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The Old Hack

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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Tom Sewell in Damien and Nioi   
    Damien was also narcissistic in the extreme and dumber than a sack of rocks. Even with what little I knew of him, I would consider him incapable of an acting job that would so convincingly portray a completely different person.
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    The Old Hack reacted to ijuin in NP, Monday September 12, 2016   
    I thought that it was well known that we are out of our minds. 
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from ijuin in NP, Monday September 12, 2016   
    I knew it was off somewhere keeping bad company. Grumblegrumblemutter.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Scotty in NP, Monday September 12, 2016   
    Isn't it still at the door with the rest of the forum goers'.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in Story, Wednesday September 7, 2016   
    DON'T get me started on the Aztecs.
    Pyramids are for interring the honoured dead.
    NOT performance art.
     
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    The Old Hack reacted to partner555 in Story: Wednesday, September 14, 2016   
    I'm pretty sure that's normal for Dan's commentaries.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Scotty in Things You Only Noticed On Reread   
    I never really considered A-Ha a boy band, more like a one hit wonder, at least in North America, and Duran Duran is a 2 man crew. I think actual "Boy Bands" started with New Kids on the Block, but precursors to them would have been groups like the Jackson Five, The Osmonds, The Monkees and possibly even The Beatles, they just weren't called "Boy Bands" back then.
    Edit: Sorry, Duran Duran isn't a 2 man crew, though it has gone through several roster changes over the years.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Scotty in Story: Wednesday, September 14, 2016   
    We still don't know who or what was responsible for the betrayal that got Magus stuck in the in-between world in the first place. Maybe it was the Colonel.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Scotty in Things That Are Just Annoying   
    I went in to get the oil changed on the van (2012 Dodge Grand Caravan) and it turned out it was due for a transmission fluid and filter change as well so I said sure. They get working on it right away, about 15 minutes later I hear some grinding and thought that was odd, and 10 minutes after that the one mechanic is talking to the head mechanic (someone who's been there for at least as long as I've been taking vehicles there, we pretty much know each other by name now) who's flipping through various papers and telling the guy what needs to be done, and they're both poking around in the engine compartment. I'm a little concerned because it's sounds like the other mechanic had never done transmission work before so I go over and ask if there's a problem.
    Turn's out it wasn't so much a problem, but just tedious work because apparently a number of car manufacturers are designing vehicles and engines in such a way to make it so that only dealerships would be able to service them, an example of this was the fact that there was no transmission fluid dipstick in my van so they had to use an aftermarket dipstick. The papers the head mechanic was going through were various engine/transmission specs because there were no labels to tell what was needed on the transmission itself and they had to use a special laser tool to measure the inside of the transmission to be able to know how much fluid was needes. The grinding earlier was because Dodge doesn't use gaskets on the transmission casing, instead they use a bead of silicon which had to be ground off and a new bead applied when the casing was put back together.
    All in all, I'd still rather go to these guys because I can just drive up whenever and I can hop next door to the A&W and have lunch and they're usually done before I finish eating, if I had to go to the dealership to get it done, I'd have to first schedule an appointment, the dealership isn't in a location where I can go get lunch or do something to pass the time, and they take several hours to get it done.
    Basically I'm being annoyed behalf of my oil change guys.
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    The Old Hack reacted to hkmaly in NP, Monday September 12, 2016   
    ... would explain how they got smartphones that fast ...
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from banneret in Story Monday August 29, 2016   
    As long as it doesn't turn into Frank Miller time. Good Lord what a fubar he managed to create in his All-Star Batman & Robin. Newspapers that printed a kidnapping story that happened after they went to print. Milk cartons listing a boy as missing who didn't go missing till days later. Batman and Robin driving around in the Batmobile arguing for SIXTEEN HOURS just driving from the circus to the Batcave. And the time issues were just a small part of what made the whole monumental mess so awful.
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    The Old Hack reacted to mlooney in NP, Monday September 12, 2016   
    That all depends on what sort of stress you are putting the brain under.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Solarn in NP, Monday September 12, 2016   
    I'm half suspecting Rhoda is doing this deliberately just to see how far she can go before she breaks her girlfriend's brain.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Scotty in NP, Monday September 12, 2016   
    Ah! Finally we are starting on the midjinks.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Scotty in Story 9/12/2015   
    Pandora's warning was when she wanted Sarah to have frivolous fun with her spell, and was part of her plan for making magic public. Now that Pandora has to fix everything, the warning is kinda moot. Also why Sarah isn't there is because she basically just woke up maybe an hour earlier and got approached by Pandora again. I get why Dan didn't want to do a third straight chapter devoted to Pandora, but I'm anxious to know what she told Sarah.
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    The Old Hack reacted to EmpactWB in Story 9/12/2015   
    I used to think so too, but then I noticed Abner using the same phrase that Dex was muttering right before blasting at Noah, Dex's "now" questions seemed to count down to Elliot and Grace showing up, the bulldog dragon isolated Elliot, blasted into traffic on command causing Elliot to have to block instead of dodge, and then moved to finish Elliot until Melissa stepped in. Killing Dex might not have been the original plan, just an effort to cover up Voltaire's involvement when he couldn't finish Elliot. The pithos might have been a message to Pandora, perhaps signifying that this was the hope of the world rather than what she's attempting.
    I'm not sold on this theory, mind. It has a lot of holes due to lacking information on what Voltaire was up to at the time and how long he's been against Pandora.
    That same comic implies that the same person who gave him the pendant was the one controlling him, though, and while it's difficult to be certain, I think you can see the top of the mark when Dex puts on the pendant in panel 2. Also, he noticed the mark Friday and summoned his fairy on Saturday, but it wasn't until Tuesday when he summoned the fire guy that we see any evidence that he had the pendant. We see in Legends of Celida that Tedd already has multi-function watches, so I would think he's probably been working on them for more than the twenty-odd days since the attack. (Admittedly, I can only confirm a minimum of ten days between him saying he's making sense of magic and using that watch. I thought it was nine, but then I noticed panel 3 would fall on a Saturday if it was successive days, so the book bag means there has to be at least one day skipped.) Plus Raven didn't think it was crazy enough to be her, and if there's anyone who should know... Yeah, the more I think about it, the less certain I am of Pandora being the one behind the pendant.
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    The Old Hack reacted to CritterKeeper in Story 9/12/2015   
    Adrian has theorized that Noah was manipulated to be at the dojo, possibly in as attempt to get him killed.  So Elliot might not have been the only target of assassination that day.
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    The Old Hack reacted to ProfessorTomoe in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    Got in touch with the doctor's assistant a couple of hours ago and told them the Tramadol story. They called back a few minutes later and said the doctor had approved the refill. So, it's only going to be a partial ibuprofen day, as long as CVS gets their act together and fills it early enough.
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    The Old Hack reacted to Scotty in Story: Friday, September 9, 2016   
    It wasn't just the guardian form that exhausted her, it was a combination of summoning Fox, 2 hairstyle changes, 13 fairy dolls (12 of which Abraham destroyed, Charlotte ended up with the one intended for Grace), plus the fae punches. We don't know how long she was out, she might have been hooked up to an IV when she got put in the ambulance then left on it until the doctors assessed her and then taken off the IV when found she'd be fine. the room they were in was probably just a recovery room.
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    The Old Hack reacted to EmpactWB in Story: Friday, September 9, 2016   
    Point on the maximal duration being unlikely to be a set time limit. She probably kept it running with calories against Abraham and hospitalized herself basically from starvation. Seems a little weird that they didn't have an IV going, since she likely would have been unconscious from arrival up to that point.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from HarJIT in Story, Wednesday September 7, 2016   
    Nonsense. Billions of women manage just fine without one.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from HarJIT in Story Monday September 5, 2016   
    Mph. I feel that is stretching it, but that is because I know the character and would be hard put to see him as anything but a big friendly dork. Mind, if it had been Rich...
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from HarJIT in Story, Wednesday September 7, 2016   
    Nonsense. Billions of women manage just fine without one.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Drasvin in NP, Friday September 9, 2016   
    They're coming already. Here, have a cookie while you wait.
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    The Old Hack got a reaction from Red Regent in Things That Make You Happy   
    I must still be tired. My immediate reaction to this was a mental image of immortals flocking to your home trying to mark you with an energy draining spell.