The Gaming Den

Yesterday, I woke up with a severe back pain that doesn't go away. (I hadn't done anything strenuous, I wasn't cold, I went to sleep in the same reasonably comfy bed I've been sleeping in for years.) The pain seems to be concentrated on the right half of my back around the fifth or sixth rib (it hur...

re: Pratchett's jokes I was born in the Soviet Union to the most iconic Soviet family imaginable. My grandparents were a collective farm tractor driver, a textile factory worker, an NKVD officer, and a Jewish doctor. Among the pretentious-lower-class people such as we were, knowledge of ancient myth...

^ I don't get it.

One gm I played with would ask everyone for X perception rolls before the game, and record them. Instead of a secret roll, he'd just use the next roll/a random roll from your list. I hate this. I feel I might as well just not show up for the game, like when I was five and realized Snakes and Ladder...

Richard Adams died.

Tell that to old Drac turning into vermin, bats and insects . . yes, in addition to a man sized batmonster and a wolf. To be fair, that's a relatively new fiction (1890s). Kitsune. Also, from a casual read of Wikipedia and previous original research, it's the correlation of toothy/harmless to male/...

Defnintely take a look. We might find out who it might belong to (and who we need to kill to get cured). Also, if Ulrich knows there's no cure, why help us anyway? 1. *We* think there's no cure. Ulrich might not. 2. To give us a chance to put our affairs in order, say goodbyes, write a will and die ...

Me and cat, sitting in the balcony overlooking the gray concrete slabs of the amusement park main building : "Someday, Fluffers, things are gonna change. We'll be rich, live in a palace..." Girlfriend, from the living room: "It's a Dreamworks park, dumbass. Unless your idea of a princ...

Why in the world would you associate catfolk with halflings? They're screechy japanese fucktoys, not bucolic rural thieves. Cats are small but tough and athletic (9 lives, righting reflex), lazy to adventurous but always graceful and pretty, love comfort but can survive as hunters and scavengers, s...

Vajra Singh arrives and saves our ass by killing Gaunt. Not out of altruism, but because he's pissed off that Gaunt broke the truce (he's a stickler for rules like that). ... Not as honest as Vajra Singh, but not quite as treacherous as Kyle Boche, Golgoth is the ultimate pragmatist. When you revea...

Yes, the Gaia problem and the Paradox War are separate events. Gaia gets infected in 2037, the Heart falls in 2095 and is stolen by one of the many cults. Soon after the cultists gain reality-warping powers from exposure, build Du-En, bombard the world with Heart radiation wrecking habitable places ...

Wow, congrats. The book isn't actually as easy as it might seem. The trek over the ice drains health like nothing else, Siriasis is hard to kill, and the final fight can go either way depending on health, skill selection and choice of ally. Well, actually, there wasn't really any bad options in that...

Isn't radiation sickness Hourglass?

Lol, he's basically the king of wrong.

If your system has attributes and skills, both (and in my opinion it should), then a social attribute (Charisma/Influence/Personality) is a nescessity. ... Social interaction is usually an additional aspect of the system, not an integral one. It's almost like its very own minigame. ... Rather than ...

In Russian democracy, everyone is corrupt. Putin and his stooges are particularly corrupt, and remarkably are not targeted nearly as much as their opposition. I'm sure there's some kind of simple reason for this. Like corruption . I don't want to turn this into a Russia thread, but there's no oppos...

These are different notions. On a related note: Men who "sympathize with women" about how all or most men are lecherous cads, especially if they use extremely strong language like "rapists waiting to happen" or something, should not be allowed to be alone with women and girls. Th...

Wtf is with all those people on the ballot in Colorado?

What's wrong with the gas station thing?

[url=https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/258640349872926720 wrote:actual Trump tweet[/url]]"Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again--just watch. He can do much better!"

what. I'd thought a friend came up with a clever js injection trick.

Ancient History wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilajit

"Common ingredients in fake shilajit include sea buckthorn oil, canned meat, blood plasma, bee glue, burnt sugar, loamy topsoil, clay, sand, rodent excretions."

"We regret to inform you we cannot extend an invitation to the School to you, as you possess sufficient knowledge to apply for a junior developer vacancy without additional education." wat (edit: I phoned their HR person and they're apparently moderately enthusiastic about "keeping me...

And Russia's response has apparently been A decree signed by President Putin on 28 November calls for the banning or limitation of imports from Turkey, the work of Turkish companies in Russia and any Turkish nationals working for Russian companies. The government is drawing up a list of the sectors...

Stein is a juice cleanse. Johnson is Bud Light.