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2016-08-22, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
Well, I'm not sure how much this changes the equation, but as I understand it, a human only has to lose about a third of their blood to be almost guaranteed to die without medical treatment, and if you puncture the right part of the neck a human will lose most of their blood in minutes without any additional help. But I'm by no means an expert.
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2016-08-22, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Absolutely. The key being in minutes, not seconds.
I'm sure they do it that way because they don't want to waste minutes of screentime showing a feeding, but the result is that they show the victims dying in seconds (incidentally, with no obvious signs of the vampire swallowing).So high strength vacuum that provides the suction for them..."That's a horrible idea! What time?"
T-Shirt given to me by a good friend.. "in fairness, I was unsupervised at the time".
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2016-08-22, 04:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-22, 05:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-22, 05:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-22, 07:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-22, 10:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
Hell, It's About Time: Wings of Liberty
Does This Mutation Make Me Look Fat: Heart of the Swarm
My Life For Aiur? I Barely Know 'Er: Legacy of the Void
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2016-08-23, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
I think we all got this from the two little holes that would be left in vampire shows/movies. If the movies showed that the person had their neck ripped open like they were attacked by a large dog or big cat, I am pretty sure it would have come across a lot less... romantic of a notion.
My contribution: Color itself was invented in the 1950s and before then everything and everyone was black and white.
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2016-08-23, 12:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2016-08-23, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-23, 02:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-23, 02:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2016-08-23, 03:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-23, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
I can walk up and down stairs/navigate my way around obstacles in broad daylight/play sports/fence/tie knots/fire guns/etc perfectly fine without depth perception, and if I can do it I'm sure pirates can do it also. (Well, I'm a little hindered doing fencing without depth perception, but I could overcome that with more practice, I'm sure.)
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(and basically everything else that starts with 'f')ALSO! Come roleplay FFRPG in the Nexus!Nexus Characters.
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2016-08-23, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-23, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-23, 07:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-23, 08:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Midas's curse always confused me. Does his hand only turn the piece of something that he touches to gold? Clearly not, he ended up with people-statues without touching every inch of the people in question. What about liquids? Can they turn to gold? What happens if he touches something really big, like a tree? A house? The earth? Could Midas have caused a Cat's Cradle-esque apocalypse by turning the earth and the sea to gold?
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2016-08-23, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-23, 11:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-24, 01:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
Just simplify the idea of what a woven glove does here - make an extremely thin glove (even if it's really fragile material not suited to surviving as a glove, it'll be gold in a moment) and then wear a more proper glove over it so it has some shielding and doesn't look too strange.
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2016-08-24, 06:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
I was a teenager at the time, but I was 100 % certain that the kender from Dragonlance looked like fauns or satyrs. As in Pan of the Greek mythology - goat's feet, a little tail, small horns on the head. Possibly reed flutes too. All this from the name "Burrfoot" - he'd have to have fur-covered legs, otherwise he wouldn't have burrs latching onto them, right?
It's not a misconception, exactly, but the way I imagined Ents in LotR they were massive, thick-bodied and wide. Then the movies made them like thin stick-men. The clash between my mental image and the movie's visuals was so strong I still dislike the movies purely because of that. I know it's illogical to go to that extent, but...Last edited by endoperez; 2016-08-24 at 06:26 AM.
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2016-08-24, 07:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-24, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-24, 08:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2016-08-24, 09:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-24, 09:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2016-08-24, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-08-24, 10:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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My D&D 5th ed. Druid Handbook
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2016-08-24, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
For one thing, when Merry and Pippin first wander into Fangorn Forest they walk right past Treebeard, thinking he is a slightly strange looking tree stump. Can't remember the exact description. Later on, other ents are described as slender, especially the younger ones like Quickbeam.
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