Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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It's the Funny Pictures thread, not the news thread which we do not have.
As awesome as that is, I wouldn't conflate Wizard and Q. Q is so much more a "trickster-type" (Loki basically) than a Wizard-type. Hell, Guinan should be in that slot, it's much more true from a plot point of view IMO. Wizards in my mind are wise figures who you don't completely understand, and yet trust. Rarely adversaries unless you have your OWN wizard already (and the plot is contrasting them). Thus Q doesn't work for his TNG time.
Basically, IMO a Wizard helps explain the plot or helps the "main characters" solve the plot in some "wisdom-based" way, with occasional demonstrations of "mystic" power. A trickster causes the plot to happen, for their own amusement, but often also with "a message" for those s/he's causing to go through it, which IMO is a great description of TNG-era Q.
Funnily enough though, I'd say it's more true that Q becomes a Wizard at the end of his arc (Voyager and such) than at the beginning, as he's not really an antagonist in those episodes. He's actually around to help clean up after the hijinx of OTHER "wizards" and thus fits the trope that much better.
Plus, Q actually does magic, while the Wizards of Middle Earth just yammer on, spewing plot exposition.
(Okay I'm enjoying reading The Two Towers far more than I did Fellowship, and probably because there's less Gandalf)
I'm just quoting this for later. No reason. Nothing to see here...
Just Spock
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Especially funny that it's the green lion.
I realize now that thing in front of his ear is falling confetti, but at first I thought he had been tagged and released back into the wild
Nah. Nerd priorities would be the ads.
Wonder how that happened...
figmentPez
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Are you trying to give @LittleKagsin an aneurysm?You're doing it wrong.
figmentPez
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I always liked "again" because Windows helpfully suggests that I "Please try again".
Think of how large it gets when you go nuts with that: 3!! = (1x2x3)! = 6! = (1x2x3x4x5x6) = 720
Edit: and then there's numbers where you need this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth's_up-arrow_notation
Edit: and then there's numbers where you need this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth's_up-arrow_notation
Nitpick: What you wrote is (3!)! (I guess?) The double factorial multiplies every other number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_factorial
So, for instance, 6!!= 6x4x2
Just Brady. It's astounding.
