Rendezvous with Rama I thought was one of his best work, along with Songs of Distant Earth. The real shame in Rama was for him to turn out such a master piece only to turn it over to a complete idiot to piss all over. I am of course referring to the three sequels of Rendezvous with Rama written by that asshat Gentry Lee. As far as I'm concerned they never happen and I'll be waiting forever to fine out what Rama's real purpose was.
I don't know what you do in your bathroom, but mine is free of distractions and I'm usually pretty relaxed. I've gotten some of my best ideas in here. Thanks to wifi, I can work with others during this relaxed state.
I got a friend who makes these herbal brownies with some stuff he grows in pots on his back porch does the same thing to me. Only side effect is after you eat one you want another. After the first though I am so relaxed you can hit me with a bat I and I won't notice it or car.
Holy shit! Your post came out of the box at a -1. Since in your option I have to try hard to sound like a "fucking idiot." From the evidence of your post and its score I can only assume that you don't have to try hard at all. I'm thinking it comes easy to you, maybe even natural.
Advice: Go back to school little boy. You clearly are not smart enough to play with the big boys.
and Israeli soldiers shooting American civilians, what would you do? Fight back, or sit on your arse and wait for the bullet? We wouldn't do a god damn thing because it has happened before, USS Liberty. Israel could fucking nuke the east cost, say it was an accident, and we would just nod and fucking smile.
Which exactly why the U.S. should say "fuck israel." We should cut all funding and aid to that area and let the israeli and the palestinians kill each other. I've got nothing against most Jews, hell, even some of my Jewish friends think israel is out of control.
Personally I've often wondered why we still support a nation with a history of assassination Gerald Bull, spying against friends, out right acts of war against same friends USS Liberty.
The only items proposed as valuable enough for trade are technologies and crewmembers
This is not entirely true. What about art? What is it worth to ship say an original painting across light years of space? A shit load comes to mind but it might be worth that to someone to have an original Leonid Afremov. For some people a copy won't do but only the real thing.
Then there might be some "mystical" compound or element that might not exist in the earth system. Say naquadah or Q-40. How much would it be worth to ship something like that? Of course common scientific sense says there is no such thing as "mystical" compounds or elements out there but you never can tell.
Yeap, same here, that is what did it for me. I got involved in the spiritualist/pagan movement back in college. I was siting around fire one night with the "group" when the head hippie started talking about all the personal energy and shit. Told us we where all white knights on some crusade down through history.
That was when the Bullshit Fairy tapped me on the shoulder. There must have been something in the koolaid because I was the only one that wasn't drinking it. I was also the only one that didn't get laid that night but that was another story.
The worst are where the referee seems themselves competing with the players instead of entertaining them since they can always win by adding more foes or an unsolvable puzzle.
It has always been my experience that a good DM will make the players think they can die at any moment while most of the time allowing them to live. I've always found that you want to avoid kill PC out right if you can but not seeming to do so. Just make them think they are going to die.
When a player works on a PC and puts a lot of effort in him I try to avoid killing that PC when possible. Even to the point of bending the rules in favor of the PC. I look at this way if I kill a players PC I get one pissed off player who basically has nothing to do until the rest of the party gets around to raising his dead ass. Most of the time that can take hours.
But on the other side you must never be afraid to kill a character if it moves the game along or "teaches a lesson." For instance I had a player who worked hard on his character. He ran in to combat with 10 hit points out of 60. I warned the player that his character was badly hurt but he insisted in fighting. His character dropped to 0 hit points and fell over. I repeatedly warned the other players that this character was hurt bad and bleeding. The other players didn't do anything for the character for over 10 rounds. By that time the character was dead. The player in question was shocked that I let his character die even though I explained to him that he was hurt and the other players did nothing to save him.
Let us not forget the cons. How many of you have come out of a con dressed as an elf into a waffle house loaded with klingons? How many of you have latter, that same day, got thrown out of same waffle house with the klingons for singing "stand by your man" at the top of your lungs? In the original klingonize?
Truly your ignorance in this matter is beyond reproach. First all Black and Decker doesn't not manufacture sledgehammer esp. in the 12 pound requirement Then a.30-30 is not a shotgun round. It is a rifle round first marketed by Winchester in the 1800s. Shotguns are measured in gauges not caliber.
Then the answer is simple. You flood the area with enough RF to fry everything. Then you go in, rifle through the corpses collecting cellphones, then you use that to identify the enemy. Simple.
They are French. Just threaten invade their country and they will quickly roll over an surrender. Works even better if send the threat from a German email address.
About 10 years ago I came across some plans for one of these emeter things. It was really simple to build. I had all the parts I needed in my scrap electronics bins. Every thing except the soup cans. I had to use beer cans.
First order was to empty the beer cans. I decided to empty a few more just in case. It got a little fuzzy after that. I think it worked. I found it the next morning, the needle was stuck between inebriated and tanked.
One doesn't. Mickysoft has stated they will sell licenses based on the number of CPU's your system has. Not the number of cores your CPU has. So if your system has one physical CPU but that CPU has 2, 3, or 4 cores mickysoft only counts it as one CPU.
Anything above 200 bucks is insane to me. The ps3 is an awesome machine, I drool every time I see that commercial, you know the one, the one with kick ass music. But, hell, I still have games for my PS2 that I haven't even opened yet.
One day I will get a ps3 but I don't see it happening soon.
Well I wouldn't call it officially over yet. But I think we can safely say the fat lady is out of the bullpit, upon stage, and the band is warming up. It really sticks in my craw too that Sony won this one but at least we have another excuse to buy a PS3. Once they reach a sane price that is.
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Rendezvous with Rama I thought was one of his best work, along with Songs of Distant Earth. The real shame in Rama was for him to turn out such a master piece only to turn it over to a complete idiot to piss all over. I am of course referring to the three sequels of Rendezvous with Rama written by that asshat Gentry Lee. As far as I'm concerned they never happen and I'll be waiting forever to fine out what Rama's real purpose was.
That is a lot of horse shit....
Yeah, let us know how that works out.
I got a friend who makes these herbal brownies with some stuff he grows in pots on his back porch does the same thing to me. Only side effect is after you eat one you want another. After the first though I am so relaxed you can hit me with a bat I and I won't notice it or car.
Man you guys are seriously disturbed...
And people who talk on cell phones in the next stall while I'm trying to take a dump.
Holy shit! Your post came out of the box at a -1. Since in your option I have to try hard to sound like a "fucking idiot." From the evidence of your post and its score I can only assume that you don't have to try hard at all. I'm thinking it comes easy to you, maybe even natural.
Advice: Go back to school little boy. You clearly are not smart enough to play with the big boys.
Which exactly why the U.S. should say "fuck israel." We should cut all funding and aid to that area and let the israeli and the palestinians kill each other. I've got nothing against most Jews, hell, even some of my Jewish friends think israel is out of control.
Personally I've often wondered why we still support a nation with a history of assassination Gerald Bull, spying against friends, out right acts of war against same friends USS Liberty.
This is not entirely true. What about art? What is it worth to ship say an original painting across light years of space? A shit load comes to mind but it might be worth that to someone to have an original Leonid Afremov. For some people a copy won't do but only the real thing.
Then there might be some "mystical" compound or element that might not exist in the earth system. Say naquadah or Q-40. How much would it be worth to ship something like that? Of course common scientific sense says there is no such thing as "mystical" compounds or elements out there but you never can tell.
Yeap, same here, that is what did it for me. I got involved in the spiritualist/pagan movement back in college. I was siting around fire one night with the "group" when the head hippie started talking about all the personal energy and shit. Told us we where all white knights on some crusade down through history.
That was when the Bullshit Fairy tapped me on the shoulder. There must have been something in the koolaid because I was the only one that wasn't drinking it. I was also the only one that didn't get laid that night but that was another story.
Would not surprise me. I've pissed off petty people before and probably will do so again.
You know you can always help the little fucker along. Decide to you need to move it, say near some stairs. Whoops, new tv time.
It has always been my experience that a good DM will make the players think they can die at any moment while most of the time allowing them to live. I've always found that you want to avoid kill PC out right if you can but not seeming to do so. Just make them think they are going to die.
When a player works on a PC and puts a lot of effort in him I try to avoid killing that PC when possible. Even to the point of bending the rules in favor of the PC. I look at this way if I kill a players PC I get one pissed off player who basically has nothing to do until the rest of the party gets around to raising his dead ass. Most of the time that can take hours.
But on the other side you must never be afraid to kill a character if it moves the game along or "teaches a lesson." For instance I had a player who worked hard on his character. He ran in to combat with 10 hit points out of 60. I warned the player that his character was badly hurt but he insisted in fighting. His character dropped to 0 hit points and fell over. I repeatedly warned the other players that this character was hurt bad and bleeding. The other players didn't do anything for the character for over 10 rounds. By that time the character was dead. The player in question was shocked that I let his character die even though I explained to him that he was hurt and the other players did nothing to save him.
I want to know why all my posts are now being modded as flamebait.
Let us not forget the cons. How many of you have come out of a con dressed as an elf into a waffle house loaded with klingons? How many of you have latter, that same day, got thrown out of same waffle house with the klingons for singing "stand by your man" at the top of your lungs? In the original klingonize?
If we have to explain it, you will never understand it. Best just to walk away now.
Truly your ignorance in this matter is beyond reproach. First all Black and Decker doesn't not manufacture sledgehammer esp. in the 12 pound requirement Then a .30-30 is not a shotgun round. It is a rifle round first marketed by Winchester in the 1800s. Shotguns are measured in gauges not caliber.
But your comment about termite is right on. :)
Then the answer is simple. You flood the area with enough RF to fry everything. Then you go in, rifle through the corpses collecting cellphones, then you use that to identify the enemy. Simple.
(Yes, I am be sarcastic.)
They are French. Just threaten invade their country and they will quickly roll over an surrender. Works even better if send the threat from a German email address.
About 10 years ago I came across some plans for one of these emeter things. It was really simple to build. I had all the parts I needed in my scrap electronics bins. Every thing except the soup cans. I had to use beer cans.
First order was to empty the beer cans. I decided to empty a few more just in case. It got a little fuzzy after that. I think it worked. I found it the next morning, the needle was stuck between inebriated and tanked.
One doesn't. Mickysoft has stated they will sell licenses based on the number of CPU's your system has. Not the number of cores your CPU has. So if your system has one physical CPU but that CPU has 2, 3, or 4 cores mickysoft only counts it as one CPU.
Christ on a Crutch! Are you dumb ass fuckers still posting to this thread? Hell, an I thought I needed a life.
Anything above 200 bucks is insane to me. The ps3 is an awesome machine, I drool every time I see that commercial, you know the one, the one with kick ass music. But, hell, I still have games for my PS2 that I haven't even opened yet.
One day I will get a ps3 but I don't see it happening soon.
Well I wouldn't call it officially over yet. But I think we can safely say the fat lady is out of the bullpit, upon stage, and the band is warming up. It really sticks in my craw too that Sony won this one but at least we have another excuse to buy a PS3. Once they reach a sane price that is.