tkdguy

{On-line chatter while watching an NFL game; this specific quote comes from fans of a team which just gave up a pick-6}
 
"Guess I'm gonna start throwing beer bottles earlier than I thought"
"Make sure they're empty.  Otherwise that's alcohol abuse."
"Duh!!!  I don't abuse beer that's just WRONG"

"Somehow 'Collateral Damage Jane' doesn't have quite the same ring to it."

Y-M-C-Aaaaaah!!!

I was running a d6 Fantasy game for two players. I played a third character.
 
Me: What are your characters' names?
 
Player 1: Bilbo!
 
Player 2: Bob.
 
Me: I guess I'll have to be Bubba.

I've got my ticket for Rollerball!

Happy 65th birthday to the King of Monsters.
 
 

Succumb to the dark side

"It's Over Willey! I have the high ground!"...?

tkdguy once stopped a mugging by literally kicking the perpetrator into next week. When the said perp reappeared, the police were there waiting to arrest him.

Robin: The Batmobile wont start. 
Batman: Check the battery. 
Robin: What’s a tery?

2500-year-old bronze sword
 
Want an artifact blade for your campaign?  You could do lots worse than this.

In a related note, I was lucky enough to find this beauty at a library sale a few years ago...:eg:
 

It's a bit late for this year, but maybe you can use this cookbook for next year's Halloween dinner.

It seems to mostly be the fun, creative stuff that's discussed and devised outside the conference room when astronomers from all over hang together; with an emphasis on how to make this stuff accessible and interesting to the average person.

"Do not stare into beam with remaining eye."

Actually, some fashion trends start making sense if the designers and columnists had, in fact, stared into the beam with their remaining eye.

And now for some sad news:
 
Alexei Leonov, the world's first spacewalker, has passed away at age 85.

I took up cycling again in July, after not riding for decades. I had really forgotten how much I enjoyed it. The first ride was 10 miles, and I felt it. Last Friday I rode a 30 mile interval in 2 1/4 hours. I've ridden 812 miles in the last 4 months. I'm also down 10lbs since the summer. Sometimes it doesn't feel like it's me doing this, but I sure am enjoying it.
 
Just wanted to share.

One of the trick or treaters had a small existential crisis when I handed him Skittles instead of Kit-Kat* with his Hot Wheels car. “That’s my sister’s favorite candy.” Crisis was averted by swapping the offending item.
 
For everyone else so far, they’ve been happy with their loot.
 
*Full-size bars. It’s a little difficult to find my house, so those who do are rewarded.

Infragreen 

Rescue cat returns the favor, alerts sleeping owner to apartment fire

It's only the second week of my weight loss program, and my clothes already fit better. 

So simulating a specific work. Check.
 
I don't do that much. I have done the Middle Earth thing as a Fantasy HERO game. In this case I didn't do a lot of world building.  Famously Tolkien had done most of that. I did write up a few monsters but most of the basic bad guys were already covered by the HERO bestiary.  It worked pretty well. We set the game in the First Age and the heroes had a fair bit of leeway regards changing canon. In fact I wouldn't have complained if they'd gotten their hands on a silmaril, saved Fingon in the Dagor Bragollach, or some other canon-breaking thing.
 

Indra's elephant putting his foot down.