The Old Hack

It is a simple further development of the wrist mounted dog launcher. I am assured that it is quite possible and that it will be part of next-gen biowarfare.

Meh. The Pharaoh is just sore because no-one is considering a shoulder mounted crocodile launcher.

I wouldn't waste even a bathtub from the Titanic on him.

You would think that but then the sand stands still and doesn't run anywhere at all.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=713 Rhoda is such a kidder.

Hush. Go home to your pantheon of sphinxes.

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We do not know that. He might simply be more clever. Or manipulative. Or just be really good at some ordinary power level things. I am reminded of a time where John Constantine faces down an entire roomful of evil mages and wizards. Technically he is not that powerful. But his reputation and his skill at emerging intact from unsurvivable disasters are so that not even one of his opponents dares to raise a hand against him.

And so the USS Dianase sets forth to boldly go where no man but lots of shippers dare follow.

I've seen something like this happen in Denmark. It is part of why I think the system of handing out grades in school has some very serious problem. In the Danish grade schools there is supposed to be a standard against which all students get measured. There tends to be a creeping inflation involved, however, resulting in average grades slowly increasing. Then someone in the Ministry of Education has a fit and directs everybody to tighten standards, resulting in an abrupt drop in average grades. As usual, the press has no idea of what is going on. You will therefore from time to time see articles rhapsodizing about how smart Danish students are becoming. Then the standards get tightened, and the next year the headlines go, "OMG! Danish students have become really STUPID!" I have concluded from this that way too many journalists are stupid.

Happy new year, everyone. May it see good things for all of you. ~tOH.

Dude, like, a gangbang of jive turkeys!

Hrm. I and apparently Dan both heard it as an unkindness of ravens.

Isn't this a good time of the year to do that in the US? I seem to remember something about a lot of new car sales going on around the end of the year, or maybe the beginning of the new year. Either way the used car dealerships ought to be wanting to make room for an influx of more stock so they should be lowering their prices, too.

What can I say. Susan seems to get high on carrots.

No, his business is drawing socks. So he is a professional sock drawer.

Eh, maybe Dan just had a socky day.

Someone once asked me what the difference was between the Danish Parliament and the Swedish Parliament. I responded that the former was full of Danish meatballs and the latter full of Swedish meatballs.

See, you could make that your goal to find out!

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*scratches head* We now have a confusion of goals. In-game we had a group of NPCs whose objective was to keep their temple from being robbed. Out-of-Game we had the objective of everyone having fun. In-game, the NPCs clearly achieved their objective. The players wanted loot and experience. They got half of that. Out of game we all just wanted to have fun. Given how the players facepalmed and howled with laughter once they realised what had happened, I'd say we succeeded. All of that is why I like good roleplaying games. They are not zero sum. And even losing in game does not equate to having lost in general.

The players retreated in disarray. I call that an NPC win.

Sadly, several of the players in that group had made use of the Weed option which tended to slow their thinking and as a result not properly consider consequences. 'Charge' was their primary mode of operation with 'Run away! Run away!' being the usual fallback if that should fail. In their defence, this was something they often suspected me of because I had done so before. I just wish they had considered the fact that as long as the Darkness was also Silenced, there was a definite limit to how much the caster could do to set things up.

One of my wife's and my favourite TV moments ever occurred when a hapless TV announcer stated that coming up next was Law and Order: SUV. First we imagined the howl of laughter the poor woman must have faced from the technical staff in the studio. Then we started to discuss what the show might be about. We agreed that it was about police officers and legal staff driving fancy SUVs and only deigning to investigate SUV-related crimes. The climactic trial would always end with a dramatic speech in which the lawyer demonstrated that the SUV of the accused was inferior to the models employed by the police and the plaintiff.

I wonder when amateurs will realise that the bleeding obvious point they are lecturing professionals about might already be known to them.