| Writer's Block: Lights Out |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|05:45 am] |
All of my memorable power outage stories involve sex. That's what makes them memorable. |
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[Jul. 8th, 2009|06:16 am] |
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Argh, if you thought Puzzle Quest was addictive, you might want to avoid Puzzle Kingdoms. It's kind of like a mix between Heroes of Might & Magic and Puzzle Quest, only it doesn't used Bejeweled as the primary form of combat. I'm not sure what this puzzle game is called when it's not dressed up in strategy RPG play, but it's a bit more complex and interesting than Bejeweled, which just makes this worse.
I was gonna talk about something else, but I forget and don't care anymore. |
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| Writer's Block: Little White Lies |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|06:15 am] |
No, it is not okay. People do not take lying seriously enough. Lies are important, and should only be used when it would be funny. Or when you've forgotten the truth. Or when you're too lazy to bother with the truth. Or when you don't actually care and just want to make the person go away. They're important. |
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| Origins 2009 |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|05:59 am] |
Sooo, yeah, I've been a bit busy, but I had lots of fun at Origins. I played an inordinate amount of Shadowrun, and picked up the new Shadowrun 4A book. I really am liking the Technomancer.
In fact, had one of the greatest battles ever in a Shadowrun game. We were protecting the owner of a restaurant while they were doing a wedding reception. Turns out, it was the wedding reception for the daughter of the chief of police. So when the people who were hassling her came in through the back and tried to start something, one of our guys through himself backwards out into the front room of the restaurant like he'd been pushed, and the half drunk cops came in to rescue us. Which is not something, as a Shadowrunner, we're particularly used to. It was hilarious though.
Also played in the Paranoia LARP, but I always play in the Paranoia LARP cause...well, Paranoia. Didn't rack up any really interesting kills, unfortunately. Did get to see a clone commit suicide, and not the usual way of committing suicide by being a commie mutant traitor, but by actually shooting herself in the head. Yeah, it was an interesting game.
Also played in an ADGNEPSEF555 LARP. And if you don't know what that is, you need to play in it sometime. It is a completely and totally original game, and awesome in every way.
Ummm, what else...it looks like Gamestop is also trying to get some video game stuff going there. They were holding DS tournaments. There were also a group of about 16 Mechwarrior cabinets there, too. Incidentally, I suck at Mechwarrior, and don't know what 80% of the switches in that cabinet do. I'd hate to play on expert mode and have to figure out how to eject my arm before it overheats and blows me to smithereens.
My only disappointment is that I failed to get into the Savage Worlds Smurf Cthulu game. If they do it again next year, I'm fucking preregistering for that.
Oh, and for people who care, WotC just did an update on D&D rules, and they fixed the Battlerager. No more Temps for getting hit, and no more stackable temps, so the Battlerager fighter is a little more tame now. I think they added something else to make up for it, like a damage bonus with certain weapons (don't remember if that was there before or not). |
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| Just all kinds of rage today. |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|05:05 am] |
Holy fuck. I go to the comcast page to check my email, and there's a new story about some girl in Iowa being the faster 'texter' in the world. Why the fuck do we care about this? I mean, I can see that showing up as a, "Wow, neat," moment in some book of world records, but it is not, "In our top stories today," news. It is especially not tech news. Fuck you guys. |
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| Oh fuck you guys. |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|04:55 am] |
Alright fuckers, if you're going to persist in not including floppy drives in new pcs, or, in fact, any pcs ever again, then 'Boot from USB' needs to be a default option in every single BIOS from now on. Seriously, I'm not kidding. And we need boot images to copy to thumb drives from Microsoft, Apple and any major Linux provider that we can download off your website with little difficulty. I don't need an install disk, I need something to fix a harddrive when my install disk isn't working. Fucking fix this now. |
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| Odd oversight. |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|10:32 am] |
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It occurs to me no one in my friendslist has mentioned the death of David Eddings. Seems a bit of an odd oversight, and I find it hard to believe I wasn't the last to know, but just in case...yeah, it's true. |
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| Writer's Block: Conversion Rate |
[Jun. 17th, 2009|10:07 am] |
I once considered converting from Atheism to Super Atheism, but my knife technique wasn't good enough. |
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