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((That's pretty much all I have at this point...))

((You and me both, Daf.))

Quote from: javierpwn on March 23, 2014, 12:53:42 am

ridiculously monstrous mouths.

?

That's only mildly creepy.
Still fits the story...if she were about a thousand times taller.

Just in time, Ripriver finishes his ritual.

(FURIOUS TURBULENCE: 9+2 Position, 6+1-1DR, 5+1-1DR, 3+1-1DR)

The Valkyrie is destroyed! That was a little overkill, but whatever.

...
Congratulate and thank Ripriver. Wish that Fury was easier to come by.

Be Al, nothing wrong with being one of our current party members. Besides, earlier, by FFS including Ciro on being able to be left behind in the Underside, it implies Ciro doesn't become Comatose after switching.

+1. Briefly.

Warning: The following post is not approved for Creationist, conspiracy-theorist, or otherwise anti-science viewers.

I dunno. Her worldview. Science. Anything.

You shouldn't need convincing of "science". Specific theories, sure, but if you can't be convinced that science works, what can you be convinced of?

cheating is disapproved of in business?

SINCE WHEN?

Since corporations started being moral.

((Momo did nothing to cause this.
A god or god-like figure is watching Meme and gently manipulating events.
Meme is taking care of Mimi for now.))

1. I mean, what burden does Momo put on you?
2. ...That's kinda vague.

Conny continues her mutterings about a silly baby and adorable little hands.

Is there something I missed? Adorable little hands? Has Ashley always had those?

"HHHEEEEEeeeyyyyy... Your okay now... Whats up and... I need a shower..." Luna appears to have a hangover and/or may still be drunk.

...
Why was Luna drinking? Isn't she under the legal age?

"I'm going to make you a bloody mary."
Ashley does so.

And why is Ashley enabling her?

((What happened over the day?))

I started posting again. Will and Angel are missing.

((mission to grab Ashley back: success. 4 more of Kyles steampunk monstergirls moved in - among them a dragon male. Girl cursed by some slavic god moved in.))

Huh. Wait, more of Kyle's steampunk monstergirls?

((it's unbelievable how well the show fits the tone of this game.))

...Alright, what show?

Samson has gone back to his apartment in france until his flight in a few days. Missions and what not.

...Samson...the guy from the fight against Colrath?

Rose runs forward to see if Luna is alright.

Rose...um...I dunno.

<Then I don't have a true name. There is no name that can make me do absolutely anything nor is there one that I will always without a doubt answer to.>

Is it odd that Kyle is coming off like a Creationist to me? "Show me the souls/true names/etc. There are no souls/true names/etc! I haven't seen/don't understand them, they must not exist!"

<Science is about trying to learn stuff. Like that reason.>

Exactly. There is nothing beyond the understanding of science, merely beyond the understanding of specific scientists!

<Hmm no. That kinda stuff is for people full of doubt who lack confidence and need confirmation.>

"There is no proof! There are no theories!"
"Have some proven theories!"
"Bah, who needs that?"

<What? Never heared of tolerance and diversity? You don't need to go around and spread your worldview so everyone believes in it. That's just offensive.>

There's a difference between worldview and facts. I don't think it would be offensive to spread my worldview of heliocentricity* or the sky being blue. Why are other facts different?
*As opposed to geocentricity, not modern cosmology.

<It's not useful here though. Your model will no more make anyone overcome existential dread than an explanation of the dipol nature of the water molecule will quench someones thirst.

Dipole, and you're doing science wrong if you expect that. It's like saying that a sandwich has no value because it can't grant wishes.

<All of those are accurate and true observations, but they don't mean anything.>

That is a nonsensical statement.

<Also, souls are still not scientifically prove able so there is no way one can tell me that anything has one without being disregarded as an idiot.>

Kyle either doesn't understand science or is ignoring the proof. Definitely Creationistish thinking.

<There is hard proof that Anima is a god, and she sais there are souls. Is she not a credible enough source?>

How about, there is hard proof that Anima manipulates souls?

<And they can't show you a soul because it could be any number of things.>

And here we go with pre-emptive "This evidence isn't what the experts say it is!"

<None of our views are correct guys.>

Reality is not relative.

<We could make a trip to hell and ask them if we can watch one of them go harvest a soul.>

...
Do it. It might help.

ICARUS arrives at Khunyang Chhish, 21st tallest mountain in the world and stares into the horizon in contemplation. All the soul talk made her all spiritual, so she has to think of some non-spiritual stuff first before she can take the mountain for her collection

Wait, ICARUS has a mountain collection?

"Hello, Alice. Alice, this is Rose. Rose, this is Alice."

Rose...is that Marie's daughter?

@Infinite Depth: I'm going to call it now that the plane is 20 miles deep, with below it an extremely strong material that keeps the plane flat and is dense enough to cause Earth-strength downward gravity.

Would anyone care if I did the math to guesstimate how much that would be? I'm trying to think of how to do that..._{might need calculus...I hate integration...}

But what does that mean for the gravity on the planets? Does it mean they have an actual up side where gravity is g_planet+g_plane and a downward side where g=g_planet-g_plane?
That doesn't make stuff easier at all.

You say that like the exact acceleration from gravity will be important. And the general stuff isn't that hard at all--one half of the planet has higher gravity, one half lower.

@GWG: but then I would have called them sky-islands or something. When I say "planet" I assume it's a duck, not a Norwegian Brown Rat.

That's more like the difference between a...well...a planet-shaped sky-island and a planet. So, less a duck vs. a rat, more a stonefish vs. a stone.

Quote from: javierpwn on March 23, 2014, 12:24:22 pm

Trying to use science to explain your creations, when you can literally bend the reality itself to your whim?
 Kind of surprising really.

It's not about science, it's about bending reality to your whim in an internally-consistent way with as little misinterpretation as possible.

Exactly.

They don't need a subforum, but it probably wouldn't hurt. Might be a bit inconvenient, though...

GWG, the hollow sphere comparison is the excrement of the bovine, in my opinion. In a hollow sphere the pull is equalized at every point. A plane of infinite mass, on the other hand, has a: infinite mass over an infinite volume, and b: infinite mass in every random small stretch of it. And it all pulls only downwards and to the sides.

My point was that intuition isn't always accurate. I'm aware that the geometry is different.
And It only has "infinite mass in every random small stretch of it" if it has infinite depth, and since a geometrical plane has zero depth, you would have to specify something so ludicrous as infinite depth.

Plus, stuff of infinite mass can really fuck up your life. I'm proposing the "no-pull" idea to get rid of unnecessary complications.

You know what else would get rid of it? Not adding unnecessary infinite depth!

And for the second bit, "toward the center of the planet" seems more interesting, because else I would have made them flat, no? Which is also a good idea, but duh. I only have so many acts.

Why is "toward the center of the planet" more interesting? After all, pulling down would mean there's an upper side and a lower side. And slopes.

..... Why did that not occur to it seems everyone that a name might be necessary?

I dunno about the others, but for me it was a chance to convince the GM to drop some cultural information about the world.

Either way I say we should be Adam.

Bit Biblical, isn't it?
Abraham (Irony carefully constructed)
Fortress
Knife

98% soldiering, 0.5% movie monsters, and 1% HMRC-related trauma doesn't leave a lot of room for normal-person stuff.