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MeFi post:
Word Withdrawal
Hasbro owns Scrabble in the US and Canada and Mattel does everywhere else. Looks like play between these regions is disallowed.
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at 8:49 AM on July 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Yellow sign on the line which is dotted
Will thinking outside the usual publishing business models save pen and paper RPGs?
It already has. The top down business model for RPGs is currently dying on the vine, despite the efforts of WotC and others. Witness the current transformation of D&D into a tabletop WoW analog. Thanks, no.
However, gaming at the tabletop is doing just fine without help from the likes of Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf. There is a... [more]
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at 7:26 AM on May 11, 2008
As for Zachsmind's issues with Call of Cthulhu, definitely an issue with the Keeper running it. I've been running CoC for 25 years and my games do not devolve into a puppet show as described.
Now, CoC is HIGHLY dependent upon the Keeper as to how it will play out. I'm not actually a fan of the ruleset it sits upon because it makes a lot of the quality of play incumbent upon the Keeper and thus highly variable depending upon who you're playing with. I'm not alone... [more]
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at 7:33 AM on May 11, 2008
geekhorde, it's never too early.
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at 8:31 AM on May 11, 2008
Nice dinosaur-speak there mobunited. I don't measure success economically but by the quality of the games I play, and by that metric the past 7 years have been a golden age. I'm indifferent to the big companies that are sinking, since they've got a track record that's pretty piss poor as far as putting out quality games that I enjoy playing. I don't see RPGs as being a viable market for business, but it's just fine for hobbyists to self-publish in.
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at 3:22 PM on May 11, 2008
Sure it's useless for the gaming industry. So what? I don't believe that gaming is viable as an industry. I'd go so far as to say that economic success is counterproductive to the production of quality games, although it is really good at producing endless splat books.
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at 9:06 PM on May 11, 2008
MeFi post:
Sunday Flash Fun
Yeah, gameplay is pretty dull. On levels without mines, you can change the ball's vector once or twice and then just let it keep on bouncing. Eventually you'll clear the level.
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at 7:49 AM on April 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Carbohydrate Loading
I designed the 4th grade champion and record holding drinking straw bridge of my elementary school. Come get some, Hungarians.
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at 9:32 AM on March 8, 2008
MeFi post:
You're late! He used to be pink.
That was really interesting to watch as an anthropological time capsule. It's not just the smoking, but also the tropes about mental health and alcoholism.
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at 7:26 AM on February 26, 2008
MeFi post:
Have you ever TRIED to fuck a grapefruit?
I saw the strip this morning and I was all ready to start me some backlash myself, but then I had to go to work. Thanks Diesel Sweeties for representing me!
Although Robson is right. Grapefruit are trying to destroy me.
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at 8:20 PM on February 25, 2008
Peaches? Those horrid things? Yack!
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at 8:21 PM on February 25, 2008
MeFi post:
SF squids
The squidliography omits Accelerando by Charlie Stross.
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at 8:10 PM on February 4, 2008
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"I like to work. I really do."
I don't hold making shitty movies against actors, but to cite one being a children's movie as an excuse? As a child of the seventies, who reaped the very nadir of disdain and apathy for quality in kid's programming, Mr. Cross, I invite you to get teabagged by the seventies version of Tom and Jerry.
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at 5:44 AM on January 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Put Wet Towels On The Sensor
My restroom at work recently got converted to sensor faucets. They work quite well, but I discovered that the power outlet next to them has that little tester button on it and if you hit it and turn off the outlet you also turn off all the faucets.
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at 2:17 PM on December 20, 2007
MeFi post:
Merry Christmas, Mayor Daley
This really bums me out. I loved the Reader back when I lived in Chicago. I even subscribed to it for a number of years after I moved to NYC. I didn't do that for the classified listings.
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at 12:38 PM on December 11, 2007
MeFi post:
Old Clothes
I've wanted to deck myself out in 20s or 30s kit for a while, but haven't had the time or the dash to really go for it, but I did find a pretty interesting community for that kind of stuff: The Fedora Lounge.
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at 10:01 AM on December 11, 2007
MeFi post:
Babies are sponges
Because, you know, you can either teach your kids to swim or restrict access to pools, but not both.
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at 5:10 PM on October 3, 2007
MeFi post:
Sexy Mormon Men
Those are the sexiest Mormon men they could find? Meh.
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at 7:52 PM on September 13, 2007
I think I could go for hot Amish guys. At least they wouldn't wax their chests.
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at 8:10 PM on September 13, 2007
MeFi post:
A thing for the past
Great resource! I just wish the project gallery provided alternate sorting methods besides the geographical.
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at 6:41 AM on August 31, 2007
MeFi post:
Adventure Playground
This was what the playground was like behind my old elementary school. Tires, wood, posts, an old felled tree. It was excellent. Last time I was around there and took a look the place had been utterly bowdlerized, as it were.
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at 4:50 PM on August 18, 2007
MeFi post:
>>>>>PASS THIS ON! (emails from the right)
Yeah, Pope Guilty, I've had the same experience with my own Mother and with some friends from high school. Usually one debunking reply-all is all it takes.
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at 5:30 PM on August 15, 2007
Usually one debunking reply-all is all it takes.
... to get you removed from the list, which will continue undisturbed.
Yep! Who am I to tamper with such powerful reality distortion fields?
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at 7:12 PM on August 15, 2007
MeFi post:
Rove Resigns
I find it curious that this came out on a Monday, so as to provide the maximum coverage during the weekly news cycle.
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at 5:52 AM on August 13, 2007
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"I will never use garlic!"
Garlic is something that I've always suspected noone actually likes...
The above is why you're, deservedly, getting pounded on. If you'd just expressed your own distaste for garlic instead of insisting that you know that garlic lovers are all liers, you would not have gotten such a reaction.
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at 7:47 AM on July 15, 2007
Grah. liars
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at 7:48 AM on July 15, 2007
MeFi post:
Well played, Rob Schneider.
I've heard similar things about the comic industry. You can make a living if you manage two of the following three:
1) Be really really talented.
2) Make your deadlines.
3) Be a really nice person who's a pleasure to work with.
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at 10:55 AM on May 11, 2007
