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  1. Posted

    Elliot's behavior in the years when he met Tedd and Justin reminds me of a Knight-Errant.  In the name of "Justice" attacking people weaker than himself who are attacking people weaker than themselves.

    Or as Elliot came to realize it later, bullying the bullies.

    It wasn't a viable model for a justice system a thousand years ago.  And it still doesn't work.

  2. Posted

    59 minutes ago, Aura Guardian said:

    I don't blame persons for repeating wrongs when they have never been shown right - just the society for being that way

    "Society is to blame" is an overused and abused defense.

    The defendant's background obviously has some influence on their criminal actions.

    But criminal actions are still criminal.  Whether or not the defendant didn't know the actions were criminal, or thought the actions were justifiable, doesn't change the fact that they were criminal actions.

    After the defendant is convicted of the criminal actions, background is a valid consideration when determining the degree of punishment and method of rehabilitation.  But that comes after acknowledging that the defendant's actions were criminal.

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  4. Posted

    3 minutes ago, ssokolow said:

    Why do I get the feeling that Tedd's new spell's ability to reset default forms was intended as foreshadowing relevant to this?

    So Magus throws a magic tantrum, and Tedd just fixes everything in the morning?

  6. Posted · Edited by Pharaoh RutinTutin
    Posted before I was finished writing

    www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2480

    So why can't Magus have this discussion with Ellen?

    Wait until she recovers from what Sirleck did, and then ask her what she wants to do?

    Quote

    In commentary, Dan Shive said

    "Side note before rest of commentary: Magus does have a reason to feel rushed. The next page will address it."

    Magus has spent YEARS in limbo.  What could possibly be so urgent that he can not wait a few more hours?

    I very much want to see this "Explanation".

  11. Posted

    For about the first 300,000 years, there was no chemical problem in the Universe.

    Space was inflating while particles and anti-particles gleefully annihilated each other.

    Then we ran out of anti-particles.  Quarks settled down into Protons and Neutrons.  Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons assembled themselves into Atoms (mostly Hydrogen).  You can still hear the noise that made when you hit static on your TV or Radio.

    Next Gravity got in on the act and made that Hydrogen collapse into clouds forming Galaxies.  Smaller clouds in the Galaxies kept collapsing until they got so hot, the Hydrogen Atoms began fusing together into heavier atoms.

    At this point, these Hydrogen Clouds developed a incredible ego.  They started calling themselves Stars and began racing each other to see who could be bigger, brighter, and hotter.  The bigger the Star, the more heavy elements they left as waste in the process.  And these elements have a habit of not getting along together.

    Still, this is a temporary situation.  In about 1095 years, the universe should be back to a peaceful state of Photons and Sub-Atomic Particles being carried apart by inflating space.

  13. Posted

    Magus, Magus, Magus...

    Through a series of accidents and abuses, you were thrust into a most horrific situation.
    A lot of us were willing to cut you quite a bit of slack.

    But now that slack has turned into enough rope with which you can hang yourself.

  15. Posted

    7 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Bollocking dihydrogen oxide. It gets everywhere and ...the governments don't even care.

    The current governments, maybe.

    We who governed the Ancient Lands of Egypt tend to avoid water.

    Ramses II, for example, hasn't touched a drop in over four millennia.

  20. Posted

    Susan was willing to play the game, at least in part, because the transformations that would happen to her would be outside her control.

    But now she must chose a temporary transformation.
    She must make that choice knowing that it is her choice alone.
    She must make that choice knowing that the others around her know that it is her choice alone.

    If you go into someone's home for a meal, you eat what you are served.
    If you go to a pot-luck or buffet, your choices are limited to what has already been prepared and presented.
    But if you are handed a menu, then the servers, the kitchen staff, and anyone who sees your dishes being presented knows that you have asked for that specific meal.

    It can, at times, be difficult to publicly admit "I want this".

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  22. Posted

    If the English language of his reality had a slightly different Great Vowel Shift, their version of Allan might end up as Ellen.

    On a tangent, I never really heard anything about The Great Vowel Shift until I got to college. I suspect that English Teachers deliberately hide this part of the history of the language to keep elementary students away from ready-made set of misspelling excuses.

    Speaking of language, apparently Elliot's command of sign language isn't quite proficient enough to make Ashley understand "Stay Down and Shut Up!"

  23. Posted

    20 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    we know Ashley's goodness rivals that of Elliot's and yet because of something that happened to her, that goodness came very close to causing more harm than good I think.

    Good Intentions can make for a very good pavement.

    ...

    Depending on your destination.

    1 minute ago, Tom Sewell said:

    it's just silly for Magus to be wearing a modern tie if his world doesn't resemble ours in most ways.

    I personally believe that the necktie is one of the silliest customs of our world.

  24. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    will she (Susan) pick something to fit that (like the Pony form) and outwardly be seen having fun while being able to blame the form for her behaviour?

    It's too bad the job of personal jester or buffoon no longer exists.

    Susan would be the perfect kind of noblewoman to outwardly remain stoic at all times while letting her jester become overly excited, happy, or angry for her.

  25. Posted

    45 minutes ago, Vorlonagent said:

    Nobody knows. 

    ...as in "no single individual in the Real World knows how to build a recognizably current car from a pile of iron ore, tree sap, etc" To make a classic car (1940s - 60s, say) you first have to reinvent the Industrial Revolution.  To make a 2018 sort of car you also have to replicate the Information Revolution.  And iterate significantly on both technologies. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM

     

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