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  2. Posted

    7 hours ago, Scotty said:

    I've stated my belief that Helena and Demetrius have been following Elliot around because they were asked to

    Which raises the question of WHO asked them to and WHY that person thought it was a good use of the time of not one Immortal, but two. With a good enough reason to convince said immortals of it as well.

  3. Posted

    5 hours ago, Matoyak said:

    Point is that unless we learn this flashback is specifically their preparation for both of them coming over to this world, there's ample reason to not get too down on Tara for not remembering this one aspect of the world.

    I don't think there ever was any preparation for both of them coming over to this half of the world. I think the plan was for Andrea - and not Tara - to make a quick trip and then come home.

  5. Posted

    2 hours ago, Sweveham said:

    I suppose Grace more or less has to make friends with her assailant, or at least leave him unharmed, if she wants to go through the game non-violently. From what I read, the plot basically is about finding him. So she can't take the more sensible non-violent option of staying the hell away from him, for then there wouldn't be a game.

    Well, he took the macguffin she's supposed to deliver. The first step in delivering it, now, is to get it back - and the logical first step in getting it back is to either find HIM, or find where he's likely to have taken it (which may amount to the same thing).

  7. Posted

    The square-cube law is not only about oxygen supply to the cells. Its about food supply to the cells, bone strength, muscle strength, ability to get food into the stomach, ability to get nutrients from the food into the bloodstream...

     

    (editing white-on-white text is a pain.)

  9. Posted

    11 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Yeah, but then it wouldn't be any different than if the vampires moved in because of the ambient energy levels, at the moment Andrea has been able to pick off 6 vampires, but that could have been during their normal feeding times. If they are organized, then they may end up at some point making a simultaneous push towards whatever the goal is. So sure, Andrea's killed 6 herself and Tara helped kill a 7th, but if there's 20 more still in hiding, and they all come out at the same time, I wouldn't expect even Tara and Andrea to hold them off for long.

    If 20 vampires came out at the same time but were not organized, I'd expect Tara and Andrea - possibly assisted by Elliot, Nanase, Ellen, and maybe Susan and/or Diane - to defeat them.

    But they'd make a heck of a mess and kill several (I'd guess at least 30) people before the last of them went down.

    If 20 came out in an organized cooperating group, then maybe Griffins & Company would be in trouble, but (unless and until the latter lost) there'd be a lot less mess and fewer fatalities.

  10. Posted

    17 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    First, Bagel Dogs are not the worst reason that has ever been used to start or justify a war.

    The Pig War actually didn't quite happen - the only casualty was the pig.

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    The world is not as black & white as fairy tales for children claims. You rarely find the kind of hero who is always nice and never harms anyone outside cemetery.

    A Practical Guide to Evil, in which a villain is appalled at how many innocent people are dying as a result of the heroes' actions. (While acknowledging that it's her fault one of the heroes isn't already dead.)

     

    (She recently made up for it by probably-killing another hero... in such a manner that it probably significantly increased the average IQ of the heroes.)

  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    ... "How quickly can I undo my girlfriend's bra" seems more like love life than social life, unless he plans to race with someone ... like with Ellen ... hmmm ... and maybe Elliot (with Ashley) ... actually, all six can compete, as all six can be girlfriend, only they need two rounds ... what I was talking about?

    No, they don't need two rounds. One is sufficient for competitive purposes.

    However, for other purposes there are advantages to having multiple rounds.

  12. Posted

    11 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Add in the cultural idea that having external genitals of the opposite sex in the same locker room will somehow overcome all self-control and cause men to commit rape or sexual assault (eg be seen as an excuse for it) and you have a lot of people who would reject the option of anyone pre-op being allowed to share facilities with those born into their gender.

    8 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    I have long considered this a supremely offensive notion in so many ways. That it is a large part of the mindset that makes it possible to blame victims for being sexually assaulted does not precisely further endear it to me.

    Unfortunately, it is close enough to true of a sufficiently large minority of men - rarely that they are compelled (and those few have a duty to recognize this flaw in themselves and avoid, not seek out, such situations), but more often that they think they are entitled to take what they see - to make it a reasonable concern. That minority is well under 1% in civilized societies, but there are far smaller dangers that large numbers of people are seriously upset over.

    I suspect that genuinely transgender people are vastly UNDER-represented in that minority, but it seems to me that the assh*les who do are also more likely to be the sort to go to, say, a public gym they've never been to before (and probably will never go to again) and falsely claim to be trans in order to gain access to the women's locker room.

    And if I were, say, a high-school principal, I wouldn't want a trans kid who's presenting as their gender to undress in EITHER the boys' or girls' locker room - not to protect the other kids from them, but to protect them from the other kids. (This policy would also remove any temptation for other teenagers - who are more prone to do stupid things than adults are - to falsely claim to be trans in order to get some free peeks.)

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  13. Posted

    4 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Despite Ellen's "Web of Selectively Not Shared Information" http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1702, it seems probable that any one of the Maine Ate might know anything another one knows.  Similarly Edward Verres, Mrs Kitsune, Sensei Greg, and Adrian Raven are also in positions where they may, or may not, be aware of any specific fact known to the kids.

     

    I assume that all of them know at least the generalities of what happened to any of them unless:

    • It's very old, from before they were at all aware of each other's magic; or
    • It's very new, they haven't had time to share it; or
    • There's some agreement or expressed desire to not share it.

    So Ellen and Nanase know things about Noriko that the others (particularly Tedd, Elliot, and Grace) don't know. And I doubt that Sarah has told any of them, except maybe Susan, about her power - even if there has been sufficient time, which isn't clear. And of course most of the group know nothing about the current contact with griffins except maybe what has been on the local news, yet, but they presumably will be told about them soon.

    1 hour ago, Lady Pentrose said:

    I also wonder if part of the whole monster hunting bloodline includes some level of compulsion to hunt monsters, rather than merely an affinity for a powerset that makes them adept at it.

    I wouldn't say it's a compulsion, beyond a sense of duty ("these horrible things exist, most people can't fight them, I can, therefore I must" or alternatively "this is the tradition of my ancestors, I must uphold and continue it").

    Combine that with Primary Protagonist Syndrome, or alternatively the monsters' ability to detect who might become a threat, and you get a line of monster-hunters.

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  14. Posted

    13 hours ago, Stormtalon42 said:

    Even though we're not likely to see it -- no danger at this point and such -- Nanase's simmering emotions here suddenly have me wondering if Fairy Doll form can go Guardian.  Sketchbook fodder, maybe?

    I'd say Nanase's anger is over the concealing of information. I seriously doubt that Andrea was in significant peril at any point (with the possible exception of when she was trying to protect Diane and Charlotte as well as fight Spidey) - and whatever peril she did face, she was probably at least as well equipped to deal with it as Guardian Nanase. But is it believable that the immortals didn't know Tara was in the area? Not to me.

    But now? The only ones in peril, I think, are Helena and Demetrius. They aren't innocent. And Nanase going Guardian would increase their peril.

    (If they show up, I predict that Andrea will go fangirl over Nanase's magic again. Specifically the fae punch. And the ability to do a rapid-fire barrage with it.)

  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    I can totally see real-life stockholders having problems to understand this too.

    But it's easy. What's really happening is that the railroad is buying logs from the loggers at $21k/load and delivering them to the furniture factory at $30k/load, with an intermediate stop for processing. Exactly what bookkeeping goes on at the intermediate stop doesn't really matter as long as it costs the railroad less than $9k/load. Without that processing stop the railroad can't sell the logs to the furniture factory.

    In principle it would work the same if, instead of selling the logs to the mill and buying the lumber, the railroad retained ownership of the logs and paid the mill a fee to cut them into lumber.

  17. Posted

    4 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Well of course, the best way to handle this would be to tell Edward and have him get people better equipped out there, but this is the Main Eight we're talking about, there's a better chance they'll get involved. ;)

    Primary Protagonist Syndrome: the story is interested in you. It's an aggravated form of the more common Protagonist Syndrome, where it never occurs to you to call the relevant authorities and then go hide while they deal with the problem (and you may even actively go hunting for the story).

    Both forms are also known as Player-Character Syndrome and Main Character Syndrome. However these terms also have other, only vaguely related, meanings.

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  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Well now that we know some details about what is now the current NP story, can we start speculating on what the NEXT NP Story may be?

    My first guess.

    Sensei Greg's Anime Style Martial Arts Dojo is brought under the scrutiny of various sports regulatory bodies when the sex tests for his students at competitions show irregular results.

    That could be amusing, but Greg closed his dojo.

     

    Of course, it could be out-of-canon.

  20. Posted

    6 hours ago, Qwertystop said:

    One thing keeps coming to mind - the metaphor breaks down very quickly, as I read it. If you plug a drain in a tank with more than one drain, you won't end up with a portion of the water flowing towards the drain and building up - either the total outflow will decrease leading to a generally higher but still-even water level, or the other drains will drain faster, depending on whether the water is being forced out by any pressure in addition to gravity.

     

    Or am I missing something?

    You're assuming that the magical terrain is flat - like the bottom of a sink or washtub.

    If there are hills and valleys, and the drain in one valley is clogged, the magic will accumulate in that valley until it reaches a low spot in the surrounding hills and can run into the next valley. (Or the pressure gets high enough to blow the clog out.)

    Of course, we have no idea what these hills and valleys actually are... or even if this is a decent metaphor.

  24. Posted

    6 hours ago, Wildcat said:

    Do I get to feel a little smug for the coin metaphor now?

    Here's a little smug, and you can pet it if you like.

    xA chubby, white bunny sitting on a towel.

    2 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    Maybe it's already happening. Remember that even after "fixing" the balance between universes the local anomaly of Moperville may remain. Or yes: magic having flair for dramatic will prefer solution which would be flashy and sudden instead of smooth and hard to notice, but the buildup needs to have some size before flashy solution can happen.

    There's another concern. An area can be very comfortable with a certain flow of water, but if that flow is blocked so there's a buildup and then the buildup is released it can be extremely damaging. (Think of a dam breaking.) Is the same true of magic?

     

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  25. Posted

    14 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    There is a problem with using Tedd's hair length as an indicator of the relative date.  Tedd revealed the hair growth watches to Sarah and Nanase (and the readers) when the Maine Ate finished their Junior year in High School.  This of course means that Tedd's hair can be any length or colour at any time and, as long as it is after Sarah started her lab assistant job, no explanation would be necessary to any of Tedd's friends.

     

    1 hour ago, hkmaly said:

    Technically, yes. Practically, everyone was surprised on the championship, suggesting he was NOT changing hair before. It was supposed to be shocking.

    Everyone knows hair dye in all sorts of colors is readily available and hair is easily restyled. But when that person shows up with their hair in a style far different from normal and dyed that color, it's still shocking.

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