Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:43 pm

Avoraciopoctules wrote:http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-l ... number.php

http://www.socialnumber.com/

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:40 pm

I haven't looked at the site itself. Is there something funny the SA overview hasn't brought up?

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:27 am

Nah. You can just read the recent topics. "What do you do, or suggest can be done to handle mid-life crisis for women?"

Really, though, I think there is a class of people who don't realize that you don't have to use your real name. I've been Majik/Maj for as long as I've been online - it was a high school nickname that I ported to the internet when I first plugged in back in 1995. But "in those days," my mom was petrified of the internet and insisted that I be anonymous. I even had my own PO box so I didn't have to give out my real address.

Now, though, it's a detriment because my high school and college compatriots are gone, so no one in real life calls me Maj... Unless they're internet friends. So when I give out my eMail address (MajAndEss), no one gets it. They don't remember it because there's no association to anything there. People are also more inclined to delete an eMail from "Maj" than one with my real name on it.

Given that there are lots of people who have problems with their online life bleeding over into their real one because they don't anonymize themselves, Social Number is probably a great idea. Employees from Fox News can go there and post about how much Republicans suck without getting fired (Not saying they do; just that they could).

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 12:44 am

The web page design looks pretty nice, at least. I follow one facebook page, and the layout is really ugly even when it isn't spamming demands that I register a FB account.

I do my social networking through email, forums, and meatspace, but I can certainly see that some people might find value in a site like this.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:58 am

While we're on the topic of Something Awful, there's this and this.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:37 pm

I like the Gabba one. It reminds me of the history of Femiscrya Johto and Unova that I made.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Feb 13, 2013 5:25 pm

So there's a SomethingAwful silent hunter 4 LP starting up. So far, the player has not used the deck guns, fired four torpedoes, missed with three, damaged a merchant ship with the other torpedo, and sunk a destroyer.

I'm not miscounting the torpedoes there.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:51 pm

Choose Your Own Wulin Hero - Let's Read Choice of Kung Fu!
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3525411

Be sure to check out "Excerpts from 'The Way of the Panda' "

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:00 am

So, I've been reading the Baldur's Gate II with mods LP on the LP archive, and the LPer provided an absolutely amazing thing when getting rid of Anomen.

See, there's nothing he- oh no. Why is there a pit fiend. AAH! AAAAAAAH! That doesn't - AAAAAAAUGH. Wait. What's that portal. Bees. BEES. HOW CAN AN ELEMENTAL PLANE OF BEES EXIST OH GODS IT STINGS AAAUGH BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!

[Translated - "OH FUCK! BEES! Looks like I'm not killing anyone else today!"]

...Soooooo... We... Seem to be out one cleric of Helm.

Wasn't there that cleric/mage elf girl in the circus?

Sounds like a plan, I guess. We do need a replacement, after all.
Thou wouldst so readily abandon Sir Anomen?

Saerileth. ELEMENTAL PLANE OF BEES. Until five minutes ago, I did not know that such a place even existed, or that bees even counted as an element. But apparently, they do. Anomen has undoubtedly been stung more times than there are numbers for. The gods are either sadistic or merciful. I'm not sure which. Perhaps just insane.

Why yes, yes I did just summon a Pit Fiend, cast Protection from Evil on anyone not Anomen, and then make up something completely ridiculous.

Archival Commentary - Why/how did I even think of something like the Elemental Plane of Bees anyway?

Technically I think it would be a quasielemental plane, but I really don't know more than the basics of DnD cosmology.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:27 am

Quasielemental plane? Which of the four planes mixed with either positive or negative energy would make bees?

Demiplane of bees could work.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:48 am

No, no, no, it was a portal to the Realm of Nightmares.

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:50 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1GadTfGFvU

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:49 am

So, Rich Burlew finally released the first 10 page pdf story for his Kickstarter backers. It has just given an even more complete definition of adventurers: "Armed vagrants who solve more problems than they cause."

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:54 pm

Okay, so pro wrestling lost me ages ago, we know that - I still like it in theory, but consider the WWE and TNA to be awful.

Well I was enjoying some WEW (Women's Extreme/Erotic Wrestling), and that's pretty good. But then I grabbed some Shimmer Women's Wrestling DVDs, and wow.

The wrestling skills are top-notch. Going from Greco-Roman to lucha libre to power moves over the course of five minutes, making the moves look like they hit properly, making submission holds look actually painful... they've all received really solid training.

Also the variety of wrestlers. This is the only one that is wrestling foremost, rather than looking sexy (which I appreciate, but I can get that from any number of other things), so unlike WWE/TNA it isn't just a bunch of women who look like models with suspiciously even and similar tanning. So you have women from under five feet to over six feet, all kinds of build, from all over the world. Indeed, only once have I ever seen an Australian wrestler in an international event before, and that was a guy (Nathan Jones in WWE). This one has three Australian women that I've seen so far.

Hilariously, they all give their own weights to the announcer, so you'll get "Introducing first, from Awesomeland, Ohio, weighing in at 135 pounds... X! And her opponent, from Croatia, weight in at 65 kilograms... Y!" It's strange to hear him flip between Sensible and Imperial in the same match.

Also, it's really weird to hear an Australian commentator. Even (especially?) as an Australian. Particularly when the other commentator and the announcer are American, and she'd just taken over from a Canadian.

Blasted · Post by **Blasted** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:58 pm

An Autism Simulator (Actual Game) seems a fantastic idea to me. I spend too much time trying to get into the heads of autistic kids and colleges. It's nice to have a better idea of what's going on.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:12 am

Re: Women's Wrestling:

It'd be interesting to see female pro wrestlers that are athletic and can do moves and such. I remember Sable in the WWF, and watching her beat up women twice her size (silicone excluded) with ten times the ability. Seriously, Sable was crap from a giant turd butt.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:55 pm

So, after a bit of a tease about Belkar possibly becoming a vampire (and really, there's nothing stopping Malak from finishing the job), apparently Durkon is now a vampire.

What happens to clerics who become vampires, again?

Istred · Post by **Istred** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:00 pm

What happens to clerics who become vampires, again?

They start to suck in level-appropriate fights?

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 6:06 pm

Level-appropriate fights haven't really been OotS's rule. Note that Malak's commented that part of his spellcasting level deficiency against Durkon is that he's been having trouble finding stuff to fight.

Since Thor is nominally a good deity, Durkon should be losing all of his spellcasting until Malak casts atonement to get him properly converted to Nergal or some other deity with the proper portfolio to handle the new outlook.

Emerald · Post by **Emerald** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 1:42 am

virgil wrote:Since Thor is nominally a good deity, Durkon should be losing all of his spellcasting until Malak casts atonement to get him properly converted to Nergal or some other deity with the proper portfolio to handle the new outlook.

Well, maybe. This is the same Thor who outsources his spell granting, and OotS already ignores the one-step alignment rule (Thor is CG, Durkon is LG), so it could be possible for Durkon to keep getting his spells as long as Thor isn't paying attention to him directly (and apparently he's distracted at the moment).

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:23 am

It's also possible, unlikely, but possible, this will end with Durkon regaining his LG alignment.

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:34 am

In case you weren't already sick of it.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:03 am

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-t ... sement.php

has sound, don't watch it at work

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:12 am

"#1 Monopoly MONTAGE (mlg-420) #dope n0-sc0pe weEeEEd"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOb3x8qF ... r_embedded

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:08 pm

...You Lost Me wrote:In case you weren't already sick of it.

It links to the Den's homepage. Is that the joke?