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That big word tho
meretricious; adjective
*Attracting attention in a vulgar manner. *Plausible but false or insincere; specious. *Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
>"This is Obi-Wan Kenobi: A phenomenal pilot who doesn’t like to fly. A devastating warrior who’d rather not fight. A negotiator without peer who frankly prefers to sit alone in a quiet cave and meditate. Jedi Master. General in the Grand Army of the Republic. Member of the Jedi Council. He is respected throughout the Jedi Order for his insight as well as his warrior skill. He has become the hero of the next generation of Padawans; he is the Jedi their Masters hold up as a model. He is the being that the Council assigns to their most important missions. He is modest, centered, and always kind. He is the ultimate Jedi. It is characteristic of Obi-Wan that he is entirely unaware of this."
From: the novelization of Revenge of the Sith
Larger excerpt found here
In <em>DC Comics: Anatomy of a Metahuman</em> from 2018, which presents us with Batman's inner thoughts about a variety of DC's big names, includes this paragraph about Superman's flight capabilities:
>Considering his nearly limitless energy supply, Superman could be able to internally generate varying amounts of electricity, which could, in turn, react to Earth's magnetic fields. This electromagnetic induction - riding and interacting with waves of electromagnetic energy - could certainly be considered flight. Our galaxy is alive with powerful solar magnetic waves, perhaps explaining how he can travel through space. Again, his solar "batteries" would need to interact with natural radiation, carrying him effortlessly through the airless void. Assuming that his cells do convert light to fuel, he wouldn't need to breathe for extended periods, just as he doesn't need to eat to maintain his health. The idea of negative mass fields could provide an alternative explanation for his ability to fly, especially if paired with some kind of organic telekinetic ability. Perhaps he wills himself toward and object and is propelled toward it, giving the impression of flight. This isn't an avenue I've explored in any depth - it doesn't seem likely - but it's important to keep an open mind.
Meanwhile, though it doesn't list the source, the DC Wiki claims that he manipulates graviton particles to fly.
I'm thinking of this one, where Spidey throws about everything he has at Doom (dealing no real damage), gets his ass kicked six ways to Sunday, and only gets to declare "victory" because Doctor Doom decided not to kill the geriatric thief he was after.
'The line "Paul is a real estate novelist" is about a real estate broker who was a regular at the bar who always claimed to be working on a book. Joel figured Paul would never finish because he was always in the bar.'. From Songfacts
That doesn't make any sense.
OK,
So mister Richards doesn't want to release any fantastic energy sources willy nilly because they could be used as weapons, so then why doesn't he make a mundane energy source viable? Why doesn't he create a stable fusion reactor (we already have fusion bombs) or a working LFTR (They already tried weaponizing thorium and decided uranium and plutonium were better options)? Both of these could provide carbon free power with no dangerous waste.
Why doesn't he cure cancer, HIV, heart disease, etc?
Why doesn't someone terraform sub Saharan Africa and plant genetically engineered super crops or something?
People are dying horrible deaths right now, as you read this. Right now it's 8 minutes past midnight in my timezone and world meters tells me that, statistically, 180 people have already starved to death today.
Why doesn't Reed Richards, Tony Stark, etc give a shit?
> Do we know what version they were playing and what level they were?
~~We can guess that they were playing AD&D based on the DMG that Will put in the donations box.~~
EDIT: SOLVED - 1e Red Box, third level characters.
Yes, because when Gorman says "a xenomorph may be involved," he's not talking about the movie's aliens. He's using the word—correctly—to refer to an unknown non-terrestrial form of life. He's basically saying, "There may be non-humans of some sort down there."
(The fact that the marines had never before encountered the aliens and Gorman is using "xenomorph" as a generic term is easily provable, since the marines clearly have no fucking idea what the aliens are, how they reproduce, or how to fight them. If Xenomorph-with-a-capital-X actually referred to the movie's eponymous aliens, then none of the marines would be shocked and yelling "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING" etc etc when the Xenomorphs-with-a-capital-X actually show up.)
Nobody seems particularly surprised that "a xenomorph" is involved, so it seems pretty clear that they've encountered other xenomorphs (i.e., other alien life of some sort) before.
Also, they mention Arcturians in conversation ("It don't matter when it's Arcturian!"), and that seems likely to be another non-human race.
If you want to go slightly non-canonical, the Colonial Marines Technical Manual mentions several times that there are lots of non-human sentients in the galaxy.
As it happens there is a book about this very subject! I recommend looking into that for further detail. But right away we can rule out any man-eating or predatory beast, such things are never kosher. Things that crawl on their bellies like worms, bugs (with four specific exceptions which are generally understood to be crickets, two types of locust, and one type of grasshopper) and most reptiles are also not kosher.
So in short it'll be:
Land creatures that eat plants, chew their cud, and have split hooves-- a creature that has a mix of hooves and paws is a no-go.
Birds with a crop, a gizzard, and a vestigial finger and that are not birds of prey or scavengers.
Sea creatures with both fins and scales.
Interestingly, this means that there's one possibly unexpected kosher mythological animal: sea serpents, assuming they have fins of some kind, as most do.
From Wikipedia:
> Jean-Luc Picard was born to Maurice and Yvette Picard in La Barre, France, on July 13, 2305, and dreamed of joining Starfleet.[13] He and the rest of his family speak English, with English accents—the French language having become obscure by the 24th century, as mentioned in the Next Generation episode "Code of Honor".
The world moved on, is basically what happened. Your question is like asking why so few Americans speak German today.
EDIT: Found the source through this Quora answer.
Really hoping to see some giant centipede xenomoprhs.
Got into reading some of the lore and fiction of the Alien universe. Its Crazy fun.
For anyone interested this was the first one I read. Its just a series of short stories, relatively easy to pick up and put down.
> No one would argue that Luke isn’t a Jedi Master
Luke himself would probably argue that he wasn't worthy of the title. He just took the title because he was the only one around who was in the position to start and lead a new Jedi Order. Secrets of the Jedi is a reference book written from his POV and it reveals that he always felt insecure about that title given that he didn't have all the knowledge/training opportunities previous Jedi had.
> By the old standards I don’t think they’d even let him train at the Temple.
The old standards, and everyone that upheld them, are dead. There are new standards set forth for what it meant to be a Jedi. Yoda "knighted" Luke so Luke was free to rewrite things how he saw fit.
This makes me think of Leo Frankowski's <em>The Cross-Time Engineer</em>. It's kind of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court idea, where a modern-day Polish grad student gets whisked away to 13th century Poland, where one of the first things he realizes is that the Mongols are going to show up in 1240 AD and kill everybody.
I believe in the United States, finding treasure laying around falls under "abandoned property" which does have tax laws regarding it. See this case
Depending how long this dragon or giant has been around, the items in its hoard could very well be stolen property, in which case the law says you don't get to keep it anyway.
Good luck!
In The Complete Rules of Acquistion, a book written by Quark and translated by a Human called Ira-Steven-Behr, it mentions scandalous clubs where women would wear elbow long gloves, shawls, and scarfs.
Belter creole is amazing and there's a lot of ressources out there, just thought I'd try and show some of it - although my translation is... lacking.
"Inners always thinks belters are weak".
These are great: https://www.memrise.com/course/1102952/belter-creole/1/ and https://www.memrise.com/course/1476694/lang-belta-belter-creole-phrasebook/
And if you know some german and spanish, it's not too hard to pick apart.
It's basically Genesis for LotR. It describes how the world came to be, how the different races came to be, etc.
Others have already said it, but this is actually covered in the novel Death Star. Only specific portions of the station are habitable, it's otherwise a giant reactor hooked up to a laser gun.
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The book is neat. It details various kinds of people brought in to help build it, run it, and different walks of life that are involved in the station. Sort of like Pillars of the Earth, except they blow up the Cathedral at the end.
The Art of War kind of addresses this: Ultimately the blame for tactical mistakes has to fall on your officers, they're in charge. Your leaders are responsible for strategy, but if the officers can't execute that they're of no use.
War is inevitable. The Culture vs. the Imperium doesn't end well for the Imperium. The Culture has more reliable FTL, is tactically much faster in that most battles take place in microseconds, and has more powerful weapons that outrange anything in 40k. The Culture destroys Imperium forces as fast is it encounters them.
The Culture vs 40k usually boils down to how the warp affects a Culture Mind. That generally devolves into a flame war, no limits fallacies, and just bad news.
You may want to check out /r/whowouldwin, they have had a number of interesting topics about this as well.
I don't usually read fanfic but there is a long running 40k/Culture story that is actually very interesting here.
I assure you, nothing in the above post is false. A woman in a kimono with a black and white skull painted on her face runs around whipping, spanking and tickling criminals. Mangaverse was just plain damn weird across the board, but their version of the Punisher went a step beyond.
If you want to see it first hand, be on the lookout for Marvel Mangaverse, Volume 1 (https://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Mangaverse-X-Men-Ben-Dunn/dp/0785109358).
This is an excellent write up on Batman's "powers". You're right about his strategy being "old school" but it wasn't just naval warfare. You're referring to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, where it explicitly says to study your enemies and become as familiar with them as you are yourself. This will ensure you win all future battles.
A slightly better suggestion for those who want to know a bit about the evolution of what would become the character of Batman, I'd start with reading all of the old The Shadow comics, listening to the radio dramas, read all the Sherlock Holmes books/short stories and, heck, read every and all hero fiction written before Batman debuted. Read A Princess of Mars, read War of the Worlds, read everything, including Dracula, including Frankenstein, all the Poe writings. Any detection fiction written at the time of or before Batman are influences, but try not to forget that the "strategy" aspect of Batman varies wildly.
He's used Patton's strategy of driving through and dividing the power of the enemy, he's used Rommel's strategy of excellence in numbers and anticipation of the enemies competence, and, in a big way, Batman borrows the hyper-vigilant personality of Sherlock Holmes, more specifically, the early portrayals on the silver screen.
This is answered in the book.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers
> "If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people—'older and wiser heads,' as they say—supply the control. Which is as it should be."
> Sergeant Charles Zim, p. 63; responding to Ted Hendrick's question on the purpose of infantrymen in the nuclear age.
Arguably, the M-W definition kinda supports that, as "waste and discarded material" suggests without outright saying that it is "useless" and/or "junk".
The Dictionary.com definition doesn't quite go that far, with "old, discarded, or rejected item" not really suggesting "useless" entirely.
Regardless, there's nothing proscriptive about the term "scrap" that requires it to be useless material. The common element in all of the definitions is that it's small portions or fragments or detached parts. Without comment on relative usefullness of the bits and pieces.
Consider that in its verb form, "to scrap", say, a car, is specifically to break it down in a hunt for the useful parts.
He disassembled ("scrapped") various things for the parts he wanted, and discarded the rest. Arguably, the very definition of scrap.
If this sort of logical discussion of the intensely illogical world of Harry Potter appeals to you, check out Eliezer Yudokowsky's incredibly rationalist fan fic, (which is pretty famous in certain portions of the internet), called <em>Methods of Rationality</em>. It examines how the stories would have gone if Harry grew up as a well-adjusted, scientifically trained skeptic.
You may be interested in this: https://archiveofourown.org/works/3451040/chapters/7569143
“Tolkien once envisioned Middle-earth coming to an end in an apocalyptic final battle. Set in 2017 in Copenhagen and in Dallas and in Fargo, North Dakota, this is a story about Sauron, petroleum engineering, Morgoth, the surveillance state, the House of Fëanor, geopolitics, and Arda's final reckoning.”
21 years ago this exact topic was discussed on rec.arts.sf.movies as well, I'm sure on countless other news.groups.
IIRC the century moon debate raged for quite some time. That and the Emperors blob and of course the gonk droid.
In Master of the Five Magics the limiting factor for summoning a demon was what type of material you were burning as part of the ritual, combined with the size of the fire. So summoning something like a tiny imp might be done with something as small and mundane as a candle. Anyhow, near the climax of the novel some uncontrolled demons basically create a positive feedback loop, where they build a large fire and keep throwing more and more exotic fuels onto it, bringing over larger and more exotic demons, who join in and start ripping up entire trees to throw on the fire, etc.
At first i thought Colossus put him back and it grew but after baby legs scene I think he grew his body from his head.
EDIT: In this comic book, multiplex Deadpools grew back.
> I've heard of wizards, witches, mages, warlocks, and sorcerers.
> I'm sure there are more. Do they denote different abilities or powers.?
Sometimes. Sometimes not. In D&D there is a difference between Wizards (learned magic). Sorcerers (innate magic), and Warlocks (bestowed magic). It'd be impossible to go through literally every instance of magic use in all of fiction to denote all of the differences.
Terry: Tell me something - why were you so sure those voices weren't coming from you?
Bruce: Well, first, I know I'm not psychotic.
Terry: I hope your other reason is more convincing.
Bruce: Second, the voice kept calling me "Bruce." In my mind, that's not what I call myself.
Terry: What do you call yourself? [Bruce just looks at him for a moment] Oh, yeah. I suppose you would. [Batman voice] But that's my name now.
Bruce: Tell that to my subconscious. Source
Here's the thing about Flash Rogues: Most of them are just fucking around. Yeah, they'll rob banks, but they hold back. Captain Cold has a no kill code that rivals Batman's in strength. Flash fucks around too. He could clean up the city, and keep it clean, by just constantly going all out. But he doesn't. He and his rogues are basically playing cops and robbers. Batman... Batman doesn't fuck around. So Batman would show up at the scene of the crime of Rainbow Raider and beat the everloving crap out of him. He'd move on, and take down another rogue or two in a far too brutal fashion. The others would realize they are dealing with a psychopath and team up to take him down. It's not even about being smart, organized, and tactical. Most of Batman's enemies have that too. It's about Batman assuming they'd treat him the way they treat Flash, which they wouldn't.
JLU actually delved into this a bit. Here is the difference in their philosophies.
Here is another example (relevant part at 4:50).
One other aspect that hasn't been mentioned yet:
Is Vision a person? Does he even qualify as "whoever"? Here's a whole article discussing it from both the comic side and concluding with Joss Whedon's commentary.
There's no canon evidence they've ever read The Art of War, or any other human works on the topic of warfare.
That said, given that General Chang was able to quote Shakespeare in The Undiscovered Country - and even goes so far as to assert a form of cultural superiority by informing a human that his species' own works are better in an alien language - it stands to reason that Klingons have and indeed do access Federation and Earth works.
What's more, given the Klingon warrior caste's fascination with combat, loyalty, honour, and warfare in general, it's extremely likely many have in fact searched humanity's works on these topics to better understand it from an alien viewpoint. Know your enemy, know your friend, etc. Knowledge is power, and even the most bloodthirsty Klingon knows this - at least, the smart ones do.
In short, while we don't have any evidence of their opinion on Sun Tzu's work, I find it highly probable that, in certain circles, they do have opinions on this and other human works on the topics of warfare, combat, honour, loyalty, and other tangential topics of discussion. Likewise, they would be familiar with Andorian works (since they, too, have a strong warrior mentality), and even historical texts on pre-Logic Vulcans as they were extremely warlike and aggressive.
Let's hope the writers in the new Star Trek series see fit to expand on Klingon culture a bit more.
I should have said lived; with his aunt and uncle--I'm assuming he moved away after high school.
We don't know because the writers of that database entry specifically left it out. The Foundation does not believe in unnecessary mental scarring.
That said, I've always thought that 110-Montauk was something on the same level as this. EDIT: NSFW, NSFL, MASIY.
All right. Let's run with that. Let's assume that Marvel-Earth's economy is comparable to ours and that a Marvel dollar is worth the same. Now, unless the average Marvel billionaire is much poorer than the average real-world billionaire, all the Marvel billionaires should have a combined net worth of about $71 trillion.
Meanwhile, the real world only has about $75 trillion. That means Marvel billionaires own 95% of all the money on the planet.
How do these things -- vibranium, alien technologies, mutants, and magic users -- create wealth? Where does the money come from? Why such a massive wealth gap?
From JK Rowling herself:
> ###Spell Definitions
> Every now and then somebody asks me for the difference between a spell, a charm and a hex. Within the Potter world, the boundaries are flexible, and I imagine that wizards may have their own ideas. Hermione-ish, however, I've always had a working theory:
> ##Spell:
> The generic term for a piece of magic.
> ##Charm:
> Does not fundamentally alter the properties of the subject of the spell, but adds, or changes, properties. Turning a teacup into a rat would be a spell, whereas making a teacup dance would be a charm. The grey area comes with things like 'Stunning Spells', which on balance I think are Charms, but which I call spells for alliterative effect.
> ##Hexes:
> Has a connotation of dark magic, as do jinxes, but of a minor sort. I see 'hex' as slightly worse. I usually use 'jinx' for spells whose effects are irritating but amusing.
> ##Curses:
> Reserved for the worst kinds of dark magic.
Possible, sure. She's the only one we've seen so far to have such traits, but there may yet be more Red Blood Cells that share similar traits running all around.
But probably not. The body in Cells At Work is an example of a more-or-less healthy body, and the symptoms of sickle cell anemia/sickle cell disease just aren't present. Notably, sickle cells die way quicker than the average red blood cell, so we should be seeing AE3803 aging much faster than her fellow red blood cells if that were the case. Yet, she doesn't seem to be aging any faster than any other cell.
OP isn't talking about that. He's talking about the Civil War comic taking place right now in the Secret Wars universe. This is the comic.
It's not 1:1 to the real world, they want something that feels real without being as volatile. The matrix is built around systems of control; they can't risk famine, they avoid encouraging crime. To homogenize experience, [they use massive and largely inscrutable urban sprawls that aren't 1:1 creations of real cities, but instead combine aspects of many.](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Mega_City_(The_Matrix\).html)
They want humans living in the matrix to believe the world but they can't have it be accurate to the real world, it's too dangerous. Not just for the humans, but for the machines too. What if a human invented a superweapon, escaped the matrix, and then could manufacture those superweapons in Zion? Very bad news for the machines. Can't have that kind of thing happen.
Teshkeel comics puts out a series call The 99, about a group of international heroes powered by 99 mystic stones that empower them with different aspects of the 99 attributes of Allah.
You can get the series on comiXology Here.
At one point they had a crossover with the JLA, but I can't find it anywhere.
Yes, that's a nice site. Also, http://scaleofuniverse.com/ is a great place to put things into perspective. And if you are serious about experiencing realistic scale galaxy models, check out https://www.elitedangerous.com/.
I have been reading Lovecraft off and on for maybe a year, interspersed with Algernon Blackwood and Clark Ashton Smith. I can't remember where I started, and still have the feeling of having barely scratched the surface. You might find this thread on GoodReads helpful:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/604518-which-of-h-p-lovecraft-s-stories-should-i-start-with
Have a look here, for early Earth development. Once you reach a certain level of comfort Humans tend to overgrow our estimation. I did suggest few millennia ago to cleanse some of their worlds to curb their advancement but they told me "noooope" and so here we are.
> There is no game in existence where a 15 goal difference is so commonplace
Except for one of the sports most similar to quidditch: Basketball.
15 goals = 30 points in basketball, which seems like a lot until you remember basketball games only last 48 minutes. If basketball was untimed like quidditch, the scoring margin would quite often exceed 30 points. Over the last 5 years 3.2% of NBA games had final margins of 30+ points in only 48 minutes of play. That would only go up the longer games lasted and if teams didn't coast and played hard the whole time knowing their opponent could get a 30 point boost at any time.
In the Olympics, one of the closest parallels to the Quidditch World Cup, there were quite a few 30 point wins or close to it. The US beat Argentina by 26 in the semifinals - it's not hard to imagine the margin getting to 40+ points and the Argentinian "seeker" ending the game there.
Erm.
Look at this emoji: https://emojipedia.org/google/android-6.0.1/spider/
That's what I see in your post, it's a damn sight more like his emblem than this https://emojipedia.org/google/android-6.0.1/octopus/
As I understand it, lactose intolerance is mostly genetic, but babies are generally born capable of producing enough lactase.
> As children replace milk with other foods, their lactase production normally decreases, but remains high enough to digest the amount of dairy in a typical adult diet.
> In primary lactose intolerance, lactase production falls off sharply, making milk products difficult to digest by adulthood.
So, being a baby in Cheeseland and growing up in Dairy Air, Kal El probably continued to process milk just fine.
Funily enough, the Superman of China, Kong Kenan, probably is lactose intolerant, as he's an empowered native Chinese person and their diet doesn't have a lot of dairy.
http://www.aoltv.com/2006/06/15/billy-west-the-tv-squad-interview/ In this interview from 2006, Billy West claims
>" Yes, plus there were little hidden jokes in there that weren't meant to be revealed until later on. And then if you did go back to that first episode, you can see a little shadow of something that they were talking about in a later episode. Like the shadow of Nibbler in the background behind the cryogenic chamber in the pilot episode, and no one could catch it. Meanwhile it was Nibbler who was involved with him (Fry) ending up in the cryogenic chamber. You see the shadow in the background, then it comes out later as they explore time travel or something. There was all kind of hidden rewards for people that paid close-enough attention. Like the special language that was all over the place."
EDIT - Just found a post from 2000, before the dvds existed here- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.tv.futurama/shadow/alt.tv.futurama/7_Anr3eIrac/RmA4Z8vrl5UJ
I remember seeing floating containers like those [when I was taking flying lessons in rebel fleet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_X-Wing_(series\)).
I'd be really surprised if the Reapers are mentioned as a motivation for the Andromeda Initiative - you'd think they'd put that in the briefings for new applicants. Seems to me like it's more the exploaratory spirit that drives it.
> Before that, if Voldemort could've got his hands on it, the sword would not have had this restriction.
It's because of the nature of Goblin silver, it "only imbibes that which makes it stronger". The sword became more powerful because it touched the basilisk venom, not because the basilisk was defeated with it. - https://www.lingq.com/hu/lesson/hp-7-hp-and-the-deathly-hallows-ch15-3-1167353/
If the horcrux would make the object stronger, then it could be used; if not, then it couldn't.
If your interested, below is a link to a long running 40k/Culture crossover fanfic. I don't usually like fan fiction but this one is surprisingly good.
Admittedly, I also missed it myself for basically the same reason, lol. If you haven't, watch the "Beyond Stranger Things" shorts that Netflix did alongside the show. There's a lot of interesting little bits like that they discuss with the actors and showrunners.
Basically. Either Visit a local store weekly or subscribe like a magazine.
PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS: http://subscriptions.marvel.com/store/ipd.asp?spid=1244
DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS: https://www.comixology.com/search?search=star+wars You can also buy individual issues for about 2$, it's pretty reasonable. There's also comixology unlimited which is basically netflix for comics but its a little pricey.
I'm sure you can figure out the rest
Here is a post to alt.tv.futarama from the year 2000, 3 years before the dvds existed, pointing out that the shadow is present.
When the Collector shows the Guardians of the Galaxy an image of the stones, they're still raw. When shown coupled with the Infinity Gauntlet, they've been cut and shaped.
So, somewhere along the line, somebody was able to physically destroy a small part of each stone.
Yes sir!
Any ways, the concept may be silly, but at least they are trying to be realistic. A 200% increase is unrealistic by even that standard.
I think it counts.
The definition of "dystopia" is basically "anti-utopia," so it's a place where everything is bad. "Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society." The Road definitely involves a cataclysmic decline in society.
Urban natures are not required for a dystopia, nor is social stratification. These are just two common themes for dystopian writing.
Where utopias focus on how the world can be made good, dystopias focus on how the world can be made bad. I think The Road is a good example of how the world can be made bad.
A Stegosaurus named Sophie was estimated to weigh about 3,500lbs. She was roughly the same size - 18.5 feet long, 9.5 feet tall - without the wings, of course.
Gold is about 19x as dense as flesh, so a comparably-sized dragon would be around 33 tons. I think even an ancient dragon would have difficulty carrying something that weighs as much as a Sherman tank while flying.
It's worth reading, and here it is on Project Gutenberg. I think people tend to forget that it was just a pulp novel that got huge. Tarzan's become a sort of mythic character, like Paul Bunyan.
> This song is about a man who travels through time and sees the end of the world. On his way back to Earth to warn the human race, he goes through a magnetic storm and is turned to iron. Nobody believes him about the end of the world and he gets mad, taking his rage out on the human race, thus bringing about the end of the world that he saw. Sabbath bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler explained in NME that after Ozzy Osbourne put the idea in his head: "I was walking down the street one day and thought... 'what if there were a bloody great bloke made out of metal walking about?"'
Bit of a deep cut, but Youngblood’s Riptide appeared as Pussycat Magazine’s “kitten of the month” in Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood. Issue 14. Ol’ Rob barely made it past a year in print before doing a titty issue.
https://www.amazon.com/Team-Youngblood-14-Riptide-Exposed/dp/B000PFGDAG
Tbh most of those early Image comics were titty issues.
And of course Daredevil supporting character Karen Page had a pretty extensive career in porn.
We only confer mercy and pity on creatures whose intelligence or awareness are within a certain distance from our own. Everyone draws that line in a different place, but even a staunch vegan kills to survive. We even kill for convenience; are those ants in your kitchen endangering your survival? Are you going to painstakingly extricate and relocate their entire nest out to the countryside? Nope, not when 10 cents worth of Borax (on Amazon Prime no less) will wipe out their whole civilizations. If a person makes $20 per hour, that means that at the cost of 18 seconds of labor, they can willfully and callously wipe out the whole colony. Thousands of individuals, thousands of larva and eggs, and the queen herself all dead... their memories forgotten, and their great works lost forever.
Suffice to say, there is no true "evil" in the world. Everyone is evil to something.
I was reprinted in 2012, so get you one!
I bought this a while ago and i'd DEFINITELY recommend it.
but there are a few things to note. many of these stories have been written over 100 years ago, and the aged writing style can be a bit harder to follow at times. Not all of it is written by Lovecraft, tho he did inspire a ton of other people to follow in his footsteps in the genre.
Vibranium is the MCU equivalent of cat vomit in Ren & Stimpy - it can used both as a heat shield for spacecraft and for curing conjunctivitis in babies.
Word of God says you're mistaken. Lily's love was necessary for Voldemort to be fully healed:
> Having taken Harry’s blood into himself, Voldemort is keeping alive Lily’s protective power over Harry. So Voldemort himself acts almost like a Horcrux for Harry – except that the power of Lily’s sacrifice is a positive force that not only continues to tether Harry to life, but gives Voldemort himself one last chance (Dumbledore refers to this last hope in chapter 35). Voldemort has unwittingly put a few drops of goodness back inside himself; if he had repented, he could have been healed more deeply than anyone would have supposed. But, of course, he refused to feel remorse.
Oh, he's from the Dark Horse comics during the Clone Wars and Order 66 eras, basically episodes 2 and 3. I guess Comixology is a good way to find them.
I'll be damned if I can find a reference online, apart from stuff about his siege equipment designs. I originally saw this "flogging stuff to both sides" in some documentary on TV years ago...
He put it about a bit, though:
> http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/leonardo-da-vincis-handwritten-resume-1482.html
I haven’t seen anyone mention the Holy Avenger yet. I know it as a +5 blade from a D&D universe. Pretty much any paladins 2h wet dream.
But that depends on your definition of kid. Webster, and I agree, states that kid is related to youth and inexperience which defines most people in their early to mid twenties.
Thank you for responding to this jabroni spewing misinformation. I wouldn't use the kinsey scale to make sweeping generalisations, but if I did, I would check my sources. hAnd_OUT's info is on key, and one could argue that your notion of strict heterosexuality is contradicted by history as well as sexual behavior in mammals (though we don't assign sexual preferences to other species, generally...)
From wikipedia :
"Recognizing that a large portion of population is not completely heterosexual or homosexual and people can experience both heterosexual and homosexual behavior and psychic responses, Kinsey et al., stated:
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white... The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. —Kinsey et al. (1948) pp. 639. "
[Cloud Atlas](http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Cloud_Atlas_(novel\)) has a post-future setting, but it's unclear how far in the future that is. It could be as little as 200 years, or as much as 2000 or more.
I think they create anti-matter as an energy storage medium and rarely use found anti-matter. Thus it isn't particularly rare, and several times during the show we see civilians travel great distances.
This article talks about the subject extensively: https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29bab88d50
I got mine at barnes and nobles but it was like $30. I think this is the newest version.. I have the 2010 version so i don't know if this one is the newest.
> If you are that is not relevant to this as I'm making the point that even crazy evil Ideologies can be presented in such a manner that people believe them
I don't doubt that. I'm saying that for your movie to make a case for anti-Semitism the way Avengers 3 makes a case for mass genocide, you'd need to make your Thanos-equivalent the villain of the story. EDIT: And in direct opposition to the moral paragons of the setting.
> Source? I would have to be taking you at your word which doesn't work for a debate.
You can read my current project here. I have a bachelor's in creative writing, I've done lots of independent study, I've ghostwritten novels, and I'm committed to this as a career.
> You haven't really provided any evidence to say the movie isn't pro-Thanos only that an audience should know hes bad.
An audience should know he's bad because he's advocating genocide and because nearly every hero in the MCU is arrayed against him.
> Which is a shitty argument as its very clear many people watched the movie and took away "huh maybe he has a point" just based on the many "Is Thanos right?" posts that exist on this subreddit alone.
It's not a shitty argument and Avengers 3 is not pro-Thanos. It's just that people are stupid and will believe that someone is a good guy just because he's charismatic. And AskSciencefiction should not be taken as a representative sample of humanity.
I agree completely.
For movies 3 months from the US release is way too short.
Here in the southern hemisphere, our movie releases are regularly 4-6 weeks behind the US. If they hold back a release for the school holidays or a long weekend 4 months isn't unusual. (Assuming of course that you rush out to see it the first day its available.) The longest delay I've seen was 11 1/2 months.
US TV shows are often shown 6 months to 1 year behind the US. Sometimes 2 years. A 1 month delay on spoilers is as good as no delay.
Half the users on Reddit are outside the US.
This rule is basically telling half the users that they can't come to this sub anymore.
(And even though no consideration is being shown to members of this sub outside the US, we're expected to show consideration to American members, regarding the movies and TV shows we see well before the US release).
(e.g We got to see the Hobbit before the US, we saw What We Do in The Shadows about 6 months before the US)
This leaked photo of an Aperture Science laboratory implies they were working on a gravity gun before Dr. Kleiner. The same first-aid stations and HEV suit chargers seen in Black Mesa are also visible, though I suppose it's possible that those were manufactured by some third company.
Black Mesa's portal technology does not appear to be based on the same principles as Aperture's, however.
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> This song is about a man who travels through time and sees the end of the world. On his way back to Earth to warn the human race, he goes through a magnetic storm and is turned to iron. Nobody believes him about the end of the world and he gets mad, taking his rage out on the human race, thus bringing about the end of the world that he saw. Sabbath bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler explained in NME that after Ozzy Osbourne put the idea in his head: "I was walking down the street one day and thought... 'what if there were a bloody great bloke made out of metal walking about?"'
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=lich&submit=Submit
The word "lich" is Germanic and appears in some real English terms (like lichgate); as such, it has an accepted pronunciation.
That wouldn't be a bad idea either. I've had good luck with Private Internet Access and StrongVPN. Currently have StrongVPN and works great on my computer and phone. I believe PIA also has a phone app, but it's been a while since I used them.
As the head manager here at Sleepy Hollow S&L, I'm supposed to say that we respect everyone's opinion. But I'm getting real tired of hearing angry rants. Ever since the financial crisis we've gotten people yelling at our employees. The economy tanks and suddenly it's our teller's fault that GDP per capita is falling.
Just last week an angry customer came in and started ranting about credit. He was dressed head-to-toe in "ye olde" clothing. I think he was one of those people who cosplays as Jefferson to prove some sort of point.
He name-dropped several terms (the invisible hand, The Wealth of Nations) associated with Adam Smith, so I don't think he was a mercantilist. But the terms he used were devoid of context. He probably just browsed the headings of a wikipedia article and decided that Smith's work was the crowning achievement of economics.
I mean, yeah, I get it. People are angry. But we're just a local S&L. We aren't too big to fail. We didn't take bailout money. Some people just lose their head when it comes to monetary policy, you know?
Since the monsters have an established policy of never actually touching the kids, they're not in immediate danger, and there's nothing the toys could realistically do without revealing their own nature, which they generally avoid. There's no sign that toys act openly to protect their kids when the kids are actually in danger, so such a response to an intruder that's only scary, not a genuine threat, doesn't make much sense.
Though the image of teddy bears growling and swarming an invading monster would be pretty awesome...
>If I happen to have a load of regeneration energy, would I be able to create some sort of clone, like one of my past selves did? Would that burn it off?
Not unless you've got a chunk of yourself sitting around from the last time you regenerated.
>I know that the eleventh version of me spoke to the Tenth, I'm surely not gonna speak to my Fourteenth am I?
Well whenever a Time Lord meets a version (or versions) of themselves from a different point in their timeline the earlier version(s) are unable to remember the encounter, maybe you already have.
>Am I really able to control my regeneration's next form, and if I do end up looking like Carly, why, why? Could I actually choose to look like her?
Other Time Lords could, you're just shitty at it. Maybe you should have paid more attention at the Time Lord Academy(@4:50 if the timestamp doesnt work)
Strange radiation regularly interferes with sensors, cloaking devices successfully hide things from sensors. There's no reason why invisibility, nondetection or similar magic couldn't do the same.
Already happened: Star Trek vs Transformers.
Chip has been doing Daredevil for a few years, and it's been widely successful.
If you're curious about some of his Bat-stuff before this, he did an excellent Jason Todd mini series in Urban Legends too, as well as a retelling of Batman's training story in Batman: The Knight.
Go crazy, anywhere is a good place to start. Pick up what sounds cool!
Buy this book and basically follow it. Even if its a joke, its actually a very logic, simple but seemingly effective guide.
In broad terms though:
Get fit
Know your local area well
Prepare ahead with a minimal "bug out pack"
Pay attention to small details (that can grow to become big ones)
Pack light but efficient
Train with weapons if you can
Actually, Everlasting Gobstoppers have been around since I was a kid in the 80s. I’m not sure they were ever discontinued—they’re one of the main candies I associate with the “real life” Wonka line, especially after Nerds changed makers.
Since you’re no stranger to re-reading stuff, I feel I simply HAVE to recommend this:
Repotting Harry Potter: A Professor's Book-by-Book Guide for the Serious Re-Reader by glenthebookseller Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982238525/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_33FC2NSZKCB6T7YN75YV
The Book of Erotic Fantasy
Back in the 3.5 era of DnD there was an open licence on D20 products which meant that there was a lot of third party content, and they could get pretty weird with it. The ruleset in the book is designed to add sexual content to your game from the relatively mild to extremely graphic.
The book and the ruleset are actually really well written. Here is an amazon link if you want to have a look. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Erotic-Fantasy-Gwendolyn-Kestrel/dp/1588463990
Its pretty hard to get a physical copy now but im pretty sure its on drivethrurpg and you could always sail the high seas if you catch my drift.
I disagree. This is not terribly different from computer vision problems that (human, actual) computers can solve today. For instance. If we assume the gate can open and close selectively based on rules, a piece of software that scans the shape of the incoming stuff, sorts out which ones meet a criteria for size and converting it's 3D shape into a 2D aperture... this is stuff you can hack together with a couple webcams.
Here's an example: https://rekognition.com/demo/concept
I feel like The Scourge did a great job of showing this go down. It was historically accurate to the best of the writer's ability and was written how they talked back in the day.
Read the comic to answer all of your questions about Wolverine's canon formative years. It was a huge deal when it was released. You can probably find it online for free somewhere; free comic sites/ apps have been popping up lately.
Here's an Amazon link to the paperback. The art is gorgeous.