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[Haspen]

...I have to get Shadowrun.

[Vertigon]

Got around to starting that LP of The Void that I bookmarked ages ago. Lately I've been feeling increasingly listless, so it was nice to have something to do for a while :b

[Solifuge]

Finally got together with my friends to play our first session of Shadowrun. Even though we spent most of the session getting a job, scrounging for information from our contacts, and screwing the pooch with our first major lead, it was a lot of fun. I love the idea of an adventuring party who risk their lives not for the sake of justice or heroism, but to pay the rent on their crappy apartment in Fantasy-Cyberpunk Seattle... or in my character's case to keep the Elven Mafia off his back, and put gas into his "mobile home" (read: work van).

Spoiler: Highlights from the session (click to show/hide)

Our team's Private Eye/Sorcerer set up a meeting in the slums with the leader of a local gang, whom we were being paid to "take care of" after he wronged our employer and made off with some illicit goods; rather than drugs, they were pushing an addictive "Better Than Life" microchip that interfaced directly with their users' brains. However, the PI's contact ended up ratting us out to the gang's leader, and the "meeting" was an ambush. The PI and our team's heavily-cybernetic Troll Bountyhunter were trapped in the room, while my driver/hacker elf and the team ex-military weapons guy were standing watch outside. Our Troll pretty much obliterated them with an automatic shotgun, and his cybered nervous system had him practically dodging bullets. In the end, one of them managed to get away, but the PI Magicked the guy who ratted us out into submission, we dragged him into my guy's work van for further questioning, and managed to pawn the thugs' bodies off on a small-time gang for their organs/cyberware. All things considered, it went pretty well for the overture to our first job!

...I have to get Shadowrun.

It's a tough game for a GM to run, and the rules are complex even for a tabletop game; the combat system is deadly and fairly deep, modeling things like ammunition types, recoil and recoil-suppression, and the affects of continuous or burst fire on accuracy. Also, as a hacker, I need to have conceptual knowledge of actual computer hacking and network architecture in order to know how to do what I want to do. Once you get past the learning curve though, it's incredibly fun to play... not unlike DF in that regard.

[10ebbor10]

Apparently they found the Highs Boson, or at least some new particle.

[Reudh]

There we are. I don't remember the pronunciation, but the translation of that sentence is "I am special."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Euld]

Got to see The Amazing Spiderman movie, it's pretty good actually.  No idea if it takes a dump on, sets fire to, and utterly desecrates the canon of the comic, but I saw enough thoughtful craft of writing to suggest that it wasn't put together by a roomful of monkeys with typewriters.

[Rilder]

Ahh the sweet smell and feel of very much needed rain and wind after an absolutely monstrous day of heat and humidity.

[bukitodinos]

that Just means more humidity

[Mego]

My girlfriend is amazing. We can talk for hours on end, and never run out of things to talk about. She's incredibly sweet, and she brings out the best in me.

<333333333333

[miauw62]

that Just means more humidity

But less temperature, hopefully.

[JoshuaFH]

What the hell?! What the fuck? Is this the reason you've been giving me sleep troubles body? THIS IS THE STUPIDEST FUCKING REASON EVER YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?

BECAUSE I'M NOT STRETCHING AND YAWNING BEFOREHAND?

Explanation: I read on article to help me sleep, and it said to stretch and yawn before going to bed and you'll sleep better.

http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2009/04/ask-dr-g-i-use-nyquil-to-help.html

That's the stupidest thing to ever work nature, why you do this to me? and yet, it does work, for two nights in a row. I can't believe it was GLAMOUR that gave me good advice.

[Duke 2.0]

Drinking a cup or two of water also helps out

[Frumple]

I've done something silly, ahaha. Main computer user's gone for several days, so I've rearranged everything to be able to sit at silly desk thing comfortably. This entailed moving the massage chair thing to be used as a seat... which didn't really fit under the desk. Not a big deal for the keyboard, but with the mouse it was pretty awkward... for a bit I was using the comfychair's arm rests to hold the mouse pad. Kinda' annoying.

So! I moved the previous computer chair, a fairly plain wooden one, to sit beside the comfychair, then stacked up a number of books (Including such luminaries as a couple of volumes of the encyclopedia of philosophy and a pair of phonebooks) until it was high enough to comfortably place the mouse. I am now supremely comfortable and ready to compvege for like, the next 36 hours or so.

It's times like this that I really do enjoy being an environment raping human. It prepares us well for little adjustments like this~

[Rose]

I'm not sure weather I should be happy or sad about this, but basically, I'm looking for a new smartphone, and my criteria are:

1ghz or more processor
Android
Querty Keyboard
Must be within my price range.

These are the ones that match: http://tinyurl.com/7mxdg3y

Out of those, three are carrier locked.

And two are exactly the same other than screen and battery size.

Leaving me one option. I'm normally used to having to chose between a bunch of similar phones. Not sure how I want to feel about there being really only one option.

[RedKing]

30-minute Reiki full-body massage. After a week or so of back pain and strained hamstrings, my body feels like a Slinky now. if the copay weren't so damn high, I'd have that done at least twice a month.