|
Post by Mezzaphor on Oct 8, 2009 5:27:29 GMT
As has been mentioned before, Young's monument is also the one place where a fake fire could most believably be passed off as a real fire.
|
|
|
Post by King Mir on Oct 8, 2009 5:33:11 GMT
You're all assuming it's a fake fire. Young's Monument is the only place in the park where the kids could start a real fire. If it were a real fire, there would be smoke.
|
|
|
Post by judgedeadd on Oct 8, 2009 5:50:48 GMT
Besides, them kiddies aren't stupid enough to actually start a real fire in the middle of the park.
|
|
|
Post by Mishmash on Oct 8, 2009 9:50:18 GMT
Yeah and a real fire would generate smoke anyway.
|
|
thor
Junior Member
Your personal text will be displayed underneath your avatar.
Posts: 58
|
Post by thor on Oct 8, 2009 17:07:03 GMT
Way to dog-pile on the new user, guys.
|
|
|
Post by the bandit on Oct 8, 2009 19:58:28 GMT
Amazing how easy it is to spot a fake fire when you know it's fake, isn't it?
Geez, Louise.
|
|
|
Post by Casey on Oct 8, 2009 20:04:00 GMT
Way to dog-pile on the new user, guys. Well you know what they say, "Where there's smoke..." oh wait. We've covered that. I would hardly call it dogpiling, to point out something that's already been mentioned several times in the thread. Besides that, with this crowd a person is kind of taking his chances when his first post is trying to call out -everyone- else at once, for a supposed oversight. I'm sure no one meant any harm. (Though that wouldn't stop some people of -accusing- them of meaning harm, of course...)
|
|
|
Post by Aris Katsaris on Oct 8, 2009 20:45:41 GMT
One doesn't need to mean harm to do it. In this case the harm is that noone bothered to say "welcome".
So let me say it: Welcome, wlerin! Don't mind any feelings you may have bruised, and try not to get your feelings bruised very easily yourself. We are sometimes socially inept, but try to make yourself comfortable nonetheless.
|
|
|
Post by hal9000 on Oct 8, 2009 21:41:22 GMT
You know though, if the fake fire can be made to heat objects selectively (which I assume is the reason the laser cows couldn't detect infrared output and yet the people around the fire were warmed by it), all Annie would have to do to turn the fake fire into a real one would be to change whatever delineates between 'heat' and 'don't heat' such that the trees would be heated above their autoignition points.
|
|
|
Post by King Mir on Oct 8, 2009 22:06:49 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Casey on Oct 8, 2009 22:22:31 GMT
Hm I'm willing to bet that if Annie wanted to, and practiced it, she could make her blinker stone glow with light like Gandalf's staff... we already know that it can make a big lit-up signal, and she's learned to make non-firey letters with it. Of course she might just like the visual of a fire around her hand, and I certainly can't say I blame her. But Hal9000's comment made me think about the possibility that a person with a lot of etheric talent, like Annie clearly is, could make their blinker stone do just about anything... act as a loudspeaker, float in the air (oh wait, it can already do that), who knows what else! I am enjoing seeing Annie experiment with its possibilities. Blinkertexting was unexpected and fun.
|
|
|
Post by King Mir on Oct 8, 2009 22:32:08 GMT
I'm just waiting for tom to draw Annie herself enveloped by her own etheric fire, totally in control. We saw the stone draw a line in the air here. I saw Blinker texting as a natural extension of that. Of course it was good of Tom to remind us of that ability and show us how she developed it before it became an actual communication tool.
|
|
|
Post by Casey on Oct 8, 2009 22:58:06 GMT
I like the term Blinkertexting. It's fun to type.
|
|
|
Post by wanderer on Oct 9, 2009 1:03:46 GMT
You're all assuming it's a fake fire. Young's Monument is the only place in the park where the kids could start a real fire. If it were a real fire, there would be smoke. Some things smoke more than others. And really, if you see a huge, roaring mass of flames in the middle of a park, are you going to stand there analyzing it and thinking "Gee, I wonder if that's not real," or are you going to do something? I'd go with doing something myself, like calling a fire department and jumping in the nearest large pool of water I could find. Possibly not in that order.
|
|
blue
Junior Member
Posts: 69
|
Post by blue on Oct 9, 2009 2:23:13 GMT
I'm sure no one meant any harm. (Though that wouldn't stop some people of -accusing- them of meaning harm, of course...) A clear reference to how everyone is on Jack's case!
|
|
|
Post by Casey on Oct 9, 2009 3:34:58 GMT
I'm sure no one meant any harm. (Though that wouldn't stop some people of -accusing- them of meaning harm, of course...) A clear reference to how everyone is on Jack's case! Oh, no no no no.... we're not going -there- again! ;D
|
|
|
Post by mudmaniac on Oct 9, 2009 4:08:27 GMT
I like the term Blinkertexting. It's fun to type. I'm thinking a twitter/ blinker combo -> Twinkering?
|
|
|
Post by Mylian on Oct 9, 2009 14:19:34 GMT
And we played the first thing that came to our heads, JUST SO HAPPENED TO BEEEE!
|
|
|
Post by Casey on Oct 9, 2009 15:37:23 GMT
Ah, hahaha, I get that!
|
|
|
Post by mudmaniac on Oct 9, 2009 15:58:03 GMT
Speaking of the best songs in the world who's picking up Brutal Legend?
|
|
wlerin
Junior Member
Posts: 62
|
Post by wlerin on Oct 9, 2009 23:53:03 GMT
So let me say it: Welcome, wlerin! Don't mind any feelings you may have bruised, and try not to get your feelings bruised very easily yourself. We are sometimes socially inept, but try to make yourself comfortable nonetheless. LAUGHING ON LINE, thank you. I wouldn't worry too much about me. And, as the new comic demonstrates, your assumption the general inferrence was correct. Still, I imagine, if they *had* started a fire at the monument, the cows could still have kept it contained. Though that's moot now. To do the dubiously-beneficial self-defense thingy, I didn't mean to say "you hadn't noticed...", but rather, in noticing that Young's monument was the only place it would be believable, no one thought mentioned that, just maybe, it might be real.
|
|
|
Post by Casey on Oct 10, 2009 5:04:52 GMT
Still, I imagine, if they *had* started a fire at the monument, the cows could still have kept it contained. Though that's moooOOOooot now. Fixed. ;D That's probably because we all obviously knew assumed that none of the kids would be that stupid.
|
|