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Ratings are overrated.

Heathansson wrote:

The Jade wrote:

Heathansson wrote:

Kids, this is what a vampire oughtta look like.

*sigh*
Get off of teh interwebz. You need some sun.

Is that The Master from Salem's Lot?

Ayyyyyup.

Ah, best film vampire ever. And one of the best vampire films too.

I still have my pet rock, with package. Got it so young that I didn't get that it was a joke and actually tried the tricks, such as, place the rock on the floor. Tell it to STAY and then leave the room... when you come back it should still be there. I tried every trick in the book. Dummy.

Kids, this is what a vampire oughtta look like.

*sigh*
Get off of teh interwebz. You need some sun.

Bag of holding diapers, of course. It's like an RV. You finish your delve unhindered, then return to town and just unload bag on the peasants below from the second floor of your inn. Toothless destitute love that $@#%.

Heathansson wrote:

1) Necromancers that aren't evil
2) misunderstood monsters/witches/mystical punk rockers/whathaveyou that aren't really evil after all, just misunderstood.
3) Pagans who eviscerate the evil Christians.

4) Underwear model vampires.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but...a specific Pathfinder product?

I read parts of it before it released and it is so hot.

Hey, Ed and Rone. I'd love to hear what's going on with Super Genius Games. Maybe have Hyrum and new member Owen Stephens on sometime to talk about SGG and particularly what Pathfinder support is in the future? Just thought I'd toss this out there.

MTVs "Remote Control" host passed away.

One of the few non-music video shows I actually liked on MTV. :(

That show was the first time I ever saw Adam Sandler or Kari Wuhrer.

The Jade wrote:

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Thanks, Taig, I don't know how I missed that...maybe it was ghosting on me.

Still, he failed to mention how much those other translations suck in comparison...or maybe it just was so obvious he felt no need to comment.

That's definitely it.

I hope you're happy. I've been inundated by questions about my Chinese skillz ever since.

Thanks, Taig, I don't know how I missed that...maybe it was ghosting on me.

Still, he failed to mention how much those other translations suck in comparison...or maybe it just was so obvious he felt no need to comment.

What Zombie said, GW. Sorry and happy for you all at once. :|

Say what you will, but with the voice he had to work with, and the delivery, he picked the absolute best song in their catalog to do it with.

The Jade wrote:

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

taig wrote:

Ed, glad to hear your voice is improving, and you made the Beastie Boys sound all sultry.

Yeah, what was the deal with that?

So I wasn't the only one caught blind in the salacious haze of Healy's delivery there?

No... It was cool and all, but it didn't fit the B-Boys. Not up-tempo enough. It sounded a bit like a 70s porn soundtrack, actually.

taig wrote:

Ed, glad to hear your voice is improving, and you made the Beastie Boys sound all sultry.

Yeah, what was the deal with that?

Speaking of which, the new episode:

Atomic Array wrote:

Twilight Sector

At Gen Con this Summer, we spoke with Mike Cross from Terra/Sol Games about his new Traveller setting, Twilight Sector. We asked Mike and his co-author, Matthew Hope, to give us another look under the hood of Twilight Sector.
Terra/Sol Games: http://terrasolgames.com/
Ed’s Pick: Beastie Boys
Rone’s Rant: “Tacked on Romance in Film”

Your latest show was great, guys. Twilight Sector sounds interesting, especially the idea that I can get my Gamma World on and generate random mutants.

Ed, glad to hear your voice is improving, and you made the Beastie Boys sound all sultry.

You really need to work on your monkeys with lasers imitation, though. That was pretty weak. :)

Beaver armageddon.

(sing along) Ah yes... I remember it well!

Because
the Jade
asked for it:

Early traveling in Shangshan

Morning: he moves at the carriage's tintinnabulating
But his mind turns mournfully to his home even as he journeys on.
Now roosters call, the moon from above the thatched inn
Illumines the frosting on the bridge-planks around shoe-prints.
Bronzy oak leaves drift onto the mountain road,
Citron blossoms light the postal station wall.
On he dreams of his hometown memorial:
Its pondful of wild ducks and geese.

Morning start move journey bell
Traveller travel sorrow home
c&!# noise thatched cottage moon
Person footstep plank bridge frost
Mongolian oak leaf fall hill road
Citron blossom bright post station wall
Still think Duling dream
Wild duck goose full pond In the morning, he starts to move at the journey bell,
He travels, thinking sorrowfully of his home.
A c&!# crows; a thatched cottage; the moon;
On the planks of the bridge, his footsteps mark the frost.
Mongolian oak leaves fall on the mountain road,
Citron blossom's bright by the post house wall.
Still his thoughts are of his dream of Duling,
The pond full of geese and wild ducks.

And Patrick, that really sucks, brother. Sorry.

I wouldn't worry if I were you, CH. Superfluous Man may be feeling down right now, but he's not going anywhere...he'll be back.

::stares off into the horizon with naive hope.::

Him and Shane.

The Jade wrote:

Callous Jack wrote:

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Rone, where ya been? Good last show.

He's been busy adding all the posters in the anti-vegan thread to his Nixonian list of bloody reprisals.

LOL, Jack. I've been doing my best to avoid any writing weighed down by its own fear and ignorance. Thus I haven't read any of my own lately.

Mairkurion, Thanks for the kind words. :) Ed's getting over a really lousy case of flu and I have a rotator cuff torn every which way. That's what I get for saving orphans in my down time. Superheroism just doesn't seem worth it since the spandex stopped fitting right. People just laugh when they see me leap into danger. You won't have Superfluous Man to kick around anymore.

That sucks.

I commented on the KQ11 thread, when Wolf mentioned the Open Design podcast was up, that Ed's post-flu voice was sultry. You need to capture that in an Atomic Array, too.

I noticed they remade certain near exact scenes from the original, like the initial shuttle landing. Very much a homage to the early 80's version.

I watched V as a kid and I'll be back next week to see how they do with this one.

Watching the original show now is like drowning in a factory vat of Cheez Whiz. They've been running them on some channel.

Seriously though, Rone, sorry to hear about the injury. Dang. Double dang. :(

I mentioned awhile ago getting a case of podcaster shoulder almost in jest, but just such a repetitive stress injury may be partially to blame. That and a lot of irresponsibly heavy lifting past the initial signs I was damaged. What an anemic way to hurt oneself. <G>

Why, this old thing? Yeah, it's some kind of Chinese green. With poetry on it. Lady told me once what the poetry was, but I can't remember now.

EDIT: And Jason locks the thread for a win! Still, I wish I could make just a little correction to my last post...

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Rone, where ya been? Good last show.

He's been busy adding all the posters in the anti-vegan thread to his Nixonian list of bloody reprisals.

Mairkurion, Thanks for the kind words. :) Ed's getting over a really lousy case of flu and I have a rotator cuff torn every which way. That's what I get for saving orphans in my down time. Superheroism just doesn't seem worth it since the spandex stopped fitting right. People just laugh when they see me leap into danger. You won't have Superfluous Man to kick around anymore.

I guess by now everyone has seen I'm famous?

Definitely the poodles.

Moorluck wrote:

So how have you been Taig?

Doing OK. I'm managing to post while trying to get this gorram site up and running again.

It's fun being at work at midnight.

Jade!

Man, that was fun to shout. I've really got to get into shouting my my schedule frees up a bit. Seems to unnerve my cats but last I checked, I'm paying the bills around here.

In my CD player: Jethro Tull's Aqualung.

The Jade wrote:

Not even the axeman with freshly slaughtered Dairy Queen employees at his feet wants to admit maybe he should see someone about his temper.

I ordered a small blizzard, damn you. A SMALL!!!!!!!

If Farrakhan thinks the best the thirteen men who rule the world could do to lower world population is create H1N1 (hiney!) then the wind must howl within his head when he yawns.

I wish I could remember the name.... argh. There's a great 2 hour documentary that counters the 9/11 Truth suppositions one by one in a way that is academic, relaxed and free of hyperbole. Lots of experts and graphic models using all known evidence to make their points in harmonious accordance with what we know about physics, chemistry, engineering and demolition. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please refresh my memory.

I know a few true (911) believers and they're very bright people, but they're also clinically paranoid and have been since I've known them. I have to listen to their lectures but they won't return the courtesy and listen to my cautions and redirections toward sources of refutation. They've got too much psychically tied up in being right, because if they're right then their dark, frightened world view is legitimized. On the other hand, if they opened themselves up to the possibility that they were mistaken in beliefs they held so strongly and then admitted they jumped the gun when assuming that the people who said they pulled off the 9/11 attacks were liars, and that the Bush administration, using 2000 operatives who've proven inhumanly remarkable at keeping treasonous secrets pulled off the single most complex and covert crime in personkind's history... that's some kind of jump, right? It may even suggest dysfunction is afoot, and who ever wants to admit that to themselves? Not even the axeman with freshly slaughtered Dairy Queen employees at his feet wants to admit maybe he should see someone about his temper.

South Park said it best.

Then who was that I sold my soul to?

The Jade wrote:

I guess you haven't seen the new DMatron Android 9000 from Sharper Image? Does fiddy hundred calculations a second and cooks tasty snacks in its head for the table.

I SO want me one of those...

Despite doing everything they could to make 4E easy to "computerize", they still never managed to eliminate the hundreds of decisions a DM makes. I doubt we will every have a fully automated D&D game anytime soon. At least not until the computer can be the DM.

automated D&D game anytime soon. At least not until the computer can be the DM.

KaeYoss wrote:

Does that surface thingy have image recognition? Read the die's bottom and count it as the opposite (i.e surface sees a 7 and knows you rolled a 14).

You rolled virtual dice, it didn't read objects placed on the screen.

The Jade wrote:

Moff Rimmer wrote:

The Jade wrote:

Knock knock, Moff.

oh dear...

Who's there?

God.

(That's not the punch line)

God who?

Sadly, that was the punch line.

The Jade wrote:

Knock knock, Moff.

oh dear...

Who's there?

(That's not the punch line)

The Jade wrote:

I agree about the dice. Virtual rolling... feh. But imagine recognition on the opposite side. Great idea. :)

... until someone brings Q-Workshop dice to the table. Those are hard to read for some, I imagine an image recognition program might habe problems with them too.

The Jade wrote:

I went out with two pretty black girls back in the day

Which makes you either a racist or a sexist, or something, because I have it on good authority* that they were ugly girls, and you just perceived them as being pretty because of your own -isms.

* My own unfounded opinion that has no basis in observation or reality, but that I'll assert as fact anyway

Joana wrote:

It's very pretty, if you don't mind one encounter taking ALL NIGHT. Sheesh.

Virtual dice are a big no for me, whether they take forever to roll or not.

Plus, I didn't get hundreds of actual dice to use fake ones.

Does that surface thingy have image recognition? Read the die's bottom and count it as the opposite (i.e surface sees a 7 and knows you rolled a 14).

Knock knock, Moff.

I went out with two pretty black girls back in the day and the only people who shot funny looks were black men. But I just looked at 'em and they looked away. Then again, that was New York. Perhaps if I'd lived in Louisiana I would have had to put up my dukes (and by that I mean my two bodyguards, crazily both named Duke).

So there's stigma for mixed race marriages. There's some stigma having my hair 40 inches long too, but the judge who tries to cut it is going to have a lube-drenched dump truck driven at high speed up his rear. Really. I know where to get a dump truck and I'm good at driving angry.

We're big boys and girls, we don't need judges telling us to wear clothes that are less flirty in rape trials or warning us away from mixed marriages because some people may not like it. The people who don't like it are usually racist on some level, and racists need to be bothered about things. It's what makes them feel alive and relevant. Take away their sense of outrage at what they perceive to be injustice and they're nothing but bad breath and a day job.

The Jade wrote:

I hate the way my brain works sometimes. I saw the word gestapo and saw "postage" without comprehending the actual word's presence.

You can also get "Go paste!" outta there, and who doesn't love paste?

And yet you posted in here anyway...

I put it to you that those who do not love paste are the sort of wrong thinking folks we just don't won't around here. It makes things adhere, it tastes good, come on!

Kruelaid wrote:

Ahhh, yes. Canada. My home. America's hat.

The water I was drinking nearly came out of my nose when I read that.

Pop Quiz:
Who is Stephen Harper the boss of?

(Unless he is and I just don't know it yet)

I hate the way my brain works sometimes. I saw the word gestapo and saw "postage" without comprehending the actual word's presence.

You can also get "Go paste!" outta there, and who doesn't love paste?

HOLY s%%*! IT'S EMOTHULHU!

Can I link to that or put that on the AA episode page (with a link to your Deviant Art portfolio)?

Vic Wertz wrote:

carborundum wrote:

Can we buy the cardboard characters separately? I already have the game and the Doggie Expansion.

Hmm. We hadn't considered that, but we can look into it...

I'd be interested in that myself, especially if it came with a spare copy of the rules sheet.

My 1st edition and the dog are all nice quality, except the rules sheet, which was printed on overly thin paper to withstand playing with my niece and nephew. Something with heavier cardstock would be nice.

Thanks for checking it out (past or future tense), guys.

This was a fun episode. Best easter egg yet in my opinion, after the theme music plays out. Tom Lynch sang 'Feelings' while alone but I got it recorded and turned it into something. I hope he forgives me. <:)

BTW, I truly appreciate you folks so often taking the time to give me your impressions on the show. If not for you I'd be flying blind out here with no sense of what was ever working and why. Podcasts can be a very insular artistic experiment, and that can put you further from the reward you're really looking for, that of knowing you entertained someone.

The Jade wrote:

Atomic Array episode 33

Ed, I dismissed "The Others" as another atmospheric ghost story movie that seemed popular around that time, so I never watched it. I'll have to check it out.

Rone, I liked your rant, even though it was less of a rant, and more of a "Hey, kids. Your uncle Rone made some mistakes, and he doesn't want you to go down the same road. So listen up." It was very heartfelt, IMO.

Good show, guys!

I'm really glad you enjoyed my rant that was not quite a rant. I knew I was headed into different territory but there were just some things I felt needed to say on the subject. I was afraid I jumped a curb with this one and that people might be turned off by just how committed I was to a deeply emotional focus.

Having to think up stuff that annoys me every two weeks is sometimes annoying. Hey, my next rant! These stupid rants themselves! ;)