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2022-11-26, 09:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
Don't split the party, Roy!!!
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2022-11-26, 10:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
I don't think Serini's stalling. I think she's just not worried about Team Evil. The last she knew they were pointlessly grinding her dungeons to nowhere, and completely lacking the skills needed to discover her backstage area.
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2022-11-26, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
this is impossible (he can't disable the trap) and so dangerous that doesn't make sense.
It might or might not be an hook to get abducted and/or to arrive last minutes and save the day. But this situation is quite stalled in cooking, napping and cracking jokes. Possible new focus might be...
- to the Team Evil & Quinton that realizes the presence of the trap-portal now?
- to the IFCC and their schemes?
- or is time for Julia to call back?
- .... or .... Tarquin punching a bunny
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2022-11-26, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-11-26, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
Apparently the OED puts that sense of "snark" going back to 1882, and derived from earlier words. Lewis Carroll (C.L. Dodgson) used it in 1876 in "The Hunting of the Snark", for a dangerous creature.
Huh. I stand corrected.
"Magic Instant Pot".
That's true, but my wife and I have suffered through a number of alarmingly incompetent doctors. We cite that joke frequently, and with great bitterness.
I find it hard to believe that he'd be so careless as to leave the "backstage area". And so far, at least, the villains haven't shown any signs of finding that, though the Quinton and its helpers may well make a difference there.
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2022-11-26, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2022-11-26, 01:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
For some reason, I wish Roy and Redcloak had an excuse for a "opposite aligned temporal party up", like Durkon/Hilgya and or Elan/Thog.
By the way, should Durkon give Belkar T-Word Privileges?""Jeez, this dress! i look like a dominatrix""
(self-loathing): ""Actually , you look like a sorceress or something""
""Hey, no need to get cruel""
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2022-11-26, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-11-27, 01:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-11-27, 01:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
A moment like that Malack and V had ("Is yours always like this?" "Yes. Yours?" *sigh*) would be funny yeah.
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2022-11-27, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
Belkar's lying. He enjoys gourmet cooking as much as killing. Doesn't matter who the diners are.
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2022-11-27, 09:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
If this was that Star Trek wallpaper he'd be setting phasers to tsun.
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2022-11-27, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-11-27, 12:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
My dad's a math professor. He says a professor's job is researching, teaching ability is secondary. Which is why some competent professors have crappy classes.
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2022-11-27, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think that teaching is an important part of a prof's job.
But I'm talking about stuff like a chemistry Ph.D. who does things like mistaking titanium for tantalum, constantly screwing up her procedures in very basic ways but blaming the problems on the reagents being "impure", etc.
When I was doing all of the tech support for a suite of chemistry modelling software, I had one Ph.D. write directly to me (rather than the general "support@$COMPANY" address) to ask how to get the software to do a particular kind of calculation. I explained to him -- in technical detail -- why it was fundamentally impossible for that kind of software to do that calculation.
Spoiler: Technical details for those who care: entropy calculationsBriefly: he wanted software that found static minimum energy states of compounds to calculate their intrinsic entropy. The entropy of a structure is affected by a number of factors, including interactions with its environment, as well as the possibility of parts of it rotating, vibrating, and flexing. The software did "molecular dynamics", which would allow the structure to do vibrations on a very localized scale, but wouldn't at all represent the internal motions on a larger scale. Worse, the vibrations, rotations, etc. are governed by quantum mechanics, which the software completely didn't touch.
He then wrote to the "support@$COMPANY" address, asking the same question. I explained again, with a bit more detail. With slightly simpler language, though if he had a Ph.D. (and/or knew enough to want that calculation done), he should have understood the first time.
Then he posted to the customer mailing list, asking the same question again. Since I was the admin for that mailing list, I responded on the list. "As I told you when you contacted me directly, and again when you asked via the support E-mail address, that isn't possible..."Last edited by bunsen_h; 2022-11-27 at 03:28 PM.
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2022-11-27, 10:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
Thank you much for the answer. (^_^)
That's true, but my wife and I have suffered through a number of alarmingly incompetent doctors. We cite that joke frequently, and with great bitterness.
He insisted it had nothing to do with tweaking it while jogging before taking a nap, and seized on the word "sleep" in my description of what happened to declare it had fallen asleep (despite having none of the associated altered sensations, and having woken up over an hour ago) and it would wake up by itself. It gradually got better over weeks while I used crutches to avoid tripping over it, but I still can't lift it all the way (and it might've been worse, if I hadn't run into a sports therapist at the college gym a couple months later who diagnosed what happened and gave me exercises to strengthen it).
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2022-11-28, 01:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
The word "dinner" comes from old French meaning "break fast":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner...2C%20hungry%22).
In French, the three meals of the day are now called "petit déjeuner", "déjeuner" and "dîner". Not only are the first two "little breakfast" and "breakfast", but even the third (which "dinner" comes from) originally meant the same.Last edited by ratfox; 2022-11-28 at 02:22 AM.
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2022-11-28, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
I don't think she thinks they're pointlessly grinding, I got the sense that until the Order showed up, she thought the end result would be Xykon obtaining the Gate, even if it took them a long time to figure out the ruse (1254-1256). Rather she's arranged all the defences she can and knows that a direct confrontation with Xykon is not practical. The monsters Team Evil is killing presumably take time and work for her to replace (based on 1270), even if she's not emotionally attached to them like the backstage crew, Team Evil is still chipping away at defences she's unable to replace. I'm guessing the swap-overs were built with the assistance of the 3 friendly Scribblers and so what defences she's got already (not necessarily all we've seen though) are all the the defences there is. If the Order can stop Xykon she's now content to tag along and help for the best case scenario, but she also acceptting the fates she can't control, now including the Gods ending the World.
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2022-11-28, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
Some snarks are extremely dangerous - and these are called Boojums. But the common snark "does no manner of harm" and is harmless, besides maybe having a limited ability to bite (if feathered) or scratch (if whiskered).
But anyone who's encountered a Boojum, will have "softly and suddenly vanished away", and "will never be heard from again."Last edited by hamishspence; 2022-11-28 at 11:04 AM.
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2022-11-28, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
That's a mighty big can of solvent. This must happen a lot.
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2022-11-28, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-11-28, 12:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-11-28, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
I'm thinking Roy going to to get air is just going to lead to a private conversation.
I also note that the paladins were incarcerated days ago, so they must be hungry indeed, unless they were fed and memory wiped.
I'm also wondering how Serini doesn't "keep much food around", is there an Adli in the bugbear village?
"Second breakfast" is the right term because it is awkward. "Elevenses" doesn't work for a couple of reasons. The lesser reasons are that it's regional, a newer word, and that it implies a light meal.
But the biggest problem it that the reader would know what it means and have a preconceived attitude about "elevenses". We're supposed to be in Aragon's perspective, not understanding that these hobbits typically eat six substantial meals a day, and possibly have to due to their non-human metabolism. The awkwardness of the term "second breakfast" implies Aragon/the reader lacks the word or idea involved. The initial description as just "breakfast" conveys the importance to the hobbits, they are not missing "elevenses" or "mid-morning snack"; Pippin feels the same way we would if going on a long march and the leader skipped breakfast.The thing is the Azurites don't use a single color; they use a single hue. The use light blue, dark blue, black, white, glossy blue, off-white with a bluish tint. They sky's the limit, as long as it's blue.
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2022-11-28, 03:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
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2022-11-28, 10:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Time to solo the lich and DIE again!
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2022-11-28, 11:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
Strider and the rangers had spent years guarding The Shire. They used Bree, a mixed community of halflings and men, as a base. Gandalf specifically tasked Aragorn, who knew Bilbo personally, to keep an eye out for Bilbo's nephew, who might soon be leaving The Shire with trouble chasing him.
Aragorn knew about second breakfast.
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2022-11-29, 06:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hi All,
"... you're not the type of mimic to be a seat"
Nice one :)
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2022-11-29, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
I had a feeling that was an allusion to something, or perhaps a pun, but I don't recognize it.
This whole "let's eat lunch" thing feels like it would have been covered by a "we can just say we ate and we'll be fine" or "just mark off a ration and you're done eating" type of joke back in the early days of the strip.
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2022-11-29, 11:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
And? {Insert suitable impression of getoffamylawn here}
That's where my thought went, or Julia.
Yes, it does, but when it is presented in book form, this will probably flow pretty well.
Good point.
I was hoping for a bit of Scribbler exposition, not Serini taking a second nap. Mind you, falling asleep in a meeting isn't 'good sleep' the way that a proper power nap is, and I know this from experience. (On the other hand, falling asleep during a teleconference if you have the right kind of chair can be restful).
Or a message from out of area from Julia or Hinjo...
Still have to pass their boards.
Yep.
I vote for 1.
Hard to argue with either of those two points.
Expecting that this persons surname was Karyn.
Now that' awsesome, since it means that Peregrin Took, aka Pippin, is actually French. And why wouldn't he be? His namesake is rather famously French, or at least Frankish!Spoiler: About Pippin the Short ...
Pippin III, also spelled Pepin, byname Pippin the Short, French Pépin le Bref, German Pippin der Kurze, (born c. 714—died September 24, 768, Saint-Denis, Neustria [now in France]), the first king of the Frankish Carolingian dynasty and the father of Charlemagne. A son of Charles Martel, Pippin became sole de facto ruler of the Franks in 747 and then, on the deposition of Childeric III in 751, king of the Franks. He was the first Frankish king to be anointed—first by St. Boniface and later (754) by Pope Stephen II.
And simply answered no, by using a look of impatience and moving on.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2022-11-29 at 11:23 AM.
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2022-11-29, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1271 - The Discussion Thread
""Jeez, this dress! i look like a dominatrix""
(self-loathing): ""Actually , you look like a sorceress or something""
""Hey, no need to get cruel""