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Old 07-08-2021, 11:32 AM   #2521
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Update: Garau is accused of plagiarism by another artist.

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I think the descendants of Hans Christian Andersen, if any, should sue for plagiarism. I mean, clearly this Florida artist stole the idea directly from the classic story, "The Emperor's New Clothes"!
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Old 07-08-2021, 01:45 PM   #2522
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I think the descendants of Hans Christian Andersen, if any, should sue for plagiarism. I mean, clearly this Florida artist stole the idea directly from the classic story, "The Emperor's New Clothes"!
It's older than that - according to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, Hans based his story on one published in Spanish in 1335, and there's a very similar story as early as 1283. I suspect it's very nearly a timeless story.
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Old 07-09-2021, 04:37 AM   #2523
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It's older than that - according to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, Hans based his story on one published in Spanish in 1335, and there's a very similar story as early as 1283. I suspect it's very nearly a timeless story.
And as usual, TV Tropes takes a deeper look, which leads to a phenomenon called pluralistic ignorance, which may explain some unpleasant other things.

Surely there is adventure material. What can we do with it? (Beside a new stealth powered armour for Traveller's emperor Strephon).
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Old 07-09-2021, 04:42 AM   #2524
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I think the descendants of Hans Christian Andersen, if any, should sue for plagiarism. I mean, clearly this Florida artist stole the idea directly from the classic story, "The Emperor's New Clothes"!
An emperor born in Berlin
flushed red and contorted his grin.
A boy in the crowd
reported out loud:
"His clothes are conspicuously thin!"
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Old 07-09-2021, 03:45 PM   #2525
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Neptune has been photographed in storms on both sides of the English Channel, Newhaven, Sussex and Lesconil, Brittany. At least he's not taking sides in a renewed war between England and France. Yet.

Pray to the old god of your choice that your team can stop him before there's another Percy Jackson sequel. Unless they're supposed to aid him in stopping the real BBEG.
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Old 07-09-2021, 09:41 PM   #2526
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An anecdote from a friend:

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23:33 seebs: a person i knew had their car stolen once
23:33 seebs: and i mention this because the police found it a couple of days later, rolled into a ditch
23:33 seebs: with the back seat and trunk full of uncut bowling balls
23:33 seebs: so the police called every likely pro shop, sports place, bowling alley, they could find within quite some distance, and no one was missing any
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Old 07-11-2021, 01:30 AM   #2527
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now that is a good one.
What does "uncut bowling balls" mean?
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Old 07-11-2021, 09:29 AM   #2528
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What does "uncut bowling balls" mean?
No finger holes drilled in them. So, they're brand new, not something someone had bought, or the public balls from a bowling alley somewhere.

Obviously, in your game, the balls must have been filled with drugs or gold or unobtainium (whatever suits the genre) for the sake of smuggling. But these don't look like they had holes or a way to hollow out the middle. So, there must be an even stranger method in play to hollow out the balls and transport the contraband inside. Gate magic? Transporter beam? Reaching through the fifth dimension? Two-part disintegrator ray that only affects things where the two intermodulated phase beams intersect? Portable hole painted on by a coyote and peeled back off?

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Old 07-11-2021, 11:46 AM   #2529
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Oh, the woes of having Weirdness Magnet…
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Old 07-12-2021, 04:08 AM   #2530
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And in more bowling strangeness https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ep/7905890002/
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