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I was curious about the laser pointer reference, and interested to find that such devices were indeed in use (and probably amusing cats, though I failed to find sources on that) by '89.
 
October Daye said:
At the end of the last proper chapter, I mentioned I was dropping it right as FFXIV Endwalker dropped. I spent most of the next 48 hours getting put through the emotional wringer, with a major climax of crying my eyes out to this song while the game one-upped FF9's classic You Are Not Alone moment. In a quest with that exact title.

I was going through the expansion with 2 friends. All three of us had to stop and take, like, an hour plus to collect ourselves after that quest before we challenged the last dungeon and final boss.

Once FFXIV was done keeping its grip on me for a good long while... I got incredibly busy with life. Which was... not fun. Not fun at all.
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Entirely reasonable, yes.

That was, uh
A sequence. That I am now tearing up a little at just remembering and listening to the song again lol.
 
Wait is Boris Becker that kind of an asshole? Like in real life?
 
Lunaryon said:
I am very confused about what her plan is to deal with this
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defamation is pretty tricky to win, but I think she has a case of defamation per se (playing in a professional competition as a mutant can be considered acting unethically, but idk NY's exact laws on it) or workplace defamation (? less sure on that).

At any rate, proving the statement was injurious will be easy, as will proving it was made by a third party and wasn't privileged. What will be more difficult will be proving the statement was made with at least negligent intent (does NY require this part? idk), and what will be most difficult is proving it was a false statement of fact.

I think her play here is to prove the 'he played impossibly well' was a false statement of fact since the mutant assertion can't be legally proven either way.

just my guess. lookin' forward to how it plays out~
 
This was treat. I loved the new character lineup. Sophie was just as much a treat to read as it was for Noa to talk to her. I'm looking forward to getting to know Joshua more, and his employment is an interesting window into the system's nepotism (even if it's a kinder application of nepotism than usual). I'm especially looking forward to him helping Noa be on top of the digitization of legal work.

And this coming case! The way you write trials makes them read almost like a mystery sometimes, I'm very much looking forward to seeing the threads of this one get teased out.
 
Possible angle of attack. You can't just stop being a mutant.

Therefore someone with the occasional outlier is just statistics.

But someone who is consistently ridiculously good might be a mutant. Do you believe that Mr. Becker?
 
Jinx999 said:
Possible angle of attack. You can't just stop being a mutant.

Therefore someone with the occasional outlier is just statistics.

But someone who is consistently ridiculously good might be a mutant. Do you believe that Mr. Becker?
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You can't stop being a mutant, but many mutants can forgo the use of their power. For example, a precognitive tennis player could purposely ignore their extra insight.
 
Hatter said:
Now it's time to throw legal papers at people and say you just got served.
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Noa is pretty wealthy due to her severance pay from LL%L as well as the shares she owns in Stark Industries, so coupled with her reputation for integrity as well as rabble-rousing in court she wouldn't be likely to be seen taking a backhander :)

SuperHeavy said:
I mean the case itself is ridiculous because if testing is impossible then any loser can just claim the other person was a mutant. Which of course means DC civilians would be all over it.
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X-Men is a Marvel property, not a DC one. On the other hand if this is a reference to civilians in Washington DC, then mea culpa.


October Daye said:
Picked him because he has a reputation for arrogance. In a sport like tennis, yes. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to go from that to this.
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1989 was the only year in OTL in which Becker won two Grand Slam titles (French Open and US Open) and he's 22 years old, so it's no surprise that he thinks he's riding high. It might contribute to an angry reaction at being deprived of victory by a relative unknown, even though Carter's record seems to indicate he was consistently improving. On the other hand I'm wondering if Becker's manager rather than Becker himself might be pushing him to go for the mutant angle.
 
October Daye said:
Picked him because he has a reputation for arrogance. In a sport like tennis, yes. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to go from that to this.
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But it would be too much stretch for Becker because his wife is Barbara Becker.

Just remember to put into your writing why a guy who would be willing to marry a black woman in 1993 and cause controversy in Germany because of that is accusing his victorious opponent in 1989 of being a mutant.

Edit: Also that Becker is the kind of guy who sleeps around to the point that he has a daughter Anna Ermakova out of wedlock and two broken marriages behind him right now.

Edit: Well that was some badly written text. Same meaning just less elementary schoolyard in it.
 
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SoaringJe said:
I think her play here is to prove the 'he played impossibly well' was a false statement of fact since the mutant assertion can't be legally proven either way.
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It is possible he actually did play impossibly well and the ball m moved in ways which defy a conventional understanding of physics or something like that.

To determine whether or not it is really possible without special assistance you might need to get a physics professor or someone to create a physics model of the shots.

I wonder how the bookies would feel about the whole situation.
 
Dmol8 said:
But it would be too much stretch for Becker because his wife is Barbara Becker.

Just remember to put into your writing why a guy who would be willing to marry a black woman in 1993 and cause controversy in Germany because of that is accusing his victorious opponent in 1989 of being a mutant.

Edit: Also that Becker is the kind of guy who sleeps around to the point that he has a daughter Anna Ermakova out of wedlock and two broken marriages behind him right now.

Edit: Well that was some badly written text. Same meaning just less elementary schoolyard in it.
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I would also note that (can't recall he gossip from back then )That she was a actress and that racism in German is present but not identical to the way that it manifests in the US (ie someone brown that speaks German like a native has some advantages over someone that is white and doesn't)

Also amusingly Becker was thrown put of the German national team when he was a kid a few years before Wimbledon because a trainer thought he lacked talent.
And he also noted in the past that he very much knows the comparative advantages that his parents and home in west Germany gave him .
So it might be a case of 2 different perceptions of racism , or a missunderstanding of cheating, or being a young idiot that gave some heated words and is now stuck in them.
 
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With the way Marvel presents it I'd assume there's a fairly easy way to tell if someone is a mutant, line them up with 3 lookalikes and get 100 people to rank how much they like them. Whoever is ranked dead last by 90% of people is probably a mutant.
 
Ok, I'm a tad confused, Noa can generate light and bend it to create illusions/glamour.
Which parts of that are due to her being a mutant and which are due to learning sorcery?
 
oh fuck man this is the 80s for crying out loud, like I don't know about tennis in particular, but I'm willing to bet a good plurality if not majority of his peers that got so tilted at Canter's unexpected victory are doped up to their gills just like almost every other professional sport at this time. And that's not even getting into the 80s as this Rocky IV era of never-before-seen sophistication in nutritional science and crazy dieting fads and in kinesiology and body-building with space age gyms. Honestly even without being a Mutant, Canter and all the rest of them are probably still lower-m mutants.
 
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