Public Address | Cafe | Up Front: All I Want for Christmas is a Dark Elf Thief

Hadyn Green

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:28:20 +1300

And not just elves, there's also the Krampus. And here's a pattern to make one if you want.

tussock

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:53:13 +1300

If St. Nick knows when you've been Good or Evil, why doesn't he get off his lazy ass more than once a year and deliver a little more than a lump of coal to all the blackguards out there? I mean, dude's got a whole army of elves tucked away…

giovanni tiso

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:41:22 +1300

My son and I saw one of those at the museum of science and technology in Milan. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't mind celebrating it once a year – so long as he still gets to have presents.

Paul Litterick

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:23:20 +1300

Take the Christ out, you're left with mass

Almost, but not quite. You are left with mas, an acronym for Motoscafo Armato Silurante

Public Servant on a tea-break.

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:50:33 +1300

It is just lovely to know so many people posting here have heard the sound of funny shaped dice, rattled in anger....

Ray Gilbert

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:27:41 +1300

Anyone out there ever play Talislanta then? Lots of fun for 1980s geeks and stoners!

Emma Hart

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:01:21 +1300

That's quite a look your character is cultivating there...

It's a proud tradition.

Julian Melville

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:45:02 +1300

the gap in my character's armour between the bottom of her steel bikini and the top of her thigh boots.

That's quite a look your character is cultivating there...

Sam F

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:39:37 +1300

This in answer to the inevitable letter to the paper whining about the christ being taken out of Christmas
I always look at this as a theological dispute. Take the Christ out, you're left with mass. So Catholics, happy. Others, not so much.

Heh. Growing up in a Catholic household,…

Kyle Matthews

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:21:10 +1300

This in answer to the inevitable letter to the paper whinning about the christ being taken out of Christmas

I always look at this as a theological dispute. Take the Christ out, you're left with mass. So Catholics, happy. Others, not so much.

Paranoia. AYERGH! I had completely buried that…

Emma Hart

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:02:05 +1300

Oh, and it's not just Christmas. Weight Watchers is an RPG:

As with an RPG, you roll a virtual character, manage your inventory and resources, and try to achieve a goal. Weight Watchers' points function precisely like hit points; each bite of food does damage until you've used up your…

Sam F

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:51:28 +1300

There's always the Progress Quest Christmas model, where you go through the whole thing on autopilot and occasionally laugh merrily at your achievements (Level 41 Bankrupt? Wowz!)

Andrew Stevenson

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:51:23 +1300

Well little Citizen, what do you want to know about Santa?

I'm afraid that information is not available at your security clearance, please report for reactor shielding duty...

Emma Hart

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:39:44 +1300

Okay, that was fun. Now do a RuneQuest version, for the hardcore gamers.

Even I have my limits. It's been a good fifteen years or so since I started refusing to play anything where it takes more than an hour to make up a character.

Paranoia. AYERGH! I had completely…

BenWilson

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:32:20 +1300

Having no chimney, the only way in for Santa is via the catflap. I guess I'll tell my boy that Santa is outsourcing to elves these days.

JackElder

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:08:12 +1300

Paranoia

Trust Santa. Santa is your friend.

giovanni tiso

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:42:37 +1300

Okay, that was fun. Now do a RuneQuest version, for the hardcore gamers.

Paranoia etc

Paranoia. AYERGH! I had completely buried that in some dark recess of my brain.

On the other hand I have made my panforte, which obviously must be easy if I can manage it and goes…

Raymond A Francis

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:17:45 +1300

On the other hand I have made my panforte, which obviously must be easy if I can manage it and goes down a treat
Two different types this year as well

Raymond A Francis

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:15:44 +1300

One of the ways I deal with christmas is to talk endlessly about how the christians stole it from us (pagans that is) and we are now in the process of taking it back

This in answer to the inevitable letter to the paper whinning about the christ being taken…

Joe Wylie

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:52:23 +1300

Amazing, the things you find funny when you're a kid.
Hey, still works for me. That was one talented nine year old..

True. Laughed till my ribs hurt over plenty that weren't that good when I was nine. What a good school you went to.

Sacha

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:27:45 +1300

Amazing, the things you find funny when you're a kid.

Hey, still works for me. That was one talented nine year old..

Sacha

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:26:52 +1300

Collateral damage..

Isabel Hitchings

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:36:08 +1300

I just hit the beloved other-half with a +40 rage-bolt after he neglected to check the oven before turning it on and burned approximately 30 salt-dough decorations the kids had made thus requiring me to start the "handmade gifts for the children to give all the rellies" mission all over…

Emma Hart

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:54:50 +1300

Ah yes, but have you downloaded the Scrooge module?

I was raised by a Presbyterian, I came with that installed.

BenWilson

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:54:04 +1300

With Christmas shopping I'm not sure if Damage Per Second or Health/Armor or Healing is most important. An ideal party will have all three. Speed and stealth are also important attributes. It's a dungeon that's really just too high level for me, I expect to get party wiped when my…

Sam F

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:24:36 +1300

Ah yes, but have you downloaded the Scrooge module?

Welcome! Particularly if you're the Leo Brown I suspect you might be. :)

Leo Rae-Brown

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:05:14 +1300

Ah yes, but have you downloaded the Scrooge module?

Rob Hosking

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:33:34 +1300

Also, reminds me of a modernised song:
Old McDonald had a farm, 925200

When in Standard 3 (no, I don't know what that is in the New Maths, but I was nine) the kid at the next desk came out with:

'Mary Had a little lamb, the doctor was surprised;…

81stcolumn

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:26:54 +1300

92520oooh ? 81st humming away

FWIW I am on my last non-Christmas (No telly, pressies, dinner, cards and definitely no decorations etc.) Baby bloke is 18ths next time round do you think they'll have a 3D FPS by then ? Any other advice ?

Duke Xmas 3D perhaps we could…

Dinah Dunavan

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:06:31 +1300

From YouTube
Roleplaying games.

Oh oh oh. That was Sweets, when a somewhat younger boy.

Lucy Stewart

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:06:04 +1300

Thanks for the heads up on Drinking Liberally – it's my first Thursday evening off since...April. Sounds like an excellent way to celebrate this fact.

Rich of Observationz

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:00:47 +1300

Paisley, Florida, USA

That makes me want to visit!

Also, reminds me of a modernised song:
Old McDonald had a farm, 925200

Hamboy

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:51:20 +1300

GTA: WalMart Mission Pack. Self-explanatory.

How about GTT. Grand Theft Trolley?

Kumara Republic

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:44:20 +1300

In light of recent events overseas...

GTA: WalMart Mission Pack. Self-explanatory.

Heather W.

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:41:46 +1300

I have this life thing, wierd though it might seem. Also, I dislike science fiction, linux, darkwave and a plasma telly is #32767 on my shopping list.
Does that make me geek-incompatible?

32767 is a very geeky number – highest possible integer in 16 bit – what made you choose…

Hamboy

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:39:25 +1300

Just have to make sure I don't switch to FPS mode

A BFG would be just what one needs to handle the mall.

Emma Hart

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:35:27 +1300

I'm sure people who didn't know what "RPG" stood for will be much clearer for that explanation.

Ah yes, online dictionaries. Such a great way of explaining what acronyms stand for.

Jake Pollock

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:30:35 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJAGxAeV7YU

Roleplaying games.

Lyndon Hood

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:26:46 +1300

D&D, Paranoia etc

I'm sure people who didn't know what "RPG" stood for will be much clearer for that explanation.

Kyle Matthews

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:25:42 +1300

I have this life thing, wierd though it might seem. Also, I dislike science fiction, linux, darkwave and a plasma telly is #32767 on my shopping list.

Your shopping list goes to 5 figures? *cough*Geek*sneeze*

Kerry Weston

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:25:09 +1300

Just designed a calender which goes directly from the end of November straight to January.Very popular and much cheaper than the old one.

I want one.

darkwave

Is that some kinda geeky hairdo?

Rich of Observationz

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:13:55 +1300

Bloody non-Gamers.

I have this life thing, wierd though it might seem. Also, I dislike science fiction, linux, darkwave and a plasma telly is #32767 on my shopping list.

Does that make me geek-incompatible?

(BTW, if you like that stuff, I'm not dissin you. Each to their own, I say...)

Emma Hart

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:13:09 +1300

Watch the glee with which a bunch of gamers find themselves, for once, not feeling like the losers in the room, and mocking the non-gamers.
It's like feeding nerdy piranhas.

Oh go on, they're adorable. I love to rub their tummies and make their legs kick.

Kyle Matthews

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:46:40 +1300

Bloody non-Gamers.

Watch the glee with which a bunch of gamers find themselves, for once, not feeling like the losers in the room, and mocking the non-gamers.

It's like feeding nerdy piranhas.

Andrew Stevenson

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:36:52 +1300

To be fair, I think a rocket propelled grenade is really getting into the christmas spirit

Bah humbg indeed

Craig Ranapia

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:35:53 +1300

I think it's easier to get through Christmas if you treat it like a screwball comedy — where nobody comes out with their dignity entirely intact, but it all more or less works out in the end.

Idiot Savant

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:33:14 +1300

Rocket Propelled Grenade?

Bloody non-Gamers.

Ian MacKay

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:29:29 +1300

Just designed a calender which goes directly from the end of November straight to January.Very popular and much cheaper than the old one.

Andrew Stevenson

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:25:39 +1300

Role Playing Game

D&D, Paranoia etc

Rich of Observationz

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:23:35 +1300

Rocket Propelled Grenade?

Emma Hart

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:19:01 +1300

Just have to make sure I don't switch to FPS mode

I'm still not sure whether there's PVP on this server. Those other bastards don't appear to be on my side...

Andrew Stevenson

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:16:51 +1300

Christmas as an RPG, classic.

Just have to make sure I don't switch to FPS mode

Public Address

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:16:51 +1300

Discussion from blog post.