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"Professor, would you say people should start panicking?"
"Yes I would, Kent."
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How about rereading Octavia Butler's "Parable Of The Sower"?
Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, imagined a future in which California is inhospitable, weather is deadly, wealth disparities are vicious, and a presidential candidate may set the country back a hundred years. It all begins on July 20, 2024.
I have been ordered by my mental health counselor to step away from political news and commenting because I'm on the path to a 72 hour vacation in a Friendly Local Health Facility.
Jokes aside, my doctor has ordered me to avoid them.
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Completely. There's zero point, man. Life is very short and there are WAY too many good things to think about.
Like... ummm... s@!+... uhh... there's that... thing... uhhh... DAMMIT!
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“Hordes of panicky people seem to be evacuating the town... for some unknown reason. Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?”
“Yes, I would, Kent.”
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Hmmm... I should show this to my regulars. Maybe they'd stop complaining about all the traumatizing I do.
"GUYS! THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!"
*runs lovecraftian campaign*
Heh, heh, heh...
Well, then back to denial.
Roll for Insight: Understanding How the Experience of Playing Dungeons & Dragons Impacts the Mental Health of an Average Player"A strong focus was placed on escapism and the positive impact that this had on the mental health of the players. "
I don't think what she's telling me to do is engage in denial. It's to stop letting my black, seething hatred of a person, his cult, and their ideology control my thoughts because frankly, that's what's happening.
Messageboard political intrusion over. The mods can all stand down and put their tasers away.
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*hides taser behind back*
Huh?
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Pete Townsend, Paul Weller, and several other sharp & groovy cats (including my mother and father circa 1965) are presumably only packing tasers because there are a bunch of greasy ROCKERS marauding about, and they don't want to be caught unprepared on Brighton seafront this Saturday night.
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*spoing*
Egads! The hooligans have taken Brighton?!
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The only place to rumble tonight.
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We got the beat.
Slain. I am slain, I tell you.
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Once again, my work here is done.
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In non-rage-inducing news, I see this morning that the Olympic Torch will be carried down river in a 24-seater rowboat... waaiiiittt a second... big torch... buncha guys in a rowboat... heading towards Paris...
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Drejk hasn't posted his Beast O' The Week... I hope he wasn't eaten by a grue or something.
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It *is* pretty dark…
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A great tusked ape.
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Ooooo!
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PLAYER: Before the asura prison guard regenerates, I strip him of everything and lock him in the adamantine cell.
ME: He just has his weapons and the keys to the cell.
PLAYER: The picture in the book shows him wearing a loin cloth.
ME (next day, updating the Google Sheet loot tracker): ...and one asura-scented loin cloth.
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It *is* pretty dark…Reminds me of an incident in one of my old groups. The party was making camp for the night when they heard something. "How dark is it now?" one of the players asked the GM.
"It's very dark," he answered.Not a second later all the power for the entire neighborhood went, leaving us in the dark of winter for about 30 minutes.
Awesome.
Last year, I was playing a Call of Cthulu game and a storm knocked the power out! We played Call of Cthulu in the dark by the flashlights of our smartphones for about 45 minutes.
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My character was essentially disemboweled twice by the same Smilodon in the same combat encounter last night. The first time he ended up at -25 HP and the GM basically said something about divine intervention and I was healed back up to 4 HP. Before my character could get away, he ended up at -15. Divine intervention again. While I was grateful the GM did that, I was not gonna fuss had it not happened.
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Yabba. Dabba. Dayum.
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Get off his lawn salt field!
I love it!
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Watching the Olympics gives me strange thoughts. Like: "How far could a shot-putter throw a gymnast?"
I know I shouldn't want the answer to this question, but I really want the answer to this question.
Over the moon, baby.
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OLYMPICS THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
"And once again, the Skateboarding final has been interrupted because the assistant manager at the Circle K came out and chased everyone out of the parking lot."
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Watching the Olympics gives me strange thoughts. Like: "How far could a shot-putter throw a gymnast?"
I know I shouldn't want the answer to this question, but I really want the answer to this question.
1) Average weight of Olympic gymnast (59kg)
2) Weight of standard shot put (7.2kg for men, 4kg for women)3) World record shot put distance (22m, male shot putter)
If my calculations are correct, someone who could throw 7.2kg 22m could throw 59kg 2.68m (59/7.2 = 8.19; 22/8.19 = 2.68)
Watching the Olympics gives me strange thoughts. Like: "How far could a shot-putter throw a gymnast?"
I know I shouldn't want the answer to this question, but I really want the answer to this question.
1) Average weight of Olympic gymnast (59kg)
2) Weight of standard shot put (7.2kg for men, 4kg for women)
3) World record shot put distance (22m, male shot putter)If my calculations are correct, someone who could throw 7.2kg 22m could throw 59kg 2.68m (59/7.2 = 8.19; 22/8.19 = 2.68)
European or African swallow?
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OLYMPICS THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
"And once again, the Skateboarding final has been interrupted because the assistant manager at the Circle K came out and chased everyone out of the parking lot."
Don't you mean Le Cirque du K?
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Débeveragé.
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Male gymnasts file out for final
ME: Damn! Those are some hella jacked hobbits!
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In the impossible event that I ever were to win a gold medal, I’d want them to play ‘Hollaback Girl’ at the ceremony.
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Fantasy Monster: Pot-of-storms.
A storm-and-lightning brewing cauldron created by ancient druids.
Fantasy Monster: Pot-of-storms.
A storm-and-lightning brewing cauldron created by ancient druids.
This is excellent.
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I don't want to take away from ANYone's joy--truly I don't--buuuutttt...
If marathoners celebrated proportionally as much as 100m sprinters, it would be a 6 month orgy.
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I don't want to take away from ANYone's joy--truly I don't--buuuutttt...
If marathoners celebrated proportionally as much as 100m sprinters, it would be a 6 month orgy.
Ha! Are you referring the US guy who ripped off his race tag and marched around for the photographers?
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Ha! Are you referring the US guy who ripped off his race tag and marched around for the photographers?I don't want to take away from ANYone's joy--truly I don't--buuuutttt...
If marathoners celebrated proportionally as much as 100m sprinters, it would be a 6 month orgy.
Noah Lyles is just the most recent instantiation, but yeah, I've noticed, at least for as long as I've been watching the sport, the sprinters spend WAY more time celebrating than anyone else.
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This isn't Olympics-related, but it occurs to me that 'Bodee Baggins' would be a great name for a halfling necromancer.
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This isn't Olympics-related, but it occurs to me that 'Bodee Baggins' would be a great name for a halfling necromancer.
debeverage.
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"And today, owing to a mix-up, Olympic skeet shooting was scheduled at the same time and venue as the discus throw. It did not go well."
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"And today, owing to a mix-up, Olympic skeet shooting was scheduled at the same time and venue as the discus throw. It did not go well."
"Up next, the javelin catch!"
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Pole vault hurdles would be amazing.
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Ooo… the French men’s 4x100 relay team just got DQ’d when pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati messed up the baton pass. The anchor runner was 10 meters past the handoff zone before he realized that wasn’t the baton.