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May 13th, 2008
11:05 pm - City of Heroes
You know.
I love this game, until I get obsessed. Then I hate it. lol
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May 12th, 2008
04:17 pm - Why you should make time for regular commitments
From a recent article on rpg.net:
Contributors to RPGnet have always been rewarded with that intangible of 'exposure', as well as an even less talked about value-- 'practice'. This latter one is why I continue to write my monthly column. Being forced to write new material every four weeks, to a deadline, regardless of my day job or ordinary life burdens, has been fantastic for keeping and honing the writer within me. Although I have occasional paying RPG and science writing gigs, creating this column is akin to participating in a writer's guild: write, get feedback, learn.
Yeah, sometimes having to do something every week, every other week, or even monthly, isn't convenient. But it's good for you. The stress you pick up from doing it, and the tit-for-tat with other people as you do it, makes you better at it - even if you don't want to do it at all.
I could mention some examples of this for GMing, but I think most of my audience gets it.
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03:42 pm - It all makes sense now...
"I FEEL TOM CRUISE OVERTAKING ME! It is a good pain."
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02:49 pm - Science
Lost among the miracles, I stand alone
And i've grown into a being that's sitting on top a throne
I've known
For many years that I would turn to rust
I find a reason for another breath
Before my return to dust
I become one with science and mathematic and the rising of the sun
So today, Viktor's sick so we won't get to work on his project. Which leaves me working on someone else's stuff that they didn't bother to do, but needs to get done.
Isn't science great?
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01:31 pm - Uncle Sam Wants You (for his DNA Database)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/12/dna.database/index.html
Changes are coming at the federal level as well. The government soon will begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested or detained by the feds, including illegal immigrants.
"I think there is a valid public policy for doing that because there are many people who have committed crimes but who have never been convicted but have been arrested and without their DNA in the system we are not solving those crimes," said Associate Attorney General Kevin O'Connor.
That's awesome, isn't it? Get detained, for any reason, and get your DNA put in a database so they can go on a fishing expedition and destroy your life.
Fascists.
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04:56 am - Great idea, or greatest idea?
Chocolate flavored cheese.
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12:19 am - Graphs
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May 11th, 2008
07:45 pm - If only...
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07:03 am - Feel Better
After ensnaring some foolish heroes in Hell's Flower's evil schemes, even if she did have to team up with that strange faceless fellow "Anon E. Mous."
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02:26 am - I should have stayed in bed all day
ugh
Or maybe I should find a job where I get paid to screw things up.
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12:47 am - Happy Mother's Day
To you Mom.
To you Jade.
To you Katie.
And all the rest of you too. You do a hard job, so from all those silly sons that make your life difficult sometimes, thank you.
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May 10th, 2008
06:00 am - Clive Barker Presents "Clive Barker's Jericho" by Clive Barker
After playing for about 5 minutes and shooting some guys who had swords for hands, and shooting some guys that had crossbows that shot grenades, and noticing that the guy with the mini-gun on my team was doing all the work instead of me... I quit playing the demo. Jericho kinda sucked withing five minutes of installing it. I can only imaging the vacuum you enter deeper in the game.
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04:08 am - Pygmalion
Just read this book of Shaw's, or rather an abridged and illustrated version. It's a nice read. I'm not sure if I prefer it in this form, or as a musical (My Fair Lady).
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12:04 am - No Forbidden Kingdom for me
I was hoping to see the movie tomorrow, now that I don't have the unrelenting threat of FINALS looming over me.
It's already passed out of theaters in this area. O_O
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May 9th, 2008
06:14 pm - OpenOffice gets more press
http://instapundit.com/archives2/018996.php
I have to use OpenOffice on my linux machine at school, and I totally hate it. The chart making in Calc sucks.
The funny thing is, I was talking to Austin the other day and he was like "Yeah, don't use Presentation. You can't do shit with it." He's managed to get Office working on his linux laptop.
Maybe the Word Processing side works well, but the part that's important for me totally doesn't.
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05:50 pm - Pig cop killed by citizen defending self from home invasion
Self Defense, not murder, you fascist pig lickers. Go slurp more jackbooted latex, and leave an innocent man alone. Of course you won't, because you can't have mere proles defending themselves against your tyranny.
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05:46 pm - Mike "I Prosecute Innocent People Based On Their Race" Nifong declares bankruptcy
in an attempt to weasel out of paying damages to the students whose lives he tried to ruin for political gain. NO MERCY. I want that scum out breaking rocks with a hammer at 6 bucks an hour for the rest of his life.
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06:34 am - New Product Idea:
Dorcheetos.
Brought to you by Ryan and Elisha Enterprises, LLC., all rights reserved.
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04:24 am - A little bit to use in a game sometime:
/ !/////m/ShI 05/08/08(Thu)14:45 No.1687897
This is only tangentially related, but in the Metro once I saw "stay disembodied" scrawled on the wall with the text sloping downward.
Damn that was awesome (and made me open my UA book when I got home).
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May 8th, 2008
08:53 pm - Orkonomics: An essay from 4chan
ORKONOMICS: ON THE ECONOMICS OF THE WAAAGH
AN ESSAY
The currency of the Orks is teef. We know this from before even Gorkamorka, though it was then that it became relevant. We know that the Bad Moons are the richest of the clans because their teef grow earlier, faster and longer; we know that all Orks grow and regrow teef at a fairly constant rate. We know that teef are an effective universal currency, since all Orks can grow teef for themselves or knock out the teef of the next Ork along. Due to the lack of medical sophistication inherent to a society where the most delicate tool is the choppa, and the prevalence of Orka Kola, teef cannot be hoarded (toof dekay). The number of teef in the universe has a direct and stable relationship with the number of Orks. Teef are a kurrency well suited to Orkdom. But why do Orks need kurrency?
What would an Ork want to spend their teef on? Gunz and wagons, of course (though that has problems in itself - see Mekboyz below). Food? There is talk of squig pies and fungus beer, but a Waaagh on the move will have plenty of 'umies to eat, and a Waaagh not on the move has Grots, Squigs, Snots and of course any Boyz who fall asleep without their shoota next to them. Perhaps finer culinary delights (dead cyboar stewed in its own lubricants) might take the fancy of Bosses, but to my knowledge there has never been anything said on Boyz living off more than the local fungus (mobile or not) and the slower Grots. And why would an Ork provide food for teef when they could be going out and stikkin da boot in? Grot scavengers seem to be largely responsible for providing food to the Waaagh, and the type of payment an Ork would give a Grot is likely to be along the lines of "and bring me more umies or I'll rip off your uvver leg". This is not an outlet for teef, except perhaps ones broken on unexpected bones or bullets.
Teef are stable, and there are no teef to gain from conquest; Orks do not go to war for profit motive (nobody else has decent teef, with the possible exception of Tyranids, who have more teef than anything else in the universe. The encroachment of the Hive Fleets may well cause a devaluation of the toof, and severe damage to the Orkonomy, if anyone ever beats them). Orks go to war for war's sake, and do not so much care about the profit involved, although they will of course engage in lootin' once the enemy are all dead, and may well trade looted stuff to the Mekboyz. Orks gain pleasure from fighting, not booze, and there are no Ork women (women being the principal reason for economic activity in a race that features sexual dimorphism). The only real reason an Ork would have for spending teef is gunz. Just as Heinz meanz beanz, Gunz meanz Mekboyz.
Mekboyz are responsible for the weapons, vehicles and other equipment of the Waaagh. Mekz were programmed by the Brainboyz/Old Ones to instinctively understand teknologee (Orkish force fields, produced by untrained savages, are comparable even to the Necrons or Eldar) Mekboyz, too, are not driven by profit motive or by greed for food or booze. Their motivation is to outdo other Mekz and make the blastiest kustom shoota, the fightin'est Dread, or the zoomin'est (red) trukk. Other Orks trade them teef for their gunz and trukks, but what do Meks do with their teef? More scrap and more guinea-grots to continue with their work.
However, since a kustom blasta will sell to a Nob for far more teef than the bitz used to make it, Mekboyz make a profit on their everyday work. What do they do with their teef? Spend them instantly on more scrap. Mekz gradually get richer and richer, their schemes more and more insane and extravagant, from shoota to mega-armour to Dread to Stompa to Gargant to Great Gargant to Mega-Gargant, until they die from botched surjery or get blown apart in an unexpected explosion, and their machines are left to the Waaagh by logical, fair Ork succession ("I saw it first and I's bigga") and protected by the rigid codes of ownership ("get yer hands off or I'll frag ya, ya thieving gitz").
To the established Mekboyz, teef are almost unnecessary as a kurrency. Meks will happily trade gunz directly for loot and scrap. However, without the Orks' ability to produce their own kurrency, the footslogging Boyz would be unable to get their hands on shootas to begin with, and teef thus remove financial "class" in Ork society, replacing it with the far more natural hierarchy of kunnin' and who's da biggest.
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