The Jade's page

Aware hummingbird
Awakened by magic spells
Spy-cam familiar

See acai beguines,
Apple foxtrots, plum two-steps
At the produce ball

Thicker rubber, please--
Cheliax faction mission--
You don't want to know.

A high 2d4
My critical damage sucks
Shouldn't have dumped Strength

Ack, sorry, I only refreshed the previous page instead of clicking on "last." Even thought I was being clever trying to keep the alphabet thing going. FAIL, lol. And now it won't let me edit my last post. So ignore that one, and let's see if I can't get everyone back on track.

Compare to vintage
The quality is lacking
What happened to chrome?

"What happened to Chrome?
On Mozilla's download page..."
"Chrome is from Google."

Chrome is from Google
I prefer MS IE
I hate tabbed browsing

I hate TAB'd browsing.
Should let you shop while drinking
a nice pint of ale.

I only read it for the pictures.

I say, good show!

Lou, as always, you come through with a winning solution. I hope I will meet you for the second time at PaizoCon. Orange tux is optional =)

Nic, it takes a big man to walk back and suffer the slings and arrows of outraged fandom. I commend you for your mea culpa, and I hope to meet you at PaizoCon. Despite my disappointment in the disaster that was Sinister Adventures,, I am still a big fan of your work. I do hope that if you carry one lesson away from all this it is that communication with your customers is essential. If I had known how badly things were going on your end I would have been more than happy to give you whatever time you needed. Silence allows rumors and false information to sprout like fungus. It also allowed others to use your fiasco to pimp their own products.

I am staying in RC for now, on the off chance it might get released. I don't know what the status on the Anarchist Gamers book is, but I am willing to let that ride as well until you get your sea legs back Nic. I hope that you recover from your travails and put out some more memorable content in the future. All the best.

Hey all,

There is now a new way to get your money back for any purchases you made from Nick Logue's Sinister Adventures.

Email your request to bgmcubed@gmail.com

I expect to be able to start sending people their money back by the end of the month. I will update everyone here if there are any delays to the start of that process. Money will be refunded in the order requests are received. Everyone who wants their money back can get it.

I extend Nick's apologies if you've already emailed and need to email a second time.

IN THE INTERESTS OF FULL DISCLOSURE
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I need to let everyone who purchased know that there is a tiny, tiny possibility that I might be able to put out Razor Coast for Nick. If I do it will be more expensive than the pre-order price, by a significant factor. The book got a LOT bigger under my development. One of the primary issues preventing this is recovering the art from Nick's crashed hard drive and/or getting his artist's to resend it, years later.

Am I committing publishing RC as this time? NO. Absolutely, not.

WHY ARE YOU DISCLOSING THIS?
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If you don't get your money back, and I do put this out you get RC for whatever price you originally paid.

If you do get your money back, and then (by some miracle of personal goodness) decide later that you want RC anyway, you'll have to pay full price. Whatever that is at the time.

If is a tiny little word with a really big meaning, but IF I can help Nick in this way, I don't want anyone to feel they got fooled or ripped off.

Again, this is NOT any kind of promise to release RC in any shape or fashion, whatsoever.

But I have to make you aware of this possibility, now, even if the chances are fairly small. Transparency is important. Anything else would be dishonest.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET MY MONEY BACK NOW?
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I've been working with the Logue to help him recover from a computer disaster and otherwise get his ducks in a row.

He agreed -- and did -- release to my management his email and paypal accounts from Sinister Adventures, solely for the purposes of processing return transactions on his behalf.

I'VE WAITED THIS LONG, WHY ANOTHER #$%&#! MONTH?
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What I've got is a giant stack of thousands of unsorted emails across multiple years -- many filled with understandably inventive imprecations -- plus a few years of PayPal statements. I've hired a temporary assistant to sort everything. He starts next week. Then I've pre-arranged extra hours for my bookkeeper to stay on top of payments. And I've got to make sure they do everything right and don't miss anything. It's an extra project I wasn't planning on, and it's going to take a while to get all set. Sorry.

WHY NOW?
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I would like Nick to survive Paizocon with all his body parts reasonably intact. He'll have a hard enough time surviving his mud wrestling match with Rich Pett. Pett + a pitchfork mob VS. Logue? No way. He'd never win.

And I only recently had the idea.

And it took me a while to work up the courage to offer him my help with this.

DOES THIS MEAN YOU, LOU, OWE ME THE MONEY?
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No. Nick owes you. Always did, always will. I did not buy Sinister's accounts from him. I have no legal obligation to anyone for the money. I am not and have never been an employee of Sinister. I was a freelancer. Now I'm a payment processor. Think of me as an unpaid freelance bookkeeper handling the mechanical and accounting steps of refunding people's money. I'm just helping a friend (finally) do right by the community.

WHAT THE HECK DOES BGMCUBED MEAN?
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Figure that out, and I will shower you with accolades. :)

I'm sure there are questions I didn't address: please fire away.

This must be done. Shocking Touch ftw.

With less than a week to go before this expires, I am upping the ante.

If you hit that like button I will:

1. Psychically send you an imaginary klar, personally autographed by the jothka of every major Shoanti tribe.

2. Jump a hell knight and dispense with him in an exotic fashion, while dedicating it to you.

Many thanks,

--Ask

Crimson Jester wrote:

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A microdot! Let me get my decoder... uh... lessee... whoa, that is absolutely the dirtiest limerick I've ever read.

Only way past Gary's defenses. .

Now if the children were eaten, the problem would cease.

But I wouldn't know of such things; I'm a vegetarian.

So you only eat baby vegepygmies? Are they better raw, maybe in a salad with a nice raspberry port vinaigrette? Or perhaps wok-fried with some brown rice and stinky tofu? Or do you bottle and bury them to make vegepygmie kimchi?

* All these recipes and more for only $29.95 in the new cookbook, Paula Deen's Rebus Cookbook for Goblins, coming June 2012 from Atomic Array Press.

Thyme to rob a bank
Rosemary for larceny
A season of crime

Erik Mona doesn't realize it yet, but he's next.

One of the players in my Kingmaker game and a very good friend of mine since high school JUST interview Erik Mona for his magazine, Fast Company.

Our Technical Coordinator, Luke Withrow, explains our security process.

We take the security of our votes seriously here at the ENnies, and use several methods to help reduce ballot-stuffing. You’ll note I say ‘reduce’, because there’s no way to absolutely prevent it short of drastic, draconian measures to identify all our voters. Our strategy is to make ballot-stuffing difficult and time-consuming. We also review the results carefully to identify suspicious voting patterns.

The most basic thing we do is restrict you to one vote per IP address. While it’s certainly possible to circumvent this restriction, doing so takes time, effort, and a bit of expertise. Starting this year, we’re implementing code that will prevent most proxy servers from being able to access the voting pages.

We also randomize the order of each ballot. This ensures no one company or product gets an unfair advantage for being at the top of a category. Additionally, it makes the creation of a script or macro a bit more challenging for the would-be hacker.

Once the votes have been collected, we run some analytics against the data. I won’t go into too much detail about what we look for, but suffice it to say we check for patterns in the votes that are statistically unlikely.

In addition to all the technical ways we protect the integrity of the process, we have one final strategy: We ask you to be honorable, and not cast more than one vote. While it’s not a security measure by any means, appealing to your sense of fairness and your loyalty to the gaming community at large certainly has an effect.

http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/ennies-voting-security/

They say he is a righteous dude.

Moved thread, fixed links.

*Ahem*

Thanks for the interview with Jason! I enjoyed it, and I hope you get to do more interviews with Paizo staff.

My mom, the second greatest mom of all time, also loathed coconuts. Perfection is pretty limited.

I would discourage Dave from fighting Jason, generally speaking. What kind of fight are we talking about, here?

A guy who follows our company on Twitter listened to the Bulmahn interview and Tweeted that it changed his attitude about Pathfinder.

I can't tell—does that mean Bulmahn made or failed his diplomacy roll? (Or was it performance?) What was your friend's starting attitude, and how many steps was he swayed towards helpful or towards hostile?

Oh, how romantic
A red dragon in rampage
Chromatically yours

It looks like Big C is no where to be seen.. (linkity)

Oh woe is me. Woe woe woe.

Damn, babe. You really let yourself go.

Oh woe is me. Woe woe woe.

Ahhh, another god to consume. They seem to keep coming to the feast, mine that is.

Well... that was derailing. But now that the unhinged fellow with the persecution complex has... escorted himself out....

Armor doesn't always have to be perfectly realistic for men or women, and honestly is a lot more fun if you can roll some fashion into it without worrying about realistic movement and protection. It's once the "armor" crosses the line into obvious accentuating the wearer for the male gaze that I have issues (and, I'd like to think, a lot of other women feel the same way).

I for one love this one. She's heavily armored and still looks sweet and feminine. I'm not thrilled that she looks so skinny, but I've seen enough wiry women to accept it.

You know what? I went back and reviewed your emails to me. I don't have time for this nonsense. I think we are done here.

You're a f+!*ing piece of s*#@, Gary. I f&$+ing hate a@!~@+!s like you, with ypour stupid corporate slave mentalities taking over every space available for people to talk, forcing us all to act like proper little robots. You can suck a dick, you free-speech hating f#++stick.

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Meth: hell of a drug
elmo turns to animal
Meth: hell of a drug

Today we're introducing private messaging for paizo.com. This is a feature that's been requested a lot over the years and it's finally arrived at the top of the todo list. Here's the current FAQ for private messaging. (Note that I will not update this post if the FAQ changes, for the latest private messaging FAQ, see the actual FAQ.)

What are private messages?
Private messages are direct text-only messages between individual paizo.com members. You may format your messages using messageboards BBCode. You cannot edit messages after they have been sent. There is no delivery confirmation for private messages, and no guarantee that the recipient will ever see or reply to a message.

Where are my private messages?
Your private messages are on the "Private Messages" tab on your profile page, which you can access by clicking the envelope icon next to your name at the top of the page. If you have unread messages the icon will be highlighted and the number of new messages will be displayed next to it.

How do I send someone a private message?
Find that person's profile page, and click "Send Private Message." You may also click "Add to Address Book" to make it easier to find them later. If you do not see either of these links, that person has either opted out of private messaging or blocked messages from you.

I don't want to receive private messages. How do I opt out?
You can opt out of the private messaging system by unchecking the box labeled "Members of paizo.com may send me private messages" on your My Account page and clicking the "Submit Changes" button. If you opt out you cannot send or receive private messages.

Can I block someone from sending me private messages?
You can block the sender of any private message you receive by clicking "Block This Sender" on that message. Blocking a person prevents them from being able to send you new messages. Any existing messages to or from that person will remain in your inbox or sent messages until you delete those messages. You can unblock people on the Address Book tab of your private messages page.

Should I use private messaging to contact Paizo staff?
If you're asking a rules question, please post it on the messageboards instead. Paizo staff will not respond to rules questions via private messaging.

Should I use private messaging for customer service questions?
Please either post in the customer service forum or email customer.service@paizo.com if you have customer service issues. Paizo customer service may send you private messages to request additional information from you if that's the best way to resolve your issue.

Someone is harassing me via private messaging. What do I do?
If you no longer want to receive private messages from someone, block them. Please contact Paizo customer service to report abuse.

Can I delete my private messages?
Yes. Deleted messages will appear in the "deleted" tab on your private messages page. Clicking the "move to inbox" or "move to sent messages" link next to a message will move it back to your inbox or sent messages. If you click "empty trash" and confirm this action, your messages will be permanently removed from your deleted tab. If you delete a message you sent to someone else, that message will be deleted from your sent messages but will remain in their inbox. You cannot see if someone has deleted a message you sent.

Can I search, sort or file my private messages or contacts into categories? Can I have incoming messages forwarded to my email?
No.

Will Paizo staff read my private messages?
Your private messages are considered private, however messages may be reviewed by Paizo staff or disclosed to appropriate law enforcement agencies if required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to investigate abuse or ensure personal safety.

Additional stuff that's not in the FAQ
You can send private messages to and from an alias. There are dropdown menus on the compose message page if you or your intended recipient has any aliases. You can't block aliases or add aliases to your address book; blocking or adding an alias blocks or adds the actual person, not the alias.

There's a saying that every software project expands until it eventually handles email, and I'd like to keep this one just shy of that point for now. This implementation of private messaging is deliberately bare-bones. So you can't sort your messages into categories or folders or tag them, or mark them as unread or flagged, or forward them to someone else, or include a CC or BCC list, or get an RSS feed of your messages, or include attachments, or send a message to groups of people, or organize your contacts into circles or friends or anything else fancy like that. If you need those features, use the private messaging system to ask someone for their email address and then use your email client for that.

Please use this thread to report bugs in the private messaging system. (Feature requests should also go in this thread, but keep in mind the bare-bones design goal.)

Edit: The privacy policy has been updated to include information about private messaging.

The construction thing nails it. I recall George Lynch may have worked as a house painter for a time after Dokken's/Lynch Mob's success faded.

Ive watched waaaaay too many "VH1 Behind the Music"s and read too many musician's biographies. I love that kind of stuff.

Poor George. That dude was ripped. I bet he could paint an entire house in an afternoon if he put his mind to it.

I remember someone interviewing Tom the lead singer from Cinderella after their long cold fall from the top of the hair metal heap. He was showing the interviewer a mid-priced telescope and telling how that was his whole life then.

Its kind of sobering to see what people do 'after'...

Have you seen either of the "The Decline of Civilization" movies? The interviews with all those young people thinking if they could just get on MTV, they would have it made.

And this is why Cosmo is so dangerous:

Cosmo: Asking me one question generally net you the answer to three or more. The actual question you ask may or may not be one of the answers given.

Cosmo: I definitely taste a little ten foot pole.

Bulmahn: Nothing in this thread involves me, so I am no longer interested.

Chris: Gah! Why are you doing this, you stupid importer! *flails at Adobe*

Cosmo: Cosmo SMASH!
Ross: Cosmo, don't smash.

In celebration of our Kickstarter for Sailing the Starlit Sea, Clockwork Gnome Publishing is offering our first release, Along the Faerie Path, for half off.

Featuring the work of Mike Welham, who just made the RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32, Along the Faerie Path provides an in-depth look at the Realms of Faerie and provides some new fey creatures for your Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Along the Faerie Path is available in the Paizo store.

C'mon, folks. Master Blaster!

Jade...you knucklehead. hehehe

Half blue dragon half heavy war horse: faithful steed.

My kids game now, but, wow, I really wish I had some of these games when they were younger.

I got them hooked with Pokémon Emergency!

This month in Wired there is an interview with Patton Oswalt titled "You Nerdy Rat" where he talks about D&D. Here's the part of the very short interview.

Wired You're nearly 40, and you're returned to playing Dungeons & Dragons. Please explain.
Oswalt It's a benign way to have a midlife crisis that doesn't involve sports cars. My wife is probably hoping, "Maybe tonight he'll just go to a strip club..." Instead, I'm out rolling dice and saying things like, "I don't know if a Wall of Fog spell lasts that long!"

That's it. Anyone else have some tidbits to contribute?

You have to think of it in terms of the 3.x fighter vs. the 3.x wizard. The linear fighter is the escalation into increasing socially unacceptable topics, and the quadratic wizard is the punchline. As long as the punchline (wizard) remains quadratically more funny than the setup (fighter), you haven't crossed the line.

This grand unified humor theorem also accidentally explains why 4e is completely filled with you're-having-fun-wrongness. Don't even get me started on OSR humor.

Humor is allowed to go as far as a particular audience will allow. It can of course go further, but tomatoes hurled at one's face really start to ache after the first 20.

True, but it only takes one Frag Grenade. >:)

Movie sword-fight master Bob Anderson dies at 89

Among other things Bob Anderson stepped up as a stunt double for Darth Vader in Empire and Return, as well as training the stuntmen for the Lord of the Rings.

He was one of several prominent interviewees on the documentary Reclaiming the Blade, an excellent look at the history of the sword. There's a good focus on European swordarts, which I found very interesting, since so many people who haven't really looked into it are obsessed with Japanese or East Asian swordsmiths. It's available for instant view on Netflix if anyone's interested in watching.

Viggo Mortensen and Bob Anderson

Louis, your quiet persistence is awe-inspiring.

Regards,
Ruemere

That Lou Agresta is a good and decent fellow.

At least that's what he has pointedly told me numerous times.