Downtown Khazan: The Restaurant At The End Of The Omniverse

[Eternal Torment]

Too late! :D

But yeah, one of these days I'm going to try to kick the habit entirely.

I had a split with Pepsi. It was not easy, but I managed.

[Omegalith]

Well, obviously because he's a mad scientist, and it just wouldn't feel right if he didn't create an abomination from corpses so he could figuratively spit in the face of God and the laws of Nature.

Also, Yankee Doodle Jones takes his orders from the Ghost of Uncle Sam, who only he and his sidekick can see.

[FarBeyondC]

I've never understood this insistence that caffeine is addictive: I go through about twenty cups of tea and two glasses of coke in a day and I've never noticed anything.

Try going a day without any of that.

Yankee Doodle Jones is a superhero created when a scientist murdered three crippled war veterans and sewed their corpses together into one able-bodied man, then injected the resulting abomination with "Invincibility Serum".



Then he injected his son with the same serum, granting the kid exactly the same powers.

Why did he perform the Frankenstein-Murder in the first place?

Maybe he wanted to see if the serum would work before potentially causing harm to his son?

Also, why do these people never inject themselves with things they know work?

[Eternal Torment]

Maybe he wanted to see if the serum would work before potentially causing harm to his son?

Also, why do these people never inject themselves with things they know work?

Because they need to take side-effects into account.

Sure, Serum A works fine on its own. So does Formula B.

But mix them together and suddenly your head is made of trees.

[FarBeyondC]

Because they need to take side-effects into account.

Sure, Serum A works fine on its own. So does Formula B.

But mix them together and suddenly your head is made of trees.

But there's only one serum involved. So no side-effects from mixing. Though being wary of delayed side effects is a good reason to not inject yourself.

[Forgotten Entity]

I just realized something about time travel...

1. Time travel usually places you in the exact same spot, but in a different time. Unless of course it homes in on a certain location of interest.

2. Depending on the time of the year, the earth is in a different spot, since it revolves around the sun.

Now who's to say you won't end up in space next time you time travel from January to June, or on the other side of the world if you time travel from day to night, unless your time travel gear is set to adjust your location in tune with the Earth's movement?

[Eternal Torment]

But there's only one serum involved. So no side-effects from mixing. Though being wary of delayed side effects is a good reason to not inject yourself.

"In two years, you will get prostate cancer. On the bright side, at least you still have superhuman durability."

[Omegalith]

I just realized something about time travel...

1. Time travel usually places you in the exact same spot, but in a different time. Unless of course it homes in on a certain location of interest.

2. Depending on the time of the year, the earth is in a different spot, since it revolves around the sun.

Now who's to say you won't end up in space next time you time travel from January to June, or on the other side of the world if you time travel from day to night, unless your time travel gear is set to adjust your location in tune with the Earth's movement?

The solar system, the galaxy and the universe are also moving, so even going precisely a year will dump you countless miles out into the void.

[FarBeyondC]

I just realized something about time travel...

1. Time travel usually places you in the exact same spot, but in a different time. Unless of course it homes in on a certain location of interest.

2. Depending on the time of the year, the earth is in a different spot, since it revolves around the sun.

Now who's to say you won't end up in space next time you time travel from January to June, or on the other side of the world if you time travel from day to night, unless your time travel gear is set to adjust your location in tune with the Earth's movement?

Travelling just a little more than 7 minutes forward or backward in time will practically guarantee that you will not be on the Earth, unless you have the means to also travel in space.

"In two years, you will get prostate cancer. On the bright side, at least you still have superhuman durability."

???

[The MunchKING]

It's magic (or Superscience) Deal with it.

[Omegalith]

Delicious, magical science.

[Forgotten Entity]

The solar system, the galaxy and the universe are also moving, so even going precisely a year will dump you countless miles out into the void.

Travelling just a little more than 7 minutes forward or backward in time will practically guarantee that you will not be on the Earth, unless you have the means to also travel in space.

Exactly! Makes no sense, but I guess you have to let go of that to properly enjoy it in fiction.

Still, a mention of it in passing wouldn't be so bad.

It's magic (or Superscience) Deal with it.

So you're saying a wizard/genius did it?

[The MunchKING]

Pretty much.

[FarBeyondC]

Deal with it.

Let's see here....

*Brings out the Nolderic Dimensional Rift Cannon Mk. 3*

Delicious, magical science.

"Delicious, you say?"

*Sets NDRC Mk. 3 to 'cook' and fires*

[Omegalith]

Wait, the release condition on the Gargoyle's curse was that the Castle would have to rise above the clouds.

The Scottish Castle.

Built on Moorland.

This would take, like a week. Tops. Less if it's not Summer.