Just a heads up. You may have noticed that I haven't been in game all week. My account expired and I have no ready cash to get it updated. I'm between jobs at the moment and have to be really careful with my funds. Fortunately, I have a line on a tech support job that looks good (I've worked with them before) so hopefully I'll be able to get my account updated and running again before Issue 10 hits.
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Nigerian email scammers meet the Cult of Cthulu!!
Has to be the funniest damn thing I've seen today. Thought I'd share. ^_^
-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Still a WIP, but submitted for your comments anyway.

www.ananova.com/news/stor...79263.html
*tilts head*
*considers*
That's pretty cool if not very functional. :p

www.nytimes.com/slideshow...HOW_1.html
Photos of players and their avators from various games. NY Times.

It occured to me that there are seveal series who's fen might band together as a bounty hunting and/or mercenary guild.
Cowboy Bebop, City Hunter, The A-Team, Bubblegum Crisis (the Knightsabers are mercs after all), Slayers (Lina often collects bounties), ect.
I figure that they are propbably rivals with Hidden Asteroid due to overlap of jobs (both groups provide muscle, bodyguards, collect bounties, ect.)__________________
I bet that if you cooked an elephant, you'd have a lot of leftovers.
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

AMAZING video of dude playing songs on his hands.
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Trooper*********
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
www.venganza.org

Now we'll have to come up with another excuse to say why man-made global warming doesn't exist.

...from the Virtue Wiki.
The Magical Girl category on the wiki has attracted a couple people who want to do away with it, including one who doesn't know what a magical girl is so thinks it just means a teenaged female with a Magic origin, and another who seems to think that having it will inevitably lead to a million categories like "left-handed Norwegian redheads with mixed tech and magic powers". (Discussion here, for anyone interested.)
Anyway, in the course of the discussion, this comment was made, which I found absolutely hilarious:

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I think "Magical Girl" is a valid category because it refers to a specific archetype which is a combination of more and more specific traits than female, teenager, and magic - the same way that "vampire" is more than combination of magic, undead, and oversexed.

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'Okay, what the hell?' The idea is to have fun by coming up with a reasonably detailed and plausible plan for the space race of an alternate world where the events of the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries resulted in a relatively small number of continent-spanning major nations rather than the endless sprawl of small ones seen in the real world. The only reason it's even that different a world is that funding a competitive space program is nontrivial.
Judging who gets there first - or best - is kind of up in the air until I know how much interest there is; at the moment I'm expecting to rely on a good-faith consensus amoung the entrants.
Things I'd say'd be needed for a full entry off the top of my head: An overall game plan, a mission plan, and thumbnail dossiers on all hardware required for both.
I've got a plan entry in hand and I'll try and work up at least one dossier before class today so people can see what I'm thinking of.
Ja, -n

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