Home ›
Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
If you have an email ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com (or any other Microsoft-related domain), please consider changing it to another email provider; Microsoft decided to instantly block the server's IP, so emails can't be sent to these addresses.
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
Comments
i somehow read "Glenn" as "Glena"
ETA: I just finished 52. I missed good ol' superhero fun with the right amount of character drama. It's a shame that this kinda thing isn't that common. And that the next weekly series is...ugh...countdown to final crisis
IJBM: People who say that using tax pounds on the NHS is "theft" are the same people who are calling for the RAF to bomb Iran into Glass >.>
Rolls came out pretty well. I'll probably double the cinnamon next time. Odd that I'd need to, since I was already using 50% more than the recipe called for.
Open Week, Day 2. Theme Tokyo, no duties this eve. Supermarket ran out of regular buns so hamburgers tonight will be served on raisin buns.
Fuck yer Honda Civic, I've a horse outside
Fuck yer Subaru I have a horse outside
And fuck yer Mitsubishi I've a horse outside
If yer lookin' fer a ride, I've a horse outside
what
Third one down had me lollin'.
Won't spoil it, though.
Almost done with A Clash of Kings.
There's a lot of "wait, what?!" going on. And it's awesome.
The idea behind them is that the magic behind the swords makes the user overconfident; after all, you think, if the sword stops you dying, then you can take risks you normally wouldn't.
But while you can still defeat the person you were fighting when you did that, once you do, you're dead.
However, it's useful in the threat it implies; if one wields the swords against a mage, people who are used to being the nukes of warfare and can usually disintegrate you where you stand if you don't have magic to protect yourself, the mage is pretty much boned, so they secede to your demands.
Unfortunately, it doesn't protect you against assassins in the night, and any decent swordsmaster will still be able to mortally wound you if you fight them; so it's not the be-all end-all, you still have to be wary and you still need to master the sword.
That gives me this mental image of a guy sparring with someone so he doesn't die while a group of doctors try to perform life-saving surgery on him.
That's a ridiculous image and I won't use it.
Man, I should really go back and work on that story. But I'm lazy ;-;
Maybe I'll go back and work on some fluff for it.
Oh, I'm well aware that it's ridiculous.
And yeah, you should get back to that. It was really interesting.
I kinda stalled when I got to writing for it.
Stupid beginnings of stories, trying to overcome inertia
I know that feel
My RPG system is going better than any of my stories do. Though what I have done is going to need a shitload of rebalancing.
Just like PTA, eh
Yeah, though I think I'll refrain from releasing it until the balancing is done :P
In my setting, magic swords tend to work as storage containers for raw magic which the wielder can then tap into to cast spells. Essentially, they give you more MP.
It's the same thought process that goes into making magic wands or staffs.
Magic is hard to imbibe in my setting.
While magic permeates near every aspect of the setting, only mages can utilize the vast majority of it.
Ah, see in my setting, basically anyone can use magic. However, only wizards and demons can store that magic within their bodies and generally have much greater control over it.
The only setting of mine with a magic sword has a power that is...not directly related to combat, but more or less only useful for combat.
Really, it's just your standard "only weapon that is useful against the big bad" and is mostly there because I made my hero study fencing because it seemed cool and then decided that he should actually use a sword for something.
Is anybody else really amazed that Newt Gingrich is somehow managing to pull off a campaign based on 'Christian values' while having had two divorces, one which after learning about his wife having cancer.
And seriously, marrying someone two-and-a-half decades younger than you is just fucking creepy.
And that's not even getting into shit that would actually make him a bad president.
/politics
I was reading an article in Maclean's about that in a waiting room earlier today.
Look at the Republican candidates again. There's your explanation.
If you're going to say that he's chosen because there's no one worse you're kidding yourself. Huntsman and even Romney are preferable to that scumbag.
Yes, I know Huntsman isn't running anymore.
No argument here. Nevertheless, it's still kinda a "which one's the smallest piece of shit" competition.
The cancer bit has been overblown - she was recovering from surgery at the time when they began to discuss divorce - but I agree. Newt is a scumbag.
^That was the first time around. The second time around she still had cancer. He was quoted as saying. "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer."
I wonder how long it'll take for Gingrich to collapse, allowing the clean-slate arch-conservative Santorum to finally get his due.
The fact that I don't see a reason why trucks on a two-lane freeway should be restricted to the right lane probably means I'm missing something, doesn't it?
Dammit, car radio, Sikth is a trippy enough band without you skipping! >