| Gurps Lothario

D&D is great and I think we may get a lot of interest in it just because it is new to many of us. Although, I do agree, it is a bit more complicated than others systems for the uninitiated. It may also be a bit of a handful given the large number of people we will likely have.

jr0n, that is truly sad about your coworker. Please say at least that he was 18 or at least some other half baked excuse.

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Is 4th ed DND really more complicated? Listening to the podcast of it, doesn't seem that bad and almost seems to simplify things. And I'm not sure, but I thought there was some computer program you can use to make your guys so it prints out all the rolls n shit u gotta make already modified. That's my vote. Let's go forward, not back. Or GURPS Firefly.

I'm willing to run an RPG at Kubla if anybody is interested. The only thing is, thinking back on RPGs at the con that have been either successes or failures, I think the key is that it has to be something both brain-dead simple to run, work well with a variable number of players, be very fast to set up/explain and ideally be somewhat familiar. Things like 4th ed are right out. I'm thinking over the candidates and basically two present themselves - Savage Worlds and old-school, Rules Cyclopedia D&D. I'm leaning towards D&D because I fucking love it, it is great and it takes 3 seconds to make a character, and it's been a long time since I played it. I also kind of like how it's likely to end up with everybody hacked to death by kobolds in the 2nd room after the wizard burns his Sleep spell. But, does anyone have other suggestions/ideas, or wish to dissuade me from my fool's crusade in the first place? Is it simply pure folly to even hope to run a game at Kubla?

| Glad you liked it, p***y

Just kidding. :) I'm actually really excited to hear that the show had such a good cathartic ending. I'm getting more interested in watching the show all the time.

What you said though put me in mind of this dude at a Canadian testing house we hire to pick up extra work sometimes. I was IMing with this dude Kyle and he was like "I feel so emotional. I was just crying during lunchtime." This is, like, the third time I've ever communicated with this guy. I'm like, "Uh, why?" He's like, "I was reading this book, and it was so intense and sad, I just couldn't help it." Hey, I'm game for a good catharsis every now and then, so I ask what he was reading. Turns out, he was reading the fucking new Elminster book. I may have done some extremely geeky things in my time, but have to say that sobbing over a Forgotten Realms book and then telling my employers about it would definitely be a new low.

Although I will say when Raistlin sacrificed himself so that Caramon and Crysania could escape the Abyss, tears did leak all over my hideously acne scarred face.

Just finished the 2-hour finale to Battlestar Galactica. Cried for like the last hour straight - perfect end to the series, what a fantastic show.

Happy birthday Art! (?)

ya man, i'm always game! except when I'm NOT! ohhh moded.

Eric, check out Giant Bombcast - it's good pretty normal video game podcast but this weeks was fuckin HILARIOUS - they just went on some GI Joe tangents that were great. But the whole thing is good, very solid show.

edit: Dollhouse is the SHIT! IF you gotta watch that for your work its the best job ever!!!! I still gotta watch the last bsg tonight so don't spoiler it gang, thanks.

I bet Peggle is cool and all, but you know what would be even more fun to play? Left 4 Dead, the fucking awesome, cooperative game that inspired me to get an Xbox Live account.

Aeryk! Resubscribe to Live! You can have my free month if you want it!

Enron! Get the damn game!

Rudy, you're doing good, stay the course bud.

| Peggle and Galactrix gots me by the balls!

Yeah.

I just tried Peggle tonight and had a lot of fun, so I picked up the full xbla version. Pretty colors, rather humorous, fun gameplay, challenging, and a bag of chips. I head the guys on Gamers With Jobs Podcast talk about it all the time, and along with Rudy's non-Eric-directed suggestion to purchase it, put it over the top for me. I recommend!

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix is simply more of the same with more features, which is both good and bad. Lots more mandatory puzzles, more customizations, and the main battleboard/puzzle board is certainly more challenging with more ways to manipulate the puzzles. I recommend, although if you thought PQ I was monotonous, maybe don't pick this up. If you are a glutton for the same punishment again and again (I'm looking at you Denis with your 18 different Night Elf Hunters all doing the same quests and same skills...) this is a fine diversion from everyday life.

One more thing. One of my dreams is about to come true. I suspect somebody else here shares that dream. Yes I'm looking at you Jon.

My waifu

Watch the video!

Jon, I'm sure you'll be happy to hear I'll be carrying on the tradition of self mutilation and loathing. There's a good chance we'll be working on Dollhouse. You will always be with us in spirit. Yay...

That was pretty awesome. And there was even a Poseidon reference! You know, I try to avoid this guys skits cuz mostly I think he's sorta unfunny, but when I do see stuff it's usually fairly charming.

Dollhouse man, she's horrible as always but I'm telling you, it's total Whedon if you're into that shit. Takes a few episodes to pick up but you can already see where it's sorta going - I don't know how they'd SUSTAIN the direction they're taking for more than a season, but you never know (and it's on FOX so we won't get past 1 season anyhow.) Totally fun!

Art: I didn't know you were expecting a second critter either. You're getting a whole desert clan out there! Best of luck to you. I think you should start naming the kids after GWAR characters, starting of course with The Sexecutioner.

Rudy: re Dollhouse, I had to suffer through the entire first season of Tru Calling multiple times when I was doing DVD testing. That was the second worst show I have ever seen in my life and I will never ever voluntarily watch anything with that hag in it again. Same thing with Dark Angel and Jessica Alba: I don't care how hot other guys think she may be, I look at that vapid face and see nothing but months of my life down the drain.

This was amusing to me: take a good, hard look at the muthaf***in' boat!

| I watchez teh wathcmen

I enjoyed it. The beginning was stupendous, GREAT first 45 minutes or so. You may have heard that the opening credits are a montage of the history of superheroes and how their fortunes fall over time. It's really well-done, great visual storytelling. After that the movie is kind of up and down, but generally solid. Rorschach is perfect, Dr. Manhattan seems weird at first but he grew on me as the movie went on, and Nite Owl and Latex... uh, Silk Spectre are really good too (and her mom is good as young Silk Spectre 1, but her old-age makeup is horrible).

There were really only two things I didn't like so much. One, I think they fumbled the ball in casting Ozymandius. The actor certainly comports himself well in the fight scenes, but I just couldn't reconcile his appearance and voice with what I imagined for the character. I also thought that the last 30 minutes in general were a little weak. Not so much because of the one big change they made but because everything seemed hurried and a little underexplained. This is one place where I'm really waiting for the extended cut they're talking about on DVD. I think if the ending were tighter then we would be talking about a classic. As it is, it's an honorable try, may drastically improve in other cuts. I would say it definitely is worth your time and $ to see in the theater.

(Note: I should disclose, my gf really liked the movie a lot, more than I did. She thought the ending was just fine.)

Wow, didn't know you guys were expecting another kid Art, congrats! Here's to a smooth delivery, what's the boys name gonna be? I'm hoping Guyver. Guyver Nitchesky.

Ryan: You suck. I went to some political fashion show that ended at like 8 last night and I just came home. I woulda loved to go to see Screeching Weasel. Thanks for the headsup.

TV: I'm on the 2nd to last episode of BSG so gonna watch that right now. Also, Lost has been excellent this season (although they took this week off for some reason) and 24 has been torturastic as usual. Goddamn bleeding hearts!

Never did see Watchmen - anyone else? I've heard mixed but mostly positive things from people who read the comic. I don't know, I'm not super compelled to see it in the theater. DVD for sure.