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by Solemn
Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:45 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: INTRODUCTION THREAD
Replies: 155
Views: 115998

Re: INTRODUCTION THREAD

TeidarPallanLeinnol wrote:YES BUT YOU WERE OBVIOUSLY SPEAKING OF TELEPATHY
See, this is why no Loroi can ever win a prank war against a human.

It's just perfect Straight Man mode all the time.
by Solemn
Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:45 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: INTRODUCTION THREAD
Replies: 155
Views: 115998

Re: INTRODUCTION THREAD

TeidarPallanLeinnol wrote:
junk wrote:human TP
OH WAIT YOU'RE SERIOUS LET ME LAUGH EVEN HARDER
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Do Loroi even have toilet paper?
by Solemn
Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:27 am
Forum: Fan Works
Topic: Reflections on the Hypothetical [fanfic] (DISCO INFERNO)
Replies: 195
Views: 14140

Re: A Reflection on the Hypothetical [fanfic] [FREE ALCOHOL]

So, what´s to do? Scientifically? Systematically? Technically? Else? Okay. Some things which can be metabolized and some of the processes by which those materials are broken down are worse than others, due to transition states and other various matters. You can metabolize ethanol, but some of the t...
by Solemn
Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:09 pm
Forum: Fan Works
Topic: Reflections on the Hypothetical [fanfic] (DISCO INFERNO)
Replies: 195
Views: 14140

Re: A Reflection on the Hypothetical [fanfic] [FREE ALCOHOL]

If we meet alien species in the future, how to ensure nutrition? Both ways? Except try and wait - is there enough knowlegde about food chemistry yet to avoid at least most trap doors? The short answer is "no." Interstellar travel would, I think, be very much a Bring Your Own Beer situation. EDIT: T...
by Solemn
Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:16 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Sustainable Systems and Nuclear Energy
Replies: 134
Views: 64519

Re: Sustainable Systems and Nuclear Energy

How many thousands more must die of cadmium poisoning before the world stops manufacturing solar panels? How many tens of thousands more must die before we stop flying planes? Oh wait, they're many times much safer than cars. But surely the risk of disaster outweighs the benefits of normal function...
by Solemn
Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:49 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Sustainable Systems and Nuclear Energy
Replies: 134
Views: 64519

Re: Sustainable Systems and Nuclear Energy

How many thousands more must die of cadmium poisoning before the world stops manufacturing solar panels?
by Solemn
Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:04 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Sustainable Systems and Nuclear Energy
Replies: 134
Views: 64519

Re: Sustainable Systems and Nuclear Energy

It really must sting that of all people in the world it is the leaders who turn away from that tech, doesn´t it? ...but the French haven't turned away from nuclear power. They might eventually, especially since the pro- and anti- nuclear political struggle has been an actual shooting war with real ...
by Solemn
Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:26 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Some questions about outsider
Replies: 79
Views: 46185

Re: Some questions about outsider

EDIT: Damn, I seem to have misread the fuel definition in the Combat Sim.

Edit 2: And my math was wrong too. Go figure.
by Solemn
Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:35 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Insider, Updates
Replies: 251
Views: 144691

Re: Insider, Updates

I just remembered the Buzz Lightyear cartoon from about a decade ago. I used to watch the show, but forgot pretty much everything about it until recently. They had several blue humanoids on that show. However, the most fitting would obviously be the pointy-eared, psychically powered Tangeans. The Ta...
by Solemn
Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:24 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 99
Replies: 72
Views: 42644

Re: Page 99

So we know that Alex is being moved, but we don't know where to, or why the Loroi have armored up for the occasion. We also know that the 51st has two duties at the moment, which would probably be better addressed if they could be separated; they have to help shore up the Union's defenses against th...
by Solemn
Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:07 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 99
Replies: 72
Views: 42644

Re: Page 99

OK, I am assuming that the story follows Earth custom here. Possibly it does not but I am assuming that. No, they have not promoted him and Fireblade is not in his chain of command. Nonetheless, he is now her superior officer. It matters not if he is in the Loroi Navy. If an American major were to ...
by Solemn
Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:25 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 99
Replies: 72
Views: 42644

Re: Page 99

The Loroi have granted Alex the title and rank of captain. If Fireblade were to assualt Alex it would be assualt on a superior officer. ...no they didn't, they formally recognized him as the commander of an alien vessel, and as the commanding officer of a foreign vessel, recognized his right to be ...
by Solemn
Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:17 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 99
Replies: 72
Views: 42644

Re: Page 99

Fireblade cant kill Alex. She would be in deep trouble if she did. He knows this. ...however, she probably can give him an atomic wedgie. Or force him to start hitting himself. With or without her telekinesis. Escalation's the only way it can go from there, Alex plying all his experience from the S...
by Solemn
Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:53 am
Forum: Fan Works
Topic: Reflections on the Hypothetical [fanfic] (DISCO INFERNO)
Replies: 195
Views: 14140

Re: A Reflection on the Hypothetical

Eh, he is really smart. So far, Alex's brain has been rather terribly abused at least once per chapter. It's certainly possible that his brain is more or less unscathed, or that Loroi technology is sophisticated enough to repair any damage done so far--after all, I'd certainly have shot Fireblade i...
by Solemn
Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:04 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: WIP Discussion (Part 1!)
Replies: 2709
Views: 1820163

Re: WIP Discussion (Part 1!)

Alex has begun to unravel the secrets of advanced Loroi technology.

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by Solemn
Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:07 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Insider, Updates
Replies: 251
Views: 144691

Re: Insider, Updates

I like the more esoteric articles on Wikipedia. Here's a bunch of blues: The Aranes of Arane II are a race of light blue skinned, white haired humanoids, with tiny blue potruding horns on their foreheads. Rolind Siepur of Arane II is a member of the Dark Circle.[21] The Giants of Ogyptu are blue sk...
by Solemn
Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:15 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Insider, Updates
Replies: 251
Views: 144691

Re: Insider, Updates

Google keeps telling me that there's a unit type called "Reaperman" and that there are Reaper males, though I can't really make out any secondary sex traits on most of the screenshots that aren't of Princess Delphi. (Also all of the large Sea Reaper images with a decent look at the Reaper in questio...
by Solemn
Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:55 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Insider, Updates
Replies: 251
Views: 144691

Re: Insider, Updates

Sea Reapers (Giants: Citizen Kabuto) The Sea Reapers inhabit the waters of a planetoid known only as "Island." They are apparently all female, Standard enemies include Reaper Guards, male Reapers with no magical ability who serve as common soldiers, as well as fauna such as the insectoid Rippers, b...
by Solemn
Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:39 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Insider, Updates
Replies: 251
Views: 144691

Re: Insider, Updates

I can't believe I didn't mention this earlier. Drinniol, from Marathon 1 . http://images.wikia.com/marathongame/images/8/89/Hulks.jpg Big, slow-moving blue-skinned and blue-blooded bullet sinks. Used to decent effect on the level The Rose , where they served as an effective way to overcome certain e...
by Solemn
Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:06 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Insider, Updates
Replies: 251
Views: 144691

Re: Insider, Updates

You might also put up an honorable mention for SHODAN and Cortana, who are by various definitions not people, and are often not blue, but look close enough often enough to count. In my headcanon, SHODAN's “skin” is black, not silver. :) http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/09/aug/shodan8.jpg Acco...