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Don Edwards
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I think the theory is that deities get power from those who believe they exist. How much effort will YOU put into killing a being that you don't believe exists? Probably, none. The fact that you are trying to kill it pretty much demonstrates that you believe it exists - and, therefore, are giving it power. (The catch is - if you presumably-incorrectly believe that a deity gains powers only from its worshippers, then once you are sure all its worshippers are dead YOU will STOP believing it exists. But how about the people who believe it exists yet don't worship it? Such as most pantheists who have heard of it?)
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My daughter has a story of a an RPG where the other players persuaded her to play a gnome thief - and then their characters immediately started with jokes about short people... She managed to persuade the king that kidnappers were after him, escort him to a place of safety, go back and convince the royal councillors that the king had been kidnapped and they should choose her as the courier for the ransom money, frame the rest of her party as the kidnappers, bring the king back and collect a reward from him for protecting him from the kidnappers, and then rescue the rest of the party... ... there were no kidnappers... (This involved a LOT of notes to & from the DM. Just to make things confusing, some of the notes she passed said things like "think a moment and then tell me no".)
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Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)
Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
And, like I said, they they turn around and say "oh, okay" and approve a new bill giving him what he wants. Has he EVER accepted only most of what he wants? And if he did, did he ever NOT then turn around the next morning and demand the rest of what he wants? "Compromise" means "neither of us gets everything we want, but we both get something we are willing to live with." The Republicans in Congress have "compromised" by, in the end, giving Obama everything he wants and giving their supporters NOTHING they want. Why should anyone think anything other than that said Republicans are putting on a show to hide the fact that they are on Obama's side to the maximum extent they can be while retaining their power? -
There are two "metals" which - since English heraldry is done in medieval French - are known as "or" and "argent". That's literally gold and silver, but actually yellow and white - usually paint. Any other solid hue is a "color". You don't put a metal on a metal, or a color on a color. There are also furs, which are a repeating *small* pattern of a metal and a color, usually in roughly-equal areas, and almost always used only as the basic background. There'll typically be more than a dozen - and sometime much more - of the characteristic shape in each hue on the shield. You can put either a metal or a color on a fur, although if it's a nearly-solid hue you should treat it as that hue. The reason for this rule is very simple: high contrast. The original and primary purpose of heraldry is to make men in armor identifiable at a distance, often in less-than-great light. If you can't tell one thing from another, it isn't doing the job. And guess what you want on roadside signs...
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Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Well, the most obvious example is that the party that took control of Congress on a pledge to do something serious about Obamacare has not even managed to slightly impair its funding. -
Brownie point for using a term from heraldry. Think about how many signs you've seen that would be greatly improved by the simple application of one of the most basic rules of heraldry - the one about colors and metals. I didn't think she was sensing marks so much as half-remembering that she saw those people's backs in a dream.
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Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)
Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Blocking in the sense of "Here's 99% of what you asked for." "No, not good enough, I'll veto it and blame you for being obstructionist if you don't give me 110% of what I asked for." "Oh, okay, here's 110%." -
In fact it used to be a party game... wonder if it's still around... yes it is.
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Political Discussion Thread (READ FIRST POST)
Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
The funny thing is, about the only ones the Republicans refuse to compromise with are those from the hard-line far-right to the center-right. They're willing to compromise with the left pretty much any time, and repeatedly, giving away more of what they claim to stand for on each occasion. -
True; he's no longer an apprentice.
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I've read that if the person knocked out remains unconscious for more than a second, one should assume some brain damage has occurred.
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The biggest hole in that theory is that Blaike will be about 70-80 years old when Pandora hits 200. Assuming he's still alive. That might cause her to *delay* reset a few years - and I never got the impression that 200 was a hard deadline - but not to avoid it outright. And Adrian will be nearly 50, so while she might delay to take care of her son, she won't delay to take care of her little baby boy. Unless half-immortals mature much more slowly than humans. My guess would be some immediate and long-term threat to Adrian. Not just ordinary life, or even something inherent in being a half-immortal (such as his extraordinarily-long lifespan, which could attract unpleasant attention if he stays in one place for too long). Something extra that is specifically threatening him.
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Our DirecTV box and our BluRay player will play movies off a USB thumb drive. And I have an SD-to-USB adapter. (Also does microSD.) The DirecTV box has an Ethernet jack to connect to a media server or the internet... but our home network is strictly wifi. The BluRay player does wifi.
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Wow, that's a lot of water. Drinking that much water that fast is generally not good for you so don't make a habit of it... ... but you had a good reason for making an exception.
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Not to mention the California state government.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
Don Edwards replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Prof: Cardiologist wants my mate to take a sleep test - of a variety where she'd pick up a device from his office, wear it on one wrist overnight, and return it the next day. -
Actually the edit function works perfectly except for one little detail: ordinary text appears in white on a white background. Which makes it kind of hard to see - but it's there, and you can prove it by... highlighting selecting the entire text and converting it to a bulleted list a greasemonkey script (for firefox and maybe some other browsers) that is mentioned frequently but I don't remember the details
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For several thousand years ending a few hundred years ago, what the average agrarian-peasant kid wore was dictated by the local environment much more than by culture. That boy has rather nice shoes for a random medieval peasant kid... but that could just be a way Dan avoids having to draw feet.
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Essentially, "gold" is the official public-release version. And when you're releasing a physical disk in a pretty box possibly with assorted "supporting" material (such as a catalog listing the company's other recent products), the thing must "go gold" some time before it can actually be released - because most likely the assembly of the complete package is occurring in some second-world country and the result has to be shipped to the first-world buyers. With electronic distribution, of course, a product can "go gold" at 10 AM and hit the market at 10:05. Electronic distribution is also much less expensive than preparing masses of atoms and hauling them around the planet.
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pinup Pinup: Sunday, July 3, 2016 (40s Ellen)
Don Edwards replied to Howitzer's topic in EGS Sketchbook Discussion
There is at least one of the "old masters" paintings that is strongly suspected of originally being intended as pornography... The guy who commissioned it, in correspondence with the artist, referred to it only as "the nude". Once it was completed, he put off having it delivered several times. When his wife left town to visit relatives, he was suddenly eager to have it delivered promptly. It was installed in his bedroom... behind a curtain. -
Whoopi is a fine actress. If I NEVER AGAIN see her ad-lib, it will be much too soon.
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Some sites have minimum prices. At Smashwords, for example, you can publish an ebook and make it free - but if you charge for it at all, you must charge at least 99 cents.
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Obviously, Magus's sister.
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Wildspec: "3 of a kind". It turns out that Susan and Diane are not twins... they are triplets.
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And it has really weird side effects too, which apparently include inducing extreme anger.