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[RealAlHazred]

I picked up The Legend of Weathertop as a kid but I seem to remember it being a bit complex and not quite getting it. And I think I let it go in paring down some possessions when we moved back to the East coast when I was 17. Making me sad about that one.

That one is the oddball. It's really a hexcrawl followed by a pointcrawl, and you have a time element which you don't know about until halfway through the book.

Lone Wolf I played several of. The whole art style and vibe was so distinct; darker and grimmer and earthier than the Elmore Basic D&D set I started with. The British gaming scene just had a different feel. I remember picking up a few issues of Gamesmaster magazine, which was a British general gaming mag, and them having a Warhammer or similar game battle report in one issue, set in Magnamund, and which Joe Dever participated in. That was cool seeing the author interact as a gamer.

Joe Dever and Gary Chalk contributed a few bits to White Dwarf magazine; they did a lot of kitbashing of miniatures. But the setting detail was really well done; when the Magnamund Companion came out I picked it up and immediately ran a few D&D scenarios there. It's got all the tropes! But also some cool newish stuff*!

All of the Magnamund materials (except for the very last book(s) which came out after Joe Dever passed away) are available at the Project Aon website; I remember how excited I was when I saw they had material that had originally been excised from the Magnamund Companion; now the setting detail is complete!

* Newish, to me in the 80s.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I saw something just now and like so much today, it reminded me of William S. Burroughs.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

Ol' Willie was talking about a different kind of junk, of course. Sweet, sweet china white. But I think it is really apropos for a lot of what we see today.

 

[payn]

I saw something just and like so much today, it reminded me of William S. Burroughs.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

Ol' Willie was talking about a different kind of junk, of course. Sweet, sweet china white. But I think it is really apropos for a lot of what we see today.

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[Snarf Zagyg]

10 Print "Ya Basic!"
20 Goto 10

I learned my coding at the Godel Escher Bach University of Dad Jokes.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

FWIW, I thought I’d share a picture of the guitar I mentioned.

It’s a Reverend Flatroc 15th Anniversary Limited Edition. The original that caught my eye was metal flake sapphire blue. Besides the special metal flake finishes, the 15th Anniversary LEs were equipped with Bigsby tremolos, which the base models (at the time) did not have.

 

[Ryujin]

10 Print "Ya Basic!"
20 Goto 10

I learned my coding at the Godel Escher Bach University of Dad Jokes.

It's at this point I should mention that, back in the card programming days, I would sometimes slip cards numbered something like 05 and 07 into someone's programme stack that were an endless loop

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

10 Print "Ya Basic!"
20 Goto 10

I learned my coding at the Godel Escher Bach University of Dad Jokes.

My one summer’s time in a BASIC programming class (using Trash 80s) lets me chuckle at this.