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#586
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
October 19, 2017, 05:09:14 PM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 19, 2017, 01:21:53 PM
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on October 18, 2017, 07:42:22 PM
A vampire horror movie or novel using only unconvemtional vampire traits and no standard ones. ie. They sparkle in sunlight (Twlight), they live in hives (Priest), they feed not on blood itself but on the color red (Adventure Time), there's a thunderclap whenever they finish counting something (Sesame Street), but no garlic vulnerability, no lack of reflection, etc.
They glow in the dark, have only one nostril, their feet are on backwards, and they can only prey upon blood relations?

Where are those from?
#587
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
October 18, 2017, 07:42:22 PM
A vampire horror movie or novel using only unconvemtional vampire traits and no standard ones. ie. They sparkle in sunlight (Twlight), they live in hives (Priest), they feed not on blood itself but on the color red (Adventure Time), there's a thunderclap whenever they finish counting something (Sesame Street), but no garlic vulnerability, no lack of reflection, etc.
#588
Indeed. People keep forgetting that the republicans, and Trump and Pence in particular, are worse than nothing.
#589
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
October 17, 2017, 06:08:41 PM
SPECTRE finally eliminates James Bond by infecting all of their female minions with HIV
#590
Quote from: Brother Mythos on October 16, 2017, 01:12:44 AM
Golfer-In-Chief: Trump Has Now Spent 27% Of His Presidency On A Golf Course

QuoteAs the NBC News tracker calculates, Trump's latest visit to his club in Virginia marks the 72nd day of his presidency he is spending on a golf course and the 92nd time day he is visiting one of his own properties. In total, Trump has been in office for 267 days.

According to some quick, back-of-the-napkin math, that means that Trump has spent 27 percent of his presidency golfing and more than a third at one of his ritzy properties.

Here's the link: http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/14/golfer-in-chief-trump-spent-27-presidency-golf.html

Given that it's Trump, I'm trying to decide if this is a good thing, or a bad thing.

A good thing. The optimal outcome is for him to eventually start blowing off the job more-or-less entirely, so that we end up with neither Trump nor Pence in charge
#591
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
October 16, 2017, 06:40:44 PM
A time traveler stops the holocaust by traveling back to Germany between the wars with a bunch of modern designer drugs and getting everyone hooked on them so that all of their ridiculous and toxic concerns about race and nation are replaced by harmless and relatively prosocial concern about where their next fix will come from
#592
Principia Discussion / The message board is broken
October 13, 2017, 06:17:33 PM
There appears to be something wrong with the website, it keeps throwing "untrusted connection" warnings on all of my web browsers and loadig without page styles
#593
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
October 13, 2017, 02:10:26 AM
*Horror film about a serial killer who pretends his car has broken down in order to kill leople who stop to help him

*Action horror film about a guy who hunts vampires by relying on their arithmomania weakness but is threatened when he comes up against a vampire with savant syndrome
#594
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
October 10, 2017, 04:56:10 AM
Comedy Skit: Dr. Heiter (from Human Centipede: First Sequence) explains the holy trinity
#595
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
October 07, 2017, 10:40:09 AM
Quote from: Rococo Modem Basilisk on October 04, 2017, 01:31:12 PM
A semiconductor research lab accidentally creates a bimetallic wafer that, when current flows through it, creates a chain reaction among nitrogen atoms such that they hold each other in place within some small distance (and exert no hold on each other beyond that distance), with the extents of this change limited to some field of unknown type. The result: through several unknown mechanisms, a cone of air ends up having the consistency of foam rubber, while also becoming slightly opaque. The size of the cone is dependent upon the wafer size and the amount of current (scaling linearly); if the current is removed the cone stays, but it will disappear if the same current is sent the other way through the cone. Because of the distance limits, hollow things can be encapsulated in this field without their insides becoming solid -- meaning that a living creature can be held in such a field so long as their orifices are sticking out. Very quickly, this mechanism replaces packing materials; more slowly, it starts to be used as a restraining device in prison systems. However, widespread access to these wafers (they are literally embedded in mail-order boxes) creates some potential problems: putting aside the problem of suffocation, the consistency of the field is entirely dependent upon the amount of nitrogen, and while earth's atmosphere creates a nice soft foam-rubber consistency, pure nitrogen becomes hard as diamonds. In the same way that juvenile delinquents didn't take long to recognize that aerosol sprays were flammable, they didn't take long to recognize that puffing a tank of pure nitrogen into the air and then solidifying it would create an incredibly sharp blade with finely serrated edges encased in a cone of foam rubber.

Does it stay solid after the current is shut off?
#596
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
October 07, 2017, 10:36:55 AM
Comedy Skit: Spoof of the Hellraiser series involving someone who resembles the peddler from Hellraiser 1 and is selling cheap knockoffs of Lemanchand's Box that are actually just Rubik's Cubes with reflective pseudometallic foil sides with weird runes painted over them. When these puzzles are solved they summon a cadre of underwhelming cenobite demons consisting of a girl with a nose ring, a guy with face tattoos, and a guy with a q-tip stuck too far into his ear (which is visibly bleeding).
(Inspired by a crappy bootleg of Hellraiser 3 that someone sold me at a flea market)
#597
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
October 07, 2017, 01:55:39 AM
I've got this idea kicking around for an Otterbox commercial where Russel Crowe is using a phone protected by a defender case to beat the crap out of one of the guys from jackass and then afterward they show that the phone is ok

EDIT:
And yes I am aware that the incident this is refrenceing hapoened over a decade ago and involved a landline phone rather than a cellphone; that's part of what makes it funny
#598
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories
September 26, 2017, 11:18:06 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 26, 2017, 06:08:53 PM
I feel weird that I'd rather have Luthe Strange in office than Ray Moore, in that I'm agreeing with Trump.


Or is having an unhinged assbat in the senate somehow better than a guy that will rubber stamp Trump's whims?

It would seem to me that an assbat working at cross purposes with the existing assbat would be less dangerous than an assbat working in concert wih him
#599
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories
September 26, 2017, 05:35:53 PM
With a little luck it'll be cracked in a day

(with a lot of luck no one will adopt it, though I'm not holding my breath on that one, big content has a stranglehold on seemingly everything these days. Death to the MPAA! Death to the RIAA! Death to ALL supporters of intellectual property law! Popular culture to the people!)
#600
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
September 26, 2017, 05:13:16 AM
Two similar horror stories:

*The south will rise again when the stars are right

*When there's no more room in Hell the south will rise again

EDIT:
Another idea:

A combination of The Ring and that ridiculous myth that Revolt in the Stars will make you die of pneumonia