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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 9489232" data-attributes="member: 6750306">TORG always seemed like a really cool idea to me in theory, but I never got into it. Playing cavemen and giant stompy robots in the same party always seemed like a nightmare to balance out...Meanwhile, out in the real world...&nbsp;LADY, PUT THE DAMN PHONE DOWN!!! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant&nbsp; &nbsp; :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" /><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil&nbsp; &nbsp; :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/rant.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant&nbsp; &nbsp; :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤬" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f92c.png" title="Face with symbols on mouth&nbsp; &nbsp; :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" data-shortname=":face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤬" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f92c.png" title="Face with symbols on mouth&nbsp; &nbsp; :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" data-shortname=":face_with_symbols_over_mouth:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />About an hour ago, this woman pushing a stroller walked right out between two parked cars in the supermarket parking lot and straight into my path without looking up from her phone at all. The two of them are alive solely because I made the correct split-second analysis of the situation and accelerated in order to swerve past them, rather than slamming on the brakes - and screeching to a dead stop ten feet after I'd run them over. I'm damn lucky I managed not to plow into the back of one of the cars in the row.I was about to go chase her down and have a few heated words with her, but by the time I'd found a parking spot, two random little old grandmother types who'd seen what happened were already loudly tearing a strip off of each side of her for it...(Okay, breathe, Jack, breathe... in and out...in and out...)Right. This is me not launching into a 50,000 word rant about the state of humanity these days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 9489232, member: 6750306"] TORG always seemed like a really cool idea to me in theory, but I never got into it. Playing cavemen and giant stompy robots in the same party always seemed like a nightmare to balance out... Meanwhile, out in the real world... LADY, PUT THE DAMN PHONE DOWN!!! :rant::devil::rant:🤬🤬 About an hour ago, this woman pushing a stroller walked right out between two parked cars in the supermarket parking lot and [I]straight into my path[/I] without looking up from her phone at all. The two of them are alive solely because I made the correct split-second analysis of the situation and [I]accelerated[/I] in order to swerve past them, rather than slamming on the brakes - and screeching to a dead stop ten feet [I]after[/I] I'd run them over. I'm damn lucky I managed not to plow into the back of one of the cars in the row. I was about to go chase her down and have a few heated words with her, but by the time I'd found a parking spot, two random little old grandmother types who'd seen what happened were already loudly tearing a strip off of each side of her for it... (Okay, breathe, Jack, breathe... in and out...in and out...) Right. This is me not launching into a 50,000 word rant about the state of humanity these days. [/QUOTE]

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