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  Great minds think alike
Posted by: robkelk - 10-01-2018, 07:42 PM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk S: Heart of Steel - Replies (2)

According to the Sailor Moon Wikia:

Quote:Did you know?
The first fourteen seconds of Sailor Venus's theme in the Sailor Moon video game for the Super Famicom sound exactly like the first fourteen seconds of Bananarama's version of the song "Venus", which was originally by Shocking Blue.

(It's one of the rotating facts on the main page.)

So, yeah - we aren't the only ones to have linked that song with that character... and this is about as canon as you can get for a Senshi being liked to an existing pop song.

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  Compulsion (minor): "You can be more"
Posted by: classicdrogn - 10-01-2018, 02:44 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaLHu8UIwGE

I'm not sure about the effect really, but the music is too good to have none. It's not that strong as mental influence powers go, using it during active combat might get you some hesitation at best and seriously provoke the target if their "moment of weakness" is taken advantage of... but if you use it on the right person, at the right time, and in combination with actually following through on the promise it offers, you might just turn an enemy into an ally. Notably, it's effective even on targets that Doug could not normally communicate with as long as they're within his range and capable of understanding the concept of a friend/ally/partner/packmate/etc..

Diplomancing? Doug? Clearly the universe has not yet revealed the true depths of its perversity Big Grin

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  Special: Immortals by Fall Out Boy
Posted by: classicdrogn - 10-01-2018, 01:26 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play - Replies (1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9PxOanFjxQ

Effect: The reverse of Steely Dan's Godwhacker that makes deathless beings killable for the duration, for as long as it plays Immortals removes the fatal weaknesses of beings that can normally only be killed by specific methods other than age. Within Doug's area of effect, werewolves won't be poisoned by silver, vampires won't burn up in the sun, jellyfish will regenerate physical damage, etc.. There is no effect if the being could die of old age so its utility is about as sharply limited as Godwhacker, but when you do want access to one of these effects you really want it, and being able to pull out these highly situational "no, fuck you" powers at just the right moment is something of a trademark for Doug, as with any proper wizard.

If Doug happened to visit the Highlander universe, it might also activate pre-Immortals, with the deciding factor probably being whether or not it worked for teh story.

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  Images (not WTF any more): Number nine, number nine, number nine
Posted by: robkelk - 10-01-2018, 05:46 AM - Forum: Archived Image and Video Threads - Replies (300)

Since the last thread has more than 300 posts, have a new thread.

[Image: stanislav_petrov_day.png]

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  The elephant will be unpacking his trunk
Posted by: robkelk - 09-30-2018, 01:01 PM - Forum: General Chatter - No Replies

After four decades of touring (and creating The Elephant Show between tours), Sharon and Bram are finally on their last tour. This tour includes the first major theatre that Sharon, Lois, and Bram played at.

They won't stop recording, though, so children still have some good music to look forward to.

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  In a sane world, this would have been enough to disqualify him on the spot
Posted by: robkelk - 09-29-2018, 09:11 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (38)

CBC News Analysis: Brett Kavanaugh exposed his political grudges — now faith in a neutral Supreme Court may be lost for decades

How can this person be expected to be impartial when judging the Constitutionality of laws? He's shown himself to have a bias against a particular political party - that can be held against him if he is asked to judge any bills that were written or moved by that particular party. (And it doesn't matter which political party that is.)

That should have been enough to remove him from consideration then and there.

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  A (not-so-)stealth insult, should it become necessary
Posted by: robkelk - 09-29-2018, 08:55 AM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk VIII: Harry Potter and the Man from Otherearth - Replies (9)

While doing research for another project, I stumbled across this British folktale character and noticed the similarity in names with a particular Harry Potter character.

I suspect that Hogwarts' headmaster would not appreciate being called by that character's name. Being compared to a villain would be bad enough, but being compared to a cardboard-cutout villain... oh, I say, sir.

"What, no - Bumblebore is a giant among men," Doug protested. Then he muttered, "A cannibalistic, evil giant. I need to find a Jack."

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Photo It's never not time for more transforming robots!
Posted by: classicdrogn - 09-28-2018, 02:29 PM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction - Replies (4)

I did a bit of 3d modeling again, after having a transformation mechanism occur to me while playing Disgaea 4. I'm particularly happy about the cute little wings, though there are obviously a few notdoneyets here - the head (which I have only a vague idea about,) hands (as always,) feet, and a couple of internal widgets. Care to guess how she transforms?

[Image: QTmWoOV.png]

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  Laser Archaeology
Posted by: DHBirr - 09-28-2018, 02:06 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (1)

At the beginning of April 2016, we had a thread here about "There may be ruins of a second Viking settlement in North America."  It mentioned that Professor Sarah Parcak had been referred to as a "space archaeologist" because she used satellite imagery to find the possible ruins.

An article yesterday describes laser imaging being used to map the Guatemalan jungle and discover new detail about Mayan ruins.  Though not involved in that project, Professor Parcak did offer a comment:

Quote:“Hey all: you realize that researchers just used lasers to find *60,000* new sites in Guatemala?!? This is HOLY [expletive] territory.”

Laser archaeologists!  ("And that is to have archaeologists with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!")

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  ftp.gweep.ca is MIA
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 09-27-2018, 10:46 AM - Forum: Other People's Fanfiction - Replies (2)

I just discovered this looking at one of the fanfic recs pages on ATT, where a bot has recently been checking all the outbound links and flagging broken ones.

For those who don't know, ftp.gweep.ca was the home of perhaps the single largest fanfiction archive on the Net outside of the Pit of Voles.  It had stuff dating back to the dawn of Net fanfic, in the early- to mid-1990s.  Does anyone know what happened to it, and when?

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