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Reply Subj: And shoes. Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 at 05:06:51 am EST (Viewed 2 times) | |||||||
Quote: Sudden onset diabetis, apparently, with some interesting blood sugar and insulin levels. I'm now having to educate myself about such things. Apparently the ongoing treatment includes a number of things of which I am not fond, including needles, diets, and exercise.You'll be surprised how fast you get over needles. For the rest, think of a change of diet as motivation for trying new stuff. Quote: Well, early on we populated our stories with useful simulacrae in service of telling a quick fun tale. Later when we were in it for the longer haul we developed more complex pastiche or original characters. That's a natural progression for a developing fictional universe.It also works out better for me because I tend to get myself in trouble with many other people's characters. Quote: Where we are now is different again, I'm afraid. We're no longer active enough to attract new posters brigining whole new narrative strands. There are a diminishing number of readers but they are more or less "experts" in the PVB. I'd probably not have written the current UT story arc for a board that was trying to include new readers, but I think it suits the actual audience.We're also up against a different mentality. I've said this for a while now and it still holds true: Facebook has just about killed message boards. It eats up a lot of time, and feeds a lot of people's want/need to be famous to the point where they let everything else drop off of their radar. It's really tough to compete with. The reason I prefer message boards for written stuff is on Facebook people share and repost it, and you lose control of it. If you wanted to make a correction? Too bad. The error will be there for all time. By the way, this message board software did have a cross-post system to let people post both to Facebook and here. FB disallowed it pretty quickly - they WANT exclusive content, and its users are more than happy to oblige. Quote: Speaking of UT, I really intend to sit down and write some today. As I intended yesterday, and all last week. I'm still trying to get to grips with how my current condition is affecting my creative drives. Deadlines are looming.It took me a while to find the time, too. Then this idea struck, and I wrote it quickly before something else came along and interrupted it. Quote: Hacker 9 is an interesting sort of adversary. He's really a superpowered online social justice warrior, Anonymous in comic book form. And now he's also got the abilities of a Herald of Galactivac, which seems to allow him access to all kinds of short-cuts and back doors, amplifying his abilities. But he is also only nineteen, and is one of the rather short list of people who have taken over the Earth twice so far (with Zemo and the Hooded Hood; I can't recall a third).Hallie, I believe. And if Hacker 9 can talk to Lara, he might be surprised at how much of what he does she understands. She learned a lot of really sophisticated tech from her time in a supergroup. Quote: My wife has the same problem, being "carded" well into her thirties.Imagine also that Lara is somewhat famous, which means she'll be invited as a guest at a comic con, and when she arrives in civilian clothing people say "get out of here, kid" and ask where her dad is. And even in-costume the most common comments she gets are "You're shorter than I thought you'd be" and "You're soooo cute!" Quote: The problem comes when the person with that power is considered unstable or untrustworthy. Someone with class omega reality-warping powers like Mad Wendy or Eddie the Imp, someone with proven antisocial tendencies and vast energy projection like Dr Roentgen, or someone with a history of misue of power like Baroness von Zemo are likely to provoke restraint.That's why they'd really have to worry about Liu Xi. She's not proven to be unstable, but she does have quite a temper, and a lot of people constantly trying to push her over the edge. What they might not realize is it's making her stronger and more fearsome. Quote: On the other hand, the LL has welcomed certain allies in extremity, including the Doomherald and Danny Lyle. They have even tentatively allied themselves with the Hooded Hood, who is definitely on the has-power-to-end-worlds spectrum but is highly unlikely to use it except in extremis.And they still don't really know what Faite is capable of. Only that she's a withdrawn and a little weird. Quote: I never got round to telling that Lighthouse origin story, did I? Shame.Not that I remember... | |||||||
