BoneDaddy

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)

You said it, brothers. MAN was it weird!

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

Because it had to be done:

 

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Is this image real or photoshop? If it's real my fancy for that young actress may lightly turn to love.

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)

In the woods, my daughter found a small, pale, dead snake with the face of a human infant. We took it home, and in the course of examining it, it came to life. Over time, the face grew more and more human, and the snake-like body fleshed out. My daughter kept leaving toys on top of the snake-baby, either out of neglect or forgetfulness or possibly resentment at the attention the snake-baby was getting. By the end of the dream, snake-baby was fat baby Chinese girl, with a forked tongue. Although she was still as pale and cold as death, she wiggled and hissed for attention and love, crying silent snake tears.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

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1) You have to know Shadowrun to get the terms

2) The guy in the cowboy hat is me. The guy on his knees owns Catlyst Games (who makes Shadowrun)

Now what? Now you get to the staple, and are you ever elvis.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

Bone-Daddy's post prior to that' date=' referring to their "existence" as "like a pipe-dream", seems eerily prescient now.[/quote']Having reviewed that old thread, I'm still boggled by the duration and magnitude of the deception, with so little apparent gain. My wife stilll thinks we are ridiculous to have been taken in at all. I try to explain that plausability increased with duration, but it's hard to imagine without having been here. Poor Fred - stuck in himself with noi one to talk to.

Re: Creepy Pics.

My wife is not a violent woman, but she would beet me silly if I put that in our kitchen. And yes, it totally rules!

Re: Creepy Pics.

I'm guessing Ken's "workout buddy" from the gym who had the bad luck to get caught in flagrante delicto with him when Barbie made an unannounced trip home to the Malibu Dream House one afternoon.

Lyrics are not safe for work, and howlingly funny at quarter to two AM.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!!

None of you are Geeks. Log off and go watch sports or something.

Or, geekdom needs redefining, or undefining.

I never had much geek cred. I was too pretty, and did drugs in my teen years.

Re: Creepy Pics.

It's just a snake, and not even a very large one at that. Grab a stick, get him out, pin his head to the floor, and then cut it off with a pocket knife. Or just shoot it with 12g from 5' away - either works.

 

Seriously though, I've twice pulled rat snakes out of the toilet. No big deal, although the wife has a very different opinion on the matter. I'd be more upset with roaches or mice in the house than a snake.

Re: Creepy Pics.

I don't know as this is "creepy", but it sure would scare the daylights out of me

 

 

ETA: Apparently, this is in Thailand. For once, Australia isn't the one with the deadly critters turning up everywhere!

(Because if I find a cobra in my toilet you can bet there's poop on my floor.)

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

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Re: A Thread for Random Musings

Dude,

It's been years. Like, 5 or so. You still don't have a facebook account in your own name. It must be hard. Still struggling in the local acting scene? Must be hard when you can't put your name online. Did you learn a different gaming system? Did you have to get a new circle of friends after the multi-year weird-ass drag show you put on here? I think you're still here, because you can't go anywhere else, and you don't have any friends anywhere else, and you don't know how to relate as yourself to anyone else anywhere anyway. So now you make the rest of us white knight for your causes while you play the trollolololol. Too funny, too sad, too transparent. Still, if this is your home, then here you belong. It was a big pile of ashes you turned yourself into, and I guess I'm glad you rose from them. Come out and play - you're weirder than Bec ever was, weirder than me, even in private. Come on out - be proud of who you are, whoever that is. I'd like to meet you, I really really would. PM me.

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)

EMDR is tough, and it leads to a tough nights sleep, so I usually stay up until three or four on those nights. This week I went to sleep at ten.

The dream open with me waking up at the scene of messy car accident - at least three cars, at least four bodies, some subdivided into parts. The crash took place on a half completed bridge. My car is there, although I do not remember driving it, and there is no one else there who seems to me could have been driving my car. My car is at the epicenter of this disaster, unharmed. I call the police, and confess to around five or so counts of vehicular manslaughter. The police are baffled by my candor, but arrest me all the same. Later, at home, I am having second thoughts. Things aren't adding up. A grieving relative of one of the crash victims comes by with a gun and tries to kill me, while I explain that I'm not sure if I did it. I'm not sure if I'm to blame.

An obvious, uncomfortable dream. Next week I'm just staying up late.

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)

Nightmare.

There was an investigation, a search for someone missing. I was with two men older than I, searching for a missing man, younger than me. Eventually a large lid was lifted off of something like a cistern or well, but next to a dock - an isolated part of a pond, perhaps. I was nervous - quite frightened, standing back, unable to speak. The older of the two men agitated the water in the cistern with a long handled instrument of some sort - maybe a net? I'm terrified. Body parts, bones linked by ligaments, an egg-drop soup of tissue, floated to the surface. Up floated faces, the front halves of four different heads, all face up, in different stages of decay. The men are screaming, one of the is crying to the sky for his son, whose partial spine and a few ribs have floated up along with part of a somewhat filleted hip bone and femur joint. I stand back, silent and terrified. Terrified that they will discover that it was me.

(It is now 2:30, and I'll be damned if I want to go to sleep.)

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)

I was not in this dream. A married couple and their adolescent daughter escape from Krakow in the 1920s. They are Jewish, and their refugee travels for whatever reason leave them hiding and stranded in a village in the mountains of Nepal. They are safe from the rest of the world, but bereft utterly of their own culture. They have to learn the language and culture, while clinging as closely as possible to their own traditions and identities.

The man is a cobbler, making European work shoes for a people who have never worn anything like them, who have never seen anything like him, who have never heard of anything like him. He keeps his traditions as closely as he can, and finds companionship if not friendship from another man who lives on societies fringes. The other man is a widower, and a drunkard, a Nepalese Mr. Edwards.

The woman is a housewife, and she must learn to cook and keep house and go to market in a radically different culture. After some early gaffes she makes some friends with the local women, and finds herself embracing the local culture more cheerfully than her hidebound husband.

The daughter is a girl in her early teens. She is largely ostracized by her peer group. She flirts with the Chief's son, who is charming and handsome and not villainous in the least.

Then I wake up. WTH?

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster

The highest quality thing in that picture in the mask. The cuffs appear to be toy-store issue, and let me tell you they chafe. The clamps are good quality - no complaints (as long as I'm not the one of the squeezy end of those little bastards), and the flogger looks more ornamental than functional. The playtime looks light duty, which is OK, but there's no extra mile there that I can see. Maybe an extra hundred yards or so.

If these are your toys, my apologies for being a judgmental p****. Nicely staged photo? Great composition?

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

Yeah, I just watched Omega Man on Netflix instant.

While it was pretty *meh* and I hate to admit it... but it's probably the closest movie adaptation of Matheson's book.

Did you get to the Satanic Hippy Vampire Cult before you quit?

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

Zombieland -- it was great fun. I need to do a character sheet for Tallahassee. I also find that the idea of the "infected" as opposed to "undead" zombie has a lot of potential for different settings. For example' date=' I could easily see some sort of bio-terror weapon getting out of hand and turning people into monsters in my [i']Kazei 5[/i] setting. Thus allowing one to have an animepunk zombie holocaust!

Following the theme, I watched the first 22 minutes of The Omega Man, Chuck Hestons 1970's take on I Am Legend. Holy cow was that awful. Sweet mother of pearl was that a bad movie. Bad. Really bad. Poorly thought out, at the very least, and then just plain awful. In fairness, it might improve, but having met the bad guys and developed a deep and abiding scorn for the entire plot, I decided to leave that movie in Netflix where it belongs.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings

An old friend is in love with my wife, which shows exquisite taste and poor timing. Can't blame him, the poor dumb bastard: so am I.

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)

I dreamed last night that I had to take a class at a nearby university. I was having a lot of trouble finding the building I was looking for. But the interesting part is' date=' when I woke up it occurred to me that I have been slowly creating a "physical" geography in my dreams. I've dreamed of the roads that I was driving down, and the city that I was in, several times before (although they don't exist in the waking world).[/quote']

I have this. My dream geography is very specific, with repetitive themes. Recently I've been spending a lot of dream time on the college campus, and in my dorm suite. There's an evil person there, looks like a pudgy short guy, and the SOB is smarter than I am and way more evil. He set a strange sort of trap that would mean that I was the one who covered his tracks for him while I was searching for him. Brilliant little move, too.

 

But the geography is inflexible within its own weird rules.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Because animals are in some way considered 'innocent' or undeserving of such treatment. It's not totally logical, but humans are sentimental that way. Again, I don't think macabre jokes should be forbidden, but some things I don't joke about.

 

JG

I hate to harp on this, mostly because I think it's a silly, silly topic that we as a species don't treat with any consistency, BUT... have you seen the life of just about ANY factory farm animal? We get all mad because people make jokes about hurting a cat, and a pig's life is one long pit of suck. Dairy cows endure horrors galore. But we like ice cream and we love bacon, so f-'em. If Bessie the cow could warm our hearts by frolicsome play with a laser pointer, we might feel differently, but we don't, so tag her ear, chain her to the feed trough, give her shots all the damned time, shoot a bolt into her head, and slap her ass on the grill.

Poor, poor kitty. I love my cats, and I love my bacon. I'm inconsistent in my values.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Just re-read "Soon I Will Be Invincible". I know it has been talked about on the board before' date=' but I thought I'd plug it again. A very good Superhero novel, a Silver/Bronze Age Villain facing a team of Iron Age Heroes in a Superhero world that as a Champions GM I'm tempted to stat out. Villain as angry, bullied nerd; Heroes as the popular kids with their own less obvious pain. Some bits of the world background were excellent, some of the themes explored didn't work for me. Still consider it well worth reading.[/quote']

 

I've read it three or four times now, and I know it isn't perfect by a long shot, but it has so much really good stuff in it I can forgive it its shortcomings.

 

"When life gives you lemons you squeeze them, hard. Make invisible ink. Make an acid poison. Fling it in their eyes."

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

Gerbils: The Other White Meat.

 

New Topic: Unusual but effective pets to have during the zombie apocalypse.

Trained attack worms.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Given where the hawt chick in the second pic is holding the bunny, I'm surprised he's facing *toward* the camera.

 

Then again, most of that damage is probably his own handiwork.

Somewhere between the wrist restraints, slit throat, come-hither stare and very nice body I find that picture very disturbing in a Dexter's long lost brother Brian kind of way...

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Whitechapel Gods by S.M. Peters

 

 

Without revealing anything from the book, I'd give it 3.5 out of 5 stars overall. The story is engaging and fast paced, though there are a few moments where the story gets a little hard to follow. Nothing insurmountable, but it felt like a few extra pages would have gone a long way to making things a little clearer. One heck of a first effort though, and the setting is pretty darn awesome.

Just read this one myself, and I recommend it highly to anyone attempting to see new possibilities in the Steampunk Genre. It takes things in a different directions than I have seen before, some dark but good, some dark but iffy, but all at least somewhat thought provoking. The characters are a bit thin, but the possibilities are rich enough that the book is certainly worth reading. Maybe a good campaign environment.