Walsingham

We're going back a long time, and the market was more diverse. I think the folks writing games, and the people playing them were (maybe) into a wider variety. The GM was supposed to create more themselves. I could be waaay off here.

I think that's fair.

I would totally be in this movie if I had the spare cash to fly out to the US.

Today I have been mostly swearing like a squarebashing corporal. The cause of this festive obscenity outpouring has been OpenOffice. I finally established that my chief problem - the size of 'Header 1' being a percentage - is IMPOSSIBLE TO ALTER. You have to use a fantastic workaround changing another header type to a fixed level so that your header one scales to the correct size. None of the other header types does this. MESSAGE TO ALL UTILITY PROGRAMMERS: STOP TRYING TO BE HELPFUL YOU WATER-HEADED STOATF***ERS. OR I WILL PERSONALLY TRACK YOU DOWN AND HELPFULLY REORGANISE YOUR F***ING PREFRONTAL LOBES WITH MY MARMITE COVERED C***.

Brave obyknven is example to all heroic forces of former Soviet Union.

1. I like the notion of the psychological dimension as a kind of force in depth. Or to put it another way, it's how many quarters you brought to the arcade. 2. Classically, giving ground is surely a big no no. I'm fairly certain Wellington said something about retreat being the hardest thing for a soldier. But I instantly see your perspective which is that this can be excised provided the framing of the fighting is about something else. I don't know much about the Mongols, but wouldn't they be an example of a conventional force that didn't care much about ground?

I'm not dating the woman! Nor do I plan to! Like I said, it's really about seeing someone in trouble and enjoying helping them. You never made a pretty girl smile just for the hell of it?

I have to say calm the f*** down. Existing domestic (ex) violence isn't at its insane levels because some door to door salesman has been handing out female dolls. This is just about demonising NRA members. Which is unhelpfully antagonistic.

Monk to advancing goons: "I don't suppose any of you chaps has an accurate, but understrength monkey they'd like to bring to this fight?" Awesome. I shall be monking like St Francis.

It is interesting, but the consensus, even among journalists seems to me to be that the Chinese have been doing it for about as long as the net has been around. The problem is not IF. the problem is what to do about it. Answers on a postcard.

A happy ending, for once.

It will take you a while to get into it, but just as I was about to give up, about 10-15 minutes in, the sheer absurd comedy genius of this video kicked in. I laughed so hard I hurt my nose, and started having an asthma attack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-F67OUEAw I feel bad now, because the man's clearly clinically insane. But it's still funny.

No offence Wals but that story sounds fishy from her side. Although Ive never partaken in methadone or heroin I would imagine that drinking said drink would get you wildly hammered, thus prompting one to ask themselves why they got so wasted on a drink that produces a completely different "high" from normal alcohol. And then she kept drinking them until she got addicted and moved on to heroin? Condolences that someone you care for is addicted to hard core drugs. If true, that dude is a special kind of scumbag. I 'know' you better than to take offence, mate. I'm touched you'd consider it enough to be suspicious. According to wikipedia methadone can be taken orally, so I guess spiking a drink should be possible. This is a guy she was living with while she herself was struggling with self-harming so I guess she trusted him and wasn't seeing things clearly. But I totally take your point, some people can be nice people but lie, even about something like this. She's been off methadone and heroin for some years now, and she's getting support from HM Govt. in the form of housing and so forth. But she could have done so much in her life that she never can now. At least that's how it feels. I'm trying to talk her into having the confidence to write - she's a very refreshing writer. No tired cliches.

Don't explode. Pro tip.

I imagine one might learn of certain peccadilloes entertained by your friends in such a gaming situation. This strikes me as moderately disturbing--didn't wanna know that about Hank. It was more kind of Martin Limon style than directly disturbing. I just realised that you could call my adventure style 'hero-procedural' lol.

Good luck, Cal. You let us know soon as you do. ~ I have to get this off my chest because otherwise I won't be able to concentrate all day. You recall I've been corresponding with my exes and helping each other talk through tough stuff? I just found out that one of them only got onto heroin because the subhuman f*** she was seeing spiked her drinks with methadone. I mean _what_? She was this educated caring smart girl, who was just reaching out and he... I just don't have the words. I'm feeling like Rorschach. I do feel better for venting. Thanks.

Would it work on toast? EDIT: I just found out that apparently that's what Gentleman's Relish is.

I've been trying to explain this so it'll be funny, but I can't. Tabletop session had us in hysterics, but you'd have to know the characters and how serious things have beeen getting before the sudden light relief effect would work. There was a lady of negotiable affection, and a halfling, and well anyway.

Oh god, what if there's some sort of horrifying Vietnam style war happening in Cottingley? There's some imp in aviator sunglasses saying "Brownie don't surf"

Well, it's because otherwise the target falls off the table. I think this entendre just failed.

You can plug the timeshare gap, but the victims and the threat will just turn up elsewhere. Not wanting to sound harsh. I just mean you can't expect a static defence to work.

In shove ha'penny we just use one finger.

I absolutely love Blood Bowl and am annoyed I discovered it late. Although their commercial team are f***ing arseholes. I'm not even going to say why. Those who know will know what I'm talking about.

An April Fool's Day prankster has sold the mummified remains of a "dead fairy" for nearly £300. Magicians' prop maker Dan Baines, 31, from London, was flooded with e-mails on 1 April when he published pictures of his creation online. He claimed a dog walker had found the tiny corpse at Firestone Hill in Duffield, Derbyshire. Mr Baines, formerly of Derby, later admitted it was a hoax, but sold the fairy on an internet site for £280. He said: "There are still a lot of people who believe it's real. It's started quite a lot of conspiracy theories. One claims that the fact I revealed it was a hoax was because of government pressure to stop people digging the ground up." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/6545667.stm

Well, obviously I'm interested in whether you agree. It would be baffling (to me) if I wasn't. The simple fact that it's excited such a range of comments illustrates that the forum has some thinkers in this area. Elitists might criticise that I should go to talk to respected academics. But academics are either too nice or too busy to talk about these things, in my experience. Re-reading the comments I suggest two alternative rejoinders forming: 1) The results are calculable, we just aren't trying hard enough 1b) The calculations have to take into account activity and strength before, during AND after the battle 2) No-one wins wars in the classic tidy sense. Fair?