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by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: GeoGuessr

I got 11083

by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Wayfarers Player's Reference Book Review by Anthony Holtberg

Hi MK, I just read the review given about Wayfarers and it sounds great. It brings back many memories of roleplaying I did in the late 80s and early 90s. I think if I was still playing it would have been right up my ally.

After playing many RPGs, mostly AD&D 2nd Ed, I settled on playing a game called Palladium with 3 friends. Our GM loosely used the rules and we played by creating a story between the GM and the players. The main idea was we were people and really didn't want to get into fights with monsters lager than us, especially in large numbers. Fights were avoided at all costs or planned to guarantee victory. Puzzling plots and rhymes and riddles were the things we dwelt on. Dice roles were arbitrarily made by the GM, sometimes bypassed for ingenuity, sometimes results ignored as it didn't fit the plot.

The long and short of it is I reminisce about the campaign I played with my GM, which was long weekends of play that passed quickly as the story unfolded. My character got to level 5 in a year. It went for 3 years, we roleplayed hard to finish the story before I moved away from Tasmania. I finished at level 12 and I ended up playing 2 characters as one person moved away but th character was integral to the plot.

Anyway I'm rambling, just showing how much I enjoyed what we termed as 'real role playing', not dungeon bashing unrealistic dice rolling crap.

2 points. First, I love the multiple d20 system, seems a great way round the hit mechanics etc. Second, love the combat being seriously deadly, that is brilliant to me.

Well done, an impressive sounding game, if I still roleplayed I would but your books today.

by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: While Wronged Homeowners Got $300 Apiece in Foreclosure Settlement, Consultants Who Helped Protect Banks Got $2 Billion

Wow. Unbelievable. Makes me glad I'm Australian. Hang on, we're not far behind. Where is it all leading? What will it take to stop?

by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: 600 followers

I liked the story, it has a poingnacy that rings true with me.How come you only follow 4 people? Sorry I had to ask.

by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: The word on the Bird

Why try get some cash together when people have already made offers to pass on a computer? Surely the postage will be cheaper. I just like the idea of things being passed on to a home that needs it, maybe a bit of attention and good to go. We don't fix enough things in our throw away society. Send littlebirdie the T500 AND the black mac, surely one will be good enough.

by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: TED is a new Ruppert Murdoch

Wow. Sounds ridiculous. Way to make money off other people sharing good ideas too.

by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: More tasteless social media scrapes
I can't believe someone can make such base, degrading, narrow minded and demeaning comments and happily post their smiling face with it. To quote the mindless imbeciles 'WTF'
by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: I Just Paid for Dick Cheney’s New Heart, Now Who Will Pay for My Daughter’s?
Wow. What has happened to your education system. 60 years ago it was essentially free. It's a real bad sign for the future of the US that your economy of educated people is severely shrinking. This is the opposite in China and India. The chief of Education programs in Finland has tried to explain why they do so well (they only have public free schools, including UNI) to the US but they can't see past the $. Bye bye teachers and art degrees
by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Path through the woods
It makes me yearn to push the pedals of the bike down an unknown trail.

Soon it shall be so, the project is over, the bike comes out again next week :-)

by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Hegemony and its Dilemmas | Noam Chomsky
I also note no one is interested in this post at all, photoshopping of the classics and the sexual desire it may or may not evoke is a much more compelling post. (I read it too, it was interesting, no put down intended to anyone, comments included :-))
by squeebies  ·  link  ·  parent  ·  post: Hegemony and its Dilemmas | Noam Chomsky
I really enjoy reading and/or watching Noam Chomsky's narratives on political situations. He is insightful, knowledgable and cuts through the garbage we are fed to the heart of matters with quotes and information as to the state of policy and affairs. Always depressing, full of new revelations about how evil, self serving and ultimately destructive the power players of our world are. If we have descendants they will point to this era as the dark ages of mankind.

Hubski is a classic case in point of the disconnect from the truly important issues. We are all much more interested and occupied by the many other (mostly trivial) things filling our world. I am included in 'the failings of the 99%'

May the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on our souls.

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