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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:34:27 GMT -5
Sorry if I offended, I was really trying to be sarcastic. Didn't you see the twinkle in my eye? Although there was a sprinkle of truth -- I've engaged in plenty of conversations with S'Cubies on the main boards to realize that there is a definite pro-Spike -- and more significantly, pro-Spuffy -- lean in here. Being that I'm stoutly pro-Angel/Buffy (Bangel?), well, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the SSS could be hostile territory.
Spring commented, "CALEB would be OK to kill. I mean, he may have started out human, but then, so did vampires. Those superpowers means he has transformed into something other than human."
Exactly the point I was trying to make. I don't think Caleb is human anymore, although he may be so close to the dividing line that he probably thinks he still is. Likewise, I don't think the Slayers are human either, but as we pointed out with demons like Lorne or Clem, not being human isn't necessarily a good or a bad thing, it just is.
Furthermore, since he has turned in his membership card to the human race (I'm gathering he renigged in his dues a long time ago), I'm looking forward to when Buffy or whomever has the honor plants that SOB into the ground.
David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:35:03 GMT -5
Patti, you've been watching "Any Which Way But Loose" again. No Clint Eastwood on this board, please. It's Spike. Spike? You remember him, don't you?
And no buckshot. That 30.06 needs to be loaded for bear. Me, I'm into rocket launchers and merging of Scoobies.
Diane U
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:35:30 GMT -5
Damn. Spike WOULD have to go and get that chip out just in time for us NOT to determine whether or not Caleb is "technically" human. 'Cause the chip's always right, right?
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:36:02 GMT -5
//And no buckshot. That 30.06 needs to be loaded for bear.// I've looked at all the sporting goods stores and have yet to find buckshot for .30-06 rifles. When did they come out with that? David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:36:32 GMT -5
Alexandra asks, "What are those marks called?"
I believe they're called HTML coding. Vlad can correct me, if necessary.
Incidentally, a lower case "i" works as well as/the same as a capital "I."
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:38:41 GMT -5
Thank you Alexandra. It was me who had asked. I must of mis-read Vlad's instructions. I'd thought those forward and backward pointing html marks were supposed to enclose the word(s) to be italicized. But if I understand you correctly you need both marks on either side of the word(s) in question.
The slash mark in your example seems redundent to me though. If those html marks already enclose what you want to italicize then why do you need a slash mark as well? Might as well test it. I'm going to follow your example:
(I)Spike(/I)
<>Spike/<>
Here goes.
deborah cohen
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:39:15 GMT -5
I think Patti was channeling Stephen King, not Clint Eastwood. That was the old lady of "The Stand," wasn't it, Patti? The one on the porch with the shotgun....
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:40:02 GMT -5
I wonder why Spike and Buffy (and Faith) were all in the cemetary apparently dusting vamps when they should be working on defeating the FE. Was it just for exercise and keeping up their fighting skills? There were no SITs. If the harbingers had made a run into the house while Buffy and Spike were gone, who would have stood up to them? Willow was at the hospital.
We got to see Spike holding off Faith and them being introduced in an interesting scene, but I don't understand why B and S were there in the first place. I'm needing major fanwank here.
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:40:38 GMT -5
Well, that was just---sad.
Obviously still misunderstanding your kind instructions.
deborah
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:41:10 GMT -5
Uh . . . I don't remember what brand it is, but I'll take a look at the make and model when I get home. But I don't think the zoom is that unique a feature . . . it seems to me it was on all the ones I looked at (I bought it about 3 or 4 months ago, I think). It is nothing special - got it at Kmart for something like $80. So that's why I think it must be a pretty standard feature on new models.
I love the zoom. Very very zoomy.
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:42:27 GMT -5
//Damn. Spike WOULD have to go and get that chip out just in time for us NOT to determine whether or not Caleb is "technically" human. 'Cause the chip's always right, right?//
Depends on when you consider Buffy to have ceased being human, if ever. Before her big tower leap, the chip saw her as human; after, not.
I'd love to know how that chip worked. Spike could attack a human without intent to hurt (ala "Fool For Love") and the chip wouldn't fire. But if he intended harm, he didn't even have to be conciously aware that what he was attacking was a human, ala the muggers he attacked last season he thought were vampires (Buffy thought they were vampires too). And said difference in Buffy, according to Tara, was something extremely minute, that no one was able to detect except for the chip. Since the chip is imbedded in Spike's cerebral cortex and therefore must rely on Spike's own senses to get it's data (i.e., it has no external sensors of its own), exactly how does it know if someone is human or not human when even Spike himself didn't know?
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:43:18 GMT -5
They're on/off codes.
Substituting arrows for brackets,
{i} means turn italics on at this point. {/i} means turn italkcs off at this point.
One can copy the set of codes, then past them (control+v) wherever you want them, then type the text inside the set of codes. Likewise bold codes, which are just the same, except a b is substituted for the i inside the arrow marks.
Hope this helps....
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:44:50 GMT -5
Rob, when I watched that utterly painful scene with Xander getting his eye gouged (right after warning my roommate to stop eating her dinner or look away from the TV), I thought of you. On the upside, I think Xander's really going to have the chance to shine in the next few episodes.
David, good to see you 'round these parts! I always enjoy your posts.
Athene V
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:46:02 GMT -5
Disconcerting to see my name all over the boards, but I seem to have lit a fire here.
As I see it, we have three discussions going on simultaneously.
The first discussion is whether it is sometimes okay to kill humans, counter to the morality that was espoused in the first five seasons of Buffy. The answer (to me--being the only opinion I'm qualified to give) is no. It is not okay. But it is sometimes necessary. Survival of self or others may make it necessary. But it is not okay. It may have repurcussions. It probably WILL have repurcussions, and those must be accepted and dealt with. But it is not and can never be okay.
The second discussion is whether Caleb (feh!) is human. Probably he once was, but his display of strength indicates that he is either human-augmented or non-human. Certainly anyone that can take a vampire and two slayers in a matter of moments ain't your garden-variety barroom brawler.
The third discussion is the "what is human" chestnut that has been going on at least since Socrates' time...and I'm not going there. Not in a world where gorillas do sign language, chimpanzees paint and armadillos run for governor (only in Texas--but here they could win!)
Is it okay to kill Caleb?
Where is that damn pussycat when you need her?
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Post by Dalton on Aug 14, 2003 16:46:48 GMT -5
I have a new DVD player and I don't believe I have Zoom. Slo Mo & pause of course but no Zoom that I can find. I'll check the manual again.
deborah
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