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    chridd got a reaction from CritterKeeper in Word of Dan Discussion   
    So watermelon is 64?
    My guess is Tedd.  While magic is preparing to go mainstream, I'm not sure if everyone's ready for it to go mainstream yet... remember, Tedd still has to work out how to increase defenses.  ...so there still could potentially be an issue about whether to reveal magic to Sam (someone who they just met and who, as far as we know, doesn't yet know any more about magic than anyone else watching the news).  It also seems possible that Tedd having just learned of her gender identity and not yet being used to the concept might cause some awkwardness.  Tedd is also part of the ship-tease threesome with Sarah; on the other hand, I can't remember Tedd expressing interest in this, so if that was the source of awkwardness it'd probably be Grace.  This is mostly just speculation, though.
    (On the other hand, it's possible that the "other" and "haven't seen mentioned" parts mean it's referring to someone besides the obvious Tedd, Grace, Elliot, Sarah, and Sam, rather than just someone other than Sarah and Sam.  Is there anyone less obvious who might be put into an awkward situation by this?)
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Monday June 18, 2018   
    The illusion you're using to look super-old seems to be working just fine, though assuming you look like your avatar.
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    chridd got a reaction from Servant of Tara Gilesbie in Story Friday March 30, 2018   
    My predictions:
    Magus's motives:
    • Magus is transgender; he'd prefer a male form even without the battle mage thing.  (His "It's part of who I am" kind of suggests that; it would also explain why he thinks our Ellen should be male, if he assumes gender identity is the same across universes (which it probably isn't).)
    • Switching sexes isn't fully accepted in his universe; there are people who are opposed to sex-change magic in general, who he feels he has to justify himself to.
    • His justification, his rationalization, to those people is that it makes him stronger, and that battle mages should be men, so he sees challenges to the idea that people should choose a male form to become stronger as challenges to the idea that he should have a male form.
    • Terra might be a cis woman, or might be a trans woman; either way could work.
    Magus is basically this person.
    I also predict that Magus is going to be a villain in the short term, but he's misguided rather than evil and so eventually he'll see the error of his ways.  More like Abraham, and less like Damien, Tengu, or an aberration.  He might go on a transformation spree first, though, which would put him at odds with the government, who probably still wants magic to be kept somewhat secret until Tedd can figure out a way to increase magic resistance, and/or with anyone who knows about magic secrecy but not about the change in magic.  His magic might also be the ticking-clock type of enchantment.
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    chridd got a reaction from Servant of Tara Gilesbie in Story Friday March 30, 2018   
    My predictions:
    Magus's motives:
    • Magus is transgender; he'd prefer a male form even without the battle mage thing.  (His "It's part of who I am" kind of suggests that; it would also explain why he thinks our Ellen should be male, if he assumes gender identity is the same across universes (which it probably isn't).)
    • Switching sexes isn't fully accepted in his universe; there are people who are opposed to sex-change magic in general, who he feels he has to justify himself to.
    • His justification, his rationalization, to those people is that it makes him stronger, and that battle mages should be men, so he sees challenges to the idea that people should choose a male form to become stronger as challenges to the idea that he should have a male form.
    • Terra might be a cis woman, or might be a trans woman; either way could work.
    Magus is basically this person.
    I also predict that Magus is going to be a villain in the short term, but he's misguided rather than evil and so eventually he'll see the error of his ways.  More like Abraham, and less like Damien, Tengu, or an aberration.  He might go on a transformation spree first, though, which would put him at odds with the government, who probably still wants magic to be kept somewhat secret until Tedd can figure out a way to increase magic resistance, and/or with anyone who knows about magic secrecy but not about the change in magic.  His magic might also be the ticking-clock type of enchantment.
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story, Monday March 5, 2018   
    You know what I just realized?
    They're going back to the place with the diamond.  If all goes according to plan (which obviously it might not), then they're going to have to find their way home again.  Elliot and Ellen probably still don't know the way back, and they might have to ask for directions or something, maybe from a gas station attendant on the way.
    In other words, there's a chance we might actually see Phill again.
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story, Monday March 5, 2018   
    You know what I just realized?
    They're going back to the place with the diamond.  If all goes according to plan (which obviously it might not), then they're going to have to find their way home again.  Elliot and Ellen probably still don't know the way back, and they might have to ask for directions or something, maybe from a gas station attendant on the way.
    In other words, there's a chance we might actually see Phill again.
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story, Monday March 5, 2018   
    You know what I just realized?
    They're going back to the place with the diamond.  If all goes according to plan (which obviously it might not), then they're going to have to find their way home again.  Elliot and Ellen probably still don't know the way back, and they might have to ask for directions or something, maybe from a gas station attendant on the way.
    In other words, there's a chance we might actually see Phill again.
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    chridd got a reaction from Don Edwards in EGS: The College Years   
    He should switch rooms each time; then he'll have a better chance of winning a car to get out.
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Wednesday Addams October 25, 2017   
    Three people of different ethnicities walk into a bar.  They forget how exactly the joke is supposed to go, and realize that it's racist, and ...hey, is that some sort of demonic duck?
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Wednesday Addams October 25, 2017   
    Three people of different ethnicities walk into a bar.  They forget how exactly the joke is supposed to go, and realize that it's racist, and ...hey, is that some sort of demonic duck?
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Wednesday Addams October 25, 2017   
    Three people of different ethnicities walk into a bar.  They forget how exactly the joke is supposed to go, and realize that it's racist, and ...hey, is that some sort of demonic duck?
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Wednesday Addams October 25, 2017   
    Three people of different ethnicities walk into a bar.  They forget how exactly the joke is supposed to go, and realize that it's racist, and ...hey, is that some sort of demonic duck?
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Wednesday Addams October 25, 2017   
    Three people of different ethnicities walk into a bar.  They forget how exactly the joke is supposed to go, and realize that it's racist, and ...hey, is that some sort of demonic duck?
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    chridd got a reaction from BurntAsh in Story Wednesday May 10, 2017   
    There might also be ways with magic to have a kid without one of them being male.  One of them could get a spell that either causes her to be pregnant or to impregnate someone else (in a way, a spell that can make someone pregnant could be seen as an extension of "make more female"), or allows them to create a baby directly (I mean, it's possible one of them could transform into a baby Ellen-Nanase hybrid and the touch the diamond...).
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    chridd got a reaction from hkmaly in Story: Wednesday March 15, 2017   
    They don't have the same lunch period (first panel).
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    chridd got a reaction from ijuin in More Speculation.   
    Might as well post this piece of speculation about why Tedd's magic is weird (not necessarily things I think are likely, but some ideas I've been thinking about):
    So, as far as I can remember (combined with looking it up on the wiki), these are the people who we know are wizards (based on who's been explicitly called a wizard):
    Mr. Raven (male) Abraham (male) Magus (male) (though he's from a different universe, potentially with a different magic system, so might not count for this) Agent Wolf (male) the emissary of magic (male) So what if wizards are all supposed to be male?
    A couple possible ways this could result in Tedd being magically weird:
    If this is the case, then it would be rare for two wizards to have a kid together (assuming sex-change magic isn't that commonly used outside Tedd's group of friends)... so perhaps Noriko was born a wizard with a male body and transformed at some point into a female body, and had a kid with Edward, also a wizard, and since Tedd was the son of two wizards, he became a dangerous rarity. If transformations affect genetics/can be passed on to kids, then this might also explain Tedd's feminine traits (e.g., if the transformation included making her face more feminine, this might result in a gene for feminine faces in general), and it could also mean that Mrs. Kitsune meant her "I have no sister" line literally (if she considers Noriko her brother). Or it could be something about Tedd's own gender—perhaps magic sees him as partly male, so made him partly a wizard. This could be simply due to his genderfluidity and/or androgyny; or perhaps Tedd's parents used some sort of magic before Tedd was born to make him male (so he could be a wizard), and that's why he's somewhat feminine and not cisgender and not a normal wizard.
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    chridd got a reaction from Xenophon Hendrix in Story Wednesday December 14, 2016   
    Nothing about permission from a majority (that we know of).  She (like all other immortals) can't do much herself except guiding and empowering.  If she wants anything else done (whether that's depowering, saving a life, killing a vampire, committing murder, defeating a cult leader, or anything else), she has to get a mortal to do it (and she can provide guidance and empowerment to the mortal to help them accomplish the task).  She could place the clog herself, because placing the clog is itself empowering.  Removing the clog is not empowering, so she has to get someone else—in this case, Sarah and (presumably) Mr. Raven—to actually remove the clog.
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    chridd got a reaction from Xenophon Hendrix in Story Wednesday December 14, 2016   
    Nothing about permission from a majority (that we know of).  She (like all other immortals) can't do much herself except guiding and empowering.  If she wants anything else done (whether that's depowering, saving a life, killing a vampire, committing murder, defeating a cult leader, or anything else), she has to get a mortal to do it (and she can provide guidance and empowerment to the mortal to help them accomplish the task).  She could place the clog herself, because placing the clog is itself empowering.  Removing the clog is not empowering, so she has to get someone else—in this case, Sarah and (presumably) Mr. Raven—to actually remove the clog.
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday, October 28, 2016   
    This is still going to bother me anyways...
    While computers may or may not be usable in the simulation, I don't think Sarah's knowledge of how they work has anything to do with it.  If she just interacts with things physically (e.g., by pushing keys on the keyboard or the computer's power button or moving the mouse or opening a laptop's lid), then everything's based on actual reality and Sarah's knowledge and expectations are irrelevant.  If she uses her modify-the-simulation abilities, then the computer will probably just show what she expects (i.e., inaccurate simulation), just like Grace did, again with knowledge of the inner working irrelevant, but she has to choose to use those abilities; this won't just happen if she tries to push buttons on a sufficiently complicated machine.
    She can almost certainly use her modify-the-simulation abilities to interact with the computer in a way that just shows what she expects (like she did with Grace).  A more interesting question is whether she can interact with a computer without using those abilities, i.e., what will happen if she pressed buttons and such.  My guess is that that wouldn't do anything (similar to talking to a frozen person), because while she can move the keys on the keyboard, the rest of the computer and the electricity powering the computer is frozen; pressing the key could would complete a circuit that no electricity is flowing through; and there's no clear way to physically interact with the computer to get electricity flowing.  If any electric or electronic devices work in the simulation, then, there's probably some special case in the spell (which is definitely possible); but also if pressing buttons on the computer actually does do things, then it will be accurate because she didn't use the ability that makes the spell inaccurate.
    There's a possibility that someone skilled enough with the spell could use the modify-the-simulation ability without decreasing its accuracy, and it's possible that knowing how the thing you're trying to interact with could help with that, but this hasn't been established, and it's not what's happening when she uses simple items like doors (opening doors is physical interaction, which doesn't decrease the accuracy of the spell).
    Or, in less words:
    Sarah talks to a frozen person ⇒ they don't respond (but doesn't decrease simulation accuracy)
    Sarah modifies the simulation to animate the person ⇒ they come to life but do what Sarah expects
    Sarah pressed buttons on ("talks" to) a frozen computer ⇒ unknown (but doesn't decrease simulation accuracy); probably either nothing or accurate simulation
    Sarah modifies the simulation to animate the computer ⇒ it comes to life but does what Sarah expects
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    chridd got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday, October 28, 2016   
    This is still going to bother me anyways...
    While computers may or may not be usable in the simulation, I don't think Sarah's knowledge of how they work has anything to do with it.  If she just interacts with things physically (e.g., by pushing keys on the keyboard or the computer's power button or moving the mouse or opening a laptop's lid), then everything's based on actual reality and Sarah's knowledge and expectations are irrelevant.  If she uses her modify-the-simulation abilities, then the computer will probably just show what she expects (i.e., inaccurate simulation), just like Grace did, again with knowledge of the inner working irrelevant, but she has to choose to use those abilities; this won't just happen if she tries to push buttons on a sufficiently complicated machine.
    She can almost certainly use her modify-the-simulation abilities to interact with the computer in a way that just shows what she expects (like she did with Grace).  A more interesting question is whether she can interact with a computer without using those abilities, i.e., what will happen if she pressed buttons and such.  My guess is that that wouldn't do anything (similar to talking to a frozen person), because while she can move the keys on the keyboard, the rest of the computer and the electricity powering the computer is frozen; pressing the key could would complete a circuit that no electricity is flowing through; and there's no clear way to physically interact with the computer to get electricity flowing.  If any electric or electronic devices work in the simulation, then, there's probably some special case in the spell (which is definitely possible); but also if pressing buttons on the computer actually does do things, then it will be accurate because she didn't use the ability that makes the spell inaccurate.
    There's a possibility that someone skilled enough with the spell could use the modify-the-simulation ability without decreasing its accuracy, and it's possible that knowing how the thing you're trying to interact with could help with that, but this hasn't been established, and it's not what's happening when she uses simple items like doors (opening doors is physical interaction, which doesn't decrease the accuracy of the spell).
    Or, in less words:
    Sarah talks to a frozen person ⇒ they don't respond (but doesn't decrease simulation accuracy)
    Sarah modifies the simulation to animate the person ⇒ they come to life but do what Sarah expects
    Sarah pressed buttons on ("talks" to) a frozen computer ⇒ unknown (but doesn't decrease simulation accuracy); probably either nothing or accurate simulation
    Sarah modifies the simulation to animate the computer ⇒ it comes to life but does what Sarah expects
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    chridd got a reaction from Tom Sewell in Story Friday October 21, 2016   
    She's having doubts about whether it affects stuff in the real world, and she's complaining about using the body swap accidentally... what if bodies actually stay swapped once she ends the spell?
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    chridd got a reaction from HarJIT in NP Monday October 3, 2016   
    I doubt it; remember, this takes place before Squirrel Prophet, and she didn't seem to already know about it then (Catalina's and Rhoda's marks seem to be new information to her then).
    Not necessarily; Shadow Guy might have done other things since then that we haven't heard about (which is how I initially interpreted it); he's done other things before ("It's probably nothing compared to--").
    Sure they do.  Cat ears definitely belong on her head.
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    chridd got a reaction from Tom Sewell in NP, Friday September 30, 2016   
    Wait... did Pandora make a bet with herself?
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    chridd got a reaction from EmpactWB in Story, Wednesday September 21, 2016   
    "Knowing my basic nature, I will do my best to keep that promise." — I interpreted that as being more of a personality thing (he knows that he's the sort of person to keep promises, and that that's a trait he'll keep if he resets, rather than something he acquired later in life; other immortals might have different basic natures and be less inclined to keep promises), though it could be a part of immortal law.  On the other hand, Edward would probably know whether a vow made by an immortal is binding, so him asking Voltaire to make a vow would imply that it is binding in some way.
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    chridd got a reaction from Stature in NP, Wednesday September 21, 2016   
    Now I'm wondering: does Catalina know Elliot's cat?