    my favorite gun in Borderlands was a either an assult rifle or a submachine gun, not sure which, that could eat it's entire ammo supply under a minute. Phasewalk right up to the middle of a group and then just hold down the trigger spraying bullets everywhere.

    not one clip, the entire reserve. even with a full set of storage deck upgrades.  can't for the life of me remember where i got it... Probably didn't help that i knew the unlimited character upgrade points cheat...

    See, this is why I like swords. They don't run out of ammo.

  7. Posted

    On 16 May 2016 at 0:28 PM, Don Edwards said:

    Both of which have legitimate medical uses, and one of which is significantly less dangerous than a certain other recreational drug which has been legal in the US for decades and in Europe for much longer.

    Like dihydrogen oxide? That crap is addictive as all out. I've been dependent on it my whole life. Visit any bar and they will serve it, usually unregulated and with no questions asked. They won't even card you.

  9. Posted

    I can think of a rather frightening reason why this plan would be expensive for Sirleck. If enough of his wealth is bound up in Moperville real estate, raining hell down on it will probably cause it to depreciate in value.

    Just ask the Pharaoh. What happened to the Egyptian market after the Plagues?

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, Drasvin said:

    Hmm. That seems a tad excessive. Then again, There's no kill like overkill.

    To be fair to the Lensmen, they were caught at the tail end of an escalating war of superweapons that had been going on for the entire book series. And every time someone had come up with a superweapon, someone else came up with a defence or counter for it. Just two books earlier the superweapon state of the art had been using two ordinary planets with opposed intrinsic velocities as a nutcracker against a planetary fortress. That stopped being effective when someone else discovered a way to use the entire energy output of a sun as a concentrated beam weapon. Since no-one managed to find a way to move suns around before the end of the series, this placed the advantage firmly at the defence for quite a while.

  11. Posted

    8 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    That isn't necessarily that useful.

    Super Beings in comics have a bad habit of not staying dead.

    That is merely a tendency, not a rule. A surprising number of very powerful superbeings have died and never returned. This is because the staying power of death is linked to the popularity of the dead character in an equation that may be written as:

    (P + (tD/E)) + R > D, then character is resurrected.

    P equals popularity, tD is time passed since death of character, E is editorial interference, R is readership demand and D is of course death. Please note that while E may be either positive or negative, it may never equal zero as editors are constitutionally incapable of not interfering.

    In other words, as long as there's a few very powerful but unpopular characters in the graveyard, Dead Dennis is still doing fine.

  13. Posted

    6 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Nukes may have a lot less blast damage than large relativistic kinetic impactors, but they have the advantage of poisoning whatever happens to survive the blasts, and the poison can linger for centuries. Impactors sufficiently massive that absolutely nothing survives anywhere (not even in mile-underground bunkers) may be too heavy to bother with, since by that point we are talking about enough energy to melt the top mile of the Earth's crust planetwide.

    Pfffft. Sissies. In Doc Smith's Lensman series, when they really wanted someone dead, they hit them with planetary masses of antimatter moving at seventeen times the speed of light. :demonicduck:

  14. Posted

    Glaistig reminds me of a horrible character from a spoof game a friend of mine once ran. We were deliberately trying to come up with broken concepts. So he invented Dead Dennis. Dead Dennis was unkillable due to already being dead and had all the powers of every single dead superbeing. He could of course use all of them at the same time without limitations.

    He did not work well in teams. His first line was always 'Interesting powers you guys have.'

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  15. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    I think the only one of the main eight that's got a chance in dealing with Immortals is, oddly enough, Sarah.

    For one, she's punched an immortal in the arm and lived to tell about it. And two, she sassed another Immortal and lived to tell about it. ;)

    I do feel it is worth mentioning that I do not recall my teenage years as the time of my life that I was best at risk management.

  16. Posted

    5 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Got the RiffTrax going?

    Naturally.

    A lot of things could be improved by good RiffTrax. For example, never watch a TV transmission of the Danish Parliament without one.

  17. Posted

    25 minutes ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

    i admit, i haven't finished reading the source material that was linked earlier, so i might have missed something, but it seems like altered state in this context specifically refers to "turns into something physically different from your default form"

    Like Hulk vs Bruce Banner. THAT kind of altered state.

    And here I thought all you needed to do was to drop acid. Nothing is ever simple, is it. *muttermuttergrumble*

  18. Posted

    3 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    "Run?" I suppose you mean it metaphorically, because running don't get you far enough fast enough.

    ... actually, you may need rocket to get far enough, considering what Pandora plans.

    In her case, I would recommend a time machine.

    Which does not exist in EGS. So I guess in her case you are just screwed.

  19. Posted

    5 hours ago, Sargon said:

    Oh, yes, Sirleck, attack the son of an Immortal, there is no way this will end with a horribly cruel punishment beyond your scariest nightmares...

    I have no mouth

    and I must

    scream.

    To be fair, Colonel Sanders specifically set Sirleck up to believe that Raven was the son of either Demetrius or Helena -- two young and improperly-reborn Immortals. He might consider them a manageable risk.

    Pandora, of course, is many things. But a 'manageable risk' is not one of them.

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  22. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    to the point where we're even expecting Phill the garage attendant to make another appearance as something more than just an extra. ;)

    Infidel! Phill shall rise and prove to be the SAVIOR of the Gooniverse! :demonicduck:

  23. Posted

    15 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    The technology could be there literally tomorrow. It's only question of price. Also, it will not be LEATHER shoes, of course.

    Nonsense. Just add a slot labeled 'Insert Cow Here' to whatever device you are using and you are good to go. :demonicduck:

  25. Posted

    1 hour ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Nah, that's a different natural law -- any new technology will have an early but necessary growth stage in which it is used primarily for porn/sex/masturbatioin/etc.

    I have just spent the past week looking into the development of gunpowder and this was the exact mental image I didn't need. Thanks, Critter. I now have new meanings for 'blow job' and 'banging hot' I easily could have done without. :danshiftyeyes:

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