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

Set to the full version of Kotoko's song Being
For those who remember season 1
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Set your Tivos and VCRs: Next week's (8/29/07) Mythbusters is entirely about recreating superhero gadgets.
You know I'll be there.

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

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

It had never really been her intent to try this, Dee reflected. As much as it might make the history books if she pulled it off, attempting to be the first person (though that was fuzzy, given her status as an AI who created a body) to successfully survive an unshielded, unsuited atmospheric reentry wasn't on her list of things to try.
The problem was, the area she was falling in was kinda... too busy for extraction. There was rather a lot of debris; she suspected that the ship her boarding barge had been approaching was nearly filled with potential shrapnel. So when it blew up... well, it'd be impolite at best to ask someone to navigate through that. It was irritating, it suggested that there was a leak somewhere, but nothing much to do from there.
At least there were some advantages to being an AI crammed into a robot body. She'd already finished backing up her software to a remote server she kept in the event stuff like this happened, so it's not like she was really afraid of dying. Okay, this thread of her existence might stop and it would be inconvenient; the body had taken a lot of work to produce and there wasn't another one ready. But really, just a setback.
There was a faint tingling as the first brushes against the atmosphere ran across her limbs at ridiculously high velocities. She adjusted her posture to try to create more drag before hitting the thick soup of lower atmosphere. Actually, in theory, it might just be possible. The full human size body had been made almost entirely out of nickel-based alloys, fortified with tinkered versions of the handwavium strains used in Battle Steel. So it was basically Battle Inconel, albeit an alloy of inconel tinkered with even before being 'waved. And normal inconel had incredibly high heat resistance, so would it cope with reentry? She guessed she'd find out.
In a way it was vaguely anticlimactic. The outer shell of her body was glowing white hot by the time she reached sea level, and some of the handwavium circulating inside had boiled off, carrying a lot of heat with it, but there was no serious damage. It brought up a whole new problem though, that proved even more intellectually stimulating.
"Now, how can I most easily get off the bottom of the damned ocean," the signifigantly-denser-than-water android muttered to herself as she sank.

Those who watched Shakugan no Shana would remember this...
Being by Kotoko- Shakugan no Shana 2nd OP (full version)
takanaru kodou fureau ima erande
susume toki no hate he
Choose the throbbing beat that envelops this world
Advance towards the end of time.
potsuri kokuu no yoru ni tsubuyaita
"mata, ashita ne" tte kotoba
moe meguri terasu taiyou no you na
tsuyosa to eien ni kogareta
Under this night sky, I quitely mutter
The words See you tomorrow.
I yearn for strength and permanence
Like the burning touch of the sun.
tatta hitotsu nokoseru nara
sonzai wo idaita kono shunkan no egao
tada hitotsu mamoru beki wa kimi no mirai
But if its one thing that will remain
Its this fleeting smile which proves our existence.
If theres one thing Id protect, Id be your future.
setsuna yurete kishimu kono yo wo erande
zutto unmei no chi wo kakeru
mebae hajimeta honoo mune ni hime
ima wo asu wo kimi he
Without a doubt, Id choose this unstable world.
Flying forever in the land of fate.
Hiding the flame that lights my heart.
Sharing this and the next world with you.
hosometa me no saki ni ukan da
hate shinaku hirogaru sora
tsubasa mitsuketa kimi no senaka ga
tooza katteku maboroshi wo mita
From before, squinting eyes come to mind,
The endless expanse of the sky.
Discover the wings upon your back,
Like seeing a distant vision.
sokkenaku yosoou tabi
nibui oto de tsubusareteku nani ka
so re zore ni tomo shita iro
kousasasete
Wearing simple socks
With a loud crash, something breaks
Every lights color is
Entwined.
kakegae no nai kimi to ima erande
zutto yoru ni niji wo kakeru
tashikame atta tsuyosa toki ni kae
sora wo umi wo koeru
I choose the irreplaceable you and this world.
Wearing a rainbow every night.
My powers rise each time.
Crossing the sky and ocean
takanaru kodou fureau ima erande
kitto unmei no ri ni ikiru
itsuka kie iku honoo negai ni kae
yume wo asu wo kimi he
sora wo umi wo koete
Choose the throbbing beat that envelops this world
Surely, its fate reason I exist.
Someday my flame will vanish, but I wish for change.
Dreams of the next world with you.

My first thought that it would be a dandy empowerment song (flame powers).
But what happens if you play this someone who already has flame powers.?.say Rei Hino, It does describe her relationship with Usagi very well. A power-up?
Link to the video if you've never heard it.
I have to admit, the song got me hooked, especially the opening stanza.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Related vaugely to the "motivational poster" meme, it's the Atari 2600 Cartridge Label Maker website!
I haven't had time to play with it myself, but some folks over on Usenet have.
Derek Janssen offers these two fast-paced games:



While Joe Klemm suggests what looks like a date-sim:


-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

I was browsing thru the anime section at Fries electronics. This tag caught my eye:
Horror-Haruhi Suzumiya-$24.99
Eh?
It was the first DVD of the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi.
Truth in packaging?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

"You Gotta Move" by Aerosmith
You gotta move
You gotta move
You gotta move
You gotta move
Oh... when my God gets ready
You gotta move
You gotta move
You may be high
You may be low
You may be rich... yeah
You may be poor
But when the Lord get ready
You gotta move
You gotta move
You may be old
You may be young
You may be weak
Maybe high-strung
But when the good Lord get ready
You gotta move
You gotta move
You see dat woman
Who walks the street
You see dat cop man
Who walks his beat
But when the Lord gets ready
They gotta move
They gotta move
Yeah I was hangin' with the Devil when we made a pact
I'm drinkin' welfare whiskey smokin' food stamp crack
It was one part sour... two parts sweet
Three parts strong... and four parts weak
I would rather sit on a pumpkin
And have it all to myself
Then to be crowded on a velvet cushion
You may be blind
You can not see
You may be deaf
It's all meant to be
Now when the Lord get ready
You gotta move
You gotta move
You gotta move
You gotta move
You gotta move
You got to know
When the good get ready
You gotta move
Huh huh... you gotta
You gotta move...
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I think this would be a good gate song, but I can also see it as a "Remove Paralysis" trigger. Any kind of paralysis - magical, chemical, or even psychological - will be negated and replaced with the energy and will to get up and move. Thirty seconds of this song might be a good magegift substitute for caffeine (although "Good Morning" from "Singin' in the Rain" might be more effective).Ebony the Black Dragon
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

I had my first Fenspace dream last night. Or rather, this morning, as I woke up from it before it could get too far, and the nightstand clock said 4:20 AM. Sadly, there was nothing really new or innovative that I could use in the dream, just a typical handwaved car/spacecraft.
Still weird and unexpected, though.

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.