Taxonomy

Ah, yes.

Munch
Puppet Master
Master Blaster
Blowjob

You can pretty much classify anyone you don't like with this system.

I used dimensionality reduction to reduce you to a(n): munch

Yeah well, like I said, the chakra thing is my own thing. Everyone's got tons of different motivations and is a beautiful unique snowflake in their own heads, but for computational reasons, other people are all simplified down to a few descriptors in everyone's brain.

You and Ed had your own version of this, if I recall: munch, puppet master, master blaster, and something else I can never remember. Douche, maybe. More cynical outlook, but the same sort of neural compression algorithm.

The tarp couldn't stop the News.

That poor big guy.

No, that's just Mark, no Twain. -Thanks, though.

I think that lady was afraid of looking dumb. -Rightfully so.

I guess these are the Tantric Chakras:

1. Muladhara (Sanskrit: Mūlādhāra) tip of the tailbone, spiritual potential
2. Swadhisthana (Sanskrit: Svādhiṣṭhāna) tailbone, unconscious emotion or desire
3. Manipura (Sanskrit: Maṇipūra) navel, dynamism
4. Anahata (Sanskrit: Anāhata) heart, love based decisions
5. Vishuddha (Sanskrit: Viśuddha) neck, discrimination and wisdom
6. Ajna (Sanskrit: Ājñā) eyebrow, mind
7. Bindu (Sanskrit: Bindu) a dot at the back of the head, prayer and Aum
8. Sahasrara (Sanskrit: Sahasrāra) top of head, higher consciousness

I can't say it works for me. I think my chakras change from time to time.

Lazy

The woman on the view is lazy and afraid. Too Lazy to think about the universe, and too frightened to give an honest answer. She wanted to say something else but didn't. You could see it in her eyes. She is afraid of what people think of her.

On another note... another michigan superstar made the headlines by following his stomach chakra:

Michigan Pride

how many fathoms longhorn? 6?

Unlearning kind of supposes that whole learning part. Without the journey in between, -you're just plain stupid.

that's almost a twainism, to coin a term. Maybe someone has already invented it.

Is that of your own design, or is it stolen?

Short and well put thank you.

Chakra Khan

I don't normally discuss this with others, but I tend to see different people in the world in terms of 'chakras', a Hindu concept. In this view, basically there's a hierarchy of desire and motivation, starting in your groin and moving up to right above your head. I think of people as being driven by one principle chakra. There are like seven or eight, but most people around here are driven by stomach, heart, and brain. The need to feed, love, fuck, think, and/or buy things.

No, really, this is how I see things. Maybe a more interesting metaphor would be 'which Deadly Sin predominantly drives someone'?

Oh right, what's the relevance here? The statement this woman makes that she hasn't thought about science and stuff, because she needs to feed her children. Can't get to the head chakra and think about shit if you're busy trying to satisfy stomach chakra and just fuckin' survive.

Somehow I doubt that someone on TV really needs to worry about feeding though. More likely it's just laziness.

No shortcuts, Grasshopper.

Agreed. Yet, I don't think the whole "sailing West to reach East" works for Enlightenment. (What an apt metaphor!)

Unlearning kind of supposes that whole learning part. Without the journey in between, -you're just plain stupid.

I think we witnessed one who has not walked very far.

But don't belittle false notions. -They are all we've got.

wow.

I wish more people were willing to stand up and fight the false notion of 3 dimensional space more eloquently than that poor bitch. I hope she doesn't end up teaching her child such brave ways of thinking without informing the child of it's need to be more intelligently presented.

or something.

Perhaps even more worrisome.

The View.

In case you missed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE

I'd like to think I'd do something. However, I wouldn't be sure those professionals wouldn't feel threatened and shoot.

I guess that's how it feels to be black.

Tasers WTF?

Dude, that guy who got tasered at U of Florida?

Total bullshit man. -edited-

RIP Alex

Alex the gray parrot died several days ago, age 31. Damn.

In case you didn't know, birds- especially corvids and parrots- are darn smart and live for decades.

Here's an excerpt from the New York Times obit. (Yeah, a parrot got an obituary in the NY Times. Well-deserved, in my view.)

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Dr. Pepperberg [Alex's trainer] told of an effort to teach the parrot about phonemes using colored tokens marked with letter combinations like sh and ch.

“What sound is green?”

“Ssshh,” Alex answered correctly, and then demanded a nut. Instead he got another question.

“What sound is orange?”

“Ch.”

“Good bird!”

“Want a nut!” Alex demanded. The interview was over. “Want a nut!” he repeated. “Nnn ... uh ... tuh.”

Dr. Pepperberg was flabbergasted. “Not only could you imagine him thinking, ‘Hey, stupid, do I have to spell it for you?’ ” she said. “This was in a sense his way of saying to us, ‘I know where you’re headed! Let’s get on with it.’ ”

She is quick to concede the impossibility of proving that the bird was actually verbalizing its internal deliberations. Only Alex knew for sure.

Next to infinity, one of the hardest concepts to grasp is zero. Toward the end of his life Alex may have been coming close.

In a carnival shell game, an experimenter would put a nut under one of three cups and then shuffle them around. Alex would pick up the cup where the prize was supposed to be. If it wasn’t there he’d go a little berserk — a small step, maybe, toward understanding nothingness.

A bigger leap came in an experiment about numbers, in which the parrot was shown groups of two, three and six objects. The objects within each set were colored identically, and Alex was asked, “What color three?”

“Five,” he replied perversely (he was having a bad attitude day), repeating the answer until the experimenter finally asked, “O.K., Alex, tell me, ‘What color five?’ ”

“None,” the parrot said.

Bingo. There was no group of five on the tray.

$100 bill is always a testament to your success

Oh, and:

LitB first aired on April 23 and ran for 234 episodes. "Eddie Haskell" was John Holmes' porn name in a number of movies, suggesting dichotic mind control via TV waves (Haskell involvement in canonical examples of Good America and Bad America). Note 'Sade' and 'Hell' placement in the name. Hell as in Hellfire Club- Franklin involvement in such, devoted to satanic orgies and more dichotic mind control. (Despite 23 placement, probably does not reflect Masonic involvement and could be red herring.)

Franklin did the first Philadelphia Experiment, it's where the name came from- using a key rather than ship (Eldrige/Eldritch) as resonator. (Tesla did same thing with more success, although $100 bill is testament to Franklin's own success.) Why? Rather ask, why hasn't experiment been performed- because TV mind control found to be far more effective- operant rather than Pavlovian conditioning- the people want it for themselves. They want to be Eddie Haskell, both with June Cleaver and John Holmes.

Little Sampo

Awesome. This must be the reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo

Never heard of it before. Good. Ya, I was just sayin'. Maybe we should let this stew for just a bit, let DiD die off propa before starting up something anew.

Leave it to beaver, the Philadelphia experiment, Benjamin Franklin

Try those.

I'd totally be up for it. However, it would take some serious energy to keep it going. I've learned something in my time on the interweb: Blogs naturally roll downhill.

I'd do my part. -Maybe Mr. Wolf would be a good one to tap.

UPDATE: got a blog. I think we'd need me to send invites to new hotmail or gmail accounts to create alter egos.

Bigfoot is the Mormon Jesus

Star Blasters or Blazers or whatever would be good, but I thought a great idea was what I thought you were trying with 'Corpus Dord'. Basically an Alternate Reality Game but with no centralization- no GM, no existing story, no programmers or top-down control. Just a conspiracy theory game/story we would create as we went. Everyone has a character, initially unrelated, and we post random stuff from the internet or the news and work towards a sinister tale of, well, whatever. Bigfoot or reptoids or MK-ULTRA satellites or hopefully all of the above.

Kristin and I played this game where we would take three random things and try to connect them. Easter Island, Jesus, and Bigfoot for example. Or Chupacabras, Nazi polar base hollow-earth exploration, and the sailing stones of Death Valley. (That one's pretty easy actually, with the stones tracking EM transmissions from SS-controlled Agarttha; the chupacabras, being EM-sensitive, were driven mad and forced out of the deserts to suck the blood of helpless livestock in their berserk rage.)

(Bigfoot being the Mormon NA Jesus, whose offspring sailed to Easter Island. Guess that's even easier.)

Just thinking.

U R TEH BEST DROW

http://www.larpies.com/LARPY_Finalists_2006.htm

A refreshing break from all the long posts and gamer talk. 1000% AWSOME

Don't forget to look at this:
http://www.larpies.com/Submissions/Adventures_Unlimited_Funniest_03.JPG

Campains

To me it feels like storming the Covenant's Tower took longer than three sessions. Huh. That campaign was like a video game.

Hmm... maybe. Certainly, everyone was sick of it and each other by the last session. I had to plead with you guys to hang on and just finish the last fight, after school one day around ye olde dining room table.


What world was the slums campaign in?

That was its own world. Don't recall the name... there was a big country map, but you'll remember that the game fell apart when you guys left town. Great tight little construction, that, that worked well for Shadowrun too. Dave ripped it off wholesale for one or two of his games I believe.


Was Harold Reilly in Sarpagal?

Yeah, that was the beginning of the second Sarpagal game, with Sam and Harold Riley. I've got the entire Sarpagal Chronology. Shit, actually there were five Sarpagal games. I forgot about the short third campaign over summer 1999. But yeah, Harold was S2.


Was Linus Planck in Narbohring 9K?

I believe that was your guy in the third Avorgoine campaign... or no, wait, this was the first Sarpagal game. You played a mage in S1. He was a wannabe necromancer, broke into a house and stuff. This was in Boston: Jon P was definitely there, hating it the whole time.


In which campaign did we have the Big Boat Battle? -I recall playing Elliot Bosche then. Someone was in the water with a birdcage...

That was Narbohring 9000. You were working for the Archaeologists; one of their members was covertly trying to discover the secrets of viral magic. There was an invisible key hidden in the birdcage, if I recall. I forget the details- this all used to be written down somewhere- but two boats attacked your ship, just off the Skullgate harbor. Biggest body count of any single fight, excluding combats where massive spell effects killed lots of people (usually for storyline purposes, e.g., destruction of Barrowsreich by the Blackstaff).

Sort of an unwritten rule of my games: there's always a bad mage, working by himself, to uncover ancient secrets. He's almost always under-cover at some knowledge-based institution too. It's a deep psychological thing, why science/magic is ultimately bad and must be destroyed by brute force. God, how many movies, games, and stories have this as part of the plot?

N1: Baalphegor Pheng
N2: Garrison Bones
N9K: some dude

S1: Glasser
S2: Glasser, Amanda
S3: Thrave Nil
S4: one of the PCs (Doug's druid), Lady Jacqueline,
S5: one of the PCs (Jessica's bard), plus two NPCs: Rupert Smalls and Edrac Reeves

Sarpagal campaigns also always had a priest of Typhon as the PCs friend, the guy who would help move the plot along. Played sort of the same role, but in a more complex manner: the bad mage was actually the party healer, who was a nice guy and had magic item-filled adventures for the PCs to go on. Meanwhile, he was working on furthering the apocalypse, usually through whatever the PCs were doing. It was the most singularly successful plot mechanic I ever hit on.

Game masters, here ya go: 1) discourage PCs from playing clerics; 2) add a healer NPC to the party who's a nice guy and knows some ancient history; and 3) he's an awful villain. The key, the key damn it, is that his villainy isn't a surprise. The PCs know the guy's a demon worshipper. It's just that he's so damn friendly- not suave, just friendly- he's a middle aged fat Friar Tuck.

Needs more pfhor in sector 12

On a different note:
http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/15-09/ff_halo

The psychological testing lab for Halo. Fascinating stuff, that.

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The same system works across fields. For science, it's an essential component. The scientific analogue is the conference. I talk endlessly about all aspects of my work, and try to be in touch with what people think is hot, important, flawed, or lame. Those are all independent axes.

A vampire named Bolar.

Mr. Bolar. I forgot all about Mr. Bolar. He was awesome. I remember that town square fight.

To me it feels like storming the Covenant's Tower took longer than three sessions. Huh. That campaign was like a video game.

I feel like I have all of these misplaced gaming memories. Such as:

What world was the slums campaign in?
Was Harold Reilly in Sarpagal?
Was Linus Planck in Narbohring 9K?
Which campaign was the Iron Labyrinth in? Oh wait, that was Narbohring two. I think Morgan picked up Mr. Beasley soon after. He got Beasley from some kid in the Greco-Roman-like plane. Mr. Beasley was great.
In which campaign did we have the Big Boat Battle? -I recall playing Elliot Bosche then. Someone was in the water with a birdcage...

Wow. Good times. -Really makes me want to game.

Narbohring

Mark and I have been talking about the old Narbohring games over on DiD Factory. It really belongs here though, so in case that sidebar is just too far away, go check out:

http://didfactory.blogspot.com/

$th edition

4th edition interview at gamespy:
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/819/819068p2.html

Sounds like they've got something along the lines of DiD planned: a way to game online around a 'virtual dinner table'.

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And this has been posted before, but whatever. Stephen Colbert's D&D experiences. Page 2 is gold:
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/dungeons-dragons-online/537989p1.html

LOLPUGS

Pug bowling is awesome.

Hyperlink, eh.

The 1 YouTube link you need

Ok I lied, the 2 links you need....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rog7-A2Saws

This is Why I'm Hot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcKOQrz19Yg

Pug Bowling

I can't talk to goth girls

Our rhymes were good. Hella good, e'en.

But MC Frontalot basically skools us, because blogger don't let us post beatz.

Here's Front's home page. Or rather, the all-important free mp3 download page.

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No shit, really- despite what you think of the lyrics, wow are the beats and samples fucking hot. Actually a lot of the songs and lyrics are a bit too self-conscious and in-the-genre, but holy christ on a cross those backbeats on the singles are swell. I'd love to de-acapella some of the tracks like Charity Case and just cruise to the music.

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Anyway, this is completely different but even more awesome.

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Wow, it's like someone planted some beans in the internets garden and now theyre growing.

Because this is sort of what I think DiD would be like if it was an animated movie. Yes, that's meant in seriousness. Make sure you get to the last one, by the gods, the last one.

It actually tells kind of a story. I thought of Steve's guy as the knight on the cliff, and Paul's first guy in the karate scene.

You might want more. I give you Doctor Legua.

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awesome that's

again

!one this like are sentences where ,Land Backwards in place takes story This

Here's mine

I sing of the cinnamon bear. LOL.


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EDIT: Turns out you can have up to 30 words and multiple sentences. Remember- this should be the first sentence of a great novel, not just any old sentence.

I was inspired to submit:

Jeff moved his Civic for the last time, -if ‘moved’ is what you’d call it.

GET ALL MEGA BEASTS

Sure DiD is dead, but that doesn't mean the style's done rocking. Basically, it's all inspired by Zork and other text adventures, which periodically I get back into.

The best text adventure of all time is Andrew Plotkin's "Spider and Web". Adam Cadre writes fantastic stuff too... "9:05" is horribly, awfully brilliant. The genius here comes from use- or abuse- of devices that only work in text adventures. A novel, comic, play, or movie format just wouldn't do it.

Anyway, I bring this up because Adam Cadre has a competition for the worst beginning line of a novel (under 25 words). Hilarity ensues.

Here ya go.

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But if you're too lazy to click the link, here's some champions:

Get ready to take a virtual tour of sydney australia through the backyards of a kangaroo who will punch you in the head fifty times!

"Man, you won't believe what happened to me tonight," Dave declared, bursting into our dorm room, "but first I gotta go beat off!"


"I raped your sister," cruelly he sneered, "and now she is no problem," and my friends that is the day my heart tore a sunder.


The mega beasts were united by only one thing: their size.

The evil Intergalactic Emperor surveyed the destruction he wrought. "Booyah!" he cried with glee. "I'm in ur base! I'm killing all ur mans!"

MacGyver had grown old.


I know who the murderer is, Kevin blogged.


“Crime,” declared the police captain, “is everywhere, crime, crime!”


This is the story of your mom's life.

Holy Bujesush.