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D&D Stats Explained Using Tomatoes... Strength is being able to crush a tomato. Dexterity is being able to dodge a tomato. Constitution is being able to eat a bad tomato. Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad. Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.

Slogans for College Majors if they were Honest Computer Engineering: Tons of chicks, just not very many. Biochemistry: Spend 4 years aspiring to discover the cure for cancer, and the rest of your life manufacturing shampoo. Archaeology: If you don't know what it is, it's probably ceremonial. Information Technology: Let me google that for you. Computer Science (for a straight girl): The odds are good, but the goods are odd. Chemistry: Where alcohol IS a solution. Political Science: Your opinion is wrong. Aerospace Engineering: "It actually is rocket science." Engineering: The art of figuring out which parameters you can safely ignore. Structural Engineering: Because architects don't know what physics is. Philosophy: Think about it... Communications: "We'll tech you everything you need to know about convincing your friends that your degree is actually meaningfull." Dental Hygienist: "Something to do until you get knocked up." Speech Pathology: We have ways of making you talk. Linguistics: Studied 17 languages, am fluent in none of them. Criminal Justice: We're here because of Law & Order reruns. Photography: It's worth a shot. Statistics: Where everything is made up and the numbers don't matter. Anthropology: It'll get you laid, but it won't get you paid! Zoology: Because you can't major in kittens. Psychology: Good luck doing anything until you get your master's! Premed: "I'll probably switch majors in 2 years." History: History may repeat itself, but you definitely will. English: So you want to be a teacher. Film: Forks on the left, knives on the right. Astrophysics: "Eh, I'm within an order of magnitude..." Creative Writing: Because job security is for pussies. Latin: Because useful is overrated. Physics: "Everything you learned last week was wrong." Nursing: Learning to save other's lives while struggling not to take your own. Marine Bio: "I wanted to play with dolphins... but I'm looking at algae instead." Accounting: Selling your soul for money. Finance: "Accounting was too hard." Journalism: Learn how to construct an argument that no one will pay to listen to. Art History: And you thought MAKING art was pointless! Music Performance: If you don't hate yourself, you're doing it wrong. Graphic Design: No, we aren't artists. We are designers. There's a difference.

Veronica Mars. If you liked the tv series, you'll enjoy the movie. It's basically what it is, a feature length version of an episode. That and the posing question of where all those characters would be 10 years on from where they were last seen. Some funny bits, some snarky bits, some sassy bits, all wrapped up around a few mystery elements.

Heh, one on the joys of Google from last year US News = 15 Ways Google Monitors You

Would this be worth the comment along the lines of "some of these women you'd be willing to be sent to jail for.. some of these women you'd expect to find in the jail you get sent to" ?

Well, I've been playing TOR off and on since it came out. If you want some general emotive star wars music and blaster fire to go with lightsaber sound effects and spoken cutscenes instead of wall of text questgivers...

http://youtu.be/Zb5IH57SorQ

Hm, some basic gubbins about the future... http://youtu.be/5NrG75S6dRc

Did you hear about the giant floating eyeball who became a Sith Lord? He was a pupil of Obi-Wan's before he turned to evil...

Hm, for what could be an interesting upcoming thing..

I, Frankenstein. it's.. hard to say what to make of this one. Okay.. Aaron Eckhart as Adam, Frankenstein's monster, Bill Nighy as a demon prince trying to re-animate bodies so he can summon fallen demons to possess them, Yvonne Strahovski as the scientist he's manipulating to do it, who think's Frankenstein is just a story... Throw in an unnamed city with one ridiculously massive, over the top gothic super-cathedral.. that happens to be the home of an order of supernatural, shapeshifting Gargoyle's who have been fighting the demon hordes for centuries.. but no-ones noticed. They've got fairly nice cgi of the Gargoyle's flying around, and combat with the demon's as they get killed, and either ascending to heaven in pillars of light, or exploding into feiry trails descending to hell and then really, really grating prosthetic demon masks. Bill Nighy doing his normal quite villainous charm, Eckhart doing broody, pseudo batman with a lot more anger and broodiness, Strahovski not really having much to do beyond eye candy and provide some story points. Maybe I just subconsciously expect a different type of story when you're using Frankenstein... It's basically the monster after the story of Frankenstein. Starts with him burying Frankenstein, and then suddenly Demons! Gargoyles! Mystery Supernatural War Humans Don't Know About!

BBC - Hackers hit MtGox

Okay then, if we're rolling into Monday...

Heh, that was one of the Mission Impossible films. I think it was.. 3. They had all of these "really cool ideas for stunts" that they hadn't been able to work into the previous MI film.. so they put them together and tried to figure out a script that would connect them all together.

Well, I managed to fall asleep a couple of hours earlier last night... Then got woken up a few hours earlier by someone phoning me. I kind of feel that there could be a deity giggling to themselves madly over my head.

I haven't seen the film yet..but this io9 review was too good not to share.. io9 - 300 Rise of an Empire is Zack Snyder's Greatest Intellectual Masterpiece...

http://youtu.be/eFsx9dKLGlI

Bus Pass Elvis Beats Lib Dems in Local Council by-election

For some reason I seem to have been running on about 4-5 hours sleep a night for the past 6 or so weeks. I think I really need to try to break this habit.

I've kind of lost half the week. Had a major migraine Monday, then Tuesday was that after haze of tired and bleh recovery. Wednesday's been a sort of catch at things that slipped by over the previous two days.

It's the joys of the North American Tuesday release vs the European Friday release...

The Keys to the Worldwide Internet

On reflection as well, I don't think Eberron would have worked that well under pre-3rd edition ruleset.

I will say the Smuggler falls apart in chapter 3. At least in my opinion. Not helped by the final class-quest mission which has you face the big bad.. and then gives you an annoying post-Boss fight series of grind fights against small mobs of easy kills before you can leave the map.

I think it comes down to a story that you pretty much forget, but the individual missions are usually quite good (if you approach it in the pure sneaky style attempt). There are irritations about some of it, notably the context-sensitive button meaning that places you think you should be able to jump you can't. Or small piles of stuff you can't actually climb over where an asthmatic cripple probably could. The freedom of configuration is quite serious in the options available to turn on/off pretty much everything.