Stoopid magic resistance,... ;P
I know, right?
hello;
just a note: I won't be around tomorrow night. Working very very late.
Cool, have fun?
Or at least, enjoy the paycheck! :)
I know, right? heh heh.....
its all good. i think a lot of people are going to be out of it with the holidays coming up. i work christmas and i'm on a different continent from my wife so i'll still be refreshing my campaign tab hahahaha
I finally got 4 days off coming up.
HUZZZAH!!!
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it'd be pretty funny if we were actually wrong and got arrested hahaha
Heh heh....
Stop.
Giving.
The.
GM.
IDEAS!
;P
Like that'd be any worse than whatever I'd come up with.
That's what I said,
you don't NEED any help when it comes to finding things to throw at us!
:)
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congrats! i could actually see your name without embiggening
i entered RPG superstar this year, hopefully i at least move past round one. not really sure about how well my item will do, its kinda iffy, but i didnt really have any other ideas. in two days the results will be posted (i think, i might be a day ahead of everyone)!
Good luck for RPG Superstar - I hope you get in, because it's a real blast. And the 3rd party publishers really do keep an eye on it, even for those (ahem) who don't make the final round.
yeah i was a bit worried about entering because i dont really have the time to put a whole adventure module, but based on all the stuff i read, it is highly unlikely to get into the last round if it is your first year.
here's a question: Is writing RPG products your main job, or do you fit that in around another job? In the (fairly distant) future I would actually like to do something else for a job, but write on the side for fun (and maybe some extra money of course).
I very much fit it in around a full time job. It's a challenge, but manageable so far. I find that writing tends to soak up TV time or computer game time or book time. But it's hard to balance everything I want to do alongside spending enough time with my family, exercising well, and everything else.
nice. do you find the deadlines presented in the competition are representative of the deadlines you adhere to in "the business"?
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Congrats!!!
Gratz Will! :)
I have received a gift horse and, rather than looking it in the mouth, I'm going to go for a ride. I will be far from home and computer for the next ten days or so. Please bot Larissa in my absence.
Talk to you soon!
Sounds awesome! Have fun and tell us all about it when you get back.
I'm also going on holiday for the next week-and-a-bit. Off to sunny Australia, back on Jan 19. Have fun and don't break anything while I'm gone!
be careful and use some SPF!
Look out for drop bears!
Have fun Pixie & Will!
Don't do anything that I wouldn't do!
Oh, wait. That won't restrict you much. Nevermind.
:)
bump
been slammed lately; I'll try to get things rolling better soon.
are we waiting for the other two or will you be rolling their actions?
doesnt bother me either way, just wondering. Alinya should be back soon, it has almost been 7 days.
I'd kinda rather another p.c. did their actions.
It was kindof a jacked up week for me's anyway; I figured a slowdown wasn't too big a deal to me.
I know what you mean.
Seems like no one is back full steam yet from the holidays. ;P
And then there's the whole being broke thing,...
Oh wait, is that just me?
I have received a gift horse and, rather than looking it in the mouth, I'm going to go for a ride. I will be far from home and computer for the next ten days or so. Please bot Larissa in my absence.
Talk to you soon!
The gift horse in question was a ticket to a Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Magic. We had several days at sea and stopped at Montego Bay (Jamaica), Georgetown (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands), and Cozumel (Mexico). We got to snorkel out to a shipwreck and hike to (and climb up!) a Mayan pyramid.
I know some of you are much more traveled than I am, so this might not sound like a big deal for you, but this was an absolutely amazing experience for someone that had never even been to the seashore. It's going to be very hard to return to reality...
SOunds like it was a blast to me Pixie!
Glad you had a good time.
I'm not jealous at all. Nope. Not a bit.
Now get back to reality with the rest of us poor slobs!
;P
You, sir, would absolutely have loved the theater and the shows they put on there. Still amazes me that they could get such a nice facility onto a boat!
And yeah, reality has proceeded to beat me about the head and shoulders soundly already. Hopefully, my resistance has been bolstered for a little while.
Oh yeah, I know all about the lovely, high-tech super theaters and high-end equipment they have on those boats.
Honestly, I don't know which I'd enjoy more, the shows, or seeing the toys they DO the shows with!
AGain,... Not jealous. At all. Nope. :(
I can tell - you would be behind the curtains watching the magic happen. They had Jason Byrne on the ship to do his magic - I am usually somewhat successful at detecting the misdirection, but they totally snowed me.
You bet I would! :)
Yes, it is sad, but I have a very difficult time watching the Academy Awards without critiquing the tech mistakes. ;P (I miss the old days, when I could just watch it!)
Jason Byrne huh? I may not actually SPOT the misdirection, but I can usually tell how/when/where it happened too. I enjoy not being able to figure it out. Maybe thats why I like magic so much (In RL and in the PbP's) I know so much about how to make things happen onstage, I like it when I can't actually see how it happens. :)
The theater seating was well-designed. We grabbed seats on the top level, back wall because we would have a great view of everything.
When we sat down, we noticed that three of the seats to our left were marked off and there was a platform over the middle one and a zip line that ran to the stage. So while the audience was anticipating the gory end to the magician on stage, we saw him step onto the platform and get his grip on the zip line in preparation for his "return from the dead". It was fun to be a little in the know.
They had a routine where one of the dancers tightrope-walked across a laser beam on stage. I know how they did it in retrospect, but watching it, they totally had me.
It was a great show. I'm not sure I've ever seen a big-production magic show live before. Lots of firsts for me last week.
That sounds like it was awesome.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My in-laws (And my own mother to lesser extent) are BIG cruise nuts. My father-in-law is almost to the point he's a cruise snob now. (He's a big blue-collar kind of guy, so this is funny on so many levels) But he's convinced that one cruise line is SO much better than the others, (food, service, etc) and embarrasses my mother -in-law terribly when he is forced to cruise on the 'lesser' line! :)
Yeah, I was informed that the Carnival Magic is "much smaller" than the ship that an acquaintance went on. "Not even in the same class" I believe was the phrase.
But they were anchored side-by-side at Grand Cayman - that other ship might be larger, but if it is, I could not tell. They had more lifeboats, but they were smaller boats, so...
I figure it's the crew that's going to make the biggest difference, though. The ship can be an engineering marvel and crewed by a bunch of jerks and no one will want to return.
I would be willing to take more cruises so I could become a cruise snob. Wonder where to apply for that job? "Yes, I review cruise lines for a living. It's nasty, nasty work, but someone must do it, what?" ;-)
Lol! EXactly!
I'm willing to suffer and do that job so others don't have to! :)
my wife's friend was a masseuse on a cruise line and said that it wasnt all it was cracked up to be. long hours, dont really get to enjoy the locales, and cramped quarters (plus you are hot bunking with another employee)
Oh yeah, I've heard that too!
It is a COMPLETELY different situation for the employees than for the cruisees! ;P
Hey Pixie, that sounds like a lovely trip! I'm also having a hard time returning to real life after a simply wonderful vacation. Among other highlights, took a boat out to a floating pontoon just off the Great Barrier Reef, saw the scale of it from a helicopter, then scuba'd along the edge. Magical.
I'll read and get back into the thread over the next couple of days.
Sounds awesome! We did not take the plunge (literally) and learn scuba. But I could be persuaded...
Our short snorkeling excursion has us looking for opportunities to do it again, though. Having gotten our feet wet (sorry!), we know what to expect next time.
scuba is a great time, i got certified a few years back when i was stationed in japan and loved it. alas, then i moved to northern california and the water was too cold for my liking so i haven't gone diving in years. i have been living in hawaii for a year and still havent been, mostly because it is difficult to persuade the wife to give it a shot. we have been snorkeling though, and that is always fun when the weather is nice
Snorkeling is the poor man's scuba. And it is fun too!
:)
yeah. i mostly like it because even when doing scuba, all the stuff looks brighter and more vibrant above -30ft. that and i dont have to do that math with the air supply and all that. for the deep diving cert i went down to -100 or -130 ft (cant remember) but it was all much less cool looking than all the colorful reef and fish up closer to the surface, due to the pressure on one's eyes and the light diminishing as it passes down through the water (as i seem to remember it being explained to me, i could be wrong)
Yeah, I'd like to learn to scuba, but the couple of times I tried it I really struggled to equalize pressure, and so found it a painful and claustrophobic experience. My wife loves scuba, but snorkeling suits me very well. I can get down 2 or 3 meters and in the right location that's all I need to see amazing fish and coral. Plus, I can blow water out like a whale when I surface! How good is that?