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*pokes*

I think that was the only thing you were missing as far as my usual welcoming spiel is concerned, really. That leaves me free to squee at having another GND fan around. ^_^ Pika (who is totally made of win) was more or less the official fan artist for OFUM, which has close ties with the PPC from way back. So... yeah. Yay for GND and for people finding us because of it!

~Neshomeh

I would say no. So far, canons who know about the PPC have been either a) god-like beings, or b) Gaspode the Wonder-Dog. The latter works because no one ever listens to Gaspode anyway, so who's he going to tell? It's funny and not a security breach.

There is another way, in that sometimes characters who are particularly resistant to Suefluence (e.g. Elrond, Gimli, Eowyn) sometimes vaguely recognize PPC Agents as such, but that's only due to the canon being warped by the Sue. Once the Sue goes away, they are neuralyzed and forget all about it (until next time). However, I don't think Batman would fall into that category, since I doubt if he would tend to be either ignored or vilified in Suefic, like the aforementioned examples.

One thing to keep in mind is that the PPC's stated goal is to protect the plot continuum from outside disturbances. Knowing about the PPC could potentially BE an outside disturbance (extreme example: the Assimilation Crisis), so it's in everyone's best interests that the PPC remain incognito. On the other hand, if a character knowing about us would be funny and not upset the balance of power in the universe, there's no reason why not.

~Neshomeh

1. Two, I think.
   
   2. LotR misspellings will be mini-Balrogs; Stargate Atlantis misspellings will be mini-Wraiths. Also: ouch, that sounds like a really bad idea. What were the Ancients thinking? >.
   3. I don't think explicit permission is needed. The nature of minis is that they pop up when a name is misspelled in fanfiction, so mini owners, especially those with common misspellings, should probably expect theirs to go missing from time to time. Anyway, on a purely ex-universe note, it would be really tedious to track someone down every time an owned mini came up. I wouldn't bother.
   
   ~Neshomeh

It is not just me who thinks it is on the pit then!

First up LOTR misspellings would be Mini-Balrogs, either new ones or ones which have been kidnapped from their owners! I believe those ones can find their own way home, but other people may have different ideas.

I'm guessing that if the character is usually just called Ronon then it is one mini, but if (s)he is always Ronon Dax in speech then I'd guess at two. Again others may have different opinions.

What you describe (Japanese chess with flat wooden pieces) sounds more like Shogi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi than Go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29


I've only actually seen the first anime - and not all of it actually. I've seen over half the episodes, so I'm no expert. My comment about Mustang getting angry is not so much that he /never/ gets angry so much as that he doesn't fly off the handle for no reason. In his conversation with Hughes, I could see no reason that Mustang would be getting angry at Hughes.

Hughes sent his niece to be looked after by Mustang after her parents died - I should think Mustang would actually find this somewhat rehabilitating after killing Winry's parents. It just doesn't seem like something Roy would get so worked up about.

In the story I am working on, a character is referred to as Ronan Dex and later as Ronan. The correct spelling is Ronon. Am I dealing with two minis here or one?

This story is a crossover that has moved Middle-earth to the Pegasus galaxy and plunked a stargate in the middle of Isengard. It starts and ends with the Stargate Atlantis characters. There are some LoTR misspellings. Will those minis be mini-Balrogs or min-Wraith?

If it is a frequently misspelled name, do I have to borrow the mini-Balrog in question from it's owner?

I guess I rescind the never mind I said about the Chatzilla help request.

How do I connect with chatzilla?

Dear lord, how appropriate.

I was surfing FF.net yesterday. Everything seems fine, though... does anyone know if it has some kind of incubation period? Like, is it a logic bomb or something.?

I wait twenty minutes to see if it was likely to stay down and it goes up not ten minutes after I do the post.

Mibbit, one of the easy ways to access the IRC chatroom seems to be down right now (usually accessible through here) as of 9:30AM UST/GMT-6.

The chatroom can still be accessed through this CGIIRC browser thing which tends to run on the slow side, the chatzilla add-on for firefox and various other things.

Just saying this here so that anyone trying to connect don't worry that it is their computer at fault or whatever and to give alternate ways to access the chatroom.

I never really thought about it. I suppose you could just cuddle with her. *shrugs*

NEXT LESSON! Be resourceful! Figure out how to use what you have, where you're at!

A new two part MST by yours truly. Can Sapphire find her sisters and escape the Fableverse? Will Danny and Laura bother to care?

http://poorcynic.livejournal.com/870.html#cutid1

http://poorcynic.livejournal.com/1193.html#cutid1

I had that one on my laptop. I found this site.
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/forums.html

You post on the Virus, Spyware, Trojan removal forum, and someone from their site adopts you, and helps walk through getting it off you computer.

They also have a guide that lists programs to install to put a multi-layer protection web around your computer. I haven't had a major outbreak of anything since then, and some of the programs really make things handier such as blocking ads and warning of sites with bad reputations. FF.net actually doesn't have a bad rep with that program--of course that one is based off user reports, so sometimes it over or under rates things.

Anyway, they have fixed my laptop and my desktop over the last year, and I never got a condescending vibe from them. And it is free.

I hate that thing. It's stuck on my computer, and I can't do a system restore without loosing an enormous amount of stuff. However, it is possible to neutralize it. I created a shortcut in my Startup folder (Start menu --> Programs --> right click Startup --> Open) pointing to taskmanager.exe, and that pops up before the virus can stop it. Go to the Processes tab, and scroll down, searching for a description that is the same name as the program it goes with (including the .exe ending). End any that you find. And switch to Firefox—I think that is the virus that also prevents IE from working (Tools --> Internet Options --> Connections tab --> LAN Settings --> uncheck "Use a proxy server" to fix that, but that is a lot of work). Whatever you do, though, you will have to repeat each time you start up. Oh, and I use (and dislike) Vista, so your paths might be slightly different.

Thanks! What do I do with it? (Hypothetically. I'm intending to use them all as agent plot-devices in the foreseeable future.)

I'll probably rework The Niece 2 as it's actually an awful piece of garbage, not to mention about an embarrasssing subject, and written when I was extremely immature. With The Niece, I will follow your editing suggestions (when my lazy self can rouse my diligent writer self into reworking things). Rory won't really be making appearances in any more fanfiction, unless I need her as a plot device or a convenient low-level woobie.

As for SW8 (Snow White and the Eight Dwarves), I guess that I forgot early on that Rory was the writer of the story, and not me. For Roy's more *explosive* moments, I have to explain that most of this is first-Anime verse (not Manga, and not the new "Brotherhood" series). It deviates a lot from the manga canon, and so features a few episodes where Roy does "freak out" -- though I probably have to tone down the "freak" a lot.

To answer the "Go" question -- scenes from the original anime depict Breda and Falman (or Fuery) playing what appears to be Go. (Japanese chess with flat pieces wooden pieces? I'm not sure; most fanfic writers tend to interpret it as Go.) I agree, though, that chess is usually more FMA-related as there's this huge manga subplot with Roy considering his men chess-pieces in a game with the Fuhrer, and his "queen" being taken away.

My favorite chapter for SW8 (and the only decent one) has to be "A Brief Interlude" (so-far).

Thanks so much for the concrit! Bad writing is much easier to rework than a Sue.

I've had to do that to kill off similar viruses in the past, and it usually seems to work. It's still a shame that we even have to go the trouble to fix these things, though.

I got it a while back. It masqueraded as Vista Anti-Spyware 2010. As much as I click out of the fishy stuff, it must have lodged itself in somewhere.

I had to return to a previous state in my computer before it got the virus. (I can't think of the proper term for that at the moment...)

I've been of ff.net since then... but I won't say anything to jinx myself. XD Originally, I thought I got it from facebook. Never thought about ff.net being a possible culprit.

I haven't gotten past the first chapter quite yet, but the biggest problem I'm seeing thus far has nothing to do with being a Sue and more to do with you can't decide who's perspective the story is from - Rory's or Havoc's.

It keeps swapping back and forth. We should only hear the thoughts and feelings of one of the characters in the narrative -

In the first paragraph:
"Aw shit, I knew I should have sprang for the sleeping pills." Rory Fox Mustang ruffled her dark hair for the nth time that day as she nodded her apology to Havoc

- it shows that Rory is our perspective. She's the first to talk, the first to be introduced. I also take it that all of the little aggravated comments are hers too:
"Who knew you still had to baby-sit fifteen-year-olds? Not possible!"

But in the rest of the story, we're constantly treated to Havoc being the active character. Havoc babysits Rory. Havoc is being inconvenienced. We get inside looks into how Havoc responds to comments.
"Havoc sighed. Did both Mustangs have to insult him?"


You need to choose one or the other to keep as the active character. We only hear their thoughts, and only get glimpses of their personality. Trying to do both only gets confusing.

*goes back to reading*

Which has Batman in.

*will not divulge plans*