It appears that our Shizzy is now alive and well, and the fangirls are already after him. I do believe we have accomplished our unwritten mission.
You shall make an absolutely excellent staff member.
A very happy birthday, sir. The difficulty levels for this "life" video game were always quite strange.
X_ゥ-_xゥ, x
Oh sir, you must read more Russian literature and wonder at the lovingly-crafted and interesting names.
That is quite good to hear, such people are quite lovely to be around. Are there any marks of such a negative event occurring already, besides...
RECORD ONE: KEYWORDS: A Declaration. The Wisest of Lines. An Epic. I am merely copying, word for word, what was printed in the State Gazette today: IN 120 DAYS, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INTEGRAL WILL BE COMPLETE. THE GREAT, HISTORIC HOUR WHEN THE FIRST INTEGRAL WILL SOAR THROUGH OUTER SPACE IS NIGH. SOME THOUSAND YEARS AGO, YOUR HEROIC ANCESTORS SUBJUGATED THE ENTIRE EARTHLY SPHERE TO THE POWER OF THE ONE STATE. TODAY, YOU ARE CONFRONTING AN EVEN GREATER CONQUEST: THE INTEGRATION OF THE INFINITE EQUATION OF THE UNIVERSE WITH THE ELECTRIFIED AND FIRE-BREATHING GLASS INTEGRAL. YOU ARE CONFRONTING UNKNOWN CREATURES ON ALIEN PLANETS, WHO MAY STILL BE LIVING IN THE SAVAGE STATE OF FREEDOM, AND SUBJUGATING THEM TO THE BENEFICIAL YOKE OF REASON,. IF THEY WON'T UNDERSTAND THAT WE BRING THEM MATHEMATICALLY INFALLIBLE HAPPINESS, IT WILL BE OUR DUTY TO FORCE THEM TO BE HAPPY. BUT BEFORE RESORTING TO ARMS, WE WILL EMPLOY THE WORD. IN THE NAME OF THE BENEFACTOR, LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL CIPHERS OF THE ONE STATE: ALL THOSE WHO ARE ABLE ARE REQUIRED TO CREATE TREATISES, EPICS, MANIFESTOS, ODES, OR ANY OTHER COMPOSITION ADDRESSING THE BEAUTY AND MAJESTY OF THE ONE STATE. THESE WORKS WILL BE THE FIRST CARGO OF THE INTEGRAL. ALL HAIL THE ONE STATE, ALL HAIL CIPHERS, ALL HAIL THE BENEFACTOR! As I write this, I feel something: my cheeks are burning. Integrating the grand equation of the universe: yes. Taming a wild zigzag along a tangent, toward the asymptote, into a straight line: yes. You see, the line of the One State - it is a straight line. A great, divine, precise, wise, straight line - the wisest of lines. I am D-502. I am the Builder of the Integral. I am only one of the mathematicians of the One State. My pen, more accustomed to mathematical figures, is not up to the task of creating the music of unison and rhyme. I will just attempt to record what I see, what I think - or more exactly, what we think. (Yes, that's right: we. And let that also be the title of these records: We.) So these records will be manufactured from the stuff of our life, from the mathematically perfectly life of the One State, and, as such, might they become, inadvertently, regardless of my intentions, an epic poem? Yes - I believe so and I know so. As I write this: I feel my cheeks burn. I suppose this resembles what a woman experiences when she first hears a new pulse within her - the pulse of a tiny, unseeing, mini-being. This text is me; and simultaneously not me. And it will feed for many months on my sap, my blood, and then, in anguish, it will be ripped from my self and placed at the foot of the One State. But I am ready and willing, just as every one - or almost every one of us. I am ready.
I fear for him if he lands in pre- and mid-World War II, post-Taisho Japan. I wish you the best of luck, brave and courageous soldier.
I indeed understand that your name draws its source from Call of Duty but I constantly misread your name as "Vladimir Nabokov", and as such I must...
Indeed. It is excellent to have one whose powers include maintaining the sanity of those around them - your friend himself sounds like a very...
My copy itself is rather mangled horribly, I suppose such disfigurement is evident in well-read books.
Please tell this specific Viking who is most definitely not a KH-Vids member I say hello.
It is indeed quite possible, however I would not believe they would even wish to simulate the process of bending considering they are against it, unless, of course, the creators have made them intentional hypocrites of sorts. I would assume they use other, non-bending methods to achieve their goals as such, more akin to what is used in reality in contrast with the fictional bending. This idea of "simulated bending", however, is intriguing. I myself cannot exactly recall the process in choosing the next Avatar, however I do believe it is irrelevant upon the bending prowess of a person - a person does not transition from bender to avatar but is born, or rather reincarnated as one, directly. These anti-benders cannot control the process of reincarnation simply by committing genocide on presently-existing benders, unless the anti-benders themselves are using their own brand of silly logic. Also, here is the Wall Street Journal's interview for those who wish to perform a complete vivisection on Mike and Bryan's statements.
