8513 - midweek, or the first day of my workweek

[scottobear]

Just about a week before launch.. I really hope that work doesn't need to call me while I'm out of state. I have to remember to let Fatima know that I need to reschedule her cleaning.

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Fined For Using Someone Else's WiFi

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Got a Wu update from Danny - Doug sounds like he's taking to fatherhood well and is still has a focus on music. It's hard to believe that his daughter is already 10 months old! Speaking of a gamer's babies - (not Doug's)

I wonder what his THAC0 is?

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For me to test on a sample machine later. Password bypass

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The Secret Life of Walter Kitty - Illos for the coming book.

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1 year ago - german link issues, hillbilly Kung-Fu zombie movie, Magda, free wifi, Abednego, bro release coming

2 years ago - Alabama Opens, local eats, fortune cookie, free fonts, how to build a universe, Florida weather/FEMA, Hurricane Disney prep, Oriental, Indian Circus-folk, lj-stats

3 years ago - Sleepy newtpic, I hate the diamond industry, Idi "VD" Amin dead, Crocodile men form the congo

4 years ago - day in chunks, Arnold sells some crazy Japanese thing, twee

5 years ago - pet/work poll, epenthesis

6 years ago - ebooks, hungry

Comments

[drrng.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's so sweet. :) I'd really like to know where they got the T-shirt.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=461

found it! :)

[blond-not-blind.livejournal.com]

That T-shirt is FUNNY.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

from the sales website -

The casual RPG enthusiast will look at this creeper, chuckle, possibly buy it for their child, and move on. However, the avid J!NX gamer will inevitably flame this design with questions such as "Wouldn't a baby be level 0?", or "What is its class? Mage? Rogue?", or "My baby's INT should be WAY higher!", or "Does that high Charisma give my baby the ability to lead up to 15 henchmen?". We expect this. And that, my fanatical friends, is why we love you.

http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=461

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

Darn those parents who haven't upgraded to 3rd edition D&D!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Just be glad they're not using FUDGE!

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

What would be cool is a Runequest baby jumper with all the hit locations and body part hit points on them.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I would just about die if I saw that.

Quick. copyright it, and submit it to somebody!

I see I need to do much more research to speak to these beings.

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Is there a "mundane" translation available for this comment? heehee :D

Re: I see I need to do much more research to speak to these beings.

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Hehe Runequest is an old RPG from the 80’s. Its combat system allowed you to target specific parts of the body, one of the first, if not the first to do so. So you could aim for an arm or a the neck etc. Each part of the body had a specific hit point value, a percentage of a characters overall Hit points, do X many hit points to a location and that location was impaired or severed. The character sheet had a silhouette of a human figure with areas to write down your hp and armour in each location.

Yours Nerdy
GP

Re: I see I need to do much more research to speak to these beings.

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

I wiki-ed it and looked for pictures but didn't find any pictures that described this---thanks for explaining it. I'm fascinated but I've never gotten a chance to play a game like this or D&D or any RPG.

And dude you aren't nerdy until you go to the land records office and get excited about looking at handwritten deeds from the 1920's---so um YEAH! :D

Re: I see I need to do much more research to speak to these beings.

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

That reminds of the time I went to the UT law Library, I was writing a story and needed to do some fact checking, don’t remember what about now, anyway I got distracted and started looking at old case files and such which was fun, but the best part was finding that legal documents used the phrase “Simple Texans”, which I heard the local news use and was always amused by, but there it was on freakin’ legal documents.

Re: I see I need to do much more research to speak to these beings.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

it looks sort of like this -

Re: I see I need to do much more research to speak to these beings.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

GP is surely the go-guy when it comes to game rules and such... he's got a rockin' collection of tomes.

Re: I see I need to do much more research to speak to these beings.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

ah, your response is far more detailed than mine. RQ was certainlyt the first I ever saw to do it... plus, you could play a duck.

Re: I see I need to do much more research to speak to these beings.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

It was a pretty neat way of tracking body damage - sort of a human outline with different sections marked with how much damage you could take, and the effects of being wounded (in the foot, for instance)

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

They must be old school, we probably know them from the necro list. ;)

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

That's probably true! many gamers these days are falling into second-generation production!

[intrepidite.livejournal.com]

Hey were are you going. I haven't been on in a while. OK a long while.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

it's good to see you back! :D

I'm shooting towards the Maryland area, near the bay. :)

[intrepidite.livejournal.com]

Hope you have fun.

*gringringrin* 8 only more!

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Hmm that fined for using someone's wifi blurb is interesting--also interesting are the comments people have left. I wonder how had a contract with their internet provider that they signed and did not read---hmmmmm.

I love the Secret Life of Walter Mitty/Kitty---I wonder if another orange cat has an active imagination too?

Re: *gringringrin* 8 only more!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

The comments are actually pretty amusing to me. folks getting pretty wound up about someone taking thier freebies away.

Newt seems to see things that I don't, sometimes.. imaginary?

[shangalangshang.livejournal.com]

What a cute baby!