OOTS #1201 - The Discussion Thread

[Peelee]

Business Administration: say a bunch of words that don't actually mean anything in any language, wave hands at people, and suddenly things change around you without you doing any work. Sounds like magic to me.

Grey Wolf

I'd agree if the changes were actually because of the business administrators, when really all their work is simply making people think the changes are because of them.

No, no. The "Arts" stand for the arcane arts. Everyone knows this, Peelee.

Inasmuch as medicine and cooking are called art, despite being biology and chemistry.

I wonder if anyone else has managed to get Business postgrads, medical practitioners, and chefs all united against one person like I just did.

[Cazero]

I'd agree if the changes were actually because of the business administrators, when really all their work is simply making people think the changes are because of them.

That's still magic. The Suggestion spell is infamous for that kind of abuse.

[Ruck]

Oh just wait and see what happens if you make a Star Wars joke.

Wouldn't Wathogs only give out STEM degrees? Science, Technology, Engineering, and Magic?

Summoning, Transmutation, Evocation, and Magic. It's not my fault there's no school in D&D that starts with an M.

[Quizatzhaderac]

Star Trek's sense of warp has always been warped; you're not likely to get ablative pitchfork defenses from having a beef with a sacred cow.

I like to imagine the different warp factors are like quarter-sail, half-sail, and full-sail for a sailing ship. A meaningful distinctions if you're operating the ship, but it by itself doesn't tell you how fast you're going without knowing the circumstances.

Summoning, Transmutation, Evocation, and Magic.

These are your options for magic subjects anagram.

[bunsen_h]

Wouldn't Wathogs only give out STEM degrees? Science, Technology, Engineering, and Magic?

If you want that kind of STEM, go to Tinkertown.

[Peelee]

If you want that kind of STEM, go to Tinkertown.

Redcloak had a rich education in at least General chemistry, and the hobgobkins definitely had engineering skills not only to have fortified walls around their city, but also

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. And let's not forget the technology that went into airships, which Cliffport is a haven for.

[factotum]

I like to imagine the different warp factors are like quarter-sail, half-sail, and full-sail for a sailing ship. A meaningful distinctions if you're operating the ship, but it by itself doesn't tell you how fast you're going without knowing the circumstances.

However, you would still expect a higher warp factor to mean faster. I think the real problem is that the Star Trek writers kind of wrote themselves into a corner when they said that the other end of the wormhole in Deep Space 9 would take 70 years to reach using conventional warp drive, because that set a hard limit on how fast the ships could be (somewhere around 1000c, given the wormhole exit is explicitly still within the Milky Way galaxy). Then the writers of Enterprise had to ensure the ship there was significantly slower than that, because it's 200 years older, but it still had to be able to reach the Klingon homeworld in a reasonable time limit--which is just impossible, so they made up the numbers and hoped nobody would notice.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Which was foolish of them, because they have met so many of us at the cons.

[Mox]

No, no. The "Arts" stand for the arcane arts. Everyone knows this, Peelee.

Isn't arcane another word for math ?

[Rockphed]

Isn't arcane another word for math ?

At the very least the classical liberal arts included geometry and astronomy.

[thorr-kan]

And the thread title is corrected.

Also: new comic.

[jwhouk]

"Yay for correct Discussion Thread titles!"

[bunsen_h]

At the very least the classical liberal arts included geometry and astronomy.

Reeling, writhing, and fainting in coils.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

Wouldn't Wathogs only give out STEM degrees? Science, Technology, Engineering, and Magic?

Not that it gets us any closer to figuring out what sort of institution Warthog's is, but one can get a BA in a STEM field.