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snowfoxofdeath Thou errant flap-dragon! from San Francisco Suburb Since: Apr, 2012
Thou errant flap-dragon!
#251: May 6th 2011 at 8:20:31 PM

^ Go on and take it to the Troper Critique Club once it's done, but the regular critics seem to be on a little break right now.

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#252: May 6th 2011 at 8:33:17 PM

^ Yeah. QQQQ has exams. I'm having them too. I'm going to fail math, even though I'm one grade level higher than the norm.

I busy are the forums during summertime, when the high schoolers are on summer vacation and the college students come home?

CrystalGlacia from at least we're not detroit (Living Relic)
#253: May 6th 2011 at 8:37:45 PM

I would think there'd be more activity around here during the summer.

Yeah, I have exams coming up in about two weeks, and in most of my classes, we still haven't finished covering everything we wanted to cover.

I hope I got a really high score on my Science graduation test so I don't have to take my Physics exam. My teacher said that if you show him your OGT score sheet and you scored in the highest category, he'll just enter in a 100% for your exam grade. Read: I won't have to take it. :D

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
QQQQQ from Canada Since: Jul, 2011
#254: May 6th 2011 at 9:11:22 PM

I'm all done with my exams, actually. waii The next months it'll be a much more relaxed term for me (I have classes on Mondays and Wednesdays). I hope to help out more this time around, and get some writing done.

Morgulion An accurate depiction from Cornholes Since: May, 2009
An accurate depiction
#255: May 6th 2011 at 9:21:07 PM

Same here. Now that my ever-beloved A Ps are over, I can forget about the horrors of enzymes and substrates and focus on writing instead.

This is this.
chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#256: May 6th 2011 at 9:23:08 PM

The funny thing about school is that people forget about 65 percent of what they earn there, if not more. If you need to know something, there's the Internet. Besides, most people aren't going to be Calculus.

CrystalGlacia from at least we're not detroit (Living Relic)
#257: May 6th 2011 at 9:31:07 PM

I'm... actually looking forward to precalc next year. I believe it's used in rocket science, but I just want to go into engineering.

It still sounds fun! :D

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
RandomChaos No Dragon Power from My own little world Since: Oct, 2011
No Dragon Power
#258: May 8th 2011 at 7:37:13 AM

So I'm retelling Beautty and the Beast with the cast of Avatar The Last Airbender. However I don't know how to do the projoge without giving away who I'm casting as Beast, sugistones?

With the power of a dragon I can make up for my inability to spill.
Katsuun nagisad Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
nagisad
#259: May 8th 2011 at 1:14:11 PM

Ah, AP Week. Though it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, oddly enough.

This one's a bit of a general question. Anyone here have difficulty writing mundane scenes where nothing dramatic or action-packed occurs?

Kitkat Kitkat / He's our man / If any one screws up / He sure can -Imca
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#260: May 8th 2011 at 2:07:16 PM

^ Ugh, yeah. I totally know what you mean.

Trying to come up with futuristic weapons. It's not very hard sci-fi, but I wouldn't want to go with laser rifles/swords 'cos I feel like they're cliche.

Katsuun nagisad Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
nagisad
#261: May 8th 2011 at 2:13:32 PM

Mm, yeah. I'm thinking that scenes like that might demand me to change writing styles or something- to keep my interest from dying halfway through.

As for futuristic weapons... How devastating should they be? For person-to-person combat, I assume?

Kitkat Kitkat / He's our man / If any one screws up / He sure can -Imca
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#262: May 8th 2011 at 2:20:26 PM

Changing writing style to help with that is an interesting idea.

And yeah, I was mostly thinking person-to-person combat. Although I suppose it could also be person-to-vehicle, or something. The setting is cyborgs vs. robots vs. aliens and zombies vs. other cyborgs. It's not entirely serious, mostly me fooling around.

My character is walking the wastelands, so I thought something that would need lots of reloading would be impractical, since it'd be hard to find ammo. I was also thinking sword-like weapons, for Rule of Cool, but they'd have to be pretty dang enhanced.

Katsuun nagisad Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
nagisad
#263: May 8th 2011 at 2:24:35 PM

What about something that's stabbed into enemies to serve as a conduit for a lethal electric charge? Melee and pretty bad ass to boot, I think.

Kitkat Kitkat / He's our man / If any one screws up / He sure can -Imca
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#264: May 8th 2011 at 2:29:43 PM

A taser sword? Oooh, I like that idea.

Haha, that reminds me of the bear taser. It's got a range of 35 feet and delivers 150,000 volts.

Oh, I forgot this existed.

Hmm. Railguns plausible?

edited 8th May '11 2:31:31 PM by melloncollie

Katsuun nagisad Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
nagisad
#265: May 8th 2011 at 2:31:34 PM

Lethal, mind you.

Wait, as a melee weapon?

edited 8th May '11 2:31:51 PM by Katsuun

Kitkat Kitkat / He's our man / If any one screws up / He sure can -Imca
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#266: May 8th 2011 at 2:38:15 PM

For long-range.

Heh, actually... I'm having the cyborg face off against a magic user who can manipulate electromagnetic fields. They could totally build a railgun if they teamed up.

DARPA calls it the Iron Curtain, and it uses an invisible pulse to detonate shells before they can hit the vehicle.

idea!

edited 8th May '11 2:38:56 PM by melloncollie

Katsuun nagisad Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
nagisad
#267: May 8th 2011 at 2:39:37 PM

Magic? In my sci-fi?

Actually, that would be a nice pseudo-railgun given the circumstances. The cyborg could even use himself as a projectile.

Kitkat Kitkat / He's our man / If any one screws up / He sure can -Imca
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#268: May 8th 2011 at 2:46:36 PM

Like I said, I'm just fooling around [lol]. It involves dimensional travel and other nonsense.

A coilgun might be more plausible for People Cannonballs. From what I've read of railguns they tend to involve crazy plasma-creating speed.

Ghetto coilgun go

Katsuun nagisad Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
nagisad
#269: May 8th 2011 at 2:47:54 PM

Well it's a non-serious affair, right? What's to say the robots of this era aren't built to withstand the force of being shot at hundreds of miles an hour?

Kitkat Kitkat / He's our man / If any one screws up / He sure can -Imca
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#270: May 8th 2011 at 2:56:58 PM

Hundreds of thousands of miles per hour, actually.

Blaaagh, I feel like I'm going into hyper-realism mode again. I'm trying to be silly, dammit!

Katsuun nagisad Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
nagisad
#271: May 8th 2011 at 2:58:23 PM

Kick reason to the curb, deny the obvious, uphold the inane!

Though there are cases where I story I wrote as a joke ended up becoming more grim and introspective and vice versa.

Kitkat Kitkat / He's our man / If any one screws up / He sure can -Imca
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#272: May 8th 2011 at 3:03:36 PM

A pain ray. Bitchin'.

What works would that be? [curious]

Katsuun nagisad Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
nagisad
#273: May 8th 2011 at 3:11:10 PM

They were works in progress lost to a virus (I lost a huge amount of stuff that day, actually), I don't remember much about them. The stuff that I have online now (mostly fanfic) is all serious stuff.

Kitkat Kitkat / He's our man / If any one screws up / He sure can -Imca
melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
Katsuun nagisad Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
nagisad
#275: May 8th 2011 at 3:18:05 PM

Eh, they were all mostly unfinished anyways. I'm that douche that never finishes anything he starts.

Kitkat Kitkat / He's our man / If any one screws up / He sure can -Imca

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