[identity profile] vivi-sorrow.livejournal.com
... but no. Instead, I just had to figure out the damn exchange rate between US Dollars and Gil!

Assuming Vivi has 40,000 Gil (1/8th of reasonable amount of party Gil at end of game according to the FFRPG rulebook, pg. 37). Assuming that each coin is worth 500 Gil (for ease of carrying), that means Vivi has 80 coins.

I'm going to assume that Vivi's gil is made of a silver alloy of a typical 75/25 mixture and that each coin weighs 5g. Incindetally, this means Vivi's carrying 80 x 5 = 400g of coins.

Since 75% of each coin is silver, that means each coin contains 3.75g of silver (75% of 5g)

Since Vivi has 80 coins, that means he's carrying about 300g of silver total.

According to the MetalPrices.com. calculator, 300g of silver is equal to 9.65 Troy ounces.

Silver closed at US$33.54/oz yesterday.

Thus, Vivi has 33.54 x 9.65 = $323.66 of silver.

THEREFORE, we have an ad hoc exchange rate of US$1 to 123.59 Gil

...

... yeah, I need to go to bed...

... hey Mods, if you're reading this, can I use this IC, or is this too sad?
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[personal profile] shiromadoushi
I know this is insanely stupid and OCD of me, but please check the weather before you go posting about how there's snow in the City. Unless there's a plot device changing it, to my knowledge, the weather in the City is the same as the weather in NY and there are some awesome resources for finding out what the weather is like in NYC! Including this awesome webcam that someone so kindly linked to earlier will give you a nice view as well as tell you the weather. Sorry, worded badly, didn't meant to come off like that. Feel free to ignore. Original text left so people can understand the posts below.


*bows in apology before going to hide*

Edited to add:
[livejournal.com profile] hotforbabyleg says:
Also, could you please edit the post to reflect that this is not the game's official stance on weather? If it stays the way it is, despite the discussion in here, people might get the wrong idea about what the mods expect--which could actually make the weather more inconsistent, since it's been established now that there was, in fact, snow on Sunday
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[personal profile] battothefuture
Two things:

FIRST, TO WHATEVER LOVELY ANON FAIRY IS RESPONSIBLE: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ICONS. I appreciate them tremendously and shall try to use them well. :D


Second: So Terry is just here, is sort of 8| at suddenly being somewhere he doesn't know without the old guy and the computer who knows everything, so he's trying to be the best Batman he can be. Which involves lots and lots of reading/watching/listening. Because HEY, research makes the man, right?

Or it does if it's Batman.

And he's new at the job, which makes him nervous which makes him overcompensate because he doesn't want to make any mistakes and die, and....

The point is that he's gonna be hyper-responsible for the first little while, and so will be doing his research. And he'll probably make it through at least 6 months worth of back-dated stuff, after he settles down and starts studying properly (after a while he might decide that he's doing well enough without doing this stuff and if he keeps up his head will explode and THEN where will he be and so not make it back to the beginning, and he'll probably skim before that) but I... really don't want to read through all the posts and 89 thousand comments that he would. So um.

Help me Cape and Cowl-kenobi, you're my only hope. What are some things he would know? @_@



EDIT: Eeeeeee thank you everyone who's already posted. AS A SIDE NOTE that I should have posted earlier: He'll be paying a lot more attention to people who are or were villains, who associate with villains, have committed crimes, gone crazy and murdered someone ETC than he will to just your normal hero types.

Because. Well. They're the potential threat here. Unlike Bruce he's not gonna build a contingency plan for each and every hero in the city and how to take them down should they go evil he's not that OCD. He'd likely know who the heros were as well, but won't care quite so much.
[identity profile] loltraitorlol.livejournal.com
IGNORE THIS POST IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT BOTCAST. GO ON, GET OUT D:

So, because some people in OOC asked, uh...

I. I'm a hideous person. I hold that language is an extremely fundamental part of someone's culture, and the structure of a language can tell you a lot about the culture they grew up in. Thus, I started to think about what sort of language Cybertronian is anyway. For instance, despite the fact that there are "Femmes" and "mechs" in several continuities, these things don't scan directly to "male" and "female" as we know them since Cybertronians don't reproduce sexually; thus, such a language wouldn't have gender pronouns. And then I went "it is however a pretty damn stratified society, particularly for 'cons which have had a military structure for millions of years.

S-so I created this. Orz. It's the barest beginnings of a conlang. It's far from complete and probably completely wrong especially since I don't know jack about IPA notation. Also, since this was mooostly done to alleviate my own boredom, it focuses on G1 (s-sorry animooted, beast wars, and movieverse casts!) Also, this isn't based on anything official other than my own insane ramblings, so... no, Hasbro hasn't actually made a conlang, they usually just use funny symbols that are actually English.

moar behind cut )

Significantly more incomplete information about continuity differences and written language )

Finally, my own horrible attempts at actually pronouncing this stuff!

A shoddy attempt at actually pronouncing Starscream's name
Vre` ʘǁzva? Dekh A`kho!-zva.

Botcast and... everyone. Can feel free to ignore this, it's not necessary for headcanon I just. Did this to amuse myself.

orz.

*hides*
[identity profile] behisgirlfriday.livejournal.com
I can't help myself. I have to organize. If it wasn't 5:30 in the morning and my roommate was forcing me to take my meds and go to bed, this would be in alphabetical order. As it is, it's in the order of posting. Under the cut is the links and lists to all the backstories, art, and fic that have been posted so far in the 2020 universe. Yeah and I have...four or five more pictures to scan, sob. They'll be up later or something. I'm going to go to bed now you guys. Tell me if I'm missing anything. It is five am.




THE STORY SO FAR... )