L. Marcus

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER You guys don't have regulations about winter tyres?

Re: Making colonization attractive? . . . In the near term, I can see only O'Neill colonies as viable for large scale colonization, since other worlds would have to be extensively terraformed -- a process that would, realistically, require thousands of years to complete.

Re: Daily Art Findings . . . Goo-ood Keith . . . Nii-iice Keith . . .

Re: Musings on Random Musings I was in a fire evacuation today. Nothing really dramatic, but anyway, the danger, though remote, was real. I could smell the smoke. Made us miss the last lesson, too. It really felt like a fire drill at school, hanging out outside the corporate headquarters, BSing . . .

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Bop-a-she . . .

Re: Complicate the Person Above Chad was the inspiration for Purple Haze.

Re: The Last Word . . . There'd be a lot more good music, for one.

Re: The Last Word Well, in all probability, there are guys around 12 - 14 years younger.

Re: The Last Word "Different strokes for different folks," as they say. The important factor is head height.

Re: Daily Art Findings . . . No, it's not. Not in my world.

Re: The Last Word And heaps better than ori-gamy! Imagine the papercuts!

Re: ORCS! What makes them our favourite enemies??? . . . They're the Klingons of fantasy?

Re: Musings on Random Musings That's kinda disturbed, too. But what the hhhhhey, I'm reading Watchmen -- compared, it's almost sane.

Re: Musings on Random Musings . . . That's quite disturbed, even by your standards. I like it.

Re: Daily Art Findings . . . Hmmm . . . WikiPedia has a page on Vallejo, but zilch when it comes to Fazetta . . .

Re: Daily Art Findings . . . Vallejo can be dissed too . . . For a price . . .

Re: Musings on Random Musings Wisdom is to never eat beans before an important take.

Re: The Last Word The landscape of my sexlife has tumbleweeds . . .

Re: The Last Word . . . First training session for the season -- ten weeks since the last time! Goodness gracious, am I sore!

Re: Daily Art Findings . . . And too full of muscle. I get the feeling taht I'm looking at a portrait of a Belgian Blue stud when I see one of his works. Aaaand, as always, Your Mileage May Truly Vary.

Re: Moreau Techniques Right, here's my Moreau-ed Gorilla. Something went . . . Not exactly to plan when the 'Rilla was given Human-level intelligence: The species received a tendency to go berserk when really stressed out -- an unwanted trait in a species that can kill a grown man with a single blow of a fist. Since long-duration transport seems to pe particularly traumatic and upsetting, 'Rillas on trains, planes and spacecraft are usually doped up to their eyeballs. No, they're not based on B. A. Baracus -- I just realized the similarity just now. Mea culpa. Moreau 'Rilla Package Deal Cost Ability 10 +10 STR 16 +8 CON 6 +3 BODY -2 -2 INT -4 -2 EGO 3 +3 PRE 7 Arm Swing: HA +2d6; Hand-to-Hand Attack (-1/2) 8 Bite: HKA 1/2d6; Reduced Penetration (-1/4) 4 Roar: +10 PRE; Only For Fear-Based Presence Attacks (-1); Incantations (must roar; -1/4) 1 Thick Skin: Damage Resistance (1 PD/1 ED) 3 Ape Senses: +1 PER with all Sense Groups -2 Slow: Running -1" -2 Poor Swimmer: -2" Disadvantages 5 Stress Atavism: Accidental Change 8- (receives the PhysLim Disads Near-Human Intelligence and No Speech in extremely stressful situations; Common) 20 Aggressive Tendencies: Enraged when under Stress Atavism (Common), go 8-, recover 8-

Re: Daily Art Findings Bah. I'm wearing my bogu -- do your worst! . . . What? An ESPer Weapon? Bah. Life is no biggie . . .

Re: Daily Art Findings What, to learn from his mistakes? . . . I don't like Frazetta much . . .

Re: Making colonization attractive? . . . If we're talking true colonies here, and not just outposts, I'd doubt you'd lack for volunteers -- an ethiopian peasant, whose land has turned into a dustbowl, or an indian farmer's second through fifth sons who stands no chance of inheriting any lands. Plus, wealthies nations do have people who "just want to get away from it all, really." Then there's people in the world's cities slums, who don't stand a good chance of surviving their fortieth birthday, what with the dysentery and cholera and all, and would really approve a change of venue. Then take the world fifty years into the future, with eleven billion people, sea levels rising ten, twenty meters, hurricanes that make Katrina look like someone sneezed . . . I'd volunteer to be off.

Re: Making colonization attractive? Remember Bladerunner: ". . . A golden land of opportunity and adventure!" I always wondered how bad the off-world colonies were, but it won't matter -- make the situaiton down here bad enough, people will want to leave. Plus, you can sell anything with enough advertising.