Don Edwards

I think you mean the biggest D8s.  They half sunk in the desert almost immediately.
The strange thing is that when I ordered the game dice, I only asked that the octahedrons be made large enough that they wouldn't become caltrops when accidently dropped on the floor.

I can see that they really went berserk in their eagerness to differentiate from earlier editions there!

Ah, Mage. I always had a twist to my White Wolf characters, for various reasons. My favorite mage, that I played the most, was a pantheist in the Celestial Chorus. The Chorus is extremely biased toward monotheism (doesn't much care what name you use for your one God)... and I justified it and made it work. Another character I wrote up some backstory for, but never played, was a quantum-mechanics-based Dreamspeaker. Dreamspeakers are stereotypically tribal shamans and witch doctors; you don't expect to find one who understands nuclear physics.

Ah, Mage. I always had a twist to my White Wolf characters, for various reasons. My favorite mage, that I played the most, was a pantheist in the Celestial Chorus. The Chorus is extremely biased toward monotheism (doesn't much care what name you use for your one God)... and I justified it and made it work. Another character I wrote up some backstory for, but never played, was a quantum-mechanics-based Dreamspeaker. Dreamspeakers are stereotypically tribal shamans and witch doctors; you don't expect to find one who understands nuclear physics.

In that round container with the removable plastic lining?

Heck, in a story I'm writing (what's done is published on the Wapsi Square forum) I have a couple of characters eating in a certain restaurant in Minneapolis. I mention what they are eating. You could walk into that restaurant with a friend and order the same thing. It's real.
(I use that to shoot down the "it's all true or it's all lies" crowd, because that part of the story IS true, as are a number of other details such as typical driving time between the university area of Saint Paul and the nearest Wal-Mart, but as for the overall story... well, while eating at that restaurant in real life you won't have a pair of centaurs eating at the next table, and I'm pretty sure there aren't three werewolf art-school students renting a basement apartment near the university.)
While it's possible I've passed through Minneapolis/St Paul once or twice, I can't say for sure that I have, and I've definitely never been there in any meaningful sense.
The internet is very helpful to writers.

I love my life but oh, you kids!
(I'm 58. My mate is 40 with a couple weeks shy of 21 years of experience.)

What makes you think I have one of those?
 

Are the grammar purist really screaming?

Heck, in a story I'm writing (what's done is published on the Wapsi Square forum) I have a couple of characters eating in a certain restaurant in Minneapolis. I mention what they are eating. You could walk into that restaurant with a friend and order the same thing. It's real.
(I use that to shoot down the "it's all true or it's all lies" crowd, because that part of the story IS true, as are a number of other details such as typical driving time between the university area of Saint Paul and the nearest Wal-Mart, but as for the overall story... well, while eating at that restaurant in real life you won't have a pair of centaurs eating at the next table, and I'm pretty sure there aren't three werewolf art-school students renting a basement apartment near the university.)
While it's possible I've passed through Minneapolis/St Paul once or twice, I can't say for sure that I have, and I've definitely never been there in any meaningful sense.
The internet is very helpful to writers.

Well, you could buy a subscription for your imaginary child... imaginary children need even more help with typing than real children do.

This one should make the Pharoah happy too...

This one should make the Pharoah happy too...

The "Science" channel is frequently repeating a commercial for an upcoming show about an archeological dig at a possibly Biblical location.  One commentator seems so excited to have seen a piece of pottery with the name "Goliath' on it.
The Goliath legend is over three thousand years old and the tale in Samuel is only one side of the story.
Besides, it might just be a dog dish made by Davey in pottery class.

People who have been through really hard situations together, like Nanase and Susan were, often develop a deep confidence and trust in each other.
Without necessarily liking each other.

My theory:
Time in one universe is unrelated to time in another universe if there is no contact between them. Time flows in the same direction in both (in all, in fact) but possibly at wildly different rates, and not necessarily even at the same ratio of rates.
If a communication or matter-transference link is established between universes, time must flow at the same speed in both universes for the duration of the link. (Note: closing the link and then re-opening it always establishes a new link, not a continuation of the old one, no matter how brief the interval is in either universe.)
Also, the link is between a specific short period of time in universe A and a specific short period of time in universe B. It is then impossible to establish a link between a later moment in universe A and an earlier moment in universe B.

My theory:
Time in one universe is unrelated to time in another universe if there is no contact between them. Time flows in the same direction in both (in all, in fact) but possibly at wildly different rates, and not necessarily even at the same ratio of rates.
If a communication or matter-transference link is established between universes, time must flow at the same speed in both universes for the duration of the link. (Note: closing the link and then re-opening it always establishes a new link, not a continuation of the old one, no matter how brief the interval is in either universe.)
Also, the link is between a specific short period of time in universe A and a specific short period of time in universe B. It is then impossible to establish a link between a later moment in universe A and an earlier moment in universe B.

mlooney: party increased by one cat.
David and April: party decreased by one cat.

With most software, you can continue using it at least as long as there's an OS that supports it. Perhaps longer, if there's enough demand that emulators get written.
Security-related software needs regular updates, because the thugs keep developing new techniques, but authoring software doesn't become outdated in the same way. (It can become outdated, but more slowly, and differently.)
The one thing I'd strongly recommend is to find, or help establish, a community-support forum that is NOT hosted by the publisher. Make sure that said forum has at least two full-authority administrators and at least two people (who may or may not be administrators) keeping local archive copies.
 
Edit: it would be nice if the community-support forum also supports attachments. The archivists need to copy the attachments too.

I love my life but oh, you kids!
(I'm 58. My mate is 40 with a couple weeks shy of 21 years of experience.)

Once when I was working what was in part an internal customer-service desk, someone actually tried to launch an official complaint about me speaking formally.
(She made the mistake of telling her boss why I suddenly became rigidly polite. He... ahem... didn't respond formally, nor with rigid politeness. Afterward, he called my boss to praise me for handling the situation so well. And my boss told me about it.)

Ellen re-told the story that she apparently got from Nioi.

Magus was aware that Elliot is a shifter. He expected to be rammed into Elliot's body. Maybe Elliot was transformed to female, but Magus immediately transformed him back.
Also, Elliot is transformed - he's now blond.

It is such an immensely satisfying feeling in any game when your defences are working so well that you do not even need to pay attention to any attackers.
There was this time once where I was playing my World of Warcraft paladin way back before any expansions even. I had reached level 60 (max at the time) and was headed for a dangerous area known as the Plaguelands. I was supposed to meet up with friends so I waited in what was technically a hostile area but populated only by the lowest level of the enemy faction. Then, suddenly I hear an odd clanking sound repeat itself over and over and notice that an enemy player is attacking me. A level 6 rogue. Well, the massive mismatch means that she can't really hurt me, so I felt it would be mean to hit back. I try to shoo her off but she keeps attacking me. And by then the sound of her blunting her blades against my plate armour is starting to irritate me and I think she has actually managed to make a pixel of my health bar disappear, so I decide that enough is enough and turn on my retribution aura. This is a damage shield that returns a minor amount of damage to anyone who hits you.
Minor damage for a level 60, that is. For a level 6, not so much. Three hits later the rogue had killed herself hitting me. She stopped bothering me after that.

In the version I heard, it wasn't exactly laughed out of the Indiana Senate.. they assigned it to the Committee on Swamps. Said committee never sent it back to the Senate floor with a recommendation for or against.