You fool, he has updates to write!
Oh no, we didn't get the post-interaction survey approved! J is going to kill us!
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
- Thread starter eaglejarl
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- naruto rational rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
You fool, he has updates to write!
Oh no, we didn't get the post-interaction survey approved! J is going to kill us!
- Location
- The Deep Blue Sea
You'll be fine, the Elemental Nations hasn't discovered informed consent yet.
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
tbh both 'informed' and 'consent' is underdeveloped in the EN
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- Stuck in the Kamui Dimension!
I'm not even remotely informed of the inner workings of the solar balloon but i will look it up in-depth tommorow because right now it's 5:12 am here
though i had that worry as well about it catching fire...
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
How am I supposed to write a grant proposal then?!
- Location
- Under a Rock
Wait, aren't dyes valuable with 12th century tech? We might be able to make money by grinding stuff up and seeing what makes pretty colors.
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- Stuck in the Kamui Dimension!
Last past for the night:
Don't they already dye their clothes to and they probably use hair dye for infiltration so it may not be that valuable, maybe devise a plan for the next chapter so Hazoe checks how much dye costs if we don't already have that information.
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- NY
There's a joke here, but I don't remember it.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
It's simple.How am I supposed to write a grant proposal then?!
The grant proposal is meant to take place inside the Elemental Nations, and has to pass an NSF review. The obvious solution to this seeming contradiction is that an entire NSF review board gets spontaneously isekai'd for the purpose of reviewing this grant proposal. Take this in mind as you craft the paper and you should be fine.
TaliesinSkye
Occasional Editor
- Location
- Northeast Ohio, United States
Depending on how explosive seals work, a heat seal sounds like it's similar to an explosion seal, just a lot slower. We might be able to engineer one on that basis.
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NSF? If the grant proposal has military applications, can we use ONR's, ARO's, or DARPA's instead? Those tend to be simpler.
Well, the first one can summon extradimensional creatures of immense power to do his or her bidding; and the second one is primarily a CQC spec, who comes up with overly convoluted plans that always need to be adjusted by the first one, and that invariably lead to disaster when they aren't. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out who is who.
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I'm still sorry we didn't get to know her better...
Dissonance
Luna's Luna
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- Ginnungagap.
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@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail can this get an apocrypha threadmark? "An Abridged History of MfD up to [now]" or something?
Strictly speaking, it'll forevermore be post-update.
"We're in a world that's entirely like Australia on steroids, Amy just got eaten by a giant ostrich, Engin was exploded by some... plant? and that asshole stabbed Daniel WITH A BALL OF LIGHTNING IN HIS HAND! AND YOU WANT US TO REVIEW A GRANT PROPOSAL AFTER THIS?!"
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- USA
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Fixed, thanks.
Yes, if you obey volume and mass limitations, the single-object rule, find a workable method for storing burning magnesium without destroying the seal in the process, identify a way to refine magnesium with 12th century tech, and find a plausible way for Hazō to come up with the plan given a total lack of knowledge about the periodic table, unusual metals, the burning characteristics of magnesium, and pretty much every bit of science more sophisticated that the loom.
You're absolutely right, but that's not the point. It was difficult to follow by intent, to give a sense of how challenging it is to follow someone else's stream of consciousness... And also because it let me sneak things onto the page.
Nope, sorry. My company is writing an NSF grant. If we need to experience the misery, so do y'all. Besides, if y'all do a really good job we might want to hire you to actually write our grant. :>
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- florida
"A wizard did it
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Dissonance
Luna's Luna
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- Ginnungagap.
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Wait apocrypha isn't right, it'd be informational. Stercus, mea culpa.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
Oh, no, I understand that. I was responding to the thread playing around with the concept, not to the update.
No, it was an example of playing around with the format: a footnote which is not referenced anywhere, and could only be found by reading the message straight through, a "secret" footnote.
Numbering is a bit more complicated. Text is divided into "layers": layer-0 is the main text, layer-1 is the sum of all footnotes referenced in the main text, layer-2 is the sum of all footnotes referenced in the footnotes which are referenced in the main text, and so on. Numbering doesn't go straightforwardly, it goes per-layer: if layer-0 contains 3 footnotes and layer 1 contains 1, they'll be numbered 1-2-3, and then the footnote in layer-1 will be numbered 4 — even if it's referenced in footnote #1 and will be read before footnotes 2 and 3.
Example of "straightforward" numbering:
There, we start reading the main text, encounter a footnote, start reading it, meet two new footnotes inside that footnote, read them, return to the main text, and encounter another footnote. They're numbered in order of encounter: 1-2-3-4.
Example of "per-layer" numbering I use:
There, if we're reading footnotes as they come up, we'll end up reading them in the following order: 1-3-4-2. However, footnotes in layer-0 sensibly go 1-2, and footnotes in layer-1 go 3-4; as opposed to straightforward numbering, where in layer-0 footnotes would go 1-4.
It's harder to write, but seems more aesthetically pleasing.
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Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Hivemind Collective Grantwriting Agency?
I didn't actually find the parentheses hard to follow at all, but I also wrote like that myself until my english teachers broke me of the habit in high school.
"Yes, we do. Note that for every day a review is late, we will remove a fingernail. Once you are out of fingernails and toenails, we will proceed to knuckles and beyond. On the plus side, you are allowed to recommend summary execution of the applicant if you feel that the application warrants it."
"Are the reviewers kept anonymous, at least?"
"In theory, yes. But, you know: ninja."
- Location
- Potato land
@Velorien writing a pre-battle verbal duel between Hazou and Keiko? I shudder at the thought. We need good interlude ideas asap.
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- Stuck in the Kamui Dimension!
This would be a general question for the world.
1) Are we allowed to know anything about the world you're building or have build beyond what Hazou already knows?
2) And if we can, then I have to ask how much knowledge do the EN have of astrology, mathematics and chemistry and medicine as in what each organ does what are it's illnesses and cures for them and stuff like that, because some people in the community say that the world that Hazou is in is based on 12th century Japan, that means that they have absolutely no knowledge of mathematics and astrology probably even any medical knowledge.
3)I mean the people of the EN are basically just stabbing each other with sharp sticks and have some extremely basic farm that are probably harvested by hand. And what about political knowledge of the EN. Everyone is pretty much at each other's throats. Right?
4)Last question would be, if the world has no knowledge of mathematics or astrology the first thing to do for the advancement of the world would be political stabilization or "world peace" so that the EN can focus on advanced education and exploring theory's and concepts. Pretty much a Renaissance. Right?
I am asking these questions because for even the most basic hot air balloon development or even zeppelins we need extensive knowledge of what kind of technology and understanding of the world does the EN even have.
I have looked up a few flying vehicles like the hovercraft, but with wings and the mini trike, and it would seem that even if we replace the propeller and the engine with a wind elemental seal with directional capabilities or wind wall seal it would be still very challenging. Here is the mini trike video to see the basic concept of the flying vehicle we could build:
And the hot air balloon seems plausible with the black plastic bag like material and for what I have read about it, it wouldn't catch fire, but I'm not 100% sure, and even if we manage to build a hot air balloon with the black material there is air temperature to consider, like we can't fly at night or at morning or even during hot days or rainy or cloudy days. Because there would be no lift, and we have to take in the consideration of the humid air that we pump inside the balloon or zeppelin. That's why I propose that for flying vehicle it might be better to build something like the mini trike.
1) Are we allowed to know anything about the world you're building or have build beyond what Hazou already knows?
2) And if we can, then I have to ask how much knowledge do the EN have of astrology, mathematics and chemistry and medicine as in what each organ does what are it's illnesses and cures for them and stuff like that, because some people in the community say that the world that Hazou is in is based on 12th century Japan, that means that they have absolutely no knowledge of mathematics and astrology probably even any medical knowledge.
3)I mean the people of the EN are basically just stabbing each other with sharp sticks and have some extremely basic farm that are probably harvested by hand. And what about political knowledge of the EN. Everyone is pretty much at each other's throats. Right?
4)Last question would be, if the world has no knowledge of mathematics or astrology the first thing to do for the advancement of the world would be political stabilization or "world peace" so that the EN can focus on advanced education and exploring theory's and concepts. Pretty much a Renaissance. Right?
I am asking these questions because for even the most basic hot air balloon development or even zeppelins we need extensive knowledge of what kind of technology and understanding of the world does the EN even have.
I have looked up a few flying vehicles like the hovercraft, but with wings and the mini trike, and it would seem that even if we replace the propeller and the engine with a wind elemental seal with directional capabilities or wind wall seal it would be still very challenging. Here is the mini trike video to see the basic concept of the flying vehicle we could build:
And the hot air balloon seems plausible with the black plastic bag like material and for what I have read about it, it wouldn't catch fire, but I'm not 100% sure, and even if we manage to build a hot air balloon with the black material there is air temperature to consider, like we can't fly at night or at morning or even during hot days or rainy or cloudy days. Because there would be no lift, and we have to take in the consideration of the humid air that we pump inside the balloon or zeppelin. That's why I propose that for flying vehicle it might be better to build something like the mini trike.
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- Stuck in the Kamui Dimension!
I have one more idea for the kawarimi that might have been proposed before, but I have no knowledge of. I read that the kawarimi can switch the person with an object and that it switches the momentum and directions of the objects. That means that if Hazou is facing a target from the front, to throw a log with immense momentum at it someone would have to throw the log before hand in the same forward direction as Hazou is currently facing, and if the log is thrown and Hazou has visual contact with the log he can switch with it and the log would pretty much keep the forward direction and momentum it had before hand. right?
So that pretty much Hazou could use the kawarimi as a launcher to attack his target right?
And if he has the time (2 Sec delay between kawarimi?) he can probably switch again for the surprise attack with a kunai or something.
So that pretty much Hazou could use the kawarimi as a launcher to attack his target right?
And if he has the time (2 Sec delay between kawarimi?) he can probably switch again for the surprise attack with a kunai or something.
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- Location
- Liverpool
I think you're at the point where it might just be easier to read the story it find that stuff out first hand
Also you can't substitute with a kunai, since the object has to be close in size. There's also the page that has a list of jutsu we know and what they do, that's helpful to check as well.
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- London
So avoid the grant proposal unless we want to deal with a bunch of unaligned nascent gods?