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  1. nerfherder

    On my way to St Hives I met a man with seven Hives...

    I like this version :) YouTube - Formula 1 Renault "playing" the Anthem of Great Britain
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    How much $ per month do you spend on Gaming?

    I spend more on gas getting to and from games than I do on books!
  3. nerfherder

    How many EN Worlders are within 100 miles of you?

    28. More than I expected, but then I noticed that Edinburgh is 98 miles away.
  4. nerfherder

    Car Things

    Had my first drive in the snow this weekend. Not much fun with 265/35R19 tyres. Managed to keep it on the road so far, but at some point I'll have to drive home...
  5. nerfherder

    Is a round roughly six seconds or ten seconds?

    Show him the rules for Phoenix Command, and ask if he'd rather have accuracy or playability ;)
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    On my way to St Hives I met a man with seven Hives...

    About 15 years ago, I was driving along the highway in the early morning, half asleep, with hardly another car on the road, when I came across a police/army checkpoint. This was pretty startling because they a)were carrying submachine guns, b) they were dressed in black and wearing balaclavas...
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    Cowboys and Aliens?

    Yeah, maybe the elevator was only going one floor, and that was all they could get out.
  8. nerfherder

    Cowboys and Aliens?

    "James Bond and Indiana Jones in the Wild West ... fighting Aliens!"
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    Car Things

    My girlfriend bought me some driving gloves for Xmas last year (to keep my hands warm when driving with the top down in winter), and it's the first time that I've used a glove compartment to hold actual gloves.
  10. nerfherder

    Maptools with Skype DM tips needed

    Good points. If screen real estate is a problem, then a second monitor might help. You could run Skype on one monitor and your VTT on the other. My thoughts were skewed by my group's particular setup where we have one laptop linked to a big screen to display the VTT and one for video skype...
  11. nerfherder

    How big is your RPG collection?

    Oh yeah, I never thought to include magazines. That pops me up from Large to Huge, at least. Of course, right now I'm suffering because of it - I'm in the middle of packing up my house contents to move.
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    Maptools with Skype DM tips needed

    It sounds similar to some of the problems you get in audio-conference meetings vs face-to-face meetings. I vastly prefer video-conferences to audio-conferences at work - although that is only between 2 sites, and you obviously have multiple sites. In another thread (in the 4e forum), someone...
  13. nerfherder

    The biggest issue with the new Character Builder:

    Then report it, and the moderators will take any action they think is necessary.
  14. nerfherder

    Unhappy about the VT Announcement.

    I will bow to your knowledge being greater than my ability to google ;)
  15. nerfherder

    The biggest issue with the new Character Builder:

    "The program" is irrelevant. The user experience of the system, and the expectations surrounding that are what matters. WotC can control everything up to their link to the internet, are responsible for the choice of technology imposed on the end user's machine (i.e. web browser), and should be...
  16. nerfherder

    The biggest issue with the new Character Builder:

    And yet it still cost the company around $5bn. Of course, the problem with using an analogy on a message board is that someone will always spend more time picking apart the specific analogy, rather than addressing the main point.
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    The biggest issue with the new Character Builder:

    The point being that just because you didn't experience any problems tonight doesn't mean that they don't exist, and that other people aren't experiencing them. There have been far too many crashes reported by people that generally post positive things about WotC and want DDi to be successful...
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    Unhappy about the VT Announcement.

    Sorry for being pedantic, because the main thrust of your post is correct, but it is possible to write bug-free code. In 2009, the University of New South Wales took 30 man years to mathematically prove that 7,500 lines of code was bug-free. This, of course, is irrelevant to the issue of the...
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    ? for all those that use a VTT program currently

    It sounds like Maptools is the VTT we use. We purely use it as a virtual battlemat & minis. All PC tracking is done on paper character sheets (the DM may use a document - I don't know), and all player dice rolling is done using real dice on a real table, and shouting out the final result to...
  20. nerfherder

    The biggest issue with the new Character Builder:

    I'm sure that the majority of Toyota drivers have never experienced any problems with the brakes or accelerator pedals either.
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