M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
Rather think @AquilaIgnis means Fred and George Weasley. Pranksters, not space pirates.
M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
To be fair, Laz and Lor did the same. I do not remember if Castor and Pollux Stone (another pair of redheaded twins created by RAH) did likewise.I think the reference was to the Weasly twins and their 'Twinspeak'
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
Feeding snarks bothers me. Observations of Eden show that parts of her have started glowing.
What if feeding too many snarks is an Entity equivalent to CPR, and they wake her up?
What if feeding too many snarks is an Entity equivalent to CPR, and they wake her up?
Virdin
Currently procrastinating, try again later.
- Location
- US
If it ever seem to happen, there is a device specially made to kill it, which would be used. It is called "Plot device".
Too much caffeine induced bad joke...
- Location
- Barcelona, Catalunya, EU (for now)
Okay. Now bury me with the rest of the Neanderthals... I feel sooo old right now...I think the reference was to the Weasly twins and their 'Twinspeak'
OH! A FELLOW NEANDERTHAL! I'm sooo happy!
And yes, IIRC Lazarus asked the twins not to do that, until he realized that not talking like that hampered the thought processes of both of them.
- Location
- Phillips County, Colorado
"And stop calling her Seymour. You'll get people to start asking questions, damnit."
That would be an oopsie.
- Location
- Russia
Maybe Taytay can talk to Eden and cause her to do a Leet over her partner's stupidity? Or maybe her own
- Location
- Russia
Honestly, I expect him to accidentally end up building a Culture-grade flying tank. Because his shard is also grateful to Taylor.
- Location
- Barcelona, Catalunya, EU (for now)
You know, some times I read that as "Indiference Engine", and other times as "Interference Engine" due to how nosy and snarky Lisa is.
Most of the time I read it correctly, though.
And I think you don't think large enough.
Only a Fleet of Fog Yamato-class battleship, complete with dual Mental Models, will be enough to protect Taylor and show at the same time how grateful Leet's snark actually is.
What? Taylor said "platform" without being specific in the size, except that it should be able to carry passengers.
EDIT: Adding spoilered pics...
EDIT2: The spoiler tags are not working for me. Are they working for everyone else??
EDIT3: Fixed. Don't put quotes, either single or double, in the spoiler titles.
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- Location
- <CLASSIFIED>
I'm thinking more about something that can give a Culture-grade flying tank or Bolo (or a star destroyer for that matter) a run for their money in terms of armour and armaments but still looks like a car. A car that can do the trip to Pluto (for ice-fishing) in less than a hour.
YuffieK
(Verified Ninja Princess)
King Vitaman actually, Captain Crunch doesn't have cereal bits shaped like COGS.
"It's a HEROIC part of a balanced breakfast."
"Now with marshmallow halberds!"
The boxes have collectible masks on the back...
- Location
- Barcelona, Catalunya, EU (for now)
Wait.
No "Tinker Crunch Decoder Ring" inside?
HERESY!
No "Tinker Crunch Decoder Ring" inside?
HERESY!
- Location
- Море песка, солнце огня и множество злых сарацин
...every time I see "Miss Hebert" and "Miss Militia" in the same paragraph, I start imagining the latter as actually being named Militia.
(I don't think her last name ever came up in canon? It almost certainly isn't Militia, though.)
Like me. I was all "wait, isn't Sarah already on that list? and isn't she normally known as Lisa, anyway?"
Took me almost half a minute to realize that she was talking about Sarah Pelham.
It's so obviously this that I now expect CmptrWz to be trolling and have it actually be for something else entirely.
Yeah, thought about pretty much the same thing...
...yeah, that story is a major part of why Ivan the Awesome became Ivan the Terrible.
(The correct modern translation, as noted by Wikipedia, is probably Ivan the Formidable. I don't think I've seen "Ivan the Dreaded" before, though... I wonder if "Ivan the Dreadful" is attested?)
(Oh, and the pic really should be spoilered for gore.)
Now I'm wondering about Gideon and Fabian Prewett...
(What book was the Laz and Lor twin-speak thing from again, by the way? I don't recall it coming up in Time Enough For Love, and I haven't read much of the other books where that family shows up.)
Culture-grade would be tricky, because that comes with a high-end inbuilt AI. I'm not sure if the capabilities of Leet's shard extend that far...
...Doubly true for this one - and I thought of that turn of phrase before I realized the pun it would make
I agree on the size, though. Admittedly getting the sheer amount of materials might be tricky - then again, IIRC, the Boat Graveyard is still a thing in this continuity...
...Or it could work like the Skidbladnir, and just fold away when not in use. Would definitely save on the amount of materials - while probably still doable with tinkertech (well, Leet's version of it, anyway).
And not really on-topic for any recent discussion, but I've been wondering - just what, exactly, was Gordon's plan with the snark attack? What would the result have been if he didn't end up missing?
(Sorry if that's a spoiler.)
YuffieK
(Verified Ninja Princess)
- Location
- Barcelona, Catalunya, EU (for now)
Nanomaterials, son.
Once you have the dual Union Cores working and able to project the Mental Models, they will grab everything in the Boat Graveyard, and land-based scrapyards, and all underwater wrecks in a wide area.
"Oooh, look, it's the wreck of DD-468 USS Taylor!"
"Wasn't that ship scrapped in Italy?"
"Who cares about historical accuracy? Let's make nanomaterials out of it!"
"Who cares? I suspect our author is about to find out..."
Personal note:
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
Hmmm. While not really possible, it would be funny if...
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- Location
- Море песка, солнце огня и множество злых сарацин
Seconding that one. Should have thought of it.How about Gay Deceiver, from RAH's "The Number of the Beast"
(Still think she has some connection with Gay-Do...)
[EDIT: the latter is from Kir Bulychov's Girl from Earth series]
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Psychologists? Who has the time? All of them have full-time jobs in the Protectorate (and in Alexandria's case a second full-time job running the PRT) along with the second full-time job being the Edgiest Edgelords being Edgy; who has time to make sure they're actually sane?
- Location
- Canada
*grimace* That sounds unpleasant.
*blinks* Wait, what? What on earth possessed him/her to try that?
I meant the Weasley twins, actually. I'm not familiar with those two.
I've never even heard of King Vitaman. How old is it? (On a side note, wouldn't the cogs be better for Mechanicus cereal? [40k])
*thumbs up* Nice slogan!
You know, I find it very strange that I've never considered the more mundane tinker specializations. Like, I've never thought of a tinker who specializes in food, for example.
- Location
- USA
There is a good fanfic about Taylor as a thinker who specialized in food - Path to Munchies
Might actually be a good thing, in this 'verse. Who knows what her real motivations and MO is for these kind of things, the "using all earths in the multi-verse for energy" might only be a thing after all the suns are going red on us.