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Quote:Remember, the Doctor didn't say she was "half Time Lord" or fully Time Lord. But something akin to an early Galifreyan after centuries/eons of exposure to the Time Vortex.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Did he? The way I understood him, a fully formed person couldn't be mutated in the short span of a lifetime exposure to the Time Vortex (as it normally takes billions of years), but when the likelihood of the actual conception having occurred in that environment was pointed out to him he had an "Oh crap!" moment that implies such an event could result in that unique mutation (1/2 timelord DNA). And such hybrid DNA gives Them (nebulous bad guy pronoun) a headstart on full Time Lord DNA.
See my post above on various factors for why something like this could be possible. -
Quote:Who's to say what affected the Gallifreyans in a slow, gradual manner would "jump start" human mutation. Also, how many Gallifreyans were living within 5 feet of a crack in time for a couple decades?Originally Posted by Zikar
No, what the Doctor was saying, was that it took billions of years of evolution whilst living next to the untempered schism to produce the Time Lords. A single generation of flying through the Time Vortex wouldn't have a huge effect on someone, but it would open a door, given them a head start.
And the early Gallifreyans may or may not have had the stabilizing effects of a wonky old Type 40 TARDIS to keep such mutations survivable. Not to mention how many of them had "mum and da" "dancing" on said wonky old TARDIS during conception?
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Quote:She isn't necessarily a Time Lord. She's something akin to the early Gallifreyans though.Originally Posted by Zikar
Ah, but the Doctor said that it doesn't work that way, conceiving a child on the TARDIS doesn't make the child any part Time Lord, what it did do was give the bad guys a head start, something they could work from.
And think about it:
Amy has basically occupied a room with a crack in time (see: The Untempered Schism) for 10-20 years. With time energy leaking through.
Plus she (and her husband) been on the TARDIS as companions for a relatively extended period, with all the background radiation you soak up from that.
They've been exposed to an extreme alien hallucinogen (with Bob-knows-what) physiological effects (see research into LSD and chromosomal changes, crack babies, etc).
Amy was basically put into a giant alien life support device for 2000 years.
Rory was relatively erased from time (fell through the crack, See: The Untempered Schism).
They both survived the resetting of the universe and emergence into a third timeline with Rory's reconversion into a human.
Then River was conceived on board the TARDIS.
Think about all the various energies that they've been exposed to and the various mutations that might possibly happen (both good and bad). In two generations.
I'm not saying the TARDIS mutated River. The various issues above could MORE than account for that. I'm saying that the TARDIS acted as a biological stabilization factor for her in the early days of the pregnancy and took what would have been an extreme-risk pregnancy and turned it into something that could viably be given birth to. Granted, if the "astronaut" was River as well, then she probably needed more stabilization as she matured. Betting the first regeneration took her the rest of the way to stable. -
One other thing to pay attention to guys.
Remember what they were saying about the language of the Gamma Forest people?
1: No word for "pond", thus "river".
2: The word for "melody" approximated to "song".
3: The word "Doctor" means "great warrior".
This kind of gives a MAJOR cant of character to "Doctor River Song".
In fact the entire episode was rife with the need to draw attention to titles.
Hopefully no one goes for any bathroom humor on "Jack the Ripper", seeing as he was eaten by the Silurian.
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Quote:Yes. I saw the joke coming and I was STILL mightily disturbed by it.Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
"I have gene-spliced myself for all nursing duties. I can produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid!"
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Quote:This was discussed. Conceived onboard the TARDIS, in-flight through the time vortex. Mutation, and probably one of the functions of the TARDIS (stabilizing life functions of passengers (see: Castrovalva).Originally Posted by Wooden_Replica
we still have the question of how River has 1/2 Timelord DNA,
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Quote:Because she still has Time Lord DNA and is pretty much the closest thing to one (complete with the whimsical temperment). In their minds, she's dangerous as hell. So they contain her.Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
I would be in line with River's previous claim to have killed "The greatest man I ever knew", but then why had the clerics locked her up for it if they were the ones who wanted him dead and it's all so very confusing...
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Quote:Originally Posted by Power_Play
I have been waiting for jodhpurs as a costume item for a long time. They are for a military uniform for one of my villains. When the Steampunk Pack showed up, low and behold there they were, jodhpurs, listed as plain as day. I purchased the pack and headed to the tailor to fancy up my badguy, when I found...NO JODHPURS!!! There were a couple types of "steampunk" pants, but absolutely nothing resembling a pair of jodhpurs. I hope this oversight will be corrected ASAP, as I really want to get my character fixed up properly.
For those who don't know, jodhpurs originated as Indian polo pants. From there, the English brought them to the rest of the world, who adopted them as equestrian wear. Soon, military uniforms modeled after riding gear would appear, and the jodhpur would be used as military wear. In the modern era, stretchier fabrics have made riding pants more form fitting. For some reason, English-style riding pants are still called jodhpurs, even though they aren't jodhpurs at all.
Can we have our jodhpurs, please...AS ADVERTISED?
I'd hate to think I spent my money on this pack just to have the one item I REALLY wanted to be missing in action. *sigh*
Apparently under Pants (Baggy) they have Steampunk and Victorian Steampunk.
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*Disclaimer* I am not an art major, and no I don't even play one on TV.
Okay, I have little to add past what Johnstone has already said. Only this.
As noted, your handle on basic muscle groupings is fine. You need to work on poses a bit. Your current two drawings are somewhat hunch-shouldered (the shoulders are rolled in (slightly on the second image, moreso on the first). If you're going for "heroic" poses, they tend to have their shoulders more thrown back and the chest expanded, even when it would be somewhat bad for basic body mechanics.
Other than that you're worlds away better than I am already. My skill stops at about the level of elaborate stick figures. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Note that you DO have to have a badge-hunter account to download Vidiotmaps (unless you have someone send you the install file, or find it in Google).
No. Actually you don't. The link I provided goes right to the SourceForge page. No signups required. Not quite sure WHY the VidiotMaps site requires a signon just to be routed to a public site via URL. (Kinda shady actually.) -
Quote:Well, Emma herself HAS admitted to cosmetic surgery here and there...Originally Posted by Dark One
January Jones...meh. She didn't really do anything for me. Just didn't find her all that attractive. I think I've been spoiled by art from guys like Greg Horn in regards to Emma. No way that most women could live up to that. She tried, but I think they could've found a different actress for that part.
AFAIK, there aren't any Stan Lee cameos in the X-films.Quote:Did anyone see ol' Stan the Man? I didn't. -
Quote:You better have paid Chuck his licensing fee though. Otherwise I foresee a roundhouse kick in your very near future.Originally Posted by Major_T
Just like Chuck Norris... the doctor didn't slap me, I slapped him!
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Going to also pop in with my standard list-o'-links to make your life easier.
Paragonwiki: If you want to know about something in the game, it's here. Period. THE reference for the game.
Mid's Hero Designer: An absolutely ROCKIN' tool for planning out builds ahead of time. Play around as much as you want and never waste inf. The standard format for sharing builds on the boards.
Titan Sentinel: A nice little tool for tying into the Titan City Info Terminal project at http://cit.cohtitan.com. But the MUST HAVE feature of this program is that it allows you to actually export your LIVE build from the game into Mids. Even if you don't use CIT, this is more than enough reason to create an account and download this program.
Vidiot Maps: A nifty map overlay that's critical for badge hunters. Direct link to the Sourceforge Page. -
Quote:Careful! At your age you might fall and break a hip!Originally Posted by Major_T
*does happy dance*
Happy Belated "Free at last! HEY! Why'd you hit me?" Day! -
Quote:What I've got to get you guys in the habit of doing is not just "Mutation" though.Originally Posted by Postagulous
Which reminds me of my two warcries: "oops" and "dammit"
But hey, Mutation FTW.
If one of us splashes down, we want Vengeance, Fallout, Mutation. This way we go back to butt-kicking with the team buffed, our enemies blasted, and our guy rezzed, as opposed to just the last one.
This is one of the other reasons I have TP friend. If one of you guys drops, I like TP'ing you right into the middle of a mob and turning you into a corpse nuke. -
Okay I went and saw this at the late-late (or maybe early-early) show.
It was worth the price of admission.
Decent flick that stands on it's own.
Serious when it needs to be, humorous at the right times. And yeah, a few groaners in there.
Plus, the "go **** yourself" cameo was funny as hell.
And let us not forget Kevin's real mutant power. The power to instantly reduce one's Bacon Number to 1, save for himself, the only known living entity with a Bacon Number of 0.
Saw the trailer for the Jim Carey movie. *SNORE*
Saw the trailer for the zookeeper flick. *SNORE*
Saw the body-swap trailer. Meh.
Transformers 3.
The new PotA flick looks interesting.
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Quote:No offense. But if you found it beautiful, you were already blind.Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
which is eye-blindingly beautiful