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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #29445 on: March 21, 2013, 12:50:28 pm »

If I could control anything, but not everything, depending on the rules (Can we choose elements, or sub-atomic particles? Are we limited to classical Greek elements, or to things that are -like- Greek elements, like "fire" "water" "time" "mind", etc. Think Homestuck. Or are we even further constrained to objects, like... Controlling shoes. Or something.) I'd probably choose the most abundant that I can. Rock, hydrogen, metal, cloth, etc.
Hmm... if you're using the elemental system I invented for my books...
Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Spirit, Light, or Dark?

Fire would be nice, as it covers all changes in temprature as well as speed and any internal combustion vehicle outside of airplanes and spacecraft.

Water would be awesome, since it not only covers regular water but anything with water inside (bloodbending) and healing as well.

Earth covers both stone and metal, in my mind, as well as plants. Plant's doesn't include funguses and Algae, though.

Air is basically airplanes and sound, besides the requisite control over air currents. You could fly personally, which would be cool.

Spirit would make you a necromancer. That should speak for itself. It also gives you an extra life! :D

Light is electricity, technology, light (obviously), and the Sciences outside of the medical, squishy ones, or geology, which would be Earth...

Dark would be the arts and writing in general, and control over lovecraftian abominations. More powerful though would be a direct connection to your home culture and the ability to summon traditional monsters and figures, essentially writing them out of thin air.

I think I'd go with Dark. Of course, this is my own creation, so it probably wouldn't end up like that, but it covers it pretty well.

Oh, Dark "Elementals" are invulnerable, too. Thing is, they aren't quite human when they come back... Even if they aren't evil either. Thorny Tendrils, Darkly Creeping, Crawling Under Skin...
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #29446 on: March 21, 2013, 01:05:38 pm »

Got a message this morning that someone logged into my Facebook from Halifax, Virgina. Activity log doesn't show that they did anything.

Could just be an error on Facebook's part, but I've changed passwords all around and set Kaspersky to scan on killbot mode.
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« Reply #29448 on: March 21, 2013, 01:38:13 pm »

I'm not even sure what they're saying half the time.
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« Reply #29449 on: March 21, 2013, 01:39:15 pm »

I didn't even try.
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« Reply #29450 on: March 21, 2013, 01:58:10 pm »

So... the legends are true. People are stupid.


Pretty much my reaction to not only sharing a species with these people, but a language. And I'm in the same demographic as them as far as the media is concerned, because I play video games and subsequently am obviously prone to violent outbursts.
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« Reply #29451 on: March 21, 2013, 01:59:33 pm »

I'm pretty sure you don't share a language with them. That video is 100% genuine Angrish.
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« Reply #29452 on: March 21, 2013, 02:00:32 pm »

Google's auto translate does a decent job. It even improves it.

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« Reply #29453 on: March 21, 2013, 02:28:07 pm »

I did not know this existed.
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« Reply #29454 on: March 21, 2013, 02:31:41 pm »

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« Reply #29455 on: March 21, 2013, 02:48:22 pm »

I'm pretty sure you don't share a language with them. That video is 100% genuine Angrish.
I have to agree, that isn't english. I couldn't understand it, all I heard was "BLAAAAAAARGH FUCK." And uh, "EHEEEEHEEEHEE" Some sort of screech. I think they descend from bats.
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« Reply #29456 on: March 21, 2013, 03:32:33 pm »

I just realised the reason why everyone and their mother has a noble or other important person in their lineage somewhere: they were the ones with the best chances of getting their offspring to prosper. It's just statistics.
It's more because they actually kept lineage records. Pretty sure that 99.9% of my lineage is non-noble. I only know the noble branches past a certain date because that's the only branches where sufficient fucks were given to write it down. Not really important to know who your grandparents, great-grandparents etc were when none of you had inheritable property.

Genealogy for recent generations is far, far easier due to the obsessive record-keeping of modern society. Ten generations hence, my GGGGGGGG-grandkids will be able to determine far more about me than I will ever be able to determine of my 10th-generation ancestors.
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« Reply #29458 on: March 21, 2013, 03:40:28 pm »

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« Reply #29459 on: March 21, 2013, 03:52:13 pm »

I just realised the reason why everyone and their mother has a noble or other important person in their lineage somewhere: they were the ones with the best chances of getting their offspring to prosper. It's just statistics.
It's more because they actually kept lineage records. Pretty sure that 99.9% of my lineage is non-noble. I only know the noble branches past a certain date because that's the only branches where sufficient fucks were given to write it down. Not really important to know who your grandparents, great-grandparents etc were when none of you had inheritable property.

Genealogy for recent generations is far, far easier due to the obsessive record-keeping of modern society. Ten generations hence, my GGGGGGGG-grandkids will be able to determine far more about me than I will ever be able to determine of my 10th-generation ancestors.
Man, how much do you charge for stuff like that? My family history is a complete fucking mystery.
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