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Rants and Stuff / Re: Finger in car door
« on: December 21, 2004, 06:40:37 PM »
Um, I feel I ought to say something here in reply to what's been said, but. . . . No.
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"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: Finger in car door
« on: December 20, 2004, 11:18:05 PM »
Oh, I forgot that most of the timewasters are guys (ie, totally unsympathetic). Next time I need to complain, I should call one of my sisters.
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Rants and Stuff / Finger in car door
« on: December 20, 2004, 06:03:32 PM »
Iwant to rant! I shut my pinky finger in the car door and it hurts (the finger, not the door). Then I had to spend over an hour at the instacare. I'm grumpy. The world is not my burrito. Typing hurts.
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Everything Else / Re: GWotW #5 Week of 12/13/2004
« on: December 19, 2004, 06:09:56 PM »
Kipgreenon: the fancy word for "grass-stain"
Kipgreenon: When an person of Irish descent is showing pride in his or her ancestry
Kipgreenon: When an person of Irish descent is showing pride in his or her ancestry
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Everything Else / Re: GWotW #5 Week of 12/13/2004
« on: December 15, 2004, 07:09:13 PM »
Kipgreenon - a slang term for the new kid at work who is still full of ideals and things that goodness makes the badness go away.
Kipgreenon - what you call the kippers in your fridge that may or may not have gone bad but no one is sure either because a) no one knows what good kippers smell like, let alone bad kippers, b) there is no such thing as good kippers, or c) you are running an experiment along the lines of schroedinger's cat so no one is actually allowed to open the kippers to see if their good or bad since for this moment, they've ceased to exist.
Kipgreenon - what you call the kippers in your fridge that may or may not have gone bad but no one is sure either because a) no one knows what good kippers smell like, let alone bad kippers, b) there is no such thing as good kippers, or c) you are running an experiment along the lines of schroedinger's cat so no one is actually allowed to open the kippers to see if their good or bad since for this moment, they've ceased to exist.
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Books / Re: Bone (Stupid, stupid rat creatures)
« on: December 14, 2004, 11:22:01 PM »
The book I have seems to be the complete story. My sister found it at the library of all places. Oddly enough, I think the only other graphic novels my library has are those Star Wars ones done in anime style.
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Books / Bone (Stupid, stupid rat creatures)
« on: December 14, 2004, 08:32:47 PM »
My sister found this . . . graphic novel? comic book? I'm not sure what it qualifies as. Anyway, it's weird. Has anyone read it? I'm half-way through, and I'd be interested in hearing someone else's opinion on it. It's about these cutesy creatures from Boneville (Smiley Bone, Phoney Bone, and Fone Bone) who end up in a weird valley populated by talking animals, killer grandmas, rat creatures, and dragons. I'm finding it . . . odd.
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Movies and TV / Re: New on DVD
« on: December 07, 2004, 05:54:58 PM »
Only one phrase can describe my feelings about this:
OH MY HECK!!!!!!
OH MY HECK!!!!!!
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Rants and Stuff / Re: ???
« on: December 07, 2004, 05:41:36 PM »
But shouldn't we be glad he isn't wearing a bra? That would really freak me out.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: ???
« on: December 07, 2004, 03:01:29 PM »
I want to rant about cars. In particular, I want to rant about the car that decided to die yesterday which means today I had to walk in the snow. And it's cold! Actually, ranting about it doesn't make me feel much better. Sigh.
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Everything Else / Re: GWotW #4 Week of 12/6/04
« on: December 06, 2004, 08:45:56 PM »
Complugration: when your sink/disposal/toilet is plugged in such a way as to send a fountain of water into the air.
Also, compensation given to an idiot to make him go away.
Also, compensation given to an idiot to make him go away.
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Books / Re: EUOLogy #13
« on: December 05, 2004, 10:15:22 PM »
Okay, the girl in the story knows the guy she is supposed to kill. She is told he is a bad person, but she knows he is at least a kind person. In fact, he and his girlfriend are two of the only people who are nice to her. She also knows that by killing the guy she will be ruining the life of his girlfriend, who she thinks is a good person. She is told she must kill him to "prove" herself. I didn't buy when I was reading it that this was enough motivation for her character to do what she was doing.
I think our society accepts murder more easily because of our folk history. We have the whole genre of the wild west and taking justice into your own hands and kill or be killed. Even if those aren't necessarily the motivations in books or games (though they often are), I think we often shunt those actions off into those terms so that we don't have as much trouble dealing with it.
I think our society accepts murder more easily because of our folk history. We have the whole genre of the wild west and taking justice into your own hands and kill or be killed. Even if those aren't necessarily the motivations in books or games (though they often are), I think we often shunt those actions off into those terms so that we don't have as much trouble dealing with it.
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Books / Re: EUOLogy #13
« on: December 03, 2004, 08:36:44 PM »
Well, I don't know if it has hurt their sales yet.
Comparing justified killing with adultery seems a bit unfair. What about unjustified murder and adultery? I read a book recently where the main character is told that if she wants to prove herself to her brother she had to kill a character the reader knows to be good. She does it, and that killed the book for me because I no longer wanted to read about this person. Her actions were just as offensive if not more so than scenes of casual sex.
Whether people are more offended by sex or violence has a lot to do with culture. Cultures with extremely loose morality often have no trouble with nudity and sexual intercourse. Watch Monty Python, if you don't believe me. Our culture seems to have a much easier time with violence. We're exposed to it more so it isn't usually as offensive.
Comparing justified killing with adultery seems a bit unfair. What about unjustified murder and adultery? I read a book recently where the main character is told that if she wants to prove herself to her brother she had to kill a character the reader knows to be good. She does it, and that killed the book for me because I no longer wanted to read about this person. Her actions were just as offensive if not more so than scenes of casual sex.
Whether people are more offended by sex or violence has a lot to do with culture. Cultures with extremely loose morality often have no trouble with nudity and sexual intercourse. Watch Monty Python, if you don't believe me. Our culture seems to have a much easier time with violence. We're exposed to it more so it isn't usually as offensive.
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Everything Else / Re: Holiday names....
« on: December 02, 2004, 07:37:32 PM »
I'm a pagan goddess. I don't have to rename for Christmas.
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Everything Else / Re: GWotW #3 Week of 11/29/2004
« on: December 01, 2004, 09:29:12 PM »
woursickle: to sing loudly and offkey while on some mind or mood altering substance. Mmm, sugar.