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[Frumple]

Grandparents want to get their hands on a MacPherson study bible. Ask me to check online.

I go and check.

There are three. One by Dave MacPherson, one by John MacPherson, and one by William MacPherson. Grandparents do not know which one they're after.

Goddamnit people pick psuedonyms. Or if those were, pick other ones!

[Lord Shonus]

What sort of Christian are they? The different study bibles might be from different denominations, and that might narrow it down.

[Frumple]

No clue, honestly. I haven't paid terrible much attention (less interaction with the local churches make me a much happier person), and they interact with a handful of different denominations. Some variation of protestant, but more than that I don't think I ever asked nor overheard. And I think it's changed once or twice during my lifetime so vOv

[flabort]

But what about deadEarth? It's a free game of mutations where you can get awesome powers which you might get to use if you somehow survive character creation. If someone wants to start a deadEarth game, I would be totally down for it.

THAT. IS. HILLARIOUS.
And seriously, he's not bashing it as hard as those two guys bashed [NOPE]. I just read his char-gen article for "Last Chance" Jones. Heheheh.
I really aught to get around to writing an RPG of my own.

Edit: Reading Ian Jackson character rolls, get to radiation 14: Extra limb. The commentary on the mutation is.... very, very funny. :P:P

OHGODSTUMPY
"Even with his 11D6, he couldn't hit himself"
AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
 

If it would make you feel better, I could come over to Mafia and prove to these h8erz that Mafia isn't bad.

I would also have to learn how to play Mafia, though.

If OldNumberPlayers<GetPlayerCount() then
Let OldNumberPlayers=GetPlayerCount()
Let Fun=Fun*2
Let Good=Good+Fun
endif

Meaning, the more players the better, definitely join the mafia subforum. Learning isn't hard; I mean, it's vote, answer, and question.
Getting good at it is a bit tougher. Learning all the tells and signs and player-metas, it's a bit like learning how to wavedash (or what a wavedash is) in Smash Bros.

[Spehss _]

Feels like I have a slight twitch in my right eye. To check if this is the case, I go stare at my face in the mirror for a few minutes.

Dayum, I have a really intense thousand yard stare thing going. I weirded myself out. Can see how I might not seem like the friendliest of people in public if I just naturally look like that. Would you talk to some dude with a really intense mildly psycopathic looking stare? I wouldn't.

...and the twitch is still there.

[flabort]

Will 810% mastery of the Necromancy School, including all supplementary spells and level 19 spells work?

[flabort]

Heh. Zombie slave is for wimplings with access only to fourth level spells.
I can raise him as an immortal without any signs of ever dying, without any of that vampirism bulshit. Sure, you can tell when you try to heal him from then on, or cast a Harm spell at him, but other than that, he's basically not undead and immortal. Oh, and I'd double his HP, just to be sure.
Yes, he might be unable to resist my orders, but he'd be his own person so if I never gave him an order he'd be just as he was before.

[itisnotlogical]

dammit ukinojoe

i miss improv comedy games in drama class

[Greiger]

Spoiler: Another work WTF (click to show/hide)

Person has major virus issues on their computer.  It's completely outside of the scope of what I handle.  But they want to download an anti virus (way too late for that dude) and I'm supposed to help with that.

Conflicted with the 'always supposed to help customers download [brand of antivirus]' and 'always supposed to refer a customer to outside tech support for virus issues' I decide to give him the steps to try and download the AV while I am talking to the security assurance people to report a compromised system as per policy. While I know the AV won't work at this stage, the customer is fairly insistent and it's either spend the time on the phone arguing with him or spend the time showing him WHY we can't use our AV at this point.  But to be careful I specifically tell the person to not enter any account information.

Less than a minute later I'm still on the phone attempting to help the customer navigate the maze of ads and popups, while on text chat with security.  And I hear "It asked for my username and password, and when I entered it it came up with a blank page what do I do now?"

"You entered your username and password for your [redacted] account?"

"Yes, but it seems to be stuck now, so I think I put it in wrong, is my password [password information I am never supposed to know and requires an immediate password reset if I'm told]?"

I think I did as close to a ... as I probably can in real life.  I reset the password, after letting security know what happened they allowed me to 'neglect' to let the customer know the new temporary password.  They said it would make the customer reset their password again after all this got cleared up anyway.  Then security offered to take over the call.

I probably could have handled that better, but these people are told not to give their passwords to us techs and I also told him seconds ago to not enter any account information on the malware loaded system.  Is listening comprehension really that hard?

[Orange Wizard]

1^st rule of customer service: The customer is always right a complete and utter moron.

[itisnotlogical]

Never trust anybody to understand what you're saying about a computer issue. No matter how competent they appear, they will find some way to completely ignore your directions.

[RedKing]

Spoiler: Another work WTF (click to show/hide)

Person has major virus issues on their computer.  It's completely outside of the scope of what I handle.  But they want to download an anti virus (way too late for that dude) and I'm supposed to help with that.

Conflicted with the 'always supposed to help customers download [brand of antivirus]' and 'always supposed to refer a customer to outside tech support for virus issues' I decide to give him the steps to try and download the AV while I am talking to the security assurance people to report a compromised system as per policy. While I know the AV won't work at this stage, the customer is fairly insistent and it's either spend the time on the phone arguing with him or spend the time showing him WHY we can't use our AV at this point.  But to be careful I specifically tell the person to not enter any account information.

Less than a minute later I'm still on the phone attempting to help the customer navigate the maze of ads and popups, while on text chat with security.  And I hear "It asked for my username and password, and when I entered it it came up with a blank page what do I do now?"

"You entered your username and password for your [redacted] account?"

"Yes, but it seems to be stuck now, so I think I put it in wrong, is my password [password information I am never supposed to know and requires an immediate password reset if I'm told]?"

I think I did as close to a ... as I probably can in real life.  I reset the password, after letting security know what happened they allowed me to 'neglect' to let the customer know the new temporary password.  They said it would make the customer reset their password again after all this got cleared up anyway.  Then security offered to take over the call.

I probably could have handled that better, but these people are told not to give their passwords to us techs and I also told him seconds ago to not enter any account information on the malware loaded system.  Is listening comprehension really that hard?

Now imagine the end-user has a Federal security clearance. That used to be my life.

[Roundabout Lout]

Went for NBC article clickbait on Comcast's home page, to see and laugh about how the iPhone 6 can get bent.

Scrolled past the bottom where there's a second video about people picking up their new phones and saw....wait, what?

Scrolled back up....is that....Jontron? Somebody must've known who he was, his "cameo" is the preview still for the video.

Link

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mobile/flexible-display-new-iphone-6-prone-bending-some-users-find-n210051

[Aptus]

Went for NBC article clickbait on Comcast's home page, to see and laugh about how the iPhone 6 can get bent.

Scrolled past the bottom where there's a second video about people picking up their new phones and saw....wait, what?

Scrolled back up....is that....Jontron? Somebody must've known who he was, his "cameo" is the preview still for the video.

Link

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mobile/flexible-display-new-iphone-6-prone-bending-some-users-find-n210051

That does indeed look like jontron. The video editor might be a fan :p

[My Name is Immaterial]

It was him.
I didn't come up with a sentence with four words to get my original point across, so this extra sentence is a thing.