I've been playing a lot of Motherload, an addictive little flash game. Basically, you're a Miner on Mars, with a sweet little mining pod that you can upgrade in half a dozen different ways.
So I bought the full version, and I have become filthy stinking rich.


Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

I just thought I'd toss out this little question.
At least twelve years ago, Mercedes Lackey wrote a song, "Eumenides," which she describes as inspired by "a moment of mixed self-pity and rage." (I love it, by the way, although I don't even want to think about what Doug's power would make of it.)
About fifteen years ago, David Weber wrote a book titled Path of the Fury (recently revised and republished under a different title which I can't at the moment recall).
The song and the book have an essentially identical plot -- but neither writer has, so far as I know, given the other any credit for inspiration. I suppose it's possible that each came up with the idea independently -- but....
Does anyone here know any facts/explanation about this that I've missed? I've wondered about this one ever since I read Path of the Fury and thought, "Hey! This is 'Eumenides'!"
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

Spotted in the Drunkard's Walk FAQ, under Miscellaneous:

Quote:

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Q: Does Drunkard's Walk crossover with any other fanfic series?
A: Yes, several, in fact.
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Doug visits Fenspace, the shared-world weird-tech space opera setting born and written on my discussion forums, in the prologue for Rob Kelk's story Galactic Girls. While this is a Stagger, or fan-written story, I consulted heavily on it and I consider it as official as it can get with me actually writing it myself.

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And it be by Doki Doki!
Plunder Propoganda

And the same scallawag be havin' another AMV up, to boot!
Another Crappy Video
(Edit: That one be not safe for work, but ye probably knew that already from the name.)

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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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

www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/
I think this looks pretty good. I hope the Ozzy stays in the final soundtrack, even if only in the credits.
I love these characters dearly... but I can't stand to read their current "continuity."
Also upcoming is a Captain America movie.. hopefully better than the direct to video crapfest from the 90s
''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

Seen on The Inquirer: Canadian coppers admit making up piracy figures

Not surprised, just...

-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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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

Since Rob brought it up in the Stellvia entry, here's round 2 of the Shuttle saga. Pretty much bare notes, suggestions welcome, forgive the wiki markup, etc.

Brain 'splodes

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"Reseeestunce ees fiutil. Yoo weeel bee Useemooletud. Borg Borg Borg."
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

I've been wondering about this one for a while. Doug has to understand the language a song is in to get a power from it, I know that was mentioned somewhere. And mixtures of languages he knows are probably okay, since otherwise he'd have trouble with japanese songs with random english in them...
But what about a song that was in two languages, one of which he knew and one he didn't?
I'm thinking about this in relation to the game "Ar tonelico", which has some songs that are mixed japanese and "hymno", a language the game's creators made up. (And finding singers for that must have been interesting, given that hymno seems to involve a lot of sounds that japanese doesn't have...)
I don't really have any ideas for an actual stagger or anything, but it'd be interesting if Doug got a power out of a song that has special effects of it's own in the original context. Of course, since I don't know what any of the lyrics mean no matter what the language is, it's hard to figure that out...
-Morgan. It doesn't help that I can't even find half the lyrics for "EXEC_PAJA/.#Misya extracting"..."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
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While prepping a fic chapter for RAAC, I've become a bit interested in Full Metal Panic (the fic in question is a FMP/Evangelion crossover). I Wiki'd it, but just got confused. Right Stuf lists 3 different "hybrid"(?) DVD collections + an Ani-Mini DVD (whatever that is), 2 different graphic novel collections, and a novel on top of that.
Someone help me make sense of this - is it any good? How many "series" are there? Any particular recommendations?

Jeanne Hedge
www.jhedge.com

"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia