You philistine, Knives, forks and spoons have all been obsolete for years now. One cutlery to rule them all rose, and the food eating business was never the same again!
1: That would be a pain in the ass to hold because of the knife.
I did say, "of another type that does everything it does, only better." While a spork can be used to emulate the functions of a knife, a fork and a spoon, it doesn't carry out the 'does it better' aspect. In fact, while it does all three, it's substandard at all three. The only thing it's better at is having all three functions in one item. Which means that while the concept of the spork will probably never die out (it has its niche) it will certainly never replace the standard-issue cutlery. Any more than the helicopter will replace the propeller plane, despite doing some things better.You philistine, Knives, forks and spoons have all been obsolete for years now. One cutlery to rule them all rose, and the food eating business was never the same again!
Behold, the splendour that is... the Spork!
Obviously not. You've got to be clearer with those online.
And here I thought I laced the sarcasm so think that even a grade schooler woulda caught on. ("one cutlery to rule them all"? "splendor of a spork"? serious posts don't typically have language like that from what I've seen)
Keep in mind that there's no statement so ridiculous, overblown or idiotic that someone (probably a dozen someones) wouldn't say it in complete seriousness on the web.
Entomology/Xenoentomology (although the roommate might help with this too)
Yeah, alien bug expeditions would be fun, as would the scientists engineering up ever more outlandish (and/or large) things for her to control to test the limits of what "bug" means.
To be perfectly frank, I'd almost rather "fade to black" for all of Taylor's actual run, especially given the "barely SFW" nature of the story: show her month of prep before going live, then flash forward to her waking up in the hospital bed next to her dad with all sorts of plans on how to derail things, with the occasional retrospective snip to give highlights on stuff that happened during/after her run. Heck, she might have been able to finagle a bit of a sneak peek onto Bet-that-could-be just before the rewind, so there could be elements of a Peggy Sue; those are fun when done right.Gotta agree with others here; if that wasn't settled, why did she sign? There wasn't a rush to sign, after all: she still had to get the scientists to okay her for interplanetary travel, work out the magical girl rituals, etc. There were enough complications to string things along for weeks before she had to sign anything; after all, she's determined to travel back in time 13 months after the show is over, what's another few weeks?
I would really doubt the owners could revoke the safeword; it'd have to be something like the producers, and only if she does it often enough to trigger a ratings slump (which it certainly would after more than a few times; this is after all a porn show), sort of like that "spankings if your ratings flatline" punishment.
Not only is Taylor being made into a Green Lantern, but Smaug is taking her under his wing for a year. If by the end of that Taylor can't assert herself in a conversation no amount of flash learning is going to help.
While true, in my interpretation there's a hell of a lot more to what's being asked for than simply that. Beyond confidence and the ability to get a word in edgewise, you've got:
Probably worth retconing something about this in for the sake of future readers. Probably also not worth further mention about such in the comments.
Point is that all the other classes being described are all academic in nature, while any sort of combat training involves training many other parts of the brain, many of which are more important for learning a martial art than the parts that store academic knowledge. Ack seemed to think it was okay to teach Taylor Krav Maga in his thread, so it wouldn't bother me too much if you went that route too, but in his case that version of Taylor was (initially) only planning on a one week speedrun so it made sense; here Taylor is almost certainly going to get more out of actual combat training from her MG job than she ever would from an academic knowledge about any sort of martial art.
She's going to be linked to a well of power that responds to and enhances Willpower; you may have filed the serial numbers off and changed the color on the spectrum but it's still a Green Lantern.
Not sure what's up, but it works fine here.
The magic gun seems to be a construct too, at least that's the only explanation I have for why she needs to be wholly familiar with the inner workings of a firearm before she links to the power well. Or are you under the impression that Green Lanterns can't make guns? All this sounds more to me like a distinction without a difference, like someone who claims a Tesla Model S/X/3/etc can't be called a car because it doesn't have a gas engine.
Yeah, it was a bad configuration on my end. Works now.
Have to be careful with this one; after all, it only takes about five pounds of force, properly focused, to kill someone (eg. clamping carotids closed, TK spike to the brain, etc), and there's no Manton limit listed here.
Ah, makes sense to me. BTW, the Frost C ability seems to me like it's also ripe for exploitation, although I guess it would have also needed Aqua C to really be massively OP.
Roommate Tetris a-go go?
As far as I can tell, she was actually put off by the word "injection". She basically struck off all drugs and injections from the list due to an inherent kneejerk reaction created by the Merchants.
I think she mostly was actually put off by the word "drug", but the other two didn't help, and for once Cindy didn't try to explain why exactly it would be a good thing (IIRC, she listed a few sex-related options she liked that Taylor didn't want that much anyway, and forgot to list the Strength Booster that Taylor would have at least considered).
That's not necessarily true. Taylor's contract uses the interactive Slutlife based on 3.0.3. It never explicitly defines how many bedrooms the Deluxe Apartment has. The normal apartment is specified to have 1 bedroom and one bathroom, and allows up to 3 roommates (4 people counting the contestant), which would seem to mean 4 to a room. he deluxe apartment is stated to be approximately twice as big and allows up to 7 roommates, but never actually specifies how many rooms it has. This would seem to suggest it has 2 bedrooms that can each house 4 people, but the sub options allow deluxe bedroom to be taken up to 3 times. This would in turn imply there are probably three rooms (which is more than twice the number in the normal apartment), but then makes the specified limit of 8 people total odd, since it doesn't evenly divide into 3 (it could admittedly be an arbitrary limit by the staff of the show).