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Doesn't do anything here either, with the sound on.
Gary Gygax wrote:The player’s path to role-playing mastery begins with a thorough understanding of the rules of the game
Bigode wrote:I wouldn't normally make that blanket of a suggestion, but you seem to deserve it: scroll through the entire forum, read anything that looks interesting in term of design experience, then come back.
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... Really? Maybe this is something about computer security.
Try going to www.harlemify.com, and putting in tgdmb.com. It's supposed to make any website do the harlem shake.
Try going to www.harlemify.com, and putting in tgdmb.com. It's supposed to make any website do the harlem shake.
DSMatticus wrote:Again, look at this fucking map you moron. Take your finger and trace each country's coast, then trace its claim line. Even you - and I say that as someone who could not think less of your intelligence - should be able to tell that one of these things is not like the other.
Kaelik wrote:I invented saying mean things about Tussock.
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It works for me on Chrome. It actually came out pretty loud, and I had to turn my main volume down. Also: I live in Eastern Europe and had to look up what the Harlem Shake was....You Lost Me wrote:... Really? Maybe this is something about computer security.
Try going to www.harlemify.com, and putting in tgdmb.com. It's supposed to make any website do the harlem shake.
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Worked for me in Opera. I thought it was funny.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
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Avoraciopoctules
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Awesome.Wolfman Jack (Lvl 9 Wolfman Masturbator)
Read Aloud: A wolfman leaps from a nearby bush and begins vigorously self-pleasuring. He laughs with a gravelly voice and howls, 'Awwooooo! Watch this wolfman jack!'
Notes: Clinically depressed since the death of his wife and children at the hands of the werewolves that bit him, Wolfman Jack has turned to constant, self-destructive public masturbation as his only relief from the curse of lycanthropy. Wolfman Jack is just the name he has been given by local legend. His actual name is Hogwild Beatoff.
Pseudo Stupidity wrote:This Applebees fucking sucks, much like all Applebees. I wanted to go to Femboy Hooters (communism).
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Also awesome.Gwen Greenwald (Lvl 9 Insufferable Druid)
Read Aloud: A skinny woman with pursed lips strides out from the forest and looks at you with obvious contempt.
Notes: Gwen's opinions on almost everything are good, but the scornful, smug way she conveys them lead to villagers burning her secret grove on a regular basis. She recently made good on threats to relocate her grove to another shire, but keeps returning to the area to subject the villagers to more complaints.
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
P'aool Cruggman (Lvl 20 Gnome Economist)
Read Aloud: A bearded sprite bustles past you, muttering about the need for defecit spending and carrying an armload of charts bearing the wax seal of the Keynesian Order.
Notes: Though uncomfortable making eye contact, he will attempt to enlist friendly players in his one-man crusade against his hated enemy, the lich Milton Friedman.
DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.
Domgurg of the Unquenchable Thirst (Lvl 19 Human Diabetic)
Read Aloud: An obese man limps into view drinking from a huge cup. He squints at you and then, seemingly exhausted, sits down on the ground.
Notes: The highest level diabetic in the kingdom, he is often bribed with sugary drinks to share his wisdom with accolyte diabetics from the nearby Temple of Type Two.
Mutt (Lvl 1 Dog Mayor)
Read Aloud: A mayor is dragging his butt across the floor. He seems to be a medium-size sheepdog with a red handkerchief tied around his neck.
Notes: Elected mayor as a joke, Mutt has turned out to be the best mayor this town has ever had. Although he cannot speak, he is very affectionate and likes his head scratched. He is secretly embezzling town funds to purchase the ritual components to construct a phylactery in his transformation into a lich.
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Avoraciopoctules
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Murber Shiro (Lvl 8 Human Fletcher)
Read Aloud: You see a small, elderly woman with the distinctive features of the eastern tribes, which I cannot describe in detail without sounding racist.
Notes: The villagers say that every man and woman Shiro knows is a killer. Or maybe this fletcher is the killer herself and she is expert at pinning her killings on her customers.
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Mutt (Lvl 1 Dog Mayor)
Read Aloud: A mayor is dragging his butt across the floor. He seems to be a medium-size sheepdog with a red handkerchief tied around his neck.
Notes: Elected mayor as a joke, Mutt has turned out to be the best mayor this town has ever had. Although he cannot speak, he is very affectionate and likes his head scratched. He is secretly embezzling town funds to purchase the ritual components to construct a phylactery in his transformation into a lich.
Dianosis Murber (Lvl 4 Dryad Arborist)
Read Aloud: A beautiful woman made out of bark with tree branch hands and dead, black eyes is staring right at you and it is really freaking you out. She seriously will not stop staring.
Notes: Once a skilled healer of her people, Dianosis the dryad has been sent forth to human civilization to punish wicked trees and hedges by selling them to humans.
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So a friend gave me Snow Crash.
Allow me to say:
Hiro Protagonist, World's Greatest Swordsman.
Hell of a name.
Allow me to say:
Hiro Protagonist, World's Greatest Swordsman.
Hell of a name.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Is that the Stephenson novel?
DSMatticus wrote:Again, look at this fucking map you moron. Take your finger and trace each country's coast, then trace its claim line. Even you - and I say that as someone who could not think less of your intelligence - should be able to tell that one of these things is not like the other.
Kaelik wrote:I invented saying mean things about Tussock.
Yeah.
I'm more than two hundred pages in. Some of this is some fascinating chewing for the brain
I'm more than two hundred pages in. Some of this is some fascinating chewing for the brain
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Snow Crash definitely has a sense of humor over Neuromancer.
And the hero has a better name. Let's not forget that point.
And the hero has a better name. Let's not forget that point.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Neuromancer was depressingly boring. Well, I've thought a lot of Gibson is kinda boring.Maxus wrote:Snow Crash definitely has a sense of humor over Neuromancer.
And the hero has a better name. Let's not forget that point.
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
I don't think that'll turn out well. Whedon's strength has always been dialogue, if he's using someone else's, then what's he bringing to the table? And honestly, Shakespearian dialogue has not aged well. I have seen very few actors who have been able to make it sound at all natural, and most of the actors in that preview aren't pulling it off.
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I agree with the first part. The latter not so much. Zodiac is excellent, and I quite liked Reamde. Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver are great page to page, but the ponderous and frankly stupid plot makes them pretty weak as books. It would be better to read them as a disjointed set of blog entries or something.K wrote:Snow Crash is probably the best cyberpunk novel ever written and probably the only good novel the author has written.
Pretty much. As far as I can tell, the only reason for that movie is that it is cheap as hell and gives work to a bunch of actors that Joss Whedon has enjoyed working with in the past. It's basically a make-work project for Alan Tudyk, Alexis Denisof, and Amy Acker.Chamomile wrote:I don't think that'll turn out well. Whedon's strength has always been dialogue, if he's using someone else's, then what's he bringing to the table? And honestly, Shakespearian dialogue has not aged well. I have seen very few actors who have been able to make it sound at all natural, and most of the actors in that preview aren't pulling it off.
I've seen good productions of Shakespeare. Hell, my sister works for a pretty decent Shakespeare company. But many of those actors don't seem to have any Shakespearean gravitas at all, and are just there because they happen to be friends with Joss Whedon.
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