An updated version, maybe new episodes of Myth: Fallen Lords
Got it to run off abandonware for about ten minutes, and the narration was still chilling, and the environmental effects were still ahead of present day games. Gotta love a game that makes friendly fire make sense.
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- Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:49 am
- Forum: The Gaming Table
- Topic: what do you want?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1736
Re: RIP
I'm paraphrasing someone...I don't wish anyone dead, but I must confess I read some obituaries with pleasure.
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:32 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: "Defund the police"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 952
Re: "Defund the police"
Your principles are correct.
Rules or policies are always best expressed in the positive.
Rules or policies are always best expressed in the positive.
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:10 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Climate and Insurance
- Replies: 3
- Views: 295
Re: Climate and Insurance
The whole rental culture of places like the Outer Banks depends on this racket. Wait for your house to blow away, expand it so that you can rent it seasonally, rinse, repeat.
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:08 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: "Defund the police"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 952
Re: "Defund the police"
To be fair, political sloganeering is a tricky business. How to come up with something catchy, categorically nonviolent, non-agressive even, and still transmit the idea that a broken system must be reimagined... It wasn't the kind of blunder "teabaggers" was. It lost in the PVP that our di...
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:50 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Moon Collider
- Replies: 2
- Views: 224
Re: Moon Collider
The article suggests it would be buried in the moon, but I like your idea better,
especially if they dual purpose it with a moon scale rail gun...just in case.
especially if they dual purpose it with a moon scale rail gun...just in case.
Re: Calendar
Please take care of yourself
- Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:28 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Republicans
- Replies: 232
- Views: 68801
Re: Republicans
The appropriate response from the witness should have been mockery. He's clearly a moron. Instead, she, and I totally understand why, just let it roll over her.
Mockery of their stupidity and dishonesty and Cowardice. That really needs to be the tone shift.
Mockery of their stupidity and dishonesty and Cowardice. That really needs to be the tone shift.
- Sat Jun 05, 2021 2:15 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: COVID-19 Issues
- Replies: 215
- Views: 19250
Re: COVID-19 Issues
The difficulty was that it really was worse than we expected (especially secret incubation) and we really underestimated the severity of it. Policy, of course, lowballed it, and that helped it explode. It was a serious issue even in places that took it seriously
- Sat Jun 05, 2021 2:13 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Vaccination
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4561
Re: Vaccination
Everyone in my nuclear family has been inoculated. Only my 2 yr old granddaughter awaits the next steps. Zero bad reactions. My siblings (except for the sister with 11 children who is basically in a mini cult) is also safe, Mom too. We are getting to the point that all the easy targets have been sec...
Re: Calendar
So, next tomorrow, not this tomorrow, yes? If I recall we just jumped back up to full strength and regained the upper hand, but a number of us are down wisdom, which means no spells for Hal, not sure who else is hampered by that. Our question is whether to rest now or do the one remaining door. I'd ...
- Wed May 26, 2021 12:31 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Movies in the Theatre
- Replies: 4
- Views: 456
Re: Movies in the Theatre
The last thing I saw in a theater was "Onward." Cute, just before the world slid off the table. Very thin attendance. Zero temptation to return, given the prevalence of stupidity and malice. Also, few selections really piqued interest. Had mostly been sticking to the Movie Tavern, which is...
- Mon May 17, 2021 5:21 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Sober posting
- Replies: 61
- Views: 32841
Re: Sober posting
https://www.drugs.com/carisoprodol.html Well, Soma is a thing, but nowhere near what we were promised.
With zero data, the returning friend thing has a whiff of Amway to me. We won't ghost you regardless of errors or fame.
With zero data, the returning friend thing has a whiff of Amway to me. We won't ghost you regardless of errors or fame.
- Mon May 17, 2021 5:12 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Chicago rats
- Replies: 3
- Views: 376
Re: Chicago rats
Snakes, haha.........No, I don't think you understand. They exterminated many feral cats a year or so ago, and the weather and harvest have been perfect for something that wasn't even in the bible, although that's the word for the scale of it. TRIGGER WARNING: IF YOU HAVE A THING ABOUT RODENTS, DON'...
- Sat May 15, 2021 11:32 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Chicago rats
- Replies: 3
- Views: 376
Re: Chicago rats
Could be worse, could be the plague of mice in Australia.
Re: Calendar
The good news is that this is a target rich environment. More good news is that the targets are split into three chambers. More good news is that the ones presently in our space have been injured. The bad news is that the other chambers have been untouched. and...one of the enemies is a toxic blob. ...
- Tue May 11, 2021 8:27 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Pipeline Attack
- Replies: 1
- Views: 212
Re: Pipeline Attack
Last year, a number of regional hospitals around the country experienced serious problems from network violations. Other systems have clearly been the targets of similar testing. Not to add to stress, but it does seem like troops are gathering at the border. The troops are from places that believe t...
- Mon May 10, 2021 9:07 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Dreams at Midlife
- Replies: 11
- Views: 748
Re: Dreams at Midlife
To actually address your question, no. In the third half of my life, I have a few desires, some of which are within my power.... My dreams have always been uniformly terrible and unpleasant. A mix of Faces of Death and the bleakest parts of The Martian. I guess I should be happy to have avoided all ...
- Mon May 10, 2021 5:27 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Dreams at Midlife
- Replies: 11
- Views: 748
Re: Dreams at Midlife
Another reason folks believe a previous time was ostensibly better is that we didn't know anything. We didn't know (because no one could post photos) what our neighbors and friends were eating. We didn't know what our crush would look like with puppy ears. We didn't see how far we have to go to make...
- Fri May 07, 2021 8:45 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Let's talk about replacement theory
- Replies: 3
- Views: 313
Re: Let's talk about replacement theory
Replacement theory, as expressed, has never been a thing in history as far as I can tell. If someone knows of a culture that managed to shift their demographic and take power from the previous culture in power, I'd love to know about it. The only successful replacements I'm aware of are achieved thr...
- Thu May 06, 2021 8:05 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Let's Talk About Immigration
- Replies: 9
- Views: 687
Re: Let's Talk About Immigration
Yes, I'm talking about what we might consider 'idealized' or normal immigration, not necessarily a huge spike of refugees. Having said that, the worst of the problems arose not because of the immigrants, who were largely relieved, thankful, glad to have arrived, merely expecting life to be less emba...
- Wed May 05, 2021 10:41 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Cool Shirt Designs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 313
Re: Cool Shirt Designs
You might also look here, especially hoodies. https://www.thevitic.com/
- Wed May 05, 2021 10:34 pm
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Sober posting
- Replies: 61
- Views: 32841
Re: Sober posting
For future consideration, Yellowtail (white or red) comes in an extra large bottle, no doubt to accommodate interlopers.
- Wed May 05, 2021 10:27 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: I quit political parties and so should you
- Replies: 3
- Views: 301
Re: I quit political parties and so should you
Yes, but I have a suggestion. This isn't a both sides thing. Again, not new. Will Rogers observed, "I don't belong to an organized party. I'm a Democrat." Right now, there is a party wrestling with realities (various perspectives and experiences) and a party that's abandoned reality. It's ...
- Wed May 05, 2021 10:11 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Let's Talk About Immigration
- Replies: 9
- Views: 687
Re: Let's Talk About Immigration
The fear, which is not new, is and always has been an invention to manipulate voters. It is security theater, but it makes us less safe. So, short answer, there are no good arguments. They are all lies. This country is unique in many ways, but in particular because (since we murdered the original in...
Re: Calendar
Next session? This week or next?
- Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:50 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Help me with this world I dreamed of
- Replies: 15
- Views: 662
Re: Help me with this world I dreamed of
Depending on how reliable, repeatable and widespread the events are, the consequence free world doesn't really happen. I could live in a place where I never see one, so my life is time-normal. Depending on the lengths of the shifts (I was thinking hours to a decade maybe) progress would be balky, bu...
- Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:25 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Help me with this world I dreamed of
- Replies: 15
- Views: 662
Re: Help me with this world I dreamed of
So, an addendum. I don't think we behave much better than we have already. Mobile Oil knew in 1973 that it was melting the North Pole and decided that was a good idea. Do we save Tsar Alex 2, or let him go, and try to rescue Trotsky instead, and does that temper Stalin, or make the end of WW2 (which...
- Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:12 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Help me with this world I dreamed of
- Replies: 15
- Views: 662
Re: Help me with this world I dreamed of
Love it. Here's what I daydreamed right after: The anomalies are actually caused by the technology of shifting hyper-compressed matter. Like the fracking earthquakes in Oklahoma, they're an unintended consequence of the procedure. Like the tremors in Oklahoma, they're widespread and unpredictable, s...
Re: Calendar
Sunday night teaching overlaps our start time, otherwise, any other evening is ok.
- Wed Apr 28, 2021 2:40 pm
- Forum: Runelords
- Topic: Warrior Woman's Loot
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17992
Re: Warrior Woman's Loot
Wow, she was important. Dwyn was looking for an armor upgrade. I have a strength belt, but the vitality would be an upgrade. Dwyn? Ya, Sam gets first refusal on headband, anyone else use a shield? Hal has Darkwood +3 rn, not sure this is a tradeup... Teleport is probably like dimension door, it's st...
- Sun Apr 18, 2021 9:32 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Knife Usage
- Replies: 10
- Views: 494
Re: Knife Usage
Hope you had your mini bender Ya, boundaries...actually it's not the boundaries that matter, it's the consequences. Is there a refuge near or in the house? I'd begin your line drawing at the cashews. That's sort of life and death. They come into the house, grab the keys and go. "Mom, where to? ...
- Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:18 pm
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Knife Usage
- Replies: 10
- Views: 494
Re: Knife Usage
Loved having teenagers, but by then I was a trained professional. This is dorm living...the whole laundry thing. The whole bathroom thing. (If you have another bathroom, barricade or lock the audible one during calls. No negotiation.) But yes, very often happiness is about having your boundaries res...
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:24 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Republicans
- Replies: 232
- Views: 68801
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:46 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Knife Usage
- Replies: 10
- Views: 494
Re: Knife Usage
lmao.... If this is defense for not grabbing a cutting board every time, I have lived this discussion. I'm happy to help. Lines that endanger my relationship but rescue my sanity..... "I'm glad you think the heirloom value of this plate is worth more than the fraction of my life and attention i...
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:37 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Advice Needed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 326
Re: Advice Needed
So, in the absence of details, let me try to create a parallel hypothetical: The neighbor (new) is sort of an idiot. A few nice conversations, but certainly not a year's worth. It's like they're engaging in some mildly criminal behavior, but I understand they just don't understand country life, and ...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:49 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Republicans
- Replies: 232
- Views: 68801
Re: Republicans
The apparently normal technique of Republicans hiring straw candidates (with coincidentally the same last names as their Democratic opponents) in order to draw votes from folks who do not expect to be deceived.... Oh ya, Gaetes involved in that too. It takes a particular species of arrogant and stup...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:42 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Magic Eye Gif
- Replies: 11
- Views: 833
Re: Magic Eye Gif
Try this Phoebe: copy the pic. It will be static. I don't know if you have trouble with the regular ones. The shark is facing left, he's a little beefy and vaguely looks like he's an impression in colorful sand. Once you find him in the static pic, look back for him again. Fuck...lost him...Nope, ca...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:39 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: Magic Eye Gif
- Replies: 11
- Views: 833
Re: Magic Eye Gif
I hated/loved these because I couldn't see them without great effort. Can't find shark I know is there. Oops, It got me.
It used to take a huge act of will to settle my mind to see the layers. Today...shark bait.
It used to take a huge act of will to settle my mind to see the layers. Today...shark bait.
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:35 am
- Forum: Nerd Babble
- Topic: The Moist Games
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1985
Re: The Moist Games
Moist : The Fallen Lords
SIMS: Moist Edition
God of Moist
SIM Moist
Final Moist (1 through 17)
Moist Hunter
Lara Croft: Moist Raider
Left for Moist
Dead Moist
BioMoist
eww, done
Actually, Moist sounds like the title of an old infocom game, along the Leather Goddesses of Phobos line.
SIMS: Moist Edition
God of Moist
SIM Moist
Final Moist (1 through 17)
Moist Hunter
Lara Croft: Moist Raider
Left for Moist
Dead Moist
BioMoist
eww, done
Actually, Moist sounds like the title of an old infocom game, along the Leather Goddesses of Phobos line.
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:27 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Popular legislation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 395
Re: Popular legislation
Problems that are entirely fabricated can never be solved because they are illusions. They're handy if all you want to create is fear and chaos. You can't awaken someone who is pretending to sleep. I never wanted to be that judgmental person, but I am beginning to see how much of a choice rather tha...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:51 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Vaccination
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4561
Re: Vaccination
He's the most hyper vigilant among us and Maryland was just shamed into opening registrations. Okay, hey listen -- as for Maryland -- most definitely look into mass vax center -- got mine at M&T stadium. If struggling to find slots, one may have the most luck in mass vax center Salisbury, which...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:32 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Mental health
- Replies: 262
- Views: 23805
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:30 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Vaccination
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4561
Re: Vaccination
Non Hodgkin Lymphoma....I'll die with it, not from it.
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:25 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Popular legislation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 395
Re: Popular legislation
Ike: “If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.” They claim their anti-abortion stance is popular, but nobody is pro-abortion. It's a false cho...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:04 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Is Sexual Preference Genetic?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 412
Re: Is Sexual Preference Genetic?
We know more about space than we know about our brains. If it's chemical, it's likely that it's at least remotely a product of gene expression. So one twin gets cancer, the other no (and ya, I'm not comparing preference even remotely to cancer). The complex interplay of genes and environment creates...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:42 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Knife Usage
- Replies: 10
- Views: 494
Re: Knife Usage
The grayish marks are something more than color (as might be left by a heavy box that rubs a wall, or a hard pencil) and microscoring. Persistently, this can mar the plate, but getting the identical line repeated is unlikely. The feathering is subsurface damage, to the point where moisture gets in, ...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:28 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Republicans
- Replies: 232
- Views: 68801
Re: Republicans
Weird how the Q projection is catching up to them.
Rewatching...at a glacial pace...Chernobyl.
Lots of great lines about how the facts will bide their time, wait out the fabrications and lies and propaganda, and then lay its cards on the table and walk away.
Rewatching...at a glacial pace...Chernobyl.
Lots of great lines about how the facts will bide their time, wait out the fabrications and lies and propaganda, and then lay its cards on the table and walk away.
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:23 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Mental health
- Replies: 262
- Views: 23805
Re: Mental health
Rough when you measure the days by how many times you catch yourself saying you hate your...life, self, decisions, circumstances. Apparently there is a person that is 7 times more likely to kill you than anyone else (in the mirror) and no, trying to get him first is not really a good strategy. Hang ...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:17 am
- Forum: Nerd Talk
- Topic: Vaccination
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4561
Re: Vaccination
So adventures in immunology.... In a few days theoretically immune. Shots (Pfizer) one and two virtually unnoticeable. Spouse experienced several bad hours, then several modestly bad days but bounced pretty well. Doctor daughter (who caught it in the fall) of course vaccinated. Youngest just receive...