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On January 08 2017 21:30 Simberto wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2017 17:10 GreenHorizons wrote:
How come vampires never throw things at their attackers? It's because of how nocturnal Sanguinsitis changes the eyes of the afflicted. They gain incredible night-vision capabilities, but they are absolutely incapable of stereo vision. They don't throw stuff because they can not judge the distance to the target at all.
Seems like an evolutionary mistake. Predators normally have good stereo vision to help in taking down their prey.
No wonder they died out.
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Given that vampires reproduce in a manner wholly unlike other organisms, I'm not sure evolutionary pressures would act on them quite like they do other living things.
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This discussion... "sucks" 
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On January 08 2017 19:36 GreenHorizons wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2017 19:22 Acrofales wrote:On January 08 2017 17:10 GreenHorizons wrote:
How come vampires never throw things at their attackers? What vampires? There's like a millionaire different interpretations and I'm pretty sure some do throw things occasionally. Do you have an example?
Two quick ones:
Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption has throwing knives as part of the standard weapons.
Vampire Vs. Zombie : THE BITE page 7 has a vampire equipping throwing knives. https://books.google.se/books?id=fkiTCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
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A friend of mine would occasionally apply throwing knives to his vampire in Mordheim.
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how does it work when a character is out of copyright but still trademarked? for example the copyright to Tarzan of the Apes is expired but he's still a Trademarked character. So does that mean I could publish a copy of Bob of the apes where I just rename the character Bob but its literally the exact same story word for word otherwise?
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If you had a one-time-use time machine that could only transport you backward in time for one hour (after an hour you would be instantly transported back to the future ) how far back would you go and what would be the best way to improve your current life in that hour?
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On January 10 2017 09:35 Fecalfeast wrote:
If you had a one-time-use time machine that could only transport you backward in time for one hour (after an hour you would be instantly transported back to the future ) how far back would you go and what would be the best way to improve your current life in that hour?
If that is a separate timeline/universe I would use criminal acts. Stealing information or pure monetary goods with no crime in my timeline. I seem to have 0 empathy for other me in this hypothetical situation. Would likely figure out an ironclad alibi as well for it assuming I could reuse it a few times to plan things out well.
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On January 10 2017 09:35 Fecalfeast wrote:
If you had a one-time-use time machine that could only transport you backward in time for one hour (after an hour you would be instantly transported back to the future ) how far back would you go and what would be the best way to improve your current life in that hour?
The most obvious approach wouyld be things like going back and giving list of lottery numbers (or stocks, or whatever) that past self can then use to get rich or w/e.
But yeah, the you run into the issues with consistency in time travel... In my past life I didn't get any such information, so who exactly is it I'm helping? Parallel cascade in a different universe? If so, then there's the question if I should go back with the purpose of helping present cascade or parallel cascade. What has parallel cascade ever done for me??
If for present cascade... Hmm. I guess I could check up some winning horses or some other short-term gambling that pays out in an hour and bring back the $$$? Find some races with really unexpected winners.
With the purpose of improving the world... Hmm, the possibilities! It still splits up in the cases of parallel universe vs this universe though.
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On January 10 2017 05:56 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote:
how does it work when a character is out of copyright but still trademarked? for example the copyright to Tarzan of the Apes is expired but he's still a Trademarked character. So does that mean I could publish a copy of Bob of the apes where I just rename the character Bob but its literally the exact same story word for word otherwise?
"while the owners of a copyright can prevent anyone from using, copying, modifying, distributing, performing and displaying the protected work, the owners of a trademark can only prevent others from using their mark in commerce for identifying similar products or services, but any other use is permitted"
(source)
So, given your right to copy and modify the public domain work, you should be able to publish a version of the story that doesn't contain the trademarked character.
I'm pretty sure there's also a precedent in the United States that publishing a public domain book with no modifications whatsoever is protected from trademark claims, but IANAL and couldn't find it with a 5-minute web search. The reasoning is, roughly, that (a) the work legally included the trademark originally and (b) you have since acquired the right to distribute the work, so (c) your use of the trademark within the work is still legal.
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The key question really is whether after returning back to present, you just come back with what you took, or you assume the life you created by your changes. That is really unclear from the formulation of the problem.
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On January 10 2017 18:28 opisska wrote:
The key question really is whether after returning back to present, you just come back with what you took, or you assume the life you created by your changes. That is really unclear from the formulation of the problem.
This thing were you travel back to where you came from after having messed crap up in the past, and things are different from how it was when you left makes absolutely zero sense. Alternative timelines and parallel universes as much as you want, makes no sense.
I challenge anyone to answer the following questions in an even remotely coherent way. Assume:
- From year 2000 to 2017, history H1 plays out in the universe.
- At 2017, Alice (A) travels back to 2000 and kills Justin Bieber (B), propelling the universe down history H2, which is a Bieber-free universe and thus a better place to live in.
- Alice travels back to 2017 where no one knows who B is, except Alice herself. She lives the rest of her life happily.
questions:
1) What happens with everyone in universe H1 after A leaves? The universe continues with B with without A?
2) In universe H2, there is an A that lives a happy B-free life. Call this person A2. What happens to A2 when Alice from H1 (call this person A1) travels back to 2017? Is A2 replaces and the memories of A2 in H2 erased?
3) Will there be both A1 and A2 in H2 after 2017?
4) What if A2 dies in an accident while celebrating the B-free universe? When A1 travels back to 2017, will A1 arrive dead?
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You have a surprisingly strong opinion on this matter. I sense insecurity in your posts that indicates that you are a time traveler from the future and struggle to accept the consequences of your actions.
At first, I found it hard to rationalize why would someone timetravel just to post on a gaming website, but I have come to the conclusion that I would have been killed by a falling koala in Australia weren't it for you and thus I have probably been determined to be the future savior of mankind and had to be saved for this purpose. This realization allows me to post this super sensitive information freely, because you aren't likely to come after me after all this hassle of saving me in the first place.
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5) Can there only be 1 Alice, and upon travelling to 2017 are both Alices given a highlander sword and the mission to battle it out, for the sake of the universe?
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On January 10 2017 19:59 opisska wrote:
You have a surprisingly strong opinion on this matter. I sense insecurity in your posts that indicates that you are a time traveler from the future and struggle to accept the consequences of your actions.
At first, I found it hard to rationalize why would someone timetravel just to post on a gaming website, but I have come to the conclusion that I would have been killed by a falling koala in Australia weren't it for you and thus I have probably been determined to be the future savior of mankind and had to be saved for this purpose. This realization allows me to post this super sensitive information freely, because you aren't likely to come after me after all this hassle of saving me in the first place.
I'll be back.
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On January 10 2017 19:59 opisska wrote:
You have a surprisingly strong opinion on this matter. I sense insecurity in your posts that indicates that you are a time traveler from the future and struggle to accept the consequences of your actions.
At first, I found it hard to rationalize why would someone timetravel just to post on a gaming website, but I have come to the conclusion that I would have been killed by a falling koala in Australia weren't it for you and thus I have probably been determined to be the future savior of mankind and had to be saved for this purpose. This realization allows me to post this super sensitive information freely, because you aren't likely to come after me after all this hassle of saving me in the first place.
I'm trying to start a conversation!
+ Show Spoiler +I'll kill your grandparents after you saved the world, and then you will cease to exist retrospectively, but the world will for some reason still be saved because [giant plot hole].
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I'm wondering, semirelatedly,...
If you'd accidentally time travelled too far back, let's say year 1000 in central Europe, and you'd get stuck there, unprepared, with just your smartphone and a charger cable (because you thought you'd travel to somewhere with electricity), what would be the best way to charge your phone so you can keep playing sudoku or watch porn or whatever?
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