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  1. The cranky thread

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    I hate it when a "new forum format" doesn't let me choose a dark layout. I find glaring white internet pages fantastically irritating. The fact that it seems to take longer to load is also not an improvement.

     

    edit: This new format is so irritating (imo) that this is good-bye until it goes away.

     

    Good-bye.

  2. The cranky thread

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    Woke up with my head completely packed full of slime, sneezing, coughing, runny nose, eyes watering. Seems more allergic than sick, but I'm kind of a mess at

    the moment. Will "take something" and see what happens. Been a long time since my last sinus allergy attack. No fond memories.

  5. The cranky thread

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    And of course' date=' we had to cancel our Valentine's Day plans, which I won't go into here 'cuz this post is already pegging a lot of folks' TMI meters. You're welcome.[/quote']

    Neh, former military. I didn't really notice. Still, sorry you're feeling like liquefied, filtered sh**. ;)

  7. The cranky thread

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    I'm out of work again. Not the end of the world, certainly. Michelle's newest contract makes (at least) twice as much as my job and her unemployment benefits did - about 80k a year. Even an improvement over her last excellent contract.

     

    We're both getting used to the contract work gig. My own wasn't up for another 5 months, but my schedule there was very incompatible with her new job, and they weren't interested in negotiating a change. Fair enough. I wasn't interested in jeapordizing her new situation in favor of my own. No hard feelings either way.

     

    But I always feel "at loose ends" for a while in the aftermath, regardless of how it comes about. Directionless. I've hated that feeling ever since my days in the USAF.

  8. The cranky thread

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    No problems are petty that consume your mind and sap your will. They may be "small", but when you feel like an ant, a golfball is a mountain. Sometimes, you just have to find a way to let go, to loosen your deathgrip on it long enough to open your hand, see it for what it is, and deal with it. Venting it to friends is a way to do that, even if we can't exactly help... other than by being sympathetic ears, so to speak.

  9. The cranky thread

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    You better hope I NEVER get legal immunity' date=' because I'd go hog wild with it. I won't wait for that if I catch a camera following me; I'm averse to being filmed or photographed.[/quote']

    Again with the pig thing. Are you some kinda bacon-hater or something? :P

  16. The cranky thread

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    The fraud department at my bank has been in touch. Someone has tried to cash cheques from me to the tune of around £2' date='500 approximately $3,750. I'll get the money back apparantly but this ain't what I wanted to start the New Year with.[/quote']

    Save a seat for me in the boat. Someone acquired my debit card number from the db of "a place I'd used my card in the last 14 days". The bank killed the card before my account was compromised, but now I need to update everything that gets paid from it... and the new card doesn't arrive for the next several days.

  18. Philosophy & Principles of Power Design

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    Another example' date=' lets say you have a speedster you want to run around punching everybody. [snipped'] Alternatively, you can buy an area of effect on a HA making it selective and variable area.

    A point to make here regarding the subtlety of design available to the game. I designed an almost identical power to the one described above, but built it as a selective, no-range, ranged aoe attack, because I wanted the attack to be "so fast that it couldn't be blocked, only dodged."

     

    I'm all for taking the "simplest" approach possible to simulating the desired effect, but I'm pretty avid about understanding the nuances of exactly what a player is trying to achieve.

  22. The cranky thread

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    Year of the Snake is not supposed to be a walk in the park' date=' but at least it won't be the wild ride that the Year of the Dragon was.[/quote']

    Hopefully, being a Snake, this will be my year. Unfortunately, the three previous did not impress me.

  23. What makes a great Iron Age campaign setting?

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    Re: What makes a great Iron Age campaign setting?

     

    Well, I'll preface my comments with this: I despise most Iron Age comics. They're a large part of the reason I stopped reading comics entirely.

     

    That being said, I do at least know *why* I feel the way I do about so many of them. Thus, I can readily define the one thing that (for me) make a *bad* Iron Age setting.

     

    The one overriding trait that galls me the most about them is what I refer to as the "With Great Power Comes Great Douche-baggery" syndrome. I don't have a problem with heroes that are, at their moral core, "just human" - I've played in several such games. What annoys me are "heroes" that seemingly have a *lower* moral center than most normals, and even many criminals.

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