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[Xantalos]

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!

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...

The Dark ones aren't really Lovecraftian abominations; they sound more like manifestations of the dark to me. The unknown that people fear, what horrors await them within it...that kind of thing.
The lovecraftian ones are beyond the dark.

[RedKing]

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.

Like I told Japa, I've never charged for it because it's been gifts and such. Plus, without a working computer at home (and some time during which I am neither sleeping nor working, which is rare these days) I have zero time for it these days.

Once I get a working rig and some free time again, maybe I'll start a thread for people who are interested.


EDIT: Oh yeah, my WTF is that I just did my timecard for the week...I've got over 40 hours of overtime this paycheck. 

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[Devling]

I know this is late but...

I would control the spice.
For obvious reasons.

(Or lovecraftian old ones)

[MaximumZero]

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[Urist Imiknorris]

I know this is late but...

I would control the spice.
For obvious reasons.

(Or lovecraftian old ones)

Like I said earlier, he who controls the universe controls the spice.

[Graknorke]

Whyyyyyyyy

[RedKing]

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This is blank for me, so the humor is ineffective.

Aww, damn...really?

It was Xzibit with the caption
YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE OVERTIME

SO WE PUT A WEEK IN YOUR WEEKS
SO YOU CAN WORK WHILE YOU WORK

[Dutchling]

Watching Grubby stream Starcraft II, when I see a FAQ on the same page:

Q: Does Grubby do coaching?
A: Yes, Grubby coaches both SC2 and WC3. Interested parties can email to coaching@followgrubby.com
125 USD per hour.

Dayum.

[Devling]

I guess one might be able to say.
That he had.
 
Grubby hands.

[MaximumZero]

Ontopic: I had a very WTF dream last night. Recap in the dream thread in the link.

So. This dream. With the potato. Someone has requested this in comic form. If someone has DarkerDark's or another artist's ear, and he/they need(s) something to do a quick doodle of, this would be awesome, and I would appreciate it very much. Potato.

[Neonivek]

Dear holy goodness...

You know that movie "As good as it gets" and how the main character is a romance author.

In the movie a woman asks him how he can "write women so believably" and he says "I just picture a man and remove all sense and accountability" (or something along those lines)

Ohh my goodness... I just realised it... Just NOW! that this is EXACTLY how women are written in television a lot of the time. IT ALL MAKES SENSE!

[Sirus]

Spoiler: Saw this in the Steam store... (click to show/hide)

Sadly, there's no option to add it to my cart...

[Frumple]

Time to purchase a few hundred!

[Yoink]

If that works... Oh man.

Reminds me of a bug I gleefully exploited once in LCS, where selling cars would detract money from you... and vice versa.

[Putnam]

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some people don't think Walter White is a villain