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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
My daughter is 9 today. I'm skipping out of work early as the extended family gathers to carpet-bomb her, the only granddaughter on either side of the family, with presents.

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: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

 
"Hello, Mr. Enforcer, is it? I'm with the DEA and we're interested in this roast pot you seem to be distributing...."

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Ok, I have begun work on a PDF Export Template for HeroDesigner and I thought I would let all of you here be the first to know about it. It is currently working to a point. That point being that it is accepting the data from HD and producing a PDF. However, I'm running into some formatting issues with the PDF language itself. Let's just say it isn't very user friendly...
 
Once I have worked out the first few kinks, I'll be posting it most likely to the HD forum. I'm diving back in. Wish me luck.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Not sure we want to hear the side effects built into that power.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
That sounds like it works for deleted files, but not for recovering data files that were corrupted or overwritten with bad or wrong data. It was those latter cases that caused the real grief.

Re: "Neat" Pictures
 
Lunation

Re: Complicate the Person Above
 
Doh, scooped.
 
Mutant for Hire dabbles in secret, forbidden experiments into turning prune juice into a viable fuel for thermonuclear reactors.

The Board's Top Hits!
 
Maybe this could go in the "company questions" forum, but I'll leave it here to be safe.
 
It would be interesting, maybe even better than interesting, if the board had an automated "best items" thread, where every 24 hours it posted links to the 5 or so items that were repped most in the just-expired 24 hours. Ranking would be by number of reppings, not total rep points given (since that would skew the scale toward the gods' chosen), though the latter could be the second-order ranking number. Maybe break it into two lists, one for non-NGD posts and one for NGD items.
 
Probably this is board-guts software stuff that's out of your hands, but even if so, you might suggest it as a feature for the next generation.

Re: The cranky thread
 
Hope you feel better, Haven Walkur, and I'll be leaving the next line in the Story Game thread in your court.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

You mean this one?

 
I love email notifications...

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

 
"Honey, I think it's not appropriate to plan on sending personal invitations to the Secret Masters and the Inner Council members of the Bavarian Illuminati. Isn't it that sort of thing that makes the funeral necessary in the first place?"

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
 

 
Whaddaya mean, "after"?

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: Complicate the Person Above
 
The task of "complicating" death tribble is so daunting that the challenge left this thread idle for thirty hours. Since he represents megamillenia of evolution, converging the monstrous meat-rending power of Tyrannosaurus rex, the raw cunning of a night-stalking leopard, the heat tolerance of Methanothermobacter thermoautotrophicum, the grace of a ruby-throated hummingbird, the radiation resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans, and the raw abusive power of a mob of drunken English soccer hooligans, it seems clear that the rest of Earth's biosphere should be very, very afraid.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Please Lord, let them stop with the WWYCD threads before I open up a can of whooparse on them.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
All you have to do is let the Survivor programs show some of the participants in suitably-edited-for-prime-time-TV sex scenes with each other, and you get a low-budget version of the same damned boring soap operas I've hated for over forty years, except that you spend less on costumes and more on mosquito repellent for the camera crew.

Re: "Neat" Pictures
 
Hyperion, enhanced color, from the Cassini mission. As always, click on the image in the page that comes up to get a larger wallpaper-worthy (and in this case, rotated) version.
 
That's one strange-looking hunk of ice. Now, if the Space Maggots were to emerge from that, one planet-devouring maggot per crater (Hyperion is about 250 km across), and take flight looking for their next meal ... there's an adventure for your superheroes.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

 
Hmm. I don't expect to live long enough (or hang around long enough, or post enough catgirl pix) to get to that state.
 
I'm also geek enough to think that rep power should be a monotonic but nonlinear function of rep received, but I almost expect negative rep to be reimplemented merely for making such a suggestion.

Re: Complicate the Person Above
 
keyes_bill wasn't born a rabbit. He was an archeologist once who went into the forbidden "rabbit" temple in Tibet and paid a terrible price for his curiousity and hubris.

Re: Complicate the Person Above
 
Death Tribble's energy and organization are boundless, as is his creativity in solving problems. Had he been available to His Majesty's Government a hundred years ago, the sun still would have never set on the British Empire, and that nasty scrap referred to as "the Great War" would have been settled without gunfire.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 
My feelings on internet posters is the same as the best bathroom-wall graffitto I ever saw. Sadly, you sort of have to be a math geek to get it, but it fits perfectly.
 
On one stall wall there were lengthy heated arguments, just like in a political NGD thread, without the server-imposed censorship of language, or any identification of the poster.
 
One day there appeared a large circle more or less encompassing the diatribes, with an arrow leading to a the brief mathematical inscription that can be best rendered into English as "vector sum = zero".
 
Failing that, I'd nominate "a write-only memory of internet posters".

Re: Complicate the Person Above
 
Keith Curtis is a clever wag, with a deep understanding of the paradoxes of reality. He has created a propositional calculus with which he can refute anyone's existence, a truly fearsome tool. When he uses this on a person, they not only are expunged from this Universe, the Universe is by the very act remade so that they never could have existed.
 
It is, of course, impossible to list the victims of this most fundamental form of vengeance. As long as I keep up my payments on my "reality insurance" I have no worries about this happening to me.