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DF Spoilers / Re: What is Harry Watching?
« on: June 16, 2019, 05:10:46 PM »
It's obvious Harry would watch the movies Snowpiercer, The Grey, Happy Feet, March of the Penguins and Smilla's Sense of Snow. (To name a few Winter-ish movies.)

Nanook of the North....

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DF Spoilers / Re: A Question About Naagloshii
« on: June 16, 2019, 11:24:25 AM »
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They just don't care enough.  Humans don't MATTER enough to them; no human does.  Not even one who killed another Naagloshi.

They do when it has a goal, it says outright it will kill every last one of Harry's friends, of those associated with Morgan unless he is turned over to it..  A thing that can focus like that does care, it lives off of fear.. Not caring would make it indifferent.. 

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DF Spoilers / Re: A Question About Naagloshii
« on: June 16, 2019, 04:21:24 AM »
Yeah, but that wasn't a revenge thing. That was because the Black Council could cause lots of problems if Morgan vanished, so they were trying to take him out.

   I still believe it was a part of what motivated the skinwalker,  as Listens-to-Wind said, it draws power from spreading it's reputation..  Morgan managed to take out one of it's own.

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For the same reason she agreed to go vampire hunting a book before this: because she's had it beaten into her by this point that, when it comes to the supernatural, sometimes the right thing to do is to break the law.

Or not so much break the law as some things exist outside of vanilla law, and they have to be dealt with.  That is why the Seven Laws exist, that is why there are Wardens to enforce those laws, harsh penalties for those who break those laws.. 

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Harry literally described his killing of Cassius and Corpsetaker as cold. Harry basically says that he is going to kill Cassius because he promised to kill him if he ever saw him again. Cassius knew that's what Harry meant. Harry didn't have to kill Cassius to stop him (in the short term, which is all that matters legally). Should Harry have killed Cassius even if it was murder? Yes. It was the right thing to do for a number of reasons. Mostly he had to stop someone from becoming a dark god.

In my opinion perhaps the forethought was cold on Harry's part, but when it actually happened it wasn't.  Why?  Because Cassius had tortured him for several hours and his emotional state at that moment was questionable.. Murphy was still a police officer at that time, how come she never arrested him?


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My apologies for having dragged us down this path.  It isn't really germane to the topic at this point.

  Accepted,  for the record I am a dog handler and have worked a SAR dog for twenty years. I also have handled therapy dogs for nearly that long and have witnessed the difference they make for the sick and the emotionally vulnerable.  I also have worked with handlers of police dogs and former military handlers, so I was never speaking on what I believe to be true, but what my experience tells me is true...  That and current knowledge in the field of working dogs..  Now we can get back to regular programing.

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Well enough to never get bit. However that was a PSA.  Mouse is a genius among dogs.  Dogs can't process language like a human.  Mouse can read.  The point is that attack dogs don't work the way you apparently believe.  Or perhaps I am mistaken.

Fantasy, Mouse, he can read, verses reality....  Dogs understand quite a bit, while they cannot read books, they can read body language, they also have a large vocabulary...  They have remarkable noses, they can find lost people, they can distinguish between dead human remains and other animal remains, they can sniff out cancer, they can tell when a human is about to have a seizure, they can sniff out drugs, they can sniff out explosives, I could go on...

Guard dogs..
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The dog does not attack out of fear or anger, the dog attacks because he has been commanded to. Attack dog training, if carried out properly is very useful in personal protection. However the dog should still use his own initiative, if situations arise where the handler has been injured and cannot give a command.

In other words.... That guard dog will attack on it's own to protect it's handler, the object of that attack will not be wearing a nice protective bite suit.  If the handler is incapacitated, he or she may not be able to give the "stop" command .. Most likely the dog will go after the arm or leg because it is easiest to get to, but that doesn't rule out the throat.. Oh, both the arm and the leg contain arteries, bleeding out is a possibility..  So can a guard dog kill?  Yup...




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For the record Mouse wasn't trained as an attack dog.   Not in the text.  Mouse is smart.  He can read and understand English.

Mouse is an effective guard dog, trust me, he knows how to attack, that is what makes him an effective guard dog...  Yes, he is smart and can read and understand English, he also knows how to
attack when he needs to... Attack to kill if need be.

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There would probably be fewer fatalities and bites if people like your dog handler friend remembered that dogs are animals. Your friend would benefit from reading this.
I didn't say she was my friend, I did say she is a dog handler, which means she knows very well what dogs are, what they capable of and can do..  She works a dog, to find human remains in all kinds of nasty situations.. Also to search for and save live people in all kinds of nasty situations and weathers...  Have you ever tried to train dog to do such work?  Have you actually worked a dog?
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I am sensitive to this subject currently since I have two great grandchildren under 18 months whose parents don't really understand dogs.  My wife was bitten because she ignored the first rule.  Do not approach strange dogs.  Carry on.
Do you really understand dogs?
Then let me educate you so it turns out well for your great grandchildren and their parents....
True, one shouldn't approach a strange dog..  That is good if you see a dog off by itself, if someone is with the strange dog, always ask first if it is okay to pet the dog? If the owner says, "no." Don't try to pet... If the owner says,"Yes."  Here are some good rules... Never look a strange dog directly in the eye, it could see it as a challenge.. Next, let the dog smell your hand coming from underneath the dog's chin... Never pat the top of it's head or reach over the top of it's nose, it could feel threatened by that.. Follow those rules and everyone should be pretty safe...  I could go into paying attention to a dog's body language, but that is a little more complicated you can look it up..

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DF Spoilers / Re: A Question About Naagloshii
« on: June 15, 2019, 12:00:53 AM »
Yeah, but I don't remember anything about a long term plot to kill him for it.

  Perhaps not plot, but motive....  Revenge doesn't need a plot..  Apparently the skinwalker was ordered by ]to go after Morgan.. The reason it captures Thomas is to trade him for Morgan..

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Jim has made at least one ambiguous statement about whether or not Harry is actually paralyzed without the Winter Knight mantle, so this may not be true--although Harry almost certainly believes it is.

The thing is, if Harry's spine isn't really healed then she broke her part of the bargain..   She can make Harry believe that it isn't healed unless he remains her Knight..  However having said that, she takes more guff off of him than she would any other ordinary mortal.

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Oh HELL yeah.  Unless a dog has been specifically trained to ONLY go after the limbs, to subdue... almost any adult dog over 30 lbs or so can (potentially) become a lethal threat.


Oh yeah, even when someone supposedly knows what they are doing.  A dog handler I know, worked two Mals, she had raised them from pups, thought she knew them very well... One day she got between them, whether they were fighting or just playing hard is unclear, but one turned on her and ripped her bicep off before you can say rip your bicep off, she is lucky, if the dog had jumped just a few inches higher and to the right, she wouldn't be alive to tell the tale..

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DF Spoilers / Re: A Question About Naagloshii
« on: June 14, 2019, 08:33:34 PM »
waitWHAT?

Did I forget or overlook something?  Where did we see a long-term Naagloshi plot to get revenge upon Morgan?

Because Morgan is one of the very few that was able to kill one of them... That is in Turn Coat..

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To be brutally frank -- Mab NEEDS that kind of power to be part of the defenses of the Outer Gates.  Therefore, she needs Harry.

Yes, and Harry is well aware that she needs him more than he needs her...  That is why he is able to give her crap in Harry fashion and she takes most of it pretty well..

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All of Mab's interactions with Harry -- including making him Winter Knight -- are about making him a better, stronger wizard, so he can fight the Outsiders better.

Yes, she is toughening him up to make the hard choices...

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Harry bears a moral responsibility for killing Cassius.  Harry makes an extrajudicial decision that Cassius is too dangerous to live.  He isn't even a warden at that point.  He's a vigilante.  And Harry's ethical position is established in canon.  Jim has established the mortal authorities lack of ability to contain supernatural threats.  In Fool Moon, and Changes, to name two.    So you can classify the act as murder, but you have to ignore canon.

Victor Sells could never be convicted of murder because you can't connect him to the act. He wasn't there  and to the mortal authorities magic doesn't exist.

Just to be sure, everybody does know that dogs can't be given a kill command?  Right?  Only Foo dogs of exceptional intelligence need apply.

  Dogs can be given a kill command,  it is an "attack" command...  Mostly they are trained to go after the limbs and subdue until called off, but make no mistake a Mal or a German Shepherd can rip out someone's throat in seconds.

Why do you ignore that fact that with help Cassius had ambushed Harry? Then he tied him up with magical bonds and proceeded to carve him up with a knife desperate to get the coin he thought Harry carried?  And he was also about to kill Harry?  Harry knew it and actually prayed for a Holy Knight to come on scene to save him..  This is when Butters and Mouse showed up and saved him..  It wasn't cold blooded anything...   Except maybe on the part of Cassius, he was cold bloodily carving up Harry, until Butters and Mouse came on the scene and subdued him..

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DF Spoilers / Re: What is Harry Watching?
« on: June 14, 2019, 11:05:01 AM »
I do like Rise of the Guardians, it's take on the mythology. Aussie Bunny is good for me and Aussies like us.

But I also enjoy Russian Tattooed Pirate Santa. It's pretty close to how I imagine Kringle.

And I love Jack Frost as a Spriteling of Winter. I have him and Peter Pan as WInter and Summer Princes respectively.

As for what Harry's watching, I'd want his take on Game of Thrones and if he could binge watch it.


I wonder if he was disappointed with the end and blew up the television?

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