I didn't even know that Urd's seiyuu had written anything, let alone that it was an Oh My Goddess! novel, until the announcement that the novel's been licenced was brought to my attention...
Anybody know anything about the novel?

-Rob Kelk
--
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

Well, Removal time again, and Four have dropped out.
Eldritch Pyre
Big Momma S.
He Who Brings Peace
and
Obsidian Heart.
Schrodinger Black is 119 days inactive and Interactive Muon is 116.
E-Mails letting people know have been sent, but that opens up 4 more slots into the Super Group.
Edward D.When engaging, nothing beats a full frontal.
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In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

I finally had the ready cash a couple weeks ago to order the second half of my months-overdue birthday present -- an ASUS graphics card using the nVidia 6800 chipset. It arrived at the beginning of this week... and I finally installed it last night.
Wow. And when I turned back on all the graphics options I'd turned off to get decent framerate, double wow.
Dear gods, why didn't anyone tell me the images I was posting were utter crap?
-- Bob
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Visit beautiful Boston, proud successor to Seattle as
"City Most Scared Of Its Own Shadow

Reading these thread since I started posting, it's occured to me that I probably would enjoy playing the Cities games, there's been 3 main points against me buying them.
1) erratic income - I been working a long string of temp jobs, meaning varying payrates and periods of little or no income
2) too many hobbies, not enough time - nuff said. 8P
3) a near certainty I'd suffer from a bad case of Altitis - I've been a roleplayer for a couple decades now, including superhero-style games. I've got all kinds of old characters lurking in the back of my head. Plus the other day I had the silly idea of a hero called I. M. Canadian pop into my head.
Well, I've finally gotten a full time job, so reason number 1 is fading out of the picture. Now I'm remembering a line my dad has used occasionally, "Lead me not into temptation, for I can find it myself".__________________
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin.
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

... and I'm not talking about the Britney "The Umbrella-Wielding Meltdown" Spears song. I've let this area go for a while rather than deal with the posts in it. Sorry. I'm going to try to catch up now, though.
-- Bob
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Visit beautiful Boston, proud successor to Seattle as
"City Most Scared Of Its Own Shadow

I'm having some trouble parsing the phrase 'metafinal preread'. Help?

So just yesterday I logged into Mace (Red Side Virtue) to get the Valentine's Day Badges for him. Only, something didn't seem right.
Exhibit A

Not sure how it happened, but there he was on the hero side. And yes, I did try the doors to see if I could escape anywhere but into the club; I couldn't. Darn it.
It was just startling enough that I had to share.
-Cindy

(I typed this out about a month ago, and have been dithering about whether to post it ever since. Obviously, I've finally decided to do so...
Commentary and rebuttals are not just requested, they're encouraged - it's a fairly big part of the background assumption that I'm poking at
here.)

Way back, before I started contributing, a question was raised. Somebody offered an answer, possibly in jest. That answer was discussed for a short time, and a
conclusion was reached by the simple matter of discussion dying off - I don't recall seeing agreement reached, just discussion dying off. So, near as I can
tell, we've got an Elephant in the Parlor ...

Here's my position on the topic, to get discussion going again: As far as I'm concerned, the Fenspace characters calling themselves Haruhi and the
SOS-dan are biomodded Fen, not the anime or manga characters.

Here's why I take that position: If we were to allow the alternate possibility - that Haruhi and the SOS-dan actually
are Haruhi and the SOS-dan - then we'd be opening a can of worms that we've already agreed
to keep closed. I doubt anyone wants time travel to actually work in Fenspace, and esper abilities are part of the super-powers that we've already agreed
are simply not possible. But if the SOS-dan really are the SOS-dan, then they've got at least one time-traveler and at least one esper in their number...
Oops; there go the "no time travel" and "no super powers" restrictions in the setting. (Also, doesn't Haruhi-kami
want espers? If Handwavium came from her, then it should be able to create super-powers that match
esper abilities. But it can't, so...)

Less importantly, saying "the magic goop came from Haruhi-kami and acts the way it does because that's what she wants" assigns rules to the
Handwavium, which in my opinion goes against the spirit of the Guidelines. I'd have the same objection if you replace "Haruhi" with
"Belldandy", or "Washuu", or "Dark Schneider", or any other godlike fictional character. It's
Handwavium - the embodiment of handwaving away awkward details. It's the setting's
"unicorn in the garden" that doesn't need to be explained. This isn't Hard SF, folks; it's Space Opera - not everything needs an
explanation. (I'm reminded of the explanation for FTL travel and communications in "Doc" Smith's Skylark
series: "Einstein's theory is only a theory. That distance is an observed fact." That's classic handwaving - in that
universe, FTL travel Just Is. In the same vein, in my humble opinion, Handwavium Just Is. You don't explain
handwaving - if you do, then it isn't handwaving any more.) But this whole paragraph is just my artistic sense talking...

As for the SOS-dan themselves, we already have plenty of secondary characters based on anime or manga characters: Matel, Catty, and Sora are three who came to
mind immediately. (And the Auska-AI makes a fourth.) Who'd blink at another "anime
character come to life" or six?

Untimately, of course, it makes no difference to the stories that have already been told whether the SOS-dan are or aren't the "real" SOS-dan.
But it may make a difference to future stories...

(Especially since we're looking at making indirect contact with aliens in December 2012.)

-Rob Kelk
--
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

Link to official site
Finally, a Mayhem mish for heroes.
''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

Band: Tiger Lillies
Album: Bad Blood + Blasphemy
Song: Start a Fire [2:13]
Samples can be found here on iTunes.
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I like burning houses down, and factories as well.
I like burning anything, it's the truth I tell.
Libraries and museums, both of them have fell,
I like burning things, burning things is swell.
I would like to start it as a fashion trend,
Amongst the young people, then the world might end.
Wouldn't it be fun, to ring the funeral bell,
On our civilization, and watch it burn in Hell.
Start a fire, start a fire, start a fire today.
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it all away.
Fire! Fire!
In the summer I like to go to the country side,
Where I burn a forest down, I watch it burn with pride.
Isn't nature wonderful, it makes things so dry,
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn the country side.
Start a fire, start a fire, start a fire today
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it all away.
Fire! Fire!
It makes me feel so sad to see young people dance,
They could burn the discotheque down, they've got every chance.
Then they'd get themselves into the news,
Burning things, burning things can make you famous too.
Start a fire, start a fire, start a fire today
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it all away.
Fire! Fire!
Burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn it all away.
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Power: Pros - Gives Doug fire control (maybe not create, but control).
Cons - Gives Doug pyromania.*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
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