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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Cariyaga said:
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Punctuation is that silent beat, that 4'33''', that negative space one rests the mind between, that enrichment of the written word with musicality. Yes, to always hit it exact, on time, on beat, never more nor less than the mundane, that is no longer music. But to do without entirely─to go a whole post without a single mark of it─now that is absurd!
 
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Tua said:
In the same vein, could you also share who squatted in our abandoned fort when we came back from Hidden Mountain? @Velorien's interlude told us that it was a telescope merchant but that interlude was written much after the fact so who was the squatter initially? Or did you guys really plan that far in advance?
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It remains a mystery....

MMKII said:
Excuse my ignorance and pedantry:

Software exploits or errors could still cause a shutdown by abusing pre-existing protocols and settings.

Ex: I run something that takes up almost 100% of the available system resources and causes the hardware to slowly overheat. The computer then powers down after the internal temperature exceeds a preset safety level.
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I didn't say impossible, just unlikely.
 
MadScientist said:
Oli's true form
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Ye fooule, the wretched few whom's't'd havest beheld my troue fourme are not shielded, but marred!!!

Aabcehmu said:
Isn't this pretty much canon? Chakra is formed in part from your spiritual energy, to an approximation anyway, and that means that using it and changing how it flows through your body is going to twist and warp your psychology.
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I've seen it in one or two fics, but I don't think it's ever said to be mind-warping in canon. All the eccentricity there is just raw Kishimoto.

Inferno Vulpix said:
My apologies, but your second statement didn't end with a period, so I don't know whether that was the end of your thought or not. Can you clarify? :p
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STARTTHISSPEAKEROLIWHAILSUGGESTSALLCOMMUNICATIONBEHANDLEDASIFTRANSCRIBEDFROMTELEGRAMFULLSTOP
 
Cariyaga said:
We should make them think Leaf is a Sealingocracy and tempt them away to join us.
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This got a like from OliWhail.

I think this is the ideal way to get ourselves a power base, and one particularly suited to our own predilections. :whistle:

e: Bonus: Jiraiya can have a clan full of sealmasters.

e2:

screaming in Hazou

He has 1 fate point. One! aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
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Cariyaga said:
This got a like from OliWhail.

I think this is the ideal way to get ourselves a power base, and one particularly suited to our own predilections. :whistle:

e: Bonus: Jiraiya can have a clan full of sealmasters.

e2:

screaming in Hazou

He has 1 fate point. One! aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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FP from Chapter 200 have yet to be awarded.

So we might get another 1-2.
 
Nachtigall said:
Kagome isn't aware of the additional 20 5SB seals we promised to get the cash for Jiraiya's present. Thus, we have to churn out 20 sets at minimum.
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This can be done after the event easily though. 10 hours of work as an upper bound.

Cariyaga said:
That's still terrible
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As long as we regain 1-2 each battle then that should be acceptable for the short term.

I think once we mop up the Blue teams this round we will have an easier time of it as far as FP expenditure. Breaching and capturing people in the buildings doesnt lend itself super well to the Zerg Rush but once all the Blue Teams are down we can just Zerg everyone team by team with our full Pangolin loadout(I believe we still have Panchipama and Panjandrum left to summon?).

Note that Keiko has 11 FP. She will need to burn through these in Round 2 sniping fools. Noburi also has 7. These can be used to tag quite a lot of aspect bonuses/maluses. As long as we half the assault force in Round 2 with some defenses and traps, we should be good between our remaining FP and the Pangolins.
 
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OliWhail said:
You guys need 3 from ch. 200 still. I'm just swamped with lab stuff today. no, wait, it's past midnight. I was swamped with lab stuff yesterday, and will still be swamped today.

YAY GRAD SCHOOL
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*forlornly stares at three stacks of publications in the To Read pile and an unfinished lesson plan for tomorrow*

Aye, my sentiments as well.
 
FieryStarVictory said:
Using seals and chakra obviously makes you and nearby people slowly more crazy in different ways depending on the seal or jutsu(explosives make you more paranoid) , and that's why this is a deathworld and ninja are so crazy in general.
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There's no need for a magical explanation for why sealing seems to make sealmasters crazy. I propose three non-magical effects working together.

First, people who choose to continue studying sealing after the risks have been made sufficiently clear to them are probably at least a little bit cracked to begin with, so you've got an initial selection bias going on.

Second, studying and practicing sealing is an exercise in constant low level (or occasionally high level) mortal terror that something will go horribly, horribly wrong. It's the sort of stress you usually see in characters in Lovecraftian stories. To put it another way, seal masters pretty much all get PTSD/anxiety disorders because of the sheer psychological stress of the activity.

Third, the sealmasters who survive long are going to be the most paranoid and obsessive ones, so there's a survival bias going on slanting the sealmasters people encounter toward the paranoid and obsessive.

Jiraiya seems interesting in that he's potentially a notable exception. Somehow he managed to not let the stress get to him or turn him paranoid and obsessive, and he wasn't too cracked to start with.
 
TaliesinSkye said:
There's no need for a magical explanation for why sealing seems to make sealmasters crazy. I propose three non-magical effects working together.

First, people who choose to continue studying sealing after the risks have been made sufficiently clear to them are probably at least a little bit cracked to begin with, so you've got an initial selection bias going on.

Second, studying and practicing sealing is an exercise in constant low level (or occasionally high level) mortal terror that something will go horribly, horribly wrong. It's the sort of stress you usually see in characters in Lovecraftian stories. To put it another way, seal masters pretty much all get PTSD/anxiety disorders because of the sheer psychological stress of the activity.

Third, the sealmasters who survive long are going to be the most paranoid and obsessive ones, so there's a survival bias going on slanting the sealmasters people encounter toward the paranoid and obsessive.

Jiraiya seems interesting in that he's potentially a notable exception. Somehow he managed to not let the stress get to him or turn him paranoid and obsessive, and he wasn't too cracked to start with.
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How old is Jiraiya? Maybe he was trained by those from Whirlpool?

We should ask him who trained him some time.
 
eaglejarl said:
Unlikely. Most commonly, the application crashes and you're back at the desktop. Next most likely is that the operating system crashes and you get a Blue Screen of Death (or the equivalent for non-Windows platforms). It's very unlikely that a software error could actually cause the machine to power down.
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Virii generally can't do anything irreversible to a machine other than delete data, but there is the occasional rare exception. My favorite virus ever was a 1980s batch file virus that took advantage of the displays of the day offering manual control over line refresh to any program that wanted it. The virus just refreshed one line a few thousand times before moving on to the next, physically burning out the whole display permanently.

You've gotta hand it to a virus programmer when they find a way to actually trash hardware. With bonus points if they can find a way to light it on fire. It's not an easy thing to do, even in the 1980s when driver writers still did foolishly naive and trusting things on occasion.
 
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MMKII said:
*forlornly stares at three stacks of publications in the To Read pile and an unfinished lesson plan for tomorrow*

Aye, my sentiments as well.
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*enormous sympathy*

*stares at open MfD tabs that I am super excited to deal with*
*stares at stacks of books I want to read for self improvement*
*stares at folder on my laptop full of cool MOOC videos*
*stares at list of online resources I want dig into through*
*...*
*stares at folder full of technical papers for project 1*
*stares at folder full of technical papers for project 2*
*stares at folder full of technical papers for project 3*

*...cries*
 
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OliWhail said:
*enormous sympathy*

*stares at open MfD tabs that I am super excited to deal with*
*stares at stacks of books I want to read for self improvement*
*stares at folder on my laptop full of cool MOOC videos*
*stares at list of online resources I want dig into through*
*...*
*stares at folder full of technical papers for project 1*
*stares at folder full of technical papers for project 2*
*stares at folder full of technical papers for project 3*

*...cries*
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I recommend scheduling. Perhaps try lists? :whistle:
 
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