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Poor Backtrack. He can't even be unique anymore.
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I still think a precog with anything but a sort of Spidy-sense would be very difficult to sustain in this format.
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It's not like I had a Pasta-Disappearing-Inator in my backyard or anything. I couldn't do that. I need a bit of variety in my life, which is why I like to experiment. I've found that leftover hot sauce from Chipotle can actually be added to everything from soup to stir fry to scrambled eggs, and it almost always improves the recipe.
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Hey! The fettuccine thing was my Emotionally Scarring Backstory! Supply and demand, I suppose. It's rare for you, so you still love it. I loved it before my mom perfected her recipe and showed off its perfection by making it every other night....*shudders* Glad you still like it, though.
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Obliteration ruled a city in Texas, so chances are good other canon Epics lived there too. I'd also rather stay away from canon areas. More room to play around. Asian for me. I also like American, some Indian, Mexican, and Italian, but when I move out, there is no way in Calamity you'll get me to eat fettuccine Alfredo (noodles drenched in a cream-based white sauce) again. My mom could eat that every night, and for a while, we almost did. She was making it twice, three times a week, and although those days are no more, it's still hard for me to force it down. Aside from that, I'll try almost anything.
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Not as we've currently planned it. The current campaign concerns the destruction of Oregon during the Epic turf wars. After that, we're open to possibilities, though the main options that had been mentioned were Alaska, Equestria, and...I don't remember the others, but I do remember Texas wasn't one of them.
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So far as music goes, I do like slower and more emotional songs, but I'm actually a fan of just about anything that strikes my fancy. Odd quirk confession time: My favorite songs include those that fit characters I'm currently writing. So that encompasses a pretty wide variety of songs and genres. And then there are the songs I just like....so, short answer: I like pretty much everything except rap.
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This is arugula: Yeah, garlic bread isn't pizza. It's garlic bread. I like pizza with creative sauces and toppings, to an extent. I had a delicious garlic chicken pizza, with a white garlic sauce instead of tomato and chicken with mozzarella and parmesan—but I think to be called a pizza, it has to have a pizza-type crust (so, a crust with yeast; no "flatbread pizzas" here) and some sort of sauce with cheese and/or toppings layered on it. I prefer cheese—I don't know if I could eat a pizza without cheese—but I used to work in a pizza parlor and there were a few lactose-intolerant customers who'd order pizza without cheese.
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Ask those fancy-pants bistros that serve arugula flatbread with poached eggs and a drizzle of olive oil and call it pizza.
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*Fixed.
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Having a Bad Day? Stop here for a Good Rant!
TwiLyghtSansSparkles replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
Owwwwch. I'm sorry. Do you have any aloe vera oil, or is there a store still open that sells it? (Not sure what time it is where you are, but it's night where I live.) I've used aloe before and it works really well for burns. -
He'd have to be a very limited precog, simply because we pants so much around here that practically all fight scenes at the very least would have to be scripted in advance, with his moves revised to compensate for other players' actions before posting. Picture him getting into a fight with CorpseMaker: CorpseMaker locked eyes with Flashback, nullifying his precognition. In five seconds he would be dead. Flashback saw CorpseMaker's death stare and power nullification coming one minute before it happened and was well out of CorpseMaker's range when CorpseMaker tried to kill him. It still renders the previous post irrelevant, unless there's a good bit of planning beforehand. And in any case, that much planning would be nigh-impossible, because the way we write this RP, there'd be almost no room for spontaneity beforehand. Either we say Flashback wasn't using his precognition when Deathwish said he looked like a girl and flirted accordingly, or we say Flashback saw all that coming and avoided it, rendering the previous post irrelevant.
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No! It's a pug, like my pug Mollie. When Mollie was a puppy, she'd do what we called her Weeping Angel Routine. If I had food, she'd sit very still and stare at it, hoping I'd share. If I turned my back, she'd move like lightning, so when I'd look at her again, she'd be three feet closer, still sitting, eyes still on the food. Now, when she wants you to share, she'll just tap your leg with her paw, so the Weeping Pug Angel is probably just tapping at your window hoping for snacks.
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I think everyone has a point so far as Flashback's powers are concerned, but I'm inclined to side with Mckeedee here. Even with characters retaining their memories, and Flashback's key ability being the power to learn what he needs to do to change the future, there's still some strong potential for retconning. Here's the way I'm looking at it: Flashback greets Timeport. Timeport gives him a battle-ax to the face. Flashback goes back one minute and determines that the best way to avoid the battle-ax to the face is to not greet Timeport. In that case, mail-mi's post where Timeport gives Flashback a battle-ax to the face would now be irrelevant. Timeport would keep his memory, yes, but the original post wouldn't have happened, so the only thing Timeport could do in that case would be to either try and find Flashback or shrug it off—and with Timeport being the way he is, I don't think the latter is likely. If I'm misunderstanding the power here, please correct me, but this is how I'm currently reading it.
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Well, at least you know it's not Weeping Angels. You'd never hear them coming. ...I'm not helping, am I?
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I guess the question here is: Does transferring damage from an Epic to a vanilla count as healing that Epic?
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I can't. I have tried. You don't know how many hours I've put into learning something I cannot understand, and I do not think putting something in a language anyone can comprehend is "dumbing it down."
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That's what I was thinking, and I'm honestly not sure what the answer to this particular conundrum is. So opinions are most welcome.
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Just one quick point on the math thing: It's a language I and countless others don't speak fluently. I've tried to learn it, partly to pass my classes and partly to satisfy my own curiosity, and I can't. I cannot force my brain to comprehend anything beyond very basic algebra. I cannot comprehend math, but I can comprehend stories. Yet one thing I've noticed about people who can comprehend math is that they usually have no trouble at all comprehending a story. If religious texts were half math and half story, there would be people who could understand both, and people who could understand only the stories. Those people would rely on the math-capable people to interpret the sacred equations for them, leaving the door wide open for corruption as the math-capable people could conceivably tell the math-incapable whatever they wanted. We see similar problems arise in the Middle Ages, when the literate clergy told the illiterate masses they had to uphold unbiblical practices like indulgences and the Crusades. This problem was solved with the advent of the printing press and the rise of literacy, allowing people to read the Bible for themselves and provide a check against corruption. If the Bible were half math, there would be no chance of staving off that corruption. People whose brains cannot comprehend math would have no way of telling math-capable clergy they interpreted an equation wrong. I'm of the opinion that God left his sacred book free of math so that everyone could understand it.
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Just the general idea. When asked about mind control Epics, Brandon said that Epics with mind-altering abilities would generally have more trouble with Epics, though come to think of it, that could be due to the large amounts of fear overloading Epic brains. It seemed to imply that Epic powers in general interfere with each other to some extent, though it could be some entirely different factor (like the fear, which I actually just thought of ). Anyone else have thoughts on this?
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True, but I tend to think powers that heal are different from more destructive physical ones. Transferring damage from one Epic to another vanilla seems a little close to true healing.
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Tis okay. Quota has made me do that before.
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It's an awesome idea, but would it work? Even though he's not a gifter, a few AMA answers have implied that Epic powers interfere with one another, so I don't know if he'd be able to use his power on Epics or not.
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I just got a craving for Kung pao chicken. And I've been craving Cool Whip all day.
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I think skipping chapters in boring textbooks is what kills voidspren.