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Cars that drive themselves are getting closer. Like this one. No, I don't know why Yahoo thinks this is financial news.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: If a large blob will not "sex me up," who will? A: I built it from six tennis balls, a roll of duct tape, a broken VCR player, and a small silver ring.

Re: Seemingly Silly Things to Model Freeze! You've Got Me Surrounded! When this spell is cast, the next "shot" (gun, bow, crossbow, sling, etc) made by the recipient of the spell is multiplied into 10 "shots" that go off in all directions. Useful if the recipient is actually surrounded. However, it's dangerous to nearby allies. Also, it uses up 20 Charges. If the weapon doesn't have Charges, there's a side effect of a 10d6 HTH hit on the weapon.

...from the real world! Giant Lizard discovered in the Philippines! Definitely cool!

Re: Order of the Stick If you can't be subtle, make unsubtlety work for you.

Re: "Neat" Pictures There's no Bacandforthtrian. The infamous Dr. Infamous is displeased by this. OTOH, the supersonic telepathic mutant penguins with lazer eyes and the llamalls are happy with this. One Bacandforthtrian is quite enough, in their opinion.

Re: A Game Of Questions Is there anything else she can do?

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Um,... uh,...that woman over there says she wants her bodice ripped...... A: Do it with your teeth!!

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Re: A Game Of Questions Is there someplace else I should be kidding in?

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Re: brainstorming a urban cyber-fantasy setting re. "contrite" - - - "I do not think that word means what you think it means." contrite adj. grieving and penitent for sin or shortcoming. Ordinarily I let errors in word choise go unremarked upon, but in this case I can't even guess what you mean, so I must ask. I join Ranxerox in asking "where is the apocalypse this is post?" As well, if you come up with an apocalypse you will not have cyber-space; the infrastructure needed for such would never survive an apocalypse. Other than those points, an interesting idea.

Re: Jokes Re. the rail-gauge/horse-width post. I was skeptical up to: Wow, I spotted this as three goofs in one, just from my own scattered readings. A) The number of war chariots the Romans ever used could be counted on the fingers of one centuria; the number ever used by the Romans in Britain is a small fraction of the total. The roads the Romans built, some of which were in active use through the Renaissance, were particularly resistant to rutting. They were carefully laid, and surfaced with the toughest stone available. They took a lot of traffic before any appreciable wear showed. And most of that wear came in the centuries after the "fall of Rome," mostly by being used as convenient "stone quarries." C) How come every single war chariot followed exactly the same path down roads two or three times as wide as said chariots? For the entire length of time the Romans and the Romanized Celtic locals had war chariots available? Nope, sorry, doesn't even start to work. And Snopes went way too easy on it. For a fuller debunking, see The Straight Dope (NB: the "rutways" he mentions were ruts deliberately built into a road, to force wagons into following a certain path. Even better, see this HTML-ified version of a PDF (or d/l the PDF if you want to see the pictures)

Re: Order of the Stick #699: "...I'm as dumb as things that are really dumb." --- Pratchett reference, perhaps? #700: If he's so dumb, why did he recognize it was half a ritual?? The Mallard, Masked Man of Mystery, thinks the monster's method of staying in shadow is dumb, but the llamalls love the Hello Demon Kitty umbrella is magnificent.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "He's only mostly dead." At a funeral. (Or, "It'd take a miracle" when someone's just left to do anything dangerous.) NT: Inappropriate times to quote from ST:TOS, with quote. (difficulty; nothing to do with any other Star Trek series or movie)

Re: A Game Of Questions What is the subject of this sentence?

Re: Answers & Questions Q: He's very upset at your reaction to the Grand Canyon. Just what did you say? A: It's an ipsomobile.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Oh Zods! Part 2 This Bacandforthtrian is real, unless declared integer. The supersonic telepathic mutant penguins with laser eyes are related to the square root of -1, and are thus imaginary

Re: Firearms in fantasy? Yep. Hence the term "plug bayonet" that's usually applied to what you're talking about. Note that they had fairly good sized cross-guards, since that's what you grabbed to pull the plug bayonet out of the barrel on the gun. Woe betide the fellow whose bayonet's cross guards got hacked off!

Re: Anticryptography: The Next Frontier in Computer Science Interesting, though the term "malware" keeps coming to mind.

Re: Power that does less damage the larger the area Buy the highest number of dice you'll need, and the largest AoE you'll need. Add Limitation "Radius of AoE multiplied by number of dice cannot exceed (whatever)" and give it whatever value you think fits. Simple, really.

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