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Post by download on Jun 21, 2013 14:20:06 GMT
If Wolfenstien is anything to go by then the casualty rates for such a division would be enormously high
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Post by crank on Jun 21, 2013 14:47:07 GMT
It didn't even occur to me that the court would have a graveyard... I mean, aren't most people burried with their families? Or where they grew up? Military graveyards are different, because people who die from all over are brought back to one spot to be burried. If there was a huge event causing lots of death, that prevented the court from sending so many bodies back to "home", then I guess it makes sense? ... I don't know. But it's really creepy to me that there is such a huge graveyard for a school. Are these all students??
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Post by sidhekin on Jun 21, 2013 15:03:19 GMT
I'd expect most to be teachers and staff, or perhaps rather, retired such.
Diego is probably somewhere there ...
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Post by The Anarch on Jun 21, 2013 16:49:39 GMT
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Post by sidhekin on Jun 21, 2013 17:14:06 GMT
Aside: I can't read that "Daniel R" without thinking of "R. Daneel Olivaw".
But I can't make the "Schiff" fit ...
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 21, 2013 17:18:57 GMT
I also thought about that at first, but then realised the Court's been there for a long time, and who knows how old those tombstones are... I'd have thought they'd need crypts/catacombs like old European cities, what with space at a premium and caskets ever piling up. Although, I seem to recall something about that sort of arrangement usually involving letting the bodies decay in a traditional, "temporary" graveyard for a few decades. With the Court's low population, I guess it isn't much of a factor. I have a hard time believing the Court stood on the sidelines of history, but at the same time I doubt their primary concern was sending residents off to combat. I'd have figured members of the Court would be much more useful in places like Bletchley Park than on the front line. Or, you know, countering the occult division which the Nazis obviously had in WWII...  Exactly. The only person that would be useful on the front would be Jones and Zimmy. Science-y types usually aren't too good with a rifle. If Wolfenstien is anything to go by then the casualty rates for such a division would be enormously high Der Fuhrer would have it no other way! |
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Post by Eversist on Jun 21, 2013 17:23:34 GMT
Maybe, but Coyote referred to the person Rey killed as "That man", as if it was obvious. Making me think it has to someone Annie knew Yeah. It obviously was someone she knew before being born. (sigh) I lel'd As for the military graveyard bit... the court is known for being efficient. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Jun 22, 2013 4:04:39 GMT
Maybe, but Coyote referred to the person Rey killed as "That man", as if it was obvious. Making me think it has to someone Annie knew Reynard killed him before Annie was born. That'd be impossible. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Jun 22, 2013 4:07:28 GMT
I was at work when it dawned on me that that must have been the young man he killed. I screamed "Yes!" and threw my hands around for a moment. Then I stopped because it looked weird.
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Post by Max on Jun 22, 2013 9:36:56 GMT
Doesn't that seem like a overly large graveyard for the court? After all, the place is hard to find, the city is virtually deserted, and the school is not extremely large. Too be fair, pretty much everything at the court is overly large and expansive. That's possible, but I would have expected squiggles or perhaps a close up. I think any dates would be big enough to write out in the Tom's current style, and so rendering them as squiggles would look odd. |
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Post by Lightice on Jun 22, 2013 9:57:40 GMT
It didn't even occur to me that the court would have a graveyard... I mean, aren't most people burried with their families? Or where they grew up? So, in the Court, then? Remember that to plenty of people Gunnerkrigg Court is the place where they grew up, where they lived, worked, fell in love and had children. Where else would they be buried? |
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Post by todd on Jun 22, 2013 10:40:24 GMT
Maybe, but Coyote referred to the person Rey killed as "That man", as if it was obvious. Making me think it has to someone Annie knew Reynard killed him before Annie was born. That'd be impossible. More likely it meant that Coyote wasn't interested in learning or remembering his name. |
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Post by descoladavirus on Jun 22, 2013 16:38:22 GMT
Random irrelevant fact: "Schiff" is the german word for "ship". It is a relatively rare name in Germany. More common are variations like "Schiffer", Schiffner or Schiffmann (i.e. mariner, skipper). Interestingly, neither of those names is particularly more common in coastal regions. How intriguing. I know a couple of people with the last name Schiffer, never knew it had such a meaning. Renard...guilt is so unlike you. |
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Post by Steam Engine on Jun 22, 2013 16:46:23 GMT
Random irrelevant fact: "Schiff" is the german word for "ship".  From /со/ with love. |
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Post by Max on Jun 22, 2013 17:46:57 GMT
Whaaaa, did Tom remove the word filter on The Butt Zone? I had started to grow fond of it... ETA: Guess not. Wonder why it didn't apply on yours. |
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Post by sidhekin on Jun 22, 2013 17:59:12 GMT
Because he didn't write "co" between those slashes; he wrote "со". That is, he used Cyrillic letters. (Unicode points 0x0441 and 0x043E.) Unicode makes word filtering ... difficult ... without unicode aware filtering.  |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 22, 2013 20:09:53 GMT
Really?
/со/
Steam_Engine, you are of genius!
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Post by sidhekin on Jun 22, 2013 20:43:12 GMT
/me ponders a filter for /со/: Тне Витт Зоие |
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Post by download on Jun 22, 2013 20:56:44 GMT
You can also use [noparse][/noparse] For example: /co/ Random irrelevant fact: "Schiff" is the german word for "ship". From /со/ with love. I'm not convinced the Annie/Kat ship has sunk. We'll see. I can't see Paz/Kat staying around for ever so then what? |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 22, 2013 21:00:27 GMT
Huh, [noparse][/noparse] doesn't seem to work with the filters for me... Kind of funny that you have to put another no parse tag around it to make it show up though  /co/, ah, there it is. Thanks. |
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Post by download on Jun 22, 2013 21:29:36 GMT
I put noparse in the middle of /co/
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Post by The Anarch on Jun 23, 2013 5:02:44 GMT
Kind of funny that you have to put another no parse tag around it to make it show up though Wait . . . then which [noparse][/noparse] is actually showing up and which is disappearing?!  |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 23, 2013 5:18:19 GMT
The...
The inner one... I think.
You're telling it not to parse the no-parse request, so it shows up in the final page, instead of simply disappearing.
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