Mike, The very concept of a chili cheesecake is anathema. You are hereby virtually thrown to the rabid wolverines. Bad Mike, no doughnut.

On a side note, Abner is coming up Sat afternoon. Confed Sat night, anyone?

Ivy

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...It's going to be hard to explain this dream to people when I wake up.

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Nah, just tell them you had the chili cheesecake for dessert. They'll understand.

--Mike

The comic he was doing, for those of you who have been hiding under a rock or stuck in a cave in Tora Bora, is: http://www.project-apollo.net/laughed/index.html

--Jon
...It's going to be hard to explain this dream to people when I wake up.

Oh... I seem to have finished that comic I was doing. Just wanted to mention that.

-- Mark

I dunno... I'm begining to belive the Marquis may have something. And I have a cape and STEALTH jumper cables so I'm with you! As long as I don't have to stand up. Or move too far from the bag of nachos on my desk.

I say! I believe that Captain Marquis de Smith has gone mad.

Get away from me with those jumper cables!

--Jon
ARGH

Arr. . . I only do that wi' my boat when I'm tryin' to immitate motorcycle movies where th' bike goes unner the semi. Arrr.

Y'know this whole ENRON thing reminds me of another time in history where the rich upper class abused their power in order to get even more rich.

And now I know the solution.


REVOLT!!!!!!!! only this time we aren't rag tag peasant with pitchforks and guillitines.

Let me get my gun, a chair, a grit 20 rotary buffer and pair of jumper cables hooked up to a spare generator from Y2K, and I will guarentee a drop in corruption for at least 30 years.
 
"a little revolution now and then is a good thing" - paraphrased from Thomas Jeffereson

And so Slashdot posts an article about Star Wars: Galaxies (aka EverQuest for Star Wars)

and so I post these quotes for the thread 'This is gonna be ugly'.

            This is gonna be ugly . . . (Score:4, Funny)
            by StefanJ on Tuesday February 12, @07:06PM (#2997374)
            Think of the viscious fights over who gets to be the first to kill Jar-Jar Binks.

            Re:This is gonna be ugly . . . (Score:2, Funny)
            by Night Goat

            That whole race is going to be a race of marked men.

            Re:This is gonna be ugly . . . (Score:4, Funny)
            by The Cat
            Someone will probably record a demo of it too:

            "Click here for a 3 minute third-person MPEG of Jar-Jar being chased across an open 400-acre field by 7,620 Galaxies players and a fleet of 281 ships"


Enjoy.

Edited by author 02-13-2002 08:11 AM
Settings [SmithLord picks up phone in posh office facing a large wrought iron, bay window.
             The window opens to a dark clouded realm filled with volcanoes and mindless horrors]

SmithLord: Hello, Ugnar? Dial Marketing for me.

Ugnar: Grr, Arrgh. Yes, SmithLord.
          [SmithLord puts on speakerphone. The sounds of dialing and link connecting are heard]

Marketing Orc #1: Hello! Mordor Marketing. [Screams of ultimate torment are heard in the background]

SmithLord: Yes, this is the SmithLord. Uh. . . this whole Ring propaganda thing isn't working out very well.
                I don't think the entire 'Ring' trend is coming back, since Isuldur took the product. We need something else that'll catch the world's eye as . . .as . . .

Marketing Orc #1: as a reflection of your dark evil vengeful heart?

SmithLord: Exactly.

Marketing Orc #1: How about a motor vehicle. I suggest what men call an SUV. It's large and bellows a great deal of smoke.

SmithLord: How about fear?

Marketing Orc #1: Oh there is a great deal of fear involved. Plus, we'll give it all the features of the Ring(tm).

SmithLord: Excellent. Get the engineering Balrogs on it immediately. Oh, and tell IT they need to have a
               complete engineering server farm ready for them or I'll feed them to my 'Spider'.

Marketing Orc #1: Should I crash a few laptops for extra effect.

SmithLord: Definitely. And make sure my forces are attacking Minas Tirth at the end of the hour.

Marketing Orc #1: Yes, SmithLord

[SmithLord hangs up the phone and stares out into the flaming wastes]

SmithLord: Hmmmm . . .feels like I'm missing something. Oh well, I'll follow up on those border rumors tommorrow. Noone's stupid enough to try and enter here.

Hey, I think you hit on an interesting idea for a modern era/conspiracy RPG scenario:

Lord British thinks he is/is (only the GM knows) the reincarnation/return of King Arthur. His Ultima series of games could be an attempt to recruit/train a new Round Table of knights (maybe a la "The Last Starfighter").

--Mike

P.S. Jon, are you coming to PAGE this evening? It's Hero Wars night (and your character sheet now includes your old Sandals of Darkness affinity -- and addition, not a replacement).

Yeah Ben, I was about to say, you just described Lord British.

-- Mark

> Mark, if you really wanted to get booted out you needed
> to wear a cape and speak in nothing but piglatin.

I doubt even that behavior would have resulted in Mark's termination. After all, this is the industry that kept John Romero around for years.

--Jon

Mark, if you really wanted to get booted out you needed to wear a cape and speak in nothing but piglatin. I think that would have done it. But welcome to the ranks of the jobless.

--Ben

M3 T00!!!111!1

Well, not quite unemployed yet, but I gave my notice last week and I'll be outta here as of the end of February. Frankly I was kind of hoping that I'd get booted out on the spot for my insolence, but no such luck.

-- Mark

I'd say what I think, but, I've already falsly been accused of being a terrorist once. And yes its a very disturbing trend but that's what happens when things are handled as poorly as things have been handled lately. Then again, maybe I'm just bitter.

--Ben