Right off the bat, you can probably assume at least one level dip in Bard for the musicality, but what classes otherwise? The whole speak with animals/animal companion thing most of them seem to have going strongly suggests Druid or Ranger to me (possibly full-Ranger otherwise for Merida,) and Mulan obviously gets a lot of some kind of martial levels, but how about it?

List of official Disney Princesses:
Classic: Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, and Mulan
Recent: Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Anna, Elsa, and Moana
Neo/prospective: Anastasia, Gamora, and Shuri

Stage two: How do the stories change if the female characters are mid-to-high level badasses rather than Damsels in Distress? (Not so different for Mulan, Merida and Gamora, at least...)

It sounds like it's a blessing, unless you actually pay attention to the lyrics...



Cows Around, by Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans, written by Corb Lund, copyright 2012.

This is a live version from the Red Ants Pants Music Festival's first "Live from the Back Pasture" sessions. The studio version is on the album Cabin Fever (which made it to #1 on the Canadian album charts and #51 on the Billboard country chart), released by New West Records. Lyrics of the studio version.

At least to the Lesser Antilles.

My current hosting with NetCarrier is paid up until the end of the year, so I have six months to find and settle on a new host.  At the moment, I'm looking at GoDaddy's packages, because they're already my registrar for both this domain and the moribund warriors-alpha.net (which I haven't touched in like 15 years and really looks awful on modern monitors; I mainly use it to host my prereaders' mailing list).  Anyway, even GoDaddy's cheapest package is miles ahead of what NetCarrier is giving me, in terms of features, and I can add SSL to it.  The resulting cost will be a bit under twice what I pay NetCarrier, but I think that's acceptable.

So the question I have now is... Does anyone here on the forums have any experience with GoDaddy hosting, for good or bad?

Thanks.

Richard Spencer has learned what it feels like to be on the wrong side of a strong border.  Not that it'll make any difference to how he conducts himself, but still, the Schadenfreude....  

Quote:The announcement also follows the U.K.’s decision to bar a number of other white supremacists and far-right conspiracy theorists earlier this year....  All of them have advocated for stronger borders; all of them complained when British authorities took their advice.

... to spend $3000+ on a laptop.

Review of the Dell Precision 7530 and Precision 7730

An entry-level 7530 lists for $1200; upgrading to a 7730 and adding in all the bells and whistles bumps the price up above $3000.

I know the specs of Dell's current line of 1U rack-mounted servers, and a 7730 laptop with all the bells and whistles comes pretty darn close to them: six-core Xeon E-2176M CPU @ 2.70GHz, either 3-SSD RAID 5 array and 2TB HDD or 4-SSD RAID 5 array, 64 GB RAM (128GB if Dell starts shipping 32GB DIMMs). And with a NVIDIA GPU, this is a good gaming or 3D-rendering box, too. EDIT: Oh, and MIL-STD-810G ruggedization comes standard.

Does anyone know of any reason not to get one, other than the price?

(As folks are sure to recall, we've been doing this for more than 11 years, but a quick search of the forum shows I've only been using this thread title since 2008...)

We are starting our annual week at the beach on Long Beach Island on Saturday.  As has been usual the last few years, we have more than enough consumer electronics handy that I will not disappear from the boards as I used to in the early 2000s.

The place we've stayed at the last couple years turned out to be way too small if everyone wanted to be in it at once, so in January Peg and I did some legwork down in LBI and found a much larger place for about the same rent, just fifty feet from the beach and just two blocks away from one of the family's favorite restaurants on the island.  Everyone's looking forward to it.

I'm not sure what Bob's policy on linking to them is (or for that matter exactly where to talk about them, since they're not fanfiction...) but having chanced across an aggregator site for them while browsing, I became curious about the title of one of the "just in" new ones - "Her Appetite's Too Big for Me Alone." No, it's not lewd, despite what one might think, it's referring to literal hunger.

The first chapter is 50 pages and just hit the internet, but searching for the title will easily find it for you. I don't want to spoil the twist on what is at first glance a very typical "high school boy meets girl, they talk awkwardly, her stomach growls so he gives her the snack he'd packed" meet-cute, but it's an interesting one, at least for this first look. It's got some nice art in both the color and B&W pages, and while it's not advanced enough that I'd give it more than the most tentative of recommendations it at least doesn't raise any red flags.

OOC: Rob's sidestory #5, set after "Thermal, er, Culture Shock"
OOC: WARNING: This story has spoilers for the collaborative Halloween story that is still being written... although anyone who's been reading the OOC threads already knows them.

Okay, so I've been hearing all kinds of things about how the American West Coast was utterly devastated by a super tsunami that swept out from where the SDF-1 Macross space folded out along with South Ataria Island and a decent chunk of the Pacific Ocean.

And yet, later on, we see that Minmei's home town of Yokohama is just fine.

Wut.

No really, what the hell?

Because here, this map shows where South Ataria Island (actually South Iwo Jima in real life) is actually located.

   

So, how the hell is the West Cost screwed over six ways to Sunday, but Yokohama is just fine?  Was this yet another one of Harmony Gold's bending of the facts or did someone legit not do their homework?

Or, more importantly, can such an event even spawn such a huge tsunami?  Because, IIRC, tsunamis are caused by shifts in the tectonic plates that adjust the relative depths of the sea floor on either side of the faultline.  And I would think that would be shifting a helluva lot more volume of sea water than what got taken with the SDF-1.

So.... help?