Michael Hopcroft

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat You find correction marks on your term paper and there are ink stains on the paws of your dog. NT: Signs that your teacher wants to have "impro9proper relations" with you.

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Re: Captain Jack Typical Time Lords are only mildly telepathic. the Matser is a speical caser becasue he has deliberately developed his hypnotic powers to the level he has. However, they do have distinctive limitations 9won't work on the same person twice) and the Master himself has miscalculated what he would do with them ("I am the Matser, and you will obey me." "Yeah? Well, I'm Perpugilliam brown, and I can shout as loud as you can!") There are rumors of some Master stories in Season 28 (the new one with David Tennant), and it has not been annoucned for sure that he will come back and who will play him (persistent rumors like Anthiony Michael head of Buffy fame to the role).

I've recently been reading up on the webcomic The Wotch, which is a bit odd but fun. Anyone, there is one particular trick pulled by Anne that I wanted to clairfy. Anne, who has magical powers of near-infinitie variety, also has a couple of male friends, one of whom can get very annoying. Under numerous circunmstances, some too silly to describe, she switches their gender while making other changes (like hair color and style). This is known as being Ka-Girled. She can reverse the process at will. Anne has some other neat transofrm-others tricks. One of her favorites is turning her older brother Ed into her little sister Lilly (he actually enjoys relaxing as a four-yhear-old and spends a lot of his time that way). She can also turn herself into a catgirl, split herself into a lot of duplicates 9each with a part of her personality) and has permanently transformed one of her teachers into a Chinese exchange student and doesn't even know it.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "MegaBurger! Home of the one-pound cheeseburger for when you've burned all your END in battle and could eat the whole cow." (I'm, just thinking that supers would burn a lot of energy, even in the course of normal life, and thuse would ahve enormous appetites and the digestive fortitude to cope with enormous meals.)

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat The Stone God. NT: Signs your city has the wrong superhero for the job.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "No, your insurance doesn't cover gill imp;antation. I suggest you move to higher ground." NT: Signs your hobbies have finally pushed your mother too far.

Re: Essence of Desriability Tenchi does have similar problems to Akane in that regard, in that the most powerful women in his life tend to underestimate his abilities. And in Tenchi's case, that rubs off on him -- he cannot use his most powerful abilities at will, and is so used to being smothered that only extremely powerful stimuli will enable him to use his powers at full force. In Americomics, didn't Spider-Man have Chick Magnet-style issues related to his dual identity (everyone thought Peter Parker was a dork, but wasn't that Spider-Man dude cool?)

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "If you stick your finger in a gun, it won't fire! I've seen it all the time! Here, my finger is stuck in the barrel of the gun. Now, watch me pull the trigger with the nother hand. See? Piece of --" NT: Signs that your online romance is really an AI.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "There is too little sexual harassment in this company"

Re: Anime Champions? They named their company "#Kids Entertainment", and that pretty much sums up their attitude. Anything they touch must be rendered completely safe for the North American juvenile market. That means airbrushing out cigarettes whenever needed (the Japanese have a much less stringent anti-smoking taboo), not translating the Pokemon episodes in which James sprouts bigger breasts than Jessie, and -- mot importantly -- doing everything possibly to keep the image of their characters as pristine as possible. The otaku community does not matter to them, except as a possible threat. There were indeed bitter complaints when 4Kids went on their current spree of licensing and editing new stuff before the fans really had a chance to lay onto it.

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Sorry, sir. You know how a Godzilla attack on the city really fouls up the commmute." NT: Signs the oncoming storm is going to be worse than it says on the TV news.

Re: Nanotech! "You want to come down from the trees? Are you nuts? There are lions down there! And leopards! And elephants! You don't stand a chance!" Man's first mistake.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "You see, the letters move like so when you move the joystrick on the controller, and the damage bar on the top tells you how close you are to knocking out your opponent. By the way, it's really tough to beat Freighthandler -- it's the pre-Boss." "Wow! Can I be Predator?" "Sure!"

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "What? Mardis Gras in si February? My travel agent is really going to g---" glub.... glub.... glub....

Re: Website Aims To Archive EVERY Starship Design. Did anyone eler release schematics for the Liberator or the Scorpio from Blakes 7, or the Serentity from Firefly? Although it's not technically a starship, I would love to see someone do a schematic of the Mobile Battleship Nadesico, an intra-system battlecruiser/carrier with several interesting features. I don't know if a schematic for Ryo-Ohki's battleship form would be all that enlgithening, but it could be amusing. I've be relutant to try to draw out the Soja, because it's too big, or the Ryu-Oh because it doesn't last very long (although it does take a massive suspension bridge with it on the way down). It would be hard to map out the Macross, especially once that city is brought aboard.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "honey! Didn't you remember? It's your turn to juggle the porcupines!"

Re: A VILLAINY AMOK Freebie! I'm glad you appreciate the correction, but I am sorry that I couldn't have put a Spoiler tag or something similar on my post. Some people are able to use color codes to do that (hiding the text until it is dragged over), but which color to use utterly escapes me.

Re: Anime Champions? Along those lines, there's The Big O, whose look seemed to be openly modeled on that of Batman: TAS. Whikle Giant Robo is, for the msot part, high-class adventure, The Big O attempted to do seomthing ore serious in its concepts (beyond a ceretain point nobody has a past, and Roger Smith is trying to figure out why).

Re: A VILLAINY AMOK Freebie! Really good hooks. One quibble: in the NFL quarterbacks can only wear numbers ranging from 1 to 19. A player wearing 77 is most likely to be a linebacker, defensive lineman, or offensive tackle. A linebacker or defesnive lineman who is "hopped up" can dominate a game and werak a great deal of havoc, though, so the basis of the scenario still stands. hye'd be even more devastating, actually, since his phiysical and reaction game can be boosted more easily that a quarterback's game, which is essentially mental.

Re: Website Aims To Archive EVERY Starship Design. Somebody is probably going to give this guy a heart attack by suggesting "OK, now map the TARDIS...."

Re: Essence of Desriability You have just summed up the essence of why Tenchi Masaki consdiers himself only slightly worse off than a damned soul.

i have a weird project for Fantasy HERO: a bizarre take-two-unalike-things-and-mix-them-in-a-blender idea which i currently refer to as the Marmalade Prince. Lady Miki lives in a castle in a fanatsy world with her noble parents. All this changes when her parents tell her that, with the permission of the King, they have agreed to swap partners with another couple of similar birth and move together into a larger castle! Lady Miki is horrified -- but when she is introduced to the other couple's son, the enigmatic Lord Yuu, she realzes that her life is going to be a lot more complicated from now on. None of these devlopments sit well with Captain Ginta, the young gruardsman who is Miki's closest male friend, or with the sorceress Arimi who has been trying to land Lord Yuu for years. Miki's lovely cousin Meiko wants to help -- but she doesn't want Miki to find out about her relationship with their handsome tutor Na-kun. Hovering around the group is Miwa, a msyterious young man with a secret connection to Yuu. The key to the whole matter -- indded, the fate of the kingdom -- may be the mysterioius amulet that has been entrsuted to Miki. Will its power enable her to sort through what is really in her heart? Or will her turmoil place the entire realm in peril?