So it IS you! At long last, vengeance is at hand! Come back here you lupine lunatic!
Yeah, but how do they determine who gets which avatar? Number of posts? Date of registration? Or, god forbid for my sake, quality of posts!
Bill - your new name is creepy. I liked the old name better. Moff Rimmer sounds like some sort of pornographic muppet.
~LAUGHTER~ D & D meets the world of Dragon Porn!
~sighs~ Even if I did not want to post the rant, it felt good to type it out! ~sighs~ Maybe next lifetime. Ah, well. I still have to contend with the trouble that I have accumulated during this one!
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Bill - your new name is creepy. I liked the old name better. Moff Rimmer sounds like some sort of pornographic muppet.Have you seen Meet the Feebles?
Sick. Sick. Funny,...but sick.
Meet the Feebles was indeed great. Rather than a porn muppet, Moff Rimmer is a figure from the highly amusing British sci-fi comedy series "Red Dwarf". If you don't know it yet, then get yer act together.
The best line from Red Dwarf was the human evolved from a cat.
"I had a very productive day today. I took four naps, ate five times, and made lots of things mine."
So, what's a white hole?
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So, what's a white hole?The best line from Red Dwarf was the human evolved from a cat.
"I had a very productive day today. I took four naps, ate five times, and made lots of things mine."
Yes, Dave. Everybody's dead. Everybody's dead, Dave.
It's good to see a number of people who recognize the reference...
Not a rant, but I just have to say...
"SPOOOONNN!!!!" The Tick Season one is FINALLY out on DVD.
Got me nostalgic. Now I want some kind of Red Dwarf boxed set.
And I never did notice that D13 had no avatar, but that in itself made me pay more attention to his name when it came up.
In a barrel of apples, be the orange.
New York City has ONE nice season. Its hard to beat New York City in the fall. Other than that, there are just too many people in too small of an area with too much crappy weather.
I live an hour north of you and have similar issues with the city. I visit sparingly. It has so much to offer almost anyone, but the sun baked aroma of fresh wafting pee (the official scent of NYC) has a way of turning me green.
hulksmash.
Every once in a while (more frequently in the summertime) you will be walking down the street in NYC and suddenly get a mouthfull of air that tastes like it has been filtered through the crotch of some hobo's sweatpants.Mmmmm. Sweet succulent hobo.
When I said 'pee' in my last post, I wanted to say 'bum pee' but I resisted. Now that you've opened the gates however...
bum pee.
Love that 'sweet succulent hobo' line.
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"SPOOOONNN!!!!" The Tick Season one is FINALLY out on DVD.
Item 1) re: the Tick, Season 1 - Hot f***in' d*mn! It's about time!
Item 2) re: Red Dwarf, funniest - "Dwayne Dibbly??"
Item 3) rantish: Dammit! I agree on the avatars. It's a completely tiny thing, but an av lock would be cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet! I don't blame Pop'n'Fresh or Nwar or any of the 13 other people who have used 'my' av (most just once or twice), but *I'm* the alpha! A wider field of avatars would still be nice, as well.
You saw Wolfen, right?
Love that 'sweet succulent hobo' line.You have a band right? Sounds like a good song title to me. Hmmm?
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OK, maybe not.
I used to quote the end narration ALL THE TIME as a kid.
I also used to quote Eddie J Olmos (as the north american indian somehow) when he says, "I swim like a fish and f%#k like a bunny."
I agree on the avatars. It's a completely tiny thing, but an av lock would be cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet! I don't blame Pop'n'Fresh or Nwar or any of the 13 other people who have used 'my' av (most just once or twice), but *I'm* the alpha! A wider field of avatars would still be nice, as well.
I guess the problem would be that Paizo would then have to pay someone to edit the avatars, and since the avatars aren't related to a direct source of income for the company it would be like setting money aflame.
It would be neat to have our own though. I wasn't the first to bear his sexy lupine profile, so I dare not attempt to own it, but I could certainly create something special with a lil work in Photoshop. I'd prolly just cartoon up a pic of myself.
Hobo quote of the day...
"Excuse me, are you going to finish that napkin?"
Ultradan
My favorite panhandler here in Austin has three signs that he rotates.
"Road rage? Yell at a bum 50 cents."
"Money can't buy happiness, but it sure chases away misery."
...and my absolute favorite....
"Family killed by ninjas. Need money for karate lessons."
I'd give him money just for making me laugh. I feel sorry for homeless people. I know that giving them money just feeds their addiction, but I always had a soft spot for them.
Daigle--don't mention anything to Lilith about the ready availability of Shiner beer in the Austin area. It makes her really sad that she can't get any in Oregon....and whatever you do, don't e-mail her a photo of three ice cold Shiner beer bottles being used as a dungeon decoration during a gaming session, okay? That would be really mean..... :)
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the sun baked aroma of fresh wafting pee (the official scent of NYC) has a way of turning me green.
hulksmash.
In New Orleans, which I happily abandoned 5 years ago, the official scent was all bodily discharges mixed with a fresh dose of alcohol-induced vomit. Mmmm-Good!
And my rant for the day - I hate having to wait unitl November for the next Worldwide D&D Game Day. According to WotC, however, it looks like they are making plans for people to run their own games as well as whatever the company provides.
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You haven't seen hobos till you been to mexico, that country opened my eyes poverty wise. But now to get to my rant.
A game rant about gargantuan and colossal.
So I received my Gargantuan Black Dragon. He's pretty and all but by looking at him and the current miniature crazy 3.5 d&d I kinda feel a little bit ... I don't know dissapointed at the fact that gargantuan and colossal aren't as big as they should be
Now from a miniature game standpoint I understand the need to capture them in a still playable way. But when you calculate it a gargantuan is 4x4 which translates in 4*5 ft = 20 feat, in metric (since I'm Belgian) that translates into 6 meter, which I find small to be gargantuan, I'd call that giant to be honest. Colossal is 30 feat, about 10 meter, that's the size of a bus and I wouldn't call a bus colossal tbh. Colosal to me would be base of about 4 or 5 buses at the least. If WotC needs a nice example of colossal that they watch the old Godzilla or Gamera movies, that's colossal.
The other thing that I find weird is that a dragon is a cube form while it's more rectangle and that height doesn't compare in the miniature gameplay, basically I can have a creature be 40 ft in height and still only 10 ft in base. Now what would happen if that giant a creature toppels, well in effect nothing cause he'd fall in his nice 2*2 squares, the same way trees fall in d&d I guess.
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... I don't know dissapointed at the fact that gargantuan and colossal aren't as big as they should be
Now from a miniature game standpoint I understand the need to capture them in a still playable way. But when you calculate it a gargantuan is 4x4 which translates in 4*5 ft = 20 feat, in metric (since I'm Belgian) that translates into 6 meter, which I find small to be gargantuan, I'd call that giant to be honest. Colossal is 30 feat, about 10 meter, that's the size of a bus and I wouldn't call a bus colossal tbh. Colosal to me would be base of about 4 or 5 buses at the least. If WotC needs a nice example of colossal that they watch the old Godzilla or Gamera movies, that's colossal.
The other thing that I find weird is that a dragon is a cube form while it's more rectangle and that height doesn't compare in the miniature gameplay, basically I can have a creature be 40 ft in height and still only 10 ft in base. Now what would happen if that giant a creature toppels, well in effect nothing cause he'd fall in his nice 2*2 squares, the same way trees fall in d&d I guess.
i thought a similar thing for a bit...
until i put the black on the middle of the battle-mat, and drew out its threatened radius. for me, the mini itself is a stagnant "freeze frame" of the creature, which is moving around in its assigned "box" (delineated in 1.5m or 5' sections, of course).
when you take that into account (and see that getting within 20' of that 20' base (overall threat diameter: 60'), it gets bigger.
for even better clarity, i lined up our minis size-wise, like the PHB page shows...stirge, halfling, human, troll, giant, purple worm, dragon. it's pretty dramatic just HOW much bigger that Gargantuan black is than the halfling.
hell, do this: get the small, medium, large, huge, and gargantuan blacks and set them up side by side.
-the hamster
I hate threads that try to tackle moral questions when everyone posting on them apparently has little to no concept of what they are talking about. Now, believe me when I say that I hate tooting my own horn because I've seen others do it and it looks reall asinine. That said, I've done quite a bit of introspection and philosophizing in my short life already, and many, many, many people all throughout my life have commented on my wisdom and perception, and so I feel a little qualified. Especailly when I read threads and see some of the arguments being made over why something is good or evil or whatever, and the posts are riddled with logical nonsequiturs (I also hate that I tried to check the spelling of that in Microsoft Word only to find that it isn't in the program's dictionary, forcing me to find a real dictionary and look it up!).
Wisdom isn't as hard to come by as many people believe. It can take a while to develop, but it isn't that hard. Simply take a thought, and before speaking or acting on it, think about it. Sit down, either immediately or in your spare time, and dwell on it a bit. Look at it in a style like that of a flow-chart. "Why is this the way it is?" "If this is true, what does it mean?" "If this happens, what happens next?" Think about it in steps and logically. Pacing helps a lot for me. If you have someone else around who's actually willing to engage in a higher-level conversation and open their mind a bit, that helps immensly! You will not get all the answers- no one does. But you'll be a lot closer than you were before, and you will amaze yourself and everyone around you with your insight, and that style of thinking can also lend itself to more (as D&D would define it) Intelligence-based "checks" as well, improving one's own abilities to manage the world you live in and granting a whole new perspective on life.
Now, many of you on these boards already display a healthy dose of wisdom (and I'm not talking D&D stat here, but real wisdom), and that's one of the reasons I love this site so much. But for those others, don't open your mouth on a morals-based thread unless you've actually taken some damned time to think over what it is you're saying! ARGH!!!
I hate threads that try to tackle moral questions when everyone posting on them apparently has little to no concept of what they are talking about.
Please qualify this, Saern, lest we initiate some kind of WISDOM-OFF 2006 tournament.
My favorite panhandler here in Austin has three signs that he rotates.
"Road rage? Yell at a bum 50 cents."
"Money can't buy happiness, but it sure chases away misery."
...and my absolute favorite....
"Family killed by ninjas. Need money for karate lessons."
I wish we could have sigs. I would totally put that in there.
Well, the thing that made me see red in the golem discussion was the reference to things about the morals of binding an unseen servant... never mind the fact that you don't bind anything, but rather create a force the does menial tasks, and not a spiritual force, but just a physical force to sweep, etc. There's no morals to it. That, combined with several other such references, made me think back to the threads on morals that have cropped up over the last few months and the various statements within that only pretended to actually present a logical argument. I certainly don't want to start a conflict or anything, I just needed to vent, and I knew the exact place to go. It wasn't anything, so don't stress over it.
I just needed to vent, and I knew the exact place to go. It wasn't anything, so don't stress over it.
Unseen servant is just a force. That goes back to my windmill example. You aren't enslaving the wind.
Now if the wind had an INT score I guess we'd have to start a new discussion. Would there suddenly be a penalty under law for breaking it?
I continue to hate my birthmother. After not hearing from my brother since the day of my high school graduation, I finally get a message from him on the instant messanger I downloaded two years ago with the sole intent of talking to him, and I manage to get into a conversation, which I hadn't been able to do all summer because of She Who Spawned Me.
And, within ten minutes of talking to my brother, he tells me that my sister is a slut. Upon noticing my shock and outrage at hearing this, he informs me that he's just joking, but she did French kiss two guys in two weeks.
She's ten years old! TEN! Damn you for raising both of them in an environment where he would say that about her, damn you for continuing the play with them and their availability to family like they're some toys, and damn you for taking my sister to that freaking "festival"! And I know her well enough to understand that's not a reflection on her, but only upon the confusion that you sow, and my only concern becomes for her future well being, especially when I hear you aren't letting my brother (and my sister, too? I don't know yet) from seeing his ex-step father (her father!) more than two days a month because they happen to go to Catholic church! Meanwhile, while you complain about him trying to "crush their poor little souls," your abject egocentrism borders on child abuse and inflicts them to a world they shouldn't have to live in.
May you rot in Hell.
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I am considered by most people to be a "hard-*ss". Sometimes I want to (and do) cry over other peoples' pain.
I hate the pain that Searn has been forced to endure.
I hate the pain that others inflict NEEDLESSLY on everyone around them.
I hate that two bystanders were walking down the street and passed an alley where someone was getting raped and now they are dead for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. (They were considered by all who knew them to be terrific people.)
I hate that our world is slowly sinking into a state of Barbarism that I don't believe we will be able to pull out of. We are at our most technologically advanced age but we can't walk ANYWHERE safely.
I hate that an innocent life is worth 5-10 years(usually)of an evil person's life.
I love when I cry, but I hate the reasons for it.
FH (Those who hide behind the shadow live with all thats dead.)
Thank you. It feels good to have some support and feedback.
I deeply sympathize, Saern. Oh, what tumor of rageful frustration grows upon the powerlessness you must feel.
Game related rant: I'm getting back into fantasy art after having my head filled with garbage at art school for three years. And it bugs me sometimes to see artists do the 'sexy scantily clad wizard chick' thing with necromancers. I mean, I have no problem with scantily clad women (and men, for the ladies and gents into that) but it has to fit the character concept. Dungeon is pretty good about this, but there's a few places where it doesn't quite work. I always thought of necromancers as being the least accepted of the specialist mages, so they should reflect that. No women in halter-tops of risque skeletal hands constantly feeling them up! Maybe if it was for a costume party and they were going as a 'necromancer', but when one exhumes corpses for a living and tends to prefer their company over the living, it just makes no sense. Blood stained aprons are appropriate, shrouds are appropriate, the old torn black robe is appropriate, even the normal working wear gown or dress would work, but too much exposed flesh when dealing with dusty, vermin-ridden corpses just strikes me as bizarre. At least give her a rash or something.
"Scantily clad" would be appropriate for any number of character archetypes, in the right situation, but necromancer doesn't strike me as the one it works with. Call me strange.
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That reminds me of a game story.
I used to play with these two guys, who made everybody--p.c. and important n.p.c.'s, based on characters from film and t.v.
So the p.c. sees Kristen Kreuk (Lana Lang from Smallville) out in the graveyard, digging a big hole.
So he walks up to her and says all cutesy, "whatcha doin'?"
So she says, all innocent, "nothing..."
So he says, "I know what YOU'RE doing. YOU'RE GRAVE ROBBING!"
So she looks left, looks right, points her hands at him and says, "sleep!!!"
He shakes his head, "dammit!"
I know what you're saying, but sometimes the absurd can make for good times.
I'm all for absurd for the sake of absurd, but when there isn't any irony or humor in it, it just doesn't function. It just becomes purely about the artist or art director's goth fetish.
I'm all for absurd for the sake of absurd, but when there isn't any irony or humor in it, it just doesn't function. It just becomes purely about the artist or art director's goth fetish.
As another artist, agreed!