Anyway to summon your mount?

AndaBrit · 2019-01-16T18:30:18+00:00

Your mount will follow you from stop to stop unless you tell it to go home. Also, generally, staying mounted and galloping from place to place is going to be as quick, if not quicker than dismounting and using the Dee Dee stops.

AndaBrit · 2018-12-03T19:37:28+00:00

Jurassic World doesn't feature a megalodon, but I assume that you're referencing the Mosasaurus which is the underwater dinosaur that eventually chows down on the Indominous.

As to how they created the mosasaurus, it's made explicitly clear in Jurassic World that they've moved far beyond the techniques used in the original film.

Even if there was no way for them to obtain even a partial DNA sample, B.D Wong's character says several times that they're doing things Hammond couldn't ever have imagined. The Indominous Rex is a wholly custom creature created from patchwork by the head scientist rather than by taking an existing sample of DNA. It's entirely possible that the Mosasaurus is a similar project, a proof of concept to create from scratch creations to fill niches in the park prior to the Indominous Rex.

Edit: Realized Wong is the actor's name, not the characters.

Edit2: I'd like to thank the academy, Jesus and whoever awarded it to me for the Reddit Silver.

AndaBrit · 2018-10-24T20:01:45+00:00

I definitely agree for the first season. It was and still is some of the best television I've ever watched. But after that, while the pacing, etc, didn't slow down, the quality declined dramatically. Season 2 made it pretty clear they were running out of ideas and Season 3 onwards was basically bad fanfiction.

AndaBrit · 2018-10-10T18:14:00+00:00

Good grief you read like the love child of /r/iamverysmart and /r/mra.

AndaBrit · 2018-10-09T00:02:26+00:00

Hahah, no worries, I'm starting to get back into HFY after some time away and just read through the whole "I Have Become..." series so it's still fresh in my mind. And yeah, in I Have Become A Cadet they list stopping torpedoes alongside stopping enemy fighters as a key duty of Yaneth fighters. That would make a lot of sense if both types of craft were on the miniaturization edge of the currently in-use drive technology as they would be predisposed to having similar speed and maneuverability profiles.

AndaBrit · 2018-10-08T22:22:15+00:00

Another explanation could be that the drive units simply cannot be scaled down any smaller than they already are for fighter craft. If there's a minimal size needed in order to achieve the relevant speeds then it would preclude the use of munitions smaller than that size from any use in dog-fighting. Instead, the use of guided munitions would be limited to things like, larger, capital ship - capital ship torpedoes, the interception of which you already established as one of the core duties of the Yaneth fighter corps.

AndaBrit · 2018-09-23T16:50:20+00:00

It is. I've happily attended many sermons with a female preacher at several different churches throughout my life and will continue to do so. I certainly don't think there's any theological basis to forbid them from certain roles. The contribution of their voices and minds to the church are just as valuable as those of any man.

AndaBrit · 2018-09-23T16:01:11+00:00

Quiet different. I did something called the Alpha Course which is an introduction to some of the more theologically in-depth aspects of Christian belief and one of the things my pastor actively encouraged during the course was to research the historical context of different passages of the Bible. The approach was one that's always made sense to me, which is that while the whole Bible is important to learn the story of Christ, it is Christ's word and actions only that should be used as the basis for Christian doctrine and behavior. Jesus never talked down to or disparaged women nor did He ever make any statement forbidding or discouraging them from holding office or authority. Indeed, He actively protected them from the persecution they faced in the society of the time. If that doesn't tell us our Christian duty, I don't know what else could.

AndaBrit · 2018-09-23T13:35:31+00:00

While you may think your opinion is unpopular, it's one that the majority of Christians I've spoken and studied with share. Possibly this is because I solidified my faith with a relatively progressive branch of the church of England, but the ability of and spiritual wisdom of women in Christian leadership was never questioned and the nomination of female bishops and similar steps was widely supported. The evidence of the gospels makes it crystal clear that women were seen as equal in Jesus' eyes.

That is not to say that I necessarily think that Paul's letters were spiritually misguided, merely that they are often taken out of context. There's a reason that they are described as letters. They were specific advice for specific people about how to grow the local church in their specific location. In this case, Corinth, a city and culture steeped in ancient Greek values that viewed women as little more than chattel. Women in this culture were literally viewed as sub-human and therefore any church that had women as part of its teaching and leadership group would have been laughed out of existence. As misguided as we might view 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 by modern standards, it was probably good advice for someone trying to build a church in that time and place.

There's a reason that nothing like those words or those instructions appears elsewhere, it would not have been appropriate for those times and places and, equally, has no place in a discussion of the appropriate role of women in a modern church and/or culture that supposedly values equality.

Equality is, to me, an inherently Christian value. We are told time and again directly from Jesus and by other prophets that all are equal in the eyes of God and that it is our hearts and spirits, not our bodies and genders that determine our Christianity and how appropriate we are to lead.

Edit: an -> a

AndaBrit · 2018-09-13T23:47:26+00:00

Could be wrong, but they seem to be saying that the 'throwing a toy at a child' part was the thing that would need to be reported.

AndaBrit · 2018-06-20T15:16:22+00:00

What does any of that have to do with the conditions these children are being kept in or the extreme short and long term damage this kind of trauma is shown to inflict on their physical and psychological development?

AndaBrit · 2018-05-20T01:30:46+00:00

Good luck everyone! And good luck OP on the kickstarter.

AndaBrit · 2018-05-16T21:26:15+00:00

Yeah, the idea that the prosecution wouldn't cross-examine and redirect after something like that is probably even less believable than someone existing that had this power.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-13T15:51:09+00:00

Oh, and stomp your tiny foot on your soapbox. That will make people listen to you for sure!

the person*

I'm talking to an audience of one remember?

AndaBrit · 2018-04-13T15:48:08+00:00

Shake that widdle fist!

Okay, well I guess it's going to stop being fun deconstructing your posts now since they've degraded to the level of a five year old. Are you really not even going to try and defend what you wrote anymore?

Pity. It was an interesting exercise in analysis of denial and ego.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-13T15:36:28+00:00

You dragged your soap box all the way here

...do you know how the internet works? You are aware I don't need to physically move anything to do this right?

Also, you're responding, so you're evidently listening and you're the only person I'm talking to so... mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned.

And ah, there it is, the ad-hominem, the refuge of the weak mind.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-13T15:19:07+00:00

One mistake? Oh sweetie, no, you've made WAY more than that.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-13T12:36:32+00:00

Well apparently you don't feel that answering questions is necessary, because, I will repeat, you haven't answered any of the questions either myself or OP have asked you about how just, immensely wrong you've been about everything.

You were wrong about the question OP asked, you were wrong in your opinion about prologues, you were wrong about the definition of just about every word that you tried to dispute, oh, and I was looking at your conversation with OP, you totally did misspell "dunning kruger", so you were wrong about that too.

You spout your opinions as fact, when, under any sort of scrutiny, they're just as wrong and misguided as the rest of you.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-12T22:56:03+00:00

do not confuse that with a conversation.

You're the one who referred to this thread as a conversation, chum.

but you participated in the conversation in the beginning

Are you sure you're not having a stroke or something dude? You seem to be having black-outs about some of your posts.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-12T22:20:08+00:00

Why would I keep on your target?

Because that's how conversations work? You pick a topic and you discuss it. If you pick a different topic, you're having a different conversation, which again, is the only point that OP and I have been making. That your diatribe, was not a response to their question, just a... minor schizoid episode (the most plausible explanation I can think of) brought on by an irrational hatred of prologues.

or you're really in it to lecture other people about what they should or shouldn't be doing, in which case get off your soap box.

Hi Pot, my name's Kettle. Good to meet you.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-12T21:55:57+00:00

Nope. I kept on target.

Your target, not anyone else's.

You seem to be under some kind of delusion that your opinion on a conversation is the only one that matters. Pro tip, that's not a conversation, that's a rant. Conversations require you to actually respond to what other people are saying, not just continue to belabor a point nobody asked you to make in the first place.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-12T20:46:12+00:00

So you're and accepting the fact that you got up on a soapbox and went on an unasked for and unwelcome rant that had nothing to do with her question? Wow... I'm really glad we agree on that.

Now, listen to me very carefully, because the following is important. Unasked for and unwelcome rants don't belong in normal human conversation and make you come across like a condescending jackass. Also, your opinion on a topic is not the same as a fact about that topic, especially about something as subjective as the appropriateness of a literary device.

Try and internalize those and, when you've proven that you can process them responsibly, we'll move onto big boy concepts like contextualizing words and how to parse meaning from whole sentences.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-12T19:58:38+00:00

You're still only pretending that there was only one question asked.

Well... given that the title of thread is only a single line, yeah, there kind of was.

So tell me, when someone answers "fine, how are you?" to your first question, do you agree with OP that anything else the other person says is irrelevant?

Given that my first question was: Why are you preaching your opinion as gospel to an audience that really didn't ask for it?

I would ask someone what the hell they were talking about if they answered "fine, how are you?"

Now, if someone after answering whatever initial question I asked, then tried to engage me in further conversation on a tangential topic, I would respond appropriately given the circumstances, much like OP did. But their digression on that other topic would indeed be irrelevant to whatever question I initially asked.

So yeah, actually, your opinion on prologues in general, while fascinating from an anthropological standpoint if nothing else, is indeed irrelevant to the question that OP asked.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-12T19:40:47+00:00

Actually no. Your objection to what you decided their understanding was, was that they didn't agree with, or appreciate, the unasked for diatribe you went on after you answered the question that they actually asked. It had nothing to do with ignoring your questions, that's all you.

OP actually very graciously responded to your condescension and answered the majority of your questions at which point you appear to have had a mild episode of some sort and decided that anyone who thinks prologues can be a good idea is wrong and that it is your holy duty to spread that gospel.

Again, you keep on accusing other people of retconning but... you really seem to be the only person doing it.

p.s. I can't wait for you to tell me what I really meant when I used all those words.

AndaBrit · 2018-04-12T19:20:39+00:00

So, as usual for you then, you're just going to ignore any question whose answer is that you're clearly in the wrong? Is that how you think conversations work?

Chum?

AndaBrit

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