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TaliesinSkye said:
I think it's less distracting in a foreign language, and Richelieu is the name of a province rather than a title for a person anyway. (Even if French insists on gendering everything.)
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Not a province, but indeed a place. The proper name of the Cardinal was Armand du Plessis de Richelieu, as his father was lord of Richelieu town. However, for French Nobility, name of the place of origin became family name or was incorporated into it ( the most famous example I can think of is Bourbon). So it is a moot point.

EDIT: and they kept the name of the place as family name even when no longer ruling it or even French any longer (see Familly of Orange).

EDIT 2: It seems it was not strictly limited to French nobility, though most of the cases I can think of are.

EDIT 3: other cases d'Artagnan, Cyrano de Bergerac, Bayard, Turenne, Conde, Guise, Giscard d'Estaing ......
 
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Kryslin said:
And so Princess of Wales sailed on, almost completely unaware of the figurative storm she would be causing when she called upon the port of Brockton Bay, New Hampshire, United States.
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I can't wait for the storm to impact with the sight of her glomping Leet screaming "DADDY!"
Kryslin said:
The screen cleared, showing a man sitting at a desk. He had graying hair, brown eyes, wore glasses, and looked very much the part of an engineer. "Hello," the man started off. "You may not know who I am; my name is Andrew Richter. I do not know how you found this debugging terminal for my daughter, and I do not care. I can only assume that since it is not in my possession, I am dead or similarly incapacitated, you've stolen it from me, or possibly both. Normally, this would not be a matter of importance.

"However, this message is playing because you interfered with my daughter's development. As this terminal gave you direct access to her mind, you could have thoroughly destroyed her. As it is, you'll now find this extremely difficult to do."
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Heh. Mess with daddy's little girl, and he will find a way to strike you from the grave.
Kryslin said:
HMAS Arunta is a Tribal class destroyer, a sister to HMCS Haida.
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And hurting Arunta will get the Canadians involved. And nobody wants to do that.
jmcdavid said:
Pardon me. Saint needs a proper funeral procession for any chances he may have ever had.

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Nah, that's far and away too good for the idiot.
 
Muahaha. I'd feel bad for Saint, but he's like Coil in that regard: anything is too kind for them. :p

Also, thanks to you, I now have a mental skit of Narwhal kicking down the door in some move out of Looney Tunes, before chucking in a confoam grenade that explodes in cartoonish fashion shortly before geysers of foam shoot out the windows, door, and chimney.

I like that this was done as a Richter's Revenge move, where he was more balanced than the usual assumption made of his character. That's rare, but it makes sense seeing some of the inspirations in this story.

So, Dragon is now freed to plot how to better work her wiles on Armsmaster...
But we have a new contestant approaching! Will the Princess of Wales also fall for the socially-inept Tinker? Find out more in the next episode... :D
 
Saint should have used the switch instead of keeping it around like Batman keeps the Joker around. Now Skynet is about to revoke you.😬😁
 
Remember, Saint is a Teacher thrall. Not that Saint was aware of this. "Killing" dragon would be the same as killing Teacher, thus can't do that! He's also an egomaniac. If he was actually that worried about the 'evil AI' he would have used the kill switch immediately. Instead, he used the debug console to steal Dragon's suits and go from petty looting the dead to having a mercenary career. Oh, this is another of the reasons he likely didn't use the kill switch. If he had, he wouldn't be able to get replacement Dragon Suits every time one of his stolen suits got trashed. Not to mention he would no longer have the ego boost of being "the only thing stopping Dragon from wiping out humanity". Thus he consoled himself with "it's useful, for now. But as soon as it shows it's true nature I'm ending that monster." Nevermind that said "true nature" was already on display.
 
Sanza26 said:
Was that Levi-tan? Or some other highly perceptive subject?
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I will confirm that this was, in fact, Leviathan. And from the given position, (South of Cape Horn, South America) the long route back to the Indian Ocean is past the unknown (by about 2000 km/1080 naut. miles). Oops, mea culpa.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Bandwidth issues, and what does the ship need bandwidth for as part of it's normal operations? Also, how many internet capable terminals are there?
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You are starting to get into classified territory with that, but figure between 1/5 to 1/2 the crew's worth of unclassified terminals, depending on class of ship. Facebook was popular enough to force using the "mobile" website, email of various flavors, computer based training from a central land-based site, the occasional Youtube/streaming media site (rare due to bandwidth issues), some miscellaneous sites, a version of VOIP telephone lines, and some unclassified reporting functions. The most annoying is when some supply puke got my ship kicked from the military internet for a month for going to an unauthorized website (that was supposed to have been blocked) and inadvertently downloading a virus while on deployment, the most amusing was an XO that was "relieved for cause" for surfing porn IN A US PORT from the ship.
 
J-Sail said:
You are starting to get into classified territory with that, but figure between 1/5 to 1/2 the crew's worth of unclassified terminals, depending on class of ship. Facebook was popular enough to force using the "mobile" website, email of various flavors, computer based training from a central land-based site, the occasional Youtube/streaming media site (rare due to bandwidth issues), some miscellaneous sites, a version of VOIP telephone lines, and some unclassified reporting functions.
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Which is exactly what my point was. It's not just "there are X people and 24 hours a day, how do we schedule things so everyone can go online." It's also all sorts of things which the public isn't aware of. The number of access terminals that aren't dedicated to ship use exclusively are probably limited. Bandwidth is limited. And how much of that bandwidth is used by official ship usage is always an important factor too. Then there's operational security issues too.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Which is exactly what my point was. It's not just "there are X people and 24 hours a day, how do we schedule things so everyone can go online." It's also all sorts of things which the public isn't aware of. The number of access terminals that aren't dedicated to ship use exclusively are probably limited. Bandwidth is limited. And how much of that bandwidth is used by official ship usage is always an important factor too. Then there's operational security issues too.
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True enough, though a combination of different shifts in a 24/7 format and the RHIP factor complicate that analysis. There was, at the time I left my last ship, an initiative that was being explored to allow a form of WIFI access on the ship: Official terminals were under the usual work/off-duty restrictions, morale only computers would be non-existent, but personal electronics could registered for a limited trust access for internal ship LAN use (limited LAN-party bandwidth available on occasion (EDIT: within the ship ONLY), supposedly) with software updates a possibility/email access.
 
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Oh, come on, it isn't THAT bad: They had to report and justify the MILSPEC $900 hammers and $1200 toilet seats in the late 80's. They've learned some things about info-share since then...

Actually, Federal law requires that consumable supplies be drawn from Lighthouse for the Blind, small business sources where possible, and certain equality promoting businesses in other categories. So... White industrial toilet paper that is somewhat on the more fragile side and able to be easily broken down by ships sewage processing before... disposal without clogging the pipes. If you clog the pipes with inappropriate TP, or worse underwear/t-shirts, the offenders tend to have a VERY bad time of it while on restriction/reduced pay.
 
Wild guess at a future snippet.

David goes to use the toilet, but then finds that there is no toilet paper left. Then he hears a voice ask, "Do you want the red paper or the blue paper?"
 
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