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ijuin
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Unfortunately for trans and intersexed people, recognition of their rights to be regarded as the sex that they perceive themselves as rather than the sex that others perceive them as are lagging decades behind recognition of homosexual rights. There's still the narrative going around that some men will choose to impersonate women for malicious purposes.
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13 hours ago, SeriousJupiter said:Susan still needs training first. Greg is my best bet.
Training, very much yes. I was just trying to say that age is not the constraining factor here. Susan and Diane are in a position like Buffy in the first story arc--aware of their destiny as people who protect the world from monsters, but lacking in the training and experience needed for proper effectiveness.
10 hours ago, NaYa said:I really, REALLY hope they introduce Andrea to Tedd. They could talk about SO many things and solve the problem of magic drain clogging!
Also, it would be really interesting to know what the griffins see when they look at Tedd and Grace.
As per the rules of narrative, the fact that the two of them might solve the problem when they get together means that they must not get together until it is time for the problem to be solved.
5 hours ago, Scotty said:Well, it really depends on if Grace and/or Ellen have Adrian for any classes this year, I say and/or because it's possible that the provision for Grace and Ellen to have the same schedule only applied to the previous year so that Ellen could help Grace adjust to being in school, there's a good chance Grace doesn't need that anymore. Anyway Adrian interest in Ellen and Grace likely hasn't faded especially after learning about the nature of both of them, and yeah Grace being Tedd's girlfriend has influenced Adrian's involvement but I doubt he'd turn any of them away if they came to him with any questions about whats going on.
Adrian knows about Grace and Nanase and Ellen (even if he doesn't know any of Ellen's specific spells/powers beyond that she is Awakened and has the Dewitchery Diamond-granted ability). He knows about Tedd even if he doesn't know the details of Tedd's "dangerous rarity" or Tedd's ability to in-depth analyze magic by sight. He may suspect that Elliot is Awakened (especially if he knows that it was Elliot who was split by the Diamond to create Ellen), but he probably has no awareness of Sarah or Susan at all, and Justin is probably also outside of his radar.
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Testing to prove that a competitor is genetically the same sex that they present as. Basically, some people with clout panicked over the idea that transgendered people would try to compete as their self-identified gender instead of their assigned gender, or that a sufficiently competitive male might try to compete as a female in order to take advantage of the less-muscular competition. Gene tests were adopted in order to catch those who have had genital surgery.
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De-beiging?
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2 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:Isn't that the same thinking Jerry got mad at Les Immortals about? There are grown-up already around who could be called in! Susan is only 18 and still in high school, too young to drink, too young to rent a car, and mostly untrained; she definitely shouldn't be the first choice to go after the monsters!
And by the standards of most societies before college became an expected thing for middle-class people (as recent as WWII!!!), 18 is full adulthood. Remember, even today an 18 year old is considered old enough to serve in a nation's military and go out and fight to the death at their government's behest.
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I think that the two "halves" are really co-equal, and the naming of their own half as the "first" one is simple cultural provincialism--neither is actually "first" or "second" except for the order in which a given society discovered them, sort of like how the "New World" was always here even though the people of the "Old World" didn't know about it.
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Yeah, I would assume that you are able to get by on that amount because you are paying comparatively little out-of-pocket for your housing and medical coverage.
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Star Blazers is a horrible mangling of the Space Battleship Yamato series that it was derived from. They took all of the Japanese-ness out of it (including renaming the Yamato to the Argo) for the sake of making it more "international".
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1 hour ago, SeriousJupiter said:What do you guys think? As for Tedd and Susan, they are most likely either unicorns or Earth ponies.
Somehow I am now imagining Susan as being the most like Rarity--she pretends to be all aloof and dignified, but is actually really kind underneath.
49 minutes ago, Dabat said:I almost agreed with you on the time table, but then I remembered that Christmas was the time when Sarah and Elliot were breaking up. IMO I don't think Sarah would bee keen to work on an MV5 while she was having relationship issues.
The way that Sarah and Ellen have been talking, it seems that Sarah has already broken up with Elliot . . .
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Median income in the USA (for those having a non-zero income) for the year 2013 is $43,585 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income
$3250/month is $39k, which is almost 90% of this. It's a livable amount for a single person if housing costs no more than $1k/month (housing can be as high as $3k/month for a three-bedroom house or apartment in high-demand areas--and these areas are often large enough that finding a cheaper home involves tolerating a two-hour-each-way daily commute), but it is still kind of low given that Dan would have to pay all of the self-employment taxes that employers normally count as being "outside" of salary/wages (e.g. the employer half of Social Security tax).
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So there won't be a Monferno/Infernape--it'll be an Empoleon instead.
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In other words, the only ones who treated her like a little girl instead of as an experiment were the ones who were more or less literally her parents.
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The $3250 per month that Dan is currently pledged through Patreon is almost enough to replace a middle-class job as a source of income. If he can scrounge up an extra grand per month from other sources (e.g. ads or merchandise), then he can live an average lifestyle without having a job. He may not even need that extra grand if his rent is a grand per month or less.
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Sadly, the largest source of misery in today's world comes from people wantonly being jerks to each other.
NP Monday March 21, 2016
in EGS: NP Discussion
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Tycoon_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Tycoon_3
Both are pretty good, but Railroad Tycoon 3 suffers from a flaw in its economic model that I will explain below:
In RRT3, instead of being paid a fee for delivery of cargo, a railroad instead purchases the cargo and then resells it at the delivery point. The flaw in the model is that the game absolutely refuses to allow the cargo to EVER be sold at a loss, even if the money-losing step is a part of a chain that is overall profitable. For example, let's say that you carry logs from a logging camp to a lumber mill, then carry the lumber to a furniture factory to make furniture. If you buy the logs at $21k/carload and the lumber mill will only pay $19k/carload, then you can't sell the logs at the lumber mill to be converted into lumber, even if the furniture factory is willing to pay $30k/carload for the lumber that the mill would produce. This kind of thing can especially become a problem when a scenario goal requires you to deliver a specific cargo to a specific destination, and the destination's price is lower than any of the available sources--you aren't allowed to deliver the cargo at all unless/until the destination's price rises.