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    Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?

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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/31/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Sigh. Can there possibly be a smackdown that doesn't leave me feeling a little hollow and ashamed for even participating? #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Witches and MS's are the same thing.

    That said, mad scientists made River Tam... #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    You split the vote!? What the hell?

    This is worse than the Glau rigging. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @rek: I know. And I know I shouldn't take this so seriously, but the whole splitting reeks of something really unfair. #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?

    Mad science gave us this, so ... yeah. #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    No! You ruined the results by spreading the new contender thin! Witches will surely win now! #horror
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    Dr Emilio Lizardo promoted this comment 1Grand_Marquis was starred 1Grand_Marquis was unstarred
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    10/30/09

    @1Grand_Marquis: Yeah, the poll is officially 221-37-76-163. I read that as 221 for witches, 276 for us Mad Scientists.

    I fear the fix is in. Typical shoddy treatment of the mad scientists. It's stuff like this that makes them want to destroy the world! #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Damnit, I really thought it was gonna be Mad Scientists themselves, who surely would have knocked witches on the head.

    With a bit of a stretch it would have been Doc Venture versus Doc Orpheus. Wheee!

    Dr. Orpheus: Orpheus! I am known to men as Dr. Orpheus! And mine is to perceive and control the delicate arrangement of the cosmos!
    Dr. Venture: They give out Ph.Ds for that?
    Dr. Orpheus: Junior college upstate, communications major, minor in women's studies. But I assure you, sir, the doctor title was bestowed on me by a higher power than a mere college professor!! #horror
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    10/30/09

    @jbq: I'm generally a magic fan, but yeah, Rusty could pwn Orpheus just with the stuff his dad made. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @Wookie1972: Orpheus is pretty damn badass, I'll give him that, but he DOES whimp out like a little girl over M.U.T.H.E.R. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @jbq: M.U.T.H.E.R. was pretty freaky. And mad scientists also includes Pete White, who doesn't seem to have actually invented anything, but is still kind of amusing. #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Seriously, are you counting all the science votes as one? Otherwise this is bogus. #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Major ripoff with the split votes here. #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Magic is a kind of science. Mr Fantastic told me that. #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Well for fairness, the vote should not be split three ways for the creations of mad science... it should just be a straight up Mad Scientist Vs. Witches vote.

    That said, I voted for Witches. Whether we're talking arcane magic or arcane science, they can both do some pretty amazing things; limited only by the writer's imagination.

    So it's not a question of power--they can both do just about anything. It really only comes down to who you think is cooler.

    Witches just have more appeal. They have the forces of nature on their side, while the mad scientist must artlessly bend nature to his will--and that can only go on for so long. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @Anekanta: Yeah, but witches have to obey rules or else they suffer. A witch can't just lay the smack on somebody without dire consequences to themselves. Rule of three and all that. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @Wookie1972: That's true, but isn't self-defense permitted? I guess if you follow the Wiccan rede to the letter you'd have to be a pacifist.

    On the other hand, the rule of 3 being a law of nature, theoretically it applies to mad scientists as well (even if they don't know about it), which is why their creations so often turn on them. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @Anekanta: Nonetheless, this is about who is scarier, or at least that was the point of the original poll, until it became yet another "who would win in a fight" contest. And in order for a witch to inflict a lot of harm they would have to knowingly bring bad stuff upon themselves. A mad scientist, otoh, wouldn't believe in all that karma stuff (rightly or wrongly) and just damn the circumstances.

    Boy, I'm analyzing this waaaay too much.
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    Edited by Wookie1972 at 10/30/09 4:09 PM Wookie1972 was starred Wookie1972 was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    I'm voting mad science, for two reasons:

    a) I'm a mad scientist myself
    b) Mad science can genetically engineer an artificial witch capable of beating all natural witches, wizards, and whatever else you bring on

    Muhahaha! #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    I'm sticking with Gandolf! #horror
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    Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. promoted this comment Golf_Nut was starred Golf_Nut was unstarred
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    10/30/09

    @Golf_Nut: Did you mean: Gandalf #horror
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    10/30/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: possible, but i'm to lazy to look it up to be sure! #horror
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    Image of AdoraBelle AdoraBelle
    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Warren Mears = mad scientist
    Willow Rosenberg = witch

    Bored now. #horror
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    Wookie1972 promoted this comment AdoraBelle was starred AdoraBelle was unstarred
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    10/30/09

    @AdoraBelle: Again proving the fallacy of pitting the most badass of one genre against the least badass of another. Put Willow up against Herbert West and then we're talking. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @AdoraBelle:

    Dr. Horrible = mad scientist
    That girl who managed to turn herself into a mouse = witch

    check and mate. #horror
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    Image of golddiggersof2033 golddiggersof2033
    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Why is this so hard? Witches can do magic. Magic trumps everything else (i.e. magical creatures created by magic- sors Vampires, Werewolves, and SeaMonsters!) Science is awesome (mad science is awesomer) but is bounded by rules; Magic does not have rules. Witches 4eva!
    /steps down off wiccan valleygirl soapbox #horror
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    10/30/09

    @golddiggersof2033: witches are still human beings and while their works are without limit they themselves have limits. a mad scientist could easily genetically engineer the perfect mate, load them up with pheremons, and use it to play witches like a drum at least that's how the demon's do it in 'charmed.'
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    Image of Jesse Astle Jesse Astle
    10/30/09

    @golddiggersof2033: But science trumped magic in the past. If science can kill God, then I bet they can kill witches. And even magic is bound by rules. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @golddiggersof2033: Or to use a video game analogy. Mad Science is when you exploit flaws in the programming/ game design, magic is when you change the programming and design completely. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @tetracycloide: But supplies for witchcraft are cheaper and easier to get than the equipment and chemicals required to alter genetics. I pick up most of mine at the grocery store, health food store and the corner pagan shop. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @golddiggersof2033: "Why? Because you call it by a different name? Church, lab. Soul, synapses. Purgatory, computer. Get over yourself!" #horror
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/30/09

    @Dances with Peeps: But I'm guessing you don't do really bad stuff. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @golddiggersof2033: Anything that has "Sabrina" on their side automatically loses, unless proven otherwise. In this case, witches lose. #horror
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    Image of Slatz_Grobnik Slatz_Grobnik
    10/30/09

    @Dances with Peeps: Eye of newt and toe of dog will get you arrested for animal cruelty. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @Jesse Astle: I thought Nietzche took the rap on that one? #horror
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    10/30/09

    @geiko: Ouch... I think Salem the robotronic cat has some 'splainin to do. #horror
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    10/30/09

    @golddiggersof2033: No amount of slick talk can get him out of this jam. No matter how clever he thinks he is. =p #horror
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Smackdown Day 5: Can Mad Scientists Triumph Over Magic?
    Witches are the new Summer Glaus.

    That reminds me. We need more Summer Glau. #horror
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