Mr. Yellow
So I found a feat that would allow all my spells to have a special effect. For example, a fireball spell could appear as a screaming skull flying at you before exploding.
I thought it was funny but I’m not wasting a good feat on it.
2:32 PM Mr. Silver
A feat for special effects is a feat for girls...
2:34 PM Mr. Yellow
LOL
2:35 PM Mr. Silver
"This one sounds cute!"
2:35 PM Mr. Yellow
My spells are all pretty unicorns and go “Weeee”!
2:35 PM Mr. Yellow
It could be distracting.
2:35 PM Mr. Silver
Well it should be. If that's written into the feat, then I'm for it.
2:35 PM Mr. Yellow
Imagine you cast a spell and it goes weeeee.
Your opponent might bust out laughing.
“Everything sparkles!”
2:36 PM Mr. Silver
Well, try this...
My fireball looks like a singing bluebird.
Make a Sense Motive roll or get no Reflex save.
2:38 PM Mr. Silver
"Huh! A bluebird, here! Listen to that song; so pretty! I wonder h-" BOOOOM!!!!
2:38 PM Mr. Yellow
If I was a necromancer I might think about it. Screaming green skulls could be cool.
2:38 PM Mr. Silver
Add an Intimidate check…
-X to Spellcraft rolls…
Whatever; just make it do something.
2:41 PM Mr. Yellow
Yes, but the feat doesn’t work that way.
2:42 PM Mr. Silver
Bleh.
Mr. Mustard
Back to New Guinea for the deli with the Long Pork Cold Case? With head cheese?
2:30 PM Mr. Silver
Any new ingredients in the Hollywood Sign dismemberment case?
Sorry...typo..."clues"
2:30 PM Mr. Mustard
They found out who the victim is so far, but not who dunnit.
Mr. Silver
So...Buckaroo Banzai...
I finally got through it (sober) recently.
And...well...
It didn't do it for me.
Mr. Silver
I liked the idea of Buckaroo Banzai.
I think a lot of people do.
"Wow! I like this guy and this team and this tech. I wonder what they'd be like in a good movie."
9:04 AM Mr. Yellow
I liked the movie when I watched it what back in the 80's.
9:06 AM Mr. Green
Yeah. The concept and team was very cool.
9:18 AM Mr. Silver
I took issue with the Black Lectroid plan to hit the USSR with a particle beam if Buckaroo didn't destroy the Reds.
9:08 AM Mr. Silver
"Um...you know the Reds are ALL at Yoyodyne, and where that is. And you apparently have since the late 30s, but if you didn’t, you know now. Just blow up Yoyodyne from orbit."
10:30 AM Mr. Brown
I had a zombies-and-aliens dream last night.
The aliens invaded Earth through our electronics. They were energy-based aliens and were able to infect electronics and control them.
And the zombies were superhuman. They could jump really high and move really fast.
But a crew-cut blonde Harrison Ford could kick their asses. He had his Blade Runner look in the dream, except for the hair.
10:39 AM Mr. Blue
And then Patrick Dempsey shows up all oiled and tanned to save the day?
10:40 AM Mr. Brown
No.
He is not in my dreams.
I just like his movies.
12:08 PM Mr. Silver
It is my sincerest hope that Gingrich retires to our 51st state:
12:18 PM Mr. Blue
Most of his supporters probably still believe the Earth is flat and the Moon is fixated to a dome over top of the Earth.
Subjects like astronomy and evolution are voodoo to Republicans.
12:20 PM Mr. Blue
What percent of Republicans believe the Moon is made of cheese?
I’m going to guess at least 25%.
12:20 PM Mr. Brown
The Moon is a base made to look like a moon.
12:26 PM Mr. Brown
If we made a sun on Earth the size of a golf ball, I wonder how much energy that would take to make and then how much would it give out .
(Never got a chance to say “That sounds like some kind of insane sci-fi ‘fusion reactor’ scheme” and put in a link for an existing project. Oh well. – Mr. Silver)
12:31 PM Mr. Brown
I wonder if life could form that can live on the Sun.
12:34 PM Mr. Blue
Since stars are pretty much the origin of all elements and the surface of any star is probably one of the harshest and most brutal places in the entire known universe, I’m going to say that it would take too long for life to learn to adapt to such conditions. The universe would probably die sooner.
12:45 PM Mr. Brown
Well I’m looking at the fact that organisms live in hot pools in Yellowstone.
Not as hot as the Sun.
12:45 PM Mr. Blue
Bugs live on glaciers.
But the most extreme condition on Earth is still a paradise compared to any star.
12:46 PM Mr. Brown
So basically, there are already places we thought things could not live, but they do.
12:48 PM Mr. Blue
Nothing lives on Mars or the Moon. If they're too extreme for life, a star definitely is.
1:03 PM Mr. Brown
There was life on them at one point, I’m sure.
1:03 PM Mr. Blue
Stars? Oh, Moon/Mars.
1:03 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah.
1:03 PM Mr. Blue
Maybe microbial.
1:03 PM Mr. Silver
(blinks) Earth's moon?
Uh...hmm…no.
Mars, sure. And before it turned into a furnace, Venus possibly.
1:19 PM Mr. Silver
As long as we're in space again, last night I was watching a thing on Venus and got to pondering.
If we made the appalling effort required to shift that sucker out to an orbit following Earth's path, it'd be a much better place to terraform than Mars.
Mars is useless.
Venus is bigger and has an actual substantial atmosphere.
1:23 PM Mr. Blue
Venus is a lot more like Earth than Mars is. Put it in Earth's goldilocks zone and yeah, good idea. But if we can move planets, then we can probably do more than just terraform existing ones.
1:23 PM Mr. Silver
Yup, that's the trick.
1:24 PM Mr. Blue
Like ring worlds: not necessarily around the Sun but perhaps around the Earth.
1:25 PM Mr. Brown
We could build something like a Death Star to live in.
1:26 PM Mr. Blue
Or a big floating boiler room…like in "Space Mutiny".
1:27 PM Mr. Silver
Perhaps like a mall food court.
1:27 PM Mr. Blue
Sbarros in space!
1:27 PM Mr. Brown
Replace the Moon with Venus!
LOL
1:28 PM Mr. Silver
"Earth Destroyed By Ultra-Tides...No News At 11"
1:48 PM Mr. Brown
Did they ever find Hitler’s body?
1:48 PM Mr. Blue
No, he's still living in Argentina.
1:51 PM Mr. Silver
His living brain is in a jar in Die Glock in Noah's Ark in Turkey
1:51 PM Mr. Blue
I’m sure any charred remains they may have found were quickly picked apart by the troops for souvenirs
So I’m sure Hitler’s remains are scattered throughout the former USSR, in dusty attics and safe deposit boxes.
1:52 PM Mr. Silver
His backside is a public bicycle parking rack in Poland.
1:54 PM Mr. Brown
Well, I know there are a lot of stories of how he died.
1:54 PM Mr. Blue
There’s only 1.
He and Eva killed themselves. They were wrapped in (probably) a swastika flag, burned, and their remains were buried.
2:04 PM Mr. Blue
So what were the other stories?
2:05 PM Mr. Brown
More stories of what killed him.
Like if he shot himself or if he took cyanide.
2:07 PM Mr. Blue
I thought most of the folks in the bunker did both in case one failed.
A 9mm bullet to the brain isn't foolproof.
2:07 PM Mr. Silver
They got through cyanide, bullet, and fire...
They never got to the rabid hedgehogs, steamroller and scything blades before the enemy showed up.
2:17 PM Mr. Brown
I bet Hitler had a nice side too, like most psychos do.
(I was not available to define ‘psychopath’ for Mr. Brown at this point. – Mr. Silver)
2:19 PM Mr. Blue
Of course
2:38 PM Mr. Blue
Under his regime they passed some forward-thinking environmental regulations.
2:39 PM Mr. Brown
He was just hardcore about pursuing a belief that was not that good.
2:43 PM Mr. Blue
They needed a scapegoat.
2:46 PM Mr. Silver
Right...they needed some insidious plot or belief system that might exist in some perceived or minor way, and then claim evidence and inflate it beyond all reality...like the Nazi claim of financial manipulation, racial enmity or harboring weapons of mass destruction.
Wait...wrong war on that last one.
2:47 PM Mr. Blue
hehehe
Or even a radical socialist Muslim president.
2:47 PM Mr. Brown
LOL
2:47 PM Mr. Silver
Right!
Something to get the gullible behind so you can spend decades-crippling amounts of money on it, hoping it will pay off.
2:51 PM Mr. Blue
a lot of things would apply here
3:18 PM Mr. Silver
I'm still tickled by the idea that maybe Hitler was just constantly being sarcastic, a master of straight delivery, and nobody ever "got" it.
That if he'd thrown in finger-quotes, and the words "Like", "Oh, sure", and "Right" occasionally, he'd have never rose to power and the war wouldn't have happened.
It's come out that pretty much everyone he hung around in his younger days...school, arts, military...thought he was a jerk.
3:23 PM Mr. Silver
"Right. Like Germans are the 'master race'. And, like, 'everything' is terrible because of 'Jews', right? Because 'everybody' knows they're out to get us, right? And they're obviously an 'inferior race'. Puh-leeeze. Me? Being sarcastic? Oh no, I'm not being sarcastic. Riiiight. Chancellor? Pff. Heck yeah, I want that job."
"Oh sure, we 'own' Poland."
If you re-edit all his speeches you'd see he was clearly making fun of everyone he met.
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