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Further Examples of Why I am not Lawful Good:
The County library's computer system will not let you renew "new" books online, the rationale being that everyone ought to get a chance to read them.
But, if you walk into the library with the book and go to a self-check kiosk, you can "return" the book and then check it out again, and to heck with anyone else who really wanted the new Gregory Maguire. Which--and this is only a random guess--in this town is probably no one. And I also picked up the second Jasper Fforde book, because I am years behind on my reading list. But at least our library is full of Books That No One Cares About But Me.
Not having a current knitting or sewing project means I can actually read instead of streaming pirated audiobooks on YouTube.
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*removes hooves, wiggles fingers tauntingly*
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And I also picked up the second Jasper Fforde book, because I am years behind on my reading list. But at least our library is full of Books That No One Cares About But Me.
The Thursday Next series, I'm guessing? I read those last year for the first time and loved them. Might re-read them sometime soon.
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I get excited about books.
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And I also picked up the second Jasper Fforde book, because I am years behind on my reading list. But at least our library is full of Books That No One Cares About But Me.The Thursday Next series, I'm guessing? I read those last year for the first time and loved them. Might re-read them sometime soon.
Yes! Whingey Wizzard gave me a copy of The Eyre Affair after three different friends told him I would love it. (I did.)
It's taken me this long to get around to picking up the sequel, because I couldn't find an audio copy.
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So, the play test forums are exactly as over the top reactionary as I expected.
I can't wait until the actual play test comes out.
Don't know... ^^'
There something mesmerizing about the sheer belly-aching, inflated egos, vigorous finger-wagging, glaring entitlement, haughty patronising, feeble pleading, snobbish derision, constant teeth-grinding and passive-aggressive sniping of the Play-test forums (ie the perpetual noise-machine).
It's basically a micro-cosmos of the everyday world of conflicting desires, opinions and, dare I say, political philosophies.
Now who woulda thunk that :P
I think those threads require HAZMAT suits.
Come, let's sit down at the end of an age, and have a drink as the world that we know fades into the mists of antiquity.
*pulls out a Bordeaux*
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I get excited about books.
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nothing wrong with reading naked!
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Not having a current knitting or sewing project means I can actually read instead of streaming pirated audiobooks on YouTube.
I read that as "or swearing project"...
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Not having a current knitting or sewing project means I can actually read instead of streaming pirated audiobooks on YouTube.I read that as "or swearing project"...
A swearing project is what happens when I design a birthday cake.
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S@+$ f+!! damn!
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So, NobodysWife, Shiro, and I went off to see Ready Player One last night. After pans both here and from Impus Major, I expected to be woefully unimpressed.
Instead, it was an unabashedly goofy tour through my childhood. The sheer number of game, toy, and movie references targeted at those of us who were children of the 70s was overwhelming. The in-game scenes were chaotic and goofy and borderline epileptic-inducing, but it all worked for me.
From the reviews I've read, this is actually the problem.
The basic complaint I've seen from multiple articles is "World is saved by kid with encyclopedic knowledge of White Male Demographic targeted pop culture ephemera of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, while basically acting as if everything outside of 'White Male Demographic targeted pop cultural ephemera' of those eras basically didn't exist".
Yep. That's the movie.
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No Shiro game today, so we went and saw Rampage, which was utterly and completely stupid.
And yet the main villain was so much more intelligent and believable, with a better-hatched plan, that I longed for said villain to do a crossover into Ready Player One.
So yeah, Rampage is everything you'd expect from a, "Hey! People are watching movies based on video games! Crank out another one, pronto! And get a big star to attract a bigger audience," cookie-cutter mindless summer action flick.
Have 4 beers. Sit back. Enjoy it for the stupid silly spectacle it is. But even NobodysWife, who loves her some Sharknado said, "Yeah, when they gave Ralph xxx it was a little over-the-top for me."
I didn't hate it. It entertained me for a couple of hours. If someone invited me to watch it again for free, I'd go. It's not dreadful. But don't walk into Rampage thinking it's anything other than what it is: A cheap Hollywood attempt to cash out on another video game they got the rights to.
(I still want to see the Simpson's epic "Tic Tac Toe: The Movie".)
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I've watched all the ads. Other than knowing nothing about the villain I feel like I've seen everything the movie has to offer.
Part of the fun of the Rampage games for me was how over-the-top anti-corporatist it was. All the monsters are supposed to be humans transformed by <insert product name here, it changes from game to game> because of some reaction to the unsafe chemicals used in their creation. The games' narrators tend to be scientists or secretaries from said company reporting to The Boss on your progress and results between levels. Etc. etc. etc.
It's ridiculous and silly and basically just a vehicle to point you into playing giant smashy monster and I love it.
But of course can't be quite THAT on the nose with a Hollywood flick....
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Honestly, I only ever played the original video game and I'll say that in terms of remaining true to the "plot", they did better than I'd have expected for such a cynical cash grab.
But I hadn't known the movie existed until someone in the theater yesterday said, "I'm thinking of going to see Rampage," and I thought, "Oh, I wish you wouldn't."
But NobodysWife really wanted to see it, and we saw it, and since Shiro didn't have a game ready I suppose it was probably at least as entertaining as a few rounds of Hanabi. Maybe...
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I'm going to watch rampage tomorrow. I've not seen the show yet, but if you say it's good, I'll take your word for it.
I'm not a very critical audience so I don't comment too much about villian idiot balls.
I've not played the game.
Just a weird thought.
Lowls’s plot is kinda all over the place. But maybe part of it was my fault, since I was doing a PC insert in book 2.I realized that only when I was trying to give my player a summary through his journal. He talked to Zandalus to learn about Neruzavin, then got the PCs hired to get gifts for the Mad Poet, then dropped them in the asylum after he was done with them.
He dropped the chains of night off so no one could follow his footsteps after that since the Shatterman would kill everyone in the asylum. Yeah I think the problem was because in the best of intentions, I tried to insert a PC in book 2, and so I ran it that that PC was their senior in Lowls service(since the Dreamland scene at the end doesn't make sense if they're not in the same boat) and that he found the mad Poet and the Mad Poet said one wasn't enough, get me 4 more. Just another reason why I really shouldn't be tampering with APs. Don't pay enough attention to details and the chronology comes out wrong.
Also due to the trauma, I haven't reread my Strange Aeons campaign as much as Reign of Winter so it wasn't that clear. Sort of trying to block things out of my mind, so to speak.
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So I'm trying to figure out the point of this thread. Seems like it's all about just getting it to be as long as possible, by carrying on whatever conversations you feel like. Is that right? Or am I missing something? Are there rules? Like, no talking about goblins or paladins, not talking about the rules of this thread (fight club style, in which case I apologize for breaking the first two rules of Deep 6 FaWtL), or whatever?Wait, there's a point?
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Not according to some physics models.So I'm trying to figure out the point of this thread. Seems like it's all about just getting it to be as long as possible, by carrying on whatever conversations you feel like. Is that right? Or am I missing something? Are there rules? Like, no talking about goblins or paladins, not talking about the rules of this thread (fight club style, in which case I apologize for breaking the first two rules of Deep 6 FaWtL), or whatever?Wait, there's a point?
Yeah, but those theories are so one-dimensional and just stringing people along.
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Wait... I thought this thread was all about worshipping Freehold's Black Manliness (TM)?You mean that isnt what this thread is about?
Who have I been granting spells to, then?
My left smallest toe. It's a seventh-level cleric of Freehold.
I have no idea how that works either. I just know it casts random Inflicts on me when I get it too close to certain pieces of furniture.
What sort of oath does one have to take in order to become a paladin of Freehold?
Are there any special restrictions, or do we not wanna go down that road?
They would either be lawfully chaotic or chaotically lawful. Of course there is always order out of chaos.
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I told my Mom that my new girlfriend was mostly deaf, so she should speak loudly and slowly. Told my new girlfriend that my Mom was mentally handicapped. Then I put them in a room together and watched the show.
~laughter~ You are so very bad. I think the Devil wants to have a word with you about training his minions.
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I know I've said a lot of bad things about cats, but there is one thing I like about them. They don't hate you because of your ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender, appearance, or politics. They hate you because they are a cat. So at least their hatred is honest and pure.
Unless, of course, you are allergic to cats. Then they don't hate you at all and want nothing more than to cuddle with you all damn day long.
~sneezes and rubs my watery eyes~ So that is why my cats "love" me so much. The little sadists!
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Yeah, but those theories are so one-dimensional and just stringing people along.Not according to some physics models.So I'm trying to figure out the point of this thread. Seems like it's all about just getting it to be as long as possible, by carrying on whatever conversations you feel like. Is that right? Or am I missing something? Are there rules? Like, no talking about goblins or paladins, not talking about the rules of this thread (fight club style, in which case I apologize for breaking the first two rules of Deep 6 FaWtL), or whatever?Wait, there's a point?
I see that you are in tune with things.
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Not having a current knitting or sewing project means I can actually read instead of streaming pirated audiobooks on YouTube.I read that as "or swearing project"...
There ought to be a special day devoted to the creation of new curse-words.
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I know I've said a lot of bad things about cats, but there is one thing I like about them. They don't hate you because of your ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender, appearance, or politics. They hate you because they are a cat. So at least their hatred is honest and pure.
Unless, of course, you are allergic to cats. Then they don't hate you at all and want nothing more than to cuddle with you all damn day long.
What bad things did you say about cats again?
Would you like to retract those statements?
*extends and retracts claws*
No I would not.
*throws tomato stuffed with catnip at Mort*
*Attack Roll: 1d20+3*
*gets hit by tomato in the face and spaces off to lala land*
Sorry gran, I may have hit list on your post by mistake. It's the hallucinations, you know.
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Well, I don't see how any of this fixes the Shifter class.
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Two days later, and it's still snowing.
Sun Prairie claims to have Jimmy the (F~*~head) Groundhog in protective custody.
We'll see about that...
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So, the play test forums are exactly as over the top reactionary as I expected.
I can't wait until the actual play test comes out.
Don't know... ^^'
There something mesmerizing about the sheer belly-aching, inflated egos, vigorous finger-wagging, glaring entitlement, haughty patronising, feeble pleading, snobbish derision, constant teeth-grinding and passive-aggressive sniping of the Play-test forums (ie the perpetual noise-machine).
It's basically a micro-cosmos of the everyday world of conflicting desires, opinions and, dare I say, political philosophies.
Now who woulda thunk that :P
I think those threads require HAZMAT suits.
Come, let's sit down at the end of an age, and have a drink as the world that we know fades into the mists of antiquity.
*pulls out a Bordeaux*
Now you're talking Kitty!
I would never turn down a nice glass of wine, in such divine feline company :P
*Sits down, pours a glass of wine. Fluffs Mort's fur and gives a lot of scratches*
I'll have to find a beverage fit for a Kitty to pay you back some day, but for now let's enjoy each others company and the "lightshow" from the forums.
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What's the difference between erotic and kinky? Erotic is using a feather. Kinky is using the whole chicken.
Huh...
So...
Is that what I've been doing wrong all these years? Using a cock instead of a hen?
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I'm going to watch rampage tomorrow. I've not seen the show yet, but if you say it's good, I'll take your word for it.
I do not believe I used the word "good" anywhere in my review of the movie...
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"Ugh, The Lion King is so unrealistic. You'd never get two males in the same pride."
"[Student], I'm also fairly certain lions don't sing."
"Okay, yeah, but still..."
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Inconclusive.
According to The Secret Lives Of Pets they only sing when people aren't around.
Or at least wait until people take hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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I'm going to watch rampage tomorrow. I've not seen the show yet, but if you say it's good, I'll take your word for it.I do not believe I used the word "good" anywhere in my review of the movie...
Didn't you say something about 4 beers, while you gave ready player one a 2 beer rating and don't beers work like rotten tomatoes?
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Didn't you say something about 4 beers, while you gave ready player one a 2 beer rating and don't beers work like rotten tomatoes?I'm going to watch rampage tomorrow. I've not seen the show yet, but if you say it's good, I'll take your word for it.I do not believe I used the word "good" anywhere in my review of the movie...
No, I'm pretty sure that's how many beers you have to drink, at a minimum, before you can enjoy the movie.
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"No, there should not be a mouse plugged into your monitor...no...rectangle...no...ok, that's not a monitor, that's your computer....yes....no, the monitor is the small TV you use to...no..."
--Techinician's side of the conversation as he tried to talk an arguing brother and sister duo through the arduous process of plugging in a monitor. One of those people is actually an employee of our company, but I couldn't tell you which one. I was utterly convinced he was talking to the twins from the first season of Jessica Jones.