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A few things came up yesterday and so I myself am actually pretty busy today. I may or may not have time to go today either.

It helps if you have a lot of very defensively-oriented Pokémon on your team; because entry hazards, status effects, &c do set percentages of the target's HP as damage, you can outlast the opposition and stonewall everything they try. I don't know that it was Ix's initial strategy, but it's always worth a go. =]

Phazing, btw, is the term for forcibly switching out an opponent's Pokémon through moves like Dragon Tail, Roar, and Whirlwind.

I was watching... it must have been your battle with EAIUO, Iximaz. Was the thing with repeatedly forcing his pokemon to switch out/into a bunch of entry hazards a strategy you planned, or one that came up as an emergency response when things went sideways?

hS

Though I'm pretty sure they're mostly for cake decoration.

If you email me (huinesoron@hotmail.com) when you're around, my phone should buzz me and let me know.

I'm going to have to battle /from/ my phone, actually, and have had to reconstruct my team on there. I may have gotten some of the genders scrambled; I don't think you've got anything that matters for, but if you'd like me to check my previous battle logs and make sure, let me know.

hS

Or at least, if it isn't, let me compliment the members of the PPC for their skill at inventing new and exciting stuff to be used in forums and role-plays.

-Twistey

And let me provide more cake. Namely a black-hole chocolate one (with red berries, of course).

And here comes a black-hole chocolate cake.

The election here... was a nightmare.

The left had the problem of Hollande's bilan, Macron's candidature, and pretty obvious dissension. When Hamon won the primaries elections, it didn't really netted him the support from the left, his irect opponent (the bad looser) Valls deciding to trow hs lot with Macron from a distance, while the far-left Mélenchon tabled on this to get the fourth place for the first turn (and was an incredibly bad loser too). I thought about voting for Hamon, but after seeing polls only giving him 10%, I switched for Macron.

At the right, Fillion won the first primaries elections from the right ever, clean and fair and square and all (I'd have preferred Juppé), but right after that, revelations about the way he paid his wife for doing pretty much nothing with public moneys and other skeletons just jumped from the closet (real problems, but convenient timing). He was still third, but lost, and now the right isn't looking good either.

So, with the two traditional parties not looking good, the far right cow had this big opportunity, against a 'new' candidate who managed to place himself at the center. After that, between a bad campaign, a bad TV debate with Macron, her own legal matters and chosing another candidate as Prime Minister to steal more votes, she lost without getting her minimal objective of 40%, and her party isn't lookin good either, good news.

The bad news is, she lost, Macron didn't exactly win. He still has the legislatives to win, with a rather rookie formation, and he will announce who his Prime Ministerr would be Sunay or Monay, and this guy will officially be the one leading this battle, an I can tell you that will be a vicious one.

As for Trump news... I rejoin the idea this guy had a fairly conspicuous timing during the election. A pityAnd of course Trump is ungrateful and never heard about the Watergate and Nixon. You cannot listen the radio without hearing about boomakers telling his odds to finish his term are dropping.

That was an underwhelmingly simple solution. I got a three page story and the whole thing fit in quite nicely, too, so nothing wrong, there.

Well.
That was underwhelming.
Jolly good!

Also I don't know why you added that last part now I'm real curious except you can't answer it because it's NSFW why must you taunt me like this Key, is this revenge for what I did to your garage?

But ability to do detailed responses will be limited, crazy couple of weeks at work.

As far as the convoy goes, I was planning on trying to swing north to hook up with the Thornbird, possibly with some 'silent running' with the wedge down to try to avoid any potential Peep ships lying doggo in the convoys path.

Elcalion

That is all.

Never fear, your friendly neighbourhood acoustician is here!

You're correct, some of the notes are "out of tune".

This might be because they're putting actual data in and it isn't perfectly in whole number ratios (but close enough that the system is still stable). But even if it was, some notes would still sound out of tune according to our modern tuning system. This whole issue is what acoustics and musical theory calls "temperament", and basically relates to how in tune you want/need music to be for different intervals or for playing in different keys.

The resonances that the planets are locked into are based on the harmonic series, where everything is in whole number ratios to a fundamental tone (in this case, half the frequency of the furthermost planet). The higher notes in a harmonic series are slightly "out of tune".

Basically, musical intervals sound 'consonant' to our ears if the frequency ratio is in whole number ratios, and if the numbers in a ratio are small. So an octave (e.g. C-C) is a frequency ratio of 2:1, and a fifth (e.g. C-G) is a frequency ratio of 3:2.
By adding in extra ratios, you can fill in the other notes of the scale, e.g.
C = 1/1
D = 9/8
E = 5/4
F = 4/3
G = 3/2
A = 5/3
B = 15/8
C = 2/1

The issue with using this tuning is that the intervals between the individual notes are not constant (if you divide the ratios together, e.g. D/C, you end up with tones and semitones, as expected, but there are actually two different 'sizes' of tone). So some intervals and some notes may be nicely in tune, but other notes or intervals sound out of tune.

This is all fine if you only ever play major scale music in one key, but if you tune a keyboard to C major in the above tuning scheme (which is called just intonation) and then play in a different key, the intervals will now start off on a different note. Say we tried to play music in D major on that keyboard: the fifth D-A would have a ratio of 1.481, while the fifth C-G would have a ratio of 1.5 (3:2).

In short, using tuning based on whole numbers of frequencies means that only some intervals sound consonant to our ears, and that some ratios (especially if the whole numbers in the ratio are large) will sound "out of tune", and this gets worse for more complex intervals, or where you go over multiple octaves (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma for more detail).

This is also why modern pianos use "equal temperament" tuning - every semitone is equally spaced so that pianos can play in every key the same way, but it means that some intervals are very slightly out of tune. It's a compromise between being perfectly in tune in one key and the ability to play in any key. Singers and chamber musicians (e.g. string quartets) tend to use the "just intonation" tuning if left to their own devices without a piano.

Elcalion, harmonious

The authors could just post their unedited stories on the Board, and the betas could leave their feedback as replies. That way, we'd have a full record of the whole process. No technical difficulties there -- posting on the Board anonymously is so easy, people do it by accident! I've seen similar structures for writing exercises work really well elsewhere on the Internet mostly in NSFW settings.

--Key

1. Hang on, I was mainly thinking of Derik when I wrote that, but he's less of a character replacement and more of a "side character drawing from something else that doesn't belong here", right? Yep, you are right, considering that the Suethor tweaks the character into someone new.
   
   2. Yep... However, with OCs, you get a lot more freedom than you do with portraying canons, right? So since character replacements would be somewhere in the middle... do you see my logic?
   
   3. I'm going to go look him up on the Wiki. He sounds interesting.
   
   4. Already looked this one up on the Wiki, also interesting. Haha, the "seriousface hero types" thing. Great.
   
   -Twistey

To the Fandom News:
That would never be allowed today! Everything has to be extremely political, and of course you aren't allowed to speak at a normal voice level because that's unacceptable! No! You must use the CAPS LOCK OF RAGE AND EXCLAMATION POINTS TO SHOW THE WORLD HOW WRONG THEY ARE!!11!!!!42!(/sarcasm. Typed yelling: not just for fanfic anymore. Argh.)

Anyway, about the movie... Holy crud! Riding a T-rex?! Sorry guys, but honestly, if I were to see that, I would do an immediate face-heel turn out of awe. Farpin' yes! (Ahh, why'd they have to ruin it by making another politician the villain?)

Well, that just about made my day, especially since it reminds me of Wolfenstein 3D, which involves Hitler in a flipping mechsuit. Good old Wolfenstein, those developers at iD Software were such goofballs.

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To the Silly News:

That is cool! My science class has us do "current event" reports every Friday, so I need to do something about that system. The music, as well... I need to watch that sometime soon.

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To the Serious News:

No comment, as usual.

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To the Not News:

This is just like so many name generators... Have all y'all ever been to Seventh Sanctum? The generators combined with the commenting feature is just great, since you get to see what silly stuff other people have received and how they've interpreted them. Great site, great site. As for the names, I'm guessing that the "first last" formatting of the first and last names are "Ivy Muriel Savage" and "Peter King"? That makes it seem less crazy, as Savage and King are both normal last names, and in fact last names of famous people (Adam Savage of Mythbusters and Stephen King.)

Yes, somebody needs to write that story! It'd be a weird crossover, but I guess the reasons for writing it here, as well as the fact that most of us are likely to do it decently, are forgivable.

-Twistey

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Afterword:
...It's kind of funny that I said "Farpin' yes!" at the T-rex thing, considering that my friend sent me this article a while ago... I'm just gonna leave this here...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/04/how-a-fart-killed-10-000-people

If it's something I invented, I'd rather people not waltz in and take it over unless I've said that's okay. That category, I think, covers Plort and the Friday Forums, but... not much else.

The other stuff? I've always been happy for other people to start the Badfic Games or the Shipfest. I've flat-out said on multiple occasions that I wish more people would start Fill the Plothole. I was delighted when someone volunteered to run the Hunger Games, though I ended up with it anyway. What else is there? Well, the Monthlyish Writing Challenges are mine, but the concept of a writing challenge isn't.

If you're not sure? Ask. As a rule, I do not bite.

hS

With the Scutters...





And featuring one of my favourite episodes, The Inquisitor:



=]

So, from this thread, we seem to have a split on Scapegrace's behavior. On one side, we have Nesh and hS (and others, probably), who think Scape is sincere in her apologies and genuinely working hard on her control issues (which do appear to be improving). On the other side, we have Ekyl (and probably others), who think that Scape is not actually sorry for anything she does (and is otherwise insincere) and that she keeps repeating the same behavior over and over again (there seems to be an implied "lack of improvement" there).

This points to a split in the community, and I'd prefer that be avoided. It also looks like this is a case of different people interpreting the same words and actions in noticeably different ways. This makes it seem rather similar to the criticisms leveled at Ekyl in this thread.

So, I'd like to propose the same thing that happened to Ekyl. That is, someone (either someone who thinks Scape is being insincere or can coherently articulate why her words might be interpreted that way) should give Scape some community-interaction concrit so that she doesn't accidentally keep building up this negative image of her that some people appear to have (if that's what's happening).

That concrit doesn't have to be on the Board or otherwise public, but if the community split I described is real (and not just one or two people who don't like Scape), it should happen.

- Tomash

GRAB THE CHAIR, BOYS! WE'VE GOT ANOTHER BUCKET-KICKER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ_ZQkV58Cc


Happy Birthday, dude! Always a pleasure to be your friend!