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Quote from: Sowelu on April 11, 2011, 02:43:15 pm

My NPC commie traitor with the mutant power: invisibility was hiding in a broom closet, until one of the PCs started poking around with a broom handle (okay, mop, actually).  I took his arm off with my laser and ran away, but they followed my blood trail to a catwalk leading to one of the sector's roof struts with no way down.

Unfortunately, they wanted to capture me alive.  Even less fortunately, but somewhat more hilariously, they shot me with the experimental R&D electrostatic capture field...while I was standing right next to the four pounds of plastic explosives that one of the team had secretly planted a couple minutes earlier to fulfill her secret society's objectives.

Mist of blood and collapsing roof.

(Okay, yeah, I was the GM, but it still counts!)

I'm using my (registered, I swear) mutant power to detect you are talking about...
PARANOIA!
(Which is one of the best games I've played, if only more people played online)

You win a cookie!

I don't like playing Paranoia online, because it's not obvious when things are happening that you're not privy to.  It's fun when you can't figure out what all those passed notes are about until suddenly, at the end of the mission, the master-stroke comes down.  It's less fun when you're sitting there wondering if everyone else is just idle.  Also, seeing people passing notes all over the place really does build a good vibe of distrust, of nervousness, one might even say of paranoia.

What the fuck, now Russian bloggers are coming by and saying "thank you for providing information on the Dedekind-Macneille completion in your shonen-ai fanfic!  You are clearly a legitimate source of math-porn <3"

Not literally.  But there's been two people in the past two days who are like "Oooh, you've compiled so much information here..."

WHYYYYY

Please, please be a scam T_T  I am so fucking confused.

Wait, shonen-ai with math?  Where...where can I find this?

FOR !!SCIENCE!!

On a slightly related note, anyone else bothered by some of the bullshit that seems to creep into the show? Like genuinely psychic Pinkie, Fluttershy using aroma therapy, etc?

Oh, the whole psychic thing plus THE MAGIC OF FAITH AND BELIEF has been hashed over waaaaaaaaaay to death on the internet already.  Pinkie was always a little 'special' though.  I mean hell, she throws a successful surprise party for Twilight the instant she first sees her (successful for everyone but Twilight, but hey).

You're also dealing with a pegasus unicorn that raises the sun and moon, a factory that makes clouds and rainbows, a pegasus that can break the sound barrier, quite a few critters that can be defeated by music, poison plants that apparently have sentient magic, and any of a thousand other things.

Yeah Pinkie is a little bit OP, but eh, giving her a superpower isn't entirely out of line.  I mean, basically everyone on the main team except for Applejack and /maybe/ Rarity are already god tier, why not give poor earth pony Pinkie something awesome?  She kinda needs it to keep up, and with the mass quantity of weird stuff she knows that she doesn't have any right to, I figure that her weird psychic twitches can be used to explain an awful lot.

Yumi got a pay rise and a bonus
For the first time in quite a while we can be sure that we'll actually be able to eat :3

Whew...I'm sure that's a huge weight off your shoulders, and it's a load off all our minds too!

I think one problem here is that very few of us knew, going in, that network issues could be things that exist.

Bone Head killed me. The quest is labeled as HARD, but I thought nothing of it. I know the layout of the area and I figured I could snipe him from a distance. Turns out, I could. Also turns out that my guns could barely hurt him. Again, it turns out that his gun destroys my shields with around three hits.

Borderlands.

Bone Head is the hardest boss in the game.  He's seriously OP for his level, and you haven't had time to get ridiculously powerful sniper rifles or 4x storm SMGs yet.

Going to see if I can whack my wireless router with a wrench and get that port opened...

Give me 'til Saturday, or maybe even Sunday at latest?  I'll try to get it done before that if I can.  I'm sorry for the holdup, but it's a 'fix this or probably have to drop out of the league' thing for me, which is really lame.  Especially considering that I've successfully played online before, just not against my current opponent.  Drat.