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DusterBoy

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  1. I really enjoyed Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible because of the perspective-flip nature of the story telling and the fact we've got ahighy dysfuctional superteam which is clearly pat its heyday. The fact that the team has its own email address is a neat touch

  2. Once you got a Artifical General Intelligence, all those wonderfull "rules" come all back to the Stop Button problem. I actualyl made a thread about someone dicussion actuall AI safty research:

    http://www.herogames.com/forums/topic/95631-the-insanity-of-trying-to-make-safe-ai/

     

    If you're working on the safety side of AI research, here's a video, you might find interesting:

     

    Chap's name is Isaac Arthur, a physicist.

  3. Or given that last, here's an alternative scenario, from a much beloved movie....

     

    "It's [calculating a hyperspace jump] no mean trick. Be nice if we rushed it and passed through a star or some other friendly stellar phenom like a black hole. That'd end our trip real quick."

     

    Or bodged it because you were unfamiliar with even the basics of said calculation....

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

     

     

     

    It's a catchy tune :D

     

    More seriously - he most likely heard either whilst fighting alongside American troops during WW1, or thanks to the Salvation Army, who spread the song worldwide.

     

    And it IS a catchy tune. After all, they use it in Little Peter Rabbit, and He Jumped From 20,000 Feet ( And He Ain't Gonna Jump No More) too

     

    I know ths is ancient, but just wanted to add: and Disturbed's "Indestructible" won't be released for about another 80 years.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWxBrI0g1kE

  5.  Iron Maus: Armored political statement. Despite his comedic appearance, Iron Maus is quite serious in his war against corporate dominance and its stranglehold on many endeavors especially the creative fields. And his (Iron Maus is presumed male but no one has seen his true appearance). armor is no joke either and is easily a match for some of the most formidable high tech battlesuits available. 

     

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    Lemme guess.... Enraged: When called "Mickey" or asked if he's working for Disney?

  6. Ballroom Blitz?  No.

     

    It's a no win for the fellow - how does it look for that tough viking warrior to attack a 16 YO unarmoured girl?

     

     

    I know, right? He beats her and he's the worst guy ever. She beats him and he's humiliated for the rest of his life. Even though she's the one being a jerk.

  7.  

     

    Basic

     

    The Book of Three Rings

     

    Dweomercraft for Apprentices

     

    The Book of Changes

     

    The Lazy Man's Guide to Enchantment

     

    Diabolism for Dabblers

     

    The Book of Prayers in Common

     

    The Prayer's Handbook

     

    The Lore Plain

     

    Authentic Thaumaturgy

     

    Approved Practical Catechism

     

    Orthography of Phydaux

     

    How to Do that Hoodoo So You Do it Well

     

    Holbytlan

     

    Codex of the West

     

    Low

     

    Common Clerical Errors

     

    Justice Incorporeal

     

    Dangers Interdimensional

     

    A First Bestiary

     

     

    Intermediate

     

    The Book of Forty Kings

     

    The Arduous Grimoire

     

    A Field Guide to Forces

     

    Analects that Confuse Us

     

    The Bell Book

     

    The Codex of Silence

     

    The Book of Changes

     

    The Monstrum Manual

     

    Handbook of Alchemy and Metaphysics

     

    Libram of Useful Herbs

     

    The Joy of Hex

     

    Auric Onager

     

    Pictorial Key to the Law

     

    The Classic Way of Virtue

     

    The Limb of Gold

     

    Which World?

     

    Doctrine and Ceremony of the Great Work

     

    Book of the Undead

     

    Seer's Catalog

     

    A Second Bestiary

     

    Scroll of Saving

     

     

    Advanced

     

    Uncommon Clerical Terrors

     

    The Book of the Well Done Cow

     

    The Book of Splendor

     

    The Donjon Mystic's Guide

     

    The Book of Changes

     

    Metamagical Themas

     

    The Cryptic Codex

     

    The Jade Tablet

     

    The Tome of Mausoleus

     

    A Brief Mystery of Tomes

     

    Circles of Arepo

     

     

    Forbidden

     

    The Tome of Horrors

     

    Scroll of the Bones

     

    The Sorcerer's Codex

     

    The Incunabulus of Diabolotry

     

    The Club of the Month Book

     

    The Complete Idiot's Guide to Necromancy

     

    The Suzerain in Saffron

     

    Oracle of the Thousand Hands

     

    The Unspeakable Cult of the Unpronouncable Name

     

    The Seven Hobbits of Highly Defective Purple

     

    Occult Blood

     

    Book of Fifty Shadows

     

    Songs of the Barred

     

    The Zornwil Effect

     

     

     

    Lucius Alexander

     

    The palindromedary appears in Circus of Words

     

    Seer's Catalogue, Joy of Hex and Analects that Confuse Us? Bad Lucius! No cookie!

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