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  A Welsh hobbit-hole?
Posted by: robkelk - 04-05-2008, 07:52 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (6)

Okay, it's http://www.simondale.net/house/]A Low Impact Woodland Home... but it sure seems like a hobbit-hole.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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  Mythbusters, anime style...?
Posted by: robkelk - 04-05-2008, 03:42 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (14)

Context: Over on Usenet, somebody decided to rant about what he thought copyright law was, and I posted a rebuttal based on what copyright law actually is. At the start of said rebuttal, I said "I see it's time to play "MythBuster" again, on the off-chance somebody actually believes what (name redacted) has posted."

To which, Derek Janssen replied:

Quote:And, in the spirit of Mythbusters:

"Whaddya say, Jamie?"
"Let's take him out to the junkyard, and strap some dynamite to him."
"Good to go. "

Derek Janssen ("Myth #1: CAN you really punch someone into orbit?")

Okay, that's Anime Myth #1 (which I suspect would be totally busted). Any more for the mythical "Anime Myths" episode?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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  [Ficlet] [Nextgen] The Road Goes Ever On
Posted by: M Fnord - 04-05-2008, 03:28 AM - Forum: Fenspace - Replies (1)

The Quibbler (http://www.quibbler.co.fen/)
Saturday, 7 August 2077

BREAKING NEWS - FENSPACE HISTORY MUSEUM ROBBED
Priceless Artifact Stolen

KANDOR CITY, Luna (QP) - Police in Kandor City are puzzling over the overnight theft of the USSR Ptichka, the largest exhibit at the Kandor Museum of Fenspace.

Ptichka disappeared from the central exhibit hall sometime between midnight and dawn Kandor local time, said Daniell County Sherrif spokeswoman Madhumitra Lundgaard.

Authorities are still trying to determine the exact mechanism of how the shuttle was removed from the exhibit hall without alerting museum security or residents of the neighboring Byrne Hill district.

The thieves left a note attached to the exhibit plaque consisting of six lines from the Alfred Tennyson poem "Ulysses." Lundgaard refused to comment on the significance of the note, saying only that the investigation was still in an early phase.

The theft comes less than a month after retired Soviet leader S. Malaclypse Fnord disappeared from his home in Schuster Springs. Fnord, 100, was one of the key leaders during the Boskone conflict and a noted interstellar explorer. Authorities refused to comment on whether or not the two incidents were related.

Ptichka, a converted Buran-class space shuttle, was one of the first large spacecraft in Fenspace and flew as the flagship of the Soviet Air Force from 2008 until its formal retirement to the Museum of Fenspace in 2074.

Soviet Generalissimo Sora Hasegawa refused to comment directly, and at press time the Soviet Air Force had not released a statement regarding the theft.

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QUIBBLER EXCLUSIVE!
The complete text of the note left by the thieves:

Dear Fenspace,

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

We'll see you when we see you.

--M & P


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(c)2077 Lovegood Media, Inc.


"The Road Goes Ever On"
a Fenspace Nextgen ficlet
(c)2008 Sean M. Breen
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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  Random speculation...
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 04-05-2008, 02:20 AM - Forum: Fenspace - Replies (12)

What has the existence of handwavium and the things it can do done to psychology and other fields which are predicated on a firm grasp of what is allegedly
"real"? When almost any thing that might once have been deemed the hallucinatory product of a disturbed mind can now possibly exist, especially if
said mind got its hands on some 'wavium, how do those areas that rely upon or assume an invariant consensual reality cope?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  Superhero reference in webcomic - Questionable Content
Posted by: Wiregeek - 04-04-2008, 11:08 PM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (1)

somewhat NSFW for profanity and content.

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=399

Now I need to make a Pizza Girl alt >.<
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

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  Jenovan Twins Meet the World
Posted by: HDTrio - 04-04-2008, 08:48 PM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (2)

Stephnie and Amberlee are likely in a very happy mood of late. Of course, this is likely do to their two fabulous little girls that they held around 3:00
Friday afternoon, after beating the crud out of Shivans. The happy parents are likely more then happy to talk about their new twins, Serephina and Anya Jenova.
We'll likely be adding them to the Little Legends soon, as well. Be sure to congratulate them!

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  DW5 and gate songs
Posted by: williath - 04-04-2008, 07:20 PM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk V: Another Divine Mess You've Gotten Me Into - Replies (10)

It's just hit me, why aren't we seeing Doug searching for a gate song? Has he learnt more about gate songs between when we last saw him in DW2? Has he
forgotten about this while he doesn't have a working bike? Is it just not fun to write about that all again?

WillThrase/Thraen/Williath

"He Who Trains Dies"

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  William Tell I'm not.
Posted by: hmelton - 04-04-2008, 05:52 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (4)

HEY! it's not my fault my assistant died at 60 feet.

Just because I did all my Coon, Rabbit and Squirrel hunting by shooting homemade arrows from a modified wrist rocket slingshot back before I was old enough for
a rifle. Everyone else my age were getting bows, but I was smarter and got a slingshot and painfully modified it to fire a more diverse ammunition. That way
even when I didn't have enough allowance money to buy expensive factory arrows I could still shoot small bolts, nuts, rocks, marbles, ball bearings and
even get decent shots with homemade arrows when I'd broken or lost my supply of store bought arrows.

Sadly because of this childhood choice my skill with an actual bow leave much to be desired and my assistant under the appled lasted to only 60 feet. (It's
a good thing they seem to be able to instantly clone a replacement.or I wouldn't be mentioning this rather bloody office game.)

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http://www.officegamespot.com/officegam ... hooter.htm

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howard melton

God bless

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  Ghost Widow Live!
Posted by: Logan Darklighter - 04-04-2008, 03:50 PM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (10)

Over on this City of Heroes LiveJournal post, there's a
really cute and funny pic that was taken and then photoshopped at a CoH/CoV get-together/convention in Britain.

In the post, they also linked an archive of photos from that event as well as the homepage of the girl portraying Ghost Widow (warning, some stuff
there NSFW). The overall effect is INCREDIBLE with her, the costume and the makeup.

The gal playing Ms. Liberty isn't quite as good, I think. She looks great and has a FANTASTIC smile when she was having a fun time and joking around, but
looks too stiff when she's trying to do a "serious" pose. And I think of Ms. Liberty as a bit more willowy, but that's a bit of nit-picking.
Overall she was fine.

But Ghost Widow was AMAZING.

I followed up and went to her website where she had a bunch more photos put up. Anyway, if you like, you can go and check out those links and such. But
here's what I thought were some of the best photos available.

[Image: GW-08.jpg][Image: GW-07.jpg][Image: GW-06.jpg][Image: GW-05.jpg][Image: GW-04.jpg][Image: GW-03.jpg][Image: GW-02.jpg][Image: GW-01.jpg][Image: 2377328920_f3bf8488e5_o.jpg][Image: 2376492019_fba7287fac_o.jpg][Image: 2075943788_5ed795e859_o.jpg][Image: 2075943364_01a057e621_o.jpg][Image: 2075157095_47ac0dbcf1_o.jpg][Image: 2075156329_563659c36e_o.jpg]

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  Font Modification per request.
Posted by: Foxboy - 04-04-2008, 08:41 AM - Forum: The Legendary - No Replies

Link to CoH Boards guide to changing in-game
fonts.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

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