Shadowrun Pub
General => News => Topic started by: Ruski on December 16, 2005, 10:50:30 AM
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I need a new hobby.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I thought this was your hobby.
Oh, wait- this is work. ;D
-kv
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I need a new at-work hobby.
-RuskiFace the Posting Pirate
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I can set you up with a couple of RP-sites that I've found, if you want. One is shadowrun, and the other (that Sara got me involved in) is brand new current-day rping. (no magic, cyber, or anything not possible in today's world)
-kv
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I don't know... a 'real life' roll-playing seems a little... short.
how 'real' based is it? do you have to have a skill to file paperwork at a dead-end job? or is it mostly drama-based?
I don't know if I could go for eather of thoes...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
of course, I am a hacker in the real world...
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It's based on real life. The idea is that a corporation has built a private prison where they've offered to hold persona-non-grata for the Federal Government in an ultra-high-security facility.
What the federal government doesn't know is that this corporation is using these best-of-the-worst felons as shadowrunners.
Yeah. So there.
-kv
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so, current-day shadowrunners.
but they all have to suck a little bit, because to get in on the biz, you have to get caught at least once.
-Ruski
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Basically.
But what shadowrunner hasn't gotten in a little trouble?
-kv
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*raises hand*
(cough cough)
and, most of the 'good' ones.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
sparkey would fit right in though.
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I need a new hobby.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
So it would seem indeed.
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well, I'm back under 10K again. so I can post a bit more I guess.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Why are you back under 10k again?
Paladin
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Aparently some of my posts were offensive to the people who run the board, and they removed a couple hundred of them. *shrug*
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well,I can certainly understand that.
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Well, Ruski, you are SUCH a trouble-maker that I'm sure someone had to knock you off of your ivory tower. ;)
Gabriel
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Actually, It's kinda depressing that a couple hundred posts could be deleted, and it dosn't really make any diffrence at all...
-Ruski
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Well yeah, but think about it olike this: you have now become theheart and soul of the pub. I mean hell, not even Ingo has as many posts as you do and this is his place.
Gabriel
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Yeah, Ruski does all the talking. I just take the drink orders ;)
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So if Ruski is the heart and soul, what does that make you my cyber armed friend? The lower intestine ;D
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I call brain!
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ohhhh! sooo spoookieeee!
i'm the souuuullll! I can walk through wallllssss!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
(Brutha' GOT Soul!)
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So if Ruski is the heart and soul, what does that make you my cyber armed friend? The lower intestine ;D
Hehehe, better than being the ovaries. :o
Gabriel
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Yuck! who gets that job?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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LOL, who do you think, chummer???
Gabriel
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Well, you are the butt of all the jokes; so you are closest to that area...
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Why do I get the feeling that the joke has gone RIGHT over your head??? ;)
Gabriel
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Well, I got the joke; but I was trying to change it into something rude about you.
(at first, I thought about trying to pin it off on your mom, but that's sorta been done already...) and I wanted to try something new.
*sigh*
and, as always; if you have to explain it, that's the number one sign that your joke wasn't funny, and you need to just walk away.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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(at first, I thought about trying to pin it off on your mom, but that's sorta been done already...)
Oh come on, Ingo!!! Let us start the "yo mamma" thing up again!! I'm sure that NEVER got old and EVERYONE loved it!!! ;)
Gabriel
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I thought it was funny.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Horrah! I'm in the 10,000 Post Club Again!
-RuskiFace the Poster
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Congratulations. I'm still working towards 100
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Thank you! Just keep on talking, and soon enough; you'll get there.
there's a suprise inside the box once you reach 1K though.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, once I get a character done and a game starts, I'm sure the numbers'll skyrocket pretty quick
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Actually, the Play by post dosn't boost much in the way of post-count.
mostly, unless you are the GM you are only going to be posting once, maybe twice a day there.
if you posted twice a day into that thread, every day, that would be a year and a half untill you hit the glorious 1,000 mark.
.However, that being said, the Play by post is a fun way to waste time and dirrect your imagination. I personally enjoy the fan-fiction sections as a way to relax (and boost your post count) if you are looking to get bragging rights and contribute to the board at the same time.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I've also been enjoying the picture game.
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Now THERES a good way to get your post count up.
and yea, free association is fun.
-RF
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Or just go to the Paddin' thread. That's what it's there for.
Gabriel
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LOL yes. yes it is.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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They lie- the Paddin thread is a war crime, perpetuated against everyone who ever read a thread all the way through.
;D
-kv
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I went back and read the 50 pages that it was when I started.
not much content there. dosn't take much to burn through it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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War crime! You hear me?!?!? War Crime!
-kv
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Um.... which war is it a crime for again??? ;)
Gabriel
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*shrug*
the war of the light pistol?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Damn. Way to bring up an OLD inside joke. :)
Gabriel
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I figured a couple of the old guard would enjoy the refrence.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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There's just something aesthetically wrong with a 5 figure post count... ;)
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You think that's bad. Wait till I hit 6!
-RuskiFace the Mad Poster
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I shudder to think :D
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Yea.
please... someone stop me... before I post again!
-RuskiFace the Post-a-holic.
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But, you just posted again. ;)
Gabriel
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*sob*
I'm hopeless!
-RuskiFace the Postaholic
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We could lock you in the bathroom but the pub doesn't seem to have one...
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No wonder it's so messy in here... :bob:
Gabriel
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uh oh... uh... no one put any coats in that closet did they?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That's assuming I'd take my jacket off.
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*whew*
thank goodness for the paranoia of runners.
no one ever takes their secure longcoat off. LOL
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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Even if they were thinking of taking them off, one whiff of that coat closet would help them change thier minds. ;D
-kv
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no doubt. let's just board over it, and pretend like there's not even a closet there...
or one of us could hire a plumber, and turn it into an actual restroom...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
I'll chip in 100Y
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I'll throw in a Karma point for luck.
Gabriel
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If we're building a toilet in here, I don't want any LUCK associated with the creation of it. No MacGuyvering anything- I want a by-the-book, plumbers-code toilet.
-kv
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Chummer, how do a crowd of SINless runner GET a by-the-book anything??? What, are we going to kidnap a plumber, force him to do all the work, order all the proper material and help, and then erase his memory??
Gabriel
Wait, actually...
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I'll get the phonebook!
let's call him over to the safehouse on central.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, we could do that, but then we have to wait there between 9am and 4pm. Have you been in the safehouse on Central recently?
It doesn't smell so good since Metsuhama caught up with the runners who jacked the next-generation cranial cyberdeck.
-kv
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Hey, bring a few ghouls to clean up the place, spray in some industral grade air-freshener from Aztlan, and your golden.
Gabriel
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we are just kidnapping him from there. I'll put a trace on his truck, and we'll know when he's in the area.
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Can I help?
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Well, I could use a beer... ;)
Gabriel
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you're in a pub. that shouldn't be too tough to find...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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WTH are you guys (n' gal) talkin about?
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we are going to kidnap a plumber to change that coat closet into a restroom.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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What's wrong with the already existing restroom?
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aparently it's dirty or something, and they thought it would be easyer to build a new one, rather than clean it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, Ingo. Have you even LOOKED in that room lately??? Maybe All You Can Eat Taco Night was a bad idea. Especially since Apocalypse out-ate us all. :bob:
Gabriel
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I still say he cheated.
but it's okay, dragons are aloud to cheat.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Maybe, but I would think even they'd do it quietly.
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you aparently never saw apoc eating 2-dozen tacos pr. fistfull, shoving them in as fast as he could grab them.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
I think he accidenly ate one of the cooks.
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I don't know that it was an accident.
I saw him eyes the cooks and cradling the hot sauce in one claw.
-kv
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*shrug* well, i'm not going to split hairs with a dragon.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketsup."
A friend told me that once, and I later found (and bought) the T-Shirt.
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Well, old Scales was probably the one who started the saying way back when. Of course, you should be fine. I don't think he's ever eaten a fellow pubber. Of course, we've haven't seen Squire since we changed locations... :apoc:
Gabriel
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eh. I happen to be of the opinion dragons got a raw deal in most of the old legends.
You should try finding a story called "The George Business" It's in some anthology with other dragon stories. (I'll have to check the actual title of the book when I get home.)
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what's the scan on that?
just a normal every day dragon who goes about his buisness stealing sheep to stay alive?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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One of the cardinal rules of the Sixth World is "Never deal with a dragon." And that is a good rule.
Gabriel
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*grin* Nope. A rather scrawny, but smart, knight named George goes up to a dragon and makes a deal: George wants to marry the daughter of a rather wealthy baron, but he's sixth on the list of suitors. He's in it for the money (Which the dragon understands perfectly) and as she prefers the brawny-type, he asks the dragon to kidnap her and he'd ride in to 'rescue' her. The dragon would fake an injury and George would drop payment during the fight.
It sort of worked. The girl had been married earlier that day, and the shock killed her father. The new baron, (not liking the looks she was giving her 'rescuer') gives George a new set of armor, a horse, and a document identifying him as a dragonslayer.
The dragon then asks George for help in a similar matter with a female dragon, with a similar outcome.
They wind up becoming partners scamming villages being 'terrorized' by the dragon.
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it's generally good advice, yea... but if the dragon really wants to deal with you... *shrug* sometimes it just can't be helped.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I think the split was either 70-30 or 60-40 in favor of the dragon.
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personally, my 'negeotions' with a dragon go something like this:
D: "I want you to work for me."
me: "what? who are you?"
D: "I will pay you very well."
Me: "You are a dragon aren't you?"
D: "Yes."
Me: "I'll do whatever you want for free, just please don't kill me!"
D: "no promises."
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Probably because you didn't have a poison-tipped lance.
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nah, I found that the poison often drys up, or gets washed off in the seattle rain, and it's tough to carry a lance while taking the bus. (they always make you check it under the bus, and it smells down there, and then you forget to pick it up when you get off and...)
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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Poison? Washed off by Seattle rain?
And what exactly does Seattle rain qualify as in your book?
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Hey now, that's good UCAS acid rain your bad-mouthing you european runner, you! Not like that wimpy rain you cheese-eaters have over there that doesn't even have any chunks in it! ;)
As for the book, that sounds a lot like the scam in Dragon Heart. I liked how it worked in the movie, so I assume I would like how it worked inthe book. Oh, and did you ever ready any Barbara Hambly books, AJ???
Gabriel
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Barbra Hambly...I'm pretty sure I've read at least something by her. She wrote a couple Star Wars books right?
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an acid.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Actually, I'm not really sure. But you mentioned posioned lances for killnig dragons. She wrote a book a long time back titled, appropriately enouhg, Dragonsbane in which a courtier travels to find the only living dragonsbane in the kingdom. When he finds the guy, he is shocked and dissapointed to find that the way he killed the dragon was sneaking up on it and killing it with a bunch of poisoned harpoons. It was a good book, especially for being written in the 80's.
Gabriel
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I've heard of the book, but never read it.
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It's pretty good. If you have some spare time and nothing else you are pursuing at the moment, you might want to give it a read. Personally, i dont' think it was here best, but still pretty good. Darkmage was better, but then, I like books about computer nerds in the early 80's.
Gabriel
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I'll have to check it out. Right now, though, I kinda should concentrate on school (Although I do spend probably more time online than I should)
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Bah, what's school going to teach you that the internet can't?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Only that I'll have a piece of paper saying I'm qualified to run x-ray machines.
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YAY!!! Radiation!!!
Gabriel
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I could print one up for you if you'd really want it...
-RuskiFace the pirate
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You could, but I'm actually enjoying being back in school.
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but would you enjoy it more if you took more interesting classes?
-Ruski
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The classes I like(With the exception of the snooze-worthy mafiasoft office class.) it's the homework I hate.
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www.google.com/plagiarism (http://www.google.com/plagiarism)
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Having actually graded other people's work (one of the many crappy things about being editor in chief) I can honestly say to you that it IS obvious when someone plagarizes.
In Example: One of the girls who wrote for the newspaper (she didn't turn in much of anything, and what little she did turn in looked like she had copied it out of an AIM chat window and pasted it into a document) was threatened by the teacher that if she didn't turn in an article for the last issue of the paper, would recieve a failing grade.
The article she turned in was something simple, just a review of a bunch of summer movies, with her opinion on each one. It was beautifully written, it was articulate, and aside from the same grammar and spelling problems at the beginning and end of the piece, it was flawless.
It was honestly too good to be hers. So we did a little checking, and she had gone to different websites (yahoo for this movie, MSN for this other one) and directly copied the reviews into her article.
There is a high difference in quality between those people who plagarize, and the things they plagarize. It shows when they turn things in.
/rant
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Kid_Vid, will you be my next Journalism professor??? ;)
Gabriel
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When I was a kid, I hated writing (it's now one of my biggest hobbies. Go figure) But I read. A lot. As a result, I had a much higher reading comprehension level and wider vocabulary than most of my classmates.
When I did have to write a paper, (I'm guessing it was in Jr. High, but I'm not entirely sure) apparently my teachers didn't believe I could have written it and actually called my parents to find out if I'd copied the paper or had someone else write it. (I had, and my parents confirmed it).
I didn't find out until years later.
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Uhhh... actually, being in charge of a newspaper and listening to people bictch about how the networks who don't espouse thier way of thinking are obviously 'twisting the truth' (Fox News for Liberals, New York Times for Republicans) and seeing how often people steal stories, jump leads (that's when they print something before they can prove it because they want to be the first one to have the story up)
It really turned me off of journalism.
I'm gonna go be a doctor.
-kv
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I've had people ask me when I'm going to be on a bestseller list.
It's a HOBBY!! I have a little problem with deadlines, therefore writting probably isn't the best day job for me.
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My girlfriend actually just had one of here English Professors write her a glowing email about the story she had him read- he's reccommending publishers. I am so proud of her.
Oh, but back on topic. There is only one person in the 10,000 Posters Club.
My brother, Ruskiface the Pirate: :ruski:
-kv
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who could plagerise his little black heart out, and no one would ever really know.
it's all about vocabulary people.
so: you want to copy someone else's work and claim it as your own?
easy enough. copy it, and change every word for another one that means the same thing.
they can type any combination of words into google, but they'll never find your origingal offering.
*shrug* seems to work for me.
(but only when I'm feeling so lasy that I can't be bothered to just make up ten pages worth of crap myself.)
LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Oh, but back on topic. There is only one person in the 10,000 Posters Club.
My brother, Ruskiface the Pirate: :ruski:
-kv
Then how is it a club as aopposed to Ruski sitting there with 10,000 Posts???? ;)
Gabriel
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I'm hoping you'll start posting up a storm, and then we can start the club!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I'm working on it, but I still have over 9,000 to go.
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just keeeep on talkin!
I have faith in you!
Come to Ruski!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, she's no Ruski, but she does have the chance to post on here a lot, which definitely puts her in the running to head that direction.
Of course, the same thing could be said about Gabe or I, and neither of us have 10,000 posts. I think the fact that Ruski was the only one who kept up the posting during PB's deluge helped.
-kv
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PB's deluge? What's that?
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I go away for a couple of weeks and you lot manage a five page off topic in the News area no less...
I am impressed 8)
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Hey Z-Girl. You know we try our best to do our worste. ;)
Gabriel
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I helped!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Me too.
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Is someone going to explain what PB's deulge was to Ms. Starhiker?
-kv
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PB? PimpBoy?
I liked him alright.
he didn't stay on topic much, and he loved fallout.
made a couple of the regulars turn tail and run for the hills.
eventually KV started cleaning up the off-topic threads, and that made him mad so he left.
that's actually why I started this 10K post thread when I was about 800 posts away. I lost a chunk of my count when it got deleted LOL
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Ah, ok.
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and that's a little peace of pub history.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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*smirks* Considiring this is Shadowrun, I'm not exactly how much peace it is, though.
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Inceditnly, PB's posts were the reason we started discussing adding on a toilet in this place. Or was it the dumpster that we were going to add???
Gabriel
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I believe that what Gabe was trying to say in his own way was something like:
'PB was not always a master of the argument nor rhethorics, indeed neither at following when other presented such arguments of applied logic or reason.'
Correct?
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Ah, I think I get it. I'm guessing he wouldn't have been very good at the picture association game?
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mostly, he liked to discuss political stuff in loud tones.
-Ruski
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In 'discuss political stuff in loud tones' do you mean 'rant about stuff in all caps regardless of whether he was making a valid point or offending 90% of the population'?
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Yes. That one.
I didn't mind him so much, and I was willing to go along with Ruski's live-and-let-live philosophy until I actually started reading all of his posts, which I started doing once my good friends started running for the hills.
I wasn't annoyed by the Fallout obsession, or the constant badmouthing of anything he was against, be it political, economic, or philisophical. No, okay, I lie. It was that second one. It was "Religion: The Flamewar" and other topics of the like.
Mostly what was annoyed me was when I came across a post that said "Nobody is posting that they disagree, so I am forced to conclude that they all agree with me!" (or something along those lines)
*sigh*
-kv
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...people like that, you just can't argue with. Whatever you say as refutation, they take as a personal attack, and when you ignore them they assume they're right *Shakes head* I've run into people like that in other forums.
How many braincells (if any) do you think he was running on?
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That's the thing that was sort of mystifying. To me, at least, he didn't seem unintelligent. He was even on occaison eloquent... and he had spent time learning chinese, so he was at least slightly intelligent.
He just... rubbed pretty much everyone the wrong way. In no small way because he was constantly in salesman mode, trying to let us know what a great system we were missing out on because we didn't play tons of Steve Jackson games or H.E.R.O.
I don't know... it's kind of hard to explain, so it's good that you've had similar experiences, so we don't really have to.
-kv
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It was over at a fanfic writers' forum. A couple of posters insisted there was a fundemental problem with writing in present tense because there were no good stories done that way and couldn't seem to understand most of the awkwardness came from an unfamiliarity with reading/writing in that format. It would have been entertaining if the posts had been shorter (some were longer enough to require scrolling to read one post)
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In 'discuss political stuff in loud tones' do you mean 'rant about stuff in all caps regardless of whether he was making a valid point or offending 90% of the population'?
More so than the all caps mode.
Part of my problem was that a) some of his points were valid enough in themselves, but his presentations were ... overly aggresive, and he would not let go, ever worse than Retread and his Earthdawn crossover ( ;) ). b) he appearantly mindlesslyu ragged on anyone and anything he had eve the slightest disagreement with, yet he seemed unable to recieve critisism. c) rather a lot of what he said had no relevance what-so-ever, for shadowrun. When I enter this place, my mind writes '2067' in the 'year-bit', and so discussing 2005 politics become... a historical debate.
Sorry, now I'm ranting about irrelevancies.
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I believe that what Gabe was trying to say in his own way was something like:
'PB was not always a master of the argument nor rhethorics, indeed neither at following when other presented such arguments of applied logic or reason.'
Correct?
Actually, I'm trying to say that he was a piece of human excriment. I believe I heard it best expressed in the sentence, "He's nothing but an attention whore..." And that's about right. If we were all in an actual room, in a real bar, he would have started a bar brawl within 20 minutes of entering the room and the cops would have been on speed-dial after the first 7 or 8 times this happened. There's a reason a ton of usual patrons aren't seen around here anymore.
Gabriel
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too bad. I bet I'd've liked them.
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they'll probibly wander back in.
it's nice to visit your old haunts every now and again.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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And they'll probably notice that guy's left?
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well, if they read even one post, they'll see that's he's gone, so if he's the reason for leaving, and not 'life the universe, and everything' as is sometimes the case, perhaps they'll stick arround a bit.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Personally, I'd like to see Fortune and Flipside head back in. Of course I know Flipside has been gone long before PB ever git here, but hey, if he ever showed back up, I'd buy him a round. Of course, I'd like to see Eve, Janus, Mr. Book, Flipside, and all the rest head back in, but oh well. :-\
Gabriel
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Ditto on that.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, I have told some of my RL gamer friends about this place. Dunno if they'll show up, but at least they know ;D
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and knowing is half the battle!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
wasn't there one guy who's GM let him use this place as a 'contact' between runs?
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Really? That's pretty cool.
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Yea. for him; any 'information' we gave him was accurate, and he'd actually 'pay' us in newyen from the game for the paydata we got him.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Now THAT'S a damn good contact. Kind of like having Shadowland on your contact list so you can read the rulebooks. ;)
Gabriel
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hahahaha. yea. I always liked doing that.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Personally, I'd like to see Fortune and Flipside head back in. Of course I know Flipside has been gone long before PB ever git here, but hey, if he ever showed back up, I'd buy him a round. Of course, I'd like to see Eve, Janus, Mr. Book, Flipside, and all the rest head back in, but oh well. :-\
Gabriel
Fortune still pops up from time to time, but I haven't seen Flip in eons or Janus for even longer... but hey I'm back! At least for today. Looks like I have another couple weeks of minimal on time staring me in the face. So what exactly are the symptoms for internet withdrawal?
As for PB? I'd have to agree with Gabe on that one and add misogynistic bastard to the mix...but then I'd stopped reading anything he wrote about two months before he finally decamped. Can't say I'm sorry to see the last of him...
Its nice to have new blood that actually joins the pub rather than tries to twist the pub to it own preference :)
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Damn straight, Z-Girl!
Gabriel
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So yea... Pipboy rubbed a lot of people the wrong way... *shrug* but some people get off on that. *shrug* perhaps it was just 'his thing'
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Think he's harrassing some other board now?
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*shrug* probibly several. he seemed to know his way arround message boards.
-RuskIFace the Pirate
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Actually, right after he started posting here, I started hearing about those people who are paid to haunt message boards, and just post all day long, eventually inserting sales pitches or rhetoric into thier posts to draw in new customers.
(Penny Arcade had something in thier newsposts about it shortly thereafter)
Kinda made me wonder what PB's deal was... I mean, I can understand posting in forums, because I do that too... but just... it wasn't even fun or funny. He came here to harass people, talk about H.E.R.O., repeatedly say how awesome Fallout was (which as near as I can tell was the only point the majority of us seemed to agree with him), and I have to ask myself what his purpose was.
It's confusing.
-kv
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*shrug* well, perhaps that was his job... but if it was, he didn't advertise much stuff with it.
he talked about some online retailer that 'did him right' by doubleboxing his shadowrun stuff or somesuch...
but that's mostly it.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Well, I think the idea is to be innoculous, so he'd be here for years, and then would start esposing products and services, and we would all follow like lemmings because he's a longtime poster and we would all trust his judgements..
hmmm... maybe that's the biggest argument against it. The fact that he was a pompous blowhard, and no one wanted to listen to him. That's the best case for his innocence that I can manage.
-kv
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Maybe we should refer to him as Pied Piper 2000.
Gabriel
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Maybe if everyone had kicked the Pied Piper's ass when he first got there, Hamlin wouldn't have been such a sad place. ;D
-kv
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well, they did have a lot of rats to start with... perhaps they didn't notice him show up?
-RF
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You may have a point. Perhaps he was a skaven????
Gabriel
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he did seem a bit 'titchey' and he jumped to conclusions rather quickly...
the personality profile would fit...
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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What's a skaven?
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Ah, warhammer reference. Skaven are a race of mutated rat-people types of things. They thrive on filth, desease, and warpstone. Nasty little fraggers.
Gabriel
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Ok, those guys. As soon as I saw Warhammer I kinda remembered. Never played it (Didn't feel like spending massive amounts of money on miniatures, especially since I don't have the patience to paint all them) but I have lots of friends who do.
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You should try the role playing version, it's more fun and a LOT less expensive.
Gabriel
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I'll put it on my 'to do' list. Along with parachuting, visiting Norway, and getting through school.
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Ouch...
Gabriel
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Just don't have money to invest in a new game system right now.
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Warhammer 40K is the expensive one that you're thinking of- the original Warhammer is something akin to D&D. At least, that's my understanding. Most of the people I know who play it would flinch if they heard that comparison.
But whateva.
-kv
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Right now, I don't have the money for books, either, especially if I'm not entirely sure if/when I'll be able to play.
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and that's why being able to H4X0R the 1N73RN37 is such a usefull skill.
all paydata is FREE!
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Warhammer 40k - futuristic table-top war game
Warhammer Fantasy - fantasy table-top war game
Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing Game - RPG based on Warhammer Fantasy world
:)
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and that's a man who knows what he's talking about.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Warhammer Fantasy/Warhammer 40K: Pirated Rulebooks + Miniatures + Paint + Modelling Supplies + Time = DREK-LOAD of MONEY!!!!
Warhammer Fantasy Rle Playing: Pirated Rulebooks = Fun for free
Gabriel
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you could make your own figures out of clay you dug up in your back yard if you'v got time.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Believe it or not, the region I live in has very good clay for sculping.
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Really? I've ALWAYS wanted to learn how to sculpt. No time, and no money fo rit unfortunately. :-\
Gabriel
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Gotta dig for it and hope you don't get too much dirt, but there's a reason it's called 'Clay County' up here.
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mostly, it's time.
sculpting isn't that hard... just takes a bit of effort to clear away the parts that don't belong, so the peaces in your hand match the picture in your head.
and of course, like everything else, there are tricks of the trade to make something work better,... but mostly... it just takes time to learn them.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I took a ceramics class in high school. Unfortunately, it also flooded that year. The art room was in the basement, so I only have two pieces that actually survived, both of which are Star Wars-related.
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I made a buncha ninja-turtles.
I bet they could make good warhammer peaces.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Mine probably wouldn't work unless it was for a wall...both pieces were reliefs. Although a friend of mine did give me a little dragon/gargoyle she made in that class.
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a stone gargoyle... that's good for a couple extra points of megadamage reduction...
-RF
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Its basically just a neck/torso and head and stands probably 3-4 inches.
When I told her I still have it, she was a little embarassed cause she didn't think it was one of her better pieces. *Shrugs* I still like it, though. It's cute.
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there's a reason it's called 'Clay County' up here.
Really? Is it because there's a lot of dirt up there??? ;) SOrry, Aj, I just couldn't resist.
Gabriel
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Actually, there is. I live less then a mile fromt the edge of town. Lots of farmland in the region.
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Well that was a really effective way to kill that joke. ;)
Gabriel
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;) I know.
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Hey, does anyone know what the deal with Ingo's new "Cast of Shadows" is? It looks like it's set up for a campaign... but none of us are on it.
WTF, Mate?
-kv
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it's the new peeps for his RL campaign.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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I noticed the other thread shortly after I posted this, but I wasn't motivated enough to change the post.
-kv
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it's alright. perhaps we can be used as NPC contacts?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Clay County? As in Illinois Clay County?
I used to live there!
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Nope. Clay county as in Minnesota.
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Sadly, I have yet to acheive 1/5 the requisite posts for this landmark, amazing really since I've been here longer than anyone but Ingo and Apoc. I gues I'm just more profound than verbose. ;D
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No, you're just lazy. Get to posting, chummer!! ;)
Gabriel
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Wait, longer than anyone else here?
Did you join the Pub before Ruski and I?
-kv
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According to the profile thingies, an amazing number of people joined at exactly
November 10, 2002, 06:00:00 AM, ncluding both Zone and yours truely.
Enough that I believe there was a glitch in the system.
Or did you mean the old board?
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Yeah, I think that's the default time for everyone who joined before that point, actually.
I was meaning the old board, though. I remember some people (like North, Kagemusha, Wildman, Apoc, and Ingo) but the line kind of blurs between the old board and this one, because most of those people didn't make the transfer, and most of us have filtered through here since then.
-kv
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I think Zone is older on here than you are Kid_Vid. At least, that's what the media package she sent me says. Personally, I think she's trying a new PR tactic.
Gabriel
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Well, I only need a few more posts and I'm no longer at the bottem of the Top Fifteen List :aj:
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My first post on the SR Pub was back when aol was still Ingo's host. Granted I was probably the last post on that board before he moved to bigger and better things, but in the game of senority every minute counts :D
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Yeah, Old Lady Zone. Does that drone come with a walker??? ;)
Gabriel
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Sadly, I have yet to acheive 1/5 the requisite posts for this landmark, amazing really since I've been here longer than anyone but Ingo and Apoc. I gues I'm just more profound than verbose. ;D
Jester has actually been here longer than me. Ingo, Jester, and then me. Weird how times flies. I joined in Jan/Feb of 1999 I think. Hard to believe that was 7 almost 8 years ago.
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that reminds me. This school year'll be ten years since we broke two local records: cumulative snowfall in the winter, and flood level the following spring.
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Damn, chummer, you may need to move someplace a bit more hospitable, Like Arizona.
Gabriel
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Ewww... I have family in arizona, and we have a special name for it: The Kitty Litter State. Cause... you know... sand and stuff. It's also approxamately 15 feet from hell, and every major tourist attraction is a hole in the ground.
Seriously. Grand Canyon. Painted Desert. Petrified Forest. Meteor Crater.
-kv
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The Flagstaff Area is nice, and I like the Tucson area too, but yes, Phoenix is indeed a gateway to hell.
There, another post closer to royalty....
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I lived in Las Vegas 3 years. I just wanted to come back.
As for the flooding, the river flows north. It thaws from source to mouth, so there's ice jams that causes the water to back up. It's also really flat so the water spreads out a lot once it overflows the banks.
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Well, yeah that would do it. Why not build on stilts??
Gabriel
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Most people live out of the flood plain. That year was bad because of the record snowfall with the ground already saturated from the previous fall so there was a lot of overland flooding in addition to the yearly river rise. There was also an ice storm that spring that hindered sandbagging efforts.
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Hmmm, lets build a house and spend our savings to make it nice. Why here's a good spot, THE FLOOD PLAIN. Nothing bad could ever happen here.
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Yes, as I sometimes say to my group when I'm GMing:
"That's a great plan. I see no possible way it could go wrong!"
-kv
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Well, there's a few reasons people came here:
1) good farmland
2) the river (Transportation way back)
3) a couple railroad lines intersect
4) (More recently) two interstates.
Now, if you want a bad location, try Devil's Lake, ND. The level's been rising past several years and parts of the town are now underwater.
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Still think you need to invest in some stilts. ;)
Gabriel
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why? My house never flooded. We just watched the river (lake) in the backyard.
The hill's great for sledding in the winter ;)
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no you build a water tight bunker styled home that when there is flooding you can button the house up tight like a sub
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Boy now doesn't THAT sound like something a redneck miltiaman would say? "I got this school bus burried in the backyard. You know, in case of comunists or natural disaster." ;)
Gabriel
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lol my dream house will cost a fortune consdering it would be flood proof tornado proof quake proof back up power supply reseve water supply emargy life support
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Ever thought about buying a missile silo??? The US government has actually been selling off old Cold War era silos in the Midwest. You can buy one and move in. They even have a bunch of military surplus in them, although nothing kethal or secret.
Gabriel
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Yeah, they keep the kethal stuff for themselves.
-kv
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Kethal???? That must REALLY be some top secret drek.
(http://members.cox.net/gwire/Slug Gunner.gif)
Gabriel
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thought about it lol
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Ill buy one, Send me the link! you could put some great cut rate studio apartments in there. If someone didnt pay the rent you kill them and dispose of them in the sewer beneath. Hmm or maybe just litigate.
Naw I like the first option.
Janus
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Personally, I'd like to live in a silo and get a huge christmas tree each year. On christmas eve, I would open the silo doors and "deploy" the tree, thus creating one hell of an interesting picture on soviet spy satelites.
Gabriel