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    Tips for an Expectant Father

    Nice. :-) But they're just like people, only moreso... There's one show I REALLY hate. It's Angelina Ballerina. It's the show that teaches you that there's nothing an emotional breakdown can't solve. Gee, Angelina's really screwing things up... Let's wait for her to cry... And now she's...
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    Tips for an Expectant Father

    Agreed. Some children shows are really, really hard to keep quiet during. Dora, for example. She always asks, "What was YOUR favorite part of our adventure?" And then pauses... and pauses. And I can't help but say, "The awkward silences." I also can't help but think of her as a mutant. Dora...
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    D&D 4E Talisman 4E! Whoa!

    As much as I want to get this... I can't. It looks like it's exactly the same game as 2nd edition Talisman with updated graphics. I have like 3 expansions for the 2nd edition game, updated artwork is not going to get me to go back to vanilla. :-/
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    Tips for an Expectant Father

    Alright, I'm gonna go all in. I tried to get my son to go to bed one night. He hates to go to bed. It's the end of the world to him. So I sit next to his bed, and tell him that it's time to go to sleep. He just needs to close his eyes and lie still for a bit. His answer: "Can't close...
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    Tips for an Expectant Father

    Oh, dear god. Don't get me going about the right water... No, not that water. In the Dora cup. No!!! The other Dora cup! I don't want it (push!!!!). There goes the water, and here comes the tantrum.
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    Tips for an Expectant Father

    Oh wait I forgot something. Babies don't make sense. Really. Don't try to use your vulcan logic. It's useless. For example, a hungry baby often doesn't want food. Baby's really really hungry, so hungry that he/she is not going to eat. Well, you *know* the baby's hungry and it's going to...
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    Tips for an Expectant Father

    Congrats! Biggest piece of advice is that other parents have lots of advice, which they will dispense without warning. Learn to ignore it. Swaddling is REALLY important to learn. A newborn doesn't sleep like a big person. You lay them down, and they will flail and kick and hit themselves in...
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    The Trouble With Union

    I love Union... After my players save the world a few times, I like to send them to Union where they can become epic-level sandwich artists making epic minimum wage (1 epic piece = 1,000,000,000 gp). Sometimes, I'll have the epic tavern keeper come over and complain about the epic rats in his...
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    Civ IV: Beyond the Sword...

    Beyond the Sword is beyond the awesome. The modern era is actually incredibly fun to play now, wheras previously, it used to just be the rush to cavalry, and hit turn until you win era. I love the new espionage system, airships, the vastly superior war AI (the builder AI seems a little wonky...
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    DDO makes the press

    Crazy people with trash-filled house neglect children. Crazy people play videogames. Ergo, videogames are addictive and cause child neglect!
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    Real DnD Heroes

    Dwarven ale presents Real DnD Heroes. Real D N D Heeero-ohs! Today we salute you, Mister anachronism inventor. Mister anachronism inventor! Just because it's a fantasy world doesn't mean you can't split the atom. The physics are the same, right? Lets go nuke Sauron! Black powder, cyanide, or...
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    Real DnD Heroes

    Dwarven ale presents Real DnD Heroes. Real D N D Heeero-ohs! Today we salute you, Mister overly descriptive player-text writer. Mister overly descriptive player-text wriiiiter! There's a story here, and you're going to tell it. And there's no better way to tell it than in a 5x5 room with a...
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    Dodge, why is it still crappy?

    Other easy solution: Dodge sucks, and is a waste of my time. Just make it a +1 AC already.
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    Show some freaking respect, will ya?

    I greatly respect the country in which I live (the US). I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I respect the people who have died to make it the way it is, and the minds and history which came together to form it. The National Anthem, the pledge of Alliegance, and the flag, however, I have...
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    Lord of the Rings Online

    I've got a character up to level 17 so far going almost entirely solo. Yes, as you get higher, the quests require more grouping... But I've only run into a couple of side quests so far that I couldn't go back to at a higher level to pass by myself. As for how much open exploring there is...
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    Primer

    Oh yeah, and if I had a time machine, I'd go back in time, patent it as patent number 1 (which really should be reserved for time machines), and then sue myself for patent infringement. I'd go broke paying myself in court fees, but luckily I'd win it all back again in the lottery. I'd realize...
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    Primer

    I liked Primer. It was a cool movie, even though it was confusing as all hell. There's a timeline somewhere on the Internet of the paths taken though time. Pretty interesting. But the movie equivalent of a Rubik's cube isn't Primer.... It's Cube (of course). If you haven't seen it, you're...
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    Lord of the Rings Online

    Well, for one thing you can grow pipe-weed to perform tricks with the smoke and drink large amounts of beer. So, you'd think... a little older audience. You'd be wrong. Tons of kids playing. It hasn't gotten too nasty with the gameplay yet though, as far as I can tell. Just the OOC channel...
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    Lord of the Rings Online

    I, personally, find the character modelling to be impressively professional. I've heard others complain about it some, but it's doing real-life modelling, not a stylistic cartoon like WoW. So what they've got is impressive, and just past the uncanny valley (to me anyways). Characters aren't...
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    Lord of the Rings Online

    /ignore <name>. Easy enough. If it weren't for the fact that you then have somebody else doing something stupid.
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