The Old Hack

Given the way the question was phrased, possibly the word order should be "Sum ergo cogito."

I loved both of these. <3

The Tick managed to find the answer to this deep and philosophical question. "Why am I here?" "Because a giant clown kicked me into orbit!"

... ... ... ...somebody please shoot me.

Thank goodness for them. It would be simpler if the Prophets just put a moratorium on invasions, though.

Nonsense. They are alive and well and in a new alliance with the vampires.

Hm. I don't see how. All that says to me is that Susan has some understandable fears and concerns when it comes to dating, especially when it involves someone she barely knows. Still, point taken. Sarah might have interpreted it that way.

If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

True. Context is important. But it still comes across a little bit disturbing. It happens. And just to make clear, I felt it was Sarah being rude, not you! o.o

As mlooney has said before, that is more or less what this entire thread is for, as well as several others. So you're very welcome. Keep us posted!

No, it was Sarah. And I thought that comment was rather rude.

I guess that is where the Dominion are ahead of us. But as far as I am concerned, they can stay in the Gamma quadrant.

Good. Whatever this is, give it Hell from me. Take care of yourself and Mrs. Prof, please.

'Degenerated into roleplaying'. Pffft. Always some loser complaining.

This reminds me of an experience the father of a friend of mine had. This was due to computers in the Danish Bureau of Taxation not handling rounding very well. One fine day he received a letter from the Bureau of Taxation informing him that he had an outstanding tax of 0.00 Danish crowns, to be paid no later than the first of the following month. He shrugged and filed the letter vertically. (In Danish office lingo, the wastebasket is also fondly known as the vertical file.) Two months later he received a very strong letter warning him that since he STILL had not paid his outstanding taxes of 0.00 crowns, now six weeks overdue, the Bureau of Taxation demanded that he pay within the next two weeks or face a ten percent additional tax as well as paperwork fees, and if he still refused, they would take him to court. For some reason, the local post office refused to let him send a money order for the Bureau of Taxation for the sum total of 0.00 crowns. So he called the Bureau of Taxation and asked them what he was supposed to do, or if he should just wait until the case went to court. It took some fifteen minutes of panic on the other end to find the case and kill it. Apparently they were not very eager to present their end of the case to a judge.

Not really. Especially not with those whose wrongs give edge unto the swords that make such waste in brief mortality. *sigh*

Whew. And hopefully you'll get over that soon, Prof. Bureaucracy is a maze that is meant to make its victims feel dumb.

She needs to get into the spirit of it. Tell her that she should give them a "no worries, she'll be right."

To be fair, Jerry, right now it would probably be a bit of a challenge finding any immortals who are all that much younger than you.

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If you want to post about matters not pertinent to EGS, that's what the Off Topic forum is for. In fact, you can more or less post about anything you like there as long as it respects the forum rules. Rumours notwithstanding, one does not actually get black marks for inadvertently being on topic in the Off Topic forums. o.O

Well, he had just lost a girlfriend so it is not an entire impossibility. Hrm. If I had lost someone dear to me and binge-watched something, I wonder what it would be. Possibly Fringe. That might give me a decent chance of becoming a mad scientist like Walter. How about you guys?

The Moderator: Yes it does. In the future, kindly ask such questions there.

Sort of.

My suggestion is: skip the Asian and similar cultures you have not read up on till you have the time. Also, you are doing science fiction. It is not impossible to make up decent monsters, merely challenging. Do as much as that as you feel up to, your game will be the better for it. Players will appreciate meeting something that isn't Recycled Space Ork #477. Alternately: find someone with a good appreciation of Asian cultures. Ideally someone Chinese for Chinese creatures, Japanese for the Japanese ones, et cetera. Consult them for their takes on your ideas. Pay close attention to them, they are the experts. We have at least one Filipino poster here, they should have their own take that is just as important. And while I do not want to depress you: take even what you know about European/Western creatures with a grain of salt. I have seen interpretations of Scandinavian mythology that made me cringe. Hitler notwithstanding, Scandinavia does NOT have a population of Nazi werewolves in our mythology. It is always a good idea to check your assumptions. Big tip: if you do use mythological creatures or merely strange ones, it does not hurt to give them understandable motivations and behavior patterns. I may be preaching to the choir here but it is often a good idea to spend a few minutes thinking about what the creatures might be engaged in when they are not eating adventurers. I am guilty of horrendous stuff myself, such as the ravenous packs of half-starved polar bears rampaging across the endless ice plains of Futilia IV, but in my defence I was deliberately parodying bad sci fi there and not even bothering to make up an ecology that could explain their existence.