Blog: Perfectly, deliciously evil
Description: The blog for the evilhow.com wiki, dedicated toward the advancement of evilcraft by supervillains and malignant geniuses of all sorts.
Created by GrinningSkull on Fri 12 of Sept., 2008 22:00 EDT
Last post Mon 22 of Oct., 2012 21:50 EDT
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Last post Mon 22 of Oct., 2012 21:50 EDT
(206 Posts | 179773 Visits | Activity=2.00)
Rolling blood and thunder
Posted by GrinningSkull
on Mon 03 of Aug., 2009 14:51 EDT

There is much to be said for the practice of propelling oneself by means of large and expensive pieces of metal and glass at lethally high rates of speed and generating invisible planet-killing gases. If a member of your organization were to propose this as an evil scheme, would you pursue the notion with enthusiasm or attack the proposer as an impractical dreamer?
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What is more handsome than a pen neat as a pin?
Posted by GrinningSkull
on Fri 31 of July, 2009 07:38 EDT

And at a certain level, that is what defines us as true supervillains, after all. The visible pride we take in our greatest acts of monstrosity does honor to what we are and to the spirit which animates our grand enterprises
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In space no one can hear you weld
Posted by GrinningSkull
on Mon 27 of July, 2009 23:06 EDT

Once bitten by the bug, the spaceship fancier is apt to take on bigger and bigger aspirations over time, far beyond what a sane individual would do. One especially barmy villain was convinced it was his mission to refurbish a planetoid-sized colony ship as a sort of roving casino, undeterred by the centuries of labor the job would take. It also seems to afflict males rather than females for some obscure reason I would rather not go into at this time.
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Effete gambling-hating snobs can leave the website immediately
Posted by GrinningSkull
on Fri 24 of July, 2009 19:45 EDT

To which I simply sigh eyeballs are always desirable. Why put so much effort into an enterprise which can be appreciated by only a vanishingly small fraction of the wired community? Who are probably already too busy to visit? No, that way lies peril, madness, and irrelevancy, and anyone who does not like it may well see fit to start their own evil site without hindrance from ourselves, leaving the very popular dice-fixing topic to us and our readers. And if those readers benefit from our advice at a point in their careers where a small infusion of cash or contraband allowed them to continue their villainous ways long enough to become mighty, menacing, and vile beyond imagining, it may be that they will remember who was in their corner back in the old days, and who was not. It is a psychologically valid scenario.
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People with glass skulls are few and far between
Posted by GrinningSkull
on Tue 21 of July, 2009 19:42 EDT
I know all about the way you all want to learn how to read minds with those splendidly tricked out big brains we covered earlier. There is no need to state your desire to me, obviously.
The main drawback to cultivating a highly sensitive telepathic sense is the enormous amount of junk people carry around in their heads, through which one must pick to glean whatever useful piece of information one is after. It's as if one were trying to reconstruct the events of a murder by searching the victim's apartment filled to the ceiling with scribbled notes on bits of damp toilet paper, pictures torn out of magazines, dried out pieces of gristle, and a noisy Furby one can't turn off. To maintain one's bearings in the swirling stream of someone else's consciousness it is usually necessary to impose some kind of artificial order, involving a certain degree of force which will leave its mark on the target and practitioner both. That is why I prefer, whenever possible, to take an "offline" approach, where one captures the target's recollections and notions into a sort of slideshow presentation, where one can spread them out and discard what is irrelevant without having to be personally immersed within the chaos. Some say that this deprives the mindreader of a lot of detail which might prove to be essential, but in my experience it is the better tradeoff. Even maniacal miscreants are entitled to a shred of psychic equilibrium now and then.
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The main drawback to cultivating a highly sensitive telepathic sense is the enormous amount of junk people carry around in their heads, through which one must pick to glean whatever useful piece of information one is after. It's as if one were trying to reconstruct the events of a murder by searching the victim's apartment filled to the ceiling with scribbled notes on bits of damp toilet paper, pictures torn out of magazines, dried out pieces of gristle, and a noisy Furby one can't turn off. To maintain one's bearings in the swirling stream of someone else's consciousness it is usually necessary to impose some kind of artificial order, involving a certain degree of force which will leave its mark on the target and practitioner both. That is why I prefer, whenever possible, to take an "offline" approach, where one captures the target's recollections and notions into a sort of slideshow presentation, where one can spread them out and discard what is irrelevant without having to be personally immersed within the chaos. Some say that this deprives the mindreader of a lot of detail which might prove to be essential, but in my experience it is the better tradeoff. Even maniacal miscreants are entitled to a shred of psychic equilibrium now and then.
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