Xavier Onassiss

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Re: A Thread for Random Videos YOU... SHALL NOT... PASS!!! No, really... just fuhgeddaboudit.

Re: A Thread For Random Links More Star Wars type-stuff: An economic cost-benefit analysis of blowing up planets with the Death Star. Is it really worth the expense? The lost revenue? The bad publicity?

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Me too, thanks to my magic chainsaw!

Re: Jokes By rights, these jokes are so bad we should barium bury 'em.

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Re: The cranky thread

Re: overmentalizing From a campaign perspective, I had a hard look at this the last time I ran Champions. Mine was a 'high-realism' game which took a hard look at how supers and their powers would interact with normals in the real world. And it looks to me like your problem-player is approaching your campaign from that angle, at odds with you and the rest of your group. What I did was assume that organized crime (and crime in general) had already been subject to the kind of treatment from mentalists that you're describing -- after all, the supers had been been around for a few decades. The end result was that the surviving criminal organizations had recruited their own villainous mentalists, or were run by mentalists. The biggest, baddest organization recruited lots of mentalists (and other supers), who promptly took over the whole thing for themselves. I'd suggest a solution like this for your campaign -- have one of the criminal organizations recruit a mentalist (or several) to help protect their people from mental intrusion. Later, the mentalist villains might even take over the organization, and give the PC's some real trouble. It worked pretty well in my campaign.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. So anyway... My Dad was cutting up this humongous tree that fell down during last week's storm and his chainsaw got stuck. (I got a great picture of this dead tree w/a chainsaw sticking straight up out of it like the Sword in the Stone.) He gave up and went to get another chainsaw to free it. I looked it over, and with a bit of finesse (yeah, like I've got any brute strength) worked it loose. I went inside and proudly showed him the now-free chainsaw, liberated from the tree. "How'd you do that?" "Divine Right. I'm King of the Britons now, so I'm takin' my magic chainsaw and movin' to Camelot. See ya later!" He just rolled his eyes, with that Why can't I have a normal son? look on his face....

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... Ah. Thanks for clarifying -- I could only remember bits and pieces of Helen O'Loy -- read it back when the U of I was offering a SF-lit course, sometime in the 80's. Missed the Boucher story entirely; my reading of older SF has some unfortunately large gaps. At some point I became more interested in the modern stuff and just never looked back.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos And just in case that last video wasn't random enough... ...I solemnly swear that this one will be:

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Amazing footage from tornado chasers in Tuscaloosa. Not sure if these guys are professionals or amateurs, but this is one of the scariest and also coolest jobs in the whole world.

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... I'm thinking maybe it was Helen O'Loy. It's been a long time (25 years?) since I read that one, so I'm not exactly sure....

Re: Jokes A start-up vineyard in California was shut down by the state, its owners taken to court for making wine without a license, facing up to 5 years in jail. They were acquitted due to a technicality: the vineyard was shut down before any of the grapes had actually fermented, so there was never any wine on the premises at all. When the story broke, the local newspaper headlines read

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Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage....

Re: A Thread for Random Videos I die! Existential Star Wars, in French, with subtitles.

Re: A Thread For Random Links If you're tired of those silly "facts" about Chuck Norris, (Seriously, I've seen his WND column, and it's 100% fact free.), then check out this page of Gauss facts!

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage....

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... There are some things that, while okay when you're unattached, it's best to just ditch with no regrets when you meet someone. If it doesn't work out, you can replace your toys. You can't do that with a real person. Some might consider this dishonest, but honestly, trying to have both is not likely work.

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Re: "Neat" Pictures The future has arrived! We now have baby green monkeys that glow in the dark. Is that cool or what? I'm getting one!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I'm chillin' out. How could I possibly listen to this and not chill out? I wasn't planning to, but it caught me completely off guard. I am now absolutely chilled. (Also, my cat's purring.)

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread The flood water is expected to reach 22 feet! I have no idea whose....

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine There, fixed that for you, Sir!