page 1325 – leveling up
Well, it took a while, but I finally had to resort to this maneuver again. If you’re visiting the site on (in my neck of the woods) early Tuesday morning, then the version of the page posted here is pretty obviously not the final draft. Sorry, but it was another hectic couple of days, culminating in me spending Monday morning (when I would nromally be doing most of the heavy lifting of getting the page edited) dragging big piles of junk from the basement out across the yard to get hauled to the dump, all in the soupy Carolina summer air. In other words, stuff wound up falling behind schedule. Hopefully I’ll have the cleaned up and colored in version of the page done before the afternoon, but I’ve already been up a long time just to get it this far, so there’s a very real possibility of be getting hit with one of those “LOL NAP TIME NOW” blasts of exhaustion. Better to go ahead and get what I have out there while I can than pushing my luck and possibly passing out without posting anything, right?
BUT WAIT! In a shocking example of me actually getting something, ANYTHING finished, it turns out I posted a new Far Out There short story over on Patreon! …and also a short public post to explain why this isn’t a part of that OTHER Far Out There story that I really am still working on. But yeah, if you’re a $2 or higher patron, there’s already some extra Far Out There content waiting for you! And if you’re not already… could you please? Times are tough all over, and I could really use the extra couple of bucks.
If not, though, there should also be the usual TWC Voting Incentive going on Friday. THAT only costs you an extra click or two.
EDIT: HOW DID THAT TAKE SO LONG?!?!?!?!? And I never even stopped to take that nap… which I’m totally gonna do right now. OH! But just in case anybody coming in late wants to see what the WIP version was like, here ya go.
6/28 EDIT: BOOM! New TWC Incentive is up!
For some reason, I feel like Tabitha’s probably the scariest person in that room.
…I know that Stilez is in the room.
…I also know that an irate Cap’n is in the room.
…I stand by my feeling, even knowing that it to be almost certainly objectively incorrect.
Naw dude, you should trust that feeling. Those are the kind of gut instincts that save lives, right there 😀
the most dangerous thing is not the same as the most powerful thing.
I saw a quote somewhere about the most dangerous person isn’t the person who can control fire or with superstrength. often the most dangerous person is the one who wants to be dangerous.
there is also the quote from the art of war about if you know yourself and know your enemy you need not fear the result of a thousand battles.
i believe that the most dangerous person is the one that you don’t know if they want to be dangerous. Stilez and Captain, and the food monster are much easier to know. stilez enjoys fighting but is unlikely to attack un provoked, Captain prioritizes protecting his ship and will most likely yell at you and charge you for whatever foolishness you are pulling, the monster is a monster and presumably wants to destroy everything near it, keep your distance and be aware of the potential of it starting to use projectiles at any time.
but Tabitha? is she helping? did the idea of making the monster stronger get stuck into her head? is she about to do something that she knows the results off, is she desperately doing a last ditch effort that has a chance of catastrophically failing? will she get distracted mid plan causing fall out? you can never be sure, her poker face is bubbly but uncrack able.
Yeah, like any measurement, you’d have to define criteria first in order to compare – are we talking the maximum damage capable, maximum damage likely, maximum damage intentionally inflicted, maximum damage unintentionally inflicted, and is the damage measured in financial cost, psychological terror, number of planets destroyed, etc; are we talking total lifetime damage, or maximum over a specific shorter interval.
Tabitha seems to have destroyed half the galactic economy simply driving her car over to her friends house to see her new pet cat and dog.
Definitely a good candidate for most dangerous by at least some definition.
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