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That’s awesome! I know you’d said you were in a creative slump, so I’m glad to hear the ideas are back and prodding you relentlessly. Really great!
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If I never post again, it killed me. Which, second only to knife-fighting a grizzly like Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall is how I want to go anyway.You...run. For fun. I do not understand this place...
Well... 'run' is a generous verb. I wheeze-shuffle across the landscape like a portly asthmatic black bear who lives behind a Wendy's and forages exclusively in their dumpster. Onlookers have been known to express concern when I try 'speed work'. They take out their phones to dial 9 and then 1 and then hover their finger over the second 1, just in case. The sounds I emit make even hardened atheists cross themselves for fear. Small children wake screaming for the rest of their childhoods: 'the man with the sounds is coming!' they cry into the uncaring dark...
It is fun, however. *shrugs*
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My wife and daughter are at a school-sponsored camping trip, so it's just me and my son for a couple days, and Friday is a student holiday. Last night, we watched Pacific Rim Uprising, because Pacific Rim was big and stupid and we loved it. Uprising was just as good.
Also this weekend, I'm going to introduce him to The Matrix. I'm curious how he'll like it. It was such a groundbreaking movie when it came out, but so much of its style has been copied over and over. I'm wondering if he'll get any of the groundbreakiness out of it.
Either way, I'm sure I'll get a good one-word opinion out of him to find out.
Also! My friend who rand the Delta Green game a few months ago has sent out another email that he wants to run another, similar game in the fall!
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Also this weekend, I'm going to introduce him to The Matrix. I'm curious how he'll like it. It was such a groundbreaking movie when it came out, but so much of its style has been copied over and over. I'm wondering if he'll get any of the groundbreakiness out of it.
Every time my brother tried to introduce my niece to something cool from our younger days and she'd be unimpressed I'd send him this Onion article.
*shakes old guy fist at youths*
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Every time my brother tried to introduce my niece to something cool from our younger days and she'd be unimpressed I'd send him this Onion article.
Ha! That reminds of this Onion article.
Every time my brother tried to introduce my niece to something cool from our younger days and she'd be unimpressed I'd send him this Onion article.Ha! That reminds of this Onion article.
HA! Perfect.
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Sunday is "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" at Tinseltown, followed by dinner at Monte Alban. No gaming this weekend.
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I'm going to introduce him to The Matrix. I'm curious how he'll like it. It was such a groundbreaking movie when it came out, but so much of its style has been copied over and over. I'm wondering if he'll get any of the groundbreakiness out of it.
I was impressed by the VFX of "The Matrix". The movie itself just sort of left me with a profound "Meh" afterward. I think I'm one of three people on Earth who wasn't very impressed overall.
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I'm going to introduce him to The Matrix. I'm curious how he'll like it. It was such a groundbreaking movie when it came out, but so much of its style has been copied over and over. I'm wondering if he'll get any of the groundbreakiness out of it.I was impressed by the VFX of "The Matrix". The movie itself just sort of left me with a profound "Meh" afterward. I think I'm one of three people on Earth who wasn't very impressed overall.
I’m one of the others, my brother! I walked out of it with a group of non-SF readers and they were all blown away and I was like: ‘Meh. William Gibson did it better 20 years ago…’
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My standards are pretty low. I thought it was mostly good. They did lose me at the end of the third one where they were using matrix magic outside of the matrix.
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My son liked the first Matrix movie! And then he said he wanted to see the next one. I had to explain to him how the 2nd and 3rd movies disappointed a lot of people. There are great scenes in those sequels, and worth watching for those scenes, in my opinion, but the films got problems.
The 4th movie was just not great.
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My son liked the first Matrix movie! And then he said he wanted to see the next one. I had to explain to him how the 2nd and 3rd movies disappointed a lot of people. There are great scenes in those sequels, and worth watching for those scenes, in my opinion, but the films got problems.
The 4th movie was just not great.
Some of the animated shorts weren't bad, as I recall.
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I wear my animated shorts as often as possible.
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*debeverages*
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I wear my animated shorts as often as possible.
Were they animated before you put them on?
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I wear my animated shorts as often as possible.Were they animated before you put them on?
Worst. Disney movie. Ever.
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"Banana Pants", coming this fall from Disney.
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*depants*
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Oh, a kumquat.
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What's on for the weekend, my droogs? Not much here, just hoping to visit my favorite Italian restaurant in town before they close on Sunday. They've been an amazing asset to the community, even providing free Thanksgiving dinners every year they've been in business. But the rising costs of everything is taking its toll on them. Plus the property owner more than doubled the rent on their lease so as much as they're loved in town they still can't maintain payroll and the quality of service and food they're known for. It's a sad weekend for lovers of Italian food here.
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A little of the old ultraviolence (against my lawn and the weeds therein). A friend's coming over to use my kitchen to make an obscure kind of Tudor meatball--I'm hazy on the exact details. He's one of my game table regulars, but this week I finally stepped away from the table for a hiatus. I really wasn't enjoying the game (haven't been for months) and decided to give it a rest till I'm more interested again. Other than that, I got nothing in the works. Quiet pause in a busy month so I'm going to enjoy it.
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Some small-scale NWN stuff, possibly some errand running. Will be a rather quiet weekend all things considered. May take the opportunity for a Goodwill run to get some of this stuff out of my office.
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Enjoying being 45 for one last day, after which I become half a 92 year old.
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Happy Birthday, Limey!
It's Mother's Day weekend, which means I've already volunteered to do everything.
We have a tree swing in our front yard that broke last weekend, so I've got new straps for it to hang it back up. I'll probably do that on Saturday, but that depends on the rain. My kids are too old for it, but so many neighborhood kids love it that I want it to stay.
Our house is along a route home from the local middle school, and the best is when I look out my window and see a bunch of backpacks tossed against the tree and a herd of 6th grade boys hanging out on the swing being dumb but innocent and having fun.
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Enjoying being 45 for one last day, after which I become half a 92 year old.
Happy early birthday!
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Enjoying being 45 for one last day, after which I become half a 92 year old.
Eh, ye youths wi yer music and yer convictions! *shakes spotted fist* Many happy returns!
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Going to try again with the Tudor meatballs (my friend wasn't feeling good last Sunday so took a rain check). This is not a euphemism for something. Repeat, it is not a euphemism when I say 'my buddy's coming over and we're going to make Tudor meatballs.'
(¬_¬)
I think they bought it. Oh s@~$. Am I typing my internal monologue again? Laa laa laa laa la HEY! Dada da da HEY!
*tumbleweeds; lone hawk cry*
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Going to try again with the Tudor meatballs (my friend wasn't feeling good last Sunday so took a rain check). This is not a euphemism for something. Repeat, it is not a euphemism when I say 'my buddy's coming over and we're going to make Tudor meatballs.'
IIIII'm 'enery the minced thigh ham, thigh ham,
'Enery the minced thigh ham, etc.
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Going to try again with the Tudor meatballs (my friend wasn't feeling good last Sunday so took a rain check). This is not a euphemism for something. Repeat, it is not a euphemism when I say 'my buddy's coming over and we're going to make Tudor meatballs.'
IIIII'm 'enery the minced thigh ham, thigh ham,
'Enery the minced thigh ham, etc.
Set damn you, I sang that.
No game this weekend, but maybe some severe thunderstorms! Yay, Arkansas! The storms are supposed to be so bad baseball sized hail is expected. Time to get a helmet and my catcher's mitt out!
Along with seriously thinking of becoming an ex-pat, I'm still working on the new campaign. The two years of retirement has really energized me and writing and planning a new campaign, whether we play in it often or not, is oddly relaxing for me and it's helping my depression, which has been turning into dark, seething anger sometimes, so doing this is a wonderful distraction. Feel free to ask me stuff about it and I'm open to collaboration and suggestions!
What's everyone else doing this weekend?
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Along with seriously thinking of becoming an ex-pat, I'm still working on the new campaign. The two years of retirement has really energized me and writing and planning a new campaign, whether we play in it often or not, is oddly relaxing for me and it's helping my depression, which has been turning into dark, seething anger sometimes, so doing this is a wonderful distraction. Feel free to ask me stuff about it and I'm open to collaboration and suggestions!
What's the most oddball aspect of your campaign world? Something that doesn't really fit with the rest of the world, but you've included anyway.
My daughter's birthday party is this Saturday. It will be at a roller rink. There will be soda, cheap pizza, and cupcakes. I will make small talk with all the other parents who bother to stay. And then I will pay a lot of money to the roller rink for the privilege.
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What's the most oddball aspect of your campaign world? Something that doesn't really fit with the rest of the world, but you've included anyway.
This happened probably around 2001 or so, the players traveled through a very small country populated by Yuan Ti who had adopted the philosophies and technology from World War II Nazis who'd fallen through a portal into the game world. It was the only time I ever allowed gunpowder weapons in the setting.
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...Yuan Ti who had adopted the philosophies and technology from World War II Nazis...
Nassssssszis?
I'll show myself out.
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Along with seriously thinking of becoming an ex-pat, I'm still working on the new campaign. The two years of retirement has really energized me and writing and planning a new campaign, whether we play in it often or not, is oddly relaxing for me and it's helping my depression, which has been turning into dark, seething anger sometimes, so doing this is a wonderful distraction. Feel free to ask me stuff about it and I'm open to collaboration and suggestions!What's the most oddball aspect of your campaign world? Something that doesn't really fit with the rest of the world, but you've included anyway.
My daughter's birthday party is this Saturday. It will be at a roller rink. There will be soda, cheap pizza, and cupcakes. I will make small talk with all the other parents who bother to stay. And then I will pay a lot of money to the roller rink for the privilege.
Snapsies. It was my step-daughter's birthday party yesterday, but all I had to do was cook the pizza & chips (fries).
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The Farts of Portingale were an interesting culinary experiment. I don't think I'd do that regularly, only because lamb has a lot of fat in it, which is extremely filling to me. However, it was an intriguing combination of flavors--sweet but also savory. Good to know in case I ever end up hosting a Tudor who stumbled through a time portal.
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Busy weekend leading into a busy week. Had a Sophie visit with prospective adopters on Friday. Farmer's market visit and NWN quest today. Another NWN quest tomorrow. Errand to get our phone situation sorted out again on Monday. Another adopter visit on Tuesday. Therapy Wednesday. Another NWN quest Thursday. Another adopter visit next Friday. All of this on top of normal weekday work schedule.
What's the most oddball aspect of your campaign world? Something that doesn't really fit with the rest of the world, but you've included anyway.This happened probably around 2001 or so, the players traveled through a very small country populated by Yuan Ti who had adopted the philosophies and technology from World War II Nazis who'd fallen through a portal into the game world. It was the only time I ever allowed gunpowder weapons in the setting.
Only blond-haired, blue-eyed Yuan Ti. Got it!
Second question: Is there a portion of your campaign world that you are leaving deliberately unexplored, because you want something there, but you don't really know what you want to do with it, yet?
Set damn you, I sang that.Going to try again with the Tudor meatballs (my friend wasn't feeling good last Sunday so took a rain check). This is not a euphemism for something. Repeat, it is not a euphemism when I say 'my buddy's coming over and we're going to make Tudor meatballs.'
IIIII'm 'enery the minced thigh ham, thigh ham,
'Enery the minced thigh ham, etc.
Perhaps it's karmic payback for the Black Forest incident. Which still (FOUR YEARS LATER!) occasionally pops into my head for no reason and makes me snort-laugh in public in an unseemly way.
What's the most oddball aspect of your campaign world? Something that doesn't really fit with the rest of the world, but you've included anyway.This happened probably around 2001 or so, the players traveled through a very small country populated by Yuan Ti who had adopted the philosophies and technology from World War II Nazis who'd fallen through a portal into the game world. It was the only time I ever allowed gunpowder weapons in the setting.Only blond-haired, blue-eyed Yuan Ti. Got it!
Second question: Is there a portion of your campaign world that you are leaving deliberately unexplored, because you want something there, but you don't really know what you want to do with it, yet?
So many places. Back in the 3.0 days, designer Monte Cooke had said never create more of a map than you're going to need soon. I'd already been doing that. I'm not good at drawing maps and felt it to be really tedious. I eventually just settled on a a fantasy version of Earth (there are already a few maps of it lying around). In the 35 years of this campaign world's existence, we've never explored the polar regions or the African, Indian, or Australian analogues.
We had a short but powerful burst of thunderstorms this morning. Around 6 am I felt a "thud" and a part of the old redbud tree next my driveway collapsed. There was no damage to the house, thank goodness. Good thing I have no plans to leave the house today. The funny thing is we were talking about it needing to be cut down just last night.
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That was a warning shot... hoom, hoom...
What's the most oddball aspect of your campaign world? Something that doesn't really fit with the rest of the world, but you've included anyway.This happened probably around 2001 or so, the players traveled through a very small country populated by Yuan Ti who had adopted the philosophies and technology from World War II Nazis who'd fallen through a portal into the game world. It was the only time I ever allowed gunpowder weapons in the setting.Only blond-haired, blue-eyed Yuan Ti. Got it!
Second question: Is there a portion of your campaign world that you are leaving deliberately unexplored, because you want something there, but you don't really know what you want to do with it, yet?
So many places. Back in the 3.0 days, designer Monte Cooke had said never create more of a map than you're going to need soon. I'd already been doing that. I'm not good at drawing maps and felt it to be really tedious. I eventually just settled on a a fantasy version of Earth (there are already a few maps of it lying around). In the 35 years of this campaign world's existence, we've never explored the polar regions or the African, Indian, or Australian analogues.
Next question: What is your campaign world's biggest force for good?
Next question: What is your campaign world's biggest force for good?
Ohh, this is a head scratcher. I have to say it's likely the PCs. I've always enjoyed the "plucky band of heroes" type of story. There's never been a world-wide threat to the campaign setting, but players over the years have been instrumental in ending wars, overthrowing evil kingdoms, and protecting the weak.
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All other plans for the week have been scrapped or postponed. We are spending time with Sophie this week.
Saturday will be her last day with us, as we're taking her to her new family that evening. The days between now and then will be spent (outside of work) doing all the things she loves, walking to all her favorite places, taking her to her favorite restaurants, and spoiling her rotten the last opportunities we have to do so.
My eyes hurt.
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Aw, Orthos. Very bittersweet. I'm glad she's going to a good home, but I commiserate with how much you'll miss her.
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You spoil that pup rotten, y'hear?
I teared up every time I read your original post. I wish you strength and peace.
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She went to her favorite pizza place - they allow dogs around the outdoor seating - and had a nice long walk around the city downtown.
Tomorrow we're going to "Toto's Tacos", an Oz-themed Mexican place here in town.
Hey there folks, in the process of our preparations for the Big Move, we have a bunch of books we need to get rid of. We're not really interested in making a profit or anything, but if you'd be so kind as to reimburse us for shipping, it'd make things much easier. Reply or PM me if you're interested in anything in particular! First come first serve.
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Well that was quick. All books are spoken for! Thanks those who expressed interest - see your PMs for responses!