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- half-way between 'Crazy' And 'Eccentric'
Oh, So dare I Postulate a 'Mauling Snarks' situation?
Distance Learning for fun and profit...
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M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
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- Sector 2814
I don't know. I don't think Scion's going to ask to be invited to the wedding in this one.
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Has anyone thought of showing Taylor scifi books or shows for inspiration? I mean, there's a rumor going on that the TASER was inspired by the Tom Swift books, specifically his electric rifle (Thomas Alva Swift's Electric Rifle)
I mean, imagine Taylor designing a TARDIS, even if it doesn't have time travel capabilities. Just the insides being larger than the outsides would be pretty big.
Has anyone thought of showing Taylor scifi books or shows for inspiration? I mean, there's a rumor going on that the TASER was inspired by the Tom Swift books, specifically his electric rifle (Thomas Alva Swift's Electric Rifle)
I mean, imagine Taylor designing a TARDIS, even if it doesn't have time travel capabilities. Just the insides being larger than the outsides would be pretty big.
Dimensional displacement like a container wither larger internal dimensions is something I would expect to be present with Tinkertech, it's certainly well within Vista's power, and thus possible to emulate with tech (though Vista's power without being careful to keep atmospheric pressure constant or Manton limits would be horrifying).
She's already thinking of creating a portal network, since she got a scan of Doormakers power, and something like a Tardis for the transportation and bigger inside than a planet would work well.
cryptoam
building an 1980s encrypted protocol
- Location
- in lockdown waiting and bored...
Bags of holding?
Can we weaponize that(recalls arrow weapon)?
The arrow weapon only works because of the mechanics of a bag of holding. That being said, dimensional displacement techniques makes it a bit more complicated but doable to get the same effect (effectively erasing everything in a certain radius from the technique).
CA often moves during the night... or the morning... or the afternoon...
I wonder if Taylor's going to be getting a request from Ziz on Parahumans Online to reset the security on certain parts of the network...
- Location
- Lost to the Depths of the Deep Web
So Usada Pekora then?
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
QA could have assigned itself as the top level node - that's why she can reassign Ziz.The answer is yes, you can whistle-hum. It sounds weird as hell. I only know one person who can do it though. Hint: not me.
{Statement: Compliance. Top level node deprecated. New top level node assigned. Global permissions set to full. Data transmission link unit reassigned to task. Ready}
Top level node deprecated= Thinker is dead.
New top level node assigned=Taylor is new Eden?
Global permissions set to full= unlimited access to shard network?
I'm eagerly waiting to read the reaction from the other side of the portal when Taylor holds up her end of the bargain and starts transmitting DATA.
...And then they go set the whole thing on fire, vacuum up the ash, set the vacuum on fire, then piss on the ash...
Taylor: I want a puppy...
Agent: Asset wants a puppy.
General: Asset shall get puppy.
Pentagon: Someone go get a catalogue. She shall get the best puppy we can find!
...which of you maniac broke the fourth wall and subtly feed her informations? Or is she just that smart to figure out part of the end game?
Huh... they are still in the city? I thought they packed up and left
Anyway, good job on the chapter. I have half a mind that Taytay accidentally caught Ziz, but relief was felt when it's just QA... then terror when QA thinks Taytay is an entity (and definitely think she is better immediately).
We definitely escalating from SCIENCE to SCIENCE!!!
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- Bosnia
You mean: 'Please be gentle, senpai!'
Honorguard Ra
(Verified Lizard Dude)
Oh, neat. I didn't realize I had the wrong meaning for Deprecated.
It'll be fun watching this unfold. Any chance of having Taylor tell Leet's shard to quit trying to kill him?"He's using me wrong! I'm the PROTOTYPE!"
"Does he know that?"
"I thought so. Maybe you'll work better with a team. Think tanks exist for a reason. Even I have a team."
Admin.Taylor is best Taylor.
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Taylor to QA in the last chapter said:
It check out.
- Location
- Somewhere in The Woods
Step 1: SCIENCE!
Step 2: improve Shards (with SCIENCE!, of course)
Step 3: ...
Step 4: moar SCIENCE!
Step 5: hijack the Cycle (again, with SCIENCE!)
Step 6: bend the Concept of Entropy over the table (guys I swear it's for academic purposes only)
Step 7: ???
Step 8: profit
Steps 5 & 6 can be interchangeable if you desire.
Step 2: improve Shards (with SCIENCE!, of course)
Step 3: ...
Step 4: moar SCIENCE!
Step 5: hijack the Cycle (again, with SCIENCE!)
Step 6: bend the Concept of Entropy over the table (guys I swear it's for academic purposes only)
Step 7: ???
Step 8: profit
Steps 5 & 6 can be interchangeable if you desire.
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M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
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- Sector 2814
Step 5 is the goal. Step 6 is the method.
Malhavoc
Muscle Wizard
Queenie and Taylor, together at last, getting ALL of the data!
LostArchivist
Sane, unfortunately.
- Location
- The State of Confusion
I'm sure this was entirely unintentional. Although you have to make someone comment that they shouldn't name it the Star Fury, because that's tacky...
(Troy Rising is one of my favorite trilogies.)
Yeah, that grin is never going away. His remark was an impressive study in understatement.
I suspect they'd make a good attempt at buying her land rights on the damn moon at this point...
This had me giggling a bit. Although I suspect that finding a control might be easier than she expects. Especially after I read a bit further. Hello, smart person in charge of powers...
I have a suspicion that she's going to convince QA to isolate a subnetwork in BB just for her theories. Or that QA will do so on her own.
Technically you reused that particular joke, but that's okay. I happen to find it quite amusing too.
Most people wouldn't notice that sort of thing. I'm not sure Dragon would notice that sort of thing...
I wonder if it's a Simurgh plot.
I think someone left the barn door unlocked. There is no possible way that this doesn't get absurdly exploited in very short order.
As a side note, I too now have a very disturbing grin...
cryptoam
building an 1980s encrypted protocol
- Location
- in lockdown waiting and bored...
Funnily enough, so do I!
I can't wait to see the shock on Cauldron and the rest of the world when things get revealed.
Whelp, looks like most of the military is instantly obsolete. What do you do against an aircraft that can outrun your anti-air missiles and has acceleration best measured in machs per second? And I bet that ever since this:
The Navy has wanted a ship that doesn't sink, and can still move, even when filled with water.
Don't forget to check if it can run Doom, which, incidentally seems to run on anything from toasters to hardware that actually was not strong enough or new enough for it when Doom was first released.
cryptoam
building an 1980s encrypted protocol
- Location
- in lockdown waiting and bored...
Yeah, all of you may want to take a look at this: Distance Learning for fun and profit... | Page 17 | Sufficient Velocity
Suffice to say that things are going to change a lot.
It's going to be like bringing a WW1 army against USA current forces after alll of the new toys(F35, LRASM, and etc) are fully implemented.
Any hostile group is going to get slaughtered in a direct fight.
Suffice to say that things are going to change a lot.
It's going to be like bringing a WW1 army against USA current forces after alll of the new toys(F35, LRASM, and etc) are fully implemented.
Any hostile group is going to get slaughtered in a direct fight.
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- Earth, Sol System, Virgo Supercluster, Earth-1218
Wildbow killed comics for the same reason he made The Video Game Nerds assholes: he doesn't like them and didn't want them in his setting. More realistically from what I understand there was a big dip in comic books in the mid 80s as TV and later the internet became more accessible. It was only when the Iron Man movies came out that they started to come back into the mainstream when people realized that the comic book movies didn't have to be just shitty low budget pieces.
Notably The Watchmen probably wouldn't have made it to the presses since it wouldn't so much be a dark look at comic books as near real world experiences.
I suspect RoboCop would have been redone as a Mundane modified by a Tinker working with the police. The overt anti-capitalist anti-police state message would have seen it buried as much as possible by Cauldron.
Interestingly: Rambo came out in 1982 and by the time of Rambo III (1988) I suspect the studio would have turned him into a Parahuman and gone in a more Marvel direction. Or they wanted to go in that direction but the PRT prohibited it as "glorifying traumatic experiences" (AKA would have told people Triggers are all traumatic and all Parahumans are broken inside).
Star Wars is a Fantasy story in Space, I doubt the initial trilogy would have been significantly influenced by Parahumans. We do hear that in both Aleph and Bet the sequel trilogy got made, but with differences between them.
I suspect a lot of Taylor's TV growing up would have been historic pieces or far future pieces as escapism from the modern world. The BBC show Merlin or the more recent show Cursed are probably the sorts of thing that replaced SG-1, which would NOT have been popular in a post Doctor Haywire world. With the fact that the PRT buries Triggers I suspect that most "Coming of age" shows like Full House or Boy Meets World would have continued much the same. Shows like Friends and Seinfield might have been affected by Behemoth's arrival in Central Park, but they also rebuilt central NYC, and the shows weren't filmed on location anyway.
I'm not sure if Next Gen would have gotten off the ground, it seems like something Gene Rodenberry would have tried to push harder for, but I'm not sure how well the pseudoscience technobabble would have been accepted. OTOH this would have been when Hero was still alive and that would probably have pushed Tinkers as more of a heroic symbol.
B5 would probably still be acceptable, though I don't know if Taylor would have enjoyed it as a kid, and THIS Taylor would probably scoff at it.
Farscape would probably have been just as popular, I don't think there was anything there that could really have played on Parahuman biases.
G.I.Joe would have been converted into the heroic Protectorate members vs. the shadowy Cobra agents with the token PRT agent there to shell figures.
Notably The Watchmen probably wouldn't have made it to the presses since it wouldn't so much be a dark look at comic books as near real world experiences.
I suspect RoboCop would have been redone as a Mundane modified by a Tinker working with the police. The overt anti-capitalist anti-police state message would have seen it buried as much as possible by Cauldron.
Interestingly: Rambo came out in 1982 and by the time of Rambo III (1988) I suspect the studio would have turned him into a Parahuman and gone in a more Marvel direction. Or they wanted to go in that direction but the PRT prohibited it as "glorifying traumatic experiences" (AKA would have told people Triggers are all traumatic and all Parahumans are broken inside).
Star Wars is a Fantasy story in Space, I doubt the initial trilogy would have been significantly influenced by Parahumans. We do hear that in both Aleph and Bet the sequel trilogy got made, but with differences between them.
I suspect a lot of Taylor's TV growing up would have been historic pieces or far future pieces as escapism from the modern world. The BBC show Merlin or the more recent show Cursed are probably the sorts of thing that replaced SG-1, which would NOT have been popular in a post Doctor Haywire world. With the fact that the PRT buries Triggers I suspect that most "Coming of age" shows like Full House or Boy Meets World would have continued much the same. Shows like Friends and Seinfield might have been affected by Behemoth's arrival in Central Park, but they also rebuilt central NYC, and the shows weren't filmed on location anyway.
I'm not sure if Next Gen would have gotten off the ground, it seems like something Gene Rodenberry would have tried to push harder for, but I'm not sure how well the pseudoscience technobabble would have been accepted. OTOH this would have been when Hero was still alive and that would probably have pushed Tinkers as more of a heroic symbol.
B5 would probably still be acceptable, though I don't know if Taylor would have enjoyed it as a kid, and THIS Taylor would probably scoff at it.
Farscape would probably have been just as popular, I don't think there was anything there that could really have played on Parahuman biases.
G.I.Joe would have been converted into the heroic Protectorate members vs. the shadowy Cobra agents with the token PRT agent there to shell figures.
It's only a Star Fury if it's got four stubby wings, has the pilot standing up, and four plasma weapons mounted on the wingtips.I'm sure this was entirely unintentional. Although you have to make someone comment that they shouldn't name it the Star Fury, because that's tacky...
(Troy Rising is one of my favorite trilogies.)
Naah, there's no point in slaughter. The hostile group engages, then over the next fifteen minutes or so it notices that any of its exposed vehicles get promptly destroyed, thus slowing the advance to a crawl, then it gets a call from high command saying that there are a bunch of giant bombers parked over the capital and they can't do anything about it.