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| Hilarious Hunter: The Reckoning quotes |
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Posted by: Elsa Bibat - 02-22-2008, 11:06 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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http://www.geocities.com/poetess47/hunterquotes.html
A few samples:
Quote: After Arie pulls a gun on Will during a minor argument:
"Put the substitute penis away, Arie."
"I think it only counts as a substitute penis if it's a shotgun."
"No, for his it can be a handgun."
Quote:
Exchange between a hotel desk clerk and Will (who has just been speared through the shoulder with a metal pole):
"What the hell?!"
"Skating accident."
Quote: "I have a library. That's like an arsenal of knowledge, bizzatch."
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| [RFC] Earth & Environs |
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Posted by: M Fnord - 02-22-2008, 05:33 AM - Forum: Fenspace
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Since the gazetteer entry looks a little silly with the Moon fleshed out the way it is & Earth only sketched out, here's a first pass. Wiki markup, etc. Ideas for stuff worth mentioning are always welcome.
~~NOTOC~~
{{earth}}
^ Earth ^^
^ Orbit | 149,597,890 km from primary (mean) |
^ Diameter | 12,756 km (equatorial) |
^ Surface Gravity | 1 G |
^ Year | 365.24 days |
^ Day | 23.93 hours |
^ Mean temp. | 288°K (15°C) |
^ Atmosphere | 1 atm (N2 78%, O2 21%, Ar 1%) |
^ Water/Ice Index | 70% |
^ Population (2013) | 7,197,247,000 |
^ Political Affiliation | United Nations |
^ Government | Variable |
^ Capital | n/a |
====== Earth ======
Planet Earth is the third planet from a star named the Sun. The Earth is shaped like a sphere and composed mostly of rock. Over 70 percent of the Earth's surface is water. The planet has a relatively thin atmosphere composed mostly of nitrogen and oxygen. Earth has a single large Moon that is about 1/4 of its diameter and, from the planet's surface, is seen to have almost exactly the same angular size as the Sun. With its abundance of liquid water, Earth supports a large variety of life forms, including potentially intelligent species such as dolphins and humans.
//(Text courtesy NASA's [[http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap0703 ... |Astronomy Picture of the Day for 25 March 2007])//
===== History =====
For those readers unaware of history before the wave (or just dropping in from the Marcab Confederacy) a good place to start is Wikipedia's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world|world history article] to give you a good gloss on what's happened since humans first figured out how to bang rocks together.
Earth's place in Fenspace history begins some time in 2005 or 2006 (depending on the source) when [[gazetteer:handwavium tart|handwavium] was developed or discovered (again, depending on the source). Wherever it came from, handwavium quickly spread into the global subculture known as //science-fiction and fantasy fandom// or simply //fen//.
After the flight of the SS //[[ships:Uncertainty]// in 2007 made it clear that handwavium could support sustained space flight, Earth became the launchpad for fen seeking to leave the planet for more interesting climates. The majority of the [[gazetteer:government:Space Powers] (terrestrial nations that developed independent spaceflight capability before the wave) and the other industrial nations put severe restrictions on the use of handwavium in 2008, isolating the embryonic Fenspace nations.
The original handwavium panic was settled in the 2010 [[gazetteer:government:Kandor Treaty] which pardoned the original pioneers of any handwavium-related crimes and normalized relations with Earth. Smaller panics and crackdowns have happened since, and the Boskone War has put some strain on the treaty.
===== Places of Interest =====
The vast majority of Earth's population take only minor notice of fannish goings-on, preferring to stick to their reasonably comfortable planetbound lives. It's not for nothing that Earth is often referred to as the 'Danelaw.
==== Australia ====
The Land Down Under was the only First World nation not to break ties with fandom in the course of the initial handwavium panics((Base rumor suggests that the fen have some sort of "hold" on the Australian government, but this of course is silly. Fnord.)) and as Fenspace settled into it's current configuration the fen have rewarded this loyalty with strong economic connections. The Fenspace [[gazetteer:companies:finance in fenspace|solar credit] uses the Australian dollar (AU$) as the benchmark, and Aussie dollars are more common than American or Canadian dollars in many places in Fenspace.
Australia is also the central transit hub for goods flowing from Earth into Fenspace and vice versa. Major ports are the **Avalon-Point Wilson Aerospace & Aqua Port** in Melbourne and **Kingsford Smaith International Spaceport** in Sydney. [[gazetteer:companies:Orbital Air] runs passenger transport operations out of Perth, and [[gazetteer:companiestellvia corporation|Stellvia Trading] runs their tourist operations out of Sydney.
Hobart, Tasmania is the home of **Leonard H. McCoy Memorial Medical Center** the largest fan-backed hospital facility in Fenspace and the only one on Earth capable of handling handwavium-related conditions.
==== New Zealand ====
New Zealand wasn't initially part of the "ANZAC renaissance," but thanks to proximity to Australia and a certain level of adaptability (any country that declare Peter Jackson a favorite son is going to be at least a //little// sympathetic to fen) the island nation quickly became part of the Fenspace economic sphere. **Wellington International Spaceport** opened for business in 2010 and has managed plenty of tourist and agricultural trade.
==== Nigeria ====
In the outer suburbs of Lagos there is a large hole in the ground. This hole wouldn't be remarkable by most standards - while impressively wide, it's not very deep compared to other holes in the Earth's surface - but this one is special. This hole in the ground, known locally as **The Divot** is the place where [[chars:Eric Zhu] and his crew built and then launched the [[ships:the island|Island], sparking all sorts of interesting controversies about the use of handwavium.
==== United States of America ====
The US is where many (if not most) of the original fen are from, and as a result the fen have left their mark on the place perhaps a bit more solidly than they would've anywhere else.
The **John F. Kennedy Space Center** in Titusville, Florida was the centerpoint for American manned spaceflight from 1961 to 2010, when the American manned program was effectively shut down with the last flight of the pre-wave Space Shuttle. The center itself remains the property of the American government, but the Shuttle processing facilities have been leased by the Artemis Corporation for use with their [[ships:the three graces|Shuttle fleet]. Also, Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canveral Air Force Station has been renovated to accomodate larger fenships in general and the SV //[[ships:Moondance]// in particular.
On 42 West 23rd Street in Seattle, Washington is an unassuming building that claims to be **Illuminati World Headquarters**. Whether or not this is a large-scale joke on the part of //somebody// has yet to be determined.
Just outside the small town of Kearney, West Virginia is an //extremely// large hole in the ground, a kilometer wide and a kilometer deep, slowly filling with water. This is **Lake Schroeck**, also known as "The Bowl," the former site of //[[ships:Grover's Corners]// before the owners worked their magic and lifted an entire farmstead into Earth orbit.
====== Earth Orbit ======
Earth orbit is the single most crowded place in the entirety of Fenspace. Along with the approximately 2,500 mundane satellites in orbit serving the needs of the planet, there are dozens if not //hundreds// of fenships and habitats in orbit around Earth at any given time.
===== Places of Interest =====
The major attraction of low Earth orbit (aside from the amazing view of Earth) is the **[[ships:International Space Station]**. The ISS is the last operational piece of unenhanced manned space hardware left in the solar system. Completed in 2010, the station performs microgravity science experiments. While tourists have made their way onto ISS in the past, the station is not equipped or meant as a tourist destination.
Babylon .5 //blah blah setup fishcakes, etc.//
(etc.)
====== Cislunar Space ======
The Lagrangian points (also Lagrange point, L-point, or libration point), are the five positions in an orbital configuration where a small object affected only by gravity can theoretically be stationary relative to two larger objects (such as a satellite with respect to the Earth and Moon). The Lagrange points mark positions where the combined gravitational pull of the two large masses provides precisely the centripetal force required to rotate with them. They are analogous to geosynchronous orbits in that they allow an object to be in a "fixed" position in space rather than an orbit in which its relative position changes continuously.
===== Places of Interest =====
==== Lagrange 1 ====
(etc.)
==== Lagrange 2 ====
(etc.)
==== Lagrange 3 ====
The Earth-Luna Lagrange 3 (L3) point is relatively empty, being situated on the opposite side of the planet from Luna and far from the other Lagrange points. The emptiness of the local space explains why L3 is the standard parking orbit for [[ships:Grover's Corners].
(etc.)
==== Lagrange 4 ====
The L4 point is locally known as the "Danelaw toehold," as this is where most 'Danelaw or Space Power-supported habitats are located. The major habitats cluster around [[gazetteer:government:TSAB]'s **Benjamin Franklin Station**, a base built out of a converted [[gazetteer:companies:Rockhounds] mining asteroid.
(etc.)
==== Lagrange 5 ====
L5 has a long association with the exploration and settlement of space, beginning in the 1970s when Gerald K. O'Neill first suggested using the libration point as a place to house space colonies.
The L5 point was one of the first things settled in any permanent manner, first by the Warsies who built their **[[New Yavin]** habitat at L5 and maintain a major presence there. The point is also the home of //[[ships:Stellvia]// station.
(etc.)
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
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| Four-Colour Eldritch Horror |
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Posted by: robkelk - 02-22-2008, 03:30 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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Ken Hite's been busy writing weird stuff again... but this is weird even for Ken Hite.
http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=HITE003]Adventures Into Darkness: roleplaying in H.P. Lovecraft's comic-book stories.
Yes, a superhero setting based on the premise "what if Lovecraft wrote comic books?" I said it was weird...
It's for Mutants & Masterminds - does anyone know how difficult it is to translate the game mechanics to other systems?
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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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| New "Making of" book available for pre-order |
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Posted by: robkelk - 02-22-2008, 02:10 AM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk VI: Angel Baby
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CDJapan sent me an e-mail about a new Evangelion book: Evangelion Shin Gekijoban: Jo Animation Gengashu It's a "making of" book, with production sketches and animation stills from the 2007 movie. They won't guarantee being able to get copies for orders placed after the 26th... so http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=NEOIPS-1]here's the pre-order page.
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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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| Hospital Care - snippetstagger |
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Posted by: Kokuten - 02-22-2008, 02:05 AM - Forum: Future Steps
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Quote: "Douglas Q. Sangnoir, Colonel, United Nations Metahuman
Peacekeeping Force Warriors Alpha. My serial number is...
12."
"Twelve?" The nervous young man in OD Green mouthed, behind the moustachioed man currently holding a stethoscope to various portions of my upper anatomy.
"Well, Mr. Twelve, you happen to be in one of the finest O.R.s in Korea, and while we can't technically _require_ you to give more than name, rank, and serial number, we are kinda curious."
"Ahhh, curious about what?" I said, stalling for time while my brain spooled up from unconsciousness.
"Well, where you came from, and what you were running from, and Rizzo kinda wants to know why there's 'some unholy crossbreed of a jet engine and a hamster wheel' in your motorcycle."
I closed my eyes, considering the difference between the questions asked and the compassionate tone.
"But right now, I'm just concerned about how you're feeling. I'm B.J. Hunnicut. Who are you when you're not at home?"Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979
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| Not A Teaser |
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 02-21-2008, 09:02 PM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk III: Sana-chan No Omocha
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Just a fragment... (and let's see if I can make this work)
Rei looked at me curiously as I tucked the blankets around Sana.
We stepped out of the room and he closed the door softly behind
us before he turned to me and asked, "You don't have children,
do you?"
I studied him for a moment, resisting the urge to snatch those
stupid Raybans off his face. "No," I finally said, a bit more
sharply than I'd intended, but then, it was one of the few big
disappointments in my life. "No," I repeated. "My wife and I...
we've tried, but there were, are... complications."
Complications. Ha. That was putting it mildly. Between our
respective mutations, Maggie and I are almost two different
species. And that doesn't even count the Murphy factor of my
field. What little control I can exert over it is dependent on
more free concentration than I normally can muster in those
moments.
Rei nodded slowly. "For what it's worth," he said softly, "I
think you'd make a good father."
I blinked rapidly to hold back the sudden stinging in my eyes.
*Damn,* I thought, *I thought I'd gotten used to all that.*
"Thanks," I managed to reply without my voice breaking too badly.
"Thanks." I gave up and wiped at my eyes with the back of my
hand. "I love her like she's my own, you understand? Because I
don't..."
Rei clasped my shoulder. "I understand. I feel the same way."
We stood that way for a moment -- two frequent antagonists,
united briefly in their shared paternal feelings for a twelve-
year-old hyperactive fireball with a motormouth. Finally, I
quirked a tiny smile. "C'mon. We've got to find Mama."
He returned the smile with a sharp nod. "Right."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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| ConDFW 2008 |
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Posted by: Ebony - 02-21-2008, 07:20 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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If anyone's in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex over this weekend and is interested in killing some time, ConDFW 2008 starts Friday afternoon. Guests of
Honor this year are Peter S. Beagle, Donato Giancola, and Thomas Monteleone. Details can be found at http://www.condfw.org.
It's cheap, relaxed, and you can buy Peter Beagle a beer.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
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| Live-action "Akira" announced |
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Posted by: robkelk - 02-21-2008, 04:05 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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http://timesonline.typepad.com/blockbus ... movie.html]Times of London story
Interesting that somebody on the Times of London staff has at least a clue as to how some of the more passionate otaku think:
Quote:Purists will probably be more outraged by the ‘future New York’ setting of the forthcoming movie rather than the ‘future Tokyo’ of the original Manga, but as long as they can get that big red motorcycle right, it’ll probably still be worth a look.
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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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| Bad fanon that trumps the canon for the far to long |
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Posted by: Necratoid - 02-21-2008, 07:54 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction
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Okay, some people wondered what I was talking about in the current updates thread, when I said this:
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Okay if you want to spout garbage and fanon make a thread for it and people with actual experience with the canon can smack you down properly for
blithering on about how bad an one dimension berserker Akane was in some nth derivitive fanfiction you read somewhere. That your telling us about sweet,
innocent, perfert Shampoo only makes you dig the bad fanon hole your digging deeper. Seriously, its like listening to fangirls babble on about Sepheroth.
At the very least include an update in your posting to the update thread.
What I was refering to was the branching blather that had started in pages 30 and 31 of the update thread. What these posts went on about how Ranma's
theretical betroved (it is rather disputed as a status for the lot of them, at least they think so) where all sadistic psycho.... and babbled about such things
as Shampoo being the exception and Akane the rule. This is patently false, at least as far as the canon (manga/anime) is concerned.
I'm not going recap the canon for you, but I will backup this up with evidence. First Kodachi is a loony with sadistic tendancies, that she beats people
up before a competition and than laugh at the hilarity of such an event to their face is proof enough. I don't think anyone will really argue against this
particular point, why she is that way is a different and minor to this discusion point. Not to mention she isn't even a serious contender and literally
bribed herself into the position later, she literally tries to buy Ranma as a breeding slave. Ukyo is not sadist so much as she is unstable and unconiously
smashes things/people/people disgusised as things as a rebutal... at her worse she is vengeful and homocidal (manga wedding arc). However she isn't
actually causing others pain for the joy of it, personally I blaim her father. I'll get to Genma and Ukyo's father later.
Shampoo is a sadist, at least part time. If you don't beleive me ask a certain pair of herbalists that live near her village in the manga. She enjoys
tormenting them and only one of them did something to her... the other cured her and got mauled for it. This goes on at random intervals for around a decade.
Shampoo is a petty cruel child that its not exactly a stretch to think she left a trail of small dead animals as kid. Not that there is direct evidence of
that actually happening in the canon. She of the four, treats him most as a toy and her personal property. though far less frequent than in the fanon,
Shampoo does randomly try mind control vegitation on on Ranma, hypno mushrooms and the imprinting eggs from the Saffrom arc in the manga.... She is enslaved by
the eggs and is primarily concerned with enslaving Ranma with them as a way to have him as her own... its a primal urge for her.
Akane of the canon, manga notablly, is a sweet girl really. By this I mean she is the kind of kid that took home injured animals to heal... and actually
looked for books and advise on how to actually do is properly, at like 7. When she was kidnapped by Mr. Panyhose she patched him up and tryed to talk him
through his problems. She does this kind of thing routinely. Her cooking is burnt or bad, minus curry, but it never is lethal or prone to animating and
attacking someone. Yes, she does hit him, but he deserves it (like those reading or watch want to hurt him for that kind of deserves it)... and its once.
Also Ranma doesn't often (if ever) take place in a Team rocket style distance punt. She also walks away from situations where she knows she'll be
tempted to get excessively violent. She mostly hits him barehanded, not with the only mallet in the series, but rather with with her fist, random objects and
the like. However, this is normal female behavior (if not as hard normally) in Ranma 1/2. If you don't beleive me look for the early episode where Ranma
and Ryoga are attempting to get the vase key to the Japanese spring of the drowned man from under the girls locker rooms. Girls pull out mallets, brooms, and
nagitas to chase them. At one point in the series Kasumi hands Nabiki a mallet and she knocks out Kuno with a temple strike.
As long as I'm mentioning Nabiki, I'll tell you about the charicter defining moment of hers I remember most from the manga. Nabiki and Ranma are the
only ones home and Nabiki entertains herself by ripping her close and using a camera, tape recorder, ripping her own clothes, and acting to amuse herself
trying to get 'evidence' that Ranma was actively trying to rape her. She isn't making money for the family and is evil. Kasumi hands out mallets
at least one point and everytime people are listening to Ranma and Akane at the doors and such she is right their in the stack with them. Soun's tears are
an act that can start or stop on a dime... they are used to control his kids through embarassment. He can start or stop them on a dime. Considering that he
gets job offers as a ghost buster/monster dispoal expert for the dojo, I think he was actively doing this kind of thing preseries and hands it off to the
younger generation.
From the 2 1/2 to 3 seasons I've seen of the anime the largest difference with Akane anime and Akane manga is that Akane anime actually bothers to try and
participate in all the nonbrawl challenges and contests... with leave her more frustrated.
To me Genma is one of the more intresting charicters. Not that he is close to perfect, but he did accomplish his 2 goals with Ranma, trained him as a master
martial artist and he does qualify as a man amonst men, if not the gigaloo his mom apperently wants. One of the things that he gets the most flack for is his
engagement spree. The Tendo engagement is old fashion, but normalish. On its own wouldn't be that much strange thing in a series. Shampoo is only
Genma's fault as far as the Kiss of Death is concerned. The Kiss of Marrage is part bad luck, part left field law, and part chaos. So Genma got his
offspring an assassin not a self declared wife there. The Take-out girl is more Genma doing the correct thing. What I mean by that is that the guy has a
starving/hungry man and his baby son come up to him at a fire and ask for a bit of aid, a bit of food and a shared fire. One parable in polytheism in the West
and East covers this kind of situation... the one where say a crone asks for these simple boon of a meal and a nights rest. Turns out the crone is a god(dess)
is disguise and the ones with the supplies/fire/home either rewards or punishs the group/man dependant on his generocity. All Genma did was follow the
fable... unfact he rented his son to the guy for an evening... the guy wanted to take a man's firstborn for a simple meal... worse should have befallen the
creep, at least his gear should have been swiped.
Now when we get to Ukyo's dad it gets odd. Ukyo's father tries to make an engagement between Ukyo and Ranma and Genma flatout refuses... then shortly
afterwards he takes the offer with gusto and ditches the girl. The rather abrupt and spontanious change of attitudes is jolting to me. I've always
wornders if Ukyo's father drugged/cursed Genma here. Up to this point in his life Genma is more or less decent if arrogant man, after that point he does
things like train Ranma in the Nekoken (I still can't remember if he says the last pages where stuck together or that was fanfiction).and eat the Amazon
tournoment prize feast... or go to ancient training grounds on advise of a pamplet in another language. I think there is evidence that something major changed
at that point.
I make this specific post as a gateway into this kind of subject... there is a clear intrest in it, even if a large part is spreading bad fanon. I'm
hardly against altering facets of the canon for a story, but abrupt stupid ill explained changes bother me. As I've stated before Its not changes or
alternate universes or the like that get me, and I think romance is a part of a story... if its the main feature it just manages to be bad, more often than
not. I'm more interested in how someone ends up with someone than that they are with that person. (Besides not being something I particularly want to
read, my main issue with yaoi is that it smothers the plots outside them making out, etc... Which is often true of any fanfiction that lists the romantic
couple(s) in the preview blurb.
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