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I will listen...and comment tonight.

As always gentlemen, a joy to listen to, and makes the work day fantabulous.

As always gentlemen, a joy to listen to, and makes the work day fantabulous.

I'm jealous of those who can listen at work.

I totally agreed with your rant, Rone. When I first moved to Seattle, I was getting my WA driver's license downtown. I got out of my car, and some con artist came up and gave me a huge sob story about his car being impounded, and how he needed to get it out now but didn't have enough money on his person, could I loan him $10? I dunno, it might have been $20. All I know was that he was very convincing, and here I was, a new small town boy in the big city, so I totally believed him...and that he would pay me back after he got his car out and could go home to get the money.

He never came back. I chalked it up as an initiation to the big city, and a payment to him for his stellar performance. I have never believed any stranger asking for money since. Yet....I still feel guilty when I tell them "No, I don't have any money on me." Especially when it's a good sob story

I hear you, Tim. Balancing one's good and generous heart with not getting screwed again is quite the tightrope act.

I lived in Philly for a few years and had to deal with that all the time. Eventually I got so cynical that I didn't even say anything as I walked by.

Yeah, Philly has a gritty street life...but I loved visiting when I lived in NJ...it's got character.

Yeah, Philly has a gritty street life...but I loved visiting when I lived in NJ...it's got character.

Oh, I love the city, the museums, the food and some of the shops were great but living there is definitely an experience.

I lived in Philly (OK, I lived in Levittown, but worked in Philly) for 3.5 yrs. Con artists galore. I especially liked the teams of panhandlers outside of the rail stations.

However, the scariest one was over in Trenton, NJ. I was picking up my wife late one rainy night from the train station (Amtrak), and some guy is hanging out at the bottom of the offramp. He was up at my driver's side window, asking me to roll down my window, he needed money or a ride to somewhere because they had an accident (no car in sight, BTW).

Did I mention it's NIGHT, I have my infant son in the back seat, and I've just crossed over into New Jersey? Yeah, right, no WAY I'm gonna roll down my window...

Still....as I drove on and picked up my wife, I still wondered what if he WAS in trouble?

That area of Boston still has many Con artists

That area of Boston still has many Con artists

From age 7-9 I lived on Moraine Street and then Lakeview Avenue in Jamaica Plain. Does the Hennigan yet stand?

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

That area of Boston still has many Con artists

From age 7-9 I lived on Moraine Street and then Lakeview Avenue in Jamaica Plain. Does the Hennigan yet stand?

Heh, you weren't one of those Child Con Artists were you Rone? ;)-

I lived in Philly (OK, I lived in Levittown, but worked in Philly) for 3.5 yrs. Con artists galore. I especially liked the teams of panhandlers outside of the rail stations.

However, the scariest one was over in Trenton, NJ.

Trenton is a scary place at night. I had Cuban friends who lived over by the prison, and man, we were careful.

The Jade wrote:

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

That area of Boston still has many Con artists

From age 7-9 I lived on Moraine Street and then Lakeview Avenue in Jamaica Plain. Does the Hennigan yet stand?

Heh, you weren't one of those Child Con Artists were you Rone? ;)-

The rant on this last show tells an honest story... I was actually the universal recipient of child con artists. ;)

Trenton is a scary place at night.

But Chambersburg (one of the Trenton 'burbs) has one of the best tomatoe pies in the country - probably the world. Worth the risk.

I lived in Ewing / West Trenton for seven year, before joining the Army. One of my clients was the City of Trenton. I often left late at night. I often walked quickly to my car.

The rant on this last show tells an honest story... I was actually the universal recipient of child con artists. ;)

Ahhh, haven't listened to it yet. Only just Downlaoded it this morning. Probably won't get to it 'til Monday.

They probably had a club and had your picture up on the wall of the clubhouse as "Target #1". =)

Anybody get the lyrics to the goblins singing the Buhlmann song? It made me injure my spleen!

Why yes! I got 'em right here! ;)

Glad you liked the song. That one was my favorite of the three.

Shoot, I can't connect... gotta try harder... darn internet skill rank -4...

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Cpt_kirstov wrote:

That area of Boston still has many Con artists

From age 7-9 I lived on Moraine Street and then Lakeview Avenue in Jamaica Plain. Does the Hennigan yet stand?

it does - serving those young adventurers of grades K- 5th

edit: post # 2100 for me yay!

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Anybody get the lyrics to the goblins singing the Buhlmann song? It made me injure my spleen!

Why yes! I got 'em right here! ;)

Glad you liked the song. That one was my favorite of the three.

Dangit...my hand keeps knocking into the monitor screen.

Just listened to the Pathfinder cast, nicely done added you to my iTunes and waiting for more.

Just listened to the Pathfinder cast, nicely done added you to my iTunes and waiting for more.

Awesome. Glad you enjoyed the show, Dreamweaver.

The Jade wrote:

Cpt_kirstov wrote:

That area of Boston still has many Con artists

From age 7-9 I lived on Moraine Street and then Lakeview Avenue in Jamaica Plain. Does the Hennigan yet stand?

it does - serving those young adventurers of grades K- 5th

edit: post # 2100 for me yay!

Wild... during my time there, one of the walls on the side of the school was stucco and someone somehow got up high and carved a huge portion of it into a ten foot tall bas relief of a wicked skull and the letters JH, which stood for Junior Homocide... a local gang of urban legend.

Er... I meant to say homicide.

"I thought that drink was called 'finding your pancreas in the toilet bowl the next morning'..."

"I thought that drink was called 'finding your pancreas in the toilet bowl the next morning'..."

Can you imagine the colonic distress of that drink? Some people were just born with the need to push themselves to certain limits.

The Jade wrote:

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Anybody get the lyrics to the goblins singing the Buhlmann song? It made me injure my spleen!

Why yes! I got 'em right here! ;)

Glad you liked the song. That one was my favorite of the three.

Dangit...my hand keeps knocking into the monitor screen.

EDIT: One of these days, I'm gonna spell Bulmahn right.

So...will there be teasing or sharing?

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

The Jade wrote:

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Anybody get the lyrics to the goblins singing the Buhlmann song? It made me injure my spleen!

Why yes! I got 'em right here! ;)

Glad you liked the song. That one was my favorite of the three.

Dangit...my hand keeps knocking into the monitor screen.

EDIT: One of these days, I'm gonna spell Bulmahn right.

So...will there be teasing or sharing?

Oh sorry, Mairkurion... I didn't get that you couldn't make out the lyrics.

Goblin Song -- Ode to Buhlman

Jason Buhlman, goblin's friend
Makes the game not break but bend
Nine feet tall he blocks the sun
Brings the fun for everyone!

Forging every rule that rules
Scours threads and suffers fools
Stabby Slashy Pokey Punch
Buhlman eats them trolls for lunch!

Hey, guys. Were you breathing helium at the start of the Pathfinder episode, or has mine downloaded funny? You sound like the chipmunks. :-/ I suspect it's more likely to have been a technical issue than helium-breathing, but the same thing happened twice! :-)

Goblin Song -- Ode to Buhlman

Jason Buhlman, goblin's friend
Makes the game not break but bend
Nine feet tall he blocks the sun
Brings the fun for everyone!

Forging every rule that rules
Scours threads and suffers fools
Stabby Slashy Pokey Punch
Buhlman eats them trolls for lunch!

Awesome. Just awesome. Thanks, Jade: I could make out most of the lyrics, but was a little unsure a couple of places. Got to subscribe so I can listen to it on my phone.

Hey, guys. Were you breathing helium at the start of the Pathfinder episode, or has mine downloaded funny? You sound like the chipmunks. :-/ I suspect it's more likely to have been a technical issue than helium-breathing, but the same thing happened twice! :-)

I'm suspecting foul technology at play!

Why my the only time I should sound like a chipmunk, and a group of dangerous ones at that, is when I sing the Goblin Song.

I wonder what the cause of that might be? Is it possible that something about my voice so irks your brain that an involuntary pitch shift occurs to obscure me? Most people just faint when I talk. ;)

Awesome. Just awesome. Thanks, Jade: I could make out most of the lyrics, but was a little unsure a couple of places. Got to subscribe so I can listen to it on my phone.

Thanks! I was afraid that the word 'scours' might not have come across clearly enough.

No, it was the music as well; it sounds like it's playing at double speed.

No, it was the music as well; it sounds like it's playing at double speed.

Oh, dear. Did you DL it off Itunes? The Atomic Array site? I just played it at both venues and it sounded normal.

I listened to this on the weekend- great stuff! Thanks for sending me the link, Ed! R, did you get my reply to your email (if not I'll resend it)?

Hey, just discovered the Array over the weekend. Very cool guys.

I listened to this on the weekend- great stuff! Thanks for sending me the link, Ed! R, did you get my reply to your email (if not I'll resend it)?

Yes I did! Here's to good things! ;)

Hey, just discovered the Array over the weekend. Very cool guys.

Thank you kindly, ZN. :) We're glad you enjoyed the show.

Episode Twelve of Atomic Array features Alpha Omega, the post-apocalyptic cyberpunk horror game from Mind Storm Labs.

These guys put out the best looking core rulebook I’ve ever seen, and they extend a crazy $15 discount to Atomic Array listeners. I say crazy because it actually strikes me as crazy. Mind Storm must be some kind of money laundering operation for the Canadian mafia.

We wrap up the Shadows of Cthulhu giveaway, and tell you how you can win one of two Alpha Omega book sets. Each set will include the Core Rulebook, Milk Run (the first AO adventure) and The Encountered: Volume I (the AO monster manual). You still have until December 25th to enter the Paizo giveaway contest.

My rant for this episode is called ‘My Lead Foot, Part 1’, and I drone on about my seasonal allergy to posted speed limits. Meanwhile, Ed talks about his love for the flip video ultra series camcorder. He brought that lil sucker to Gen Con and took movies that looked truly impressive, while I was there with my big expensive 1080i camcorder, lost forever in the manual instead of actually filming things.

Episode Thirteen of Atomic Array features Cthulhu Tech, by WILDFIRE LLC and Catalyst Games.

Why add mecha (“Giant Lobots!”) to your Cthulhu? Because it’s cooler than werewolf ninjas with jetpacks and laser tonfas, and your characters have a much better chance of surviving, perhaps even with their wits somewhat intact! Although there's plenty of intrigue, this isn’t exactly your father's investigative CoC play (Those last five words should never be said in that order). It’s high action evil alien bug blastin' set in the latter part of the 21st century, and man does this game system move! CT creator Matt Grau comes on the show to give us many of the game's ins and outs.

We wrap up the big Paizo giveaway, and tell you how you can win one of two CthulhuTech book sets. Each set will include the Core Rulebook, Vade Mecum (the CthulhuTech Companion) and Dark Passions (the Cthulhu Tech cult book). Don’t forget, you have until January 9th to enter the Alpha Omega giveaway.

Ed’s pick for this episode… Robotech. Listen to the man tell the story of graduating from talking horse cartoons to 5 billion horsepower mecha!

My rant for this episode is ‘My Lead Foot, Part 2’. It continues along that sorry path of velocity untamed, telling tales of how high speed earned me a partial “happy ending” from a state trooper when I wasn’t even driving the car. Another anecdote details the absurd way in which I talked my way out of a three digit speeding ticket in the face of a trooper whose spit raining opening line was, “WTF, WAS THAT?!"

BTW, we'd like to thank listeners for their strong showing in picking up some of the games we've been talking about. You really blew the publishers away and it suggests we're doing an adequate job in our presentation. I've... I've always wanted to be adequate <sniff>. Sincere thanks. You rocketh thunderously. :)

ROOOOOCK ON! CthulhuTech! Getting the podcast........NOW!

This show makes me feel tingly in my swimsuit area.

This show makes me feel tingly in my swimsuit area.

That review goes to the top of the list.

I know that I've posted about how you guys have a really fun podcast and ask some really great questions, but I've come to realize that your guests have such a huge impact on that. Your recent show taught me that. Seriously good stuff! Ed considering piloting a mecha under the influence was awesome!

I know that I've posted about how you guys have a really fun podcast and ask some really great questions, but I've come to realize that your guests have such a huge impact on that. Your recent show taught me that. Seriously good stuff! Ed considering piloting a mecha under the influence was awesome!

That's quite thoughtful, Adam. Thank you. Energized, knowledgable guests make our job quite easy.

At Gen Con '09, I'll bet we can get many of our former guests to run us through their games. So if you hear one you'd just love to play with the creators of the game, lemme know and maybe we can put something together.

Gen Con needs more days. Not enough time to get it all in. I've got to get better at seperating work from recreation. I spent most of the last Con networking and interviewing, with the exception of our Werewolf games, a pick up game of Conquest of the Empire and dining with you guys. Speaking of which... one afternoon Drunken Nomad, Greg Oppedisano, Nick Oppedisano and I walked through the more dangerous parts of Indy, past live arrests outside check cashing places, to get to an Indian restaurant recommended by a concierge. It took so long to find a place to eat and then get there on foot that I was half expecting the Holy Grail or Mount Doom to be served up as appetizers. The food was worth the trip. Now that was an adventure, almost like some surreal kind of LARP.

The food was delicious and we almost had more plates of food than table real estate. Worth the trip indeed.

The food was delicious and we almost had more plates of food than table real estate. Worth the trip indeed.

Egad, in trying to recount that trip for anyone reading this, I accidentally stripped you from the story. Daigle and I are vegetarians, so we were having trouble finding non-steakoterias. Luckily we were with some patient company, although Greg would later say, "I hate vegetarians."

We almost had the entire place to ourselves. Hope it's still there this year. The only downside of that vittlequest was the new sneaks I broke in that trip. Greg said, "That should be a rule of going to Con. Do not try and break in new shoes."

I think we need the big book of Greg Oppedisano quotes.

Random dumb question here: when is the due date for the AA012 contest? I'm currently stranded from my audio equipment, and am wondering whether I should be concerned.

Random dumb question here: when is the due date for the AA012 contest? I'm currently stranded from my audio equipment, and am wondering whether I should be concerned.

January 9th, 2009.

Whenever you're not sure about contest deadlines and such, you can check the front page of atomicarray.com. We're getting better at nailing things down these days. Our first couple of contests didn't even have firm deadlines. They just sort of oozed downhill to completion.

::shakes head::

"Measure twice, cut once."