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banneret
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Most of the setting doesn't come in for books and books, I read the first ten and never encountered the Oblivion War. As with all long series, the first book provides a rudimentary hook, which is great for investing you in the character, but you don't actually need it. They failed in the fullness of time, but then both the official curated oral and written traditions were effectively disrupted several times, and it is hard to say how long he was effectively lost. I think of it as a restoration, which dovetails nicely with the discussion of requisite worshipers. Who he was, in our perception, is still growing - see the Amarna letters and what that tells us about both his use of language, and his focus on foreign affairs.
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Furthermore, everyone knew Voldemort's name, indeed the knowledge was fundamental to maintaining the fear. His name was not erased from written or oral record, and this kept his mythology specific and potent. He was not Akhenaten, the Heretic Pharaoh whose name was struck from his cartouches and whose spirit was doomed to wander forever in Amenti for his monotheist Atenism, while his children converted. Thirty years on, Akhenaten and his successors were removed from the King Lists, their rulership effectively erased from the record, as his temples were dismantled and the city of Akhetaten was abandoned to the elements. In contrast, Voldemort retained a living cult after his initial defeat, and remained a central figure in the collective psyche. He was part of a narrative of dark wizardry, had terrorized at least two generations of wizards, and effectively determined policy for decades. His supporters persisted, his mythology grew, and the shadow kept society weak and vulnerable to his eventual return.
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In retrospect, that is a deuced unlikely ban. Women's clothing is probably sold at the majority of the outlets in the mall, which are always spread out geographically. He would have to be banned from stores specifically catering to women, and the women's sections of stores which provide clothing to men as well. Not all stores have the resources to keep a list of banned customers, and few malls have enough security staff to enforce a mall-wide ban, much less one dealing with a subset of the establishments within. Anyway, I very much doubt Dan will revisit the gag, for it was from an early phase of the comic and it wasn't well executed.
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I daresay, we all regret predicting this.
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I make no apologies for the quoted text, the whole book is written like that, a bloody nightmare. To simplify it further, there are "metals" (silver/white and gold/yellow) and "colours" (red, blue, brown, green). You're supposed to have at least one of each, and alternate them.
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This is not from the text, as I am out of the house, so you'll have to bear with me. Silver and gold - represented by white and yellow in imagery - are the "metals" and they must appear at least once in the shield. In classic heraldry, "metals" and "colours" must alternate, though obviously this becomes more difficult to apply when there are more in play than just one "metal" and one "colour". Technically, in California, most road signs have white text (silver, or argent) on a green, brown or blue background so they do comply, in a sense.
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Is this, perchance, the rule in question: "The rules developed by heralds are based on the experiences of the medieval military craft. They achieved wide recognition because of the primary significance of military activity at the time. Their basis was that every person must be recognizable as quickly as possible under unfavorable conditions of visibility. One of the main rules was therefore that of tincture, whereby metal cannot be used on metal, nor color on color." Neubecker, Ottfried. Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and Meaning.
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He has reasonable abilities, but he has demonstrated no wisdom and little intellectual flexibility.
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I've wondered about it, but I'm not convinced. We don't have enough information on Magus' universe to determine much about him, and it is unclear why they would need to be related to him to provide the conduit.
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I don't see that as a hole at all, we often make far reaching decisions long before they're actually relevant. This is particularly true when it comes to aging and mortality. Waiting until she is two hundred to make the call doesn't make sense in either case, as your timeline illustrates. It seems far more likely that her decision will be a consequence of tragedy, rather than a response to a threat. At fifty, or even as early as thirty, I suspect Adrian will be able to take care of himself.
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There was surely a second lottery arranged by Verres which provided the Dunkel family with unlimited minutes and unlimited data in perpetuity. Otherwise, they could hardly afford it!
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I was recently at a poorly staged performance of Carmen, and even never having seen this episode, I was thinking about it. Members of my family may have sung it repeatedly in my youth. I'm listening to The Beekeeper's Apprentice in one room, and No Doubt in the other room.
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There was more thought put into the first two acts of Batman Begins than all of the following films combined.
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I suspect Blaike, not Adrian, is the initial catalyst for her refusal to reset. We know that she is limiting herself to indulge his experience of adventure. I suspect that this will have tragic consequences, which convince her to question both a focused experience of life, and the rules of the immortals. Adrian is the object of her affections, but not the subject which provoked them - this would partly explain why she doesn't discuss her plans with him. On Jerry, If you meet someone who isn't frustrated by an edict or directive they can neither understand nor reject, imposed by an authority they do not know, then you've found someone who is remarkably immature, both a danger to themselves and to others. I think you can argue that he wouldn't have aided Diane, simply because he wouldn't have been on hand, because he would not know. We can't really say whether he would or would not assist her had he come upon the situation by chance, without the prior vow - that would be speculation as to his base personality, which we have only observed under the influence of the aforementioned vow.
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Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)
banneret replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I feel Sweveham has the right of it. We have two parties, with similar policies and practices across both the economic and foreign spheres. They differ primarily on polarized social and operational issues which many European countries don't even debate, such as the right to bodily autonomy for women, or the necessity of taxation to fund the activity of government. Our elections are primarily run around the personalities and social stances of our politicians, rather than the expectation of differing political practice. Of course, to your earlier post, Sweveham, our parties are nearly arbitrary groupings of politicians, primarily differentiated from one another by branding, fundraising, target demographics, and stance on the aforementioned social and operational issues. They persist because they are so large and pervasive that they've established a dominant binary, it is infeasible to practice politics here without participating in one or the other. If Europe is only just moving toward a post-democratic society, we are honestly further down that road. I believe that we are not, and can not be, a healthy democratic society under the two party system. The enforced binary does not empower politicians to seek change, for it is inherently reductive and repressive. Unanimity in economic and foreign policy has driven decades of interventionism and increasingly unwise deregulation. Even the progress we have made in recent years on social issues is vulnerable in the face of this uneven polarization that prevents functional compromise in these areas. We can, we must reform both ourselves, and our political reality. -
Hypnosis has a lot of therapeutic uses as well.
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It is an interesting theory, although I think the griffins or Helena/Demetrius or Jerry or Mr. Verres would have said something if Susan and/or Diane was an elf.
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Not that digital distribution is exempt from source degradation, for no medium defies entropy. Consider the miniature. First, a sculptor creates a master sculpt or green. She then creates a master mould from the sculpt, which she can use to cast either production miniatures or reference miniatures which would then be used to create production moulds. Neither moulds nor the sculpts used to create moulds will last forever, regardless of what she does, but handling production through derivative assets will allow her to both preserve the master(s) and greatly expand maximum production volume. Digital media degrades as well, for instance files on flash media can exhibit significant bit rot after a few hundred reads. However, between redundant storage and regular maintenance, as well as relatively low failure rates, you can effectively keep your source intact with minimal effort. That is, unless you're dealing with environments with a lot of ionization, like, say, near reactors or in space. In those cases, you have to create redundant systems which are simple, hardened, monitored (generally mutually, with some sort of voting/ruling system) and have some form of automatic recovery (flash/reinstall from static archive).
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Does anyone else dare hope that this chapter begins with such a clear cover page because Dan may intend to actually release it in a collection down the road?
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pinup Pinup: Sunday, July 3, 2016 (Sarah & Grace cuddle)
banneret replied to Howitzer's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
In a sense, I feel that the relevant links are the reciprocal ones. If there is no overlap in interest, I don't see much reason to ship. -
It might be helpful to select a representative portion of dialogue for each character you want cast, so people can read the same text and you can compare. I've done amateur voice work, but I do not like my voice.
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Ah, but Grace took exception to the murder of civilians. It isn't that she couldn't eschew violence, but that she wouldn't permit herself to.
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pinup Pinup: Sunday, July 3, 2016 (Sarah & Grace cuddle)
banneret replied to Howitzer's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
I'm so glad that Tom and Rich aren't in there. As for the OT3, I wonder if it will progress further inside canon. It is a complex subject, as it essentially involves three relationships and integrating that structure into others. -
In a sense, although there are some peculiar differences. As you know, in table top you could get modules or additional rules books, for the most part. Earlier in the video game industry, a successful game could receive an expansion which usually consisted of lower quality, but at least substantial content, like a splat book. Generally this meant you would buy another diskette or CD with more plot, adventures, missions... a selection of material with some sort of common framework. Honestly, it was sort of like a stepping stone to a sequel in many cases. However, with the advent of digital content delivery, developers realized that they didn't need to release these large collections of new content, they could sell very small pieces individually and potentially make much more money. DLC can be as large as a historical military campaign with maps, missions and new units in a strategy game, or as small as a few cosmetic items like hats and ties in an computer roleplaying game. DLC can thus be considerably worse than a splat book, because they can essentially sell you each page of the book separately, or indeed, just market a bunch of post-it notes with no rhyme or reason.
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I can imagine a chop oozing cranberry sauce. Perhaps this isn't a great idea texturally. I just had my chicken soup. It would be chicken noodle, but I cannot stand cooked carrots, and I have no need for noodles. I've added corn, and I serve it over cabbage.