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    Default Re: El Goonish Shive III - Totally Adorkable!

    Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
    Edit: Forgot my conclusion: IMnpHO, the correct response to a label is to only ascribe the characteristics necessarily shared by the entire group. Whether the vast majority, or hell even 99.9% of all its members also have properties B, C and D is irrelevant. Do not make assumptions: this person in front of you might be the 0.01%.
    To this I'd like to add just a few words: even if assuming B, C and D would be accurate 99.9% of the time and have very low probability of causing misunderstanding, when you encounter a person with quality A, for any person in those 0.1% it will happen Every. Damned. Time.

    This is a very solid reason to forgo that particular label and even aquire aversion to labels in general.


    Aside from that: could Sarah use her illusion spell while inside of her illusion spell and thus gain truly ludicrous time acceleration Inception style? And yes, I think the loss of accuracy clinches it for complicated equipment like computers.

    edit: there were no typos here, you haven't seen anything.
    Last edited by Radar; 2015-04-24 at 11:57 AM.
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