I just discovered Fenspace, and I love it.  I see that the POD was pre-9-11--did 9-11 happen in the fenspace timeline?  Or is the paranoia in the United States attributed to handvavioum, with no World Trade Tower attacks?

Sometimes an idea just jumps you and you have to write it down. This one took less than an hour from "crazy idea" to "I will post it". Have fun !

Quote:Two entities were floating at the border of the solar system, looking at the scene in front of them through a system quarantine shield.

“So this is the result of your new uplifting project? I have to say I am really impressed, you have outdone yourself.”

“Hey, its not that bad... you have to look at the positive side of the thing.”

“Not bad? Let me see... you introduced a plank scale self replicating machine into their technology, one that created a high level physics distortion field.”

“They had a lot of fun with it. It was a good way to jumpstart their civilization.”

“Oh, yes I see, they had fun with it. You broke apart their society within a few years. Their states could not hold together while random groups colonized their solar system on their own.”

“Its a good way to make the big step forward, leave you planet and start exploring.”

“Not even three years later multiple wars had started among this mess of small independent groups.”

“I could not know they were that aggressive.”

“You should have. Oh, the resulting war killed approximately 5.7 billion sentient being. Or maybe I should say ‘all of them'.”

“Hey, who would have thought they would get to planet cracker level weapons that fast?”

“One of the planets was even killed in a test of a new gravity engine for a sport car!”

“Each of them liked to own the fastest vehicle around. Its not unusual, everyone does.”

“And that does made their star go nova?”

“Sorry, I'm not sure how they did this.”

“So... you killed all of them, or watched as they killed themselves. They managed to scatter the mass of five of their seven planets in their system, swallowed several moons and a partial stellar enveloping swarm of satellites with improvised black hole weapons and induced a nova in their own sun. That's it, the council have enough of your private projects!”

“But...”

“No but. You will hand over the plans for your replicator engines at once. After that, we will discuss what kind of security measurements we can implement into the system to make it useful after all. And while we are busy modifying it, I promise you we will include some basic AI templates. So that we are sure the next target group have at least some rational beings around.”

“That's damned hard... I have spent thousands of cycles on the new version of the substance. Just handing them over to the council feels wrong.”

“Be glad it happens this way. If you cooperate, maybe they decide to keep your name for the damned things. Where the hell did you got the idea for this stupid name anyways?”

“Hey, Handwavium just sounded cool!”

From Avatea
 Join us in game for a super weekend of Double-XP goodness starting July 28 at 9:00 a.m. PDT (12:00 p.m. EDT / 5:00 p.m. BST / 18:00 CEST) until July 31 at 11:59 p.m. PDT (2:59 a.m. EDT / 7:59 a.m. BST / 8:59 CEST)!

This is your chance to level up those heroes or villains you couldn't
find time for! Unless you're in serious need of Inf or Prestige for a
bit of super shopping in game, in which case you'll be happy to learn
that you'll also get double the Inf and double the Prestige over the
Double XP Weekend!

So start planning, start thinking up that dream build or get those
characters back into the game! The Double XP Weekend is going to be upon
us on July 28th!
(Be There or Be Square!)

Veggie Tales "Rock Monster"
Summons 40 foot tall Stone Giant/ gollem which does a "Cannon Ball" onto target. don't forget to check for splash damage.

listal: http://www.listal.com/list/twisted-princess]What if the Beauty was the Beast, or Twisted Princesses

These aren't kiddie movies...
--
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

So, I posted the following on LiveJournal with the title, "A rather perverse dalek thought."
(Note: The day six link below is amusing, but you should be aware that the closing line of the drabble it is following up is a bit squicky in its cold post-apocalyptic rationality)

Quote:What? No not perverse like that. Perverse as in it twists Dalek thinking into unnatural (for them) directions.
So, if you read [img]http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=3]jeriendhal's 30 Days of Drabble - Day Six it involves Daleks on a post apocalypse Earth. After reading it an unnatural thought occurred to me.
Posit that you have a Dalek of unusual thinking as part of the pursuit, one who runs through this chain of logic.
Daleks
are the universe's superior form of life. But that pesky Doctor keeps
interfering with things. This ruined planet is Earth. The Doctor likes
Earth and the Humans. The Doctor will stop interfering if it would
threaten human survival. (here comes the unnatural, for a Dalek, twist)
Thus if the Dalek's are protecting the humans The Doctor will be
neutralized.
"WE SHALL PROTECT THE HUMANS?"
"WE SHALL!"
"WHY SHALL WE PROTECT THE HUMANS?"
"WE
WILL PROVE DALEKS SUPERIOR. THE DOCTOR HAS FAILED. THE EARTH IS RUINED.
THE HUMANS ARE DYING. DALEKS SHALL SUCCEED WHERE THE DOCTOR HAS
FAILED."

Okay, fine, you insist this isn't truly perverse and the title was a lie? Fine, a scene resulting from the above.
"You want me to do what!"
"HUMANS MUST NOT GO EXTINCT."
"THE HUMAN FEMALE AND THE HUMAN MALE SHALL PROCREATE."
"PRO-CRE-ATE! PRO-CRE-ATE!"
"This is all somehow your fault Doctor."

Quote:And really, what is the Doctor to do.
"What are you doing! Stop
taking food to those refugees! What? Medicines? But you're evil! Stop
being good! How am I supposed to hate you if you are being so, so,
charitable!"
"RISE IN THE DOCTOR'S BLOOD PRESSURE DETECTED. MEDICAL DALEK RECOMMENDS MEDITATION."
"THE DOCTOR WILL CALM HIMSELF IMMEDIATELY! MEDITATE! MED-I-TATE!"

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?578 ... st14142959]Some ideas on the girls' magical equipment that (if I recall correctly) don't contradict anything in canon, but aren't supported by anything in canon either. (Shadowjack comments on the ideas in the next post in that thread.)

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?578 ... st14143785]Shadowjack theorizes on why Luna didn't remember there was no Sailor Moon in the Silver Millennium
--
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

No, not Christmas.

It's almost the third week in July, which means it's time for the combined Schroeck-Viel-Ott families' invasion of Long Beach Island.   Our annual week-long beach house vacation starts tomorrow.  And just like last year, we're bringing the laptop (and a few new electronic goodies), so I won't really be out of touch -- but I figured, hey, by this point it's a tradition to warn you all that we're going on vacation.

So... we're going on vacation.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Let's all groove to the Curbstomp Song,

Come on now and sing along:

Up in space their ships go boom

In a pyrotechnic doom

On the ground no hope is found,

as they die in burning mounds.

Lacking tech or fire and wheel

going up against cold steel.

“Strategy”? Well, they just rush;

There’s no fool that they can crush.

Their invasion’s a meltdown

Ground to dust by unarmed clowns

All that’s left: to wait and see

Whether they will fight or flee.

There’s no need for kryptonite,

Silver cross, a stake, or light

There’s some fights that just ain’t fair

but it’s fun to gawk and stare!

When a fight is just plain wrong

We all sing the Curbstomp Song

People dying left and right

It’s a slaughter, not a fight!

Start a brawl that can’t be won,

See the boots eclipse the sun.

Either swallow bitter truth

or eat curb and lose a tooth.

When a fight is just plain wrong

We all sing the Curbstomp Song

People dying left and right

It’s a slaughter, not a fight!

Start a brawl that can’t be won,

See the boots eclipse the sun.

Either swallow bitter truth

or eat curb and lose a tooth.

Ill equipped with laser guns

That explode when set to “stun”

Using armor made of rags

Nothing’s left for body bags

With a weakness so painful,

Quite annoying and shameful

Kids with H2O balloons

oh so gaily melt these goons

Their assault's a failure

putting guns on super tankers

Now just watch: and you will see.

battles that should never be

Here they come; they're charging us

why should we put up a fuss

It's a war that won't last long

and why I sing the Curbstomp Song!

When a fight is just plain wrong

We all sing the Curbstomp Song

People dying left and right

It’s a slaughter, not a fight!

Start a brawl that can’t be won,

See the boots eclipse the sun.

Either swallow bitter truth

or eat curb and lose a tooth.

When a fight is just plain wrong

We all sing the Curbstomp Song

People dying left and right

It’s a slaughter, not a fight!

Start a brawl that can’t be won,

See the boots eclipse the sun.

Either swallow bitter truth

or eat curb and lose a tooth.

So when a fight’s a slaughter,

not any quarter given,

just sing along to the Curbstomp Song

and ask yourself:

'why can't we all just get along?'

When a fight is just plain wrong

We all sing the Curbstomp Song

People dying left and right

It’s a slaughter, not a fight!

Start a brawl that can’t be won,

See the boots eclipse the sun.

Either swallow bitter truth

or eat curb and lose a tooth.
-- Ernest Hart/Samurai Penguin Studios, "The Curbstomp Song"
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Ever wanted to run your own space program? Well now you can! (Sort of.) Kerbal Space Program uses an editor not unlike the one used in Spore to create rockets with which to launch three hapless alien brothers into space. So far the rocket editing and launching portions are the only ones there, but the developer has plans to add extraterrestrial bodies and the option to land on/colonize them. But for now the rocket portion itself is a heck of a lot of fun. Don't forget to grab the additional parts, which include among other things the ability to construct a space shuttle! (Just unzip the files and drop the contents into KSP's "Parts" folder.)