February 12th, 2014
12 Feb 2014 · page 326 of 1306
Oh, that's what that crash was!
Cast: Alexa King
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I doubt that leaving a smartphone in the 1800s would cause a history-wrenching paradox. Microchips are so far beyond what was state-of-the-art for Victoria's subjects that it's unlikely they'd be able to reverse-engineer any of it.
That, and it's in Widdershins. The town that kills advanced electronics.
They'd throw it out; it'd be ignored.
It'd freak out a historian or two though.
Hey, if you can't troll future historians, what's the point of time travel?
Or Ethan finds it and throws it away as "Old noughties crap."
Perhaps not re-engineer a whole smart phone, but what of the components - batteries, speaker, etc. Those are possible to reverse engineer and fit into that level of tech.
No...it's more avoiding a time-travel paradox. Spark-plugs lying in a Jurassic fossil bed; that sort of thing.
Was she channeling the author with her "I wish I had a more witty parting shot." ? :P
So, is she on her way home now?
Will she meet any 21st Century Barbers?
That would be awesome
Lookout behind you! A lizardman!
Courage would be a more effective fighter if her cloak didn't cover her eyes.
I am pretty sure that she actually sees out of the lion's eyes, because that would be cool.
Courage that is not what a shield is for. Don't you have a sword or a spear or something?
Pull that off! That's an offensive weapon, that is!
Apparently we've got someone that's never seen the results of a well-executed shield-bash.
Uhm... A sheild is NOT armor, though you can use it as such. It's a flattened out CLUB that you can do very, very nasty things to your opponent with- either with the blocking part or the edge thereof.
Time for some just desserts.
I still don't get it. Why's Courage effective against Gluttony?
You'd think it would be Temperance, right? Because we post-moderns remember those "Temperance Societies" who wanted out outlaw drinking and pubs and smoking, urging us all to be vegetarians and such.
Christian moral theology has a different view. Temperance is the holy virtue that opposes the deadly sin of anger (or "bad temper"). The habit of Anger is a higher-level sin, centered in the Intellect, part of our rational, human nature.
Gluttony is a weakness toward lower, animal-level pleasures: a temptation toward excesses of food and drink. The Christian virtue that strives against those desires is FORTITUDE, or "strength of will" against those desires of the stomach.
Fortitude is a big virtue. It also describes the Courage to stand and fight when the pit of one's stomach urges one to flee and hide.
Thus Courage defeats the Stomach!
C.S. Lewis says that when things get extreme every virtue must partake of Courage (aka Fortitude).
They're just powerful emotions,
it doesn't have to be exact or ironic
I love her time continuum conscientiousness.
So do I!
I notice she knows a shield is a weapon. (Aegis — Athena’s named weapon-of-choice — is a shield.)
Kate Ashwin appears to be a mythopoetic.