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Taylor Varga (Worm/Luna Varga)

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RHJunior said:
I do not know enough of this individual's actual beliefs and statements to make a judgment call on him, though if what has been said about him thus far is accurate I would disapprove.

My point is to note in passing that his "utterly unacceptable" and allegedly bigoted, irrational and sexist beliefs and statements would almost certainly be lauded by our current batch of social elites and their softly mooing mainstream as signs of genius if they came from a woman and were directed at men.

The phrase we're fishing for here is "double standard." That's crap, no matter what era you live in or how "changing" the times are.

And in further note, what little you've said of his attitudes-- particularly that women might be replaced by machines (at least as far as men are concerned)-- is an interesting echo of stuff said lately even by more sober minds. Supposedly an increasing number of young men these days are giving up not just on marrying and family-making but on the dating scene entirely... retreating from the field of battle, as it were (we could go on all day enumerating the social and cultural reasons WHY--- but calling it "a battlefield" and these men the Walking Wounded sums it up best) and filling in the resulting open space in their lives with things like hobbies, video games, porn :p.... and in increasing numbers, things like RealDoll.

Life-size, ultra realistic sex dolls should NOT be a growth industry. But it's a large enough phenomenon now that people are getting weirded out. They've reached a point where some of the new models have minicomputers inside them, can move a bit and talk.... the usual suspects (including a lot of feminists who are in a tizzy about it) are speculating about these proto-sex-bots, and how an entire generation of men might someday just chuck women entirely... Get those things to the point that they can fetch a beer and microwave a burrito, and they just might.

The difference between the radical fringe and the middle ground is shrinking at an alarming rate, ain't it.
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In brief, my point is that double standards are an intrinsic part of human social behaviour, and unless we all undergo radical brain surgery to convert us all into entirely consistent and logical homo economicus meat robots, that fact isn't going to change. I don't have much of an opinion on the oncoming gynoid apocalypse, but generally, if they make people happier than they otherwise would be, and barring the development of anything so utopian as technology or society ensuring that every human is attractive, socially adept and psychologically healthy, I don't really see a problem here,
 
EdBecerra said:
Doesn't even have to be that. I can't recall the title, but one of those independent comics that sprang up in the 90's had a hyper-muscular hero who made Kal-El look like a stick figure, and surprise! He was merely a pre-teen wearing a sort of fluid body suit that turned into a puddle of goo after too much use. But while it was working, he was one seriously dangerous opponent.

Taylor's pretty much focused - for obvious reasons - on reptilian-based bodies as a theme. But there's nothing to prevent Taylor, The Amy, and the Twin Terrors of Videogaming from coming up with a few bodies that look like the stereotypical flying brick.

In fact, if it weren't for copyright problems, both in-story and IRL, there's little to prevent The Amy from inventing a psuedo-Kryptonian, adding a stuff-space pocket so it could be worn, and there you go. Brocktonians would have to get used to a new chant in the streets...

"Look! Up in the sky!"

"It's a bird!"

"No, it's a plane!"

"No, it's..."

Heheheheh


That wouldn't terribly surprise me.

EDIT: Does anyone else remember that comic I mentioned? If I could only remember the publisher - there were so many indies during the 90's..
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You're thinking of Prime, I think. Which was one of the various Malibu comics. It stared a teenage boy who gained the power to create a "hero" form which turns into goo after he uses up all the "prime energy" it was empowered with. Other comics the company made were Nightman, The Strangers, Hardcase, and Rune. The company eventually got bought out by Marvel. This brought about a crossover where the kid who becomes Prime had a crossover storyline where he got trapped on Earth 616 for a while, and his Prime body was left on his Earth but without him, thus without a real conscience.

There was a short lived cartoon Team-up series called Ultra-Force that featured a bunch of Malibu's characters.
 
:cry: Just been chastised by my neighbour for my singing again... I've always been told my voice has amazing range but I couldn't carry a tune even if it were equipped with handles.

From a low baritone to a fairly decent tenor but I can't maintain a note. I blame everything but my lack of practice for this :p. I'm also fairly loud when I get in the mood to sing along with the radio.

This has lead a certain amount of banging on walls and floors by neighbours... :oops:
 
So my mind wandered to what the Family should be classified as since they are on record as not actually being reptiles. Since Tails are a large part of their identity and they are leaving hints of alien origins, I figure they are...

Rep-tail-iens
 
Anybody familiar with the DC/Worm crossover The Mage in the Bay? It's poorly written, frequently confusing as hell, and also one of the funniest things I've read since Hail to the King.

Is it based on some DC comic or other that I'm not familiar with? The author writes as though readers should know a ton of details about the non-Worm characters, but I've never heard of most of them.
 
IndulgingReader said:
Also the whole concepl of 100% self-sufficient intellinent living creatures must put any good economist into very strong confusion. For example, the whole bunch of ideas are inaplicable to them: malthusian ideology, marxism, etc. At the same time categorical imperative can be a thing. An instinct.
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Two exceptions they need: onions, and people to troll. Although they are more than capable of producing raw goods to trade, and hunting for opportunities.
 
dlskidmore said:
Two exceptions they need: onions, and people to troll. Although they are more than capable of producing raw goods to trade, and hunting for opportunities.
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So they're both alliumvores and trollivores.

[edit] As an example of the hilarity I alluded to earlier, here's an excerpt. To set the scene, Vista and Armsmaster visit the new casino where the Undersiders work. Alec (Regent) answers the door.

"If you work hard, despite these issues, it will be looked highly on as you move into the Protectorate proper," he added. Vista felt a sharp remark leave her mouth before she could stop it.

"Never enough to be the leader."

Armsmaster fist stopped just before knocking.

"Is it that important to you?" the question came softly.

Vista stiffened and the sharp remark felt like some dirty secret she let slip.

"...It wouldn't be if it was something I just wasn't good at or didn't measure up. I can't control my age, but someonelike Aegis who's good should still have been put in proper order, at least giving me a chance first," Vista spoke, deciding that being quiet would just make her look indecisive or immature.

Armsmaster knocked.

"Ambition isn't bad. It has its own problems, as does being the leader. When we get back, I'll see what we can do togive you more of an outlet. Thank you for letting me know this was bothering you," he said, voice a little less hard than normal.

Vista wanted to hit herself. Now Armsmaster was going to treat her like a spoiled kid who couldn't be happy with just being on a superhero team.

The door opened and a sleepy boy answered. Black curls, a cherubic face, and a hint of the devil in those eyes.

Vista swallowed quietly, trying to stare at the boy's nose and not his eyes.

"Oh, the superhero themed strippers I ordered finally came! Cool, you even got a dwarf to play Vista, love it," he stretched and Vista felt her beating heart begin to pump molten hate.
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EdBecerra said:
Doesn't even have to be that. I can't recall the title, but one of those independent comics that sprang up in the 90's had a hyper-muscular hero who made Kal-El look like a stick figure, and surprise! He was merely a pre-teen wearing a sort of fluid body suit that turned into a puddle of goo after too much use. But while it was working, he was one seriously dangerous opponent.

EDIT: Does anyone else remember that comic I mentioned? If I could only remember the publisher - there were so many indies during the 90's..
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I think your talking about a Vision comic, don't remember the name but he had a roll in the cartoon .
 
Just caught up on Taylor Varga again. Only took me two weeks or so...
...or, rather, after I actually started catching up, about one day.

mp3.1415player said:
Chicken, prawn, and anchovy, with jalepenos, red onion, and sweet corn. That's a pizza.

And the best bit is no one ever steals any of it :)

Not entirely certain why.
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It's probably the prawns.
(...what's the difference between prawns and shrimp again?)

Or, if the prawns are peeled (which they probably are), it's probably the anchovy. Only anchovy I've ever tried was as olive filling - I liked it that way, but I have no idea what it's like with non-olive ingredients...
Darth Thanatos said:
I do. Eeew.

I recently discovered a new favorite: tomato sauce, cheese, sobrassada, caramelized onion, and honey.
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Honey is the weird part here. Everything else is fine, but none of the other ingredients should go together with honey.
Sequal said:
In this case it is actually short for Epinephrine, the medicine that lets you survive anaphylactic shock. Epi-pen being the brand name for the pre-filled injector pen for emergencies. [/pharmacy tech mode]
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Fun fact: epinephrine is the exact same thing as adrenaline.

I guess they couldn't think of a good brand name involving "adrenaline" that wasn't taken already... or, more likely, they just thought that "adrenaline" has the wrong connotations.
Still the exact same thing, however.
DestinyPlayer said:
...now I imagined Taylor gathering an entire warehouse of Lisas in one place, and revealing herself all at once. The ultimate "Everybody Do the Flop" dance party.
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...She might not even need to reveal herself to all the Lisas.

It might well be enough to just reveal the Lisas to each other.
Ravenwood240 said:
That's the one. Great crack. And it's Lunar Harmony, the second best ship.
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And now I'm wondering what do you consider the first best ship...

...it's Skitterpan, isn't it?
(Is there a term for Taylor/Amy/Lisa yet?)
Virdin said:
When did MP died in canon, anyone?
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I don't think she ever died, as such. She did, however, end up as a non-dominant part of a split personality.

(Not sure when exactly that happened, either, but I think it was probably April or May.)
EdBecerra said:
I'll take a gladius, thank you. Pompeii pattern.

:D
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...wait, wasn't that one a pugio?
Anna Lynn said:
Ed is just everywhere, isn't he?
Everything interesting, he's in it.
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I wonder if he has an Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number...
Franklymydear said:
How are there not a dozen false alarms reporting her to be travelling to X when she's actually slipped past and gone to Y?
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If it's a sufficiently big trucking company, they can probably afford following all of that dozen anyway.

Besides, it doesn't really take that many successful sightings to make her worry.


[EDIT: accidentally posted before finishing the replies. Should be fixed now.]
 
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Not to mention this:

It's a MAFIA truck company. Presumably, they have the cash reserves to spare drivers going hunting, especially for hunting one who has personally pissed off the head of the organization in such a manner as to become 'creative' in his displeasure. Sophia is fractally fucked all the way down. If the Mafia doesn't get her, the FBI will. If the FBI don't get her, the PRT will. If the PRT doesn't get her, the Protectorate will. If the Protectorate doesn't get her, then Accord and the Elite will. If they don't get her, the Yangaban might. If she manages to slip all of that, The Family is going to have a giggle about her and do unspeakable things in the name of SCIENCE! to her.
 
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Lycanthromancer said:
Anybody familiar with the DC/Worm crossover The Mage in the Bay? It's poorly written, frequently confusing as hell, and also one of the funniest things I've read since Hail to the King.
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Yupp.
And while I agree that it is occasionally confusing, especially if one hasn't read "The one Ring" (which I haven't), I disagree with the the poorly written part. Sure, it'll never win a Nobel price in literature but it's still very readable.
And it's funny. Armsmaster's and Vista's liver-streamed dungeon crawl is my favorite chapter so far.
 
january1may said:
I wonder if he has an Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number...
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Amusingly enough, Alexa was shuffling through songs from Black Sabbath at the moment I read your post...

mp3.1415player said:
Well, if a crab can use a knife I expect a gecko can use a sword. It would have to be either a small sword or a large gecko, though...
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For the life of me, I can't recall the title, but there is a Worm fic where Skitter's helping the PRT, and Armsmaster, of all people, helps her upgrade a small army of crabs with Tinkertech tasers and drug darts. They simply drive up a van full of the critters and use them as semi-expendable shock troopers, much to the surprise of the folks they're trying to take down...
 
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I know it is/was on FF.net, and that it IS in my list of saved/alert fics.

Trouble is, my fic list on FF.net exceeds 2200 stories...

I'll try a few filtering tricks, and hopefully find it again.
 
Malcanthet said:
@EdBecerra How did that come about? That said though Crabs do make dang good shock troops before getting Tinkertech upgrades.
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Can't recall enough of the story to answer that - the crab scene simply stuck in my mind.

If you're asking about the number of stories, well, even after my stroke, I read far faster than most people can even imagine. A few doctors who investigated eventually came to the conclusion that while other people see (and read words), I see sentences, and when I'm at the top of my game, entire paragraphs.

Allow me to explain.

I think everyone here has been through the painful school experience of the teacher calling some other poor sod to read a passage of a book out loud, and they're terrible at it. They sound it out one word - one syllable, even! - at a time, and they can't even recall the beginning of the line by the time they've reached the end of it. (Used to make me want to hammer my head on my desk.) That halting, dragging, they-can't-even-understand-what-they're-reading, stumbling through the passage like zombies... uhg.

Myself? I see a sentence as one giant word. Full stop. I see paragraphs the way those sad kids described above saw individual words. And when I'm on a roll, paragraphs turn into single concepts, resulting in page-at-a-glance reading on my part.

My stroke took some of that away from me, but I still read at speeds that have the average Joe or Jane seething in frustration and envy. (Yes, I'm bragging just a little. When you can read Moby Dick in two hours - at the age of 9! - and then write a report on it in one hour, a report that had the teacher accusing me of plagiarism ("Admit it! Your parents wrote this for you! ADMIT IT!"), then you have every right to be smug about it.)

So I eventually accumulated a paperback library that some small towns would be envious of (several THOUSAND paperbacks!), and I STILL ran out of things to read.

Then, thank Jobs and Wozniak, the Internet was invented, and fanfic came on line! Hurrah! 90% of it was shit, but there was so much of it, even that remaining 10% was enough to (almost) sate my hunger for things to read.

'Nuff said.

Later, all. I'm pulling out my old copy of the original C-Ration Cookbook from the Tabasco Company and experimenting with old flavors from the past.

Good times, good friends. Too many of them have gone before. I'll get there eventually, guys. Promise.
 
Welp that sounds kinda like my kindergarten teacher. Except she would call me up because I had speech problems then tell me to sit down and not come up if I couldn't do it. Kinda plus side the Principal and her got fired when my mom caught her doing that.
 
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