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For a moment, seeing a satelite in space, I had hopes for a Call of Duty - Dead Space crossover.

Sometimes the dice just work out like that The Roastbeef Reavers latest match was one filled with every kind of luck. I won the coin toss, chose to be recieving and got a free move during kick-off. That allowed one of my halflings to move into position to catch the ball, the halflings on the line of skrimage to move away from the enemy players and the treemen to cross the middle line. Perfect set-up to score a TD by turn 3. Turn 7 the opponent dropped the ball, so turn 8 the treemen open space for one halfling to dash in, grab the ball and dash out. He passes it to a waiting player in the opponent's half who makes a run for the end zone. He had to "go for it" one square. He fails the roll, stumbles, gets injured and is K.O. for the rest of the game... Second half, the necromantic team tries a strong counter attack. They break through with four players facing one lone halfling. Three halflings manage to dodge away and go for it to help him. One more halfling runs up and blitzes the ghoul. Roll a single die: Defender Down. Even better, the ball bounces out of the field and gets thrown in. The throw in is right into the hands of my one completly free halfling in the opponents half. He catches the ball and runs to the end zone. Kick-off and the event is Pitch Invasion. One zombie gets beaten up by the fans on the opposing side. My side seven players go down including both treemen. For two turns four halflings had to fend off ten necros. Three of them managed to doge their way to the enemy ball carrier, the fourth was tackled. Amazing luck even in the moments when there was bad luck But as the dwarf teams say: Seek fear to overcome it. Adversity to go beyond it. And the ball if you have nothing better to do.

If only my Wardancer could mutate to have horns and claws...

Decided to make my presence felt on this forum

I think the main problem is that D&D was hack and slash first and roleplaying second. Age were just some numbers to give flavour, to make some npcs look important ("The elven king has seen as many years as he has subjects." "Ooooooh!" The Human king is 1/100th of the elven king in years but has gained 100 times as many subjects." "Aaaaaaah!") and possibly to affect whether you survive an aging curse or not. Player were never meant to actually "think" about it

I just found this: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2293656/microsoft-to-unveil-surface-rt-2-and-surface-pro-2-tablets-on-23-september So guess we'll wait two weeks and find out more.

I roll a lot of 1s as well. There are people shouting that its just the RNG and its just our perception that we think we are more unlucky than lucky, but I am not convinced. What race did you try to play though? If you actually want to pass the ball (and pick it up) elf teams are a good bet. And witch elves and wardancers can even win a fight.

Internships can be a mixed bag and it depends both on the intern but also very much on the company. I know of one ... person (I'll be civil) who went to the UN for an internship and within a week had managed to get everyone to avoid him and not speak to him because of his racist rethorics and attempts to appear "cool" through lecherous, sexist banter. Obviously, his internship went badly. My own internship went amazingly well. On one hand I put my back into it and did what I could to be a full member of the team, but I only could do that because the team let me do it. They needed the extra help at the time and were fully prepared to welcome the intern and give them responsibilities. But many companies don't really know what to do with interns. They at some point picked up that having interns is the thing to do. Maybe management even believes that giving young people a chance to learn in a working environment is a good thing. But they haven't really thought about the reality of it. I think it's important to know what you want to get out of the internship and be prepared to not only work towards that goal, but to communicate it with the hosting company.

What have we done...

Never thought of it but any of the below could apply: 1) Their marketing guys haven't thought of it 2) They haven't found the physical merchandise a viable area to expand into (yet) 3) With the customer base Steam has, the logistics of expanding into physical goodies is beyond them 4) Setting up a system to restrict merchandise availability based on personal profiles is too much of a hassle. 5) They can't be arsed to put up with the idiots who'll demand refunds because now they have more achievements than they had when they ordered the stuff 6) Taxes

Congratulations!

What race did you try? Not all are equally beginner friendly. I found some of the tougher races to be good for learning the game. Nurgle for example. A skaven team my dance around you and score TDs without you ever having a chance to hunt down that Gutter Runner and beat him to a pulp, but at least you are likely to be the one outnumbering the opposition at some point after they have been carried of the pitch with stretchers.

Apparently the car wasn't parked but waiting at a red traffic light... So the driver stopped at a red light, waited for the pedestrian to start crossing the road, and once she was in front of him step on the gas. My mother says she heard his tires screeching as he hit the breaks afterwards. So her assessment is that the guy wanted to scare her but was too dumb to realize that if he races forward, the car wont stop on the spot.

Other than Wals we are all rookies. So we'll have to go with a rookie league. If you need anything I'll be online after dinner as well. Either seeing if my halfling team can continue cutting a bloody path through the competition or trying out the Khorne team. Be careful though. It is a direct translation of the board game, so there is a lot of rolling of dice and if you are like me that means rolling a lot of critical fumbles. And another note: Player appearance can be set while hiring them. It just is a bit akwardly set up. When you select the player type in the list, instead of clicking hire, you click player details and then can set the appearance before hiring. Though not all types have multiple skins which is a shame.

Will have to ask her for the exact spot. But most stores and houses there don't have cameras from what I know.

Some gits tried to run over my mum. She was crossing the street and when she was halfway across the driver of the waiting car stepped on the gas. She barely managed to jump out of the way. I wish someone had seen the license plate.

I have no idea. I never tried the multiplayer to be honest. I have a friend who is very active in the multiplayer thing and who as in FUMBBL as well. So all I know is based on badgering him for info.

Us buggers? Thats Ros and me. We need Rosbjerg to stop having an awesome time with the wimin and sign up. Then we need to force Alan to buy the game. That would give us enough people for the tiny cup edit: Wait, Raithe has it as well. So we are four. We need two more to make a nice 6 team league.

Blood Bowl. The sport of gentlemen. (and currently still 75% off for another 7 hours)

New job, new flat, new city. Things deffinitly were looking awesome.

I looked around the options for setting up the league. A rookie league would mean we could start new teams just for it. I think the minimum number of teams is 4. I would prefer 6. As I understand it, we can't have AI teams - all spots must be filled with real people or AIs pretending to be real people on a forum. We have the choice of setting it up as a Cup, Championship, Competition, League... whatever. There are about twenty different images for the cup.

Today I looked at my forum profile and noticed that I was 34 years old... when did that happen? I could swear I am not a day older than 28.

Disclaimer: Blame Walsingham Nuffle Wants You! or something like that. After a discussion with a fellow worshipper of Nuffle, the idea was born (through Nuffle's guidance no doubt) that a Blood Bowl league for the forum would be in order. I think the exact words of the prophet of Nuffle were: "Go forth obsidianites and bring gratuitous violence onto the pitch." The question then is: Are there people interested? fine print: Blame Walsingham

The Roastbeef Reavers are setting out to become the most notorious halfling team in Blood Bowl history: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/631917096691512660/0B7CDC322CFAC95AFB5465798EB9BB3B8EA68531/ After recieving two touchdowns, the Roastbeef Reavers' honour is saved when Adelard Tomato scores in the second half: http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/631917096691516063/EB95D6DDAB5FDC592EBF6998E2911EE7961D8A05/ A Bloodletter of the Horde of Khorne finds out that the Blood Bowl pitch hath no fury like a famished Halfling: http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/631917096691521242/96E1E47A0077EEA4418E46157E220851CDAE571C/

There is a backlog to get into my backlog...