opnet [OpNet] Silly Shit You Do.

[Lemmy Chillmeister]

Okay, so, when we're not saving the world, creating a new concept of existence, or ending wars with a flex of our mighty buttocks what do we do?

Normal shit probably.

But what about the silly shit you do as a nova that is kind of fun.

I freeze stuff. All sorts of stuff. All the time. Just to see what happens.

Flowers. Rocks. Books. Sandwiches.

I like to see if there are any property changes, if I can get them to shatter. That kind of thing.

So, what silly shit do you do with your powers?

C'mon and share.

[Doctor Nova Madigan]

While invisible, I sneak up on my cat, Pookums, and tickle him. Freaks him out every time.

[Lemmy Chillmeister]

Okay, I don't know what is funnier, that your cat is named Pookums (BWAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHA) or the visual I've got in my head of a cat having a heart-attack freakout.

[Sandcaster]

On occasion, when the mood strikes me, I've been known to make sand castles on the living room rug - the more intricate, the better. It all goes away after an hour or so, but it's still at least a somewhat relaxing hour.

[Regina Newcastle]

I surreptitiously sterilise stupid people.

[The White Rat]

I like that Regina! I wish more Novas were like you.

On a mundane level, just for shits and giggles, I like to send money to non-profit organizations in other peoples' names. They are organizations who they diametrically oppose.

For example: Last year I made a contribution to Planned Parenthood in the name of a local pro-life pastor. I laughed, imagining the look on his face when he got a thank you note for his donation to Planned Parenthood.

The year before, I donated a fur coat to PETA, complements of the fur industry.

As for what I use my powers for with regards to stupid fun...You wouldn't understand.

[Y.T.]

I walk into a town, looking like anyone else, floating about two inches above the ground.I love the look on people's face when they see that my feet aren't touching the ground.

[Chaos]

I tip the scales. Sometimes in favor, sometimes against. Depends on the person and the situation. The results are often exactly what you'd expect but more than a few pass the line into insirational.

[Mithril]

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Originally posted by Regina Newcastle:
I surreptitiously sterilise stupid people.

I LOLed.

I like to eavesdrop on busy high-rise office towers. I'll hang around outside the window and peer in (O.O) until someone notices me. They usually jump really high and drop all their papers or spill their coffee.

Afterwards, about half of them laugh, and the other half befome incoherent with rage.

[kestrel404]

I built a new OpNet terminal that changes its chemical composition instead of emitting light, so that I can watch my favorite Sci-fi movies without dorming.

Also, I occasionally walk into restaurants and project my sense of taste into all of the various meals in the room - because I like to try everything, but I'm never that hungry. It was quite an experience when I did it in Quanta's restaurant.

[Good Alice]

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Originally posted by Regina Newcastle:
I surreptitiously sterilise stupid people.

So you basically commit subtle acts of premeditated murder for fun?

[Doctor Nova Madigan]

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Originally posted by Good Alice:

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Originally posted by Regina Newcastle:
I surreptitiously sterilise stupid people.

So you basically commit subtle acts of premeditated murder for fun?

What the fuck are you talking about, Alice? Sterilization is the act of making someone unable to reproduce. Murder is the unlawful ending of the life of another person.

They're not the same thing, not by a damned sight.

[Wakinyan]

Some things I have done in the past.

I used to picked up tractor trailers at rest stops while the trucker sleeps inside and move him to another rest stop miles away. Kinda mean but I like trying to do it without waking them up.

I snuck into a empty exhibit at the chicago zoo (well over a year ago knights dont get your eufiber panties in a bunch) Stuck a sign on the placcard that simply read Gryphon and hung out there all day bumming food from passers by.

I sat on Lincoln's lap in Washington and made it look like he was petting me.

Chased some hikers in the Grandcanyon snarling and roaring for an hour before I finally decided to catch them at which point I offered them a Mentos. (Okay that happened last week. And Ptesan-Wi is still mad at me for it.)

Turn into Elvis (At various ages) and show up at random places across the U.S. Don't tell the humans though I think I give them hope.

[Singularity]

I find an area of a park that is moderately well travelled, sit down on a bench or the ground, and hold perfectly still. If no one stops to look, I have the chance to meditate; if someone does stop, it's always interesting to watch them figure out whether I'm a statute. Sometimes it's helpful not to have pupils.

[Good Alice]

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Originally posted by Flicker:

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Originally posted by Good Alice:

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Originally posted by Regina Newcastle:
I surreptitiously sterilise stupid people.

So you basically commit subtle acts of premeditated murder for fun?

What the fuck are you talking about, Alice? Sterilization is the act of making someone unable to reproduce. Murder is the unlawful ending of the life of another person.

They're not the same thing, not by a damned sight.

One is ending a life, and the other is preventing life form happening. She has not interest in any legal or moral sence to make peopel have children or not have children. Even less so without them knowing. It is one thing for the parents to choose not to have a child, but this is right up there with doctors aborting children who show the signs they could have some mental or health issues.

[Wakinyan]

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Originally posted by Regina Newcastle:
I surreptitiously sterilise stupid people.

Shit. Does this mean I have to check and see if I am shooting blanks now?

[The White Rat]

Ok, you might not understand why I do this, but damn it is a fun as hell:

When I pass by a busy intersection, or when I am on a freeway overpass, I will paralyze all the occupants of the vehicles. I will then watch enthralled as the cars blow through red lights and careen uncontrolled down the highway. It gets really good when there are people crossing the intersections.

[Neil Preston]

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Originally posted by Wakinyan:

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Originally posted by Regina Newcastle:
I surreptitiously sterilise stupid people.

Shit. Does this mean I have to check and see if I am shooting blanks now?

Not while I'm around, Bro.

[Neil Preston]

As for me ... when no one is around (or Flicker is being sneak and I think I'm alone) I make my hair grow. I want to see what I would look like with a handlebar mustache, or a grizzly beard, or whatever.

[Doctor Nova Madigan]

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Originally posted by Good Alice:
She has not interest in any legal or moral sence to make peopel have children or not have children. Even less so without them knowing.

If you'd said this in the first place, and said nothing more, you'd have had a cogent and worthwhile point.

But then you had to fuck it up and continue:

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Originally posted by Good Alice:
It is one thing for the parents to choose not to have a child, but this is right up there with doctors aborting children who show the signs they could have some mental or health issues.

No. No no no no no. It is not right up there with abortion. It has nothing whatsoever to do with abortion. You are a dumbfuck.

[Wakinyan]

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Originally posted by Neil Preston:

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Originally posted by Wakinyan:

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Originally posted by Regina Newcastle:
I surreptitiously sterilise stupid people.

Shit. Does this mean I have to check and see if I am shooting blanks now?

Not while I'm around, Bro.

Nice to know that whenever Regina breaks my balls you will put them back together again.

[Leliel]

Say Regina, you would not happen to work for project Utopia, would you?

[Zed]

I'm far too busy going around doing silly shit to have the free time to do silly shit.

And no, you don't get to know where I've been. That would be telling. And no fun to boot.

[Access]

I post on Star Trek boards that Star Wars is better.

I post on Star Wars boards that Star Trek is better.

I harness the angry energy that spawns and use it to power the Windy City Knights headquarters.

Actually I've been improving upon the credit card computer. It's staying just as potent, but decreasing in size quite well. I've cut the size down to about 87% of the original.

Yes, I'm boring by most standards.

Yes, there is a big difference between sterilization and abortion, namely the controversy about when life actually happens. Morally, there might not be much difference to some people, but scientifically the gap is rather vast. Regina, keep up the good work. I'd like to be challenged in chess again.

[Dreamer]

Well, let's see. I know for a fact children read this site so I will not go into great detail. I go into night clubs around the world, and I make sure the people there remember what a good time is really like.

I do this to stay alive.Still it is silly.

[Cosmic Comet]

I take asteroids and melt them using the sun as my fire. Sorta like roasting marsh mellows around a campfire in the boy scouts.

[Regina Newcastle]

I expected my confession would cause a good deal of controversy. That doesn't trouble me one bit, but I thought I'd address a few issues brought up here:

White Rat: Thank you, Msr. Nezumi. I'm pleased that someone as dangerous as you has found one reason, however slight, to abstain from ending my existence.

Good Alice: Try again, luvvy. I don't speak Crazy Bitch.

Wakinyan: How I feel about you personally is immaterial to the fact that I would never willingly cripple a nova's ability to breed. The future of our species hinges on the few of us who can. Even if I hate you, even if I think you would make a terrible parent (and not betraying what I think on either issue, one way or the other), I would not render you incapable of breeding. If I truly wanted to hurt you and thought I could do so without being summarily killed, there are far worse things I could do.

Leliel: No. Don't think I don't divine your intent, either.

Access: A man after mine own heart, how endearing. I'm up for a game anytime, boy genius.

Oh, and I forgot to mention one other thing I like to do with my "powers": confess scandalous and deliberately inflammatory things to see which of the peons begins to scramble and chirp first. Thanks for not letting me down, Good Alice.

[Good Alice]

Let me put this in simple terms then. you are violating people on a way that is just a personal as rape. You should be treated in the just the same manor as White Rat. What you are doing is no less evil, or inhumane.

I am in the midst of contacting the legal authorities now.Good day.

[Wakinyan]

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Originally posted by Regina Newcastle:
Wakinyan: If I truly wanted to hurt you and thought I could do so without being summarily killed, there are far worse things I could do.

Wow.... That makes me feel so much better. I look forward to our next run in. I am just so curious what it takes to win someone like you over.

[Chaos]

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Originally posted by Regina Newcastle:
Try again, luvvy. I don't speak Crazy Bitch.

Now that was funny.

Its strange but I don't really have a problem with what you're doing. I thought I would but I find the only question in my mind is about your criteria, not the deed itself.

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Originally posted by Good Alice:
Let me put this in simple terms then. you are violating people on a way that is just a personal as rape.

That's true.

Its also just as personal as sticking your tongue in the ear of stranger without askng first. The difference between your example and mine is the emotional shock value involved. Otherwise we're saying pretty much the same thing. Its an act that's really, really, really personal.

I don't agree with your comparison to The White Rat. He's a twisted insanity ridden sociopath that's indulging cruel and twisted whims at the expense of those around him with the intention of murdering them but only after great trauma and pain. He might have redeeming qualities, in fact I'm sure he does, but nothing quite makes up for the sadism and murders.

Now let's do the critical thinking. You don't have sufficient problem with The White Rat to actually bother saying anything. You do have a problem with what Newcastle is doing, enough to say something and even try emotionally loaded examples that are pretty poor comparisons. In saying something about Newcastle you find it within yourself to actually say what a despicable creature The White Rat is but only to illustrate your feelings about Newcastle.

In other words; motivations of insanity driven sadism for actual murders doesn't bother you as much as Newcastle acting to take away someones ability to breed. So are you a Right to Lifer or just pissed off that Newcastle exercises the option?

I'm betting Right to Lifer with that sterility=abortion=murder crap you started out with.

[Hugin]

Seems to have gotten a little off-track. How suprising.

Well, back in the day, when I had my finger in everyone's pie, I enjoyed setting up situations where evidently unusual number sequences would occur. Having the stock market close at exactly 16,000.00 one a Monday and follow that with closes of 16,001 , 16,002 , 16,003 , and 16,004.

Though, looking back that doesn't seem very silly at all. It actually seems like a magnificent waste of time.

[Machina]

Well if it isn't my old friend, Jamie Meehan. Still have the uncanny power to hold that giant rod up your ass, I see. You must look like a turd-flavored sucker, these days. How the fuck have you been, buddy?

Hey, I guess I should answer the fucking question, huh? Alright. You know what I love the most about being the smartest sentient creature in existence? I love solving major global issues while browsing porn on the OpNet, writing down the answers in the margins of holy books, and then using the paper to either wipe my ass or roll cigarettes. Nothing says "pure smoking satisfaction" like a pinch of Bugler tucked into a page from Exodous with the cure for lung cancer written on it.

[Harold 'Mythic' Anderson]

Sometimes I turn into a squirrel when taking Kreuger for a walk so he can get some excitement and exercise. Then, when he gets right up to me, I turn into a displacer beast and I have to catch up to him before he gets into trouble.

[Access]

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Originally posted by Good Alice:
Let me put this in simple terms then. you are violating people on a way that is just a personal as rape. You should be treated in the just the same manor as White Rat. What you are doing is no less evil, or inhumane.

I am in the midst of contacting the legal authorities now.Good day.

Wow, good luck finding proof of that one.

[Hugin]

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Originally posted by Machina:
You know what I love the most about being the smartest sentient creature in existence?

Please. Fifth, perhaps fourth, at best.

[Access]

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Originally posted by Machina:


You know what I love the most about being the smartest sentient creature in existence?

This point is very debatable, and I would rank you approximately where Hugin has ranked you as well.

[Machina]

That's what I love about you, buddy. None of that pussy-ass whiny shit for you. You roll like a fucking man and come out swinging. Living proof that having a vagina doesn't make you one, ladies and gentlemen, a truly class act.

By the way, your grand-fuckin'-highness, you just got off-topic, again. "How surprising."

[Good Alice]

Chaos it is rather simple, I am not a super-hero. The issue with Whit Rat are beyound both my legal and moral binds and some what likely my physical limits. I do not know where he is, so I can't call the police. I will not take mater into my own hands. As I said above I am no ssuper-man.You will never see me in a cape. So not much I can do to stop him.

Newcastle on the other hand, can either give up just about everything she owns and stop talking to just about everyone she likes or deal with the legal problems she has caused.

[Access]

...yes, because it will be so simple to pull up evidence against her.

[kestrel404]

...especially because she has no active nova powers. I would have been griping along with everyone else - if I thought she was actually DOING that. But short of slipping various people some form of genetically engineered sterilization virus or some form of drugs (and I'd like to see even a nova get away with that more than once with a complete stranger they obviously dislike) - there's virtually no chance that she's actually carrying through with her threat.