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CritterKeeper
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I'm sorry to hear that the forum is a source of stress for you instead of a stress-reliever like it is for me. I hope you'll be up to rejoining us again soon, in a much-improved frame of mind and energy level! Please let us know if there is anything we can do, in the meanwhile (other than each buy a hundred copies of your album ;-).
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Wanna bet Nanase Craft genuinely thinks of herself as an archaeologist for hire, and will be taken aback by Sarah's refuting that?
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I never liked the grunge music or fashion. To me it just seemed like whiney upper-middle-class kids pretending to be hard up, and I didn't see the appeal to anyone out of their early teens. I'd gone through my own "sorta heavy metal" phase at that early teen age and grown out of it long before grunge, so the idea that it was supposed to be the "voice of my generation" really annoyed me!
Computer game-wise, I went from Pong to Zork-style text adventure and Atari to PLATO to a few computer games on a C64 and later PC, but I was rarely cutting-edge. I did play Myst when I did a zoo externship and stayed in someone's guest room where their son's computer was....at one point I mentioned how far I'd gotten, and he realized I was a lot farther on his game than he was. I was able to buy a game if it really interested me, like Myst (which I did buy when I went home so I could finish it), but I wouldn't have been able to buy every game.
I don't think I've actually been into computer games since the 90s, other than a brief obsession with Facebook games back when they were first a thing, and another with The Sims free versions online. Hmm, and I suppose the Sims 2 was after the 90s....and some Pokemon GO more recently....okay, maybe I've played in an equally sporadic manner since then. ;-P
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9 minutes ago, Tom Sewell said:I thought whenever there's trouble Kim Possible was there on the double; it's in her them song, after all.
It was in the Bloodhound Gang's theme song first!
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3 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:if Sarah has seen Grace do this trick and is still her best friend, then she absolutely will not be freaked by any transformation Sam could display.
Not necessarily. It's kind of like the Uncanny Valley -- it might freak someone out more to see a transformation that's still within the normal human range, than one that's far beyond it. At least a werewolf-y transformation is obvious, whereas a within-human change could be hidden from a person or lied about, thus feel more like a betrayal than a secret. It's not logical, but neither is the Uncanny Valley effect.
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On 2/23/2019 at 2:47 PM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:When there's trouble you
Call D WOn 2/23/2019 at 3:21 PM, Tom Sewell said:I thought you called Super Chicken (BWUCK-WUCK BWAWK!)
The Bloodhound Gang -- Whenever there's trouble, they're there on the double!
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4 hours ago, Scotty said:Can't be a Seer or else Tedd wouldn't have been the first person to blind Luke. And Camdin and Luke's conversation doesn't suggest Camdin having more than one ability, so he is likely the one marked with the smoke symbol, whether he's awoken is uncertain, there's nothing to suggest if he is or not, and I'm leaning towards the belief that being marked or awoken by immortals produces a different kind of magic user than someone who specifically trains as a wizard (like Nanase could have been a wizard if not for Helena and Demetrius awakening her) I've submitted this as a Q&A question on patreon though so hopefully Dan sees it and answers it.
From what we've seen of Camdin, I'm not so sure he'd tell Luke that he could learn other people's spells. I could definitely see him using Luke's ability to look at people and see their magic, and then if he wanted to discuss someone in particular with Luke, saying, "Hey, check that person, could you? No? How about that one? And that one? Bingo!"
That change in the pupils is exactly what Luke and Tedd do to see magic. His being a Wizard would explain it, and it's about time we saw a non-government, non-Seer, plain old everyday Wizard!
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Huh. Does Smoke have two abilities? Has he Awoken? Or is he a Wizard or Seer? He seems to be using a Magic-Sight ability like Tedd or Luke have, and he's also transformed to smoke. If he's a Wizard he could have picked it up from watching Luke. If he's a Seer he would need to have been unqualified, either knowing a Seer's purpose or not having used magic yet, and I don't see how either of those could be the case, given our timeline.
So, I'm calling it -- Smoke wasn't just looking for kicks, he wanted to add new transformations to his collection of spells. But he can't learn Grace's type of magic.
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9 hours ago, Illjwamh said:On February 18 in History:
259 BCE - Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, is born. According to the calendar which he later establishes, nothing happened before this.
How silly. 4004 BC is a lot earlier than that!
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It's always fun when an author you love recognizes you. I still have a T-shirt somewhere from the Weis-Hickman Rebel Alliance.
This weekend had Phil and Kaja Foglio as guests of honor. Well, Phil officially, but they're basically a package deal. Hence my being inspired to re-read and hopefully catch up on Girl Genius.
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One of the local sci-fi fan-run conventions was last weekend, and as usual, there were some room parties that went above and beyond on the decorations and theme-ing. One was a group of teens who turned the room into a giant box fort. Another covered the walls with enlarged versions of comic book characters (on paper, not the walls themselves, we do like this hotel and don't want to be kicked out).
My favorite was themed on the Alien/Aliens movies, with plush chestbursters and facehuggers on random corners and shelves, plus a few in glowing "specimen jars", and giant poster-style images of various portions of a spaceship to make it seem like the room was the Nostromo. Bits of duct and running strings of light added to the feel of the ship. There was a plush orange tabby cat above the TV with an ID badge identifying him as Jonesy, the cat from the movies, with his position listed as "Coping Officer" and the ID number 009/L1-VE5. Everyone running the party had Nostromo T-shirts, mostly white print on black shirts but one in pink ink and one in pink glitter ink. And best of all, they had a actual official ALIENS coloring book, and had made copies of various pages and set them out with a big box of crayons. :-)
They had the movies running, with captions on, and it's always good to get to rediscover how great a classic movie is!
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Voicemail message from a client. I am amused at how happy/excited/enthusiastic a person can be that their cat pooped. "A wonderful bowel movement, I don't think I've seen that type of bowel movement out of him for years! It is terriffic!"
I'm definitely leaving this one on the voicemail for the receptionists to hear tomorrow. They'll get a kick out of it too! :-D
(In case anyone here has an old cat who gets constipated, we used a mix of warm water and lube, passing a red rubber catheter up past the blockage, doing several of these mini-enemas throuhout the day instead of one big one the cat would have to be sedated for. It's a wonderful trick every vet should know about!)
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On 2/15/2019 at 5:11 AM, Illjwamh said:As they say, nobody expects a Spanish Exposition.
Nobody expects the Spammish Repetition! Spam spam spam spam, spammity spam.....
On 2/15/2019 at 5:11 AM, Illjwamh said:1971 - Opting instead for something that makes sense and the rest of the world can understand, the British stop using Wizard money.
So the Doctor's granddaughter was less than eight years ahead of herself when she got confused about how many shillings in a pound, way back in the pilot, "An Unearthly Child".
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12 hours ago, ijuin said:Like it or not, Greek is how we cracked the ancient Egyptian language via the Rosetta Stone.
Makes me picture all the multi-lingual labels and signs and instruction manuals we have now. In a few thousand years, will someone use the How To Install Your Smart Speaker booklet as a key to deciphering the mysterious "English" language? Or perhaps an engraved tourist sign about a Niagara Falls long since dried up? ;-)
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I agree that Grace may transform if she feels the need to protect her new friend. Now that she's got a bit of training under her belt, hopefully she'll think quickly enough to just tell Sam to get behind her at first, and save any dramatic Omega-form for responding to actual hostile action.
If she does bring out her antennae, I suspect Camdin will think she's Noah's hero identity instead of Cheerleadra.
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2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:If I am not mistaken, this is the first time we have seen Nanase in a Fox form.
Considering that her family name is Kitsune, I find this incredibly odd for this comic.
Gosh, it's almost like someone has a prejudice against name-based affinities..... ;-)
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Poor Sarah's going to be wondering what's wrong with her, that all the guys she has the hots for or she thinks like-like her, are either gay or just want to be good friends.
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Sunday was the second anniversary of my father's death. I was able to go home for the weekend to visit my mom, and we did stop by the columberia where his ashes are, but it wasn't the focus of the visit. I wasn't really sure if my mom would remember what day it was, as it was usually my dad who was best at remembering that sort of thing, but she did too. We talked a bit about their travels together, as well as family trips taken with all four of us. So, sad, but not in a bad way, if that makes sense to you.
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On 2/6/2019 at 11:52 PM, The Old Hack said:Enough is the enemy of extreme.
More like frienemies.
But enough is as good as a feast. Mary Poppins said it, and she's practically perfect, so it must be true!
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6 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:Perhaps not...
According to a bumper sticker I once read, "Chicks Dig Paleontologists".
And as we know, bumper stickers are second only to hats for expressing universal truths.No, no. T-shirts come after bumper stickers! Then buttons, and then hats are tied with posters, although certain political hats are endangering that ranking.
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10 hours ago, Zorua said:Prince the Cat
Born: 11/27/2016
Died: 2/6/2019Hunter the Cat
Born: 2009 or 2010
Died: 2/8/2019You will be missed, guys. So, so much.
Both within two days? Ouch! I hope it wasn't something bad that took out both of them, although I guess I don't even know if that would be any worse or better. May you find comfort all the happy memories the three of you shared!
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Hard to comment without seeing more of the conversation than just the last word of it....
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Or extra-strong polymer heads, for players of Extreme Croquet. I first heard about it from Donna Andrews's marvelous Meg Langston mysteries, in this case No Nest For the Wicket. Each book's title has some sort of play on bird names, and each book also features a new event or hobby or obsession, such as weddings, revolutionary war reenactment, a computer gaming company, a giant yard sale gone out of control, and yes, Extreme Croquet. She's a great author and every book is a fun read. :-)
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That was my idea (I'm sure I'm not the only one). It was Pandora's college-student-doing-a-psychology-project that made me want to see more of that version of her. :-)
She might arrange to be an official roommate, yet not spend all her time in that guise. More of a roommate on paper. It would get Sarah some extra privacy, if it's like my university was with all frosh required to live in the dorms and a typical dorm room housing two students. Extra privacy that would allow for regular visits and lessons, wand-waving, and such.