The "whatever's on your mind" thread

[coolsome]

The Power of Kroll.

[Iryon]

Soooo ... everybody here is talking about Doctor Who. And I have to admit that I had to look up Doctor Who in wikipedia, because I didn't even know that it is a TV series prior to those posts.

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

All right, it's Blink in reality. But let's face it, Blink isn't really much about the Doctor.

That's actually why I chose it. The Doctor is a very strange character with so much backstory that it's a bit intimidating to try to figure out who he is and why he's doing stuff without context. Since he barely shows up in Blink, there's a nice way of seeing how the show generally operates without having to deal with all of that.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

Girl in the Fireplace.

This was actually my introduction episode and honestly I'd recommend it over Blink. First of all because I'm that weird fan that honestly didn't like Blink as much as everyone else did, but also because Blink is one of those tonal exception episodes. Now, those are important bits of punctuation that define what Who is as a show, but like all punctuation it doesn't really do much without a context-setting sentence.

[coolsome]

Also Girl in Fireplace has all the hallmarks the series has in one ep drama, scary monsters, futuristic space station, period past environment.

[Chyron8472]

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

Doctor Who is more fantasy than sci-fi.

I agree with this.

It also has its own fair amount of campiness, but it's just enough tongue-in-cheek to make the show funny and endearing rather than stupid.

Some people don't like David Tennant's Doctor that much, but really only because of how his fondness for Rose Tyler affected him after she left. I, on the other hand, loved him for it.

[Alcoremortis]

I love my sci-fi, but every once and awhile you just have to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

[DAISHI]

I'm creating my own fictional universe in which super powered humans work in conjunction with human agents to detain, kill or cure rogue supernormals of varying danger keels, while also investigating paranormal beina such as The Hatman. Website coming soon.

[Alcoremortis]

I think beina is a vintage of wine...

[puzzlebox]

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

I think beina is a vintage of wine...

It apparently also means "legs" in Norwegian.

[WarpSpeed]

Wouldn't you investigate a paranormal set of legs?

Also, you'll probably find that most science fiction series have an element of soap opera in them. On the screen, they're used to portray human reactions more than actual science.

[GaryCXJk]

Finally seen Dexter's Rude Removal and I have to say that I'm... underwhelmed. I mean, yeah, sure, we finally got to see it, but, yeah, I don't know.

[Alcoremortis]

Well, of course science fiction portrays human reactions more than science. Books that just do the science part are called textbooks. The human interest is there to give the science context in the real world and make the improbable seem possible.

Of course, the end goal should be to tell a good story and raise some questions. A buddy of mine is really good at that when writing sci-fi. In a short story, he managed to show the complete regression of a group of people from a super-advanced society to hunter-gatherers in a single generation. And it was just due to a change the speed of a planet's rotation. And he only used three characters. It was pretty brilliant... but also depressing to see how close to the edge we walk.

[DAISHI]

ES006 - "Black Sunday"
Name: Matthew McConnel
Age: 89
Classification: Delta

HISTORY
Matthew McConnell was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1922, shortly between the end of the first World War and the start of the second. Born under the occupation of the British army in Ireland, and a product of the rhetoric of freedom circulating throughout the world in the face of German aggression in WWII, he became a fighter in the military operations occurring in Europe. He was present on D-Day and demonstrated incredible skill, strength, tactical ability and speed. He was actually favorably compared to the American hero, Mr. Amazing [ES003] due to their comparative skills. Mr. Amazing always held the superior place due to his ethnicity and background, while McConnell suffered from discrimination and oppression within hiw own military ranks.

​McConnell was also, unfortunately, captured in the European Theatre. At this time he was subjected to the Third Reich's Sephiroth Program, the same program that formed the foundation of the future SWORD agency. An attempt to understand super, supra and paranormal activity, Sephiroth sought to weaponize human, non human and unusual relics in the hope of developing new tools for the Reich to use against the Allies it was fighting. Because of his superior abilities as well as his regenerative healing factor, comparable with Mr. Amazing's, he was subjected to a series of experiments testing his limits and introducing him to mutagenic agents.

​The end result of these experiments would never have a chance to be unleashed on the Allies, and the full scope of them is still not known. McConnell's experience left him in a state of suffering and mentally broken, a situation that would not be remixed by the British. He was returned to Ireland, subjected to the same discrimination he had faced previously, and landed himself in close alliance with local revolution groups hoping to establish home rule for Ireland. He established a name as a particularly effective resistance leader, and particularly violent, a reputation that led to his expulsion from the resistance groups he had previously found a home with. Rumors broke out concerning certain, unique capabilities he held. In addition to his previously held capabilities, he was demonstrating a "corruption", an ability to degrade biological and nonbiological matter in his presence, at will, which made apprehension by normal means impossible.

In the late 1960s, standard SWORD agents were sent in to apprehend McConnell, although they were ultimately unsuccessful. Ever larger teams were deployed, all which McConnell resisted through a combination of his own powers and the terrorist group he was establishing, whose influence was spreading throughout continental Europe. A concerted counter effort was made by SHIELD, the paramilitary wing of SWORD. In addition to agents, Mr. Amazing led the team which began a series of combative efforts to break McConnell's terrorist group, Lamh Laidir. This would be the first of a number of encounters between the two and, although they would fail to apprehend him, would drive his group underground.

CONTAINMENT
To date, no permanent containment solution has been devised for holding Black Sunday. His strength allows him the ability to break through concrete and steel. Heavily reinforced walls are effective at containing him physically, preventing escape by battering the walls with his physical strength alone. However, the corruption effect that Sunday produces is capable of progressively deteriorating the walls of his room. This effect is slowest upon superhard metals but regardless of the nature of the wall, the corrosion effect will eventually be sufficient to allow Black Sunday to penetrate it via his superior physical strength.

The current cell devised for him and previously used is located at Facility Abaddon, an imprisonment facility for the most unpredictable, dangerous and hardest to contain super and supranormals. The cell is a multilayered wall of diamond, carbon tungstide, concrete and titanium in interchanging layers that are seven feet thick. These walls are resistant to temperatures up to 1370 Celsius (2500 Fahrenheit) and could withstand a blast exceeding the detonation force of the Hiroshima bomb. Sunday is allowed no television but is provided a set of a dozen books once every month. 24 hour monitoring of his cell is required. Because of the corruption effect he produces, cameras must be changed once a week, as well as plumbing. Because IRIS bullets degrade before they can make contact with Sunday, they are ineffective at delivering a dose of IRIS blood to the subject. Similarly, blood transfusions are impossible due to the corruption effect. This makes indefinite detention the only method of containing Black Sunday.

​All method of food, book and other utilities conveyance must be done via conveyor system. All camera replacement must be done only with active ESP agents working to hold back Sunday until replacement is complete, a process that should not exceed one half hour. A replacement cell must be constructed once every three months, and Sunday transferred to it with the help of ESP agents. This is a costly and ongoing expenditure that has not proven entirely effective. Sunday can, at random, exceed the bonds of his agent handlers. The intensity of his corruption effect has also been known to tear apart the walls of his cell with little effort. Attempts to terminate the subject have all been ineffective. Like Mr. Amazing, his cellular regeneration capabilities seem to be beyond the scope of normal medical understanding. Gunfire is ineffective due to bullet degradation, as are all physical methods of attempting to kill Black Sunday. Energy based methods, such as lasers, have literally torn his body to shreds, only to have him regenerate. Incineration has only led to his regrowth from the cells that survived the process, with explosive force producing the same result. Regeneration time can take several months, but always occurs.

ADDENDUM
Black Sunday is the perfect counterpart to Mr. Amazing, nearly equal in strength, speed, agility and tactical ability. What Sunday possess that Amazing does not is a corruption effect, which appears like a black smoke coming off of his body. This field of smoke extends at will in what appear to be tendrils, and can begin immediate degradation of all surrounding matter. When contained to a cell, Sunday allows this field to expand to consume almost the entire room, cloaking it in black and beginning a corrosion process. Only those with heightened regenerative capabilities, such as Mr. Amazing, have any place in direct contact with Sunday.

Sunday can retract his corrosion field and regularly does so as part of his role as leader of Lamh Laidir. Uncorrupted, he appears as a male in his late twenties, a consequence of his cellular regenerative capabilities. He stands mid six feet tall, with bright red hair, a broad jaw and muscular frame, the equivalent of any Olympic level athlete or above. When in his corrupted state, Sunday appears to be consumed in black, like a walking ink blot, with no distinguishing features save the outline of his frame and musculature. Even his head appears rounded and smooth. At this time, his corruption field, the smoke tendrils he is typified by, become visible.

[zombie_girl]

hey do you guys know what to do when your at the part where your by the truck trying to get a weapon but you cant break the window for the screwdriver?

[Gman5852]

Originally Posted by zombie_girl

hey do you guys know what to do when your at the part where your by the truck trying to get a weapon but you cant break the window for the screwdriver?

What you do is Find the pillow near the wall where Carley and Glenn were at(where you came from) then use it on the walker lieing near the car, and from there you should be able to find a solution


For future questions, go to the Walking Dead Hints Forum

[Johro]

I'm making Strawberry White Chocolate Cheesecake. Usually, that's a raspberry pairing, but I don't like raspberries. Screw baking rules!

[DAISHI]

Hw dare you run zombie girl out of here.

[Iryon]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

ES006 - "Black Sunday"
[Long part that I don't want to quote in its ineresting entirety]

I somehow like the ironic twist that the Third Reich named that program Sephiroth.

For my understanding: Why does he need food conveyed? With his superhuman regeneration ability he won't starve, will he?

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by Iryon

I somehow like the ironic twist that the Third Reich named that program Sephiroth.

For my understanding: Why does he need food conveyed? With his superhuman regeneration ability he won't starve, will he?

The organization tries its best to be humane. Even if its not a necessity, they still want to provide some level of comfort while he lives. He still feels hunger.