...and he might even be over his cold by the time this rolls around. http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?p=945803]Spotted on the SJGames Forums:

Quote:USA The Fallout Shelter New Brunswick, NJ March 18th Chez Cthulhu Launch!

MIB 6687 will be Launching Chez Cthulhu on Thursday March 18th from 6:30PM till ??? at: (NEW ADDRESS!!!)

The Fallout Shelter Comics, Games & Collectibles
264 GEORGE STREET
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-354-4520

%[link=http://falloutsheltercomics.com/]http://falloutsheltercomics.com/]

There will be Munchkin Promo Goodness for all who attend/play!!!!

Prepare for an encounter with the most sanity-blasting entities in all the dimensions . . .

Your roommates.

Chez Cthulhu brings the horror of Lovecraft's Mythos right into your apartment . . . as if the leftovers from the Pizza with Absolutely Everything weren't bad enough. Work your job – will you be a Morgue Janitor, a Sanitarium Guard, or a Gravedigger? Buy things to give you Slack, like a comforting Straitjacket . . . or some Friendly Tentacles to make your day a little brighter. Invite people over to your room . . . and sacrifice them! And Nookie . . . don't forget the Nookie. Preferably without the Ectoplasmic Slime.

Chez Cthulhu combines the classic Chez Geek system with everyone's favorite Elder God. . . and adds a new Madness mechanic. This set includes 110 cards and two blanks, a die, and counters for both Slack and Madness.

Warning: Mixing Chez Cthulhu with Chez Geek can lead to bouts of giggling and excessive silliness. The game itself will play just fine, as long as your brain doesn't break when you use "cigarette" and "tentacle" interchangeably.

Coke's 2009 Superbowl Commercial -- The Heist.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Give it a try.  I haven't, yet, but I'm on my way.  Flash game.  Hint:  Don't expect the cursor to change to show you where things you can take or manipulate are.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

So, as a Fileplanet Subscriber, I received an invitation into the Xbox 360 Multiplayer beta.  Despite never having heard of the game, or having any idea what kind of game it was, I decided to check it out.  It's best described as Mario-Kart, only with real licensed cars, and with a MW2 style experience and perks system. Races support up to 20 players, depending on what type of race it is.  Power-ups are fixed, rather then random. It's possible to gain exp and make progress even if you finish dead last. No NDA, so ask away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH0y3_-j ... re=related

Spun off from the "Only Brown People Are Terrorists" thread:

M Fnord Wrote:

Quote:because of some coincidental parallels between my Teenagers from Outer Space campaign webpage and the anthrax attacks

Okay, you're going to have to explain that one in greater detail.

Quote:

If You're A Journalist...

In the wake of the anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, I've been contacted
by a number of journalists representing publications ranging from
little religious journals to Newsweek. Why? Because the bogus
return address for one of the anthrax letters included the phrase "Greendale
School". If you're a journalist and reading this page, you've probably done
what the others did -- plugged "Greendale" into Google or another search engine
and then decided I looked a lot more interesting than Greendale, WI or the
Greendale Elementary School in Abingdon, Virginia or the Greendale Stables
Horse Game.


Not a problem. It's your job to check out obscure leads and see if they
go anywhere. However...


Almost all of the reporters who have contacted me have been appallingly
ignorant of just what this page is about. As a result, they have asked me a
lot of questions that they could have answered for themselves by actually
browsing the text below, checking out a couple of the links, and (if
they wanted) reading a smattering of the game transcripts to see what
actually goes on. Most seem
to have merely glanced at this page, jumped to a wild conclusion, and then
decided to call me with vague accusations and insinuations. A few,
including a Pulitzer-nominated writer for a major national newsmagazine
(who really ought to know better) seemed bound and determined to
misunderstand anything I told them while at the same time fishing for
sensationalistic details (quote from said Pulitzer-nominated reporter:
"Who would the FBI subpoena if they wanted to find out more about who
played in your game?"). Some have been polite. But most have been insulting,
rude and accusatory.


I just wanted to tell you -- I'm perfectly willing to chat with any
journalist who wants to take the time to talk to me. But don't waste
my time. If you don't know what a roleplaying game (RPG) is,
find out. It's not that hard, we're mainstream enough these days
that one game got a (terribly bad) movie in 2000, and Hasbro owns one of
the bigger RPG publishers (Wizards of the Coast). If you can't understand how a game can be played
over a computer without it being a computer game, find out.
If the only reason you want to contact me is because this page has the
word "Greendale" on it, and you don't understand what it is we're doing,
perform some proper research before calling.


I've been a newspaper stringer in my time, and I have been
embarrassed on behalf of the journalistic trade by the combination of
pathetic ignorance and towering arrogance displayed by some of the
reporters who have contacted me. You wouldn't send as a correspondent
to Japan a bigot who's never seen an Asian person and can't speak
anything but English; don't do the functional equivalent with gamers
like myself. I'm not going to give you a grounding in the hobby,
and you shouldn't expect it, any more than you would expect an education
in the basics of football if you were interviewing an NFL coach for the
first time. That I don't feel inclined to spoon-feed you the research
you should have done before calling me may make me inconvenient to lazy
reporters, but it's only reasonable. You're calling me because of the
anthrax attacks, after all, not to learn how to play TFOS.



Although if you're seriously interested in learning the game, I
could certainly arrange something.


-- Bob Schroeck, 8 November 2001

A cool collage of different versions of Superman's "S" emblem. 
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Inside the mind of Newsweek on "terrorism"
Liberal bias of source acknowledged, but he links directly to the discussion. They literally, in their own words, argue that engaging in terroristic acts does not make you a terrorist (ignoring their incredibly self-serving, imperialistic definition of "terroristic acts"). I am rather depressed by the first world today.

Is now available for prepurchase at the NCSOFT store!... I haz it now..do you? *grin*

Well, the current Rec thread was getting long in the tooth:
Long Sabrina Online Self-insert whose value may be inflated in my head from "Early Fanfic Buzz":
Identity Crisis
http://www.ic-stories.com/Act-I/index.htm
Warning, fic is ten years old, and may include dated memes because of this.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll