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  1. Posted

    I have the Africam live feed from the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Center running, showing a pair of baby rhinos orphaned by poachers, Little Gertjie and Matimba.  Little G just shook his head, and I could *hear* the sound of his ears flapping!  Live, from halfway around the world!  The modern world is amazing and makes me happy!

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    We just had a snowstorm!  Okay, granted it was warm enough to not stick very well, but the snow was falling thickly enough to impair visibility and slow traffic during evening rush hour.  And there is *some* snow on the grass and on cars.

    Computer says it's 30°F right now, betting that makes for some black ice after all the rain and melted snow.

  5. Posted

    19 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    I just thought of how amazing the main character's power would be for disease prevention alone. Take the Zika outbreak, for example. She could shield an entire city from it, or alternately, by moving from area to area, vastly reduce the possibility of spread by making all the mosquitoes in a given zone suicide or something. Like making them all fly into a confined area with an insect toxin in it.

    I get the feeling she's developing a more ecological view of things, maybe even a connection to her bugs of the sort B has with her dogs.  I'm only starting Tangle 6.1, though, so I could be mistaken.  (Please don't spoil it either way.)

  8. Posted

    16 hours ago, Drachefly said:

    I agree with all the names you might call them - thoroughly horrible people - except cowardly. They were suicide attackers, right?

    Suicide doesn't require courage.  Suicide means leaving everyone else to deal with the aftermath of your actions.  It's chosen by people who just can't deal with their lives any more, whether due to pain, depression, fear, or grinding abuse.  It's a way out, not a way to face and overcome.  It's living that takes courage.

  10. Posted

    Ever get into one of those discussions about superpowers?  "If you could either fly or turn invisible, which would you choose?"  Most of the time, when invisibility is discussed, it doesn't take very long before the idea of sneaking into locker rooms or following women home comes up.  For some men, spying on women for their own gratification is not exactly an abhorrant idea, and most men who would never do so themselves have been in enough discussions with men who would that it's easy for them imagine someone taking it out of the realm of fantasy and actually trying to spy on women in real life.

    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.

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    I've seen a few people come in, not say anything after I greet them, and then leave again, but that's kind of par for the course for chat rooms.  Make sure that you say hello to everyone when you enter the chat room.

    If you have the volume on, the chat room plays a doorbell sound when someone enters, and a different sound whenever a line is entered.  Sometimes I'll be in the office after hours to finish charts and do research, so I'll go in the chat room and leave it open in another tab, waiting for someone to come in.  If I happen to get up from my desk for a minute, I might miss a drive-by.  If it's me being quiet, try checking back in a couple of minutes in case I was off getting a chart or in the bathroom or something. :-)

    I get the impression a lot of people only go into the chat room if they see someone else is already there, hence my going in and hanging out alone when I can.  Several people have come in and chatted, hitting the five-person limit a few times (makes me wonder what happens when a sixth person tries to join), but it isn't a constant thing.  Seems like someone has to be willing to be a little patient and be that first person present who gives the room the little red number to lure others in.

  14. Posted

    10 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Sure I am. Moperville is close to the Canadian border, isn't it? You aren't shifting this one to the Mexicans, Canuck. :P

    Depends on your definition of "close".  If we're assuming Moperville is about where Naperville is, you'd still have to go northwest around Lake Michigan and north through Wisconsin and Minnesota, or south around Lake Michigan, then east through Indiana and then north or east through Michigan.  I suppose you could also go south then east through Indiana, then continue east through Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York to get to Niagara Falls.  Either way, it's quite a trip!

     

    Edit to add: Checked the mapping sites, going east to Detroit and then south into Canada seems to be the shortest route, at around five and a half to six-and-change hours, which is less than I thought.  The same site says it's about five hours from Amsterdam to Paris.  If you don't take that shortcut, and go north the way most people think of going to Canada, it's more like nine to eleven hours, equivalent to going from the Netherlands to Italy.

  16. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    This many vampires would require more people capable of fighting them, especially once Tara and Andrea go back home. So yeah Susan would likely get involved, and Diane will likely need to be recruited.

    Isn't that the same thinking Jerry got mad at Les Immortals about?  There are grown-up already around who could be called in!  Susan is only 18 and still in high school, too young to drink, too young to rent a car, and mostly untrained; she definitely shouldn't be the first choice to go after the monsters!

  19. Posted

    I wonder if Grace has ever tried Myst, or the Sims games?  Or mystery games like the Nancy Drew series?

    And don't say there's no plot to the Sims, there are several ways to play with a goal in mind, newer versions include plenty of challenges, and there are separate games with even more plot, like Castaways.

  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, Scotty said:

    ....Ok, so there WERE other vampires in the area. I guess if it weren't for spidervamp pulling out the bombs, Andrea could have had a 7th kill.

    Ok, so maybe the griffin's half of the world isn't in danger of getting completely drained of magic. So that might mean there is another point (or points) near enough to handle overflow from Moperville, but yeah the area in their world  where magic would have entered from will be exhausted off magic for the time being.

    Yup, seems like an awful lot of monsters in an awful short time.  Moperville just got a lot scarier.

    2 hours ago, liontari said:

    So, any speculation on all the plot threads that Dan says he is pulling, including the supposedly invisible ones? When the topic of discussion shifts to vampire and monster hunters, you can't not think of Noriko. But I doubt the griffins know anything about her specifically.

    Magus was the first to come to mind, or rather, his Puppetmaster Aberration ally.

  21. Posted

    On March 19, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Scotty said:

    That's what I'm saying, the next nearest drain could be in Dallas for all we know, the amount of magic energy needed to build up to reach that would be enormous. If there is a closer drain, like Detroit, then the energy in the region will build up to that point then the Detroit drain would pick up the rest and the buildup would end, unless of course Pandora clogs the next drain.

    You're picturing *much* bigger areas than I was!  I figured the high-magic zone didn't extend beyond Moperville yet, maybe not even much more than the center of town, or at most it was only just starting to extend beyond the boundaries.

    If Moperville is similar enough to Naperville, then there are other suburbs surrounding it and the affected area will continue to include more and more people.  If, on the other hand, Moperville is more like a downstate town, like Champaign, then it will expand to include the whole city but beyond that it will cover low-population areas.

  25. Posted

    I'd suggest merging it with this one, with a post afterwards to note where the old thread ended in case anything already there is iffy rules-wise, to explain why it's grandfathered in.

    Edit: Actually, just took a look, and there's really nothing there that needs to be merged.  Probsbly could just post to it redirecting to this thread, and then lock it.