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  recruiting for a 2065 Macross game (Mekton)
Posted by: classicdrogn - 02-27-2013, 09:17 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (2)

Current discussion is tentative and based in Gamefaqs' Macross 30 board because the prospective GM and I are regulars there, but a P&P oriented home or dedicated yahoogroup would need to be found to actually run it in.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

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  Does anyone else get the feeling...?
Posted by: classicdrogn - 02-27-2013, 02:42 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun - Replies (26)

...that Obama has basically decided, "F!ck it, I'm on my second term anyway, I'm going to kick asses until some one starts getting things done?" He seems to be taing a rather harder line than the "Let's all work together, because it's all we need to get these thorny problems solved" platform he was originally elected on. Of course, Congress spent the entirety of his first term singing "Superfranticunproductivenothinglegislation" and generally refusing to budge from the party talking points save at gunpoint
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

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  Titanic II to set sail
Posted by: Dartz - 02-27-2013, 02:25 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (6)

Planned by Clive Palmer to be a close replica of the original ship, with modern machinery and safety standards, and unveiled there earlier today, Titanic II is expected to make her maiden transatlantic journey in 2016. Basically as a floating 1912 theme park.

Her designers said it would be the "safest cruise ship in the world."

Yeah.... they said that about the first one too....
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  Random Kvetching
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 02-26-2013, 05:03 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (20)

Trust me, you really don't need to read this; I'm just venting in a convenient space.


I didn't get much sleep on Sunday night because I stayed up for the Oscars, so I was looking forward to crashing early last night and making sure I got 8+ hours.  Peggy came home early (for once), herself exhausted, and crawled into bed as soon as she could get out of her work clothes -- at 5:30 PM.  She slept for about 5 hours while I puttered about doing laundry, cleaning up my hard drive and reading a bit.  About the time I decided it was time to crash, she woke back up and essentially began her evening, which often involves (as it did last night) telecommuting into her job and doing what she euphemistically refers to as "homework" until the wee hours of the morning.
I crawled into bed, but despite being exhausted and wanting desperately to sleep, I found myself drifting right on the edge of sleep for what seemed like hours, not quite awake, not quite dreaming.  I finally dropped off fully only to get awakened what felt like moments later -- by Peggy, who was shaking me and asking "What did you do to the TV?"  As I hadn't touched the TV since the Oscars on Sunday night, I had no idea what she was talking about. 
When I was full roused again, I noted it was just past 11 PM and staggered out to the living room to find our TV wouldn't stay on when turned on, and apparently couldn't be changed off one of the alternative inputs during the brief time the screen displayed anything.  I ended up spending nearly two hours trying to troubleshoot the problem, to no avail, while explaining to Peggy that yes, "what did you do to the TV?" did count as blaming me for breaking it, despite her mistaken belief that it actually meant "the TV is malfunctioning; please be a dear and and see if you can make it work for me?" 
After much poking, prodding and Google searching, I gave up at around 1 in the morning.  The best case diagnosis I can make is that the circuit board which actually addresses the screen is dead.  The worst case is obviously not the case, as the TV actually turns on and gives us a brief moment of screen life.  Also, this morning, Peggy announced she had eventually been able to get both DVD and cable sound through the TV, and after her own research she thought maybe the backlight had just burned out (although that was one of the things I tested for and eliminated -- which doesn't mean I did it right).  I'll be calling the manufacturer's support line when I get home tonight, but I'm not holding out hope -- it's an 8-year-old LCD HDTV, very firmly in obsolete territory according to some of the sites I read last night; Sharp didn't even have a manual available for it for download any more.  (Oh, yeah, it's a Sharp Aquos LC32D41U if anyone has any advice.)
Anyway, I barely got four hours' sleep before Peggy woke me again by climbing into the shower at quarter to five in the morning -- a full hour and a quarter earlier than she normally does.  She'd just turned off the water when my alarm went off.  I managed to drag myself out of bed again and go through my morning routine in the usual time, only to find her standing next to me in her coat and scarf as I was shaving, asking me why I was taking so long.  Despite denying that she was impatient, she took my car keys, loaded her stuff in the car, started it, and got in.  While I was still getting dressed, and drinking the massive cup of coffee I needed in order to be awake to drive.
When I finally got out there, she was still sitting in the car, and hadn't bothered to scrape the ice from the windows, which I had to do.
Oh, and my blood sugar was unusually high this morning, just to add to my stress.
So now I'm at work, on my third cup of coffee (artificial sweetener, of course), and trying hard not to zone out.  And feeling more than vaguely put-upon about the last 16 hours or so.  If you've read this far, thanks, but you really didn't have to.  Like I said, I just needed to spill this out somewhere.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  Alien Races in IST
Posted by: Mark Skarr - 02-26-2013, 11:15 AM - Forum: IST 25 Development - Replies (47)

This is a thread about the races in IST.  I'll start with the first two races, listed in I.S.T., and then see about converting some of the other races from GURPS Aliens.

Kyz (GURPS I.S.T. pgs 32-35)
44 points

Attributes Modifiers:  IQ +1 [20], DX +1 [20], HT -1 [-10].

Advantages:  Appearance (Attractive) [4], Acute Vision +3 [6], Empathy (Psionic, -10%) [14].

Disadvantages:  Shyness (Mild) [-5], Truthfulness [-5].

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  Is Anyone Having Trouble with the Champions Client?
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 02-26-2013, 02:23 AM - Forum: The Legendary - Replies (6)

After mine installed a patch a little while ago, it seems to be stuck in slow motion.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  Dalek Designer Passes Away
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 02-25-2013, 05:29 PM - Forum: General Chatter - No Replies

Ray Cusick, who created the look of the Daleks for Doctor Who, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/24 ... sses_away/]passed away in his sleep over the weekend.  He was 84.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  (RFC) My ship needs quirks
Posted by: Rajvik - 02-25-2013, 04:35 AM - Forum: Fenspace - Replies (11)
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Now she needs quirks, and i have to write up her AI, and i'm working on what dopple that will be, suggestions?
 

And comments.
I've spent the last few weeks working on this as well as a bit of a story telling how my character aquires it, and note when he gets it, its completely DEMILLED. No weaponry onboard what-so-ever. so here she is, the FCS Werewolf.

Quote:Ship build: cargo ship/Escort carrier

Name: Fen Convention Ship (FCS) Werewolf

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Propulsion
Four Bell Hydrogen Turbo-shafts powering four 12 inch water-jet pumps to twin outlets
Length
Overall Length: 610 ft
Waterline Length: 580 ft
Beam
Extreme Beam: 84 ft. (25.6m)
Waterline Beam: 84 ft. (25.6m)
Draft
Maximum Navigational Draft: 21 ft
Draft Limit: 21 ft (6.4m)
Displacement
Light Displacement: 10000 tons
Full Displacement: 16360 tons
Dead Weight: 4889 tons
Well Deck
440 feet long, 50 feet wide, floodable to 10 feet aft, 6 feet forward
Water Barrier
12 feet 3 inches high, 50 feet long,
divides well deck into forward (dry) and aft (wet) compartments
Landing Deck
Two spots, 212 feet long, 83 feet wide airlocks available
Speed
25+ knots in the water

.035C in space
Landing Craft
6-LCM6
Combat Systems
AN/SPS-49 Air Search Radar (waved)
AN/SPS-67 Surface Search Radar (waved)
AN/SPS-64 Navigation Radar (waved)

Armament
6-57mm Rotary Coil guns
Generators
Four MEPPs units powered by Bell Hydrogen turbines
Ship's Boats
6-F57B Strike Sabre

6-F44C Rapier II

Or

18-VF1 Valkyrie
Cranes
6-60-ton gantry cranes
Turntables
36 foot diameter, 360 degree rotation
Crew
Minimum: 20 (Humans/android frames) + AI

Capacity: 600 (Humans/android frames)
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  RIP Chieko Honda
Posted by: robkelk - 02-24-2013, 07:02 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (2)

Chieko Honda played Kozue in Utena, Kurumi in Kimagure Orange Road, Nami in Silent Mobius, Amy in Gall Force, Chelsea in Riding Bean, Azusa in Ask Dr. Rin!, Tellu in Sailor Moon S, and over a hundred other roles.

She passed away on February 18.

She was one of the better seiyuu, in my opinion...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

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  Anyone here read Gold Digger?
Posted by: Jorlem - 02-24-2013, 12:52 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (16)

Because in celebration of reaching issue #200, Antarctic Press put it online.  All of it.  As pdfs.  Take a look.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

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