The Virtue wiki just showed up on the "block list" for my job's censorware. Grrrrr.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

Personal timeline: 25th Year, 280th Day
I must do this thing properly, if at all.
Poor Herbert seems to have been taken in by my "accident;" he believes me dead or lost forever in some distant time. It is for the best, I keep telling myself; the Machine must remain my secret alone if I am to have even the remotest chance of success.
I do not know, even, if it can be done. Can the future be changed? Can the future that I have been to, have experienced myself, be changed, and what then will become of me?
And yet I must try. For the sake of generations yet to come, I must try.
All the tools and knowledge of the future are potentially available to me. I shall become a Scavenger, then, improving my situation and my Machine to the point where I may become an effective force of change.
If it is within my power, the future of Morlocks and Eloi will not come to pass.
If...

I'm pretty sure this is a Metroanime or Skysaber story, but I'm not having any luck finding it. All I can remember is that somehow (via a dimension-hopping Ranma, maybe?), the female members of the Ranma cast get to watch numerous videotapes of Ramna animes from different universes, which are in fact well-known fics from the late 1990s. I specifically remember a scene where everyone was weeping after watching Zen's "Long and Winding Road".
Can anyone identify this for me, and maybe provide a link? Thanks!

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

...this is where I've been posting links to genuinely interesting articles.
The first evidence of another universe has (possibly) been seen.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

which includes posting things liable to make one snort soda through your nose if your not carefull...
I present this link:
www.reghardware.co.uk/200...m_cleaner/"I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

Tough decision... The sheer amount of original footage in the video is impressive, though.
Aqualine studio's alternate anime opening credits - that's a direct link to the avi file.
No, I'm not saying which anime - you have to watch it to find out. (Or read the URL...)
-Rob Kelk
"Actually, my goal is to write neat stories. The money just makes it possible for me to write them faster and then buy neat toys."
Ryk E. Spoor, 7 November 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I haven't been around much for the last month or so. Got horribly busy trying to reverse entropy at work. (Not impossible! Work is an open system, so it's just a matter of transferring entropy to other people. This is called "delegation" or "paperwork" depending on the methods used.)
ANNNYway. I'm pleased to announce that my wife and I just had our second child (a boy) on the 20th and got to come home on Thanksgiving, no less. We're all doing fine, if a little punchy from lack of sleep, including the newly crowned Big Sister, who is, at long last, larger than someone else in the family.
California has possibly the most generous family leave plan in the country, so I don't have to go back to work for a while, but there's plenty of entropy to keep me busy at home. So I don't know how much I'll be around the next month or two. Probably in fits and starts at odd hours, until things return to some new version of normal. We'll see.
Cheers,
Render

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GURPS IST was basically a moderate liberal's wet dream.

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One of THE FUNNIEST 10 minute stretches in American Television History!
"As God as my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly!"
Happy Thanksgiving! ^_^
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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It's coming up to Christmas, and I'm wondering which new books to either purchase for others or put on my own Christmas list, so please tell us some ideas of your own. Two from me
Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman: See the thread of the same name for people's opinions, including mine,
Resident Evil, The Umbrella Conspiracy - S.D. Perry: A paperback novelization of the first resident evil game. As someone who loves the idea and storyline of the Resident Evil series, but who quite bluntly blows at that kind of gameplay, the Resident Evil series always held a particular kind of frustration for me, in that i was always intrigued by them but found them to difficult to play. So when I saw a novelization of the series in my local book shop, I brought into it pretty quickly, and I'm glad I did. Whilst these aren't incredibly good I found them competent at least, and for the most part very enjoyable, The first in particular. I love the dynamic between the S.T.A.R.S team, and way thing seem to so legitimately spiral out of control, as well as the sense of isolation and helplessness she conveys in the team. And the characterization as well, such as the brilliant and capable Captain Wesker's slowly escalating egomania and sinister agenda, and Barry's agonizing choice between his family and his friends, plus a lot of Jill's back story, particularly about the two girls who befriended her when she moved into Raccoon and how she now feels driven to avenge their murders by the supposed, 'cannibal cult'.
There are roughly Seven books in the series so far (including some original stories using the game characters, most often Rebbecca Chambers), with more apparently on the way. I'm personally looking forward to seeing if she does Resi4, the one game in the series I could actually play.
So what kind of books do you recommend?