Bored

Internet is down at home. I’m now at the public library. I miss Firefox.
Ctrl+f? pops up a damned window instead of searching while I type!
No tabs!
The address bar as a search thing? Gives me some pos microsoft search thing that is most definately not based on an analysis of usage patterns. If I wanted dumb search I’d have gone to altavista. At least they aren’t noticably filtered.
Gir!

I keep coming back to this comic.

from xkcd.com

I keep coming back to this comic.

from xkcd.com

With the recent announcement that Dumbledore is gay Rowling has thrown open the doors to a brand new original wave of Harry Potter slash fic. The slash community held its collective breath at the news before they rushed to start working on their new grand masterpieces based on a whole new unexplored field of Harry Potter Fan Fic.

Just a second, my assistant seems to want to show me something.

What?
Wait! The timestamp on that one is before the first book was even…
Oh my GOD ARRGH! The grammer

Hee hee! Curry flavored (read turmeric and coriander) chicken/rice pilaf for lunch.

Also? The standard deviation on primary stats for Fatal is on the order of 8 points. The stat range is almost about 200 points wide.

444 miles to Rivendell

From pope_guilty
I run into this review every so often on the net. Fatal: Quite possibly the worst RPG ever. And not funny like Kill Puppies of Satan

Hey Scott, you are mentioned as potential backup to keep the authors from climbing a bell tower with a rifle.

:(

I was reading BoingBoing today when I ran across this.

Ugh. I googled the situation, and she seems to be pulling an Orson Scott Card here. She asked Andrew Burt to contact Cory over this, which got absolutely no results since Burt is in Cory’s kill file due to his blackhatish actions. She should have tried to contact Cory herself instead of sending one of the bad guys to do it.

*sigh* I hate it when my heroes fall. Card, Ellison, Bradbury, and now possibly Le Guin.

“Regan won the Cold War and lost his mind.”

some people have the oddest questions.

this was a question of the D&D website’s feature “save my game”

“My games have been bogging down recently due to what I believe is my players’ uncanny ability to focus on the mundane. For example, when I established a base of operations for the group, two hours later they were still arguing over whether to hire skilled or unskilled labor to fix the place up. Another time I designed a goblin mook for an encounter, and made the mistake of naming it. My players kept on slowing down the game to discuss the fate of this obviously important NPC. How do I get them to stop going off into these annoying tangents?”

Dude! If your players spend two hours talking about how to set up their base of operations or use all of their headspace pondering the fate of a throw off NPC? You just won the game. I mean seriously, not only have you won thos round, but you were just handed the lever that is going to let you build the next one with a minimal amount of work from you and a maximal amount of involvement from them.

If they focus so hard on the workers? Time to have a plot involving one of them. Maybe a thief gets the layout of the base from one of the people that they spent so much time worrying about. Maybe they picked the unskilled labor and now the guilds of the city are up in arms that they didn’t use guild labor.

As for the goblin? “Hello, My Name is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father: Prepare to Die!”

Any adventure that ends with me having almost all of my prepared materials still unused? It is a win.