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Re: Take a Teammate to a Movie
Casablanca. Is there really any other choice?All characters: What he said. Especially given the parallels between her and Laszio.
If there is time for a double feature, Dolphin or Iron Will would follow up with Kung Fu Panda.
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Re: Darren's Golden Age Champions Playtest: the United Sentinels of America
Just tell me when and where to send my money.
What he said.
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Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster
Why?He's not playing today.
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Re: Feeding a starship crew for a year
Assuming said person is a "first gen". In a multi-generational colony ship it could be a bigger problem.Again, not if screening catches them early enough that an intervention is possible.
And if some sort of intervention IS done. Like those cases where a kid shoots up their school. Every case but one that I've looked into the child had previously been identified as as high risk for suicide, and nothing was done until they chose suicide by cop.
Hopefully our multi-generation starship is better managed that the public school system.
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Re: More space news!
remember how reluctant people were to accept the idea of quantum superposition?Actually, no, I don't.
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Re: A little help with building powers please.
okay so the radius is not based on strength' date='the distance between the character and the radius is?[/quote']IIRC the radius is based on the AP in the power. Normally so is the range, but in this case you are taking a limitation on the range.
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Re: A little help with building powers please.
On a completely unrelated note' date=' I want to build A blast power With a radius, but I want to be able have the radius start somewhere other than my person, specifically I'd like it to resemble a grenade, in that the distance I can throw it is based on strength but not the radius itself. how would you do this?[/quote']Exactly what you said, EB, AoE radius, range limited by STR.
[edit]Maybe with charges or expendable foci if it actually is a grenade, not if it's something like a plasma ball he forms in his hand and throws.
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Re: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury #1: Security Robot Zaps Burglar
From the said article:I find this interesting. Why not?
Because for a world wonder the victim was not on trial. Defendant Respondent had no idea of prior bad acts when he rigged a 220 volt booby trap.
Should have been the defendant, this was clear cut Murder Two, reckless disregard for human life.
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Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster
What part of "Each tonkuban takes up about a week of Yotsuba time" don't you understand??The part in quotation marks?
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Re: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury #1: Security Robot Zaps Burglar
If only the world was so clear cut. However' date=' in the real world our legal system is so stupid several illegal tresspassers have won personal injury cases against the people whose homes they broke into...[/quote']Cites, from this country (USA), or it didn't happen.
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Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster
Well' date=' I don't like that one, anyway.
[/quote']I don't think anyone does.Which is why it's not usually counted with the other seven.
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Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster
I thought there were eight?The eighth plot is no plot, slice of life, Thornton Wilder / Seinfeld. It's the plot about nothing.
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Re: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury #1: Security Robot Zaps Burglar
If the robot can distinguish between authorised personell and residents, and unauthorised trespassers, then it's not a trap and does not fall under those laws. It's the equivalent of having a guard dog. The only question remaining then is 'Was the zapper deliberately supercharged to do permanent harm or was it within legal limits like a taser?"Because absent being able to show that degree of carelessness or deliberate malice, the plaintiff has no case.
All characters, what he said.
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Re: More space news!
A good question. As I understand it these particles move and also that there is no force capable of condensing it.It's kinda like trying to make any Noble Gas to ice: They simply can't bind to one another, so the best you get is a liquid that is sustained only by airpressure and very low temperatures.
So what happens when dark matter falls into a black hole?
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Re: More space news!
Well' date=' depends on what length scale the departure from the inverse square law happens. If it's on scales of kiloparsecs, then the problem is more complex. Ideally you'd watch two point masses separated by kiloparsecs for a couple hundred million years, but galaxies and star clusters aren't point masses (so gravity messes with the internal structure and therefore the magnitude and direction of the integrated gravity due to the ensemble). And finding an isolated binary star that wide ... probably much harder.[/quote']I was thinking it was on a scale of 100's of AU, less than a light year. Thought Pioneer and the Voyagers were far enough out they might be showing some effects if we could reliably track them.
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Re: More space news!
The problem is that it's real hard to get direct hard-data tests of Newtonian orbital mechanics at distances much longer than a few thousand AU. The time needed to complete an orbit is longer than the duration of telescopic observations (400 years now' date=' and about half that for solid positional measurements). You'd like to watch something complete an orbit that big, decide whether that orbit is or is not a real ellipse, and that the run of velocity around the orbit is or is not Keplerian. Given a few thousand years of high-quality data, it's duck soup.[/quote']So all we need is to keep watching for five to ten times as long as we already have? Piece of cake.
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Re: More space news!
Yeah' date=' I admit it sounded disapproving. MOND has been around for quite a while (I remember some papers back while I was in grad school) and has never come up with enough results to overthrow (or become a reliable add-on to) standard orbital mechanics. I admit that there hasn't been enough do rule out MOND, either.[/quote']Yeah, I'm older than you, I remember hearing about it and thinking it was a crackpot idea that would be easily disproven. Something that would come and go as quickly as cold fusion. Still waiting.
As I understand it, it's now at the awkward stage. Still not proven false, but doesn't explain enough.
What experiment would settle the question? I'm thinking tracking six probes leaving the solar system in different directions for the rest of the century? Probes that would last longer and give a stronger signal that the Pioneers or Voyagers.
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Re: Feeding a starship crew for a year
So your supplies include long-storage MREs (or the equivalent) sufficient in quantity to see you through a crop failure' date=' and...plenty of seeds with different pedigrees in case of a blight. A single point of failure is always bad design, but there are work-arounds.[/quote']And pre-flight quarantine eliminates 99.9999% of the pests. So your main risk of a blight will be something that mutates from a friendly bacteria or fungus. Odds are against that.
Big advantage of the closed environment farming, no weeds, no noxious bugs, very few diseases.
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Re: Are there ANY good plant/wood powers names?
GoldenrodSounds like a porn name.Or an Austin Powers villain.
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Re: Calling all Green Lanterns
Has anyone mentioned Star Sapphire and the Emerald Empress are basically gender-switched Green Lanterns?
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Re: Are there ANY good plant/wood powers names?
Mulan.
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Re: CHAMPIONS LIVE ACTION Kickstarter from Darren and Silverback Press!
Instead of using dice it uses a "Power Check Device"' date=' our fancy name for a stopwatch or any other gadget that can keep time to the hundredths of a second. Turning it on and off rapidly results in a basically random number for the hundredths digit, which is added to a combat value and compared to that of an opponent. It's amazingly fast and easy in use- I've seen it handle combats involving dozens of players simultaneously in only a few minutes. It was originally designed by the talented kids at Echoes of Empires: David Christoph, Ben Walker, Jocelyn Fulljames and Steve Tasker.[/quote']That is a very clever innovation! I wonder if it could be applied to the tabletop game to speed up combat?I have no interest at all in LARPing, but for such initiative and inventiveness I had to make a pledge.
Sorry I somehow missed this earlier.
What LL said, normally I would have little interest in LARP, but I pledged enough to get the PDF to check out what looks to be innovative game mechanics that may be adaptable outside LARP.
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Re: What is the strangest super power you have allowed from a SFX?
Something I did with a character with an Invisible Girl type Force Field Sx. If Sue ever did this I've never seen it.
Place an air-tight FF around an opponent, expand it as large as possible as quickly as possible, watch their ears bleed. NND vs LS: high altitude/low pressure.
Humm, just occurred to me the opposite might make a good interrogation technique. "You are now experiencing two atmospheres of pressure, same as you would ten meters under water. What's that? Oh, I am so sorry, that was the wrong answer. Sue? Now this is four atmospheres, what you would experience thirty meters under water. Interesting fact, nitrogen is now dissolving in your blood. She drops the force field suddenly, your blood would fizz like soda pop. I've heard it is very painful, but just until one of those bubbles reaches your brain. Now I advise you to answer our questions, as I don't know just how long she can keep that force field in tact. Speak distinctly, please, the air pressure is distorting your voice."
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Re: When I Am the Benevolent Ruler....
The historians of past generations' date=' on the other hand, seem to be very good at rewriting history to suit their own judgements and preconceptions... which was [i']my[/i] point.And mine. I'm sure the historians of the future will be equally adept. The history books after all are written by the winners.
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Re: Beaks and Speech
Yet I've heard talking birds imitate P, W, Y, B and F without lips. They don't have the same mechanism to make the sounds as we do, but they manage.