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All Recommended, although Skystalker would have been Strongly Recommended if not for the spring-feet.
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John Ringo was thinking along the same lines as I did in my Pranir backstory for part of Live Free Or Die, I am amused.
LFoD involves a "category 4.5" setting according to the spectrum I posted earlier this week. Humanity was contacted in the present day, and the story follows the protagonist as he does his damnedest to get us up to speed so that we don't need a protector anymore. At the point where I'm at in the story, he's leased a half-millennium-old mining tug in order to try to get orbital infrastructure jump-started, and because the robo-cook is crap, he has his people hire him a competent ship's cook who's willing to work in space.
He gets an MIT astrophysicist who happened to work as a cook during college.
Because working in space as a ship's cook is still working in space. Because working on a clapped-out mining ship that's older than the European presence in North America is still working on a spaceship.
And that's why, in my Pranir backstory, the snake-owls cleverly sold their brightest scientists into indentured servitude contracts, knowing that when the contracts ran out they'd get back comrades who had seen how alien tech worked and had a chance of understanding it. And thus the Pranir went from early Age of Sail to interstellar traders in a few hundred years. :)
LFoD involves a "category 4.5" setting according to the spectrum I posted earlier this week. Humanity was contacted in the present day, and the story follows the protagonist as he does his damnedest to get us up to speed so that we don't need a protector anymore. At the point where I'm at in the story, he's leased a half-millennium-old mining tug in order to try to get orbital infrastructure jump-started, and because the robo-cook is crap, he has his people hire him a competent ship's cook who's willing to work in space.
He gets an MIT astrophysicist who happened to work as a cook during college.
Because working in space as a ship's cook is still working in space. Because working on a clapped-out mining ship that's older than the European presence in North America is still working on a spaceship.
And that's why, in my Pranir backstory, the snake-owls cleverly sold their brightest scientists into indentured servitude contracts, knowing that when the contracts ran out they'd get back comrades who had seen how alien tech worked and had a chance of understanding it. And thus the Pranir went from early Age of Sail to interstellar traders in a few hundred years. :)
I've tweaked yesterday's post a bit and added it to my essays page: Humanity: Champs or Chumps?
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( Other Media: MySpace Dark Horse Presents, Iron Man 2 action figures and Mega Bloks; Book of Note: Iron Man vs. Whiplash #4 )
Dave Van Domelen, "Oh, you're the new Vulture. Something tells me I should be glad my sense of SMELL is gone. But you can't be any worse to work with than the OLD Vulture. The LARRY DAVID look alike. God, I hate EVERYONE today, why IS that?" - Electro failing to get job satisfaction, The Amazing Spider-Man #623
Dave Van Domelen, "Oh, you're the new Vulture. Something tells me I should be glad my sense of SMELL is gone. But you can't be any worse to work with than the OLD Vulture. The LARRY DAVID look alike. God, I hate EVERYONE today, why IS that?" - Electro failing to get job satisfaction, The Amazing Spider-Man #623
Oh, I expect someone's actually done a dissertation or two on this taxonomy, but I've got a few minutes before my next class and I was thinking about this in the shower this morning, so I figured I'd set it down "on paper" rather than do something important. :)
( Humans: players or chumps? )
( Humans: players or chumps? )
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( Item of Note: Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths )
Dave Van Domelen, "Brought the cavalry?" "I brought the MARINES." - Superman and Martian Manhunter, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Dave Van Domelen, "Brought the cavalry?" "I brought the MARINES." - Superman and Martian Manhunter, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
My second Akiko-based CoH character, this one based on the Akiko-as-superhero I drew a few years ago.
( The City of Heroes version )
( The original drawing )
( The City of Heroes version )
( The original drawing )
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( I might not be able to get to comics tomorrow, so here's everything else. )
Dave Van Domelen, "Brought the cavalry?" "I brought the MARINES." - Superman and Martian Manhunter, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Dave Van Domelen, "Brought the cavalry?" "I brought the MARINES." - Superman and Martian Manhunter, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
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I was in a bit of a rush last night after getting the toga, and I realized I should have made some other changes to better match the Crucible City version. Annoyingly, rough leather isn't available as a top, so I stuck with patent leather on top and pants to keep it unified (in-story, he made his leather armor from the tanned hides of Nazi-world genetically modded velociraptors that he killed early in his career, but the "Scales" pattern looked wrong).
( Once more, with feeling! )
( Once more, with feeling! )
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( Gonna need to get a toga ASAP to correct the costume... )
ETA: Got a toga!
( Too bad the neck chains aren't tintable. )
ETA: Got a toga!
( Too bad the neck chains aren't tintable. )
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( Book of Note: Atomic Robo v4 #1 )
Dave Van Domelen, "REMAIN CALM. TRUST IN SCIENCE." - printed on the armored shutters in TeslaDyne HQ, Atomic Robo v4 #1 (of 4)
Dave Van Domelen, "REMAIN CALM. TRUST IN SCIENCE." - printed on the armored shutters in TeslaDyne HQ, Atomic Robo v4 #1 (of 4)
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diosoth, Tiff all grown up and responsible (and without the pink streak dyed in her fur).
( GUN wants you! )
diosoth, Tiff all grown up and responsible (and without the pink streak dyed in her fur).( GUN wants you! )
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Toy Fair pic of the Voltron Monsterpocalypse box back. Looks to be a sort of "basic set" with a smaller map, no buildings (any obstacles are built into the map), smaller forces and more focused on being easier to play for Voltron fans who come in from outside the minis gaming community.
I doubt it reflects a change in how regular Monsterpocalypse will be packaged, rather an alteration to pitch Voltron more as a traditional board game.
I doubt it reflects a change in how regular Monsterpocalypse will be packaged, rather an alteration to pitch Voltron more as a traditional board game.
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Recommended. Almost identical to the Japanese version (added indicia, and Long Haul's paint is slightly different).
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Blame foomf for this one.
( With malice towards some, and clubs to the face for all )
Also, got a toga for Suffra-jette.
( TO-GA! TO-GA! )
foomf for this one.( With malice towards some, and clubs to the face for all )
Also, got a toga for Suffra-jette.
( TO-GA! TO-GA! )
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LL&DD #10 - The Ties That Bind: It's Valentine's Day 1996, LL&DD's first as a couple rather than as adversaries...and each is wondering if they can make it work. Or if they should.... Plus a vignette from 1998 on the subject of neckwear!
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