Walsingham

Once again I feel obliged to apologise for Piers Morgan. I was about to suggest we bury him a nuclear waste facility. But in deference to our era we could also strap him to a wind turbine, in a form of rotary crucifixion.

Misread this as 'jiggling'.

About this ? I doubt it. It is just kids, after all. Kids have a far greater capacity to surprise than adults, generally. Well, in real life, anyway. Adults in real life tend to be terrifyingly conventional. They have to be or they scare each other.

m'colleague http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdol18SVS7A (note: 'the future' was 2010)

Well, maybe not violently atheist. But it's not hard to recall incidents of very bigoted atheism. And by, not hard I mean, involving me as the bigoted fethwit. You can debate atheism versus religion as much as you like, but the debate for me ended when I realised that there were a good many 'faithful' people who were smarter than me. More generous than me. More humble than me. More determined than me. Whether you think that's true for you is your own business.

I think you are right.

In deference to m'colleague, Raithe:

I really shouldn't have been, but I was disappointed that Obama weighed in suddenly in the last 24 hours. Who the **** is advising SCOTUS? I think the unbelievably weakass advice scares me more than he does. First accepting a Nobel on credit, then chipping in with a meaningless opinion months after the case was news. One can only hope that his foreign affairs people are smarter than his domestics.

Those recent outbursts are just spill-overs from the 4chan/anonymous fighting removal of some compromising videos from the web. That and scientology aggressively combats it's opponents unlike most other religions that are just punching-bags for militant atheists. Hah. There is that.

Whuh?

Mate, if you ever met a girl like that she'd never give you pause to be jealous. Girls like that don't need guarding.

A mate of mine has married an LDS girl, and I am obliged to say that I think they're perfectly nice. If I may venture an opinion, without offending them (so to speak), I would say that it vindicates my faith in people more than their faith in their church. OK, that was a bit rude.

If it was so, then why police didn't for example investigated Zimmerman's background before media involement albeit they did so for Martin? Or did majority of media outlets give false information about the case in this matter? I'm on record, having gotten a lot of the points wrong on this case, so shoot me down for asking. But I thought they didn't originally bring a case?

Man, I had forgotten Kaylee.

No I mean that (quite literally) insufferable mother****er who got caught out making up interviews with famous people, who asserted that since the message he ascribed to his interviewees was trendy left wing it was therefore BETTER than being strictly true. I have mentioned before that I knew BBC correspondent Donald Milner. I am afraid that even when he was dying of cancer, he would have dragged himself upright, carrying his morphine drip and kicked said arsehole very VERY hard in the balls. It is a point of personal shame that my toecaps have never rearranged the trousers of half the bastards I hate.

I eat room temperature yoghurt from a shoe.

From the apparently random string of letters and numbers I presume that Gorgo has gone hormone-mental.

Can I interject a point of order? Choose bloody avatars! I hate reading a long thread like this, and forgetting who is who, because you slackers don't have pictures. I get especially annoyed, because your views deserve better representation than a blank box.

I was about to object, and then I started growling like a tree-dwelling cat.

There's been some talk that HBO is talking with GRRM about adapting the Dunk and Egg stories. The comics are pretty good too. Wild Cards. Very very good. *blushes* well, OK. Maybe not very very good. But good. Great world building.

See, people like you, wanting '****ing action' is what produced KJA/BH's abortions! What the feth is a KJA/BH?

It doesn't need a special trial system. I think at least in the UK that it's rare to find a (criminal) lawyer who is prepared to sacrifice their professional chops for the sake of one case. Most barristers have at least one eye on becoming a QC. Getting Adebolajo off would prevent that. ~~ I mentioned that I'm back to the shop floor recently. It's less grand than I make it sound, but I was still pleased to be invited to one of my colleagues homes for Sunday lunch! At the same time we all got hacked off with the manager. To be fair, he is a genuinely good guy. But he was being bloody annoying today. What I've learned today is that all the priorities and logic and language at the strategic end of the business... it is fundamentally meaningless to tactical front end employees. That's no disgrace to the front end guys. That's the reality of what makes them work hard and get through the day. And it's no disgrace to the higher end people either. ...Up to a point. I say up to a point, because ultimately you get paid more. But that doesn't mean you are worth more, in abstract terms or (frankly) to the business. I'm in danger of waffling for three or four hours. So I'm going to kick back and play Skyrim with a bottle of good ice-cold Portuguese green wine.

I thought it was meant to be the old woman at the back in purple in Malcador's post. Yeah, out of this entire thread I pick out that woman ...something's obviously wrong with me. I have to say, I'm so frustrated I'd sleep with a packet of crisps if it had a nice smile, and even I didn't notice the woman in the background.

I am hoping that I can boil down a discussion that has been going on outside the forum for over year into a few lines. RPGs in general have skill progression in a linear curve*. Your character spends or gains experience as a gradual progression. +1 to +2; 30% to 32% and so forth. However, the thrust of thinking at chez Walsingham has been that progression in real people doesn't go this way. it is less of a curve and more of a staircase. For whatever reason (and there has been a LOT of debate on this) the effective capability of people/trainees etc. tends to move in bursts. They achieve a certain level, sweat and fume, and make mistakes for a while, then suddenly change a lot of what they are doing all at once, and improve. Hopefully, those of you who are trainers or coaches or teachers are already pretty familiar with this point and will back me up. My point is that the affective experience of improvement is periods of frustration interspersed with massive elation and improvement. The current system is just a gradual and unimpressive slide into getting better. Therefore, would it not be more dramatically exciting, and more realistic to implement character progression that worked in the staircase fashion? *straight line or not, it's technically a curve.

I believe I can honestly say I get more computer-based satisfaction from completing a spreadsheet analysis than I did from a single one of the 'dialogues' in Oblivion.