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  1. NP Friday 27 May 2016

    Probably only because FOOF (dioxygen difluoride) technically isn't flammable at all. (In the presence of FOOF, practically everything else is flammable, and most other things at least border on being explosive. Water, for example, burns like crazy - and the smoke will melt your lungs.) Catch is... thinking about chlorine trifluoride, I suspect it actually isn't flammable either.
  2. Word of Dan Discussion

    My one experiment with RSS, it reported that every webcomic I pointed it at was updating hourly. Which was not exactly correct. And made it less useful than folders full of semi-organized links.
  3. NP: Wednesday, May 25, 2016

    We once did a thought experiment of how many ordinary pizza ingredients would make someone we knew sick, limiting ourselves to one ingredient per person. The sickening ingredients I remember: Wheat flour (gluten) Tomatoes Mozzarella cheese (lactose) Ground beef (beef proteins) Anchovies, or any salt-water seafood Shrimp/shellfish (another person with a more specific sensitivity) Mushrooms, or any blue/green cheese Onions I'm pretty sure we were up to at least 10 ingredients but I don't remember what the others were.
  4. STORY: Monday, May 16, 2016

    The only non-EGS-related reference I could find to the name is Andrea Sirleck, a freelancer of some sort in Germany. (The search also returned links to a couple pages that I couldn't find WHY they were included.)
  5. NP: Monday, May 23, 2016

    29.2K people looking at 140K pages - per day? Note: I offer no opinion on the trustworthiness of the site I got that from.
  6. What are you learning?

    Learning how to write characters with different voices.
  7. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    And if you don't feel better soon, or you notice any of your fingers bending where they shouldn't or changing significantly in length, haul your hiney to a doctor to get it X-rayed and all the bones lined up to heal properly.
  8. Terrible movie thread

    Also: what is a unique resource in a universe with Star Trek replicator technology?
  9. STORY: Monday, May 16, 2016

    And how about if that modular server is hosting several virtual servers?
  10. Index of ongoing plotlines

    The Disco Wizard claims to be an emissary for Magic itself, and isn't sure whether Magic has zero, one, or plural minds. We don't know if Grace was specifically chosen, or was a random or just-the-most-convenient-for-some-trivial-reason choice among potential contactees - let alone who (Magic, or the emissary) might have made the choice or what reasons might guide the choice.
  11. STORY: Monday, May 16, 2016

    And wizards. Theoretically, no we don't. We are more or less assuming that if the magic that makes the person an aberration were to be broken, the person would revert to his real age - which, in a lot of cases, is old enough that he'd be dead. However, potentially, if a person were to become an aberration and then regret it SOON after - soon enough that he'd probably still be alive even without being an aberration - and cooperate with attempts to break the magic, MAYBE it would be possible for him to survive. Of course, not many people corrupt enough to become aberrations are going to regret it that soon and be willing to turn themselves in on the hope that professional aberration-killers will find a way to break the magic without killing them.
  12. NP: Friday, May 20, 2016

    Wouldn't the borg cubes be a Minecraft crossover?
  13. Things That Make You Happy

    Of course...
  14. NP: Wednesday, May 18, 2016

    In all fairness I must point out that Tetris bears more than a passing resemblance to the construction techniques on display in SimLife.
  15. NP: Monday, May 16, 2016

  16. Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)

    Both of which have legitimate medical uses, and one of which is significantly less dangerous than a certain other recreational drug which has been legal in the US for decades and in Europe for much longer.
  17. STORY: Monday, May 16, 2016

    Well, all the aberrations we've seen were wearing clothes that fit them reasonably well. Spidey's had some serious custom tailoring (which he may have done himself, but then he'd still have to acquire fabric, thread, buttons, and preferably a sewing machine and a reasonably-secure work space). They may prefer to not live outside in the rain and cold. They may need to eat ordinary food to maintain their bodies, more often than would be satisfied by their need to drain victims of life-force. Most probably need to travel every so often to avoid attracting too much attention. They may have ambitions beyond living a really long time - Sirleck for example. Money would be useful. However, if I were an aberration and learned that someone was trying to draw a lot of aberrations to Moperville, I'd be careful to stay well away from that city. Preferably on another continent. Because the expected consequence of a concentration of aberrations is a concentrated aberration-hunt.
  18. Moperville PRT

    Well, no; there could be a lot of things in the category of "we think this is probably impossible, but we aren't absolutely certain". With TFG and actual permanent shapeshifting (as Tedd can now do), I doubt that an intact non-decomposed body would be absolutely required. Not having one would probably raise the difficulty and reduce the number of people/organizations that can do it. That is, of course, assuming that the number of people that can do it under ideal circumstances is nonzero. However, you also get into questions of what constitutes a person, whether there is an afterlife,... Considering how unspecific and generically inoffensive the religious references in the comic have been so far, I seriously doubt that Dan will go there.
  19. A new Which EGS Character Are You quiz

    Not really. It's a few more numbers to look up and add, but computers are really good at that sort of thing.
  20. Moperville PRT

    I thought the point of the breaker designation was that the character can, deliberately and at his own discretion, change what powers he has. Simply being Awakened would be a very weak breaker power because the change - acquiring new spells - is slow, unreliable, one-way, and with no control over what the new spells would be. Fairy-form is a much greater Breaker power because Nanase can do (and undo) it at will, quickly, and (assuming she's up-to-date on the contents of her spellbook) knows exactly what powers she will get. And I thought the point of the trump designation was copying, altering, or suppressing SOMEONE ELSE's powers.
  21. A new Which EGS Character Are You quiz

    Certainly there is. If people could plausibly think that character A would answer X, while other people plausibly think that character A would answer Y, then both answers give SOME degree of weight to the idea that the respondent is like character A. And not necessarily the same weight. In fact, there can be NEGATIVE weights. A respondent who maybe is a little bit like Tedd, but would "reluctantly, if ever" use at-will sex-change ability, is a little bit LESS like Tedd. In principle, there's some weight (positive or negative) assigned to each combination of character and answer. It's just that a fair number of those weights will be zero (in an additive system).
  22. Moperville PRT

    That depends on what one considers an "altered state". Going from having N spells to having N+1 spells is indeed an alteration of one's state. And Nanase was deliberately triggering it by frequent surreptitious magic use, so to some extent she was altering herself. However, it's a one-way alteration - as far as we know - and her control is really weak. As I think I said earlier, going to the library and reading a how-to book (supplemented by going to an appropriate store for any necessary tools or supplies) is a better Breaker power, because one can control both what new ability is acquired and when.
  23. Story Friday May 13, 2016

    Just because Adrian did not call Edward, does not prove he didn't pass word to someone else in the organization..
  24. NP: Wednesday, May 11, 2016

    We could build it today from existing stuff, but it wouldn't be inexpensive. I'd add the Dr. Scholl's foot-orthotics scanning devices... 3D printing is actually sufficiently expensive that it makes more sense to factory-make a bunch of shoes in various common sizes and ship them. Considering that shoes get made by the tens or hundreds of thousands. For just one or two really unique pairs of shoes, 3D printing might be more practical.
  25. Story Friday May 13, 2016

    Think in terms of what makes for a good comic. "Your mother was sighted in this forest over here. {Recap.} Do you have any idea what she's up to?" "I haven't talked to her in over 80 years. Sorry, no, I can't help you. If she does show up I'll let you know, but don't hold your breath." ... no, even if it's true, it wouldn't show up in the comic.