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WCDT Strips 3036 - 3040 (31 August to 4 September 2015)

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hedgie:
Admittedly, my translation is a bit loose, but it preserves the spirit of the original.

Zog:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 02 Sep 2015, 01:17 ---
--- Quote from: Truec on 02 Sep 2015, 00:32 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 01 Sep 2015, 23:30 ---Okay, I'm out of my knowledge zone here. Give me a second...

*Looks up Shadowrun on DeviantArt*

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I'm not the judgmental sort, but whose first reaction when they hear of something new is to look it up on Deviantart?  As opposed to Googling it, or Wikipediaing it, or doing something involving improper use of a proper noun as a verbing it?
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Think about it - I'm looking for clues about an appearance aesthetic.


--- Quote from: Rghfrgl on 02 Sep 2015, 00:08 ---It's a cyberpunk tabletop game.
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As I said to Truec, it's more the visual aesthetic that was an important factor in my research here. I tend to think visual anyway so I get a better handle on things if I have plenty of pictures. :-P

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It's funny, I "liked" Truec's comment and then realized after I read this that even though I don't consider myself a visual person, and will actually often leave a webpage when it turns out to be video rather than writing, that I had done an image search first for approximately the same reason that Benrg gives without really thinking about it or even realizing it was the same thing until I read this.

pwhodges:
Eagle?  That's the new manifestation of Yelling Bird!  Thought you'd seen the last of him, eh?

Akima:

--- Quote from: cucumber error on 02 Sep 2015, 20:58 ---Also, it must be the eagle on fire, what monster would set fire to a book?  :roll:
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While it might be a legend (the account was written by an official of the succeeding dynasty) the famous "Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars" supposedly ordered by Qin Shi Huang 213-210 BC is the earliest example I know.

People who complain about the verbing of company names like google etc. are suffering from lexihistorical myopia (an early symptom of grumpy-old-bat/fart-ism). People have been Hoovering carpets, Mercerising cotton, Xeroxing documents, Photoshopping pictures, Velcroing pockets etc., Superglueing broken china, Rollerblading down the road, Tasering suspects, Macing muggers, Scotch-taping parcels, Tarmacing roads, Ping-ponging back and forth, and so on for a very long time. Yes, every one of those was originally either a company name or a trade-marked product sold by one. I googled them...

BenRG:
Purely FWIW, I predicted a while back that being with Marten would give Claire a new level of confidence in her self-identity and ability to express herself in her appearance. What Marten is experiencing this week is the blossoming of Claire's ability to express her self-identity. This may have some... extreme outcomes in the short-term but I suspect she'll 'come down' after a while and find a happy medium that's more to her taste.

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