http://x-juggernaut.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] xp_journal2005-03-07 10:20 am
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A few updates

1: For those of you to whom the quarry is not off-limits - consider it so until this rain stops. There was an erosion-influenced rockslide last night, and stuff's not quite stable around the edges. It's about a two-hundred foot drop and there's lots of hard stuff on that quarryside to bounce off of and make you go splat.

2: When the FBI comes to call, they do not need the good china.

3: Deliveries should start today for the new kitchen appliances and furniture that got all banged up from last week's events. If you're driving, don't park in front from noon until eight p.m.

4: For those of you who've been hunting deer, this is applicable. While on-grounds, there's an open-license standing with the county to allow you to hunt what's in season. See me if you need details on either hunting season specifics, or where the property boundaries end.

5: The big chair at the dining room table is, as you may have guessed, mine. Sit in it at your own risk, I'll likely arm-wrestle you for it if you try and snag it during meals.
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[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That's likely because they resonate at specific frequencies, many of which fall along the psionic spectrum. Cut and arrange them right, and they can act like a sort of tuning fork - which is a really crude analogy but it's kind of the idea of what you drew. Which by the way is still giving me the heebie-jeebies, since I'm having to invent parts to MAKE the parts that haven't been invented yet. Thank god we have a sub-micron operating press in the shop.

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, between the talk about focusing crystals and the artificial-hand icon, I kinda have to ask . . . are you building Nathan a lightsaber? Because the Star Wars geek in me wants to say he's supposed to build it himself.

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god, don't even BEGIN to bring up those movies. Awful, horrible abominations. Worse than most science fiction, they don't even BEGIN to try and put any kind of science into it. I've seen fairy tales with more coherent internal logic to their worldbuilding and suspension of disbelief vis-a-vis universal physics.

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Not even going to begin to argue whether or not George Lucas is smoking crack, because as is clearly shown by the new movies he gets it delivered to his house by the truckload. But whatever their other failings, they have:

1. Han Solo.

2. Lightsabers.

3. Yoda.

And 4. Young Carrie Fisher in a skimpy bikini.

Crappy the science may be, but come on, there's plenty to enjoy. :)

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess podracers kind of lose their appeal when you can figure out nineteen ways that the blond toddler should have lost the race with obviously shoddy equipment and little to no idea of how to fly those things.

And why, with technology that can propel ships through space and create artificial gravity, do the fighters still have wings? There's no aerodynamics in space!

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that's the new movies, and see above re truckloads of crack. Just about the only good thing about the new movies is they got actual fight choreographers to come in and handle the lightsaber fights, instead of "Old Creaky Man vs. Guy In Stiff-Jointed Rubber Suit."

The X-Wings do operate in atmosphere too, y'know. Although once you start talking atmosphere you have to start asking very pointed questions about the TIE fighters.

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
My point exactly! The A-Wings are quite possibly the only logical inter/intra-atmospheric fighters, and so they give them NO movie time and hardly even any good missions in the video games!

I also refuse to believe in the superiority of any military force, Empire or Rebel, whose entire defensive strategy could be defeated by the invention of a BULLET.

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, I love the A-Wing missions in the games. Zooming around faster than anydamnthing and tossing missiles up the butts of anything that gets in your way.

My favorite is when you buzz capital ships in those things. "Ahahaha, three million giant turbolaser batteries and you can't hit crap!"

[identity profile] x-cable.livejournal.com 2005-03-07 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Heebie-jeebies for everyone... it's very creepy to know how it works yet not really know. The memories feel like mine at times and not, at others.
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