Eminem changed your life forever?

Things are generally well here - they'll probably get worse soon, but, eh. I was thinking, since everyone seems to want to run a D&D game this summer - three, at least, I think - would you guys be up for a few Shadowrun adventures in between? Change of pace. The local RPG store had a 50% sale on old RPG books, and I picked up about 8 Cyberpunk texts. I'd be able to run games right out of the book. I'd like to run Warhammer again, but not if everyone else is running D&D - too much fantasy.

No elves, dwarves, trolls - maybe Orks. No magic, and extremely simple Decker rules, if that. It'll be more like Cyberpunk with Shadowrun's system. I might run the game so there's a winner at the end of the summer, too: whoever's accumulated the most money by the end of the season wins.

IM me, maybe.

Stone

D and D

I believe, my good friend, that the answer is:

D & D

See ya soon.

I like a few of the 'emo' bands that are being played on the radio right now, because I like that sort of music, as far as pop music goes. With the new-hip-hop-hardcore-metal music, a couple of things put me off - power ballads and the rapping. Hate, hate, hate power ballads, and the power ballad is the bread-and-butter of bands like Staind (POISON 2000).

The rappers in bands like Linkin Park are pretty terrible. Kid Rock's probably the worst offender out of all of them, though. They all seem content to stick with the same type of flow-less, even, aabbccdd pitter-patter that would've considered mediocre back way back in 1985.

While we're talking about 1985, they're also all way, way, way too into Run-DMC, too. I can't even imagine how many copies of King of Rock these new-metal rapper-singers must've collectively gone through.

Ground effects rule, man, shut up.

New DE LA SOUL album soon, which is exciting.

I wish nice things weren't so damned expensive.

Stone

I lack creative outlets sometimes.. or.. at least.. well.. let me explain.

A creative outlet is something you should tap into every so often to relax, etc. This can't be something you do often, or it will become not-creative. For instance.. coding could be seen as creative, but if you do it all day, every day.. it doesnt FEEL creative. So it's not.

Thats what I do all the time. Code. When I am not coding, I am sleeping or doing school work. None of this is creative. Periodically I have the feeling I am doing something creative.. for instance, when I start a new project. Also, sometimes I get to play with graphics and stuff.. so it all makes me feel better about everything.

Video editing has become sort of a creative outlet......... but, I have to do it more than once every two weeks. Right now I am in a slump because I really have had no time to do anything.

Things that are exciting are good. The only problem is that the excitement fades and you really need to step back and look at yourself to see what the fuck you are doing. I mean.. god damn.

Chicken is good too. There is something about chicken, waffles, and orange juice. There is something really nice about them because they never treat me wrong. There is something in that too.. but it lacks excitement.

Then there is something like ice cream. It is an exciting food. It tastes so good to start, but it bites you in the ass.. almost literally. The worst problem is that the explosive diahrrea and cramping does not push me away for going for more a few days later. It feels like a fatal attraction (especially when seated on porcelain).

If girlnextdoor were qualified to judge everyone else then she'd also realize that judging others is a really inefficient way of trying to forget one's own deficiencies. As someone who both plays RPG's and gets piss drunk I'll offer that neither one is more pathetic than the other, and if we're going to start rating other people's activities we might as well rip everyone a new one that isn't working day and night to cure cancer or end world hunger. Needless to say, everyone would have 2 assholes pretty quick. So do what you want, have fun, and if someone tries to judge you tell them to fuck off and then never pay them another thought.

By the way, I'll be running Deadlands Hell on Earth once Lio gets home and everyone's welcome to play. The last adventure ended with Lio, Stone, Calliander, Caniprokis and Blood investigating a demon. They tracked it to a cave which was crawling with wormlings when the last adventure ended. It was a while ago so rather than continue that adventure we'll just say you decided the money wasn't worth the danger and blew it off, and are now travelling back to the town to get some rest and decide what to do next. If you're a returning player just let me know you'll be playing and if you need/want to make a new character, and if you weren't in the last adventure but want to play in the next one just let me know and I'll work you in. Dob will kill......if have to.

Wouldn't it be phalli(i)? That Seven Nations was in a Dewar's ad. That letter was funny - I like the "in jail" part. I dunno if it was evident of moral outrage on his part, or if the site is just homosexual enough to merit us all jail time. I sort of like the idea of the latter...I dunno, it's just funny to join what seems like a pretty typical e-mail with "I can't believe you're not in jail"

My roommate is having some sort of crisis regarding pre-med/his desire to be a surgeon, so forth. My horrifically rich roommate and I were taunting him while playing Mario Golf, trying to break his concentration, and it seems to have had some sort of deeper effect on him. He works so much here. It's kind of funny. I want a Mac for some reason.

Today was, eh, alright, got some reading done during class, spoke in one class, went to the library and ate food with J., bought lemons, limes (horrible juice-free limes, Jason's Collegetown Deli sucks), club soda, sugar, played Capcom vs SNK in the arcade for an hour or two, bleh, another day with very little work accomplished, but, relatively entertaining. The weather perked up in the afternoon. I had no idea how much I liked nice weather (cool/mildly warm, good air smells, sometimes rain) until I came to this godforsaken town. I love arcades.

Anyways, yeah.

Let us give our solemn blessings to the soul of Trill, Paladin of High-ronnie-mus; killed whilst fighting with an Illithid - it sucked out his brains. Goodnight, dear friend.

I loved going to Arjun's house, I remember that time Pappy ran that awesome Warhammer adventure at Arjun's for me, Stone, Devon, Brad and Ryan and we had to fight that creature named Ahto the assho or something in that maze, that was some dope shit. I hated when Devon put my elastics on his feet so fucking much, he'd always take them off my magic cards when I wasn't looking and I'd be doing something and all of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I'd see Devon giggling with his bare feet up in the air and my elastic bands all around his toes. So I'd get all pissed and Pappy would laugh his ass off while I chased Devon around Stone's house and Stone would throw dice at us each time we ran by the table. I remember all that old school stuff, remember that game Thunder Road? That game ruled. And how we'd make our own rules for developing nukes in Supremacy, and we'd play Milles Bourne and Uno in the mornings at the Intermediate School while Calliander and I gave sermons about how Genesis was better than SNES. And then at lunch TA would always do funny stuff to make Devon spit out his juice and food and all the other tables would give us shitty looks, and sometimes one of those asshole BIS administrators would come give us shit. Or when we'd go swimming at Stone's and Ryan would pull down his shorts and do the humpback whale thing to freak Devon out. I remember the night Devon and I went to see Dumb and Dumber and he had to pee throughout the whole movie but he was laughing too hard to get up because he thought he'd piss himself, so at the end he ran screaming into the restroom and I pretended I wasn't with him because everyone was giving him the stinkeye. Or the time I saw Street Fighter the Movie with Arjun and Stone and it was so terrible that we were throwing food and shit for entertainment. I remember how Arjun's Mom used to always take us to the mall and make food for everyone, she was so great. Or when we'd sleep over at Brad's house and watch scrambled porn on Spice all night. I could go on forever with all that old school shit, but I won't. We used to be so innocent.....

I liked going to Arjun's house.. it sucked when he moved.

Shadowrun was fun... but not as fun when you play alone with the DM. Stone, you remember running adventures where the only player was me? Hehe.. that was silly.

Heh, it was always funny playing at Stone's house with Devon, SpoDude, and FlyingTim. Devon would get ahold of Spo's elastic bands and put them on his feet... that would really piss Spo off. That was always entertaining.

I always liked going to houses where the ice-cream man came to.