Bitch, don't give away the production secrets!

(PS: I wish there was a way to change thread titles. What the hell is 'w0000ttt' supposed to mean?)

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
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Umm, it was what I said when I checked new.html and saw that there was a new eyrie story. After that came "Holy F***, it's a WL story!", then a "STFU, I'm reading Eyrie." I figured that w000tt would be the best one of the three...

Christ, I feel like an AOL'er...I need either sleep, or caffine..

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Pasha (been up *way* too long to try and explain his stupidity to the authors.)
Rabid Crack Weasel #357
"I invented Warp Drive, whatta ya got?"
"I'm the Norse God of Mecha."
"Well, I guess you win then."

PPS: There is. 6.23 let's you edit the subject line. And admins, like you and me, can edit any post...

*Gulp* *Looks back and forth inicently whiel wistleing*

Yea, I hope that, too. The amount of Rabid Crackweasel voices in the collective of voices that is my mind has already doubled and I just finished reading Battle 05 two minutes ago.

oh yeah... You know you're a crackweasel when you start shaking from anticipation (like I am, right about now :)

You know, I could just see Gryph as a Deliverator.

>> Ignoring the pistol, he yanked his left arm free from my
>>grasp, jabbed his index finger at the sergeant, and said in a low,
>>furious voice, "You tell your new 'M' this isn't over."
>
>Huh. So was that or was that not Mr. Bond?

>And, should I recognize Gena?

She's from Crazy Taxi. She's got the *fun* car...(god I love that game)

>> Maybe I can get Rose to handle that bit.
>
>Good plan.

You know that if he tried, Rose would just smile, turn him around, and push him back into the room with Sakaura, saying something confusing and enlightening.

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-Pasha
Rabid Crack Weasel #357
"I invented Warp Drive, whatta ya got?"
"I'm the Norse God of Mecha."
"Well, I guess you win then."

He'd never need the gun.

Not this Gryph, anyway.

>>> Ignoring the pistol, he yanked his left arm free from my
>>>grasp, jabbed his index finger at the sergeant, and said in a low,
>>>furious voice, "You tell your new 'M' this isn't over."
>>
>>Huh. So was that or was that not Mr. Bond?
>
>>And, should I recognize Gena?
>
>She's from Crazy Taxi. She's got the *fun* car...(god I love that
>game)

*Googles*

Ah.

>>> Maybe I can get Rose to handle that bit.
>>
>>Good plan.
>
>You know that if he tried, Rose would just smile, turn him around, and
>push him back into the room with Sakaura, saying something confusing
>and enlightening.

Point. Mai, then.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter

Oh, that's a good plan.

--G.
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Well, you can't say she wouldn't know what she was talking about.

And it'd make for -such- an interesting subplot.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter
(And it's not like she'd -refuse-...)

Was this a typo on *Giggles*, or were you emoting that you hit a search engine?

--rR
EPU Rabid Crack Weasel #625

The latter. I'd never heard of the game in my life.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter

I was wondering if that was her...

I wasted so much time on that game, and I still can't get all of
the bowling pins down.

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"I need to get my daughter a stuffed fish!"

The Lurking Invisble Rabid Crack Weasel....
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Or at least I was...

No, but he works for the same agency.

--G.
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Anywhere but here.

Nice try. :)

--G.
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Keep in mind that WL was something we released *one a year* for a while. So even if we do start working on it more actively, don't expect it to start coming like like SotS or something. ;-)

It was fun to wrap this one up. As for Battle 06 - who knows? We'll get to it.

All of which makes the fact that there IS some new WL even MORE worthy of celebration, since the production schedule on it isn't as frantic as SotS. ^_^

Production schedule? There is no production schedule. That's very important to remember. As for franticness, that's more complicated, but still nothing non-IRCers need to worry about.

Mike Thedford
Dark Nation
Dictator at Large

Warrior's Legacy was what got me reading Eyrie in the first place; I'm rather excited that there's (finally) a new episode out. The first time I came across it, only the first two episodes were up; it seems fairly soon after that, though I can't remember how long it actually was, that Battle 03 was released.

>It was fun to wrap this one up. As for Battle 06 - who knows? We'll
>get to it.

Same way you'll get to HL5... :D

*grinning, ducking, and running*

-- Sean --
Rabid Crack Weasel #42
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true'." -- Terry Pratchett
The Broken Link
Follow my creative process

Geeze, that just gave me an image of one of those cheesy prints you see in mall framing/painting/print shops, the kind with James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart and god knows who else all hanging around in some kind of dive just being too utterly cool for words -- except it's populated by random fic characters instead... urk.

-- Bob
(Proud member of the Legion of Rabid Crack Weasels)
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Kosh:  "Who are you?"
Morden: "What do you want?"
Ivanova: "I'll be in the car."

"Boulevard of Broken Dreams."

IIRC, you got everyone except the guy behind the counter, which, I believe, is Jimmy Stewart.

My mother used to have it hanging up in the living room, when I was living with her in Connecticut.

>except it's populated by random fic characters instead... urk.

*snerk* If I ever get REALLY bored with LOTS of time on my hand and absolutely NOTHING better to do, I just might do that...

-- Sean --
Rabid Crack Weasel #42
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true'." -- Terry Pratchett
The Broken Link
Follow my creative process

Yeah, that's the original, but there's a whole slew of imitators, too -- pool halls, diners, bars, you name it.

>>except it's populated by random fic characters instead... urk.
>*snerk* If I ever get REALLY bored with LOTS of time on my hand and
>absolutely NOTHING better to do, I just might do that...

You are far more artistically optimistic than I...

-- Bob
(Proud member of the Legion of Rabid Crack Weasels)
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Kosh:  "Who are you?"
Morden: "What do you want?"
Ivanova: "I'll be in the car."

Dammit, this is getting annoying. Will you people stop encouraging my muse!

- Matrix Dragon, RCW #123, currently overwhelmed by fic ideas.
"What happened to -you-?"
"I had an argument with the United States Air Force."
"Oh. Who won?"
"Her Majesty's Special Air Service."

What's worse is when you end up in there yourself, a few of your characters (or other peoples) demanding more attention. I've lost more story ideas that way.

- Matrix Dragon, RCW #123
"What happened to -you-?"
"I had an argument with the United States Air Force."
"Oh. Who won?"
"Her Majesty's Special Air Service."

... er...

OK, so I know how Rose handled G's fear of heights and you don't, which means you had no way of knowing you would cause this, but the notion of G applying the same basic method to confront this particular topic with his own student gives me an image I just did not need.

Not that I mind it... but I did not need it. :)

--G.
"Sensei, who's Nabokov?"
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Actually, the concept I was aiming at was 'You're the Valdritkar; you deal with it, like I had to deal with YOUR little mental tweaks'.

But hey, if you was amused by it.... ^_^

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Geoff Depew - Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Malakite of Lightning and Angel of Tech Support Professionals
EPU RCW #1

Well, after looking up Nabokov, (or more specifically, the book I'd imagine Gryphon is referring to) I'm forced to speculate how Rose could have done -that- and had it have anything to do with acrophobia. Oooo-kaaaay...

"...Ye must desire respite from thy empty existence. Thou shalt HAVE it!"

No, no, you misunderstand me. If you accept the old saw that the best way to overcome the fearsome and/or the unknown is to confront it head-on, then the struggle with heights isn't really all that noteworthy ("Learn how punch when learn how keep dry," as Mr. Miyagi might have put it), but its converse in the next generation becomes... interesting. In a "when did I wander into a backchannel dojinshi" kind of way, anyway.

--G.
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And in a "that's illegal in the state of Massachussetts" way, too, depending on how old Sakura is at the time.

However, I believe the age of consent is lower in NH and/or ME (I forget, exactly). Which still doesn't address the whole father figure/legal guardian issues.

-- Sean --
Rabid Crack Weasel #42
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true'." -- Terry Pratchett
The Broken Link
Follow my creative process

Yes, well, almost everything is illegal in the state of Massachusetts. One of these days we'll pass a law making it at least a Class D felony to spell the name of the state with five s's.

>However, I believe the age of consent is lower in NH and/or ME (I
>forget, exactly). Which still doesn't address the whole father
>figure/legal guardian issues.

Uh, yeah, significantly (in Maine, anyway). Of course, there's a Federal law against crossing state lines for the purpose of exploiting such differences in local regulation, but hey - there's a Federal law against stealing stuff from Area 51, too. :)

Anyway, if you're genuinely worried about it, this isn't a direction I expect to wander off in - it's just where the chain of neural linkups that started at Geoff's post led, somewhat to my chagrin. Leaving aside for the moment the fact that I wouldn't relish the ensuing pissing match over Warrior's Legacy's crypto-lolicon subtext, it doesn't strike me as particularly in character.

--G.
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No; it wouldn't really fit with the feel of the universe, I don't think. I was just pointing out some of the ramification, at least some of which would probably occur to Gryph :). (I'd think that the whole father-figure issue would warn him off of that form of education, or, at least, being the teacher himself...)

>Leaving aside for the moment the fact that I wouldn't relish the
>ensuing pissing match over Warrior's Legacy's crypto-lolicon
>subtext, it doesn't strike me as particularly in character.

See above. I mean, yeah, Gryph's been cured of his nervousness around women, but he's still probably not the kind of person who would go for that particular solution to matters, particularly given that the Cammy thing is unresolved.

-- Sean --
Rabid Crack Weasel #42
"All tribal myths are true, for a given value of 'true'." -- Terry Pratchett
The Broken Link
Follow my creative process

Is an apology in order here? o.o

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Geoff Depew - Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Malakite of Lightning and Angel of Tech Support Professionals
EPU RCW #1

No, but this is our fiftieth post, so if people want to say anything more about Battle 05 they'd best do it in a new thread. :)

--G.
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Actually, it was 675,000 pounds sterling, which is just shy of a million US dollars. (At the time I wrote the story, the pound was stronger; the total then was about $1.1 million.)

>now, what I
>want to know is, is a Makorov got more stoping power then a PPK? I
>thought the PPK was stronger.

It's my understanding that they're about the same. Keep in mind that Bowen's PPK is the proper European model - it's in 7.65mm Browning (aka .32 ACP), as opposed to the entirely unsatisfactory mutant .380 APC "PPK/S" that US import laws have stuck us North Americans with since the late 1960s.

Anyway, stopping power arguments between firearms in the same basic niche (well, the Mak is actually more closely comparable to the PPK's bigger brother, the PP, but still) are largely pointless. The whole concept of "stopping power" is too nebulous to make any comparisons other than large, sweeping ones (like ".45 ACP is better than .22 Long Rifle").

--G.
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Also note that there is a large difference between a gun's ability to incapacitate an unarmored, human target in a limited number of shots and that same gun's ability to take down the same human through an armored windshield. Some guns will be better at one, others will be better at the other - and that's not even taking ammo into account.

Sirrocco
Zen Weasel

This is largely due to the fact that the Makarov was inspired by (i.e. stole a lot from) the Walther. If anybody cares to read up on it, http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg00-e.htm has a decent write-up on each.

>Keep in mind that
>Bowen's PPK is the proper European model - it's in 7.65mm Browning
>(aka .32 ACP), as opposed to the entirely unsatisfactory mutant .380
>APC "PPK/S" that US import laws have stuck us North Americans with
>since the late 1960s.

Although I haven't shot a PPK/S, I rather like the .380 ACP (9x17mm) caliber... I'm accurate with it :)

-Z

Rabid Crack Turtle 3.14159
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well....that answers my question, at least I know where to go if I have any more gun questions(I'm not being sarcastick, BTW).

>Anyway, stopping power arguments between firearms in the same basic
>niche (well, the Mak is actually more closely comparable to the PPK's
>bigger brother, the PP, but still) are largely pointless. The whole
>concept of "stopping power" is too nebulous to make any comparisons
>other than large, sweeping ones (like ".45 ACP is better than .22 Long
>Rifle").

or a .50 DE and a .70 LE

also, do you have to be, like, 18 to go fire in a gun range?

I suppose it depends on the laws of your local jurisdiction, if any, and the policies of the range in question (which may in turn depend on those of their insurance underwriters). I didn't start going to commercial ranges until I was past that age, so I never had to find out.

--G.
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