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That depends quite a lot on the stairs, really. Retrospect, now that I think about it it's pretty easy to catch fire and not die, too. The "because it kills then" is clearly implied, but it's not terribly assured... well, at least without a little extra help, heh.

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Wouldn't you know it, just in the last month or so I finally got around to setting up automatic payment for most of my grandparents' bills. Still a few to catch, but it was massively goddamn overdue. Kept forgetting to friggin' do it/finish convincing them to go through with it, and most of the relevant other people were being fucking useless and refusing to help with the process. It's only been like part of a full payment cycle since but it's already been a significant weight off the shoulders.

... incidentally, if you're dealing with an income stream sufficient to keep most, or at least the primary (water, electricity, property taxes, etc.), expenses paid, setting up autopay is really hella' useful if you or anyone else involved in your household has a shitty memory. Just in case citing some rando on the internet would help convince your fellow poor financial managers to start being less stupid.

Never has such WTF graced this thread.

Pretty sure it's graced this thread more than once, actually. Miscellaneous object asslust literature has, ahem, came up before. There's nothing surprise about this particular incarnation of buttsex bookery.

Well yeah, he's the guy who can't keep his trap shut and plays loud music.

Gentlefish says, referencing a demographic larger in population than several nations, probably combined.

Though hey, we do finally have a president sufficiently screwed in the head the chances of it not just being an impact story in the next few years is higher than they've ever been.

Huh. Wonder if it's still in the state that makes it a federal felony to distribute. Of all the mess related to it, that's probably the bit I'm most immediately curious about.

I'm like 90% sure being unconscious around that particular pikachu isn't much if any better than just being dead. I've not seen many rodents expressing evil intent so clearly, and death is but one horror among a great many. Gods know lightning spitting rat is a combination allowing for a few not so easily achieved by more conventional means.

And another one bites the dust, I guess. I don't think I've seen the "hire people incompetent enough to get caught" swamp cleaning gambit before. Seems kinda' inefficient, really...

Yet in either of those cases I can't think of how such systems would deliver any kind of a stunning blast.  Maybe in the blaster's case it fires the magnets without the plasma with the magnets set to interfere with nerve signals to muscles? Though I imagine that would be a very temporary stun, only for a second or two, as the magnets being too small to be seen would likely not have enough mass to penetrate flesh at the speeds the blasts are seen moving, and would just bounce away, taking their interference with it

From what I recall of EU it's probably either sonic or concussive based... probably the former, since most concussion weapons in star wars are fairly dedicated.

Weapon wise, it's probably good to remember SW was perfectly happy to have multi-role weaponry that was basically just 2+ weapons jammed into the same frame, too, though.

Any case, quick actual check mentions the stun effect jams charged particles into the target, making their vitals go haywire. Overloads the nervous system, knocking them unconscious. More or less a space tazer, really, right down to potential seizure and death. Amusingly enough, the method used by stun blasters is apparently widely used in medical procedures in star wars verse. I guess tazing patients is faster than bothering with anaesthesia...