The $6 Million Kitty by whozit

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The $6 Million Kitty

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UPDATED: Saturday, June 26, 2010 20:11
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Friday, June 25, 2010 11:43 AM

WHOZIT

We can rebuild him, we have the Paws.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100625/wl_uk_afp/britainhealthcat

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Friday, June 25, 2010 1:08 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Wicked, I gotta see if my prosthetic crew can get a copy of their project plans - hell, the concept they're workin from might work for ME, since my case is a bit unique in that someone with as much damage as me isn't really supposed to be able to use a prosthetic, and a meld would actually serve better than the frankenstein-ish monstrosity we're using now.

Besides, Squirmy, on of me and the ex's mutually owned cats, only has three legs - which is kinda how we wound up with her, as her cousin worked for the vet who patched her up, and figured she had a three-limbed boyfriend, why not a matching cat ?

-F

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Friday, June 25, 2010 1:38 PM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by whozit:
We can rebuild him, we have the Paws.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, June 25, 2010 4:44 PM

DREAMTROVE

I Have a friend who has posts for teeth, and they not only make for very realistic false teeth, but very functional ones, I don't think he would be in nearly the good health he's in if it weren't for fully functional teeth.

But a cat and a tooth might be a different kettle of fish from a frem. The titanium post, sure, would hold up under the strain of you walking on it, but you really want to get a profession medical opinion on whatever the pin was anchored into, bone I would assume, would, and not splinter from the torque. Logically it makes sense that any prosthetic would hold better to the pin, just as long as nothing else got screwed up.

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Friday, June 25, 2010 7:11 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

Don't let the military get ahold of this technology.

--Anthony

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Friday, June 25, 2010 10:18 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Feh, like it worked all that well LAST time ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

Cats are natural Anarchists, working for the government is anethma to em, they'd just steal it and then play cuteness proximity factor, back it up with cyborgs, and take over!

Then WE would be the ones eatin out of a bowl on the floor.

-F

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 5:47 AM

DREAMTROVE

Anthony,

That reminds me of my gamma world character, exactly. It was like 1981 and I was a cat with a laser eye. I coudl see the who EM specturm. Telepathic too. Meow. Okay, so I wants a talking cat. Didn't need to talk.(normal sized cat, not one of these big cats or humanized cats"

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 1:50 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Ah Gamma World, the other (first being Star Frontiers) unadmitted shame of TSR, back when it was so easy to rip off other peoples submissions and incorporate them while officially sending them back as "rejected" - Palladium was also notorious for this.

Speakin of such games, Anthony mentioned playing the original Cyberpunk - well, if you had the low quality early black cover edition (as opposed to 2013 or 2020), what we called the basement print, it came with a supplemental combat system called Friday Night Firefight as a seperate book inside the box.

Guess who did a lotta the related research which produced it ?

I hear they "refined"(cue: rolling of eyes) it into an interlock system, which likely wrecked it, since it's initial design was based heavily on the realistic outcomes of actual people blasting away at each other - most gunfights occur at 21 feet or less, half of those at 8 or less, and about 2/3 of em all in piss poor weather and lighting conditions, hit ratios go between 21-34% depending on employment and geographical location (the gangbanger is a piss poor shot, the farmer isn't.) and when someone does get hit, it's prettymuch OVER, on the spot.

Not very hollywood, but the system as originally introduced did a good job of carrying across that oh-fuck horror and randomness of how those things actually go down.

-Frem

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 2:52 PM

DREAMTROVE

Yes, that was the trick that Wizards pulled on me, holding my submission for a year, sending it back as rejected, and then promptly coming out with the game. Ironically, I'm now friends with one of the editors, who is now my editor for fantasy fiction. Of course, I only sent in one third of my game just in case they decided to pull that trick. Just curious how you know about that being oulled with Gamma World?

Oh, and this: you designed Friday Night Firefight? My opinion of you goes way up if this is so. Yes, I do have this booklet somewhere.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 3:41 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Nah, didn't design a whit of it, although Palladium ripped off some of me and Daveys stuff for TMNT, but not enough to be worth fussin over.

I was still fairly young at the time and had a heavy interest in ballistics, cause I was maybe thinkin about a career in the FBI, this was before I realized how freakin evil they were, in part due to investigating what I'd have to do to get in with em, and out of that learning they were monsters...

Anyhow, I had just read through a shit ton of their own compiled data on shootouts, and so when the topic came up culled out a bunch of the relevant bits and tossed it to the guys discussing it - hell, I don't think they even knew my name, so it wasn't development so much as it was a gratis thing to give em something to work with, and Mike right a pretty good job on it, but he was good at that, as I recall.

And of course I knew about TSR's bad habits, I used to hand out with that crowd at the conventions, one of my favorite games was winding up Ed (Greenwood) and standing nearby with stuff to munch on while he blew into a ten minute rant which never quite seemed to include a direct answer - trust me, he didn't have to dig deep for Elminsters character and personality.

-Frem

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 4:39 PM

DREAMTROVE

Ah.. Ive fed a lot of ideas into the mill that way. Recently I has someone steal a whole game, pr most of one, and publish it as his own, was somewhat miffed about it, because it was my fairly major project. K mitt try it again on my own, but for ee for online rather than to sell.

It strikes me that this society does a disservice in idea ownership though as a concept, because it discourages people from creating or contributing. Generally I fund that the creators or originators of ideas usually have a lot to contribute, and would continue to contribute, so if it just continued with everyone vouching for who they heard give out original ideas, it would eventually become pretty obvious what was whose creation. Of course that would take a little more assumption of people having brains on the part of society and the folks who run it than they are inclined to assume.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 8:11 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

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A cat which lost both back paws after a traumatic accident involving a combine harvester has regained a spring in its step after being fitted with prosthetic limbs.

Cats should not be allowed to operate combine harvesters.

Congress should make a law against that.

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