Burrito Boy

Octomom? All I have to say is: Rapid Fire: 8 shots!

It's belated but 2 weeks ago I had my first old man moment.

I fell on a chair and bruised my ribs.

 

I can now kinda sorta run across the street if I don't mind wincing and sleep has become easier.

 

But I'm getting real tired of this body and the crap it makes my brain put up with.

You have my sympathy. I pulled a muscle (at least I think that's what happened) in my left hip a couple weeks ago and it hasn't stopped hurting. Standing and walking are fine but bending and sitting are still painful.

Is that bad, or is it really superduper bad? I.e., is it the timing belt on an interference engine?

It's superduper bad because it means I have to go back to driving the truck with manual transmission.

On Sunday my uncle bought a new battery for the truck I've been driving. So why am I cranky? Because today the bleeping serpentine belt broke.

I've been listening to 80s Pop Radio on Pandora. Was every 80s song a love song? Or is Pandora screwing with me because it knows how lonely I am?

"One day we'll be out of this bullsh*t and we can smile at the devil and give him both middle fingers."

Welcome to life.

I'm [expletive] tired of people screwing me over and then acting like it's my fault.

My imagination is taking me in a very Samantha Eggar in The Brood direction...

I'd never heard of that movie before. It sounds interesting. And it's on YouTube so I'll have to watch it.

For what character ideas have you thought..."On second thought I am never going to be able to use this.">

 

Example: Suicide Squid. This extremely agile thrill-seeking molluscoid alien swings through the city on his long tentacles performing feats of inexplicable daring-do.

Better not? Are you kidding? That's an awesome idea!

On a mollusc related note, I had an idea years ago for a character inspired by Octomom that I never built. Not sure if I wrote anything down at the time but I still remember a few things. They're probably best left unshared.

I build characters to concept, "useless" skills and all. I really love skill monkeys. And every once in a while, that's what allows them to shine. I still remember fondly the one Pathfinder game I played in where my dwarf's knowledge of stonemasonry helped the group find a secret passage into the tower the party was supposed to break into.

HOLY BLEEP!!! Why didn't anybody tell me that someone wrote a song based on "The Tower of the Elephant"?

I just discovered that there was a Life With Luigi TV show!

1989

4th had a few good supplements like that.

Which ones specifically? I just got the 4th Edition bundles so I'd like to know what to look for.

The two most iconic Opening Adventures I can think of for Champions are:

 

A villinous agency is robbing all of the local banks. The heroes must stop them.

 

An arsonist is setting a series of apartment buildings on fire. The heroes must save as many residents as they can before the building collapses, as well as find and defeat the arsonist or discovery why these apartments are being burned down.

I've been listening to a lot of old time radio lately and I thought of your post when I heard this episode of Sherlock Holmes.

Doom bringing, eh?

Abaddon

 

Hightower II

 

When Monica Marchant's father the first Hightower, his daughter takes on his mantle as Hightower II.

Was her dad Bubba Smith?

I like the pizza analogy. Going with that, Guardians of the Galaxy had anchovies and that's why I spit it out.

Why are you further confusing the issue?

Do you think I could actually talk to her without being sick?

Are you saying that because you're busy teaching or because you're cranky that you've been banned from the observatory?

Batman vs. Spiderman? This is going to be awesome!

The Moons of Barsoom. Professional writers write John Carter fanfic. A couple of them were interesting, particularly for showing how others perceive John Carter. But the Tarzan versus John Carter one was just obnoxious. John Carter was not a modern Confederacy apologist.

Do you mean Under the Moons of Mars? I picked that one up for a quarter a while back and only made it through four or five stories before I gave up in disgust. The story by Joe Lansdale has some interesting concepts even though it's generally lackluster in execution. The other stories I read are clichéd and horribly written. But there's a story in it by Garth Nix that I'm holding out hopes for because he's one of my favorite writers. So is Tamora Pierce, who I wish had written a story for the anthology rather than just the introduction.