Dr. Anomaly

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I hope I didn't step on any toes or feelings with my latest post in the "Libby Sentenced" thread... but given that set-up by Enforcer84, I arguably couldn't help myself...

Re: I have a setting, but not an adventure! Hmmm... psychic bodyguard to important officials, like the President... throwing themselves mentally in the way of incoming psychic attacks, much as a Secret Service agent would with a bullet...

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "...'and straight on til morning'?!? What the [censored] kind of navigational instructions are those?!?"

Re: I think I found my new Truck This ad puts me in mind of the TV ads in the Robocop movies...

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

Re: Astrophysics question The original question gets down to the roots of (potential) CPT violation; I'll see if I can think of a way to abstract some of that down to very general terms a bit later, when I have some time and am not dog tired...

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat You look at your watch, and realize that it's taking a lot longer to bury the body of the former ticket holder, and that if you take the time to finish you won't be able to fit in a shower before the show. Or, alternatively: You wind up at the hospital, instead of the show, needing a rather unusual kind of transplant, and having to explain to the medical staff how you wound up going to the wrong kind of "scalper".

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I've got to stop listening to public radio; I keep getting the urge to... get involved. Y'know. Do stuff. Attend meetings held in a room at the local school of agriculture. That kind of stuff. Think I'll start listening to a rock station instead. That should fix it.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I wonder if a doctor EVER seeing a patient on time would have an effect similar to "crossing the streams" and bringing about the end of the universe...

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares So what happens when you cross The Land of the Lost with Lost?

Re: The Last Word I have a degree in math. I am therefore obviously completely unqualified to be an accountant. Thank god.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

Re: Pirates : An amusing question. In both cases, it sounds like there's some revenge involved for the characters. And it wouldn't surprise me at all if the people they're out to get might not try to get them first. So the place becomes a deathtrap to do away with the agents and bounty hunters and what-have-you sent after them by the people they (the PCs) are out to get. Make it LOOK like a citadel/hideout/base. Let rumor tell that it's a citadel/hideout/base. And let it draw those in the pay of your targets. The more you eliminate that way, the fewer of them you have to face later on...

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER If it weren't for the fact the point of this thread is to be as long as possible, I'd suggest moving this to a thread of its own. After all, I'd hate to have the discussion of this particular subject be hard to follow when intermingled with other comments. But I have faith in my fellow LRTE posters. So, with that in mind: I think Savinien has some valid points here, though as is often the case, not all of the evidence supports him and it would be equally easy to construct a counterargument that was as compelling, at least as I'm looking at it. Frankly, I'm not sure which way I'd jump on this issue myself; I find myself thinking that I'd go first one way, then the other, as I view it from different angles. Opinions? Thoughts? Rebuttal?

Re: Need Book Recommendations Argh! I can't believe I forgot Rocket Ship Galelio! That's my favorite Nazis-on-the-moon book of all time...

Re: Need Book Recommendations Let me jump on the Hienlien juveniles bandwagon. In particular, I have fond memories of The Rolling Stones, Red Planet, and The Star Beast. I'd also reccomend Islands in the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke. It's not exactly what you'd requested. But it's an excellent look at possibly real space travel and life from the viewpoint of a young man who'd never been into space before. Andre Norton has some excellent fiction, though often times it can be a bit dark in the trials the protagonists go through, though uplifting in that they win through in the end. With that in mind, of her stuff, let me reccomend the following: The Last Planet (or The Star Rangers as it is sometimes titled) The Zero Stone and the sequel Uncharted Stars Catseye The Time Traders

Re: Inspiration: One-storey skyscraper An interesting read and interesting concept. I did have several difficulties with the design, but they all got mentioned one way or another in the reader comments. Still... food for thought!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... "The Canadian Mafia? Are you serious? You never hear anyone say, 'Oh, no! The Canadian Mafia is after me!' What do they do? Politely ask you to come with them so they can break your legs... if it's not too much of an inconvenience?" "You know, parents are probably going to be a bit upset if you start spitting formic acid on their children."

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Sounds suspiciously like "Scare Tactics", which I always thought was a lawsuit waiting to happen when someone had an actual heart attack...

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Silly L. Marcus! X is ten of the equipment; V is five of the equipment!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sleep is obviously addictive and leads to lost productivity (after all, while you're asleep, you can't work!) So when does the "war on sleep" sponsored by the government start?

Re: "Bag of Holding" And that is pretty much how I wrote up the Tardis when I did it. I think I have the write-up somewhere on the forums...

Re: Testimonials: Perfect Pitch

Re: Hero Magazines Thing is, JmOz said magazines about Hero. Those others, while carrying some Hero content, were not about Hero. Thanks for the links, though... good references!