Walsingham

If you wanted a scare weapon for robbing people then a plastic gun would work just fine.

Sexy women in movies ended with Russ Meyer.

Well, it certainly makes the players a bit more bloody cautious. We spent an entire session with them trying to get out of being sent into a tough spot! One of the characters has been shot, stabbed, and chewed so thoroughly that the right side of his face is almost all scar tissue. EDIT: If he hasn't had Fate Points to spare he'd have been killed three times. I find the players aren't worried until the first bad guy gets killed by one hit, and they realise they're bound by the same rules.

Jack Chick is a parody of himself. Have you never read one of his tracts? He takes it 100% seriously (so far as I know), and yet they are hilarious. I'm talking about the guy doing this KS I guess my point was that doing it straight will be funnier than taking the p*ss.

It's certainly a favourite of mine. I think players enjoy not having complete control as well. It take some of the pressure off. Thinking about it it also helps the GM, because it means he can't assume too much before the players kick off. I mean you may have any sort of people in your party. On the other hand it DID mean that I felt I had to do some prequel games to establish the players' backgrounds properly.

For some reason all I want to listen to today is Wu Tang.

Amen and hallelujah to that.

What about, you know... *Walsh waggles his eyebrows in the direction of a half built trebuchet*

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22462225 Lovecraft would have loved this story. Of course he was just a teensy bit racist, but anyway...

I told it was dangerous to go about hoofing people in the spuds. I just didn't think it would be like that.

She was such a funny lady, as well. We'd always make each other laugh. I remember that despite her being extremely elegant in a 1930s way she did the most fantastic monkey impersonations. She was also very fiercely protective and loyal. She remained in love with my grandfather, who died in the war, right until the day she died herself. It's funny because I hadn't thought about her for a year or more. Food can do that, can't it? Bring things back. EDIT: One thing I always admired about the Zulus is that they commemorate things when they feel like it. Not when a calendar tells them to. Wise move, IMO.

I don't believe in Fate as something written, but I do believe in the complexity of events and interactions. To call the dance of events and their outcomes Fate is - to me - just a way of acknowledging the interplay in a manageable way. I do, however, believe in being the master of one's own Fate. To surrender to Fate, or prejudicial factors or what have you, that is to abandon any claim to sentience or morality. On the other hand I do believe that when bad **** happens for no apparent reason then it's good sometimes to just accept it as beyond your control.

My grandmother would make these really fast skillet-fried pancakes, about 4 inches across. Serve them up with butter and sugar. Everyone in my family misses my grandmother. She was a really lovely lady. Dammit, Ros. Now I'm bloody sad, and it's Friday!

Er... I accept (previously discussed on this forum) the point that humans are fallible. But in a situation like this where innocence would require some pretty unimaginable accidents... "Honestly, guv'nor. I made that cage and steel coffin in case a child what has been zombified wanders into my basement while I'm using i-tunes." ...That I have to suggest it's just good sense. The objection will no doubt be raised that there would be appeals and whatnot to defend the guy, but I think the costs of those should be accounted for separately. I believe the costs are separate because they should come from an Identifying Retard Liberals - not to be confused with simple liberals - fund. A smartphone app would allow you to identify them at work or social functions and say "Get away from me you freakish child castration defending arsehole," then push them backwards over a sofa.

BBC link. Be warned, it's not easy to stomach. Just piling up ammunition the next time someone tells me morality is relative and subjective. "A Briton faces up to 27 years in a US jail for plotting to kidnap, rape, kill and eat a child, authorities say. Agents found the basement of Geoffrey Portway's Massachusetts home equipped with a steel cage and a child-sized home-made coffin, in a raid last year. ... The dungeon was further kitted out with a chair, a television, and what appeared to be cable access to the internet, officers said. Outside the room detectives found a chest freezer and an upright freezer, along with some disposable scalpels, butchering kits, and castration tools."

As rjshae says, Western businesses are like African Tribes up against Chinese redcoats. No cohesion, lower tech, if enthusiastic. And I'm old colonial stock. I know how that story ends. This isn't just some big government thing. If you shop online or have a blog, or a games account online, or surf porn, or hold health insurance you are potentially leaking all that info to the Chinese govt. via hacking. It amuses me no end that peopel are less worried about the Chinese govt. spying on them than their own govt.

Mind you, you are right that 3D printing is airfix skills rather than machining or plumbing. Substantially easier. My take away point, to draw this all together on topic, is that it's a grave mistake to assume that Reality lives a long way away. Printing guns or messing with cops is all jolly japes, but it WILL have consequences. By all means take your stand, but don't do it unless you understand it, and unless you mean it.

I see what you mean, but that's just not how kids work. I was banned from having toy guns as a kid. For about three years. I have an imagination. When they took away the toy guns I had to use my mind. I had an arsenal of treebranch guns, a cardboard tank, and a whole command post dugout in the garden. Of course by the time they let me have proper toys it was too late. Family history claims that I was conducting Find, Fix, Flank operations playing Army aged 7. I can still remember the hill, with the drystone wall at the top. Machine gun chattering... we lost a lot of imaginary good men taking that hill. Although we'd have lost a lot more if we hadn't found that ditch full of nettles through the killing zone. Ah. Good times.

I don't get excited about the 3D gun. You can - and people do - make shotguns out of plumbing pipe. The hard part is getting the ammunition. A printer plus materials is, what, 2k? A legit firearm is about £300, for equivalent utility. I don't know what the going rate is for illicit firearms, but it's not more than 2k.

I believe the phrase you're looking for is snu-snu. Does that leave you with a burning sensation when you pee? Because if so then yes there was snu snu.

Actually he's some Ukrainian kid pictured in RFE's website. But yes, they do sell toy guns. Everywhere. But that kid has the best collection I've ever seen. I'm very jealous.

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That's true. I don't think I've ever successfully completed a strategy game without using genocide or a dozen other things that would land me in The Hague. And don't get me started on all the tax and spend socialist hippy crap I use in city administration. Or the brothels.

Jack Chick is a parody of himself. Have you never read one of his tracts? He takes it 100% seriously (so far as I know), and yet they are hilarious.

Exercise, even gentle exercise, makes a huge difference for me. ~ We're having really high winds here today and I can't concentrate because my sodding roof is singing at me.