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"Hello. We are from a faraway place. We would like to cooperate with you to form a better life for both of our species. However, we must warn you that if you should in any way attempt to harm us, we have access to weapons that could very easily shatter your homeworld. We would say you'd all just become ash, but the fact is it'd be more likely for those who took the brunt of the blasts to be vaporized. The few of you who survive will likely succumb to the fallout and die shortly."

It occurs to me that I'm a somewhat aggressive individual. Oh well, never hurts to be safe when potentially hostile extraterrestrial beings are involved.

I noticed these stories through TVtropes yesterday, and now that I'm on a computer (as opposed to my phone) I just popped in to say hi.

I'd love to make one of these myself, really... unfortunately, I'm not all that well-versed in Tolkien. Or can it extend to other fandoms? Forgive me, I haven't had the time to go through all the stories yet.

Say we create a real life version of the Federation or Republic. I imagine that the words said at first contact would be repeated. "Hello" just wouldn't do.

Which is unlikely, unless they're far more advanced than we and have universal translators. But, assuming...

How about just saying "hello"?

I don't suppose anyone knows where the original is?

First week in September free for everyone?

http://www.misssandman.com/PPC/Whatever.htm

but we can still say something epic and they can translate it later.

If I weren't about ninety per cent asleep, I'd have a lengthy answer for this. But my brain is unconscious, so I'll limit myself to saying the odds of them understanding anything we say aren't all that high. And I'll let Trojie explain exactly why.

SETI has a multi-billon dollar thing set up to search for alien life. They've now admitted that, if they find it, they'd have no clue what to say, so they've asked the public for help. Any ideas on what first words we should say to extraterrestrials if and when we ever encounter them?

And no, "Go away. We have weapons" has been taken.

... Elrond... and toddler Arwen? Which... which fic is that? I couldn't find it in a brief flick through.

already itself. Or the Sue has turned the Dalek so it doesn't want to kill anymore.

It could be dangerous for Agents to try and put a Dalek back to his own self (nevermind how they'd do it). The moment it got fixed, it'd start to yell "exterminate!" and fire at the agents.

I'd say: let canon sort this Dalek out. If this Dalek doesn't want to kill anymore, I'm sure there are enough Daleks left that can sort him out on that one.

I'm going to have disagree with that one. Torture porn doesn't work but it doesn't work that way in real life. As someone who's been on a very thorough tour of Tuol Sleng/S-21, I can tell you that real torture techniques would make even the most die-hard S&M fan recoil. Actual torture is not about arousal-it's about breaking people. As a result, it depends on raw physical pain, and more importantly, fear. For example, waterboarding depends entirely on primal fear. Sure, it's also painful, but the main point is to overload your mind with the fear of drowning. All this stuff with nipple clamps and whatnot is just pointless, really.

The reason that it worked in, to use Trojie's example, "War Stories", was that it was actually a fairly realistic depiction of torture.

Sorry to rant about this, but this is something of a sore spot for me.

Suuuuuuure :P

Do you think it would be possible to modify a Neuralyser to work sonically, rather than visually? But then that would require a trip to DoSAT, wouldn't it? Meh. I've got nothing other than that...

The Aura of Smooth tends to weaken canons. Do you think the fic's bad enough that either character has become weaker than your Agents?

... in one of the Original Series they used Bleeprin as an added safety measure to erase Elrond's memories of molesting toddler-Arwen. I'm guessing the character's brain would figure ALL memories of the fic were hurting them and let the Bleeprin erase any memories of anything in the fic happening ...

He put it in milk.
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Um...
TABASCO! I MEAN TABASCO! HE PUT TABASCO IN MILK! HE DID NOT PUT ANYTHING ELSE IN MILK! OR DISHRACKS!