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  2. Posted

    Granted. You, however, are a civilian. And the local hero uses your car as a thrown object during a fight. Enjoy not being able to get to work. Also, all countries have supers, including Syria and North Korea, so that's a thing to look out for.

    I wish I had the power to create forcefields (and remove them) at will.

  4. Posted

    On 11/6/2016 at 0:36 AM, CritterKeeper said:

    I went to see Dr. Strange in 3D today, with a group of Mensans.  We went to a Chinese restaurant afterwards.  Movie was very good, effects were amazing but the script was a match to them.  Food and conversation after were both good, too. :-)

    I think the movie jumped into the magic Inception stuff too fast, and consequently didn't spend enough time on Dr. Strange before the accident or during recovery before learning about magic. I might be comparing the movie to the animated one from some years back, where they followed Strange's post-accident-pre-magic depression in more detail.

    I liked it, though. The Cape of Levitation was funny. The way the bad guy was stopped was clever. That casual drop of continuity was like, "Wait, what?" Doctor Strange learned to think with portals, which rapidly became funny. The final fight was fairly inventive. The first after-credits scene was fairly good.

    Moreover I like that we finally have actual magic here now. Not just Mad Science or Sufficiently Advanced Aliens, but actual, real magic. They did a fairly good job of bringing that into the MCU. Now it remains to be seen what they do with it.

    On another note, I'm comparing the final fight between Strange and the Big Bad with the final battle in an Undertale neutral run.

  8. Posted

    /me enters the Konami Code

    /me explodes

    *le respawn*

    ...lemme guess.

    /me enters slightly incorrect Konami Code, using L and R instead of left and right. don't ask where I got the L and R

    /me gets a speed boost, missiles with all firing upgrades, fully-upgraded lasers, four options, and a personal forcefield

    Sweet.

  9. Posted

    On 9/17/2016 at 10:28 AM, Red Regent said:

    ToG: [...] Honestly, I was retired from active RP-use because, well, your boy Regent here grew out of that phase, that and eating up the Last Post Wins thread with Zorua et. al. long ago has become something he's mildly ashamed of.

    Eh. I'm not really ashamed. It was rather fun. I just wish more people joined in than just us two, ya know? Hack, Lyre... Heck, even Trisha would've been someone else.

    Also kinda regret not stating at some point that one of my characters was a Pokemon Trainer. Made combat scenes a little awkward.

    I also learned that I'm not a very good GM, at least in forum post format, once it was my turn.

     

    On 10/16/2016 at 0:39 AM, Arcanimus said:

    *hands IR a program*
    It's all in here. even the spoilery stuff.

    What kind of program? Is it a calculator program?

    Oh, am I winning now?

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  10. Posted

    My grandmother and I tend to make jokes at each other. Here's our most recent text conversation, minus the emoticons and spelling errors

    Quote

    Nana: What do you call a pig that knows karate

    Me: Pork chop.

    Nana: Bleah

    Me: At first I didn't know why that baseball looked like it was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

    Nana: Ate some oatmeal today. Have felt like mush all day

    Me: Yeah, I know the feeling. I felt pretty crummy for eating all the cookies.

    Nana: OMG

    Me: So there was this whole uproar about a lion in a tree...

     

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  12. Posted

    2 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Me also.  At 01:50 CST.  Why, you ask am I drinking tea at that time of day?

    I have a freaking migraine, can't sleep, and my mid level migraine medication has caffeine in it any way.  I'm going to be up, might as well have a nice cup of PGTips and archive binge various comics.  Maybe work on some game maps or design a few space ships.

    Better than making chocolate pudding at four in the morning. Except we don't have chocolate pudding stuff, so I'll make do with a box of Triscuits.

  14. Posted · Edited by Zorua
    Fixed images

    Here's the next set.

     

    large.58df49b94256e_Nevergiveup.Trustyou
    It's the Peppy Hare Quotes slays! This particular one was the first ever slay I put anywhere ever. Could've done a bit of cleaning for the repost, but oh well.

    large.58df48d7aecc7_...openedyourbigyap!
    One of two that I actually did edit. The original of this one had two panels, but I felt the first panel was unnecessary so I removed it.

    large.58df48669ca1d_Ahhtobeyoungagain...
    Ah, youth...

    large.58df488548809_Isawmylifeflashbefor
    *FLASH*

    large.58df4a10c87a5_Incomingenemyfromthe
    Personally I like this one best. Maybe that's Greg's fault.
    I just noticed I never got rid of the whitespace around the slay. And I just had the chance to fix that too. Ah well.

    large.58df4995077bc_PressupXorYtojump!.p
    One of the more subtle not-quite-funny ones I couldn't resist making anyway. They're playing Smash Bros.

    large.58df492d1c770_Usetheboosttocatchup
    /effect ElliotDunkel speed 30 5

    large.58df490311aaf_WhatsthebigideaFox.p
    "What's the big idea, Fox?"

    large.58df49e478ca7_Doabarrelroll!.png.e
    I told you this set had something to do with barrels.

    large.58df494fa6160_UseBombsWisely!.png.
    I remember tilting the image in MS Paint so I could put in the sideways text.

    large.58df497164dd5_Tryasomersault!.png.
    Better that than a cartwheel.

    large.58df48afa2e93_Yourebecomingmorelik
    Another edited one, I cut out Nanase's dialogue for being unnecessary to the joke.

     

    And that's this set. Next set's gonna be something else.

  17. Posted

    The Infinite Loops. A multi-author mega crossover fanfic hosted on the Spacebattles forums and posted on Fanfiction.net. The premise is Yggdrasil is the World Tree (and also a computer system a la Ah! My Goddess), and every reality is one of its branches. Something damaged Yggdrasil. To stall for time, the Admins set every reality to loop through time while they repair it. Individuals (not all; generally the major, important, or notable characters) can retain memories and skills from previous loops, and occasionally they could start in someone else's loop (there's infinite crossover potential).

    I was wondering for a bit about joining Spacebattles and getting EGS into the Loops. I have some ideas about EGS's specific Admin, what patches would be put through to make it possible, which individuals would be aware of the loops, and even decided to write a few of my own.

    And wouldn't ya know it, someone already tried about a year and a half ago. I searched for EGS snips and found four of them dated March, July, and two in August 2015. I have no idea if they made it to a finished compilation (let alone a "finalized" submission on Fanfiction.net), but still, somebody beat me to it. So far he has the Admins talking about it, three of Tedd's Loops in Moperville, and that one time he replaced Ami from Sailor Moon. Not really a lot going on here yet.

    Ah well. Not like anything's stopping me from writing anything there. It is a multi-author collab, after all.

    If anyone wants to check out the Loops, here's an index for the EGS snippets (third post down), surrounded by indexes for other universes.

  18. Posted

    How about the famous "World of Cardboard" Speech?

    "That man won't quit as long as he can still draw a breath. None of my teammates will. Me? I've got a different problem. I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard, always taking care not to break something, to break someone. Never allowing myself to lose control even for a moment, or someone could die. But you can take it, can't you, big man? What we have here is a rare opportunity for me to cut loose and show you just how powerful I really am."
    — Superman, Justice League Unlimited

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  19. Posted

    It still takes forever to load webpages. I'm trying to load speestest.net. And guess what? "The site can't be reached. beta.speedtest.net took too long to respond." I basically can't use my laptop to Internet. Like, at all. Best I get is the page only half loads, getting cut off mid-sentence.

    My phone isn't much better. The keyboard decided to just go away while I was typing this post. Four times!

    A little while ago, part of our home circuit shorted out. Took the lights and outlets in both bathrooms, plus the hall light, hall closet light, hall outlet, laundry room light, and one of the bedroom outlets. Fun. Stupid '70s wiring. At least we have a second light in the bathroom on a different circuit.

  20. Posted

    5 hours ago, PSadlon said:

    Windows updates. We are in the fourth part of the update and my phone is charging almost as fast as the working on updates is going.

    THIS!

    A Windows Update made it so my laptop takes a million years to load a single webpage, if it decides to load anything at all. And forget about videos or text fields.

    Also, YouTube eats up my phone's data like Grace at a pancake place. Forget to switch to Wi-Fi Only and bam! 25% of my data just gone.

    Not that DeviantArt is any better. I think data usage is per page loaded now. With DA's revised layout, every time you scroll down is a new page. Not quite as horrible, but still annoying.

    What's that? Stick with Wi-Fi full time, you say? Then we run into the persistent issue of the Wi-Fi in my house being total crap. Anywhere except the room with the router and right next to the walls of said room have horrible signals.

    First world problems, am I right?

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, Vorlonagent said:

    He's not nigh-invulnerable on the physical plane.

    No, but you can easily exploit the nonphysical plane to dodge. You're attacking me? Whoop! I'm in the non-physical plane! Now I'm back. You're attacking again? Pop! Gone and back. You missed. It's like teleporting almost. Oops, you missed again. This is fun!

  22. Posted

    Panel 1: A plan. To deal with a creature that can't be seen. That, as far as they know, could have up to two centuries of experience. That has incredible magical power. You have a plan for that.

    Well, it is Tedd's dad. Let's hear it.

    Panel 2: Eh? ...does this mean no exposition?

    Panel 3: VOLTAIRE!

    You weren't the one to deal with Dex. Dex was handled by Pandora (the pithos amulet was a big clue). What's your angle? We know you're a lying liar who lies. What are you playing at?

    [Edit] Then again, I'm not entirely sure we do know who set Dex up. Maybe Pandora did the marking--it fits her MO--but the amulet mind-control thing could've been Voltaire trying to frame her or something. I'm not entirely sure. I might need to reread that arc. [/Edit]

    Edward is not amused. He was ready to go into so much exposition. He had charts ready and everything.

    I'd describe Elliot's reaction as... nonplussed, is the first word that comes to mind. It's the eyebrows, really. Everyone else is shocked or angry. Elliot is nonplussed.

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  23. Posted

    On 9/4/2016 at 9:21 AM, mlooney said:

    I've been wondering why my apartment has had such weird swings in temperature. Turns out the thermostat was set to "off"

    As the yellow man on the show I don't watch says "D'oh"

     

    We fixed the air conditioner. But it still ends up at 80 degrees because people keep bumping the temperature up. What was the point of fixing air conditioner if you're not going to use it?

     

    On 9/6/2016 at 8:42 AM, Don Edwards said:

    How about web pages that can't even display plain text unless you unblock at least a couple third-party script sources... and the page references over a dozen of them.

    I find it ridiculously annoying when I end up going to a picture/caption website for something like "20 bizarre Google Maps finds" or something...and instead of one or two pages with pictures and text below them, it's...

    • Page 1: Intro.
    • Page 2: First picture.
    • Page 3: First picture, with text below it.
    • Page 4: Second picture.
    • Page 5: Second picture, with text.
    • Page 6: Third picture...

    And so on. Sometimes there's two pages of text, usually like one sentence each. This turns what could be one or two pages into about thirty pages. Often with so many ads that it takes forever to load each page!

    Speaking of ads: Wikia. While the Wikia layout itself is fine, the excessive ads make it very hard to even scroll down to the next paragraph. Ads sometimes expand or collapse when you're reading, resulting in all the text jumping up and down. The wiki has a series-relevant background image...that is rapidly overtaken by an ad for WoW or something. This could be a problem with my laptop (darn seven-year-old technology) and my terrible Wi-Fi signal, but still.

  24. Posted

    Panel-by-panel analysis.

    Panel 1: Probably a good idea to tell those people, then. Also Nanase and Edward are about the same height (depending on what shoes they're wearing).

    Panel 2: Probably a good idea to not wander around at night.

    Panel 3: Probably a good idea to not wander around with a target painted on your back.

    Panel 4: Probably a good idea to avoid the thing that might kill you.

    Panel 5: Probably a good idea to stop digging yourself into a hole, Edward.

    Panel 6: Probably a good idea to see my previous point.

    Commentary: Probably a good idea to draw Diane in a sheep dog form.