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  1. Posted

    9 hours ago, ijuin said:

    For me, if it's not important enough for them to leave me a message, then it must not be important enough for me to call them back.

    And since I have an old fashioned answering machine on my landline I don't even consider it important enough to answer unless they leave a message.

  3. Posted

    On 11/1/2017 at 6:46 AM, partner555 said:

    I didn't think it was fair to compare real life parents to them. No matter how open-minded they are, a child spontaneously becoming the other gender with no warning whatsoever will cause a huge shock.

    Actually while that didn't exactly happen in my family my father's reaction to finding out his eldest child is actually female, rather than male as assigned at birth, after not seeing said child for a couple of years during which she had been on hormones and grown 'huge tracts of land', was minimal. Though I suppose it's possible that he either had a reaction that he didn't show and/or had a subconscious idea of this already. I know both my spawn and I had known subconsciously for some time before the reveal.

    It's also somewhat different than what happened with Elliot, as that was over a much shorter time frame.

  4. Posted

    8 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Even ordinary cats may display startling determination in that department. In order to get at some Greenies kitty treats, my wife's cat stubbornly clawed its way through three layers of wrapping and the quite tough little plastic sack of the Greenies themselves. o.o

    Heh, that reminds me of the time my mom asked what cat treats are made of and I answered without thinking: Kitty Crack

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  5. Posted

    On 3/12/2016 at 1:16 AM, CritterKeeper said:

    Perhaps Diane looked different enough from both parents that it was obvious she was not their biological offspring.  Different race would be the most immediately obvious.  A couple set enough on having their own biological offspring, instead of adopting, to invest the time and effort of IVF, would be a lot less likely to be willing to raise a child who was obviously not "their own" just because of some mix-up at the clinic.

    Adopting is actually a rather difficult process. How difficult depends on where you live and how much you're willing to spend.

    I've not adopted myself, but I know (online) a woman who has one IVF daughter and one adopted daughter, so clearly the two are not mutually exclusive.

  6. Posted

    11 hours ago, Wildcat said:

    How hard is Linux to use? I`m... very much not interested in Windows at this point

    It depends on the specific variant of linux. I'm using mint and finding it very easy.

    The reason I'm using linux is this computer was a gift from someone who only uses linux and I saw no reason to change the OS. 

  9. Posted

    19 minutes ago, ijuin said:

    By "length", do you mean body height? Because hair length is something that has nothing to do with genetics and everything to do with the choices of the person (and that person's parents).

    Not exactly true, each person has a length beyond which their hair will not grow, though it is easy enough to cut it shorter.

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, exterminator said:

    This would have happened 18 years ago. I know it's not that far ago, but how accepted was abortion in the USA, culturally and socially, back then?

    My understanding is that it depended, and still does, largely on where exactly in the US one is. The country is a large and not at all homogenous place. In many places it would have been mostly a non issue.

  13. Posted

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    I gotta wonder of Tedd would even be able to shake off what would normally be considered permanent? Like if Tedd saw the spell that would change his default form, he'd know how it'd work and theoretically be able to counter it in some way?  I would also imagine that if Tedd saw a fireball thrown at him he'd be able to brace himself which could negate the spell. Not sure I'd want to see that tested in case it doesn't work like that though.

    Testing it with a fireball: Bad idea.

    Testing it with one of Ellen's transformation beams? That could work, if the resistance fails there's no harm done. Of course it wouldn't be a perfect test as many fireballs are large enough that they hit an area rather than just single target.

  16. Posted

    3 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    ... I think it was the "mind" which was mentioned as possibly not being applicable. Being both plural and singular sounds impossible. On the other hand, Magic might really be that weird and hard-to-describe.

    Just because something sounds impossible on the surface doesn't mean that it's actually impossible.

    Imagine, if you would, a being with several conscious minds and one unconscious mind. Is it one or many? I'd say both.

    A team is a group that, ideally, acts together as one.

    This post brought to you by someone who is working on a setting that includes a machine intelligence that creates and absorbs personalities without apparent rhyme or reason.

  19. Posted

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    Ok. You don't get rid of fear either. Immortals can totally keep scaring Uryuom forever, even if without humans they wouldn't have anyone to empower and guide.

    Also, maybe if all immortals agree, the rules can be changed.

    In this comic http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2174 it's mentioned that ancients/immortals have different agreements on each side of the world. Agreements can be changed, and in that situation I think it likely that it would be.

  20. Posted

    On 28/4/2016 at 11:26 AM, The Old Hack said:

    A question just occurred to me:

    The first time Elliot was ever turned into a girl, I am fairly sure Elliot's gender identity was that of a boy turned into a girl, i. e. still considering himself male.

    Over time, this seems to have gradually changed. I wonder if today's comic's moment of acceptance also marks that Elliot now fully considers herself a girl while transformed into her superhero identity or other variations of female selves?

    I'd say that some people are more strongly gendered than others. I'd bet the Elliot was never strongly gendered, which made adapting to his magic easier than it would have been if he were.

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  21. Posted

    16 hours ago, InfiniteRemnant said:

    pandora isn't so much evil as actively throwing caution to the wind for shits n' giggles, while trying to do something that has unfortunate side effects she may or may not be aware of.

    I tend to think of Pandora as Chaotic Bored.

    7 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Not exactly.  The world would hopefully start filling up with *inexperienced* superheroes just as fast as it does with *inexperienced* supervillains, perhaps even faster if you subscribe to the "more good people than bad" outlook.  People seem to be quick to point out how many bad guys might get powers, but then assume that they'd somehow be more competent more quickly than their good-guy counterparts.

    A bad guy just needs to succeed once to cause harm, the good guys have to succeed every time in stopping them. Furthermore good guys are often hampered by morals, which can make stopping the bad guys harder. Of course a good guy without morals is just a bad guy with good PR, so...

     

  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    And I am rather worried that it has started to move very far out. I wondered why Pandora would not realise that Magus would hate her and want to destroy her after what she did to him... then I realised that that might be the whole point and that she was using him in an elaborate scheme to effectively 'commit suicide.' :(

    Of course, another possibility is that she doubts he could ever succeed and just doesn't care. But as far as creepiness goes, it would be entirely Pandora to offhandedly include a suicide attempt in her plans.

    Or that the addition of a bit of personal risk just makes the whole thing more fun. Pandora's main purpose is to ease her boredom, and I'd imagine that adding elements of personal risk as well as elements of uncertainty can help with this.

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  23. Posted

    44 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    I sort of assumed that the people who get drunk for fun are the ones who are unable to get the fun by reading books or playing video games. Which seems as good reason to drink in the "I drink to forget how bad my live is" sense ... (except, obviously, drinking to forget is not sustainable strategy - but that is first thing you forget when you drink).

    Still, there are worse drugs. But they are all illegal. In fact, I suspect even some illegal drugs are LESS dangerous than alcohol.

    I do enjoy drinking on occasion, and I can have plenty of fun doing things like reading a book or playing video games. I don't drink much these days because I don't have much of an entertainment budget (Finally had enough today to go see a movie in theater that I've been wanting to see for months.) and spending $20 on books or games is generally more fun than spending the same amount on booze. Also if I want to forget my troubles I find losing myself in a good book works better than booze, which is good because it's also healthier.

    I've known people who can drink responsibly, and some who can't. With the latter including a former sister in law who was a bad drunk. (Though I believe other drugs were involved, I didn't know her very well because she was someone better avoided.) I've also got an uncle who can go from friendly drunk to mean drunk very quickly.

  24. Posted

    13 hours ago, Wildcat said:

    well, I would argue that sometimes it's one of those two things, and usually it's somewhere in between or off on some tangent.

    The thing that annoys me about alcohol is people think I need to go out and get drunk. I already know I can't hold alcohol, I don't like being buzzed, and me getting drunk will probably either result in me falling asleep, or acting like a lunatic. Why would I want to do that?

    Yeah, you certainly don't need to go out and drink. I feel sorry for anyone who thinks it's a need rather than something some people enjoy. I also had a WTF moment when I learned that the mental health ward at a nearby hospital doesn't have hand sanitiser because some people were so desperate for alcohol that they were drinking the stuff. I can't help but feel sorry for people who are that far gone.

  25. Posted

    6 hours ago, Sweveham said:

    Yeah, I dislike that too. As someone who grew with a drinking father, I know the horrors of alcohol all too well.

    And now I realize what the game developers were thinking: they probably believe the "alcohol makes you more social" trope. That annoys me very much, because it is simply not true, end of story.

    Alcohol does make me more social, but that's more of a removing the inhibitions that make it difficult for me to be social than actually improving my interpersonal skills. And there's a limited window between 'enough to relax my social anxiety' and 'so much I start acting like an idiot.' (Though from what people tell me I'm at least an entertaining idiot)

    The sad thing is that drinking is all too often portrayed as either this awesome thing that makes you more social and fun, or this horrible thing that either turns you into an arsehole and has no redeeming features. The truth is, as so many truths are, somewhere in the middle.