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This is a PS4 HD remastering of the original Crash Bandicoot trilogy.

Yes.

Yes I will take one.

I will take one to play it.

And then I will take another one to cuddle it gently and sing me to sleep with the music from Hang Eight in Cortex Strikes Back.

1. In anaphoric reference to a singular noun or pronoun of undetermined gender: he or she.
   Especially in relation to a noun phrase involving one of the indefinite determiners or pronouns any, each, every, no, some, anybody, anyone, etc.
   
   This use has sometimes been considered erroneous.
   
   *a1375 William of Palerne (1867) l. 2179 Hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt..til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh..þere william & his worþi lef were liand i-fere.
   *c1450 (▸?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) 6 Noman was hardy in all þat countrey to sette aȝens hem, for drede þat þey hadde of hem.
   *1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. IIIiiiiv If..a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne.
   *a1535 J. Fisher Wayes to Perfect Relig. in Eng. Wks. (1876) i. 383 He neuer forsaketh any creature vnlesse they before haue forsaken them selues.
   *1681 London Gaz. mdclxii. 4 If any Person desire to be furnished with young Abeele Plants..they may be furnished with what quantity they please,..at 10s. a hundred.
   *1698 A. Boyer & J. Savage tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont in T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. ii. iv. 130 Leaving every Body to their liberty of believing what they pleas'd.
   *1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xi. 251 Every Body fell a laughing, as how could they help it.
   *1759 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) V. 2350 If a person is born of a..gloomy temper..they cannot help it.
   *1835 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 173 Nobody can deprive us of the Church, if they would.
   *1858 W. Bagehot in National Rev. Oct. 476 Nobody fancies for a moment that they are reading about any thing beyond the pale of ordinary propriety.
   *1866 J. Ruskin Crown Wild Olive (1873) §38. 44 Now, nobody does anything well that they cannot help doing.
   *1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life 3 Every one likes to keep it to themselves as long as they can.
   *1932 L. Hughes Let. 16 May in L. Hughes & C. Van Vechten Remember me to Harlem (2001) 95 Nobody can bother you until they've passed three butlers, two secretaries, and my personal assistant!
   *1968 Listener 3 Oct. 440/3 When somebody becomes prime minister they're immediately put on a pedestal.
   *1998 A. Pease & B. Pease Why Men don't listen & Women can't read Maps (1999) viii. 212 The psychiatric label for a transgender person is that they are suffering Gender Identity Disorder.
   
   The second item (1450) reads 'No man was [able/willing] in all that country to set against him, for dread that they had of him'. The first is so old that I can't really make out half the words... though gloriously, William of Palerne is also known as The Romance of William and the Werewolf.
   
   ... okay, I was bored, I hunted down the full passage. Here it is, along with my rough translation:
   
   þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt / on hors & on fote,
   hunting wiȝt houndes / alle heie wodes,
   til þei neyȝthed so neiȝh / to nymphe þe soþe
   þere william & his worþi lef / were liand i-fere,
   þat busily were thei a bowe schote / out of þe burnes siȝt.
   
   Then hastily hied each one / on horse and on foot,
   hunting with hounds / all [through the] woods,
   till they came so nigh / to tell the truth
   there William and his worthy friends / were all together
   that busily were they a bowshot / out of the bears' sight.
   
   So now you know, I guess?
   
   hS

"They" has been used as a singular, general-neutral pronoun for hundreds of years. According to the OED, this is acceptable usage of the word, and in practice it was only prohibited by Victorian schoolteachers, who instead mandated the usage of "him" as a gender-neutral pronoun. Read this Wikipedia page for more information:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they.

If you happen to remember, what was giggle-inducing bit?

- Tomash

It's super good and creative, and I'm in love with the concept and characters despite knowing basically nothing about football.

Language warning, though, if that sort of thing bothers you.

Juice is by far my favorite character- what about you guys?

One would expect an ESAS mission, with a very specifically overpowered Sue to focus on the Sue - focus on the problems of dealing with an overpowered Sue, perhaps with lots of fight scenes and blood and maybe an explosion and a backflip or two.
But the fact that you didn't focus on that sort of shows where you wanted to focus with the mission - on the agents, over the badfic itself. So I'd say that was a bloody smart choice, there!

So, this is 17776, which Discord got linked to and I recommend y'all check out. It's set in the far future, and much more description than that might be spoilers. It's still updating, so it might be worth checking back for more a few days later after you go through what's there.

- Tomash

(( I was looking at the neural-net generated fanfic summaries, and this idea jumped into my head, so let's go. ))

The Perfect Cow by alafaye Tomash
Severus and Hermione start a horcruxes

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There was a knock on Severus Snape's office door.

"Come in," he said, setting down the essay he was grading.

The door opened, and a bushy-haired sixth year Gryffindor stepped in somewhat hesitantly.

"Ah. Miss… Granger. What do you want?" Professor Snape said coldly.

"I was doing some research, Professor—"

Of course you were.

"—and I had a rather theoretical question. About Horcruxes."

A moment of shock crossed the Professor's face before he composed himself. "And where did you hear of those, Miss Granger?"

"The Restricted Section, Professor."

Snape glared at her. "Do not lie to me. There are no works on Horcruxes in the Restricted Section." Because I personally made sure there were none once the Headmaster said he had removed them.

Hermione blushed slightly. "Well, Dumbledore told Harry that Voldemort had made Horcruxes, and he asked me to do some research. I couldn't really find anything—"

"Good."

"—but I do know that the idea is that, by doing something terrible, you split your soul, and then somehow put one of the pieces into an object, which makes you immortal unless the extra piece is destroyed."

"Yes, and?"

"I was wondering if you have to be human to make a Horcrux. Could a house-elf split their soul? Or a cow?"

"A cow, Miss Granger?"

"It was an example..." Hermione trailed off.

"I see," said Snape, somewhat dubious. "Why did you think to ask me this?"

"Well, sir," Hermione said, "you are the Defense Professor."

"So I am. But such questions are more a matter for the Department of Mysteries."

Hermione nodded.

"Now, do you have any other inane questions with which to waste my time? Whether ants can make wards, perhaps?"

"No, Professor. Thank you." Hermione quickly left the office.

Hermione made her way back to the Common Room, somewhat disappointed that she couldn't get the answer she was looking for. On the way there, however, she remembered that she did, after all, know someone from the Department of Mysteries. Well, "know" wasn't quite right. The man had come to talk to her last summer about keeping what she'd seen in the Department quiet. He'd been rather creative with the threats, and he had asked her to keep an ear out for anything the Department might be interested in.

It was a long shot, Hermione knew, but, as she settled down in front of the fire, she thought she'd try anyway. She pulled out a piece of parchment and a quill and began writing:

Dear Mr. Brown,

I've got a theoretical question about Horcruxes…

(( - Tomash ))

However, on the technical problem: I don't know how much control we have over site, but if we can sneak in <script> tags on every page, I can potentially make a thing that'll hack in a Kudos button.

Failing that, there's browser extensions that allow you to inject Javascript into pages which are fairly easy to set up once someone gives you the script. We could have a "Board Enhancement Script" that would add that (unless there's some things about how the Board works on the backend that would make it harder).

- Tomash, with the crazy ideas

I've just moved countries and been battling jet lag while settling in and so on, so my time and concentration for Board-related matters has dropped considerably.

As such, I've just passed this over to Delta Juliette. She'll look at your initial request and the revisions and, well, continue the process with you. Thank you for your patience during all of this, and good luck!

~Z

...it takes more steps than just pressing a kudos button. You have to click for the option, then fill in three fields...it could take off, but it is a little unfortunate that no sort of 'like' button is a possibility.

But on the other hand, as no such button exists...yeah, that *would* be a nice culture change. I'd try to help start the trend (if enough people start leading by example it might catch on, right?), but I don't currently have so much time for mission-reading...maybe later in the year.

~Z

I guess we could try for culture change?

Like sort of agree that posting "I liked it (nm)" in response to a mission or anything else is, well, not ideal, but OK, and better than just keeping quiet. Or maybe even that, if you've posted that sort of general comment, going back later and leaving a detailed review is encouraged, but not obligatory.

- Tomash

You're quite right about the comma; I sincerely hope there originally was one and it got lost, but who knows. At any rate, it's in there now. Thank you.

And yes, the double 'and' is intentional.

Glad you enjoyed! And glad to hear you always enjoy! That's nice to hear :)

~Z

Though yeah, even this post was nice to get. Also, it's entirely possible that actual detailed feedback is now hard to give without rereading, so don't feel obligated. Glad you liked it!

~Z

The RP? Celebrating Purim? Something else?

~Z

(Apologies for the vanishing act--I just moved countries.)

As I know some of you are reading my stuff and waiting for new chapters, I decided that I'll make an exception on my leave for plugging new chapters of Blank Sprite, IrregularS and Keiko's missions.

(By the way, Chapter 8 of Blank Sprite is now available: https://rc1587.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/blank-sprite-mission-record-08/ )
I'd appreciate if comments and concrit are posted as comments on the sites where my writings are posted - I'm not going to be checking the Board much.

I'll make sure to keep them in mind while working on the next one.

The slice-of-life feel is good! It's what I was aiming for—after doing so many missions, it gets boring following the routine, so I've been trying to make a point on focusing on the agents' interactions as they go through the fic, rather than focusing on how bad the fic is (unless it's spectacularly bad), since I could probably make a drinking game out of all the repeated cliches I've seen.

I'm glad people are enjoying the kill point; that was honestly the part I was worried about the most for this one.

I did not know there was a superpower wiki.

Anyways, your characters seem a lot more agent-like than anything I could make, with some pretty cool powers to boot.