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@Bigger Ben: that would be awesome.

@Flanker: No, the cannon simply comes with two balls (and an automatic aiming-and-firing system): one ball to destroy the target, and a second to fire through time to destroy itself as it arrives.

(You might argue that this sets up a temporal paradox; it does. ^_^)

Would such a thing be a retro-active cannon?

If there's uncertainty in whether such time-travelling cannons, used to establish retcons, are actually a part of the setting, one might ask whether canon time-cannons are canon...

edited 16th Apr '14 2:56:55 PM by ArsThaumaturgis

@ All this cannon talk

I seriously lost track of this conversation. It's all about time travelling cannons that can alter the canon of the universe retroactively? If I'm right, I hope they don't play Pachelbel's Canon. It'd get more convoluted.

You people really like to excessively milk jokes that weren't that funny in the first place, don't you?

Anyway, the only problem I see with my idea is getting back to the present time.

edited 16th Apr '14 3:17:52 PM by BiggerBen

Ouch; I liked it. *shrugs*

However, if my part in the joking offended, then I apologise.

This has convinced me to never have a character name their sword if I ever write a fantasy.

Warning, Game of Thrones spoilers in that page.

You best listen to the Hound, he's a smart guy.

The cannon is the natural consequence of the existence of a time machine. Someone will attempt to misuse it causing the next person to develop one to send back the cannon to destroy the time machine before it can ever be used.

Hahaha, and then a shot of Joffrey. Indeed, the Hound knows what he's talking about.

mystery solved

Though the cannon would require an autoloader in order to fire the second round. So it's now a (possibly revolver?) autocannon.

Totally worth it.

@Bigger Ben:

I regret nothing. Stupid puns and misapplication of fridge logic only sustain me!

And anyway, a goofy premise will beget a goofy response.

You are currently fondling the severed udders of a fossilized cow.

Those udders must be extremely well-preserved if they last long enough for the cow they came from to become fossilized.

They're really more like the space where the udders would be by this point.

If there is one thing I don't like about protagonists, is when they doesn't have the enough strength and relationship with the villains.

I'm having trouble trying to gave a reason for my character to be against the villains.

Then, I got an idea: What if his mentor save him, and put the reason into it?

Sounds like a fair plot?

edited 17th Apr '14 11:11:38 AM by Tomodachi

I really have no idea how getting snotty about what other people find funny is supposed to endear you to anyone.

LOL JOFFREY IS A TOTAL CUNT.

That's perfectly reasonable plot reasoning, yes.

On my potential Game Of Thrones fic: It is now an original story, because tweaking eight million plot details is way too finicky for me. Although a Glee/Game of Thrones crossover would be MAD awesome.

As for current news, I wanted to take a break on Spring Break. Then I signed up on Hit RE Cord and started writing a weird-ass fairy-tale-esque urban fantasy. Frequently at weird hours of the night when I should be sleeping.

http://www.hitrecord.org/albums/350644

It's definitely not polished, and I also need to draw up the cover art.

edited 17th Apr '14 11:35:57 AM by Sharysa

Just listened to Biggering, a cut song from the Lorax movie. Oh god, I thought "How Bad Could I Be?" was an awesome villain song. Why oh god why did they cut that song?

edited 17th Apr '14 3:06:37 PM by Kesar

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died.

That's sad, but at least he lived a great life. My regards to his family and fans.

I think I thought of a name for my story:

This Book Has A Playlist In The Back: And There Are Giant Robots Too

It will have a recommended playlist in the back.

Good title, but reminds me of John Dies At The End.

I've been reading more short stories.

This is weird as hell.

Kind of the point actually, though certainly less toilet humor and dick jokes.

I just noticed the most embarrassing mistake in my book-draft: the book begins with words "It was an early Sunday morning" and my main character is on his way to school. How have the six-ish test readers completely missed this? How have I missed this, after seeing the paragraph every time the hundreds of times I have opened the text file in the last four years?

I wrote Mount Rushmore being hit by a meteor and turning into a towering stone golem with the half broken head of George Washington still around and I worry that in won't be offending the people I want to offend...