Made a filler post. Please inform me if anything is wrong.
Nothing wrong, but (there's always a but), do you want me to throw something at Vanessa? I'm happy to do so (though will need a bit of time to come up with something, scribble it down, rewrite it and post it proper), and I don't want you to feel left out at all. There are still some other folks who've yet to post, so there's a chance for something to happen there still.
@Hylozoist You can if you want. I'm really just trying to phrase everything openly so that way if someone wants to interact with Vanessa they have an open path to do so, rather than trying to cram their character into doing something odd to interact with her.
Okay, @Valor, I'll have a think this evening about what I could do. Hopefully by the time I've come up with an idea that tickles me, those who have yet to post will have done so, and I can either make my post, or watch the interaction between Vanessa and some of the other crew members.
Apologies if I'm being overly nervous about this; there's a little warning light that flashes somewhere in my brain when I see characters not interacting with one another, and it's hard for me to tell sometimes when I should actually pay attention to the flashing red light up there. I've been to LARPs where everyone's basically sat in silence, waiting for somebody else to make the first move. It was a hilarious but uncomfortable way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
did you have any specific idea of how FTL works in this setting, are we talking bog standered hyperspace, Infinite Improbability Drive, 40k's warp travel or something else? I ask because I want to have the bees do a bunch of stuff in prep for the jump, after which I think they will speak with Toony about here crafting capabilities. but if anyone else wants to be accosted by bees let me know.
I like the Idea that maybe ftl jumps into a dimension of weirdness so we can potentially have strange anomalies, non-Euclidean geometry and demons trying to sell bootleg watches to the crew if whatever is holding that back breaks down. also makes good scenery if someone wants to watch it go by.
I like the Idea that maybe ftl jumps into a dimension of weirdness so we can potentially have strange anomalies, non-Euclidean geometry and demons trying to sell bootleg watches to the crew if whatever is holding that back breaks down. also makes good scenery if someone wants to watch it go by.
I did have some vague ideas (because I've watched Space Dandy way too many times), but this sort of 40k-esque dimension o' weirdness is what I think we should go with. I would add the caveat that engaging this warp drive is generally done on the far edges of any given solar system - perhaps there's interference from the gravity of the star, perhaps authorities are worried about the effects of punching through into the dimension o' weirdness near anywhere inhabited, or something.
From a running-the-game perspective, I want to make sure that there's some travel through "real-space" as well, for the benefit of anyone playing a pilot, and so we can have Cool Space Battles if required.
Edit: Right, it's time that I started thinking about dinner-related things. I might be able to sneak a few more posts out later on this evening, but otherwise I probably won't be replying to anything for another fourteen hours or so!
So what do, what do. Anyone seen the new adventure time?
I just finished watching the Islands chain of episodes!
I wasn't sure I was going to like it, because I reckoned that I'd prefer the stuff about the humans as an unexplained mystery over whatever explanation they provided. The route they took with it was good though - I liked the oppressive niceness of the society, and the kicker that so many humans seemed to want to join Finn as he leaves the island, right up until the last minute, where they hesitate and make excuses and go back to a comfortable, safe but controlled life.
Plus, I like the VR-Second-Life-Island episode. Mostly because of BMO. In fact, entirely because of BMO. Anyway, I liked the episodes! Felt like the right balance of world-building (well, world explaining) while keeping a little story in each episode. Hopefully they can keep it up throughout the rest of the season and the next (and final) one; I'll be sad if there's not some sort of conclusion for Simon / Ice King, for instance.
I just finished watching the Islands chain of episodes!
I wasn't sure I was going to like it, because I reckoned that I'd prefer the stuff about the humans as an unexplained mystery over whatever explanation they provided. The route they took with it was good though - I liked the oppressive niceness of the society, and the kicker that so many humans seemed to want to join Finn as he leaves the island, right up until the last minute, where they hesitate and make excuses and go back to a comfortable, safe but controlled life.
Plus, I like the VR-Second-Life-Island episode. Mostly because of BMO. In fact, entirely because of BMO. Anyway, I liked the episodes! Felt like the right balance of world-building (well, world explaining) while keeping a little story in each episode. Hopefully they can keep it up throughout the rest of the season and the next (and final) one; I'll be sad if there's not some sort of conclusion for Simon / Ice King, for instance.
It came out alright. I just want them to keep with that continuity that the humans and the rest of the world communicate. Can you think of just how happy PB would be to see all that human technology? Lots of other things they could do to with comedy between PB and finns mom. Though finns mom commenting on all of finns friends was pretty funny. "So your ruled by a piece of gum, friends with a vampire, and you dated a thing of fire!" xD
I'm sure ice king will get a conclusion, hes kinda one of their biggest characters and most well developed ones. Marcy has some plotthreads to tie up, same with PB as well, and there is that whole lich is in the multiverse thing to resolve still too.
A PB-meets-the-humans would be fantastic, especially as her science tends to be a bit... cavalier in terms on how it treats others. There's a lot of very neat interactions that could happen, which could shake things up, and I do wonder what'll happen to Susan and Freida as well. It's something of a given that the story will mostly focus on Finn and Jake, but I want to know just where the heck those two are going to end up.
Though having said all of that, I don't think I'd mind there not being too much stuff going on with the humans and Finn anymore. Without getting into too much dull and depressing personal stuff, I like the idea of a story where the character finds their "real" family, and then goes back to being themselves. I grew up on a steady diet of stories about plucky orphans who find their families and it changes who they are and they become happy and satisfied, and really, it's just about finding a missing page near the start of your own story, and the things that you've done define you just as much - if not more! - than whatever was on that missing page. Seeing Finn acknowledge the connection with the outside world, and choosing that, was neat.
I think there's an episode with Marcy and Hunson Abedeer coming up in the next series, so hopefully that's a sign that at least Marceline might get some loose ends tied up. I also desperately want Peppermint Butler to have some sort of resolution, even if it's comeuppance for just how shady he is.
@Hylozoist Hey, you like in London. Question, whatever happened to Brexit? And why did you guys attempt it anyway? Was it because of the liberals being super stupid?
Sorry about the lack of posts on my front over the weekend; Saturday and Sunday seems to conspire to make sure I don't get much time in front of a computer. However, I've got some spare time this morning to do things, and part of my plan for this morning involves "catch up on what I've missed, post things and try to resist the urge to get back into bed and go 'eeee, warm'".
Question, whatever happened to Brexit? And why did you guys attempt it anyway? Was it because of the liberals being super stupid?
Brexit is still happening, but the negotiation hasn't formally started yet between our government and the EU. At some point, our Prime Minister is going to trigger Article 50, where she'll go "so, hey, uh, we're leaving", and then there's up to two years of negotiations, and then we see what happens. It's all a bit of a mess, because our Tory government didn't really plan ahead for the vote to leave, there's been some legal challenges about whether parliament should get to discuss and vote on any deals made, and so on. Anyway, the date for the negotiations to start is probably going to be towards the end of March. It will likely be not a very pretty negotiation.
As for why we attempted it, and why it happened, it's hard for me not to be really biased, and I'd urge you to go and read up on reasons why people voted to leave to get a more rounded idea. I live in London, and like most of the people in London, I voted to remain (Boo! Hiss!). It's not so much a failure of the liberals - consider that the official stance of our incumbent right-wing Conservative government was to stay within the EU, and I doubt anybody would consider them "liberal" in any sense! - but rather a combination of economic inequality across the country, our slightly strange relationship between the media and politicians, and a general sense of people's distrust of politicians and politics.
It's a difficult thing to write about fairly, really, because I'm sad about how the whole campaign was run. The "remain" people didn't make a good case for why we should stay within the EU, likely because the cases for why we should remain didn't fit particularly well into good sound-bites, and the European Union had always been treated as something like a scapegoat by our tabloid newspapers, who'd basically blame everything on the EU. The "leave" camp made ridiculous promises that they couldn't keep, and after the referendum they all pointed the finger at one another for saying these things. I voted to remain mostly because there was no coherent plan for what leaving would actually get us, and the way in which the leave campaigners generally ended up hiding behind patriotism and anti-immigration didn't make me feel particularly confident.
Then comes the problem after the referendum; there was no really clear case for why we should leave, promises made about what we could get should we leave turned out to be not worth the bus they were painted on and our government was quite clearly unprepared for it. During the campaign, there was a rather unpleasant anti-immigrant aspect to the whole affair (see: Nigel Farage's Breaking Point poster, the assassination of MP Jo Cox by a neo-Nazi) that wasn't seriously tackled by the Remain campaign. Presumably they were concerned that they'd be told off for saying that everyone who wanted to leave was a racist who hated immigrants (clearly this isn't the case), but the Leave camp didn't do a particularly good job of distancing themselves from those people, and the Remain camp didn't do a particularly good job of holding them to account about it. Everyone focused on other subjects; sovereignty, trade, jobs, etc. etc. Nearly everyone seemed to find discussions about immigration distasteful.
Move forward to now, and the most important thing for our Prime Minister isn't sovereignty or jobs or access to the EU market for trade, but rather controlling our borders. Despite the fact that there were clearly other reasons for why people would vote to the European Union beyond "we've got to keep the immigrants", keeping out the immigrants has become the highest priority. We were constantly told that this wasn't really a referendum on whether we should let people from Eastern Europe live in the United Kingdom, and then after the referendum, the people in charge of deciding what the most important things are in the negotiations sat down and went "okay, this was clearly about not letting people from Eastern Europe into the country".
So, anyway, it's going to happen. Article 50 will probably be triggered towards the end of March, I'd guess. There's two years of negotiation time at most, and then the United Kingdom is out of the European Union.
Sorry about the lack of posts on my front over the weekend; Saturday and Sunday seems to conspire to make sure I don't get much time in front of a computer. However, I've got some spare time this morning to do things, and part of my plan for this morning involves "catch up on what I've missed, post things and try to resist the urge to get back into bed and go 'eeee, warm'".
<Snipped quote by Archmage MC>
Brexit is still happening, but the negotiation hasn't formally started yet between our government and the EU. At some point, our Prime Minister is going to trigger Article 50, where she'll go "so, hey, uh, we're leaving", and then there's up to two years of negotiations, and then we see what happens. It's all a bit of a mess, because our Tory government didn't really plan ahead for the vote to leave, there's been some legal challenges about whether parliament should get to discuss and vote on any deals made, and so on. Anyway, the date for the negotiations to start is probably going to be towards the end of March. It will likely be not a very pretty negotiation.
As for why we attempted it, and why it happened, it's hard for me not to be really biased, and I'd urge you to go and read up on reasons why people voted to leave to get a more rounded idea. I live in London, and like most of the people in London, I voted to remain (Boo! Hiss!). It's not so much a failure of the liberals - consider that the official stance of our incumbent right-wing Conservative government was to stay within the EU, and I doubt anybody would consider them "liberal" in any sense! - but rather a combination of economic inequality across the country, our slightly strange relationship between the media and politicians, and a general sense of people's distrust of politicians and politics.
It's a difficult thing to write about fairly, really, because I'm sad about how the whole campaign was run. The "remain" people didn't make a good case for why we should stay within the EU, likely because the cases for why we should remain didn't fit particularly well into good sound-bites, and the European Union had always been treated as something like a scapegoat by our tabloid newspapers, who'd basically blame everything on the EU. The "leave" camp made ridiculous promises that they couldn't keep, and after the referendum they all pointed the finger at one another for saying these things. I voted to remain mostly because there was no coherent plan for what leaving would actually get us, and the way in which the leave campaigners generally ended up hiding behind patriotism and anti-immigration didn't make me feel particularly confident.
Then comes the problem after the referendum; there was no really clear case for why we should leave, promises made about what we could get should we leave turned out to be not worth the bus they were painted on and our government was quite clearly unprepared for it. During the campaign, there was a rather unpleasant anti-immigrant aspect to the whole affair (see: Nigel Farage's Breaking Point poster, the assassination of MP Jo Cox by a neo-Nazi) that wasn't seriously tackled by the Remain campaign. Presumably they were concerned that they'd be told off for saying that everyone who wanted to leave was a racist who hated immigrants (clearly this isn't the case), but the Leave camp didn't do a particularly good job of distancing themselves from those people, and the Remain camp didn't do a particularly good job of holding them to account about it. Everyone focused on other subjects; sovereignty, trade, jobs, etc. etc. Nearly everyone seemed to find discussions about immigration distasteful.
Move forward to now, and the most important thing for our Prime Minister isn't sovereignty or jobs or access to the EU market for trade, but rather controlling our borders. Despite the fact that there were clearly other reasons for why people would vote to the European Union beyond "we've got to keep the immigrants", keeping out the immigrants has become the highest priority. We were constantly told that this wasn't really a referendum on whether we should let people from Eastern Europe live in the United Kingdom, and then after the referendum, the people in charge of deciding what the most important things are in the negotiations sat down and went "okay, this was clearly about not letting people from Eastern Europe into the country".
So, anyway, it's going to happen. Article 50 will probably be triggered towards the end of March, I'd guess. There's two years of negotiation time at most, and then the United Kingdom is out of the European Union.
Yep, sounds like Brexit happened due to liberals screwing up the EU like they're trying to do with the US. My theory on why its happening is because, doe to lots of regressive left wing liberal thinking on taking in all those refugees from countries that msot of the world is at war with due to terrorist organizations like ISIS.
The problem wasn't taking in the immigrants. The problem was taking them in, WITHOUT checking their past history or background and THEN, due to liberal 'your a racist' thinking, Not keeping tabs on what could possibly be an ISIS spy since doing that would label you a racist, and letting said immigrants get away with things citizens couldn't get away with. Thus ISIS was free to insert spys into the refugee camps, have those spies immigrate into the EU, and bam, you have all those bombings because terrorist organizations have a free in due to abusing how naive most liberals are.
The people in the UK saw this, and said "Nope, we don't want that in our backyard" and voted to leave. Trump is on the same page, but since here in the US the millennial generation (Which I'm a part of, I think?) who grew up with Clinton and a bunch of liberal presidents (Obama being the WORST of the bunch, more or less pushing the above problem in the US and outsourcing a lot of US jobs in a time where the millennials were impressionable teenagers) And you have this huge mess of an argument over Trump over here in the US.
Heck, Trump is actually being pretty decent, if a bit rowdy. a 3 month immigration ban from ISIS and other terrorist controlled countries that we're at WAR with so the government can sort out who is a spy and who is legit. Yet the liberals who weren't told to think logically that were raised since Clinton, can't see something like that. Its as if they've never seen a war veteran or someone who came back from Desert Storm who was in a wheelchair or had PTSD or brain damage.
But yeah, the past week or so of looking into politics has me really irked and the problem stems from liberals calling having a huge voice now and calling everyone racist, when people just wanna make sure that we only take in people who actually need the help and not spies. But I'm sure thats why Brexit is happening. Shame the economy has to suffer so badly for it, but thats probably what the terrorist organizations are trying to do and they have everyone in a lose lose situation due to all the problems I've stated. >.<
Could get into how a lot of the regressive left liberals who have a loud voice are more racist than any extreme right wing person which there are very few of nowadays if any, but thats a whole different topic altogether >.<
Man this year is shaping up to look rough. But if something good happens, things might settle down. Always nice to talk politics with someone who knows whats going on :D. Sorry about being super jaded.
Oh, something weird I learned. Did you see Mario Odyssey? They put Mario in real life NYC/London (Not sure which), and Mario comes up to people's belly buttons. xD And Bowser looks like hes going to throw a broadway play. It looks really neat.
Also speaking of weird height differences in Mario land. Rosalina is like 7"9. shes taller than Waluigi. Thats awesome.
Alright guys, let's keep it clean here ok. No more polarising discussions alright? That goes for you two @Hylozoist@Archmage MC. Let's just all agree that the world is crazy and pointless and that we're all just doing the best we can.
Hate to have to be that guy but someone has to.
Here's a new topic. I think final fantasy 15 is fun.
Alright guys, let's keep it clean here ok. No more polarising discussions alright? That goes for you two @Hylozoist@Archmage MC. Let's just all agree that the world is crazy and pointless and that we're all just doing the best we can.
Hate to have to be that guy but someone has to.
Here's a new topic. I think final fantasy 15 is fun.
P much. Just gotta wait for our robot overlords to take over and all problems will be fixed. xD
I already edited in something about the mario universe I found neat. Rosalina being taller than 2 meters is awesome, and Mario being barely taller than a meter is... odd to look at xD.
BTW, toony is now in that dating discussion with Fiddlesticks. I wanted to work a better ennuendo into my post, but I couldnt' get it to work right xD.
I jsut found a new cartoon that looks to show some promise! Its called Super Science Friends! Take a look evreyone, it looks right up @Hylozoist's alley. I know I was laughing pretty hard throught the pilot. It is a semi adult cartoon though.
