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ijuin
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You’re traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.
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3D space plus a time element yields classic 4D spacetime.
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Yeah, I would want to take a nap in the middle. You know you’re getting old when going to bed early feels more like a reward than a punishment.
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Nah, I wanna eat pizza and watch anime all day!
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It looks like it is far too easy to hold that thing the wrong way around.
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Meh, the first two panels make a good point—the first and most important person who needs to be satisfied with Tedd’s look is Tedd themself.
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On 6/12/2023 at 6:29 AM, mlooney said:Doesn't really look all that fem to me. Could be the drawing style. I'm mean it's cute, but hardly worth the angst Tedd was dealing with.
It’s not “ looking girly” that Tedd worries about, but rather being harassed for gender-nonconformity.
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39 minutes ago, Darth Fluffy said:I seem to recall halflings getting 'throw rock' as a proficiency. Maybe in 3.0 or 3.5?
A halfling in 3.5 with bonuses to Throw Rock. Note that the others are practically in a panic over how dangerous he could be with it.
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Given Tedd’s feminine-ish appearance, and a few near-sightings of them in “girl mode”, there are probably also rumors that Tedd is a girl posing as a boy.
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So NYC is sinking more slowly than sea level is currently rising.
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In that case, the position ought to be called something like “Chief Dogcatcher”, as opposed to sounding like he was the one who went out to catch the dogs himself.
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I have no idea why dogcatcher should be an elected position. It is not any sort of policy-making position, and one would expect that qualification for it should be based on the candidate’s job skills rather than on the ability to campaign.
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3 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:'On US soil' does not factor in to 'remote', not by definition. Yes, if that is how the question is framed.
Well, I originally stated it as the most remote posting that was within the United States proper. (That is to say, ignoring legal fictions such as “US-owned facilities in foreign countries count as US soil”.)
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The Antarctic bases are not on U.S. soil. The Pacific islands may be farther from the nearest other land, but are they as far from “civilization” (read: settlements of several thousand or more people) as Shemya?
As for marine activity my father said that they got a large cargo ship in every few months for bulk supplies (food, fuel, equipment, spare parts, etc.), and anything time-sensitive came in by air.
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My father was stationed at Shemya in 1970. It’s literally as remote as you can be while still being within the United States.
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They are probably thinking that power corrupts, but their guy will be all right because they are doing it for their people instead of for personal glory—the standard thinking of most revolutionaries.
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5 hours ago, The Old Hack said:Lazy and scientifically _extremely_ implausible. Then again they had enough self-awareness to parody themselves. After all, this was the show that featured the line "The singularity is about to explode."
True, but the goal was for the words to be already recognizable to the audience without translation, resulting in words such as “Potentia” for “energy source”.
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1 minute ago, The Old Hack said:I wish science fiction writers of that kind of series would study at least a little linguistics. The history of Latin evolution is eminently traceable through the Indo-European language tree all the way back to Sanskrit. If they had been arsed to at least make their language the ancestor of Sanskrit it would have been 1) much more believable and 2) way cooler, insinuating that ALL Indo-European languages could trace their ancestry back to the Alterans.
True, but the writers wanted the vocabulary to identifiably resemble known Latin words, so that’s where it ended up. You’re right that it would have worked out story-wise for Alteran to have been the original Proto-Indo-European instead.
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44 minutes ago, mlooney said:You need to re-read your "Traveller" lore. :-) Of course Traveller backstory is the correct future history, even when parts of it are prehistoric on Terra.
I don’t know Traveller. We were discussing the glyph used in the “Stargate” series logo, so I was referencing Stargate canon.
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No, that was the Gou’ald, who impersonated gods. The Ancients were the genetic precursors of humans.
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2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:And isn't that weird "Å" a Viking relic?
The character is actually the Alteran glyph for Tau’ri, or Terra. (The Alterans, or Ancients, were the ones who invented the Stargates, and their language was apparently the ancestor of early Latin.)
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A Count has dominion over a County. A Baron generally ranks below a Count.
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Then if they really want to be completely anonymous and don’t want to dive too deeply into the organized crime scene, they should probably go with the AR-15s and some sniper rifles, along with some portable mortars or grenade launchers of some sort.
Comic for Saturday, Jun 17, 2023
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There’s the signpost up ahead! Your next stop: The Twilight Zone.