Dr. Anomaly

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
I'm still trying to find a tape of KISS Saves Santa.
 
JG

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

Nope. "Half Life" is (ln2/l) points.
 

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
When in doubt, grab a hardcopy dictionary and 3d10. Roll page numbers at random, choose an adjective from that page, and then re-roll and choose a noun. If it sounds too goofy, repeat. Pretty soon it'll fall below your (rapidly increasing) goofiness tolerance threshold, and you're done!

Re: Superhero Images
 

 
Finally had a chance to finish this up. You didn't mention the helmet so I made it the same as the ship.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
Well the Weather does come with "No Concious Control"....

Re: "Neat" Pictures
 

The fifth one is Batman.
 
 
 
 
I think.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
You sure you don't like catgirls?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

I'm more of a dog fan myself. 
Woof.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
Well, there are more important things than NGD for OTHER people to do. Not for you. This is as good as it gets for you.
 

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 
I live.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
"Don't talk about my dirt naps in front of other people!"
 
Sophia gets all the best one-liners in Josh's Valdorian game . . .

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
In Saturday's game, a couple members of the team are meeting with a high-ranking VIPER member, incognito, during a function being held at the Scarab Club in Milennium City. Sentinel, the team's power armor wearer, stations himself on a nearby rooftop "just in case" something goes wrong or VIPER gets any "funny ideas." It turns out that the VIPER member had the same idea, and there's a VIPER aircav agent also stationed on the rooftop. After a bit of "strange cats sizing each other up" behaviors, Sentinel and the VIPER aircav agent come to the conclusion that (a) they're both there to do the same type of job and ( there's nothing to be gained from starting a fight with the other guy just this moment.
 
Sentinel is also moderately infamous inside VIPER circles because, before he was piloting it, the suit of alien power armor he wears was in the hands of VIPER. He's the main reason it's not in their hands any more, and they really do not like him much.
 
So, after some uncomfortable silence, the VIPER aircav agent tries to strike up a conversation with Sentinel, and is rather unsubtle about making a bid to get him to "come back" to VIPER.
 
VIPER: "I really don't understand why you left VIPER in the first place. You put your life on the line every day, and for what? Public adoration? That and two bucks will get you a cup of coffee. The rewards for being a member of VIPER are much higher than veneration by the masses."
 
Sentinel: "I make $300,000 a year. How much are you pulling down?"
 
VIPER: (more silence) "There are a lot of perks for being part of VIPER, the sorts of things that, as a superhero, you just don't get to do. That's a much bigger incentive than mere money."
 
Sentinel: "One of my teammates is the avatar of the goddess of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. How do you think that compares to your perks?"
 
VIPER: (long pause) "I think we should keep our minds on the job were supposed to be doing up here." (lapses into silence)
 
 
----
 
(One of Sentinel's teammates, Scarab, is a multiformer and most of her alternate forms are based on one of the gods of the Egyptian pantheon. One of those forms is that of Hathor. )

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 
One advantage of root beer is that it goes so well with ice cream. Do people put ice cream in beer? No. And well they should not, for the Force is my ally, and a powerful ally it is. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. It knows when sleeping you are, and also when awake you happen to be.

Re: Complicate the Person Above
 
Death Tribble secretly dances at the House of the Rising Sun. His non de plume is "Fluffy".

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

Some time back, I was GMing a years-long-realtime Amber campaign. We always used background music for our games, and one disc we almost always had in the player in those days was the soundtrack to Last of the Mohicans. There's one particular track on there (don't remember which one now) that has a very ominous, loud, "dramatic" part...and it had an unnerving tendency to play just as I (the GM) got through delivering some dramatic announcement, or a disturbing bit of news from a major NPC. This happened lots of times, not just once. It got to be something of a joke: "Well, it couldn't have been that important...the CD player didn't do its 'dramatic bit'!"
 
Not strictly gaming related, but...
 
I seem to have an affinity with and for fire; enough so that most people who've got to know me over the years notice it without me telling anyone directly about it. They tend to capitalize on it when they can, too: "Scott, I can't get this ******* fire to light -- get over here and get this started so we can have a fire in the fireplace tonight!" and things like that.
 
One this particular occassion, I was the current GM and we were gaming at the house of a friend a couple of miles outside the city limits. As was usually the case on days with nice weather, at least one meal of the day-long game session was cooked on the grill out on the patio behind the kitchen. That day I was sitting out on the patio, talking over character development and background stuff with the player whose house it was...and he had been trying for many minutes to get the charcoal to light, but it was stubbornly refusing, and he was getting hot, sweaty, and very frustrated. Finally he put down the lighter on the patio rail, turned to me in annoyance and said: "Look...can't you do something about this? Use your influence or something!"
 
I said "What do you expect me to do, just wave my hand," -- and I did, in the general direction of the grill -- "and cause the fire to..."
 
WHOOOOSH!!!
 
A yard-high pillar of fire erupted from the charcoal, very nearly catching my friend in it, and then immediately settled down with the briquettes beginning to turn white at the edges as they burned. My friend, who had reflexively jumped back when the fire roared up, gave me the most venemous look you can imagine and said "Next time, wait until I'm out of the way!!"
 
I was sitting there mouth open, not finishing my sentence, because though I have a 'way' with fire, it had never responded so...vigorously...before!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

Some time back, I was GMing a years-long-realtime Amber campaign. We always used background music for our games, and one disc we almost always had in the player in those days was the soundtrack to Last of the Mohicans. There's one particular track on there (don't remember which one now) that has a very ominous, loud, "dramatic" part...and it had an unnerving tendency to play just as I (the GM) got through delivering some dramatic announcement, or a disturbing bit of news from a major NPC. This happened lots of times, not just once. It got to be something of a joke: "Well, it couldn't have been that important...the CD player didn't do its 'dramatic bit'!"
 
Not strictly gaming related, but...
 
I seem to have an affinity with and for fire; enough so that most people who've got to know me over the years notice it without me telling anyone directly about it. They tend to capitalize on it when they can, too: "Scott, I can't get this ******* fire to light -- get over here and get this started so we can have a fire in the fireplace tonight!" and things like that.
 
One this particular occassion, I was the current GM and we were gaming at the house of a friend a couple of miles outside the city limits. As was usually the case on days with nice weather, at least one meal of the day-long game session was cooked on the grill out on the patio behind the kitchen. That day I was sitting out on the patio, talking over character development and background stuff with the player whose house it was...and he had been trying for many minutes to get the charcoal to light, but it was stubbornly refusing, and he was getting hot, sweaty, and very frustrated. Finally he put down the lighter on the patio rail, turned to me in annoyance and said: "Look...can't you do something about this? Use your influence or something!"
 
I said "What do you expect me to do, just wave my hand," -- and I did, in the general direction of the grill -- "and cause the fire to..."
 
WHOOOOSH!!!
 
A yard-high pillar of fire erupted from the charcoal, very nearly catching my friend in it, and then immediately settled down with the briquettes beginning to turn white at the edges as they burned. My friend, who had reflexively jumped back when the fire roared up, gave me the most venemous look you can imagine and said "Next time, wait until I'm out of the way!!"
 
I was sitting there mouth open, not finishing my sentence, because though I have a 'way' with fire, it had never responded so...vigorously...before!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
"And for his part, the party of the first part shall take part in a party with the parts of the party of the second part, regardless of whether or not the party of the second part wishes thier parts to take part in a party with the parts of the party of the first part."

Re: "Neat" Pictures
 
Here's a chart that compares the relative sizes of ships and such from various SF series and movies.
 
 

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Boy...trying to make this clear without actually using anything forbidden...well, I'll try. This is from tonight's game:
 
"You know, I can give you a third @nus."

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 
Thanks guys - a nice double team, Dr. A got in the basic answer but I appreciated the elaboration.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

You must have taken Craft Disturbing Mental Image as your feat last level.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Boy...trying to make this clear without actually using anything forbidden...well, I'll try. This is from tonight's game:
 
"You know, I can give you a third @nus."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
"He's over there -- next to Gimpy the Three-Legged Wonder Spider."

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

I didn't make the cut :weep:

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

That sucks. Throw icecubes down their pants.