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Curses / Re: Jet Bombers
« on: August 22, 2011, 01:00:37 am »
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but with magma jokes taking over the Curses subforum.
It's only a matter of time before they invade *gasp* the whole lower forums! We must act quickly.
I would suggest using magma but that's a bit like using the One Ring to fight Sauron...

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Oh my Science - Roll to Do something! (LCS RTD)
« on: August 22, 2011, 12:57:13 am »
Nevermind, I'll give my slot up.

You sure? After I realized that I can use a spreadsheet for easily tracking character stuff I can easily handle more players. You still have plenty of time for writing a charsheet, I'm at work and I won't do big stuff until the evening...

I'll also make a poll out of the slogan suggestions later this evening. There's still plenty of time to suggest!

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General Discussion / Re: What book are you reading/want to read?
« on: August 22, 2011, 12:53:23 am »
I haven't read any fiction books in months. The last fiction book I read was The Human Stain. Before that, I read all Kurt Vonnegut books I could scavenge.

As for non-fiction... I'm currently reading a book about Swarm Intelligence. Too bad all the libraries nearby are running out of math/computer science books I haven't read already... luckily, I'll be able to use the University Library within a month, and the "supplies" should last until then.

As for fiction books I'd like to read... I read Edward Rutherfurd's New York a bit over a year ago. I loved it, but I couldn't find any of the other historical fiction pieces by him in the libraries... I don't think they've been translated into Finnish - no problem otherwise, but the English sections of Finnish libraries are often rather modest...

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You can lie about how wealthy someone is, but not in a way that fools your brain quite as easily

Bernard Maddoff did it for years...

Madoff was a good liar. It takes about 30 minutes of messing around with GIMP to be able to twist reality. Conjuring up a huge Ponzi fraud is much, much more difficult. Besides, Madoff had experience in actual wealth management, making his claims fairly credible.

G-Flex has a good point - we assume photographs to be real. Well, these badly doctored pics are fairly amusing, but the actual trend of image doctoring has some alarming aspects...

I wonder when movies stopped being movies.

I do too. Sadly, I think it was about the time they started rebooting everything and stopped any attempt at original storyline writing. Now we just have reboots of reboots with little messages thrown in. [sigh]

I also wonder when did they stop writing good books and when did the era of good music end... :(

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Curses / Re: Jet Bombers
« on: August 22, 2011, 12:34:10 am »
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but with magma jokes taking over the Curses subforum.

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Curses / Re: Quick question about interrogation
« on: August 22, 2011, 12:32:36 am »
Tied people can't escape unless the safehouse is unoccupied by Liberals. Escape chance is lowered by the number of people in safehouse and increased by the captive's strength, intelligence and agility. And after the initial kidnapping, there's a safe period of a few days during which the hostage cannot escape.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Oh my Science - Roll to Do something! (LCS RTD)
« on: August 21, 2011, 02:34:30 pm »
Okay, still waiting for Riccto's char sheet... I'm off to bed now though, I'll hopefully check back after work tomorrow to present you with shopping lists and some other stuff to do before starting the action.

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Curses / Re: Jet Bombers
« on: August 21, 2011, 02:28:05 pm »
In LCS, the bombers fly above your safehouse for a long time before actually doing a thing, and if they were unleashing their full potential the safehouse would be leveled completely... I guess they're trying to be fairly careful.

I guess the bombing could include a flavor text about the bomb hitting a hospital in the event of missing the safehouse...

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Is that any different from advertising creating unrealistic expectation of wealth, health, or anything else? Okay, I understand why this make you mad, but do you think that only that kind of advertising is crass, or didn't I see you raging about any other kind due to pure chance.

Ooh, a thing about unrealistic health expectations!

In Finland, a meat producer HK advertised pig meat that was supposedly "Better for your heart" because the pigs had been fed with field mustard. Consumer and marketing officials demanded to see proof for the healthiness claim, because a food product must have proven health effects before they can be presented in marketing.

HK declined. The reason? "Better for your heart" is not a healthiness claim. Eventually, after months of illegal marketing, they gave up. No, they didn't admit they were wrong, just that they got too much negative pressure.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Oh my Science - Roll to Do something! (LCS RTD)
« on: August 21, 2011, 01:47:44 pm »
I'm not sure if roleplaying is required or not, if it is, count me out.
If it isn't:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well, you'll have to RP enough to appear truly Liberal. We can't have Conservatives lurking around in here...

Ahra seems to be still lacking 5 points from the total. I'd like that fixed or confirmed that it's intentional please. (EDIT: Ninja'd 100% by Ahra)

And yeah, suggest slogans.

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I was being sarcastic. Of course, that hardly shows online... :/

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Other Games / Re: Games you wish existed
« on: August 21, 2011, 01:06:14 pm »
Dungeons and Dungeon Keeper aren't even in the same genre.  Dungeon Keeper is an RTS, Dungeons is a Tower Defense.

<nitpick>Tower Defense is a subgenre of RTS.</nitpick>

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Oh my Science - Roll to Do something! (LCS RTD)
« on: August 21, 2011, 12:52:06 pm »
Done and done. One slot left, and I may even let an extra character or two in if people really want to play...

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Oh my Science - Roll to Do something! (LCS RTD)
« on: August 21, 2011, 12:41:58 pm »
Charisma needs 3. Otherwise, you'll have nothing to lose if your face gets torn off. (and it guarantees you won't auto-fail most rolls)

Ahra, you've 5 points left unless I'm counting off somehow...

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