Only the nerdiest of you will understand this, but every time I see the werewolf packs in True Blood I think of my ww toon on a God Wars mud circa 1996.
/rage
/rage
/rage
/rage
/cleave
/cleave
/bite
/cleave
I also had a fucking amazing Vampire and pretty dominant Drow on that server.
Just Some Fuckhead
/make friendship bracelet
Redshirt
WoW! So you really are a hard core nerd!
Tripod
I’m wiping my ass with the Constitution.
Redshirt
Rolls 36 sided die, comes up “Ennui”.
Gravenstone
Unfamiliar with the mud, but a friend of mine managed to create an amusing panic at GenCon a few years ago before it moved to Columbus. Walking by a bunch of WoD larpers outside the venue, he casually says “I burn a rage point”. Suddenly, every faux vampire within earshot gave the hand sign for invisibility because no one wanted to mess what what they expected to be a raging werewolf.
cokane
this nerdiness is why you understood Flake Junior’s casual racism, just sayin’
dance around in your bones
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Make really long lanyard & maybe catch/strangle werewolf/vampires/zombies but only if made w/silver bullets or garlic or chainsaws (juggle if possible)
Dupe70
Argle bargle glop glyph.
SillyMUD
RobertDSC-PowerMac G5 Dual
@Gravenstone:
LOL. I would have liked to have seen that.
Narcissus
@RobertDSC-PowerMac G5 Dual: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWNJHS9PBE
LT
I’m so glad I have not idea what that means.
#nevergotthegamesthing
John Cole
@Gravenstone: That’s genius.
Redshirt
Only Slayerverse rules for vampires and/or werewolves apply. None of this Twilight shit.
Politically Lost
Obsessing about my BBQ tomorrow. There’s the slow cook ribs; I’ll be using a webber kettle with a smokenator insert for those. I’ve got a tri-tip that I’ll do on a Lodge cast iton hibachi that i custom made a domed lid for.
Also there’s the slab of fresh ahi tuna that I scored which I’ll do by half filing a charcoal chimney starter and put a grill grate on top of it. Once those coals are blazing It’s like searing with the exhast of an F-16.
Then of course I’ll have two rotisserie chickens going on the gas grill.
Now, how to I do the peppers and onions and squash? And, there’s that pack of incredible natural casing hotdogs….
Question for the fellow BBQ fanatics: there will be plenty of space in the webber kettle with the ribs cuz I have a rib rack but do peppers and squash like slow cook temps?
piratedan
@Redshirt: My eldest son (24) came to me with a request that I couldn’t refuse, he asked me for my D&D campaign materials, so we went to the office and filled up a crate, included were 2nd edition copies of the following:
Unearthed Arcana
Fiend Folio
Monster Manual II
Deities and DemiGods
Wilderness Survival Guide
Dungeoneers Survival Guide
1979 edition of Dungeon Masters Guide (w/cardboard screen complete with saving throw tables)
First Edition Forgotten Realms adventures 1 thru 5 complete with map of the City of Waterdeep
One Homemade dungeon
2 reams of square grid graph paper
1 ream of hex graph paper
and six 2nd edition beginners level official D&D modules that he says that he’s been lusting after for the last 8 years plus about 200.00 worth of assorted dice including everything from 4 sided to 100 sided and about six matched sets of marbled dice sets for each player (assorted colors)
I sighed a lot that evening but the smile on his face made it all seem a whole lot better….
barath
Does anyone remember a post by Tim F (or maybe DougJ) from a few years back about how we’ve become a nation where it’s impossible for people in power who get it wrong to be discredited for good (nor their ideas), and we keep getting the same wrong people with the same wrong ideas over and over?
It was a great post and I’m having trouble finding it and would love a pointer if anyone knows it.
Redshirt
@piratedan: You have passed on your treasure.
Kat
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
July 3, 2013
[…]
Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images.
Redshirt
@Kat: And?
tavella
You were a mudder, too? I’m extra amused now. I keep forgetting that you are more or less from my era.
Suzanne
@Kat: That’s a lot of pictures of Bed Bath & Beyond coupons.
Redshirt
Here’s another headline:
Computing power increases every year exponentially
The prophet Nostradumbass
@piratedan: I at least used to have copies of these D & D books. They’re probably still around somewhere. I was probably around 10 years old or so when I got them.
EDIT: If I’m going to brag, I may as well mention that I played this when I was in junior high or high school.
NotMax
@Kat
Why I stopped putting return address on mail about 40 years ago or so, when it came out that the FBI had teamed with the Post Office to do something similar with mail on college campuses.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Kat:
That is so damned dumb it actually makes my molars ache. How are they going to process all of those photos, hire an infinite number of monkeys to go over them for an infinite amount of time?
MikeJ
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: The intent isn’t to process all of them. The intent is to have the data on hand once they have a suspect so they can check their activities before they learned of him.
Which doesn’t make it excusable, but it does make it possible.
Bill E Pilgrim
Oh, we used to dream of playin on a “server”. Looxury!
We had to use real vampires…
Virtually every discussion of “historic computing” devolves into a parody of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch eventually. Pilgrim’s law, let’s call it.
Anne Laurie
@The prophet Nostradumbass: That’s nothing — the Spousal Unit’s first D&D group got fiction-slandered by Rona Jaffe. Now that’s OG!
piratedan
@The prophet Nostradumbass: if you want some cash, I’d suggest finding them and checking the current market if they don’t have any sentimental value to you. My kid told me roughly what they would be worth and I stopped wishing I still had my baseball and football card collections.
Anybodybuther2016
@Kat: didn’t they start doing this as a result of the anthrax attacks after 911?
Anybodybuther2016
@Kat: didn’t they start doing that as a result of the anthrax attacks after 911?
Cermet
WTF? No good versdion? Jimmy Hendix’s musical version (yeah, no words) was the best version ever. AS for postal photo’s of all letters, I would guess they use that after the fact – (all letters are readible by computer – names/addresses/zips) so they just see what a given person/address/post office has to offer over a period of time using a database/scan. Not real time watching would be my guess.
Ivan X
I understand, but I was more of an Infocom text adventurer myself.
OmerosPeanut
It’s been years since I’ve felt I could mention MUDs in general, let alone a specific one, without drawing a blank look even among my nerdiest of friends.
Thanks, John.
PIGL
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: computers. and databases. Welcome to the monkey house.