teh bunneh

Re: Generations of Strangers

It's tough to get rid of a good bunneh!

It's even tougher to get rid of a bad bunneh!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Rolf (Trickster) will gladly demonstrate that there is nothing wrong with Ivy.

Rolf has "gladly demonstrated" that there is "nothing wrong" with PLENTY of girls at school!

Re: The cranky thread

My condolences, Hermit.

Re: Superheroic Miniatures/Minions Kickstarter Project

I got mine, and I'm very happy with how they look.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

I barely go there because it's a wall of suck.

Dood, I'm right here!

Re: Musings on Random Musings

I think most people on Facebook are just narcissists. I don't see too many serial killers or genocidal maniacs.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings

It's kind of funny. I was looking back on my last year's worth of Facebook posts. Apparently, teh ebil bunneh ranges from being a mere narcissist*, to a neighborhood nuissance**, to a thug***, to a viscious serial killer****, to a genocidal world-leader wanted by the international community*****, to the harbinger of the end of the world******.

teh bunneh is all things to all people! (As long as we define "all things" as "most types of criminals".) =

* And the whole of the Law shall be, “Yes, but what have you done for me lately?”

** I got arrested last night, just for playing Tarzan. Or, as the police put it in their report, “Suspect was found naked in his neighbor’s tree, screaming.”

*** The streets today are filled with murderers, thugs, low-lives, and madmen. And by “filled with” I mean “they still haven’t caught me.”

**** The only things a man needs to be truly happy are a scalpel, a length of rubber tubing, and a sound-proof basement.

***** It seems like everything these days is automated or built in some overseas factory out of pre-formed plastic. We just don’t have a sense of craftsmanship anymore. Which is why I prefer to commit genocide the old-fashioned way. It has that artistic, old-world, hand-crafted feel to it that I think my victims really appreciate. And, it maintains its value for so much longer. It’s like industrial-scale murder that you can be proud to pass on to your grandkids.

****** If a book is giving off vibes of purest evil, bound in chains, screaming, or appears to be bound in human skin or written in blood, do not open it. Just FYI.

Re: Creepy Pics.

Angry Wet Koala Bear is Angry and Wet!

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities

The third reason is that while all this is going on (and trust me' date=' it [i']is[/i] ongoing) geek culture seems to think it’s actually super-progressive and feminist in comparison to the rest of the world, and is sometimes obnoxiously self-congratulatory about that fact, while misogyny floats around unchecked in our geek content and culture. (Seriously, read that link for some current examples of the awful stuff that’s happening right now, such as the attacks on Anita Sarkeesian, which actually made me shudder in horror.)

I wonder if this isn't partly to do with one of the geek falacies, which is "We must accept everyone." I mean, most geeks are used to rejection -- they were rejected by their peer groups back in school. So now, many geeks make it a point of pride to accept everyone. That weird guy who breaths through his mouth? Accepted. That guy who eats nothing but canned chili and mountain dew? Accepted. The fat guy? The funny looking guy? The one with the annoying laugh? Accepted. So, many geeks just don't get that they aren't as super progressive as they think they are, because despite accepting everyone else, they're still (consciously or unconsciously) rejecting female gamer geeks.

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities

Take precautions' date=' fine. But why is it so difficult to teach people not to rape in the first place?[/quote']

 

Most people aren't rapists. Most people know the difference between right and wrong.

 

Others are psychopaths, and cannot be taught.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

From our Teen Champions game:

 

"The best thing to hit a villain with... is a team mate you don't fully trust yet!"

Unfortunately, the villains used our tactic against us! When my brick got KO'd, the enemy brick picked him up and used him to pummel our mentalist!

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities

It's considered patronizing because the onus and blame shouldn't be placed on the victim to prevent it -- it should be on the rapist to NOT RAPE IN THE FIRST PLACE .

Sounds like an "is/ought" problem.

Women ought not to have to fear sexual assault. In a good world, in a just world, in a right world, they wouldn't. There would not be predators seeking to prey on anyone they percieved as weak or vulnerable. I think most everyone can agree on that.

Unfortunately, we don't live in a just, good, or right world. People have to protect themselves from the predators. This is not to place blame on the victim. The aggressor is responsible for his own actions. But women have to be aware that sexual assault can happen, and they should be prepared to defend themselves if at all possible.

The world ought to not be that way, but the world is that way. So we dream and work towards how the world ought to be, while still living in the world as it is.

Re: The cranky thread

Camel: "Hey, doofus, this crap's getting heavy! Ya mind?!"

 

Though of course, I too would probably never say anything until it was too late. I don't mind telling people about my problems, but IME my problems either just freak people out and cause more problems, or else they just worry about me when they have plenty of problems of their own. So I soldier on in silence, wearing my Vimes-tight.

Most of the time I can handle my problems, and I don't need any help or any sympathy. But on those days it becomes too much, it tends to be really, really, really too much. If I'm asking for help, I tend to be at my wit's end and ready to snap.

I'm ten tons of dynamite with a mile-long fuse. The fuse can burn harmlessly for a very, very long time without anyone (including myself) noticing. But once it's burned all the way to the end, there's going to be a huge explosion.

Re: The cranky thread

Sounds like you and I are a lot alike, Mr. Vimes.

There's an old folktale about a camel. It's owners wanted it to carry a load for them, so they put a box on its back. The camel was perfectly fine, so they put another box on it. Then a barrel. Then a couple of more boxes. The camel was still good, so they threw a few more barrels, some more boxes, a rolled-up persian rug, and a bunch of other stuff. The camel still looked fine, so they added one more thing, just a little tiny thing, hardly weighed anything, and the camel suddenly collapsed.

"Geez," they said. "What a wimpy camel, if all it took was that one tiny little thing to crush it."

That's kind of what it feels like to be me, right now.

Re: The cranky thread

I have always been a very private person. I don't wear my emotions on my sleeve; I keep them well-hidden at all times. When I was growing up, showing the world that you were sad was a good way to get taunted and beat up. I also learned during that time that nobody really cares about your problems, even the people who are supposed to care. I was the fifth of six children, and the youngest for a very long time. By the time I came around, my mother had gotten sick and tired of all of her kids' bullshit, so when I went to her with an issue, big or small, I was usually ignored. She just couldn't bring herself to care.

I find now that things really haven't changed. I still hide my emotions because as a kid I learned that nobody cares, and that still holds true today. If I expose my problems and my emotions, I get ignored or misunderstood. So why bother? It's easier and more effective to do like everyone else, and pretend my problems aren't really real, and that I don't really have any emotions.

I'm tough. I'm self-sufficient. I can deal with my own problems, most of the time. So when I show emotion, when I seem overwhelmed, it's because my issue is a huge one that I don't feel capable of tackling on my own. That's the time when I need support the most. That's when I want the people around me to care. But apparently, my problems aren't important enough to show up on anyone's radar.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

From our Teen Champions game:

"The best thing to hit a villain with... is a team mate you don't fully trust yet!"

Re: The cranky thread

So, while we were away, my sister-in-law had a housecleaning service come in and do the main floor of the house. Finding things is ... problematic. So far only one thing is almost certainly improperly removed (meaning: they decided it was disposable, and I disagree), that being a ball out of a trackball mouse, but it means I'll have to get a new mouse that I can plug in rather than use the guilty-of-incestuous-rape touchpads on our internet-capable machines.

 

The joys of having a clean house are overrated.

I had a friend who used an 8-ball as his trackball. The pool ball was almost the exact same size as a regular trackball.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Hey Mr. Vimes, who is that action figure above Captain Cold?

Re: Creepy Pics.

Man, that is good old-fashioned nightmare fuel. So what does it say about me that I laughed through the whole thing?

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life.

My buddy: They say it's "The Citizen Kane of stripper movies..."

Me: Wait... there's a Citizen Kane of stripper movies and I was not made aware of it? What the hell is wrong with this picture???

Re: A Thread for Random Musings

I think if I could plan for an upcoming apocalypse of pretty much any type, I would stockpile coffee. Coffee of every sort, from cheap instant crystals to the finest beans in the world. The way people act when they don't get it, and the way people act when they do get it... I could pretty much barter my coffee for anything else in the world, from food to weapons to sexual favors to slave labor.

(Of course, I'd also have to have plenty of weapons to protect my stockpile from the hoards of grouchy, sleepy, uncoordinated caffeine-heads out there, but what could be more fun than shooting a few Starbucks zombies?)

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Real sister come equipped with power armor' date=' flamers, jetpacks, tanks, bolters, and a distinct lack of a sense of humor.[/quote']

 

Don't forget the mad baking skillz. Baking cookies and slaughtering heretics: It's what Sisters of Battle do!

Re: So Easy Even A Nine-Year-Old Can Do It!

Sure! Here he is...

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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

“Ready?”

“0! 0! 0! 0000!!”

- Vesper and Maretek, just before Vesper hurls Maretek into the open void

Amusing fun-fact: We discovered that the Tech-Priest's first language is something called Explorator Binary. So we assume that whenever he talks, he starts by saying "11001010001001110101001... Oh wait, none of you here speaks an actual civilized tongue, do you?"

“Prepare for the cleansing backhand.”

- Eurydice, typical retort

Backhand of Justice! One of these days, I'm going to borrow the Captain's power fist before I deliver one of my signature smackdowns.

“I’m going to subdue him by killing him.”

- Eurydice, showing typical Battle Sister tactics

He stopped being a threat after that, didn't he???

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

I played in a 3.5 game where we had so many Bags of Holding that we literally didn't know what to do with them. In my (admittedly limited) experience, if you play 3.5 RAW, you're going to be giving away handfuls of +1 Rings of Protection and +2 short swords to every begger that asks for a handout.