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Comcast has also been put on the "Ten Most Hated Companies in the USA" list for several years running. Beyond the simple ripoff pricing, lack of customer service, and intentional throttling of third-party content, they add dishonest charges to customers' bills (i.e. charge them for repairs and upgrades never requested), and fail to cancel services when a customer desires it (i.e. continuing to bill you even after your service has been disconnected, or failing to downgrade you to a lower service tier if you ask to be moved to it).
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In that case, a shrunk person who stayed shrunk for a long time would starve because they would need to eat more food than would actually fit in their stomach, assuming that it was not shrunken food. If the person is 1/10 height then their stomach is 1/1,000 volume. And even if the food shrinks inside the stomach, their throat is 1/100 the cross section and their mouth is 1/1,000 as big too, which means that they can't eat fast enough if their calorie requirement stays full-sized...
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My favorite is the fourth panel here: http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=282 Elliot: I'm too young and too male to be the mother of a seventeen-year-old female me! That one sentence really sums up the absurdity of the entire plot.
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I think that Helena and Demetrius wanted Susan and Nanase to face the vampire because fighting for their lives would force them to emotionally "grow up" faster--i.e. the loss of innocence was a goal in and of itself, possibly because the vampire would be the first of many enemies that they would have to face. In other words, this was their way of making them stronger via the School of Hard Knocks. So far Susan has not had to battle anybody magically, but Nanase has been in a couple of important fights--the Omega Goo, Vlad, Abraham, and Not-Tengu, so far (ALL fights in which the enemy had shown an intent to kill somebody if not stopped).
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Elliot did not seem to be running noticeably low on energy by the end, so it seems likely that he could keep up the Cheerleadra transformation for a few hours on end, at least within the high ambient magic levels in Moperville. I see no reason why the need for food would not scale with the weight of the creature in question. For example, humans eat about 1-2% (dry weight) of their body weight in food per day. Scale up a human to ten times as tall, and the body mass increases by a factor of a thousand. So, a fifty/sixty foot tall person would eat about a ton of food per day.
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Given Dex's question of "Won't that kill me, too?" I think that we can safely assume that the blast was expected to be lethal to any human who does not have physical or magical protection. At worst, Voltaire would have been underestimating how much of a defense boost the Cheerleadra form gave to Elliot.
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I like that page. It shows that, as desperate as he is, Magus still has a conscience and refuses to participate in murder.
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I'm not sure what a cisdermal patch would be like...
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Buckshot is also a negative currency, since people will pay you to not give it to them.
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Summoned monsters seem to have their own instincts (see the bloodgrem fighting Elliot), so the dragon may have been thinking on its own when it was chasing Noah (who had, after all, attacked it).
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Sorry, I don't speak Somali...
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Yes, Pharaoh RutinTutin gets annoyed when people pray to him. -
Or, as my late father used to say, if you keep going to the pig trough, don't be surprised that all you get is pig slop.
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So, is he here merely to gloat and taunt our heroes, or perhaps he is going to throw them a big ol' Red Herring to keep them distracted while the rest of Plan CM is being set up?
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Well, my intended meaning was that with iron weapons and armor, it would be less like "shooting fish in a barrel" for Europeans to roll right over them.
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If the more advanced Native American cultures had possessed iron weapons and armor even comparable to that used in the Roman Republic era, they would have not been completely helpless against European weapons. As it was, they had no weapons that would penetrate European armor, and no armor of their own that was adequate to stop a musket ball or steel pike or axe. Native Americans with iron weapons and armor would likely have been conquered and ruled over (as with other colonized regions such as Southeast Asia) instead of simply exterminated.
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Magic likes drama, so IMO it is trying to create a steady supply of heroes and villains. Magic wants epic duels between individuals or small groups, not bloody battles between massive armies.
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Shatner was great as Kirk, but he sucked at most other gigs.
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On Soft Magic, Hard Magic, and the Will of Magic, it seems in EGS that the main limiting factor (aside from the availability of an appropriate spell) is one of energy--it apparently costs more energy to make more changes. Minor cosmetic things such as Nanase's hair change (or most self-transformations that leave the transformee still a baseline human) are low in energy cost, while stuff that actually grants high power (e.g. Nanase's Guardian spell) consume a huge amount of power. Sarah's spell apparently consumes so much power not because of the "impossibility" of it (since the scenes play out in her brain, it's just an illusion), but rather in the "information gathering" part of it (the energy is expended due to the spell having to collect an accurate "snapshot" of the surrounding space--at minimum a house-sized space, but Pandora implied that she may be able to simulate much larger spaces with practice).
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True, although it was his impersonation of Quetzalcoatl that allowed Cortez to march into Tenochtitlan instead of the Aztecs simply killing him and his men on sight--he had only a single company of men, against an empire with tens of thousands of soldiers/warriors. Tenochtitlan was supposedly more populous than major European cities such as Paris or London at the time of Cortez's arrival. If it had only been the germs, then Cortez would not have lived long enough to enjoy the defeat of the Aztecs--they would have killed him and then all dropped dead from disease. The native Americans mainly lacked two key things that held back their development--they had no heavy draft animals such as horses, donkeys, or oxen, and they never figured out smelting and working of iron (which takes a much higher temperature than gold or copper). They were, however, mostly pretty much as advanced as it is possible to be while still technically being in the "stone age"--especially the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas had civilizations on a par with ancient Mesopotamia or early-dynasty Egypt (back before the Upper and Lower Kingdoms were joined).
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Aberrations feed on the life of others--presumably this means sapient beings, since they seem unable to gain the needed extra sustenance from eating ordinary livestock, and there is no evidence that they are strictly limited to eating their own former species (i.e. human-derived Aberrations eating only homo sapiens, griffin-derived Aberrations eating only griffins, etc.), so they may be able to feed on any sapient being possessing what we would consider to be normal biochemistry. Blood does seem to be the most common method, but some may eat flesh (or particular organs such as the heart or brain, which are both regarded as seats of the "soul"). There may be ones, though, who drain "life energy" without actually consuming a bulk material part of their victims. Hmm, might it be possible for an Aberration to exist who specializes in draining the magical energy from Mages? (once the Mage is rendered unable to resist, of course)
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You get a gold star! And you get a gold star! And you get a gold star!
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I thought that it was well known that we are out of our minds.
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Also, Cortez impersonated one of their more benevolent gods, Quetzalcoatl, a major benefactor of humanity (comparable to the Olympian Apollo). The Aztecs fell for the trick, in part because their prophecies spoke of him returning that particular year and being tall, pale, arriving in a floating palace (ship), with strange beasts (horses) and hurling thunderbolts (artillery).
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I know that menudo contains tripe, but I haven't seen it containing oats or served in classic sausage casings (i.e. intestine).