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Hm...doesn't seem to work well with big images...is there a way to make images smaller?

And I personally hope that Piecewise will finish the Perplexicon book first, before getting into this again.

Me too, actually.

#lifecomplete

Why does everyone hashtag? #Meta

Wait a second; I just thought of a question. (Yep, right after your question-answering post. )
When magic is mostly gone, what happens to the wizards? Is it the downside of playing characters who are probably more powerful than dwarves, humans, and all the rest?

We write books and get famous.

"That makes sense to a point, but you seem to be taking it to a point where you're saying that what's actually written doesn't matter at all..."

"Another kid who was with us. He went missing when we came here."

((Between looking up a certain definition and typing this out--and thinking about definitions of various words--you added a couple pages or so while I typed. Nice.))

...and as per usual, Ricardo would be slightly irritated by how it manages to interpret every single literary technique as a representation of death, suffering or something equally depressing.

((Sounds like the inverse of my high school World Lit class.))

"Yes, Professor Nikki has already explained your, extraneous circumstances to me."

Angel shifted slightly.

"This new topic is post-structuralism and semiotics, to put it simply, post-structuralism is the literary and academic idea, that the composer can go fuck themselves."

Don't swear! There are children in this classroom!, Angel wanted to say.

It may be considered as an application of semiotics in a literary manner. Let's explain it via example, shall we?" The projector produces, in large block letters, the word 'cat' onto the screen behind Ricardo. "What is the definition of cat?"

((...Only one way to answer this question.))
"Quadruped. Carnivorous. Thirty teeth, namely fourteen molars, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisors. Sheds coat in the spring. Claws hard, but requiring to be trimmed if domestic. Age known by marks in iris." Thus (and much more) Bitzer.
((Cookie for the reference.))

"Let's go with Miss Martin's definition for now, as it is longer and does not cause an infinite loop. Yet. Define 'fur'."

((This is more boring.))
"A body covering of mammals, composed of strands of keratin."

"Define 'fur', define 'member', define 'order'."

"Member: A part of a set. Order: A taxonomic classification, under class and containing genera."

Fur, member, order.

"Those aren't definitions, Darnos! You're not even trying!"

Ricardo smiles vaguely in a playfully sinister manner "Let's speed this up, shall we? Define 'to'."

"Tee-Oh, Tee-Oh-Oh, or Tee-Double-Yoo-Oh?"

"Define 'a'."

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"I personally define it as 'a name with masculine connotations.'"

"The letter or the article?"

"Define 'of'."

"Belonging to."

"Exactly. This house of cards we call 'language' goes on forever, yet, it also stands upon itself... as Darnos illustrated by defining each word as itself, it loops. There is no final meaning. There is no final definition, for each definition never brings us to any truth, only deferring the meaning further. Such is the basis of semiotics and by extension post structuralism. Permit me to ask two more questions, one: 'when do we stop defining and say that the definition is good enough?' and two: 'how does the word 'cat' or its fractal definitions remind us of an actual cat?'"

"When we are capable of understanding the definition and by triggering a connection between the word and our schema of the feline form."

"Correct. Define as far you wish, for your own purposes, if it doesn't fit your argument, define it further until it does. And yes, there is no connection between the signifying symbol, the word 'cat', and an actual cat. Darnos defined 'cat' as 'cat' and Fluffy defined it as 'meow'. They are both correct as well. hose are their interpretations, what they signify to them. Do you understand me?"

"Are you going to say that books can be interpreted however we want, too?"

Jack stood, about to say something, but he was speechless.
After a short while, he spoke.
"You know what, good luck with that. Be sure to magic up a message later on to tell me how that goes, I'll be going with them."
Jack got up and went over to the treasure hunters, turning back once.
"And for the record, it was your idea to have Wells do it, it should have been me to use that disc."

"I know! There's nothing we can do now, and risking our lives in a fruitless quest to find Wells isn't doing him any favors!"

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 12, 2013, 01:57:04 pm

"Next question: If this desert is so inhospitable, what are the chances that Wells would be alive if he's in it? And if he's not--Drip, how big did you say the desert place was?"

"If I had to guess.. about [650,000 square kilometres], but that's just a guess. It doesn't take very long to cross if you know what you're doing.

"...So he's either in the desert, or far enough away and in a large enough area that we'll never find him unless we can get every man, woman, and child on the lookout. And he survives long enough."

What do you mean, "finding and exploiting weaknesses"? Just a specialized version of Will's power, or do you have an enhanced ability to exploit them? Also, what kind of weaknesses?