This one probably gets filed in Doug's "Do Not Open Except In Case Of World-Endage" folder, but....

Quote: What's packed in my hold


Is dearer than gold


Revenge is my cargo this day


Ya' think you have won


But when my job's done


The fury will force you to pay




My people weren't strong


They'd done ya' no wrong


They just happened to be in your way


You take what you seek


Contempt for the weak


And your battlefleet came yesterday




Like the coward you are


You strike from afar


And death is the harvest you reap


For all we were brave


No warning you gave


My people ya' slaughtered like sheep




Alone in the dark


I lay near to my death


With hate in my heart


And with my final breath




To whatever gods


That would listen I prayed


That they witnessed your crimes


And they forced you to pay




On Tera, long dead


Old gods it is said


Created the furies to fly


Grim justice to seek


And revenge for the week


On those whom the law had passed by




Those gods heard my plea


And granted to me


The means of achieving my goal


Oh I think they are just


For to do what I must


The fury they placed in my soul




Transformed by her hate


Now I am your fate


The Gods chosen weapon of right


The fury inside


Will not be denied


And I seek my vengeance this night




I've stolen this ship packed


With weapons of war


So you will not profit, as you have before


Eluding you fleet


Past your sentries I slip


And the fury has guided me straight to your ship




She steadies my hand


Her tool to command


Accounting you will not deny


Your ship is in sight


Of my fury lead flight


And the fires of my vengeance burn high




What's packed in my hold


Is dearer than gold


As dear as my people who fell


When I ram in your side


At the end of my ride


This fury will send you to hell, to hell


This fury will take you to hell!

We've all heard about the 1:1 scale Gundam built for the franchise's 30th anniversary, right? Here's a photo gallery of the Gundam, with each photo taken at night.

This one looks like a DVD cover without the text...

--
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

Aptly named "Google Chrome OS"

I admit to being intrigued. So far out of the all the apps Google's put out, only their browser has failed to gain my unabashed and undivided approval, and
half of that's just inertia from Firefox slowing me down. Still, will wait and see.

Altogether, not bad for a couple of geeks that started out with a search engine.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

Never mind that it appears to be the only YouTube clip linked here today; just go watch it.

meet the SOS-dan

(Comment from the person who posted the link on Usenet: "BTW - Look carefully at some of the background details - the person who created this is very skillful and has a great sense of humor.")

(Edit by Bob, 1/17/2018:  The original video linked here was yanked for copyright reasons at some point.  However, I think this one might be the same, or at least similar.)

--
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

I just about laughed my way out of my chair on this one!� Oh my god this is funny. And WRONG!!

WARNING - although composed almost solely of clips from the Star Trek episode The Immunity Syndrome (giant space amoeba) and nothing else, it's the WAY
that the clips and sound were spliced together that made me decide to make a NSFW warning for this one! Click at your own risk!



You will never EVER be able to watch The Immunity Syndrome the same way ever again!

(07/06/09 04:22 AM)

I managed to acquire GURPS Bio-Tech recently, and I've been considering doing a summary of what in it is available in the
IST-verse, along the lines of the Ultra-Tech survey I did a while ago. However, in doing so I've realized something that might be an enormous can of worms.

Essentially, according to the IST world timeline, in the 80s, genetic researchers discovered the genes for human intelligence and at the same time discovered
the genes for metahuman power -- and realized that the two were (IIRC) "inextricably linked". (This would mark a good point for where IST world
bio-tech achieved TL 9, because as far as I'm aware, real-world genetic researchers haven't identified any specific parts of the genome that contribute
to intelligence. Of course, I am not a biologist.)

Okay, here's where things get interesting. If the genes for intelligence -- sapience, in current GURPS terminology --
are inextricably linked with those for metahuman potential, then any creatures that are genetically engineered with those genes will have the same potential to
develop and express metahuman powers. This includes all sapient bioroids and uplifted animals. Furthermore, given that the metagenes are more or less random in
how they express, it is likely to be impossible to specifically engineer any specific powers.

Thoughts?

Chris Davies.

Before the main thread gets filled up with comments, I figured I should launch this. I figure anything longer than "Cool, I like that", particularly
discussions/negotiations for plot directions, should be held here rather than interrupting the main thread.

Let me start with a general bitch-and-moan:

I definitely want in on this, but the device I thought to use last time -- Peggy is the transformee rather than me -- turned out to be surprisingly hard to
work with. So I'm trying to figure out which toon would work for me, and I'm not coming up with a good answer. Evangelia and Range Sabre aren't
getting much play since I got them to 50. My current playing priorities -- and thus the most likely candidates for the transformation -- are Looney Toons,
Kawaiiko-chan, and Negi-kun -- and I can't decide which one I'd rather explore.

Looney is a fair choice. And I already long ago started mapping out the territory for this transform long ago with my incomplete material for the Xanadu
project. But it would also be the expected thing. I'm not sure I want to do the expected thing.

Negi-kun would be fun, but the underage thing might make some plot aspects difficult to navigate.

K-chan is probably the most problematic. She shares the same underage thing with Negi-kun, plus she's a villain. Worse, a dominator -- if it's
anything less than fully my personality in charge, I probably wouldn't be able to beat her in a battle of wills in order to wrest control from her. In
that case, I'd essentially reduce my participation to writing about K-chan's adventures in Realworldland. But writing her would be fun. (And
I'm not sure how much fun writing about me forced to live with body of a 14-year-old blonde Japanese psychopath would be.)

I'm still musing over this.

Hm. Are we going to recapitulate the "meet in New Jersey" aspect of the original thread? That might have some bearing on who I finally choose.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Look what Machi is hiding under those miko robes

Too bad Ayane...
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