Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread

Posts: 1104 · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:32 pm

Charlie Krank has posted an open letter to the Chaosium community re: Lynn Willis's: http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=365

Damn, that sucks. Sad

Posts: 2504 · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:12 am

Looks like the end of the world has been postponed a few weeks:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26802846

It will take at least that long just to warm up the section that they need to make repairs in. So sad hearing about all that liquid helium going to waste. They could have had themselves quite a party sitting around inhaling helium and talking like The Chipmunks for a few hours. Or maybe theoretical physicists just don't do those kinds of things. Smile

Posts: 87 · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:46 am

Kingofpain89 wrote:

Looks like the end of the world has been postponed a few weeks:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26802846

It will take at least that long just to warm up the section that they need to make repairs in. So sad hearing about all that liquid helium going to waste. They could have had themselves quite a party sitting around inhaling helium and talking like The Chipmunks for a few hours. Or maybe theoretical physicists just don't do those kinds of things. Smile

No, theoretical physicists do that kind of thing. The only difference is that they they try to find a simple solution to Fermat's Last Theorem in squeaky voices. Very Happy

Posts: 377 · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:06 pm

Bracton wrote:

No, theoretical physicists do that kind of thing. The only difference is that they they try to find a simple solution to Fermat's Last Theorem in squeaky voices. Very Happy

I do prefer the musical version from Fermat's Last Tango.

Posts: 331 · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:52 pm

Somewhere in these threads in the last few months, someone posted information about how to obtain a copy of Fantastic Worlds of Grenadier in CD form. A Brit, I think? I have searched every way I can think of and all email addresses I can rustle up for the author, Terence Gunn, bump right back to me. Anybody know how I can get one? In any form?

Posts: 1001 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:03 pm

I love living in Texas during dove season. Rolling Eyes

Yes, peaceful doves are hunted in Texas. With loud shotguns.

I just heard one or two blasts and thought "OK, who's trying to kill whom?"

I stepped out on my deck and briefly listened to two people talking. Nope, nothing illegal happening. As a guess, they were 100 yards away. Scrub cedar trees were blocking the view.

From what I've heard, hunting doves is not difficult, especially if one puts birdseed on the ground. The doves come down to feed, and then they get shot when they fly away. Hunting grasshoppers would be more difficult. I have no idea what these two guys were using, and I haven't heard anything since. [Edit: Nope, still firing away.] Maybe the doves strapped razors to their feet and strafed them.

Posts: 377 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:32 pm

JohnGaunt wrote:

I love living in Texas during dove season. Rolling Eyes

Yes, peaceful doves are hunted in Texas. With loud shotguns.

I just heard one or two blasts and thought "OK, who's trying to kill whom?"

I stepped out on my deck and briefly listened to two people talking. Nope, nothing illegal happening. As a guess, they were 100 yards away. Scrub cedar trees were blocking the view.

From what I've heard, hunting doves is not difficult, especially if one puts birdseed on the ground. The doves come down to feed, and then they get shot when they fly away. Hunting grasshoppers would be more difficult. I have no idea what these two guys were using, and I haven't heard anything since. [Edit: Nope, still firing away.] Maybe the doves strapped razors to their feet and strafed them.

I'm not big on dove hunting, nothing to eat on the ones around here so it is just the chance to go out and kill something nothing more. But most hunting isn't hard, just boring. Deer hunting is a matter of waiting for the deer to come to you. Bear hunting is just a matter of finding out where they den and waiting for them, and then cutting them down from a distance. The only real point to hunting is meat. If you're a carnivore they should require you to have to butcher a few chickens, pigs and cows each year. People need a carnivore license. Too easy to buy a burger and not know where it comes from.

Those guys are probably drunk hunting, and they usually bag some other drunk hunters so they go home successful.

Posts: 1001 · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:54 pm

JasonZavoda wrote:

I'm not big on dove hunting, nothing to eat on the ones around here so it is just the chance to go out and kill something nothing more.

I've heard that the doves are small but worth the effort.

I am worried that people in the area may over-hunt the doves and rabbits. More people charging people to hunt on their land, more people poaching.

Posts: 14 · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:19 am

Hey, if you want doves and rabbits then come visit me on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake sometime (the southern, rural part). The rabbits are often so thick on the ground that I could hunt them with thrown rocks (not kidding). And the ubiquitous mourning doves, though peaceful, sound so much like infants crying that I'd welcome a few shotgun blasts.

Posts: 781 · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:22 pm

periapt no more http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/book s/article4799560.ece a malison on those brits Twisted Evil

Posts: 2631 · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:32 pm

JasonZavoda wrote:

People need a carnivore license. Too easy to buy a burger and not know where it comes from.

Bah! You want to eat meat, you should raise the animals from birth, learn and use modern humane techniques to feed and care for them properly, and then have the guts to kill them for food.

Guys that spend a whole day in the bush with a firearm don't know shit. Rolling Eyes

Posts: 4449 · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:08 pm

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:

periapt no more http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/book s/article4799560.ece a malison on those brits Twisted Evil

Periapt heading for the toilet? Say it ain't so!!!!

Reminds me of the advantages of wading through Gygaxian prose at a young tender age. My little brother taking a IQ test was the only one in his age group to get the word "Harpy" correct ( I think he was 7 or 8 at the time) undoubtedly because his exposure watching us play D&D. He probably knew what a periapt, halberd or censer was....kids should be reading the 1E DMG at a young age, no doubt!

Mike B.

Posts: 1001 · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:46 pm

Which plane of game-collecting hell is sorting through FASA's Star Trek Combat Simulators I, II, and III and the Star Trek RPG (which includes Combat Simulator I)? Mad

I have found a page that lists the various parts, more or less:

. . . http://www.anzwers.org/free/fasa/TheFasaListing/index.html

Posts: 973 · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:11 pm

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:

periapt no more http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/book s/article4799560.ece a malison on those brits Twisted Evil

Who uses a Collins dictionary? Compared to Oxford dictionary, where I am sure these fine words will be safe, Collins works are little more than agrestic recrement anyway.

Posts: 3151 · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:08 am

Brewers are in! Very Happy

ShaneG.

Posts: 2504 · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:35 am

Plaag wrote:

Brewers are in! Very Happy

ShaneG.

Too bad it will take a miracle for them to get past the divisional round. C.C. Sabathia has been overworked the past two weeks and Sheets will not be pitching in the playoffs. The Phillies have the most potent lineup in all of baseball and their pitching staff isnt too bad. Cole Hamels and Jamie Moyer have been great all year and Brad Lidge is pretty much lights out as their closer. Hopefully the Brewers bats can do some damage but I just dont see it happening.

With that said, if the Cubs get past the Dodgers I would rather see them play the Brewers in the NLCS than the Phillies. Pretty sure the Brewers would be facing the Mets in a playoff game today had Piniella not put Bob "Bonehead" Howry in the game yesterday. That guy is the worst relief pitcher the Cubs have on their roster.

The Brewers may not have been to the postseason since 1982 but the Cubs havent won the World Series in 100 years. They are due damnit! Very Happy

Posts: 70 · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:43 am

In the end the Cubs will self-destruct... they always do... Laughing

A White Sox Fan Surprised

Posts: 2504 · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:54 am

Invincible Overlord wrote:

In the end the Cubs will self-destruct... they always do... Laughing

A White Sox Fan Surprised

White Sux....sorry...I mean Sox still have to beat the Tigers today. I'm betting they lose. It's pretty sad that the White Sox won the series a few years ago and the majority of people in Chicago have already forgotten about it. The Cubs are Chicago's team. They should move the Sox to a different city. Maybe Boise, Idaho or Albuquerque, New Mexico. Razz

Posts: 70 · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:00 pm

Look,

White Sox fans have lower expectations. So when they do really well, everyone is happy because they don't expect them to do well.

Cubs fans always expect to go to the World Series every year, and self destruct in the end.

I'm proud to be a fan of a championship team. And if they win today, a subway series could be in the works....

Posts: 2504 · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:22 pm

Invincible Overlord wrote:

Look,

White Sox fans have lower expectations. So when they do really well, everyone is happy because they don't expect them to do well.

Cubs fans always expect to go to the World Series every year, and self destruct in the end.

Well when you have a manager like Ozzie Guillen it is no surprise Sox fans have low expectations. Rolling Eyes

But as for Cub fans thinking they are going to go to the World Series every year.....well that must be just the fans in Chicago or something. Most people I know that are Cub fans think the exact opposite.

If I had to take a wild guess as to who I think it will be in the series, I would pick the Cubs and the Angels. They do have the two best records in their respective divisions and two very formidable lineups. I dont think the Rays have what it takes to win a championship. But I said the same thing about the Marlins in 2003 and look where that got me. Confused