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Delta in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
My education does not make me better than you. Your continued and willful ignorance, however, certainly makes you worse than me.
Expertise in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Expanding on a thought I had earlier in regards to a question on fantasy: There are two kinds of experts. There is being an expert the same way that a vehicle mechanic is an expert on cars. And...
OP: My antagonist is an abusive father. There are two innocent eight-year-old changelings whom he has beaten, emotionally manipulated and attempted to kill. However, he only does this because he ...
I get odd questions in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
L: Need your opinion, for a spacecraft travelling at 80% the speed of light, how damaging would a asteroid impact on the hull be? Assume the spacecraft to be 1/2 the size of a battleship with equ...
Sample: Conversation fragment in The Irresistible Urge to Write
"Every man has his price? Yes, and every conscience can be purchased. That is true, sir, and the way of the world. "But with all due respect, you don't have the currency to even bid for mine."
Three-day weekend, plus a half-day holiday on Thursday, meant that I had a bit more free time than usual. So, by my usual logic of looking for the outliers in my photography, I've gotten a few mo...
Well, there you go in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Something my competition team learnt yesterday: When you're going head to head with everyone, good enough... isn't.
Happy Anniversary in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Today was our 9th anniversary, and, for some reason, Caffeine decided that she'd like a poem for it. She asked for it again first thing in the morning too, so I was pretty sure she was serious. ...
From Facebook: Storyteller in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
We need the stories and the people who show us the best of human nature. Yes, the world is not a good place and it is not a simple place and there are sometimes no good choices to be made. And ...
Flash fiction: Cheat Code in The Irresistible Urge to Write
Trigger phrase: Video game physics. For Jireh, who asked. I didn't have my pistol. Kit had complained about it, bitterly. How do you intend to work without it? If you want me to be fully eq...
Xueling got attacked in the playground again. This time, she decided to go and play with a burly boy on a carousel, not realised that the kid had already shoved another, younger kid off multiple...
OP: What would make a person's hair go white at an early age? A lot of people: Genetics. KM: Yes, my mom's went white at 22. Me: I'm constantly amazed tat mine didn't go white after I was born...
Incremental in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
The first step is to recognise that we are not as good as we think we are. The second step is to do better.
Dear Sauron, The reason you're this emo dark lord in a land where the shadows lie is because you went overboard during renovation. Stop doing this Mordor concept and go with Morwindo to let so...
From work: Grinder in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
I will always work this way: step by step, with nothing left out, exploring every step and corner of the question I'm looking at until I'm sure that there is nothing left to see. And that means ...
OP: My MC has to fulfill a prophecy by discovering a powerful magic. The problem is, I have no idea how ze would find/discover it. Can anyone help me out? Me: After receiving your undergraduate ...
Full album here: https://www.facebook.com/yuen.xiang.hao/media_set?set=a.10152358932614085.1073741914.571969084&type=3 As per last year we were really only able to go on Sunday (although this...
To be fair, he wasn't to know. in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
J-Obsession was on from Friday to Sunday (I'll do a photo entry later), and, probably due to certain recent events, cosplay has been quite a bit more high profile lately. We had a few videograph...
And today I learnt... in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Today was my first real sparring match in a decade, and the master put me up against a black belt due to the weight and reach advantage I'd have against anyone else. So. My ability to pressu...
When I was in secondary school, one particularly elfin girl shaved her hair down to a brush cut for reasons unknown to me. For about two months, I could always tell when she was coming down the...
Open request for help in The irresistible urge to rant, riff and ramble
Is there any way to download our books? Is there any way to look at a calendar-type page of our entries?
OP: I want to rewrite Evita as a science fiction story. How can I make it original? Me: I imagine that depends heavily on how much Evita you want in your original, non-Evita story.
OP: What does a nihilist do all day? Me not saying: Nothing, but extremely aggressively and Byronically in an attempt to get laid.
The solution to being oppressed by the power an authority wields over you is not, in fact, to give yourself over to another authority in the hope that you prefer this particular flavour of submis...
Fanboy logic: given the right circumstances Batman can take down any superhero or villain. Ergo, he is the most awesome hero ever. My countering troll logic: given the right circumstances I can ...
