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Nightcrawler said:Hopper, yer a man after my own heart. Kids these days don’t want to shoot a real gun. They like their little plastic auto-chuckers.
Priceless line, NC. Revolvers rule!
Nightcrawler said:Hopper, yer a man after my own heart. Kids these days don’t want to shoot a real gun. They like their little plastic auto-chuckers.
“SWITCHBLADE has lost a lot of guys, Hopper,” Hawk said, turning his attention to the horizon as well. “Decker, Aryeh, Doc, an’ me are the only ones left of the original team. Aside from Ramirez, there were five other guys that bought it before we split up last time.”
“When was that?”
“Hell’s bells, kid…ninety-four, I think? You were in elementary school anyway.”
Oh, and Technosavant, I found your comments in Post #70 to be very chilling but appropriate. They reminded me of the movie, Pale Rider with Clint Eastwood when the girl at the window is reading about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. ("And I looked and beheld a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.")
You can't fight it.cordex said:I had seen this thread growing and figured I would skip it. Too much going on right now to really get going on something new. "Oh, I'll just have a peek," says I.
Harumph.
Come on, one or both of you needs to update this ... and soon.
Okay, I will say it. There are probably 800 - 2,000 viewers waiting for the next installation of this excellent story and have, like good little boys and girls, subscribed to this thread to be notified by e-mail when a new post is made. Along comes someone with a simple "Bump" and 8,000 totally hooked, anxiously waiting fans stumble over each other in their rush back here to see the new continuation to the story and find A BUMP!hjames000 said:bump
It reminded me of a book I read at the university about a state of being called Flow. Everyone experiences a feeling like this to varying degrees.In case I haven't been especially clear, the calm is a psychological state that Valentine falls into with the onset of adrenaline. I believe there is actually a clinical name for this condition, but neither he nor I are aware of it, so he just calls it what it feels like.
He can't control it, but depends on it. It's the crux of why he's good at what he does. It's a sense of intense focus and calm detachment, "like playing a video game". It's not that he's not afraid, but the fear becomes academic, and it doesn't affect his motor functions. His reaction times decrease, his decision-making capacity increases, and his overall efficiency goes up considerably.
Okay, I will say it. There are probably 800 - 2,000 viewers waiting for the next installation of this excellent story and have, like good little boys and girls, subscribed to this thread to be notified by e-mail when a new post is made. Along comes someone with a simple "Bump" and 8,000 totally hooked, anxiously waiting fans stumble over each other in their rush back here to see the new continuation to the story and find A BUMP!
I don't know about y'all but I find that positively infuriating. Now I have to lick my wounds where I scraped myself when I fell, try to settle down, and try to concentrate, once again, on what I was supposed to be doing before.
If you are going to do something like that at least have the common courtesy to post something funny! Now everyone is going to have to log in and then log back out in order to reset their automatic e-mail notification for this thread!
AARRUGGHH!
Jack Bauer is still ahead of you by a few thousand.I just tortured two thousand people.
Well, that isn't quite what I had in mind when I wrote to post something funny.Glock22 said:Ha Ha Ha Ha bump!
Ooh, that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy...and safe!...because of some important Security Guarding...if you and your family are alive and free tonight, you owe it to Nightcrawler.