Croyd Crenson, The Sleeper, one of the constants of the series. He was a child when he was infected on the first Wild Card Day, and as every change appears to leave him in an adult but not elderly body, he hasn’t yet died of old age. He’s long been addicted to speed in an effort to stay awake for as long as possible,…
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No, you’re absolutely correct! I should have specified I was talking about the infected. I want to say that the original infection was only around 10k people. There’s also a large number of asymptotic people who can pass it to their children or manifest under stress. But the vast, vast majority of the population are…
Having clicked through to a previous article, apparently I’m completely incapable of reading a Wild Cards article without a wall of text WildCardsplaining the universe. Sorry about that.
I say if the opening scene isn’t Wildcard Day 1946, we riot. (Though I’d prefer it follow Croyd and save Jetboy for a full flashback episode.)
With that said, that’s kind of a weird way to describe it. Xenovirus Takis-A, the Wildcard Virus, treats everyone the same way. Originally designed to create superpowers, it mutates its victims in a vast array of ways that are probably influenced by the victim’s subconscious. The only difference between someone who…
The first Mortal Kombat was the first movie I ever bought on DVD. And I’ve watched it on Netflix at least twice in the last two months.
I... I may actually end up seeing this.
I suppose it’s possible that pet products are generally cheaper than baby products (I have the former but none of the latter), but that’s definitely not the case for pet gates. Your average pet gate is the same exact product that’s being sold a few aisles over with a different cardboard label slapped on it, only the…
Also what I used to clean my CPAP back when I used one.
Oh man, now I’m so mad at myself for not having started this season yet.
Mecharrive?
And of course, like you said, you’re also unlikely to be the person paying for it in that scenario.
Ouch. You don’t even need a laptop with you? That’s my sticking point - I can easily believe some jobs might send you out somewhere for a day (though almost once a week sounds painful). I’m having a hard time picturing a modern job like that that isn’t a white collar job that requires you to have a work computer on…
A day trip. On a plane. Not for work purposes (because you’ll probably need at least a laptop case). So... .000001% of the flying population?
What, you don’t want to travel a thousand miles away from home for a couple of days and survive on only the contents of your pockets?
There are some websites where leaving off the domain when you talk about them just sounds wrong, and Fanfiction dot Net and Weather dot Com are definitely two of them. I didn’t even know what website you meant for the former until I read the blurb. There’s a reason its usual abbreviation is ffn, not ff.
It felt like a Seventh Doctor episode to me (which isn’t a complaint, I loved McCoy).
Anyone who uses the term “virtue signalling” is signalling that they can be ignored.
Even if there were something like a moderate Republican still around, and even if there was one in the Trump administration (hah!), it wouldn’t be Nikki Fucking Haley. As a former SC constituent, take my word that she’s a monster.