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 Post Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 11:59 pm 
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Monday isn't at its computer, so this is a pain to do.


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 Post Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:22 am 
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The 'genius' that is Torg. It is completely indescribable.
(yes, that's a lie)

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 Post Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:35 am 
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Clearly Torg cannot hear spelling or punctuation, else he'd have known from the get go that she said "Your right" rather than "You're right."

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 Post Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:14 am 
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Well whatever gwynn is/is replaced by, at least it's helping.

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 Post Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:12 am 
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I found this particularly funny because I thought Pete made a typo at first before realizing it was just a set up for Torg to play around with language.

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 Post Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:12 pm 
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Zillatain wrote:
Monday isn't at its computer, so this is a pain to do.

Perhaps that's why its calendar is a day behind.


Gwynn is still holding that wheelbathtub as if it were a hand truck. A two-wheeled hand truck is held at an angle so that its center of mass is balanced directly above the axle, so the user's arms don't carry much weight but the handles need to be held at a carefully adjusted level. It is therefore driven with the hands held forward like this. A wheelbarrow, on the other hand, is not balanced on its wheel. It's approximately balanced only in the sideways dimension. Although a good wheelbarrow supports more of the weight than this wheelbathtub does, the user's arms still carry a significant part of the weight. It is therefore driven with the arms hanging straight down like this.

But I suppose Gwynn has demonic super-strength now and can easily lift a human or two with extended arms.

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 Post Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:54 pm 
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Rombobjörn wrote:
Zillatain wrote:
Monday isn't at its computer, so this is a pain to do.
Perhaps that's why its calendar is a day behind.
Ha! Originally it was 24th then I "fixed it" and still screwed it up. Finally just occurred to me that the 25th was the wrong date so I was going to fix it once again before anyone noticed... If I'd just remembered three hours earlier...

Rombobjörn wrote:
Gwynn is still holding that wheelbathtub as if it were a hand truck. A two-wheeled hand truck is held at an angle so that its center of mass is balanced directly above the axle, so the user's arms don't carry much weight but the handles need to be held at a carefully adjusted level. It is therefore driven with the hands held forward like this. A wheelbarrow, on the other hand, is not balanced on its wheel. It's approximately balanced only in the sideways dimension. Although a good wheelbarrow supports more of the weight than this wheelbathtub does, the user's arms still carry a significant part of the weight. It is therefore driven with the arms hanging straight down like this.

But I suppose Gwynn has demonic super-strength now and can easily lift a human or two with extended arms.
I pointed this out earlier about what's wrong with this wheelbarrow, but others (and apparently Pete) disagreed.

Now that you pointed it out, I see that this thing is supposed to be two-wheeled pushcart which would have the wheels under the load. Also it is being pushed around like it is a pushcart, not a wheelbarrow.

As for how she's holding it, it's the same way she was holding it before she had the "upgrade". So that shouldn't make any difference. It appears to take no effort to lift Torg. Apparently it's a wheelbarrow with built-in repulsors. Doesn't make any sense otherwise.

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 Post Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:17 pm 
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Oh, you goofball, Torg.

Nice to see the veggies looking confused.

Pete, stay warm!

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 Post Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:51 pm 
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Zillatain wrote:
Apparently it's a wheelbarrow with built-in repulsors.

Ah yes, that explains the mysteriously short legs. They aren't legs at all, they're gravitic repulsors. They're not supposed to touch the ground even when the wheelbathtub is standing still. With one wheel and two repulsors it's equivalent to a three-wheeled cart, and the handles are only for pushing and steering. It all makes sense now.

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