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Don Edwards
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I wouldn't say she likes it. But from her viewpoint it's a big improvement, and she also knows that it's only temporary and not intended as a hostile action.
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The only mark we definitely know of from Luke's group - Luke's mark - definitely COULD be helpful. Not in actually fighting vampires, but in identifying high-magic-energy people even when they aren't doing any magic. Vampires presumably qualify, so at a minimum he'd identify a lot of people as not-vampires. He might, with some experience, be able to distinguish between vampires and other sorts of beings with high magic energy. The first step in "know your enemy" is knowing who is an enemy and who is not - and that's where Luke could come in.
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It will be a visionary year.
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It's atypical to tip a cow. Or to eat eighty pickles.
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Susan already downsized one. By about a head.
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Pandora's correct response right now: "I'll answer that later, when you and Adrian have time for me to explain some things."
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Ah... there's understanding how it works, and then there's understanding why it works. If we know for a fact, incontrovertibly proven by repeated tests by many different people, that chanting "ooga booga boo" at a rate of once every five seconds for ten minutes with your arms extended straight out to the sides and making clockwise circles with your left hand and counter-clockwise circles with your right at one rotation per second generates a force that can lift one ton six feet in the air and keep it there with no detectable means of support for one hour... that's pretty well quantified, but we still may not have the slightest clue why such a strange ritual would have that effect... and we could have a very nice model of how everything in the world seems to work EXCEPT for a collection of bizarre rituals with proven, quantified effects that don't make sense.
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Ah, Mage. I always had a twist to my White Wolf characters, for various reasons. My favorite mage, that I played the most, was a pantheist in the Celestial Chorus. The Chorus is extremely biased toward monotheism (doesn't much care what name you use for your one God)... and I justified it and made it work. Another character I wrote up some backstory for, but never played, was a quantum-mechanics-based Dreamspeaker. Dreamspeakers are stereotypically tribal shamans and witch doctors; you don't expect to find one who understands nuclear physics.
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In that instance, Diane had specific instructions to run TO. She was supposed to go find a spot where cell phones would work, and then call a specific person to come deal with the situation. That's a positive action which might have ended up saving her friends. (It didn't, but she couldn't know that until the incident was pretty much over.) Here, all she is being told is to run FROM. No purpose other than saving herself. Not even close to the same thing, for lots of people. What I've seen of Diane, she's probably one of them. What she will think she can do to help, I won't guess. But I strongly suspect she'll try something.
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In that round container with the removable plastic lining?
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Taps. Played on a bugle. At sunset. Far enough away that I had to listen for a couple notes to be sure I was hearing it. And both Main Street (about forty yards thataway) and the freeway (three blocks the other way, with practically nothing intervening) were quiet for the entire time.
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To those who think fencing training isn't relevant: fencing isn't only those flimsy whiplike foils. They also use a fairly substantial stabbing-sword ("épée") and a somewhat lighter cut-or-stab sword ("saber"). However, kendo - or the SCA - would probably be a better choice for an actual heavy sword. It looks like Susan's wielding a good-size two-handed sword there, and they do NOT use those in fencing.
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They've also animated Asterix. (There are I think 26 comic books in that series by the original author-artist team, and some less-well-regarded ones by others after the original author died; of which I've read I think 8 in French and 2 in English, and I'm currently trying to read one in Spanish but really struggling because my Spanish is not that good.)
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The only country I recognized as not having English as a native or national language, that this version of Linux automatically installs English-language support for, is Denmark. Here's the complete list of auto-installed versions of English: Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Botswana, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Most of them in an 8-bit version and a Unicode version. A few have only an 8-bit version. Several have two Unicode versions, I won't try to guess why. There are about 180 other languages I could install, many in several versions (Castilian Spanish alone has 21 national versions) plus often coming in Unicode and 8-bit variants, but no other versions of English that the standard install is even aware of.
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Are the grammar purist really screaming?
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And in my writing, even in a short story, I try to create a feeling that that character you only see for a minute or two is a real person with their own story that could be told...
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So maybe you can explain something for me. The version of Linux I'm running includes, in a standard install (and not even as options - they just happen, period), language packs for multiple versions of English. Some of these are expected - English is spoken, and particularly written, differently in Britain as compared to the US, and it's entirely plausible that the same is true of Hong Kong, Australia, India, Nigeria, and several other English-speaking countries. But... English as it is spoken and written in Denmark? I would have guessed that the people of Denmark, when speaking English, regard the British version as "proper" and make their best effort to match it.
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We are all characters in someone else's fiction. Fear the editor...
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Next we'll be seeing Bunnicula... the vampire that leaves behind tomatoes bled white.
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Heck, in a story I'm writing (what's done is published on the Wapsi Square forum) I have a couple of characters eating in a certain restaurant in Minneapolis. I mention what they are eating. You could walk into that restaurant with a friend and order the same thing. It's real. (I use that to shoot down the "it's all true or it's all lies" crowd, because that part of the story IS true, as are a number of other details such as typical driving time between the university area of Saint Paul and the nearest Wal-Mart, but as for the overall story... well, while eating at that restaurant in real life you won't have a pair of centaurs eating at the next table, and I'm pretty sure there aren't three werewolf art-school students renting a basement apartment near the university.) While it's possible I've passed through Minneapolis/St Paul once or twice, I can't say for sure that I have, and I've definitely never been there in any meaningful sense. The internet is very helpful to writers.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide To The Middle East Conflict
Don Edwards replied to animalia's topic in Off Topic Discussion
An intellectual-property lawyer might have something to say on the matter as well - unless you're the author... -
Well, you could buy a subscription for your imaginary child... imaginary children need even more help with typing than real children do.
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Tolkein also, as I understand it, took a lot from Finnish mythology. And Finnish is really different - their language isn't even regarded as Indo-European. (Indo-European includes all Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic languages. And many of the languages of India, Pakistan, and Iran. Among others. Just under half the world's humans natively speak an Indo-European language.) In one regard Tolkein gets more credit for creativity than he deserves. In The Hobbit, most of the adventuring dwarves' names are taken directly from various minor Germanic languages and mean "dwarf".
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As I recall, it isn't that summoned weapons per se are super-effective against aberrations... rather, they are inherently magic weapons, and magic weapons are super-effective against aberrations. Yeah, that's more or less what Susan said. It's likely that Raven has some enchantments on his swords and canes, so they would also be magic weapons. (Summoned weapons are easier to get past security though.)
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This one should make the Pharoah happy too...
