Tim

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
If anyone is interested, I've created a "new" export template. It is another version of the Full Character sheet but includes all the equipment stats.
 
You can find it here: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=966331&postcount=11

Re: The Last Word
 
Cry fowl, and let loose the ducks of war.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
And here's another one from Friday night's Dark Conspiracy-esque campaign that I forgot to post with the others last night:
 
"Oh, God...I'm a Pokemon trainer!!"

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Dead bunny theatre.
http://www.angryalien.com/0206/NOLDbuns.asp

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Another NPC for my upcoming WotG game and more experimenting with Painter, this time heavily using the oil brushes as opposed to the watercolor stuff earlier.
 
This is Angry Wren

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

We test to make sure the glues, tapes, elastics, and fabrics will hold together with sufficent strength so they cannot be easily pulled apart. The last thing the company wants to have happen is a baby, who has just learned to grab, to be able to pull the diaper apart. But the mother should have no problem doing so.
 
The glues should hold the peices together and elastics in place, even when heated, weighted, and under full tension.
The core material should be spread out evenly along the diaper to aborb any fluid, and the core should be sealed so the material not get on the babies skin.
The bond theat holds the tape to the ears should be strong enough so that, when stretched, the ear material tears before the bond gives way.
Then visually, the tapes should be on straight and the graphics and printing not be out of alignment with the cutting knives so that the pictures are full and not looking like a tv with vertical hold problems.
 
Most of this is really easy to check/test but is complicated to explain.
 
ANd I cannot go into any hard numbers. That would be considered giving out corp secrets and get me fired.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

I work for Manpower, at the local Proctor and Gamble, doing quality testing on diapers.
 
And NO I DON'T PEE IN THEM.

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Q: WHat is the perfect condiment to put on a roast beef and swiss sandwhich?
(Truth)
 
A: I give you kisses sweeter than honey.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

I just checked. I'm not. There is no hand up my ***, thank you very much.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

He claims Pittsburg was named for him.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
If you have young girls around (not like that, you sick-os!) you know that every young girl want to be a princess. Thank you Disney. So this is from my beautiful and innocent niece...
"I want to be a Princess Chef!"
"Umm, ok so you want to be a cook for a princess?"
"Oh no, I want to cook princesses... for Dragons!"
Oh yea, subvert that dominant paradigm girl!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I wonder if anyone noticed I was offline almost all weekend?

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
I was running my Zombie Apocalypse game, with several long-time friends.
 
The three PC's and one NPC are on the top of a sporting goods store that they and their survivor group has been holed up in for a couple of days, as they prep to leave L.A.
 
The three PC's are Jordan, a gorgeous LAPD "kiddie cop" (think of Eliza Dushku in the LAPD uniform. Now youre on track), Eric, a recently-graduated high-school athletic star who was about to turn pro before the world ended (looks like Tom Welling), and Gabriel, a six foot ten EMT ambulance driver (who looks like Abraham Benrubi). The NPC with them is most often referred to as "Conspiracy Man", and goes only by the name of Ed. Despite a few comments about the "alien overlords" and the "flouride mind-control policy", they nevertheless gave Ed a rifle, as they had just raided a pawn shop, and his oddly useful skill-set was instrumental in their success. (They suspect he is ex military, and has seen too much).
 
The group has recently discovered that there are a few more survivors trapped on the fourht floor of a building about a block away from their own hideout. The people trapped in the office building have smashed out a window and hung a sign out of it written on a drape that says "Help Us".
 
As the characters are deciding what to do next, the sounds of gunfire erupt from a rooftop a few buildings away. The characters look around, and realize that it is coming from four gang-banger types who are taking shots at the "Help Us" sign, and the people behind it. (These are people with the same mentality as those who were shooting at police, ambulances, and fire fighters during the L.A.riots).
 
Jordan, the cop, is the first to spot the perps. She aims her rifle at them. The others follow suit. I tell them that one is shooting, another has a rifle also, and there are two others with pistols besides. They look like they are in their early twenties, of mixed ethnicity, and are wearing loose clothes with alot of sports team endorsements. Jordan makes a Perception roll and recognizes them as wearing local gang colors.
 
Ed: Firing order?
 
Jordan: Im taking down the shooter.
 
Ed: Ill take the other one who has a rifle.
 
Eric and Gabriel's Players both indicate they are also going to fire. I ask them to pick targets. And then...
 
Gabriel's Player: Ill shoot whichever one has the most underwear showing.
 
 
 
 
After we all finally stopped laughing, Garbiel then proceeded to randomly hit the unlucky s.o.b. in Location 13. For near-max damag,e and maximum Stun.
 
I guess Gabriel -really- didnt want to see that guys underwear!
 
(Edit: If this post accidentally offends anyone out there who habitually "busts a sag"... TOUGH! Pull your gorram pants up!)

Re: A Thread for Random Videos
 
Mario and Luigi in a Band
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3117004324521250241

Re: A Thread for Random Videos
 
A great video with a lot of anime bits.
Warning: it is an hour long
 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1296650760995189755&q=amv+hell+3

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Q:We've got quite a party happening on the building ledge. Don't you want to join us? We have Nypho Cheerleaders.
 
A: And that's why you are wearing the diaper.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

 
To boff every babe in the galaxy.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

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

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Q: Okay Mr. Redneck, Jest who you tryin' to summon?
 

 
Q: How was the appearance of Eliza Dushku, in a bikini, in the local mall yesterday?
 
A: I refuse to give one.

Re: The cranky thread
 
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

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: Answers & Questions
 

 
Q: Why is your boss stuffed into the water cooler?
 
A: He made a satisfying thunk.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
One year at Christmas my mom went to my sister's house for the traditional feast.
 
 
 
Knowing how gullible my sister is, my mom decided to play a trick. She told my sister that she needed something from the store.
 
 
 
When my sister left, my mom took the turkey out of the oven, removed the stuffing, stuffed a Cornish hen, and inserted it into the turkey, and re-stuffed the turkey. She then placed the bird(s) back in the oven.
 
 
 
When it was time for dinner, my sister pulled the turkey out of the oven and proceeded to remove the stuffing. When her serving spoon hit something, she reached in and pulled out the little bird.
 
 
 
With a look of total shock on her face, my mother exclaimed, "Patricia, you've cooked a pregnant bird!" At the reality of this horrifying news, my sister started to cry.
 
 
 
It took the family two hours to convince her that turkeys lay eggs!
 
Yes, SHE WAS BLONDE!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From the game today.
*being silly*
player1:"You take an infinite amount of damage"
Me: "save for half."
 
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"I'm a dog, I know a lot about drool."

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Look what I found.
 
http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
 
Who knew there was a last page.