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shotgunbadger
Nov 18, 2008

WEEK 4 - RETIRED


I'm just shocked mr 'our 11 year olds are adults' brought out 'what if your daughter was gonna get raped'.

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BulletRiddled
Jun 1, 2004

I survived Disaster Movie and all I got was this poorly cropped avatar



quote:

Cytran Model Assembly: 10% (In-paper)
Cytran Parts: 22% (Updating references)
Pre-Cytran Story: 10% (Setting up the background)
Terrain Cybernetic Adaption Program: 15% (In-paper)

So, they have 10% of a doodle, 22% of a list of things that don't exist, 10% of a fan fiction of themselves, and 15% of a guide to something that will never happen.

Wouldn't the pre-Cytran story be history, as in what's happening right now? It's like they can't even tell fiction from reality.

i am tim!
Jan 5, 2005

God damn it, where are my ant keys?! I'm gonna miss my flight!

Actually I believe he thinks the doodle is 10% of the total production process.

AuMaestro
May 27, 2007



BulletRiddled posted:

It's like they can't even tell fiction from reality.

It's quite a lot like that, isn't it?

shotgunbadger
Nov 18, 2008

WEEK 4 - RETIRED


I like to call this age PC, or Pre-Cytran.

Hobo Siege
Apr 24, 2008


To put this in terms you FedCom guys can probably understand: Have you ever played Resident Evil 5? Imagine how difficult it would've been if Chris could only run five feet without collapsing and all the angry black people had guns instead of crossbows and hand axes. That is the fate of Malatora.

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

how i wonder what you are


The 22% of Cytran parts is probably the bits of his body that will be installed into the dragon superstructure. Like his brain and poo poo. It's the other 78% that exists solely in the realms of magic and fantasy.

BulletRiddled
Jun 1, 2004

I survived Disaster Movie and all I got was this poorly cropped avatar



AuMaestro posted:

It's quite a lot like that, isn't it?

I realized just how stupid that statement was the moment I clicked submit.

Filthy Haiku
Oct 22, 2010



You know, when/if virtual reality becomes feasible, I'm going to create an incredibly grindy MMO for furries to cripple them AND make a killing from a captive audience. From everything I've gathered about Malatora, a sufficiently autistic MMO would be like kryptonite for them.

Edit:
Patch 5.3 Class notes
-Multi-dick talents can no longer cause Flaming Cervix procs
-The requirement for epic mounts has been lowered to 11.

shotgunbadger
Nov 18, 2008

WEEK 4 - RETIRED


Asked about the 11 year old thing, got a warning from that Ryu guy, combined with my warning for calling Taygon not nice for wanting to murder people, I'm dancing a dangerous dance with these dragons.

Doppelganger
Oct 11, 2002

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger


I saw there were 180 new posts and got here as fast as I could. Disappointed that none of them have signed up to talk to us.

Sleekly
Aug 21, 2008

Yeah I see you.
Wait...wait..ok go.

Dysta posted:

From my purpose to develop Cytran and other relatives, I am just talking about designing. Again, I am not into the project to make them how they works properly in reality, but also, drawing stuffs on paper are also be offended by can't-stand-on-art people.

The horrors of drunk posting

Angela Christine
Oct 4, 2008

LIL CUTIES


They should be more friendly. SA has 6,841 registered users logged in right now. If just 1% of those are interested in becoming dragon cyborgs they could easily triple their active membership. Possibly even more if the dragon thing is optional, I'm sure there are still a few dudes bummed out that Goon Island never got off the ground. We could pool resources and make all our dreams come true.

Goon Island 2: Now With Dragons

Young Freud
Nov 25, 2006

My old avatar sucked anyway.

Mr. Pumroy posted:

No you don't understand. THEY'RE invading HIS lands. By being there first. With their homes and poo poo.

Those drat squatters! On the very land that I wanted to squat on.

Doppelganger
Oct 11, 2002

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger


A long time ago there was some thread about those overseas boot camps where parents send their delinquent children to be abused straight. I remember somebody speculating on what it would take to raid and liberate one of those islands, but at least that seemed like a noble cause.

Young Freud
Nov 25, 2006

My old avatar sucked anyway.

Doppelganger posted:

A long time ago there was some thread about those overseas boot camps where parents send their delinquent children to be abused straight. I remember somebody speculating on what it would take to raid and liberate one of those islands, but at least that seemed like a noble cause.

He could also buy some small islands in the South China Sea from the People's Republic of China. Worked for Scaramanga.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

Whenever I hit "r" in my address bar, Raine Dog comes up. Goddammit.


Angela Christine posted:

They should be more friendly. SA has 6,841 registered users logged in right now. If just 1% of those are interested in becoming dragon cyborgs they could easily triple their active membership. Possibly even more if the dragon thing is optional, I'm sure there are still a few dudes bummed out that Goon Island never got off the ground. We could pool resources and make all our dreams come true.

Goon Island 2: Now With Dragons

cyber-hermaphrodite dragons

Agnostic watermelon
Jul 1, 2009

I'm a lil' Brony!

How the gently caress is he even going to talk to these people to try "diplomacy"? The way I understand it is Africa has hundreds of different spoken languages.

Bundle of Keys
Jul 3, 2007


Oh hey, Miss Sapien. So I said your avatar over at the robot dragon forum wasn't very good, and you asked me for critique. Now the entire robot dragon forum is in lockdown so I can't even find your post.

Anyway!

First off I'm somewhat puzzled that you're perfectly capable of responding in a rational manner to criticism regarding your artistic skills, but you have a harder time responding to the criticism of the whole robot dragon shebang.

Secondly I actually sat down and tried to improve your avatar. It felt rigid and not very alive. I'm not very good at arty words.


Ok so first of I did some stuff to the left arm. Try looking over your shoulder without moving the rst of your body. Doesn't feel too good. I tried to add a little twist in the torso.
You may also notice the blue overalls. I figure there will be need for overalls, what with all the construction you guys are having to do down on that there island.

At first I had put a spanner in the left hand, but after reading your replies to some of the posts I feel it's more needed to at least give you an idea of which venues you can go to not feel like a cog in the wheels of corporate America. I'm sure we all have that fear, even those of us who don't live in the US.
So I added a paint brush and a palette that's being held by one of your back tentacles.
One of the other tentacles is directing an orchestra. It's hard to see, but I've never tried drawing an orchestra before.

Last, I'd like to add that it's not necessary for you to grow actual tentacles out of your back, or be a wolf in blue overalls, or a robot dragon on an African island, to avoid becoming a cog in the wheels of corporate America.

All it takes is you.





Also you're drawing a pony.

Young Freud
Nov 25, 2006

My old avatar sucked anyway.

Agnostic watermelon posted:

How the gently caress is he even going to talk to these people to try "diplomacy"? The way I understand it is Africa has hundreds of different spoken languages.

Most of them know French in West Africa. Too bad he hates the language.

Agnostic watermelon
Jul 1, 2009

I'm a lil' Brony!

Young Freud posted:

Most of them know French in West Africa. Too bad he hates the language.


So wait, he only knows how to speak English?

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

how i wonder what you are


Agnostic watermelon posted:

So wait, he only knows how to speak English?

In the future it will by known as Cytransdraconic. It is the ancestral language of the Cytran before humans even learned to speak it, after all.

Bad Bromance
May 20, 2010

Sorry, guys, I actually do still suck dick! Also my mom only lets me spend five bucks a month to get my cool gaga avatars back so I guess I'm stuck with this one for a while.

Piece of poo poo can't even speak the guttural hoons of the dragon ancestral language?

overdesigned
Apr 10, 2003

I CAN'T FOLLOW THE SIMPLE TRADITION OF POSTING THE MARINE MONTHLY OP BECAUSE I AM A LAZY FUCK


And they have that whole mental radio telepathy poo poo that is straight out of the Animorphs books I read as an 8 year old back in the 90's, so who needs English?

Agnostic watermelon
Jul 1, 2009

I'm a lil' Brony!

You know what? let's start small. I wonder how many of these people can even afford to travel to this secret island. I imagine Taygon won't dig into the donation box to spring for tickets.



[e] Even if you get to the main land, how are you going to book a boat to the island if you can't even communicate with people? How are you going to keep the location secret from the boat driver? You can't pilot a boat yourself.






Are they answering questions? if so can you screen cap?
vvv

shotgunbadger
Nov 18, 2008

WEEK 4 - RETIRED


I may be getting something pretty awesome from these guys in a while.

Dice Dingus
May 3, 2010


shotgunbadger posted:

I may be getting something pretty awesome from these guys in a while.

Oh you can not just leave us hanging like that. AT least give me a hint. Pretty please?

Evil_Urna
Aug 15, 2004

I swear, by mah life an mah love o da thang, that I will never live fo da sake o another nigga, nor ask another nigga ta live fo mine



shotgunbadger posted:

I may be getting something pretty awesome from these guys in a while.

Are you instigating a coup?

shotgunbadger
Nov 18, 2008

WEEK 4 - RETIRED


^^^I don't have the skill or fashionable military hat for the task, sadly.

I'm hoping to get one of their green names (those are like the 'citizens' right?) to call Taygon out on his creepy pedophile random addition.

edit: Also whoever 'fixed' her av, Tanya would like you to know she enjoyed it, especially the tentacle holding the paint, and gave her ideas for future images.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Oh No he read that and may get "proactively defensive!"

Spacedad
Sep 11, 2001

We go play orbital catch around the curvature of the earth, son.

I tried to think of what I would do if I had absolute power to create my own society in a manner similar to how this nut imagines and I keep thinking it would turn out something like this:

Only registered members can see post attachments!

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

how i wonder what you are


Be careful. He'll come to your house and refuse to leave until you concede to him full sovereignty over the ancestral pizza rolls of his people you've been hiding in the freezer.

hallo spacedog
Apr 3, 2007

this chaos is killing me


Times posted:

I tried to think of what I would do if I had absolute power to create my own society in a manner similar to how this nut imagines and I keep thinking it would turn out something like this:



Except living in Ratfink Town would probably be a lot safer, saner and more realistic than DecaDongDragon Land.

BulletRiddled
Jun 1, 2004

I survived Disaster Movie and all I got was this poorly cropped avatar



Contact has been achieved. More to come.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

Whenever I hit "r" in my address bar, Raine Dog comes up. Goddammit.


Bundle of Keys posted:

Oh hey, Miss Sapien. So I said your avatar over at the robot dragon forum wasn't very good, and you asked me for critique. Now the entire robot dragon forum is in lockdown so I can't even find your post.

Anyway!

First off I'm somewhat puzzled that you're perfectly capable of responding in a rational manner to criticism regarding your artistic skills, but you have a harder time responding to the criticism of the whole robot dragon shebang.

Secondly I actually sat down and tried to improve your avatar. It felt rigid and not very alive. I'm not very good at arty words.


Ok so first of I did some stuff to the left arm. Try looking over your shoulder without moving the rst of your body. Doesn't feel too good. I tried to add a little twist in the torso.
You may also notice the blue overalls. I figure there will be need for overalls, what with all the construction you guys are having to do down on that there island.

At first I had put a spanner in the left hand, but after reading your replies to some of the posts I feel it's more needed to at least give you an idea of which venues you can go to not feel like a cog in the wheels of corporate America. I'm sure we all have that fear, even those of us who don't live in the US.
So I added a paint brush and a palette that's being held by one of your back tentacles.
One of the other tentacles is directing an orchestra. It's hard to see, but I've never tried drawing an orchestra before.

Last, I'd like to add that it's not necessary for you to grow actual tentacles out of your back, or be a wolf in blue overalls, or a robot dragon on an African island, to avoid becoming a cog in the wheels of corporate America.

All it takes is you.

Why am I thinking "of course, the tentacles are just sprouting out of the back like some sort of fungus instead of having defined musculature connecting them"?

shotgunbadger
Nov 18, 2008

WEEK 4 - RETIRED


Tanya would also like Not to check his dragon-PMs.

DarkArchimedes
Feb 26, 2008
Kubla Dong


Any time I start thinking about all the mechanical questions that I never saw anyone on that board ask or answer, I come up with a post about a billion characters long.

So in lieu of posting all that, I'll just say that if you haven't seen any diagrams, equations, or solid numbers even remotely detailing how to construct and run an artificial body, you're being bullshitted. Just ask how many kCal (or kJ, depending on your preference)a 1500 pound robotic body that can fly will consume an hour, just to move around and keep all relevant life support systems and etc. running. There are plenty of much, much more technical questions that break this whole thing apart (in spite of an ADDA certification and a year of drafting school).

Christ. If you've ever changed a loving alternator on a car, or poo poo, played with legos you know how obtuse this whole thing is. Tanya, or any others of you reading this... it's really not even about cruelty, but it's about someone so buried in a traumatic fantasy that they're willing to bamboozle others. A philosophy of peace and friendship and whatever is fine. Having kinks and strange interests? Generally fine, depending on how weird things get.

Lying to people (and to yourself) about a way to achieve your goals is, at the least, irresponsible, at the most, reprehensible. Cult leaders don't show people below their level of leadership the true inner workings because nothing exists there but an infrastructure of deceit.

shotgunbadger
Nov 18, 2008

WEEK 4 - RETIRED


The fun I wanted hasn't begun yet, but I did get Taygon to admit he doesn't need to learn the local tongue because


"We are not integrating ourselves into a foreign culture.
We have our own culture, which is very important to us.

Having a different language is another point to support our independence from our neighbor."

Goggle Fox
Jul 9, 2011



Stultus Maximus posted:

Why am I thinking "of course, the tentacles are just sprouting out of the back like some sort of fungus instead of having defined musculature connecting them"?

It's a little hard to figure exactly how one would attach tentacles to a back, especially having them jut straight out like that.

I do hope the other message in that post gets through. There are ways to improve on one's lot in life no matter where one finds oneself, in the free world at least. You're not a debt slave, be glad for that and use that upward mobility.

This thread exploded since last I looked at it. Is that really their response to perceived "trolls?" The "you have to be a member for 60 days and have at least 200 posts" thing reminds me of a measure used on a certain site, to weed out uninterested members and spam-bots. Said site was a role-playing forum, by the way.

Then, of course, they shut things down entirely. That's not exactly conducive to giving a good image of yourself, and certainly isn't the best response to criticism.

As an aside, that bit someone did regarding nuclear physics sounds like they read a few wikipedia articles and think they know a thing or two now. Some of us have actually learned the subject in question, and know some of the transport laws involved. Here's a tip: You can transport lithium salts just fine. Separating them is gonna look mighty suspicious, though. Meanwhile, good luck getting ahold of any amount of uranium or thorium from anywhere; transport of that is very tightly controlled, and even trying to take a few grams of unprocessed sand would have dire consequences.

I also have no idea why anyone would think deuterium, a stable and natural form of hydrogen found in basically all the water you ever drink, would need to be "contained", or why "radioactive lithium" would be useful for this. (Hint: radioactive isotopes of lithium have nothing to do with anything mentioned in that post, at all.)

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DarkArchimedes
Feb 26, 2008
Kubla Dong


Goggle Fox posted:

I also have no idea why anyone would think deuterium, a stable and natural form of hydrogen found in basically all the water you ever drink, would need to be "contained", or why "radioactive lithium" would be useful for this.

It's because of this:

"Goggle Fox posted:

As an aside, that bit someone did regarding nuclear physics sounds like they read a few wikipedia articles and think they know a thing or two now.

A good number of the 'references' on Taygon's posts lead back to wiki articles. All the holes in the argument, all the seeded dark-matter information they keep alluding to, it's all because it's really not there, or at the very least not there in any rational or usable way. It's what I was getting at in my post up above.

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