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  3. Posted

    You're making me nostalgic for mIRC....

    That said, that looks a lot more elaborate and role-play-y than the games I've usually been in.  We were just a pseudo-medieval village with a small population getting smaller by the minute and a mayor who fled before the game ever got started.  Reasons to lynch could, in the early "days" when there's really nothing to go on, include what T-shirt someone was wearing (it had a wolf on it!) or whether they were eating M&Ms (poisonous to canines).  Some players are pretty quck to pick up on changes in style of gaming or tiny slips of the tongue, once they've had time to happen!

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    13 minutes ago, NaYa said:

    What if you artificially inseminate yourself with your own sperm? Will you give birth to your clone??

    The genes reassort themselves in different ways with each individual sperm or egg.  That's why siblings aren't identical.  You'd end up with two copies of one side and none of the other for more than enough genes to result in a different individual.  The offspring also migt be prone to genetic abnormalities from recessive genes being duplicated.

    If the TFG was designed for helping out entire species who have too few of one sex versus the other, it probably has some sort of safeguard against, say, abnormalities within the genome of the transformed self, but I don't know that it would be able to leave any sort of lingering magic that would fix problems in the next generation!  You'd probably have even more chance of problems than siblings would.  (In the real world, twins who are able to reproduce together means one boy and one girl, thus they cannot be identical and are no more related than any other sibling pair.)

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    About to have the second slice of Garcia's pizza I brought back with me from Champaign!  They used to be a real phenomena on campus, had three or four places just in Champaign-Urbana, but rising rents drove them more to the outskirts and they're down to one location, so I try to patronize them whenever I'm down there.  The first slice met an untimely demise somewhere on I-57.  I also brought back a box from Hot Wok, which was dinner yesterday.  You gotta love being able to eat your old favorites occasionally!

  9. Posted

    8 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    One time I was out walking on what seemed a perfectly normal sunny day. I was approaching the local mall when the sky suddenly darkened with terriffic speed. I was about ten yards from the entrance when it started pouring. I sprinted the last few steps but STILL got soaked almost through before I made it inside. :blink:

    I think we got into a discussion of this once before, or perhaps it was another forum.... 1) malls always seemed like a suburban American phenomena, it seems odd at first glance to hear about nordic shopping malls; and 2) malls have been disappearing a lot around here, replaced with complexes of long rows of facing shops, sort of a hybrid between a strip-mall colony and a real mall that's lost its roof.  Is that happening over there, too?

  11. Posted

    I tend to use images of the same character, from a somewhat obscure manga, because she looks like me.  Started in college, when people were putting pictures of themselves on their doors.  My roommate's picture was from Battle Angel Alita.  Seems like every time I do an image search after joining a new forum I end up finding a different specific picture, but I can always find something usable.

  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Another middle-of-the-night wake-up session. I crashed some time between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., then woke up at around 12:30 a.m. Now, I had a nap yesterday afternoon from approximately 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., but that was partially phenergan-induced. It shouldn't have affected my sleep/wake cycle, especially with me taking Ambien CR.

    I don't feel grogged out, as mentioned in my previous post. I have a bit of a headache, but not much else besides than my usual aches and pains.

    They did a story about the history of sleep on public radio's Backstory last year, and apparently, what you describe is what was considered completely normal back around the Revolution, when we didn't have electric or gas lights letting us stay up to all hours.  People would go to bed earlier than most of us do now, sleep until around midnight, then wake up for an hour or so.  They'd read, pray, catch up on paperwork, even go visiting.  Then, they'd go back to bed and sleep for a few more hours before getting up with the sun or thereabouts.

    My boss and I have both had plenty of times we'd fall asleep on the couch in the late evening, then wake up for no known external reason around three or three-thirty in the morning, get up, go to bed, and go back to sleep for the rest of the night.  Same sort of schedule as you, just a few hours later.

    So, whether it's caused by the new meds or not, at least you can relax about whether the sleep pattern itself is unhealthy.  May that help you rest easier!

     

    ETA: Here's a link to the story!  http://backstoryradio.org/2014/11/02/sleep-well/

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    19 minutes ago, Hunendora said:

    Nanase knows that enough of a change on her end produces a new fairy doll instead of re-inhabiting an old one. It isn't much of a stretch to posit that enough of a change on the other end would prevent the doll from arriving. 
    That being said, I can see her not making that connection. Not thinking it through at crunch time is not an uncommon failing.

    This isn't even a matter of not thinking things through; that implies that there is only one direction to think in.  We've demonstrated right here that there were many, many ways to interpret the situation.  She may have thought it through, even thought it through several times, and just not happened to have hit upon the right answer.

  20. Posted

    4 hours ago, Zorua said:

     the lab boys looked over the tree for birds and thought "We can do better" and now I have to start all over again. Stupid birds. 

    Yes, but now birds are dinosaurs!

    2 hours ago, Stature said:

    Gawrsh, stacking quotes is hard, now that stacked quotes are not readily available :demonicduck:

    Doesn't seem to work on my iPad.  It'll highlight a block of quote and have a little target spot for dragging it, but it never drags, just scrolls.  Maybe I'm just not doing it in quite the right spot; it feels kind of like one of those stupid flash games where you have to click on the exact correct pixel in order to move on!

    It's currently tied for Thing I'd Most Like To See Fixed with giving us back the poor Demonic Duck. ;-)

  21. Posted

    Looked nice at the start of the lunch break today, overcast but warm.  I wanted to go for a walk (even though my dog didn't feel up to a long one) so I grabbed an umbrella just in case and set out.

    Before I'd gotten to the first light, the sky to the north was getting ominously dark.  Kept getting darker fast enough just waiting to cross the road twice (east then north) that I chickened out and crossed back again (west then south) and headed back to work.  But I really wanted to walk!  Well, there's a little 24-hour gym across the streed that has treadmills, so I drove over there (so my work clothes wouldn't get soaked coming back if it did start pouring) and went in and walked on the treadmill for twenty minutes. Not as much fun, but I sure did need the exercise for some reason!

    Annoyingly, it looked like it only sprinkled a bit, so I probably could have walked outside after all.

    Forecast is for much the same weather the rest of the week. :P

  22. Posted

    I get the feeling that if anyone, even Grace, says that Ellen shouldn't try a male form, that will make Ellen determined to do so.  Should we hope that Grace and Sarah realize this and avoid the issue skillfully?  Or is anyone else, like me, thinking it's about time Ellen declares herself "over it" and gets zapped?

    (Edited to add: Hmm, maybe that would be a logical upgrade of her own transformation beam, to be able to turn people male as well as female, now that she's over her improper Awakening?)

  25. Posted

    It may come down to money....I've heard there are ways to recover from pretty bad physical damage, but it has to be done in a clean room, and is very delicate work, and is thus expensive.  Depending on how expensive, we might be able to do a GoFundMe to raise enough, but I assume we'd need to know the less expensive routes were fruitless and how much and how likely to succeed the next step was.

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