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Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
As they would say on FIREFLY ... Shiney!
 
PDS

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
Urban Dead
 
Low-tech, browser based, zombie apocalypse MMORPG. You can play a zombie or a survivor. There are revivication needles, which means that being zombified isn't permanent, just fairly inconvenient. It's fun. It could just use more zombies. Savinien and others have a cute little group that think they can keep a suburb safe from shamblers like me and Mightybec. They started a thread here on the NGD. We taunt them regularly.
 
Edit: or just listen to Dr. A. I've got to learn to type faster.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

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Urban Dead
 
Low-tech, browser based, zombie apocalypse MMORPG. You can play a zombie or a survivor. There are revivication needles, which means that being zombified isn't permanent, just fairly inconvenient. It's fun. It could just use more zombies. Savinien and others have a cute little group that think they can keep a suburb safe from shamblers like me and Mightybec. They started a thread here on the NGD. We taunt them regularly.
 
Edit: or just listen to Dr. A. I've got to learn to type faster.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
My latest musing:
 
Dan and Ben should impose a rotating random NGD ban.
 
Nothing permanent, nor predictable. Someone rolls a handful of d6 and consults a big chart.
 


"Everyone whose username starts with the letter N is banned from the NGD for 2d6 days!"
 
nexus, nolgroth and Nyrath all go "WTF?!"
 
Ben and Dan cackle to themselves with glee!
 
At the end of that period, they roll again.
 


"Everyone with more than 10,000 rep and less than 1,000 posts are banned from the NGD for 3d6 days or until Labor Day, whichever comes first!"
 
...and so on.
 
It would give everyone a healthy sense of paranoia, while brightening up Dan and Ben's day once in a while. Plus, think of what fun they could have coming up with the list...
 


"Any username which conatins three or more different vowels..."
"Mightybec can post nothing disturbing for two weeks, else..."
"Rage must insert a smiley in every post for one week, or else all NZ posters..."
 
Etc.
 
Now, I can see how some posters might get caught by several different possible random acts and be forced to spend a month or more out of the warm, moist embrace of the NGD, but, remember, absence makes the heart grow fonder. That poster will have to tough it out in the gaming parts of the forum, while we who remain pine for their return...
 


...and wonder who will be next to receive the stigma of the haphazard ban hammer!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
My latest musing:
 
Dan and Ben should impose a rotating random NGD ban.
 
Nothing permanent, nor predictable. Someone rolls a handful of d6 and consults a big chart.
 


"Everyone whose username starts with the letter N is banned from the NGD for 2d6 days!"
 
nexus, nolgroth and Nyrath all go "WTF?!"
 
Ben and Dan cackle to themselves with glee!
 
At the end of that period, they roll again.
 


"Everyone with more than 10,000 rep and less than 1,000 posts are banned from the NGD for 3d6 days or until Labor Day, whichever comes first!"
 
...and so on.
 
It would give everyone a healthy sense of paranoia, while brightening up Dan and Ben's day once in a while. Plus, think of what fun they could have coming up with the list...
 


"Any username which conatins three or more different vowels..."
"Mightybec can post nothing disturbing for two weeks, else..."
"Rage must insert a smiley in every post for one week, or else all NZ posters..."
 
Etc.
 
Now, I can see how some posters might get caught by several different possible random acts and be forced to spend a month or more out of the warm, moist embrace of the NGD, but, remember, absence makes the heart grow fonder. That poster will have to tough it out in the gaming parts of the forum, while we who remain pine for their return...
 


...and wonder who will be next to receive the stigma of the haphazard ban hammer!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
My latest musing:
 
Dan and Ben should impose a rotating random NGD ban.
 
Nothing permanent, nor predictable. Someone rolls a handful of d6 and consults a big chart.
 


"Everyone whose username starts with the letter N is banned from the NGD for 2d6 days!"
 
nexus, nolgroth and Nyrath all go "WTF?!"
 
Ben and Dan cackle to themselves with glee!
 
At the end of that period, they roll again.
 


"Everyone with more than 10,000 rep and less than 1,000 posts are banned from the NGD for 3d6 days or until Labor Day, whichever comes first!"
 
...and so on.
 
It would give everyone a healthy sense of paranoia, while brightening up Dan and Ben's day once in a while. Plus, think of what fun they could have coming up with the list...
 


"Any username which conatins three or more different vowels..."
"Mightybec can post nothing disturbing for two weeks, else..."
"Rage must insert a smiley in every post for one week, or else all NZ posters..."
 
Etc.
 
Now, I can see how some posters might get caught by several different possible random acts and be forced to spend a month or more out of the warm, moist embrace of the NGD, but, remember, absence makes the heart grow fonder. That poster will have to tough it out in the gaming parts of the forum, while we who remain pine for their return...
 


...and wonder who will be next to receive the stigma of the haphazard ban hammer!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
My latest musing:
 
Dan and Ben should impose a rotating random NGD ban.
 
Nothing permanent, nor predictable. Someone rolls a handful of d6 and consults a big chart.
 


"Everyone whose username starts with the letter N is banned from the NGD for 2d6 days!"
 
nexus, nolgroth and Nyrath all go "WTF?!"
 
Ben and Dan cackle to themselves with glee!
 
At the end of that period, they roll again.
 


"Everyone with more than 10,000 rep and less than 1,000 posts are banned from the NGD for 3d6 days or until Labor Day, whichever comes first!"
 
...and so on.
 
It would give everyone a healthy sense of paranoia, while brightening up Dan and Ben's day once in a while. Plus, think of what fun they could have coming up with the list...
 


"Any username which conatins three or more different vowels..."
"Mightybec can post nothing disturbing for two weeks, else..."
"Rage must insert a smiley in every post for one week, or else all NZ posters..."
 
Etc.
 
Now, I can see how some posters might get caught by several different possible random acts and be forced to spend a month or more out of the warm, moist embrace of the NGD, but, remember, absence makes the heart grow fonder. That poster will have to tough it out in the gaming parts of the forum, while we who remain pine for their return...
 


...and wonder who will be next to receive the stigma of the haphazard ban hammer!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
My latest musing:
 
Dan and Ben should impose a rotating random NGD ban.
 
Nothing permanent, nor predictable. Someone rolls a handful of d6 and consults a big chart.
 


"Everyone whose username starts with the letter N is banned from the NGD for 2d6 days!"
 
nexus, nolgroth and Nyrath all go "WTF?!"
 
Ben and Dan cackle to themselves with glee!
 
At the end of that period, they roll again.
 


"Everyone with more than 10,000 rep and less than 1,000 posts are banned from the NGD for 3d6 days or until Labor Day, whichever comes first!"
 
...and so on.
 
It would give everyone a healthy sense of paranoia, while brightening up Dan and Ben's day once in a while. Plus, think of what fun they could have coming up with the list...
 


"Any username which conatins three or more different vowels..."
"Mightybec can post nothing disturbing for two weeks, else..."
"Rage must insert a smiley in every post for one week, or else all NZ posters..."
 
Etc.
 
Now, I can see how some posters might get caught by several different possible random acts and be forced to spend a month or more out of the warm, moist embrace of the NGD, but, remember, absence makes the heart grow fonder. That poster will have to tough it out in the gaming parts of the forum, while we who remain pine for their return...
 


...and wonder who will be next to receive the stigma of the haphazard ban hammer!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
My latest musing:
 
Dan and Ben should impose a rotating random NGD ban.
 
Nothing permanent, nor predictable. Someone rolls a handful of d6 and consults a big chart.
 


"Everyone whose username starts with the letter N is banned from the NGD for 2d6 days!"
 
nexus, nolgroth and Nyrath all go "WTF?!"
 
Ben and Dan cackle to themselves with glee!
 
At the end of that period, they roll again.
 


"Everyone with more than 10,000 rep and less than 1,000 posts are banned from the NGD for 3d6 days or until Labor Day, whichever comes first!"
 
...and so on.
 
It would give everyone a healthy sense of paranoia, while brightening up Dan and Ben's day once in a while. Plus, think of what fun they could have coming up with the list...
 


"Any username which conatins three or more different vowels..."
"Mightybec can post nothing disturbing for two weeks, else..."
"Rage must insert a smiley in every post for one week, or else all NZ posters..."
 
Etc.
 
Now, I can see how some posters might get caught by several different possible random acts and be forced to spend a month or more out of the warm, moist embrace of the NGD, but, remember, absence makes the heart grow fonder. That poster will have to tough it out in the gaming parts of the forum, while we who remain pine for their return...
 


...and wonder who will be next to receive the stigma of the haphazard ban hammer!

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Grond be gentle, Grond promise...Grond said don't clench!!
 
 
:angst:

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I've come to the conclusion that I don't want an "Ignore" list for board people. On an interesting thread, even dedicated trolls and pissants make useful, worthy-of-consideration comments with a pleasantly high frequency. No, what I want is an "Ignore" list for threads, so I don't peek into some of them more than once and find Dame Reason has already been dismembered and replaced piecewise by a not-exactly-full collection of decayed old parts back on Page 1. That way they wouldn't clutter up the result list when I click "New Posts".
 
And no, I'm not saying which ones.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
This morning I woke up at a little before 7 am and had just enough time to take a shower and get dressed before my youngest son got up and demanded Captain Crunch and Blue's Clues. (My oldest son is in High School... he's good at taking care of himself these days.)
 
Anyway, after cereal and cartoon puppies, my son came to me in my office, asked what I was doing, and when he was told "responding to my email" asked if he could help. So he sat in my lap and pushed buttons on request. "Push send". Or "Push the Q key" and so on.
 
And when we were done with that, we went to http://www.noggin.com and spent the next two hours or so playing games that he could play. I provided helpful commentary and conversation while he played for about the next hour and a half.
 
At around 9, my wife (having woke up earlier) stuck her head in and reminded me of the time. I picked my son up, set him back down in the office chair, and said "Daddy's got to get ready for work, buddy... we'll play again later." He immediately went into near hysterics that lasted until I walked out the door. He kept crying "I don't want you to go to work! I want you to stay home and be with me! Stay home, daddy!" He would not accept my "I have to go to work" in response. But I promised him I'd play with him after work, and that since I had tomorrow (Thursday) off, I'd play with him all day then.
 
When I got home, I found a note left by my wife. She packed up all her things and all our kids' things and took them all to her folks, 300 miles away. She says that we have "irreconcilable differences", and that we need to "part ways and carry on with our separate lives".
 
I never saw this coming. I never saw this coming in a million years. Sure, we've had our arguments, what couple hasn't? But Christ... I never saw this coming.
 
I promised my son we'd spend all day together tomorrow... and he's used to me living up to those promises. I have no idea what I am going to do. None at all.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Jeff T's Millennium Knights.
 
Jeff gave me an exhaustive description. I hope I did his team justice. To those others that I have commissions to do for, I will be getting to them slowly and surely. Origins is eating up a bit of time due to prep. But I'll be taking sketches to do with me.
 

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Some people in my neighborhood get around the hassle of moving by not owning or renting a place, and keeping only those possessions that fit in a shopping cart...

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

I don't know about "practical" or "feasible". It would be "frustrating" for some, at the very least, and, for people like me, it would be "hilarious". Just imagine: Leftist posts horribly biased article. Righty tries to respond, but is modded by Leftist thread starter. So Righty starts his own thread which he is mod of to respond to Leftist's thread. The problem blooms, everyone is posting and responding to their own threads. Then Mightybec starts a thread...sanity is lost by all.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I'm sure I'm going to regret this, but...
 
I, Jonathan Bodey, a natural-born citizen of the United States, just wresteld with my 8 month old daughter to put antibiotics in her eyes. She's probably going to need surgery to clear the tear ducts. They say it's routine, but that doesn't matter when you're her Dad. The only thing I care about is her safety over this one trivial little thing. There are millions like me, caring about their little lives and wondering what all the raging noise is about.
 
My point is this: I don't give a rat's ass if you are "Lib'rul" or "Neocon". The truth of the matter is that lately you've all* been unreasonable ideological fcuktards from the party leaders right down to rank and file. You all have forgotten basic decency and the 'don't be an asshole' rule and occasionally just how to shut the hell up. There doesn't seem to be a place we can go without you folks raising a din where a murmur would do.
 
This is the Hero Games forums. Posting anything other than rules questions is a priviege, not a right. You may have Freedom of Speech at all times, but this company doesn't have to let you be heard here, but they do, and you guys all sure do a bang-up job of respecting that every single da---cough---Sorry, had a little sarcasm in my throat.
 
You want to be a bunch of assholes, go to Dailykos and Free Republic and spew there. Otherwise, do all the rest of us here a favor and close your sphincters for a while. The world won't fall apart if you do, and it'll sure smell better.
 
And that would be my 'random' musing. Hey, is that pie?
 
* Ok, "you've all" is a little strong. In retrospect I should have said something like "a sizeable number of you have" or "too god damn many of you have been". Mea maxima culpa.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I increasingly regard the arguments on these boards not as arguments about specific issues, but as a recurrent and insoluble argument between Foundationalism (predominantly Rationalism and Empiricism) and Scepticism, which includes Coherentism. What consitutes knowledge and justification between these two conflicting modes of epistemology is so fundamentally different that discourse becomes essentially impossible. A Foundationalist and Sceptic, though they may both form their arguments in English, are speaking in alien tongues. Hero Boards, meet Tower of Intellectual Babel.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Same here. I went and married a woman who loves Country music (and supports my gaming habit, among other virtues.) Now, I'd classify myself an old time Rock and Roll man, but the sad truth is that MTV and VH1 don't play videos anymore. CMT does. Thus I was introduced to the wide spectrum of 'Country Music'...and...well...
 
I like some of it.
 
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of the standards I can't stand. George Strait's music makes me lunge for the remote. Yet, in there, there is a bunch of artists that are damn good, and don't take themselves too seriously, and play fun and touching music.
 
Then it hit me that those are the qualities I liked in my Rock and Roll. The rap I do listen to is that way, as well. Classical, too.
 
Country, when it comes right down to it, is like every other style of music. There are some truly great artists, but most of what you hear on the radio is 'pop' country. Which - like a lot of pop music - is hit or miss with the emphasis on the latter. Most have built their careers on the fluffing of videos, where you don't notice as much when the music is tepid as long as the visuals are stimulating.
 
However, everyone likes Johnny Cash.
 
Not liking Johnny Cash means you want the terrorists to win. You don't want the terrorists to win do you?!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Just thought ya'll would like to know. With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry La Prise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey," died peacefully at age 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
"During the Afghan campaign, an Internet wag, Glenn Crawford, deftly summed up the different cultural approaches to unpromising climate - in this instance between the bleak Afghan plain and Nevada. Third World solution: eke a living out of the desert. American solution: “Viva Las Vegas!†One wouldn’t commend a den of gambling and fornication to every spot on earth, but, driving through the Sunni Triangle, I couldn’t help feeling the history of the Middle East would have been a little different if smack in the middle of the Arabian desert you could have seen Wayne Newton with full supporting orchestra. It would be to Afghanistan’s benefit if someone opened a ski resort, and made the brutal Afghan winter pay its way."
 
-Mark Steyn
http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=25

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Not the person you want to hear from, I'm sure, and this isn't meant to be trite or condescending, but why not just let it go? Do what you're good at (gaming, recipes, what-have-you) and just let it go.
 
I honestly don't think people are taking sides between you and Doug (or anyone else, for that matter), at least not in generalities (specific debates are another matter). For me, at least, it's gotten to the point where I just roll my eyes when I see Doug take a hack at you and scroll right past it. Doug is just being an asshat when he posts his crap about you; you come across as being an arrogant asshat. His posts don't seem to rile anyone but you (which is not a condonation of said posts); your posts, on the other hand, tend to push everyone's buttons. Your posts reek of arrogance and of a claim to maturity that you're simply not demonstrating. Intelligence and knowledge, definitely, but neither courtesy nor humility nor maturity ranks very highly on your list of "strong personality traits".
 
Seriously, you can't be better than he is if you persist in fanning the flames, and I'm pretty sure you can be better. Go and cook something, eat something, have a cup of Earl Grey, make a character, watch a movie or do whatever it is you need to do to relax and just let it go.

On my home page I have posted (with kind permission from Steve Long) the text of my 1990 CHAMPIONS Fourth Edition superhero-horror adventure "Anopheles," published under the title "Horror World" in Iron Crown's supplement Champions in 3-D, edited by Rob Bell. The URL:
 
http://www.allenvarney.com/anopheles.html
 
This adventure, one of a collection of alternate-universe scenarios, is set in a modern-day parallel world where Cthulhoid monstrosities have taken over. The premise is that back in the 1920s, heroic investigators fought dark cults to keep the world safe from these other-dimensional entities -- and they failed. Now it's decades later, most life on Earth has been wiped out, and it all gets pretty horrific before the superheroes save the day. Or fail.
 
I haven't tried to update this adventure for FRED. If any kind Hero fan out there would like to take on the task, please call dibs in this topic and send me the updates at APVarney (at) AOL (dot) com.
 
I hope you enjoy "Anopheles."

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Pride is always a bitter, barbed pill to swallow.
 
Doing so requires we not think ourselves above another. Any other. We may not agree with them, and we may even be forced to fight them, but none of that makes us 'better.'
 


Often it requires us to give way when the urge to be unmoving is causing the blood to pound in our ears.
 
It can require us to stand silent before the jeering mass even when we feel justified in bringing the hosts of heaven down around their heads.
 


It always requires us to accept our own fallability. No matter how much we would like to protest to the contrary, we are the cause and center of our trials and troubles.
 
Pride erodes away at us slowly and steadily. The longer we let it do so, the greater the distance between us and the rest of our world will become.
 


Close friends become acquaintances.
 
Friendly rivals become enemies.
 
Disagreement becomes intolerance and hate.  
We like to ignore how destructive pride is. We'd like to make it a virtue. We want our posturing and chest-thumping to be seen as good and righteous.
 
I'd sure like that, but it isn't.