I'd like to re-read the "Puck Files" (I'm pretty sure that's what it was called). Written by (Darren Steffler, I think) the author of that over-powered self-insertion cross-over fan fic "Twisted Path."
It was a about a highschool student who woke up one morning to discover he was one of a fraction of a percentage of the population who had suddenly developed super powers.

I don't really remember any details, except that in a typical 5-6yr/o-kill-the-demon-brat fanon mob attack, Naruto got his eyes put out, and the Kyuubi grew him a new pair roughly equivalent to Byakugan trading 360-vision for being always on without noticable chakra consumption. Naruto wears dark goggles, an bandanna, or his hitae-ate (after graduating) over them so as not to freak people out even more... I think it was pretty good, but I don't really remember. Probably from a year or two ago.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

He shoots 6 and kills one at a jewish womens organization.
www.optusnet.com.au/news/...700440.inp
Yet another example of radical muslims being angry and attacking non-combatants.
howard melton

I'm going to be offline soon for an indefinate period - I know I've said it before but really really - and I really need if not a scene at least a guideline as to how Neshan would go about his discussion with Kakashi for TXY. This would be after the bit with Tenten but before the actual fights with Sakura - and unbeknownst to either of them, Sandaiame-sama was on one of his periodic walkabouts and happens to overhear. (How? He's the *Hokage*, if he can't put one over on his subordinates something's
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

I wasn't going to mention this, until robkelk suggested Van Halen's Jump as a song which should be thoroughly off limits, since it'd induce suicide in everyone around. This one belongs in the same category, except that it's targeted to one person. Ruthlessness or no, I think triggering suicide is a bit too mean-spirited for Doug.
Musical: Oklahoma
Song: Pore Jud Is Daid

Curly: Pore Jud is daid,
Pore Jud Fry is daid,
All gather 'round his cawfin now and cry
He had a heart of gold
And he wasn't very old
Oh why did such a feller have to die?
Pore Jud is daid
Pore Jud Fry is daid,
He's lookin' oh so peaceful and serene
Jud: And serene!
Curly: He's all laid out to rest
With his hands acrost his chest
His fingernails have never been so clean!
(Spoken) Then the preacher'd get up and he'd say:
(Chanting) Folks, we are gathered here to moan and groan over our brother Jud Fry,
who hung hisself up by a rope in his smokehouse
(Spoken) Then there'd be weepin' and wailin'... from some of those women. Then he'd say:
(Chanting) Jud was the most misunderstood man in this here territory.
People used to think he was a mean ugly feller and they called
him a dirty skunk and an ornery pig stealer
(Sung) But the folks that really knowed him.
(Chant) Knowed that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore
(Sung) There beat a heart as big as all outdoors
Jud: As big as all outdoors.
Curly: Jud Fry loved his feller man
Jud: He loved his feller man
Curly (Spoken): He loved the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.
He loved the mice and the vermin in the barns, and he treated
the rats like equals, which was right. And he loved little children.
He loved everybody and everything in the whole world!
Only he never let on, so nobody ever knowed it.
(Sung) Pore Jud is Daid
Pore Jud Fry is daid
His friends'll weep and wail for miles around
Jud: Miles Around!
Curly: The daisies in the dell
will give out a different smell
Because Pore Jud is underneath the ground.
Jud: Pore Jud is daid
A Candle lights his haid
He's layin' in a cawfin made of wood
Curly: Wood...
Jud: And folks are feelin' sad
Cause they useter treat him bad
But now they know their friend is gone for good
Curly: Good..
Both: Pore Jud is Daid; a candle lights his haid!
Curly: He's lookin' oh so purty and so nice
He looks like he's asleep,
It's a shame that he won't keep
But it's summer and we're running out of ice.
Both: Pore Jud, Pore Jud.
My favorite line in this has always been, "and he treated the rats like equals, which was right."
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

Van Halen's Jump (lyrics)
Everyone in the area of effect feels a compulsion to suicide, preferably by jumping off a building.
I'd say this is one of the "Off-Limits Songs"...

-Rob Kelk
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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

this may or may not have been asked before, but a quick search of the forum didn't reveal anything.
does anyone know of a handy tool that will download all chapters of a story on fanfic.net? pulling them one chapter at a time is somewhat tiresome for 40+ chapter epics...

thanks,-Z, Post-reader at Medium
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
-Z, Post-reader at Medium
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Bob, you'd mentioned in another thread that you liked "One Night in Bangkok" but couldn't think of a power for it. I moved threads because that one had moved on and I wouldn't want to backtrample.
Why not just pull out all the stops? Make it a major area change a la Pinball Wizard. Doug takes the role of the American - goes totally rational, unaffected by mind-altering powers, and able to control one team's worth of enormous chess piece simulacra. They have a great deal of power, but limited speed, and he can only move one at a time - and then only in specific, limited, chesslike ways. Mostly, they're useful for blocking things (figure the pawns as slightly over one story tallk, and rather broad, and working up from there.) and crushing things that can't move quickly enough to get out of the way.
On the other side, everyone else in the area gets Opened, for want of a better word, and channels any spirits/godlings/whatever of sex/arousal/attraction/etc that may be in the area. They still have control over their own actions, and their long-term goalsets don't really change, but there is a distinct personality overlay, and their imediate desires will certainly feel some impact. They also get a set of superpower appropriate to the godling in question, and can mentally communicate with them if they wish. At the end of the song, the chess peices derez, and the spirits go home - unless, of course, both the spirit and the person find that they like the experience, in which case there is nothing stopping them from continuing it.
The power and effectiveness with which doug can wield the chess peices are directly proportionate to the number of people who are hit with the side effect.
It's got a number of potential uses. The Chess pieces are really quite powerful, to the point that, given a reasonable number of channelers, they could crush tanks into ineffectiveness. They are also nigh invulnerable and having large pieces of very hard cover that go where you tell them to is often a nice thing. If you have a pack of firendly norms under threat in your immediate vicinity, giving them each a lease-with-option-to-buy pack of low-level superpowers could be quite useful from a tactical standpoint, especially with the attributes of divine endurance, prowess, and (for the males) strength being fairly prevalent.
On the downside, well... that should be pretty obvious... particularly given the sorts of people and spirits/godlings who are most likely to both buy into the idea and convince each other to buy into the idea.
"Odious personal habit: Occasionally creates supervillains."

Several times in the past few days I've seen the construct "SUBJECT wasn't ADJECTIVE1, let alone ADJECTIVE2," and while that's a handy phrasing there's something about it that keeps bugging me, to whit:
The way I've always used it is with the more extreme adjective or verb last: "The joke wasn't funny, let alone hilarious."
The way I've seen it used is the other way around: "The joke wasn't hilarious, let alone funny."
Now, as far as I can see, this makes no sense, but that could just be a matter of habitual interpretation... what do you mob say?
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

This is a partial copy of a email message I sent to a friend who had told me of recent intrusive and silly farming regulation.
I don't try to collect examples of a disturbing trend
notice that all the examples came from my occupation or my hobby. (farming and Electrica Engineering.)
If this is what I see in just two small segments of our economy and society what other orwellian trends am I missing in the rest of society?
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Below was taken from a letter to a friend.
I've seen this before there has been a blitz of government sponsored articles in farm magazines "claiming" how important it is for every food animal to be registered. (again they claim it will protect us from
Mad cow.) Oddly the law will also apply to fish, chickens and crops that could never have mad cow.
When pressed on these points they drag out vague words about terrorist.
We get "MANDATORY" surveys each year that claim we must tell EXACTLY how many acres of each crop we have planted and exactly how much yield they had.
These surveys are focused and geared toward helping the major corperations and somehow this information is in the hands of major corporations like DOW and MASANTO get the results months before they are "publicly" posted for the public to use.
Isn't it "odd" how well informed the tame speculators for these corporations are and how easy it is to undercut the uninformed farmers trying to make decisions about selling their crops on an "open" and "fair" market.
They(who ever they is?) are taking our privacy and freedom one state at a time with each state working in a different areas.
In Arkansas they require that you register every source of agricultural water and claim it's to find point source contaminates or pollutants of underground water, but that excuse or so called reason only works for wells. Yet wordings of the rule (I hesitate to call a rule put in place by government employees and never voted on by the public a law.) allows them to interpret the meaning as requiring you to registers your ponds and any diversions of local surface steams as well. (regularly getting water with 5 gallon buckets from the local stream is considered a diversion.)
I think it's Michigan that is trying to pass a requirement that all license plates contain a GPS receiver and a way for the highway department interrogate it and collect the information it has
captured.
The highway department is claiming they need it because cars have become so fuel efficient that most cars don't burn enough gas to pay for the state hiway's upkeep.
Why don't they raise the gas tax?
Missouri tracks every cell phone in the state claiming it's used to determine road traffic loads, but the software isn't limited to only recording the cell phones that are actually on state highways and each cell phone number is linked with it's position.
Walmart, the government and two or three other major corporations have under written the development of RFIDs or Radio Frequency Identification devices that can never be shut down and have megabytes of internal memory and yet have the nerve to claim it's just to stop shoplifting.
I might add they want these transmitters/recording devices embedded in all products they sell especially your clothing and deeply buried in the heels of all shoes.
I have seen corporate specifications for a GPS chip that can be installed in all electronic devices. They claim it is to meet patent and copyright laws by selectively turning off your consumer electronics in geographic locations where they are not allowed to operate.
YES!!!! soon they can turn off your camera or any other electronics at sports events, rock concerts, movies, around the rich, around political figures
or political and military situations they don't want the public to see.
Another part of the chips specifications is a RAM memory and a communication proticols related to RFIDS that allows the downloading of all locations the device has visited.
Soon the police will be able to ask your equipment where you have been without your knowledge or permission.

Walmart and all other large chain stores have long had the capability of collecting and associating a video with all checkout business transactions.
There are persistent rumours that they now routinely collect and sell "strange" transactions to the government. I believe the current definition of "strange" is any sale that is made with cash.
All modern Printers, photocopiers, fax machines and soon all digital cameras embed a binary pattern in each image they make that contains the devices unique registration number that can be traced back to
your purchase of the product. They claim this is to prevent counterfeit money... So why do they see the need to embed the binary pattern identifier in every digital camera even the low grade pocket
cameras?
Remember from now own every dictator or repressive government canl now know who printed those flyers or has taken those pictures.
And it's all thanks to laws and policies set in the United States.
howard melton
God bless