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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82  Posts: 2322/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by Darth XeodiousOriginally posted by Fettster |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2323/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Also, despite all the good press samurai get for having mad skillz, the truth is they were slow, bulky warriors. What most people think of are actually called Kensai, swordsmen. And western combat styles were far more developed offensively and defensively than eastern styles. It's true, they were meant for precision striking, but western styles concentrated on efficient, hardcore, cleave-you-in-two death dispensing. German steel was as cold and efficient as its wielder. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2324/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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 Me, knuck, and Teddylot are forming a club. Hooray for friday night D&D. I also dabbled in differential equations. |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2325/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| And then a little thing called the english longbow was invented. And the heavens shuddered. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2326/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Garro: "Huh.... that's interesting. It'll take a few minutes for that loser's limbs to grow back, so I want to try something..." Kalar: "Oh?" Garro: "Yeah, check this out." He stood over Janus' mangled body, whose half grown limbs would disgust and horrify most average people. He then kneeled and said a quick prayer, laying his hands on Janus and enveloping him in white light. "Lay On Hands!!! Regen!!!" The growth of Janus' limbs picked up pace, and soon he was nearly a whole body again... Garro: "Now then...." He stood up, looked to the cieling of the crystal, and called out... "Boy, I sure do hope Janus heals fast, WE NEED HIM TO HELP US GET OUT OF HERE. After all, there's nothing in this world like TEAMWORK and HELPING EACH OTHER OUT. Let's all be friends!" The sick part about this charade was that Garro actually meant every word he said. Just because he was a dark priest doesn't mean he's not a priest, after all. Kalar: "What the hell are you trying to do?" Garro: "I'm trying to get Dark Phoenix to realize that we need to get out of here, and that we're willing to help Janus if it means we're free." Kalar: "That's not very altruistic of you." Garro: "Says the man who sliced off his arm and leg..." Kalar: "Touche. But still..." Garro: "Relax. Not all temporary alliances become permanent." Garro threw the thumbs up to Kalar and grinned. "We'll have a chance for real revenge someday. For now, let's just try to get out of here." |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2327/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Grey: "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" Red: "I shit you not, Detective. All nine of them, just like I said. I thought you might want to see this." Garro: "Ha, he can't stand up against all of that firepower. This'll be hilarious." Lightning arced furiously through the sky as the nine Melvins ran about the field, surrounding Janus and brandishing guns in a rather menacing way. Up in the spectator's booth, the rest of Team Grey had assembled to watch the conflict. Expressions ran through the group, varying between excitement, impression, and fear. Janus was good, but not THIS good. There had to be a catch. Kalar: "Maybe he's got some new game beneath his belt?" Blue: "That is unlikely, Janus is not one to remodel old strategies on a whim." Red: "And he's got enough firepower as it is, more often than not he just can't use it correctly." Grey: "Are you all insane? He's gonna get annihilated like this!" Red: "Relax, Grey. You don't know Janus as well as we do. He'll pull through." Grey: "And none of you have ever seen Melvin in action, either! I have! You don't fuck with him!" Blue: "Detective, regardless of whether or not you believe it is possible to take Mr. Melvin on in direct combat, Janus clearly believes it is possible, or he would not have attempted such a foolhardy challenge." Red: "And whatever Janus believes he can do, he can do. Just watch and learn." Detective Grey begrudgingly was persuaded to take a seat and watch the fight. More like a massacre, he thought. ------------------------------ User Grey: "Now, let's see here...." An array of levers and valves stood before User Grey, each with a little tag on them. His office had recently become filled with them, as he began inventing little gadgets to make battles slightly more interesting... "Which one... Ah, this should do it!" UGrey took his time flipping switches and levers. Among them were the labels "Plot Device", "Character Analysis", "Soliloquy", and various other literary terms. He carefully pulled on the levers labeled "Monologue", "Plot Device", "Inspiration", and one last one, a small switch with the word "Janus" printed beneath it. He chuckled slightly. With those little disadvantages activated, Janus would be in a bit of a stitch. ------------------------------- Janus: "You'll see, Melvin. I'll---" A sudden jolt overtook Janus, and little bits of lightning arced around him, circulating wildly through his body and dying down after several seconds. When he felt he was safe, he tried to talk again... "I'll.... Uh..... I'll....!" Something was wrong with his ability to monologue inspirationally, effectively leaving him with no way to talk his way out of a situation. Instantly, he made the connection in his head. User Grey was abusing his power again. Probably trying to teach him some kind of lesson. Janus couldn't let that stop him, but... "I've got nothing to say..." He stood there dumbfounded, his hammer in his hands and his head completely devoid of any powerful dialogue. He was surrounded by guns and heavy weaponry, with nothing but his hammer and his wits. "Guess I'd better learn to improvise pretty fast..." Trying to regain some semblance of heroism, Janus bolted through the rocks and pulled a pair of black-backed CDs from his bag. He'd need them. He raised his hammer, and it began to drill wildly as he dove toward the dusty ground and started to drill through it, creating a foxhole to hide in until he could think of a decent plan. ---------------------------- Via his CCT, User Grey watched Janus very carefully.... UGrey: "I'm abusing my power? Sure, Janus. Sure. And you didn't go too far at all in the last fight. And I KNOW you won't go too far in this one. Time to pay the plot piper." He flopped down into his desk chair, and his hand hovered over another switch. Its label contained only one simple word. "Satchel". (edited by Grey on 05-25-05 04:27 AM) |
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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2328/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Garro: "Thought so!" He whipped out his guns and pointed them at Janus as brilliant white light began to swirl around them... "Holy Explosion!!!" Pulling both triggers at the same time, he let loose a wide, white-hot stream of holy energy that completely obliterated everything in its path, including Janus. When the light faded, nothing remained of the warrior. Satchel lay where he would have been, blackened by Janus' ashes but otherwise completely unharmed. It'd take a lot more than that to destroy THAT particular duffel bag. "Right, he won't be coming back to life any time soon." Kalar: "Jeez, man. You're cold as ice." Garro: "Not entirely." He then pulled from his coat a small black Bible, kneeled down by Satchel, and read Janus' last rites, even if he wasn't dead yet. When he finished, he sat up, put a few bullet holes in the bag, and placed the Bible back in his pocket. "A matter of course; Every one of the Lord's servants deserves a chance at absolution. Even this pathetic piece of trash." Kalar: 'Yeah... I like how when you realize your plans aren't working your strategies take a 180." Garro: "I call it "active reinitialization of tactical decisions"." Kalar: "I call it "being a cheap bastard"." Garro: "To each his own..." |
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Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2330/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour
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Ah, I really didn't want this to turn into a grain harvester debate, before you two get started... |
And FireOcean, many people are moral vegans. A lot of the time, Veganism is not a health issue, but one of not harming animals. This is mainly why I didn't want to get into a grain harvester debate, because I want to try a Walden-esque experiment at some point in my life, effectively rendering the grain harvester problems moot. Does anyone know anything about Less-harm theory?
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Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2331/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour
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Bowser wasn't that much of a powerhouse... In the end I had Geno and Peach doing more damage per regular attack than him, and Geno's Geno Blast was doing more than the giant MechaKoopa did, and I still had Geno Flash to go off of. |
His ultimate weapon's the Drill Claw that you get the second time you hit up Bowser's Castle, right? I wasn't sure if it was, because Peach and Mario actually needed you to go above and beyond for their final weapons. I tried to even out my special/physical/HP upgrades for all of my characters, but I ended up going predominantly HP for Bowser, so yeah he had the HP on his side, but he wasn't much of a damage dealer.
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Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2332/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour
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Another fun thing to do is set the damage ratio on 1/2 and have endurance runs. Really long, drawn out battles that are just skill vs. skill. |
Come to think of it, why wouldn't it be better to just emulate the game and play online through an emulator, at least until the Revolution shows up.
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Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2333/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour
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Slay, the point of that article was to show the problems of skewing information in the favor of an argument. All of the points presented in that article have special exceptions and are the result of slightly altered facts that still *sound* right to the average listener. |
And as far as evolutionary science goes, what about gatherer cultures and cultures that say that certain meats are against the religion, like Hinduism? They honor cows and never eat beef. If they managed to evolve without a primary source of meat in their culture, then it follows to assume that there's a possiblity that meat is not ESSENTIAL to human survival, it just makes it easier. Similarly, our teeth are designed for ripping and tearing meat as well as grinding plants. Our earliest ancestors had much more pronounced canines that were capable of tearing open flesh, they just got duller over time as, as Ziff said, we started eating less and less meat and more of a balanced diet. We're not carnivores, we're just not herbivores, either.
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Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2334/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour
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Maybe for a nice change of pace you could try NOT getting drunk tonight, and watch everyone else be drunk while you're sober. It'd be a great birthday show! |
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Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2335/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour
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The shortish, twitching man, fresh out of college and in his mid-twenties, stood before his charges and grinned wildly, blinking his eyes neurotically and rubbing his hands together with excitement. |
Mr. Merdinyan: "OK, guys, this is my very first Calculus class, I'm really excited about it, and I can't wait to get started. I've devised the entire lesson plan myself, going through special courses at the University to...." As he droned on, Grey's mind began to wander slightly... Boredom, boredom, boredom... Grey (thinking): "Man, he talks a lot... And fast, too. Some people never change." Grey remembered last year's coursework... Trigonometry and Pre-Calculus. He barely wrapped his head around it and passed with a C. This year he was determined to do better, until... Mr. M: "..... And I'd just like to say, with the schedule we've got ahead of us this year, if you didn't do too well in Trig/Precalc, you're gonna be severely disappointed when Progress Reports roll around..." Grey: *sweatdrop* (edited by Grey on 06-24-05 08:04 PM)
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Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2336/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour
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Garro sniffed with a satisfied air... |
Garro: "Hmmm....... Ha! Breathe the sweet air of freedom! Isn't it lovely?" Kalar: "Sure, sure... But what about him?" Kalar pointed in the general direction of Satchel, where the ashes that were once Janus' completely annihilated body were beginning to swirl and swish, slowly forming themselves back together... Garro: "He'll be back eventually, but we've got bigger fish to fry. Come on, let's go see where we've ended up. Dark Phoenix may have made us, but he didn't tell us where we were supposed to go." Kalar: "We don't seem to be... Anywhere..." The two of them suddenly came to that exact realization. The crystal was broken open, for sure, and Janus was dead for the time being, but what exactly would happen to them now that they were "free" didn't really seem to present itself in any way...
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Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2337/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour
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A pair of massive explosions were situated around the small hole, A smoking crater was left where Janus' foxhole was, but in the bottom of the crater was another small hole, a deep tunnel! |
Janus: "Ha...... YAH!" Having drilled downward and in a U-shaped loop upward, Janus burst out of the ground behind Pa-T(Y) and brought his hammer above his head, ready to bring it swinging down on the mini-mecha-pilot! -------------------------- User Grey sat in his chair and smirked. His finger flipped the "Satchel" switch. UGrey: "Oops...." -------------------------- A split-second before Janus began his swing, Satchel suddenly plummeted toward the ground, the mightily increased weight bringing Janus with him and leaving the warrior lying on the ground with the heavy duffel-bag at his side. Janus: "Satchel...." He got to his feet and prodded the bag, which promptly spoke to him. Satchel: "Sorry, Janus. Orders from User Grey, can't help ya this time." Janus: "WHAT?" Satchel: "According to the orders, you need to learn a lesson of some sort before you can use me again, and you haven't learned it yet. So until then, I'm not allowed to help." The top of the bag opened, and Satchel spit out a fist-sized, silver-grey emerald. "I'll give ya this, though. You might need it." Janus: "This? That's it? What about the Scy--" Satchel: "Nope! Can't." Janus: "The Protosh--" Satchel: "Nah-uh." Janus: "Grr... Fine." He threw his head back, and screamed into the sky.... "User Grey! What the hell is this about?" Time stopped just for an instant, and in that instant User Grey sent a quick shock of information into Janus' head. He'd have to learn a true lesson about power this time. When time restarted, his head sank down, and his heart went with it. "Oh...." Melvins were, of course, free to fire at any time. ------------------------ Grey: "Satchel, too?" Red: "Looks like it. I'm starting to feel sorry for Janus. He's got it tough, this time. And if User Grey really is behind this, we can't do anything to give him his powers back." Grey was leaning over the window of the arena, terrified out of his wits for his friend. His hands shook, his jaw trembled, and his heart pumped with the agonizing speed of one who knew the fate of someone he cared about... (restricted) | (restricted) | (restricted) |
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Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82 Posts: 2341/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour
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So if that crap grain were cut entirely from the market, would it produce a drop in harvester deaths? |
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