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  6. Posted

    20 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    We have not seen even a hint that she has much concern for Noah. Maybe that is the indication that she does not, conspicuous by its absence. I wonder if it is because he is not human, but she seemed favorably disposed toward Grace.

    I believe Adrian only took Noah under his wing fairly recently (from an in-world perspective) and adopted him more recently still. Furthermore, I don't think Pandora visited her son very often, so she probably never got the chance to get to know Noah. Pandora also had a tendency to get fixated on a single goal / idea / etc. and ignore everything else. So chances are she rarely even remembered Noah existed, and when she did thought of him more as "some kid staying with Adrian" rather than as family (not out of prejudice but because she wasn't paying enough attention to know better).

  10. Posted · Edited by ChronosCat
    Expanded the thread to the entire weeek.

    I just noticed that no one has created any NP threads this week. Rather than making several threads I figured I'd just do one for the week.

    Tuesday, Feb 13: https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-060

    Thursday, Feb 15: https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-061

    Saturday, Feb 17: https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/fox-062

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    I like Ashley's form in Tuesday's strip. It's funny both she and Kevin are acting like she was being naughty, when random TFs are par for the course in Tedd's basement.

    Someone pointed out elsewhere that it's kind of funny Ashely's worried in Thursday's strip that she'll get TF spells instead of the healing spells she wants, when Pandora decided not to give her a mark because all she could give her was healing magic.

    As for Saturday, all I have to say is: Chibi!

     

  11. Posted

    https://www.egscomics.com/comic/hope-030

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    Tedd and Grace are looking quite cute today.

    As I said on Tumblr: I love how Tedd and Grace's new-ish hair styles are both androgynous (in fact I might even call Tedd's feminine-leaning and Grace's borderline-masculine, though they both look great with their current bodies regardless). Combined with their similar outfits and matching pendants, the two look like quite the matched set!

  12. Posted

    On 2/10/2024 at 11:07 AM, Darth Fluffy said:

    I thought Spaceballs was funny, but also a bit lame. I could watch it occasionally. My kids. born after it was released, grew up with it and loved it. Probably appropriate, I think Mel Brooks is a dad joke master.

    It was released when I was a kid; I saw it shortly after it came out on video. I really enjoyed it, though I did like Star Wars better (if only because as a kid I always preferred things I thought were serious over comedies). I think I actually like it less now that I get all the adult jokes in it.

  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    Have you given the idea of green parrot copy of them any credence?

    Green parrot...? As in "arr, shiver me timbers"?

    I wouldn't knowingly pay for such a thing except as a last resort, and if it's going to be digital I'd need to be somewhere with good internet access anyway, so I'd want to see about the possibility of using my sister's internet and her friend's Netflix account first.

  14. Posted

    First of all, sorry to hear about your troubles, mlooney; you have my sympathy.

    Now on to a much less serious annoying thing:

    I'm a fairly big Godzilla fan, and I like to have physical media for my entertainment when possible. As a result I have collected DVDs and/or Blu-Rays of every Godzilla movie to have an official English-subtitled release - which is to say, every Godzilla movie except the anime "Monster Planet" trilogy released in 2017 & 2018. That trilogy was released on DVD & Blu-Ray in Japan shortly after their initial releases, but of course those discs don't have English subtitles. As far as I can tell, even years later the only way to see the English translation legally is by streaming them on Netflix.

    As I've mentioned before, my internet is too limited for doing much if any streaming, and so long as that's the case there's no way I'm paying for a streaming service. This means that if I want to see the Monster Planet trilogy and understand what's being said, I'll need to visit my sister and ask to use her internet and the Neflix account she's sharing with a friend... or wait and hope that one of these years they'll finally do US Blu-Ray release. (Well technically I could also try learning Japanese, but I don't really want to learn another language just to watch anime & monster movies.)

  15. Posted

    On 1/30/2024 at 9:51 PM, Darth Fluffy said:

    I don't know much about CD's degrading, but if you have any, do not store them in an even slightly damp place.

    Re: streaming, my kids love it, and love not having to deal with media. I rankle at paying for each play, would rather own media, but it does all take up space and requires some attention. A also like broadcast radio, now FM only, I no longer listen to AM, just sounds better, and there's plenty of it.

    My understanding is that how long a CD (or DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.) will last depends on the manufacturing techniques used. Some CDs made in the late 80s still play fine, while some more recently produced are no longer usable (though it's not simply a matter of "they don't make 'em like they used to"; new CDs can be high quality too). Unfortunately usually there's no way for the consumer to know what sort of disc it is they're dealing with.

    Personally, I like the concept of streaming, but don't do it much (and don't bother with any paid services) because my internet is limited. Even if that weren't an issue, I would still want to have physical copies of any music I like enough to want to listen to again (and any videos I want to watch again, and games I want to play again), or at least have the media in question downloaded to a machine I own (preferably with backups), as I don't trust streaming services (or anything else online) to always have the things in question available - or even to always exist.

    I do listen to the radio at times too, if I don't know what I want to listen to (or when I'm in my car, since it's CD player broke and I haven't gotten around to having it replaced). However, while the "random" (for lack of a better term) selection on a radio station can lead to me discovering new music I like, it also can result in my being subjected to songs I don't like (until I change the station or turn it off), and generally speaking I prefer being in more control over what I'm listening to.

  16. Posted

    On 1/17/2024 at 9:40 AM, Darth Fluffy said:

    He didn't really hang out with Justin very long, unless there was a fast forward between the last comics and this. (Do kids these days understand a VCR term, 'fast forward'? I told my kids once, "You sound like a broken record." They asked, "What's a record?")

    In addition to "fast forward" still being a term, as far as I know so is "rewind" despite nothing being wound on a DVD/Blu-Ray player or streaming video. On a related note, multiple programs I use still have their "save" icon look like a floppy disk; I wonder how many people use such programs but have no idea why the save symbol looks like that.

    Incidentally, I'm guessing that incident with your kids not knowing about records was a while ago? Because records have actually been making a comeback in recent years (I've even heard that these days they sell better than CDs, though considering how most people seem to prefer streaming these days, that may not be saying much).

  17. Posted

    On 1/9/2024 at 2:18 PM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Ashley doesn't have preferences.  She likes anything different and cute.

    So how long until she gets bored of Elliot?

    So long as he's willing and able to change into a wide variety of feminine forms (plus a masculine cat-boy), I think Elliot will continue to hold Ashley's interest.

  19. Posted

    On 1/3/2024 at 9:44 AM, Darth Fluffy said:

    So, source of the funds; Justin says, "Not counterfeit!" in his head; I take that as canon because it seems to be intended to be canon. Well, we have the possible, 'assets buried long ago', literally created on the spot - but she'd need to have copied real ones to have the anti-counterfeit features; transported real ones to herself - effectively stolen; sent real ones back in time to herself - which is not technically stealing, it would be more akin to counterfeiting, but they'd be real; duplicated herself a thousand times and flipped burgers for a couple of weeks (but she'd probably know about change, then - and does she need to eat?) . . . They all seem far fetched.

    Remember, travel back in time is not possible in EGS (except traveling to another world whose "present" is an earlier year than your own).

    On 1/3/2024 at 9:44 AM, Darth Fluffy said:

    Justin is slick in how he checked, not making it obvious what he is doing. OTOH, it's probably not necessary. I've had bills checked at places that check routinely, did not find it offensive. I think black light checking is more effective. I can see a comic store not investing in one, even though they are not expensive. It has too many entertaining applications, in a store that caters to the nerdy crowd.

    Whenever I use a $100 bill at a store, the cashier runs a marker over it. While still obvious enough if you're paying attention, I'd say it's a bit more discrete (and probably convenient) than holding the bill up to a light like Justin did.

  20. Posted

    On 12/28/2023 at 9:55 AM, Darth Fluffy said:

    Sixty to seventy USD would be typical for a big name release for the PC; fifty is a nice round figure in the ballpark. I read this as 'under $100 or not much over', allowing for some padding.

    Same thing for big name releases on the Switch (and many not-so-big name releases).

  21. Posted

    2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    No matter how old or sick or injured a person may become, there will always be a version of that person who just fails to die.

    While I like the idea of Many Worlds, I don't think that particular idea holds up. It assumes that either no matter the situation a person finds themselves in there is a chance they won't die, and/or that any situation where death is inevitable is avoidable. Now that might be true for the majority of things that can kill a person (though on the other hand there are so many things that can kill a person that it would be extremely unlikely to find oneself surviving far beyond one's life expectancy), but there are various deadly situations that a human simply can't survive, and various health issues that can't be avoided and modern medicine doesn't have an answer to. Also, while there may be some worlds out there with people already centuries or more old, and medical technology is advancing rapidly enough these days that it's not unreasonable to think some people living today could live to see life expediencies start rising faster than people can die of "old age", without the ability to travel back in time or between worlds everybody must die eventually --- after all, the universe itself will eventually end (or at least wind up uninhabitable).

  22. Posted

    On 12/27/2023 at 9:36 AM, Darth Fluffy said:

    In the non-Canon NP arc, Goonmanji 2, Hanma interacts with Susan, Rhoda, Catalina, and Ashley. Though it is non-canon, Hanma has appeared in the main story line, for instance, when the immortals are listening to Voltaire rant about changing immortal law. It does not seem that Rhoda and Catalina have much awareness of a magic community beyond themselves. (This is also odd, wouldn't someone with magic wonder if anyone else did?) Probably actually non-canon . . . ?

     

    Also in Goonmanji 2, Hanma implies that in a future canon story it will be revealed that she met Liz and Ashley at an anime convention.

  23. Posted

    22 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    A TOS tricorder is also technologically inferior in several ways. It is bulky, heavier than a cell phone, and the attendant storage items are a fairly large item, a disk somewhere around the size of two nickels or quarters stacked together. Yes, it fit the esthetic of the era the show was aired; gear was still bulky, and at the time the tricorder appeared to be less so. But you weren't going to fit it in your pocket, like you do with a cell phone.

    I had forgotten how cumbersome the TOS tricorder was. (While I've seen most of TOS I don't think I've seen all of it, and I definitely haven't seen all of it more than once; it's also been a couple years since I watched any of it.) When I think "tricorder" the TNG-era version comes to mind; those are still bigger and bulkier than a phone, but not nearly as much as the TOS version (also, while it might not fit in the average shirt or pants pocket, it could fit in a large jacket pocket or something).

  24. Posted

    On 12/22/2023 at 7:30 PM, Darth Fluffy said:

    Seriously, that seemed unrealistic on Star Trek when it first aired. Mine seems more sophisticated than the communicator and tricorder combined.

    Depends on what you mean by "sophisticated". The communicators have a much greater range than the average cell phone (I'm pretty sure mine couldn't communicate with a ship in orbit without relays), and the tricorders have much more comprehensive and detailed scanning abilities than today's phones (though the gap is closing). Of course a smart phone is far more versatile than a communicator and a tricorder combined, and the design of the communicators and tricorders in the Original Series looks very retro these days (but that's more a matter of changing tastes in aesthetics than technological sophistication).

  25. Posted

    More-or-less the opposite of annoying, but to complete the saga in a single thread: we finally have our power back! It's quite a relief, not just because it's been challenging relying on our generator for the past few days; yesterday the power company had estimated it would be restored Saturday evening (granted, they were giving the same prediction for all the out-of-power streets in our area, and those weren't all connected to one another, so it was probably meant more along the lines of "we'll have power back to everyon in town by then"). I'm very glad we didn't have to wait that long!

    On 12/20/2023 at 5:55 PM, Darth Fluffy said:

    Our soil is shallow clay in this region. Trees do not root deep, and they fall fairly easily. When I moved here, I wondered why the homes had few trees nearby for shade. Can't do that; they fall on the homes way too often.

    Trees falling due to loose roots are not uncommon around here, but neither are they common enough to be a major concern when deciding whether to allow trees near one's house. Trees breaking (either due to dying, or due to being too thin for their height) are somewhat more common, and far more common than that are tree branches (sometimes big ones) snapping due to winds or the weight of snow.

    Incidentally, a while back (probably five to ten years ago) we actually had a tree fall on our previous house, but luckily the house was sturdy enough and the angle right so the tree just slid down the roof before falling to the ground without causing any major damage to the house (though it did take out our TV antenna along the way).