looking at the With Liberty thread, I think we need a consensus judgement call on Haruhi's competence level - she's either incompetent or not, and we need to decide it out of story, IMO.
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Seen on The Inquirer: Tamagotchi the Movie
I can see it now: fourteen minutes into the movie, the entire theatre starts beeping until everyone buys popcorn...

-Rob Kelk
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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

Anyone mind if I inject some of The Legendary into my creative slushpile?
It's about Katy Kaboom, her personal nemesis, a groundhog, a clear blue sky, and lots of other things. Katy is going to need some backup, and I *could* bring in J. Random Hero, or for that matter, some of my alts, but The Legendary would be a better fit. I don't want to step on toes, though.
Oh, and I'll point out that, while *my* characters may change, I'll make sure to stick to episode format for any of yours (ie, they'll be unchanged at the end, etc).
So, is there anyone who (a) doesn't mind me using their character in a story, and (b) has one that could use a little lovin'?
I've got a few ideas for specifics, but really, what I have in mind can be tailored around whoever...

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

Aqua song, good times. I'm sure it's come up before, but the thing that struck me about this song is the idea of, well... a kind of celebrity. Something about it always said 'the person you are observing is just amazing'.
My verdict? It generates a psychic field for the duration that makes everything Doug does look amazing to the observers. It doesn't actually change what he's doing or even what he looks like: it's more like everyone in the radius becomes incredibly easy to impress.

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Yet Another FFNet Is Down Thread.
IHNTA.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

...unless you really want to.
What if handwavium wasn't created by any means so far proposed, least of all by Haruhi?
What if Fenspace Earth was an "ordinary, uninteresting" world visited by Doug Sangnoir, and handwavium was an unknown and unintended consequence of his visit?
(Momentarily envisions the "Girls, Girls, Girls" crew opening a gate to the main concourse of the Stellvia and asking if anyone's met Doug... in the middle of OGJ...)

-- Bob
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The Internet Is For Norns.

According to The Register quoting The Sun, Doctor Who faces extermination after new season 4.
(And I'm still only partway through watching season 2. If I'm a typical viewer, I can understand why the show's being dropped instead of re-staffed... but I doubt I'm a typical viewer.)

-Rob Kelk
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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

In the past, people have pointed out the similarities between Belldandy and her sisters and another fairly famous anime trio of sisters (though in that one, the middle and eldest sisters are swapped compared to the Norns...).
With the addition of Paradox, the similarity continues with the addition of a honorable but mouthy warrior type with unusual...problems of his own, including being pursued by multiple 'fiances' so to speak.
And with the addition of Doug, it *continues* the similarity with the addition of a 'lost boy'..who ends up in a sort of relationship with the violent, mallet-wielding youngest sister. ;-)
Though I do get the image of a micro-stagger where Doug ends up in some really *way* out there parallel (say, Nazi New Zealand) and is pondering his fate, when..."Hey, Doug? What are you doing in downtown Tokyo again?" "Ryouga??? Ummm...this *isn't* Tokyo...."

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Got to thinking: what, exactly, am I supposed to *do* with the King of 3 Shadows' costume slots? It's not like the Mirror Kingdom has a uniform.
Halloween slot went to his formal robes, but that didn't solve the greater problem. Then it hit me.
The King is a multi-stage transforming Dragonball Z villain.
First stage:

...and second:

Next slot will be totally-bulked-out demonic third stage, and the last... the Ultimate Form... will of course be completely human, because that's how these things work.
--Sam
"It's over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAND!!!!!!!!!!!!"