http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847 ... rs-edition. Fourteen pounds?  That's not a game, that's a small child! ^_^

(cue the Spike Jones song)

I was reading a first year fic just now, going over the usual roll of classes and reactions to them, and the thoguht struck me that someone charming Binns to drone about Second Impact instead of goblin rebellions is at least something I havn't seen anyone do yet. Of course, it does have several problems even before getting into methods for compelling a ghost, such as Evangelion's release date, and the fact that not even the muggleborn HP characters ever mention muggle media except when warnings of Serius being on the loose were conveyed by them as well as wizard outlets.

Still, the most important point stands - it's a Hogwarts prank that hasn't been done before, at least to my knowledge, and it's a sad fact that no matter how amusing modifying the cieling of the Great Hall or making everyone leave footprints in their house color was the first time, when repeated in several stories they just get stale.

Hmm, here's another - I don't think I've seen anyone make a little raincloud follow Snape around, brewing up lighting when he gets all upset and dramatic just to push it over the top.

- CD, wanders off to suggest these to the author of HP & The Lonely Princess
--
"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

Well, now we know which state Springfield's in... (aside from the state of denial about still being funny, that is).

The Register: Matt Groening reveals location of Simpsons' Springfield

Assuming, of course, that anyone still cares.
--
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

Mars Vegas
Located at the edge of the eastern edge of Candor Chasma, Mars Vegas grew from a pipe dream of a few Las Vegas Fen into a Fenspace Mirror of Las Vegas.
== History ==
All started out with a group of Las Vegan Fen, who previously worked in various casinos and hotels and managed to get some money with them to settle down near the edge of Candor Chasma in 2012, loudly proclaiming the foundation of Mars Vegas. Until 2014 Mars Vegas was little more then a couple of simple houses and a larger construction base where a hotel and casino complex was build, based on the Sands Hotel, the later Red Sands Hotel and Casino.
During the mid 2014, more activity came to Mars Vegas after a group of Trekkies awoke Vic Fontaine, who subsequently moved to Mars Vegas to rebuild his Vic's Mars Vegas Lounge, through in this case it extended into a casino and hotel complex.
With two larger complexes being build, there was a third player drawn into Mars Vegas, the Fenspace White-Hat Mob, who decided to build a copy of the Stardust Casino.
Three large hotel casino complexes resulted in more interest to Mars Vegas, and the expected tourist traffic made a local space port needed, as well as homes for anyone working in those complexes, allowing Mars Vegas to grow quickly and eventually get its own energy dome to allow normal operation within city limits.
With the space port finished, the three complexes opened within just two month, first being the Red Sands, followed by Vic's and finally the Stardust.
While Vic's hosted Vic Fontaine and the Stardust hosted a number of successful shows, the Red Sands at first did not have a native show, until the owner decided to go for a radical idea, by bringing the Rat Pack to the Red Sands. Originally they were only intended to be anthropomorphic rat (Rat Pack after all) marionettes based on Vulpine Fury's work and controlled by a central computer, but the waving them made them awaken as AI's.
As a direct result the Rat Pack became active part in Mars Vegas.
== Mars Vegas Turf War ==
The Mars Vegas Turf War is not really any sort of war as such, but rather a Tourist attraction. Most tourists however do not know that however.
It largely involves groups from one hotel complex 'raiding' another, by butting into a running show and disturbing it. It's not possible to predict who disturbes whom.
== Mars Vega Security ==
'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.'
Between the Mob, the Rat Pack and Vic Fontaine's crew Mars Vegas deals with any actual criminal problems by themselves. Between 2015 and 2018 there were five known attempts of Zwilniks to get a foothold in Mars Vegas, but within 24 hours they were delivered in an unmarked airtight 20 foot container to the Space Patrol Station in Port Lowell.
One Zwilnik group that dealt with catgirl slaves were catgirled with their memories intact. The Mars Vegas City Council (Frankie, Vic and Don Vincento) denied any involvement in that incident, through all three casinos had gained a number of well payed catgirl hostesses.
There is also one rumor of one Zwilnik group being found dead at the foot of the Mars Vegas cliff because they dealt with something worse then catgirls. No one knows if those rumors are true however.
There was also one incident with Zwilniks that involved Space Patrol Section Six.

 Is coming out next Tuesday for all you folk waiting anxiously for the power to beat people up with sticks. I found a post by Zwill on the forum like..5 minutes ago and figure ya folks would like to know
April 17th. Get ready to bust out all sorts of sticks, staffs, pole arms and other jazz!

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On April 30th, 2012, you will no longer have access to your free FortuneCity website. To continue with your site, we recommend ordering a Dotster hosting plan. If you order by April 30th, use coupon code FORTUNE80 at checkout to take 80% off a new hosting plan.

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If there is something you like lingering on a abandoned free Fortune city web page you had better visit it and save what you want before April 30.

It would probably also be a good idea to check up on the free sites that have not been abandoned and find out what the site owner's plans are.

hmelton

God Bless

First - look at the ORIGINAL 1974 opening credits in the first video. Then the NEW Yamato 2199 remake!
IMHO, the opening credits by Hideaki Anno are full of win! Every attempt
is made to keep it as close as possible to the original show's opening -
down to sound effects, camera shots, etc. Wave-Motion Gun is quite
arse-kicking. There is a shot of the ship and planes flying over
Jupiter's moon Europa - could they be replacing Titan with Europa? And,
of course, welcome back Isao Sasaki - we missed you!
(EAR SLAM WARNING - The sound quality on the original isn't quite the best it could be. It starts off a little low and then gets LOUD with a touch of feedback. Careful if you are wearing headphones!):

~1320 polys without hands and a couple more connector bits in the elbows and anlkes. Not shown: Super-Rocket Booster Pack



- CD, woke up with the head and nacelle designs from a dream, obsessed over the rest all day

Edit: fixed mysteriously vanished video link
--
"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

http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/s...p?tid=1681

Spoiler

Zero no Tsukaima

Holy crap... this would have been AWESOME.

Quote:The real winner of the 1992 downtown Las Vegas redevelopment competition
was NOT the FREMONT EXPERIENCE – it was the STARSHIP ENTERPRISE from
STAR TREK.  But no one knows this – until now.

Quote:My concept was to do something so large and so epic, it would fire
the imaginations of people around the world.  After looking at how
difficult it would be to bring people to the downtown core (from the
Strip), I knew we had to have something really exciting, dynamic, and
without equal.  We kicked around a few ideas, and then I came up with
something really unique.  I went to Chuck Canciller, my lead designer
then – and a genius as well – and said, “What if we built the STARSHIP
ENTERPRISE – FULL SCALE  – on the land at the end of the street. 
Imagine that…”  Chuck looked at me as if I had lost my mind, but by that
time he also knew I was serious about big ideas like this.  He
immediately started working on some ideas.

My gut hunch was that this was the single best solution to the city’s lists of goals as it exceeded their criteria:

• It would, in one fell swoop, make the downtown THE destination for Las Vegas visitors.
• It would provide international press at every step of the way, from
  first announcement, to ground breaking, to topping off the highest part
  of the ship, to opening day and through the opening month, and then
  continuously for special events throughout the year.
• It would transform the downtown area, creating new jobs, stimulating growth, and would fill the hotels and casinos.
• It would create a new “8th Wonder of the World” with an iconic
  monument that would take its place alongside other “must see” monuments
  in the world. (You would be able to see this from the airplanes as they
  came for landing at the Vegas airport. It’s that big.)
• It would truly be “The World’s Largest” destination attraction and
  one based on a classic mythology that would be around for generations.

Quote:We learned everything we could about the Starship – its actual size
and dimensions, how it would exist in “dry dock” on the planet if
indeed such a situation had been possible.  We imagined what it could
be, and how we might achieve it.  We got Ken Ball (former head of
engineering at Disney’s MAPO) involved to figure out how to engineer and
support it.  (Ultimately we realized we would need to add some supports
on the outer edge of the “disc” section due to the extremely high wind
conditions in Vegas.  For this we created a high tech “scaffolding
structure” that gave the ship more of the appearance of being in an
open-air dry dock.  I have not yet located that sketch, but I’ll try to
find it.)

The “big idea” was building the ship itself at full-scale.  That was
the main attraction. That being said, we also knew we would have to have
some kind of “show” on board.  So, conceptually, it was to be a “tour”
of the ship, with all of the key rooms, chambers, decks, and corridors
that we knew from the movie.  There was to be the dining area for the
ship’s crew (where you could dine in Star Fleet comfort), and other
special features.  There were also one or two interesting ride elements
that we were considering including a high-speed travelator that would
whisk you from deck to deck. But we were really just getting into the
show aspects when everything came to a head.