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Published: 2010-03-19 15:24:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 271; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 3
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Description Of course Esher looks totally evil under Todelmer's red lighting (which is for better night vision, probably). When it's gold, though, he looks much more sensible.

I mean, he's one of the few D'ni left, and one of the fewer who hasn't decided to just totally abandon D'ni and leave it as the archaeological site for some random Surface race. It's as if you survived some zombie apocalypse, only to find that most of the refugees have fled to a little space station around Venus, and that Earth and all its history and meaning (all the civilizations that had formed there, all the sites in poems and stories, everything that had previously connected each generation to the next) was just to be left desolate.
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MeaNara [2010-05-30 04:24:15 +0000 UTC]

I thought that was the Great Zero at first!

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lunanne [2010-03-19 18:51:52 +0000 UTC]

Esher and sensible? How can a person look MORE sensible when he isn't sensible to start with :eyebrow:

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gehnloa In reply to lunanne [2010-03-19 20:51:45 +0000 UTC]

a>0 if a is a positive number, so any amount of sensibility is MORE sensible than "not sensible to start with".

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lunanne In reply to gehnloa [2010-03-19 20:57:55 +0000 UTC]

I think you need some sensibility to start with. just like you can't get a tree to grow out of nothing

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gehnloa In reply to lunanne [2010-03-19 21:05:25 +0000 UTC]

But you can grow a tree out of nothing. You just have to add more stuff to it to begin with.

Since we've added things to this composition, then we can obviously get a positive number.
If a+b=c , then we cannot automatically say that c<0 unless both are negative or we know how they are compared to each other (so even if we know a is extremely negative, but we don't know what b is, we can't say for sure that we can't get a positive number).

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lunanne In reply to gehnloa [2010-03-19 21:10:29 +0000 UTC]

a, b , and c got nothing to do with it

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gehnloa In reply to lunanne [2010-03-19 21:12:59 +0000 UTC]

You're right. a,b, and c were framed.

It's the Constants Mafia, with their secret little names and... (descends into math puns blissfully left out of here)

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lunanne In reply to gehnloa [2010-03-19 21:16:47 +0000 UTC]

RUN the mafia

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gehnloa In reply to lunanne [2010-03-19 21:18:44 +0000 UTC]

...But yeah, from the evidence you give, we cannot prove that the result has no Esher sensibility. It is quite possible theoretically to get a nonnegative number there.

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LostThyme [2010-03-19 18:18:44 +0000 UTC]

I'm afraid gold only makes him look marginally more sensible.

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Allatwan [2010-03-19 17:04:34 +0000 UTC]

GREAT job!

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omiwrench8k [2010-03-19 15:26:58 +0000 UTC]

So... Is this, like, a game or something?

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gehnloa In reply to omiwrench8k [2010-03-19 15:33:32 +0000 UTC]

Yep. Myst V [link] . Esher is a rather major character in it, to say the least.

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omiwrench8k In reply to gehnloa [2010-03-20 20:36:56 +0000 UTC]

Aah, yes. Myst. Of course. I tried that once. I didn't get a shit... It's probably a good game, but i can't play it on my new computer

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