The real danger of D&D is like the real danger of pot: Building stuff you wouldn't have built otherwise. Yeah, you buy a coupla miniatures just out of curiosity..."I can quit anytime"...
Well, be warned! Next thing you know, you can't use your kitchen because that's where the resin casting stuff is set, there are 40k books next to the toilet, and a big, heraldic, skull n' wings crest on the wall with 'Roll to hit, monkeyboy' carved under it in runes...
I found out too late, and now look at me. Next thing you know, I'll be looking for a fast food job, just so I can temper my chainmail in olive oil after I heat it in the pizza oven...
I may be the only one here obsessed with tanks, succubi, elves in leather, and Mountain Dew. While a movie about that would be kind of cool, no one would want to see it but me, and Jon Katz would probably write an article about it.
LOL Hey man, I can't wait for the MSTifications that are sure to pop up on the web. Really, for it to be the average D&D session around here, it should contain references to pro wrestling and 'Gladiator'. I'm gonna see it on video. With friends, and yell shit like "Dost thou smell what Maximus is cooking!!??" and "Methinks I shall LAY THE SMACK DOWN!!"
But hey, that's me.
Also, concerning the unusual frisson between geeks, computers, roleplaying, and reality: I discovered the trick is to withdraw so completely from reality, freak out so totally, and construct such and elaborate fantasy that you'll come out the other side and be hip again.
Kinda like how Neil Young dresses.
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"On a more serious note, we've already lost the ability to use AOL disks to save buying those pesky 3.5" floppies and we are now about to loose the ability to use them as coasters:("
That's okay. Soon we'll be able to glue them to bubblewrap and use them as insulation.:^)
You might want to pick up a copy of Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation'. 'The Matrix' is part commentary/gloss of the work as well as a Swiftian parody ala early William Gibson.
Do not attempt to read Baudrillard straight through, take his ranting with a grain of salt, and realise he wrote this in 1982.
It's not a matter of Linux improving that much, but rather that this new iteration of Windows is *that bad*. The driver problems are, if anything, worse than when 98 was released. That's compounded by the fact that not only are drivers not available for many peripherals, whole *classes* of peripherals are still boat anchors until there are drivers for, in particular, webcams, scanners, and other misc. input devices. This is especially bad when more and more people are viewing computers as sufficiently cheap to make good Christmas presents. Sooner or later, people are going to figure 'hey, why screw with this when I can get something that works for free?'
Ye gods, I had no idea that two dozen people had already suggested this! That's what I get for browsing at too high a threshhold.
I'm just bitter and paranoid, really.;^)
Has it occurred to anyone else here that this is possibly a ruse? By this, I mean that the 'attack' could conceivably have been organized by elements within Microsoft itself to give them a legal basis for suing companies or individuals working on open-source projects that threaten their markets. Particularly ones involving emulation.
Now I know better than to attribute to skulduggery what can adequately be explained by stupidity, but this strikes me as a powerful legal weapon falling into their lap at an opportune time.
I see hoofprints, I think ungulates. I also try to watch out for horseshit. Note: Zebra shit is functionally similar, so it doesn't get a seperate search pattern.
I started with a Mac Classic
Got serious with OS 9
And I don't worry about nothin' no
Cause Windows' a waste of my...time
I start Photoshop'ing around seven
I'll have some comps around nine
Get on the web about eleven
Downloading pr0n and feelin' fine
Chorus:
We been dancin' with
Mr. Pantone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
I used ta retouch a little
but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin'
ta get it lookin' a little better
Said a little better than before
I used ta retouch a little
but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin'
ta get it to look a little better
Said a little better than before
Chorus
Now I call for spot color whenever
I used ta finish spreads on time
But that old man
he's a real muthafucker
Gonna kick him on down the line
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If you want such a grotesque thing in your house, this may be nature's way of punishing you for it.
Their last album sucked, anyhow.
Goddamn right.
Now you don't have the option.
post pix pls. k thx bye
Either that or the motherboard was the problem.
Does that mean I can overclock him?
Hahaha! Aces! Great way to encourage the most juvenile approach to writing a term paper.
All you need now is the obligatory 'Books are Dying' cut n' paste troll.
Charts! Tables! Modifiers! Oooh!
'Quixotic', hmm. 'Retarded' was the word that I had come to mind.
Do you have stairs in your house?
Is this not in itself an extraordinary claim?
He lies with me, cried the Queen of May Be,
/., too. (HHOS)
For her merchandise, he traded in his prize...
Wow, we can argue about music on
The real danger of D&D is like the real danger of pot: Building stuff you wouldn't have built otherwise. Yeah, you buy a coupla miniatures just out of curiosity..."I can quit anytime"...
Well, be warned! Next thing you know, you can't use your kitchen because that's where the resin casting stuff is set, there are 40k books next to the toilet, and a big, heraldic, skull n' wings crest on the wall with 'Roll to hit, monkeyboy' carved under it in runes...
I found out too late, and now look at me. Next thing you know, I'll be looking for a fast food job, just so I can temper my chainmail in olive oil after I heat it in the pizza oven...
LOL I'm bleary eyed, and I just read that "boy, I know a lot of gay assholes".
Wow. Dyslexia can be entertaining.
I may be the only one here obsessed with tanks, succubi, elves in leather, and Mountain Dew. While a movie about that would be kind of cool, no one would want to see it but me, and Jon Katz would probably write an article about it.
Fame would ruin me.
LOL Hey man, I can't wait for the MSTifications that are sure to pop up on the web. Really, for it to be the average D&D session around here, it should contain references to pro wrestling and 'Gladiator'. I'm gonna see it on video. With friends, and yell shit like "Dost thou smell what Maximus is cooking!!??" and "Methinks I shall LAY THE SMACK DOWN!!"
But hey, that's me.
Also, concerning the unusual frisson between geeks, computers, roleplaying, and reality: I discovered the trick is to withdraw so completely from reality, freak out so totally, and construct such and elaborate fantasy that you'll come out the other side and be hip again.
Kinda like how Neil Young dresses.
"On a more serious note, we've already lost the ability to use AOL disks to save buying those pesky 3.5" floppies and we are now about to loose the ability to use them as coasters
That's okay. Soon we'll be able to glue them to bubblewrap and use them as insulation.
You might want to pick up a copy of Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation'. 'The Matrix' is part commentary/gloss of the work as well as a Swiftian parody ala early William Gibson.
Do not attempt to read Baudrillard straight through, take his ranting with a grain of salt, and realise he wrote this in 1982.
Usual disclaimers apply.
Flash. Or doesn't that count?
It's not a matter of Linux improving that much, but rather that this new iteration of Windows is *that bad*. The driver problems are, if anything, worse than when 98 was released. That's compounded by the fact that not only are drivers not available for many peripherals, whole *classes* of peripherals are still boat anchors until there are drivers for, in particular, webcams, scanners, and other misc. input devices. This is especially bad when more and more people are viewing computers as sufficiently cheap to make good Christmas presents. Sooner or later, people are going to figure 'hey, why screw with this when I can get something that works for free?'
Ye gods, I had no idea that two dozen people had already suggested this! That's what I get for browsing at too high a threshhold. I'm just bitter and paranoid, really. ;^)
Has it occurred to anyone else here that this is possibly a ruse? By this, I mean that the 'attack' could conceivably have been organized by elements within Microsoft itself to give them a legal basis for suing companies or individuals working on open-source projects that threaten their markets. Particularly ones involving emulation.
Now I know better than to attribute to skulduggery what can adequately be explained by stupidity, but this strikes me as a powerful legal weapon falling into their lap at an opportune time.
I see hoofprints, I think ungulates. I also try to watch out for horseshit. Note: Zebra shit is functionally similar, so it doesn't get a seperate search pattern.
I started with a Mac Classic
:^P
Got serious with OS 9
And I don't worry about nothin' no
Cause Windows' a waste of my...time
I start Photoshop'ing around seven
I'll have some comps around nine
Get on the web about eleven
Downloading pr0n and feelin' fine
Chorus:
We been dancin' with
Mr. Pantone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
I used ta retouch a little
but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin'
ta get it lookin' a little better
Said a little better than before
I used ta retouch a little
but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin'
ta get it to look a little better
Said a little better than before
Chorus
Now I call for spot color whenever
I used ta finish spreads on time
But that old man
he's a real muthafucker
Gonna kick him on down the line
I know, I know.