without coffee, there would be no America. it was the lifeblood of the enlightenment.

Miishelle - you seem to have sorted your relentless caps problem out! A shame, since I liked those. It made your posts even more distinctive assuming you're the same person, of course.

without coffee, there would be no America. it was the lifeblood of the enlightenment.

Miishelle - you seem to have sorted your relentless caps problem out! A shame, since I liked those. It made your posts even more distinctive assuming you're the same person, of course.

thanks, but it was annoying to everyone, myself included. and yeah, it mii. haha, pun

All of this sharing has moved me. I would normally never reveal my true identity because all my life I've been shunned for how different I look, been turned away for jobs because of my appearance and been forced to get into few relations with friends and otherwise leaving me only to form them over the internet where anonymity has hidden my different look from others. However all the kindness seen here makes me think I can finally step out and summon up the courage to show my true self, this community has always been welcoming to me so I don't think I'll be judged to harshly... I hope.

This is me

...I'm a moose.

SAY MOOSEY FATE! SAY MOOSEY FATE!

YAY! HE SAID IT!

YAY! HE SAID IT!

Sorry if this post, recent ones, or ones in the next day or so are erratic. I'm trying to cut back on my one vice (coffee) and I'm going through withdrawals.

Repeat after me:

Coffee is not a vice. It is the lifeblood of the tech world.

Coffee is not a vice. It is liquid and does not make a good tool for clamping things into place so that they can be worked on with other tools.

Coffee is not a vice. It is black gold, and the second most traded and important commodity in the world.

Yes, but when you can down two cups then fall asleep 30 minutes later and sleep for 8 hours, you might have developed an over-tolerance. I'm just cutting out any afternoon/evening coffee. I still will be imbiding in the morning.

I recently listened to a very good military/leo speaker that had been involved in extensive research on sleep patterns and deprivation by soldiers and cops. Thus my motivation to cut it out after the noon hour.

Coffee is still my girlfriend, I just will be telling her we need to take it a bit slower for now. Just a quicky babe. I can't hang out with you all day.

Oh, I see this thread turned into something useful after all

Sorry, my last post directed @miishelle, not Merc.

My question is why would a GM even allow a PC that has intense hate for another PC? Yes, sometimes PC conflict can be fun and interesting, but it usually quickly de-evolves into mad chaos, which this player seems to strive on.

I as a GM do allow peopel to create these abominations, then they quickly get hit by a bus , and have to make a new character. I have even seen a group not accept a new PC just because they felt it did not fit them, and they would not hire them into the crew.

Rails, what are those? The information super highway has no roads or rails!!

Saddly he is considered a long term friend of the group, and with 6-7 Players in the group + our "normal" shannangins we don't want to take the time to fight with him over how poorly his characters are designed for group coshesiveness. (the water buffalo idea from miishelle's other post is par for course.) the facebook fight was largly due to us pulling aside the GM at the time to hit him with a bus. But 3 times in a row of me (as another player) having reasons to remove his character is not accaptable in my book... I wouldn't mind playing with some of you guys just so I can get some balenced feed back as to wether or not i'm just too difficult to play with.

Thanks for the backstory. I have just gamed with some people in the past that really made game no longer fun. When I am no longer having fun, I don't need to play this game anymore. For me, I would rather not game at all then game people that make me miserable.

When I was in Germany, I left a group due to one person in it, he just made the game horrible for everyone, but no one wanted to hurt his feelings. I said I have no qualms about telling someone that they are ruining the game for me. I would rather go play TOR than game with that guy again.

Different topic now:

For me, as far as the knowing what people look like thing, I kind of like to know. I guess it has to do with me wanting to know what my favorite DJ/podcasters look like and voice actors. Since I never listen to The Order 66 podcast, I had to go dig pictures of those guys. For me it's kind of neat knowing, and of course, I pictured them nothing like what they really look, but there you have a voice to work off, here we just have typed words to work off of, well except for prettyhaley, then we all sound like girls. Hahahaha.

(@PrettyHaley, how do emoticons work for you? How do the colon/close parentheses translate? Your tech sounds pretty awesome, but I have to admit, I am totally ignorant of it, so please, understand, I mean no offense.)

Text-to-speech reader identifies most of them as such. It extends a lot of netspeak abbreviations and acronyms, too. So it doesn't say "lol", it says "laughing out loud". If I'm using Braille, I read it as written which is the only way I actually learn most abbreviations.

@R2Builder: For what it's worth, I have quite a generic look about me; shaven head, glasses, ample nose. Everyone else here sounds quite attractive though. Apart from the occasional troll and needy folk; they sound a bit sweaty.

Sorry if this post, recent ones, or ones in the next day or so are erratic. I'm trying to cut back on my one vice (coffee) and I'm going through withdrawals.

Repeat after me:

Coffee is not a vice. It is the lifeblood of the tech world.

Coffee is not a vice. It is liquid and does not make a good tool for clamping things into place so that they can be worked on with other tools.

Coffee is not a vice. It is black gold, and the second most traded and important commodity in the world.

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

And since we're sharing things about our lives, I guess I can chip in as well. The details of my life are quite inconsequential. My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize. He would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds...pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum...it's breathtaking...I highly suggest you try it.

@Zathras23 - I'll be having the snip in a couple of weeks on account of being too fertile, and am concerned about the shorn scrotum situation - is there anything to alleviate the itchiness or is that something one grows accustomed to?

@Zathras23 - I'll be having the snip in a couple of weeks on account of being too fertile, and am concerned about the shorn scrotum situation - is there anything to alleviate the itchiness or is that something one grows accustomed to?

Vilma used a special ointment not available to the public to alleviate the itching. I would imagine you could go to your local drug store and find an equivalent product.

Aaaaaaand the thread takes a turn probably NONE of us were expecting. . . . .

Aaaaaaand the thread takes a turn probably NONE of us were expecting. . . . .

Seems like a perfectly logical development in the conversation to me. It can be traced right back to the bollocks that started this thread off in the first place

Aaaaaaand the thread takes a turn probably NONE of us were expecting. . . . .

Ahh, then my job is done. Now, if you will excuse me, I'm off to steal some nuclear weapons and threaten the world.

*Hops in A-Wing and flies off into the sunset*

Late to the James Bond party (That's what I get for not checking the forum the past few days) but as a pretty big Bond fan, I thought I had to chime in.

(Mind you, James Bond was a terrible spy. Anything-but-secret Secret Agent)

James Bond was an assassin and problem solver, not a spy. His missions were pretty much always, "Guy X is doing Y, stop it."

Picture needs a Glock and one of those Stormtrooper skull-and-crossbones t-shirts. And less hair.

So you're saying less Sean Connery and more this guy:

How about this guy?

(Pay no attention to the caption, I couldn't find a copy of the picture quick without it.)

I had the snip a couple months ago now, and I nenever noticed any itching issues. At least not from the shaving, it didn't need to be baby bottom smooth.

The stitches though? Eventually got annoying when you wash and keep feeling the knots.

I had the snip a couple months ago now, and I nenever noticed any itching issues. At least not from the shaving, it didn't need to be baby bottom smooth.

The stitches though? Eventually got annoying when you wash and keep feeling the knots.

Stitches? That's barbaric. I had mine almost 20 years ago, and the doc was perfecting a non-cutting technique. Just a small puncture, hook slice and cap the tubes, and done. Only needed a bandaid.

It wasn't really barbaric. Two small holes. And probably two stitches each hole. The worst part was the injections in the tubes. But I have a great distaste for any needles.

The stitches though? Eventually got annoying when you wash and keep feeling the knots.

The stitches though? Eventually got annoying when you wash and keep feeling the knots.

I miss the IT Crowd.

It wasn't really barbaric. Two small holes. And probably two stitches each hole. The worst part was the injections in the tubes. But I have a great distaste for any needles.

I just experienced a visceral reaction to this.

But thanks for the reassurances, folks! I'll ask for a huge mirror to be placed down that end and then I'll post a session report.

Heh heh. I posted pics on fb of my getting a toe amputated a couple of years ago. I've lost 2 due to diabetes.

It wasn't really barbaric. Two small holes. And probably two stitches each hole. The worst part was the injections in the tubes. But I have a great distaste for any needles.

I will say my doc had a sense of humour. I never watched the show, but there was a Seinfeld episode on the subject that the doc started at the beginning of the procedure. "Now just sit back, relax, and watch," he says. So I do, and it's funny, and at one point I laugh out loud and can't help but move, and the doc gasps and says "...Oops!" Talk about a sudden cold sweat! Then he chuckles "...kidding..."

I would have started laughing harder with that!