I think we had a thread or part of one along these lines once, but damned if I can find it.
The idea is... who would the fen slip Guacamole to on the grounds that they might want or need it? The thought I had was that someone would inevitably send Stephen Hawking a big ol' tub of the stuff, on the grounds that even coming out like Wave Convoy is better than myasthenia gravis.
Who else would get a surprise shipment, and who among them would take the chance? I'm thinking Hawking would, but I'm happy to entertain contrary positions.-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Hello all, I know I've been missing a while, but with my return I have to say I found a good reason to be sure to take a look in the used section at your FLCS.
I spotted a copy of the Stellvia manga, something I hadn't seen before. It's released by DrMaster, which doesn't seem to get good distribution around here. Heck, I thought they had gone under. Nifty covers too. Front is Shima with her jar of confeito open and floating in the air. The back cover has the whole gang in chibi form clustered around the open jar (naughty Arisa has climbed inside).
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.

Finances have teamed up with a lack of time at work and home for a deadly one-two knockout punch, and as a result I haven't been able to play CoX for... well, a couple/three months now.
I'm signing off, folks. I'll be back when I can, but for the meantime, keep up the good fight and all that jazz.
Feel free to kick Katy Kaboom and/or Emerald Blast out of The Legendary if you need room. Sorry I haven't been around... I'll let you know when/if I can return.
Thanks for all the good times!

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

Don't Let Go: Sung by The Jerry Garcia Band
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Hear that whistle, it's six o'clock
(Don't let go, don't let go)
Come on baby, it's time to rock
(Don't let go, don't let go)
I'm so happy to have you here
(Don't let go, don't let go)
Keeps me grinnin' from ear to ear
(Don't let go, don't let go)
Chorus:
Ooh wee
This feeling's killing me
Aww shucks
I wouldn't stop for a million bucks
I love you so
Just hold me tight and don't let go
(Don't let go, don't let go)
Hold me tight and don't let go
(Don't let go, don't let go)
Thunder, lightning, wind and rain
Love is humming inside my brain
There's one thing baby, that keeps me crying
You been keeping your lips from mine
[chorus]
Hound dog barking upside the hill
Love is dragging him through the mill
If it wasn't for having you
I'd be barking and a-hollering too
[chorus]
Someday baby, I'll get you yet
I'll be hollering, soaking wet
One thing baby, I'll never stand
Your lips kissing some other man
[chorus]
Hold me tight and don't let go
(Don't let go, don't let go)
Hold me tight and don't let go
(Don't let go, don't let go)
[Repeat, Fade...]
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

Well hello there. I decided to go ahead and register for these forums. I came about be a chance meeting through City of Villians, and now have a character in both the CoH and CoV Groups. So, once again, Hello there!
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

Click for truth and justice and horsepower
now THAT was something I can enjoy seeing in the morning.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

It's Banned Books Week, and you know what'll happen if you read a banned book.
What'll happen? Well...
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
- attributed to Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451)

-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

Disney musicals aside, I got to thinking last night. My thoughts started with fen making runs back to Earth for supplies, coming down over the ocean, and then flying in to wherever at a height of a few feet to avoid detection. From there, I started wondering if a sealed vehicle that could function in space might also function underwater....
So - are there any Fen that have tried colonizing the oceans yet, instead of space? Lord knows, there's plenty of science-fiction/fantasy shows that have had an undersea focus, starting back at least as far as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Man From Atlantis, The Abyss, Seaquest DSV - this is just off the top of my head; I'm sure there are even more out there, especially if we throw in anime and other sources as well.
Domed outposts on the ocean floor - perhaps with the help of the Senshi faction and their diamond tech? Homemade subs capable of seeing just what the Marianis Trench is REALLY like, firsthand? Hell - WETSUITS capable of seeing what the Trench is like, firsthand. I could definitely see the Verne fen uniting behind this sort of thing - not to mention lots of steampunk/retro-looking subs and old-fashioned brass-helmeted suits - though with their own air supplies. Possibilities of trade between the sea fen and the space fen could lead to all sorts of things...and of course, having a ship or sub capable of both underwater and space travel would be useful. Perhaps something for the Stingray to look into?
I don't THINK I've seen this idea mentioned before, but admittedly I'm half-asleep at the moment. I'm definitely interested in what people think of the idea, though. So - like it, hate it? Think it might be fun?

It is the most sophisticated weapon system in ZAFT's arsenal
Ahead of Juliette, Nare had disabled the torpedo tubes of another battleship and was now tearing great gouges along the side of it while Robbie flew cover, picking off Strike Daggers that looked like they were responding to the doubtless pittful pleas of the battleships captain for some cover. The two young women finished their work on the ship by digging beamsabers into the hull just aft of the battleships centrifugal deck and flying in opposite directions around the ship, carving fiery lines through the hull until the forward half of the Nelson-class simply snapped off and the rear half butted it aside as it continued forwards, guns still firing.
It can operate without detection
"Ladies," said the commandant, without rising. "Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you'd choose to leave this way." His lips thinned. "No, actually it does surprise me. I'd a strong expectation that you'd be walking out of the front gate as washouts. I also expect - strongly - that you'll find that your rather casual attitudes won't serve you or ZAFT well. However, perhaps you will surprise me again."
"We're good at surprising people," Robbie said brightly.
It can strike without warning
Her job done, Nare turned to join her wingmates in savaging the battleship, leaving the crippled Strike to Nicol. On the Archangel, fire erupted from the open linear catapults and the weapons tracked forwards, hoping to strike by chance one of the invisible mobile suits. The momentary switch of targets opened an avenue of approach and a shadow fell across the large bridge window. Inside, Nare could see the sudden panic as one of the crew dashed for the rear of the compartment, but it was already too late - one slash of the crimson beam saber opened the bridge up to space and she saw bodies exploding out of the broken hull as the Archangel's command deck vented. Many had been gruesomely savaged by her beam saber.
And all it takes to unleash it it's power
Melissa glanced in the direction that Kurz's GINN was pointing and blinked in disbelief. "Damn... looks like there's nobody at the helm."
The battlefield was briefly lit by fire as the Oppenheimer's beam cannon ripped through the reactor core of the other escort and set off a chain reaction that tore the Drake apart, but even that drama was overshadowed by the Drake that roared out of the main body of the Earth fleet, through the cloud of debris that the Oppenheimer had created and ploughed, prow first, into a startled battleship.
The Nelson-class ship, unsurprisingly, didn't handle the collison well as it was carved in two, taking its killer with it in a frenzy of mutual annihilation.
From anywhere in the Earth Sphere
The caverns of Ptolemaus were rocked by another explosion that shook even the ships cradled in the hangers.
"What was that?" Azreal demanded, clinging to his seat.
Natarle glanced at the schematic of the hangers being displayed on one of the overhead screens and a moment later another section went red as damage control reports were fed through from the control centre. "One of the missile stores," she advised. "Looks like one of the ones storing the nuclear weapons."
Is three simple words
"Good morning, Angels," Nicol said cheerfully.
"You!?" all three girls exclaimed.
Amalfi's Angels

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D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.
D for Drakensis

You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.

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Released April 6 of this year.
Haven't seen any note of it anywhere else, so I figured hey, someone should mention it. '.'
-Morgan."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
---(Not really)