angelfromanotherpin wrote:Well, depending on what you mean by 'on their own,' there's some other options. Man with gun, for instance; I'm pretty sure a lone poacher can handle a hippo. Or insect with disease.
Man, he said non-human and direct combat (which is a little vague, admittably). Get with the program! How are you supposed to answer these Very Important Questions if you aren't paying proper attention?
Though, I wonder how hard it is to teach one of the more intelligent primates to use a gun - because that's a plan that couldn't possibly go wrong.
DSMatticus wrote:Though, I wonder how hard it is to teach one of the more intelligent primates to use a gun - because that's a plan that couldn't possibly go wrong.
Yes! There we go, a Silverback with military training, a kabar and twin miniguns!
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Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Okay, I'm sure a lot of the large carnivores *could* kill a hippo. I don't think they'd have the odds in their favor, but it's totally in the realm of possibility. Even if they got squashed flat, they could probably do enough gross trauma beforehand that the hippo would bleed to death afterwards.
Also, while a lot of the most poisonous animals are at home in the water, there are a bunch which aren't, and it's totally possible some of those could kill a hippo (again, even if they didn't survive the fight).
angelfromanotherpin wrote:
Okay, I'm sure a lot of the large carnivores *could* kill a hippo. I don't think they'd have the odds in their favor, but it's totally in the realm of possibility. Even if they got squashed flat, they could probably do enough gross trauma beforehand that the hippo would bleed to death afterwards.
Like the old proverb..."when two tigers fight, one is sure to be maimed and the other to die".
Also, while a lot of the most poisonous animals are at home in the water, there are a bunch which aren't, and it's totally possible some of those could kill a hippo (again, even if they didn't survive the fight).
Hrmm...don't hippos have a lot of subcutaneous fat? If the venomous creature can't get its fangs through that to inject the poison, hippo might be immune (just like hogs don't worry about snakes).
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believe in one hand and shit in the other and see which ones fills up quicker. it will be the one you are full of, shit.
This is an interesting problem. I don't have anything to add, except a poem my wife remembered: "I shoot the hippopotamus/with bullets made of platinum/Because if I use leaden ones/his hide is sure to flatten 'um."
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PoliteNewb wrote:Hrmm...don't hippos have a lot of subcutaneous fat? If the venomous creature can't get its fangs through that to inject the poison, hippo might be immune (just like hogs don't worry about snakes).
Yeah, I don't know if an inland taipan could get poison through a hippo's hide into its blood. I have no data on that.
On the other hand, the Hooded Pitohui is a bird with poisonous skin and feathers, and hippos just love to let birds hang out in their mouths...
When I was last in India, I bought my daughter these comics called Amar Chitra Katha that were basically part of my staple reading as a kid. The stories are mostly about Indian myth, Indian history, Indian and world folktales. There are about 1000 issues and there was a sale for the first 500 for 60$ and the next 500 for 80$. I jumped at the deal but only bought the first set because of luggage capacity.
My daughter loves these books and that's awesome. But there are 500 of these all around my house now. Will kinkos or some other service just do something like bind 20-30 comics each into one book? I mean the comics are usually 23 pages each. I rather have 20 books than 500. Will the comics hold up to any sort of binding that puts them all together? Are there going to be any other issues that I'll have to watch out for?
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
Thank you. The prices are a bit of a deterrent. I might have to call some of these guys. I might even try my hand at binding them myself. I have a lot of time on my hands as it is.
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
I thought the price might be high, but when I saw the actual quality of the binding, I figured it might be worth it... Especially if the ACK are difficult to come by. Kinkos (It's now FedEx Office) does do binding... Apparently some book binding, too - though it looks to be more paperback style. Can't hurt to look, though.
I used to go to TV Tropes for analysis and discussion of movies and television, but they're getting worse and worse at that, along with other concerns that I'm guessing primarily come up in the forums which I honestly have nothing to do with (hence why I had to be told what was happening).
As well, there is the issue that even just staying on work or trope pages, the least noteworthy works get the most commentary. Look up the latest big, super straightforward Hollywood blockbuster, and you get all the information possible. Look up something less straightforward, and more interesting, with more to actually discuss, and you get, at best a fairly bare bones explanation, with maybe something you didn't catch the first time.
So what's a better place for this sort of thing? I'd like to see other peoples' take aways from Branded and The ABCs of Death, but all TV Tropes has are a basic synopsis and handful of tropes for the one, and a threat talking about the other coming out.
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Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
So, I ended up doing a hard reset of my router and have been attempting to restore all my security shit to it. Seems to be going SO WELL that neither my laptop or phone can connect to it, but my PC can. I've entered the password, but the laptop says local access only and the phone has full wireless signal, but it is grey instead of blue.
From what I've been reading this may be a "DCHP issue", but how the hell do I fix this? My parents are getting pissed about being unable to use the laptop for browsing. I know dick all about networking.
Meikle641 wrote:So, I ended up doing a hard reset of my router and have been attempting to restore all my security shit to it. Seems to be going SO WELL that neither my laptop or phone can connect to it, but my PC can. I've entered the password, but the laptop says local access only and the phone has full wireless signal, but it is grey instead of blue.
From what I've been reading this may be a "DCHP issue", but how the hell do I fix this? My parents are getting pissed about being unable to use the laptop for browsing. I know dick all about networking.
did you try and delete the network from the affected devices yet to force them to search for the new settings?
or did you change the network name?
if the devices ain't getting an IP-Adress, then it's not an DHCP Issue, seeing how your computer manages to go online and thus is getting a valid IP via DHCP.
it's an issue with the wireless security. if the devices can't establish a propper connection, then they won't be getting an IP either and thus it won't work.
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Shrapnel wrote:
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
Shrapnel wrote:Anyone know of any good places, online or brick-n-mortar, that could make custom miniatures, preferably someplace that won't be too expensive?
If there's a FabLab or a similar group of enthusiast near you and you have the 3d model, you can try to print them with a 3d printer. The level of details might not be as good as a professional work, but it would be much cheaper, and more interesting.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Thank you. The prices are a bit of a deterrent. I might have to call some of these guys. I might even try my hand at binding them myself. I have a lot of time on my hands as it is.
