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Super.Jesus posted:Having to make an elaborate clockwork keyboard and a projector periscope rig seems like a small price to pay for The Internet. They rigged up something similar in Blade of Tyshalle for Tan'elKoth, but Harry would probably hate using a computer. Remember he's never used anything with a GUI, ever. Take that frustration you feel when some new program isn't working how you think it should and multiply that by a thousand for him. Even if he got something that worked he'd probably slag it by the end of the week.
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Release date stuff came up in the Locke Lamora thread; it has something to do with retailers needing a date in order to process stuff on their systems, so someone somewhere along the line just uses a placeholder and when it gets out people get excited ed then upset when it changes.
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Dr. MonkeyThunder posted:They rigged up something similar in Blade of Tyshalle for Tan'elKoth, but Harry would probably hate using a computer. Remember he's never used anything with a GUI, ever. Take that frustration you feel when some new program isn't working how you think it should and multiply that by a thousand for him. Even if he got something that worked he'd probably slag it by the end of the week. Plus it has been shown that getting more frustrated/angry increases the hex. Imagine Harry actually on the internet, it would be destroyed the SECOND he looks at the comments on a YouTube vid.
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Not sure you guys are giving him enough credit. A lot of the stuff Harry does with magic requires intese focus and a pretty large knowledge base, dude isn't a dullard. I think he could handle a modern OS.
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And with an effort of will I focused on the keyboard to find the any key and let out a curse.
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Butters, I just won a free Ipad! edit: Working mom fights supernatural predators with this one weird tip, vampire courts HATE her!
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Or he could bug Odin/Donar Vadderung for some of those slick butt screen things he has in his office. Edit: apparently there is now a word replacement on SA making C+loud into butt. Edit the second: And since Bob can apparently (Cold Days Spoilers) project movies now, he could sit Bob down once a week and have his own snarky DVR DJ_Ferret fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Nov 20, 2013 |
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Skippy McPants posted:Not sure you guys are giving him enough credit. A lot of the stuff Harry does with magic requires intese focus and a pretty large knowledge base, dude isn't a dullard. I think he could handle a modern OS. Given how anal retentive Harry got about the precise mechanics of fireballs when he played that RPG with the Alphas, I think his PC would meltdown (despite any precautions) the first time Harry got into an argument on the internet.
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DJ_Ferret posted:Edit: apparently there is now a word replacement on SA making C+loud into butt. edit: Cloud Cloud Cloud - works for me!
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Skippy McPants posted:Not sure you guys are giving him enough credit. A lot of the stuff Harry does with magic requires intese focus and a pretty large knowledge base, dude isn't a dullard. I think he could handle a modern OS. Harry is basically a classical nerd whose focus has been a completely different esoteric system than computers, role-playing games, or the minutiae of television shows. He could absolutely handle a computer if he were interested in learning how, and could get one that wouldn't melt down the first time he found out that My Little Pony fanfiction is a thing.
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But could he handle this?
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Len posted:But could he handle this? Oh god 
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Len posted:But could he handle this? Boy am I glad I moused over that and saw what the url was rather than just blindly clicking.
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BrooklynBruiser posted:Boy am I glad I moused over that and saw what the url was rather than just blindly clicking. It's not that bad. I can guarantee you've read worse things on the internet. I'm just jealous those people have the conviction to write 200k+ words. I can't write three pages without getting bored.
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Something tells me Butcher would be the type to approve of that, and I'm saddened by the thought.
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Wade Wilson posted:Something tells me Butcher would be the type to approve of that, and I'm saddened by the thought. There would be a FATE module for it by the end of the year.
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Those crossover fan fictions were the first I'd heard of the Dresden Files, and they did a pretty good job of showing me the kind of stuff that makes Dresden interesting.
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I'm not sure if Dresden/Ponies is better or worse then Dresden/Evangelion which apparently also exists. Edit: Dresden/50 Shades.
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Len posted:Dresden/50 Shades. Yes, we've all read Death Masks.
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If there's one thing I've learned about Dresden Files fanfiction, it's that there's an incredible amount of Dresden/Marcone slash. I mean, we're talking Kirk/Spock levels here (OK, that may be an exaggeration, but holy poo poo there's a lot).
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ookiimarukochan posted:That or you've accidentally installed one of the more aggressive cloud-to-butt browser plug-ins (They've been a thing for a while, confusing people in several SH/SC threads, haha) Someone (likely drunk me) installed the cloud to butt extension. It was hitting literally EVERYTHING. Good call. At least drunk me just pranks sober me instead of spending my money.
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DJ_Ferret posted:Someone (likely drunk me) installed the cloud to butt extension. It was hitting literally EVERYTHING. Good call. Wait, this is an actual thing? Why is this a thing?
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Darth Walrus posted:Wait, this is an actual thing? Why is this a thing? Most likely because it makes reading the endless stream of "cloud computing" articles in the software development world a bit more tolerable.
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To be fair to the fanfictioners "dresden fillies" is a pretty good name.
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Also to be fair, Dresden Files is by it's very nature pulpy and indulgent beyond reason. It's kinda hard to hate on anyone for taking it and running with it in whatever wacky direction they want. Shine on you crazy diamonds. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Nov 21, 2013 |
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I have to admit that I kinda like Butcher's all-inclusive nerdiness. Dude likes what he likes, doesn't care if you like it, and if he doesn't harsh on people who like stuff he doesn't. Shine on you crazy diamonds is right.
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It also helps that he basically encouraged crossovers when he had Bob say (Ghost Story)"You think your universe is the only universe? Harry, come on. Creation, totally freaking huge. Room enough for you and Spider-man both".
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Len posted:Dresden/Evangelion How the hell does this one work?
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Ramadu posted:How the hell does this one work? Well you see Harry was in a coma for a while, and Shinji has this thing about half naked people in comas...
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Ramadu posted:How the hell does this one work? As a guess... AT fields are actually mobile thresholds, evangelions are giant mecha made out of cloned angel parts because conventional technology is hexable, and the big egg proto-angel creatures are faerie-queen class entities which caused the same scale of devastation when imbalanced?
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Ramadu posted:How the hell does this one work? Gendo is the Merlin.
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Ramadu posted:How the hell does this one work? I don't know and I don't really want to know.
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You know what's next, don't you. Dresden and Warhammer 40k.
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Scintilla posted:You know what's next, don't you. Dresden and Warhammer 40k. The Outer Gates already are a Warhammer 40k setting.
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keiran_helcyan posted:The Outer Gates already are a Warhammer 40k setting. None on fanfiction.net.
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Scintilla posted:You know what's next, don't you. Dresden and Warhammer 40k. Ciaphas Cain teams up with Harry. I'd read it.
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what are the general rules when it comes to what to expect in the books: I know : Every 3rd book is a vampire book. Every 5th book is a Denarian book. Until Changes every 4th book was fairy involvement (Summer Knight, Proven Guilty, Changes to a degree) I noticed when the rules interact they usually involve converging story lines, Changes being 12th book = is both in the line of vampire books every 3rd and fairy every 4th. Are there more patterns than I'm missing?
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Oroborus posted:Are there more patterns than I'm missing? Every occurence of the phrase "good people" is a book that has Murphy in it.
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Every book has a copy pasted slightly edited description of each main character. Every book has the phrase "hells bells" Every book with a Carpenter character has Harry trying not to swear. Until the 4th? book forzay was never mentioned or used.
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