Ethan_2

Addresses

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:20:16 GMT

Since it is 6AM when this thought occured to me, and I doubt people would appreciate being called at this hour, I decided to toss this up here instead.

If I could get Beth and Sally's current adresses (Sally, I think that you read this LJ anyway), so just in case I need to send them anything about the apartment, I can do so. This is a serious request too, so please respond here ASAP.

It's Time to Light the Lights....

Thu, 31 May 2007 03:33:30 GMT

..... It's time for The Battle of Hams Deep on The Muppet Show tonight! ^_^!

http://www.silversnail.com/shop/m-muppets.html

Seriously, this stuff is funny as hell, and yet really well done. Check it out!

No Definition Required

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:33:40 GMT

Joseph Barbera......

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:05:42 GMT

So...

Joseph Barbera died today, at the ripe old age of 95. With his passing, the last half of the Hanna-Barbera team is gone.

Along with the other classic cartoon Animators, like Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Walt Disney....

End of an era. End of a fucking era.

I don't think its wrong to cry now. Not at all. =(

The Black Hole of Brain Drainess......

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:49:19 GMT

The following post was recently made on RPG.net....and belive me, my brain is hurting something feirce right now...

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=289848

For those of you who can't, for some fluke, read the post, I will repost it here.

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So my friends and I, successful professionals, were considering hiring a GM full time but we don't know much much to pay such a person. This is why this thread is here and not in the freelancing forum; it's research leading to a post over there.

We want someone to run an original campaign in a world of our choosing and give us the full game treatment. Maps, minis if necessary, occassional props like letters, all combined with fleshed out NPCs, interesting storylines, etc. The system might be D&D 3.5 or Ars Magica or something like that but it would never too rules light and never at the level of Hero. Materials would be bought and paid for by the group, not the GM.

This would be a weekly game, 6 to 8 hours in length.

There probably be some e-mail correspondence with the GM and players, an amount agreed upon at the start of the campaign.

Now I realize that GMing like what I've talked about above can soak up plenty of time, to the extent that it might preclude the GM having a full time job.

We'd have an audition or two, of course, but once the GM is choosen, we intend to give the GM a fair wage. A business contract between the players and our hired GM would spell out our arrangement. I want the GM to be happy and believe in paying them what they believe they are worth across a specified period of time. Once the GM is hired, I'd want them to be comfortable in the knowledge that they've been hired for a months-long period (e.g.I wouldn't want them to think they're going to be fired after a mediocre game or one in which there was a TPK or something.) We wouldn't be looking for a GM that would make us happy by hand-holding our characters; we're looking for someone to give us fun, powerful gaming experiences (and all the PC mortality that something like that might imply).

My point is -- how much do we pay someone like that? What monthly salary would be appropriate? Now I realize there are plenty of vagaries here, from the type of system etc., but assume a D&D 3.5 game (nothing we'd play would ever get more rulesy than that) for the purposes of the question.

And, yes, I realize it's quite strange evolving something from a hobby to a business arrangement but, for the sake of discussion, please address my query, not the validity or the wisdom behind it.

- Ian

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Now....my question is this....while for many gamers, their dream is to get paied for being involved in their hobby, but how far gone would you have to be to work as a Game Master for someone elses whims as a pay check?

It's just...strikes me as being completely inpractacle, not to mention what I'd consider being the effect on the GM who agreed to take that job. How fast would it be before they completely burnt out and had to quit, wich, might form a breech of contract.

Or...perhaps I'm just fumeing at the the idea, that 4-5 "professionals" have enough desposible income to pay someone a yearly salary to run a DAMN GAME for their sorry asses!! So, I think I'm going to go back to fumeing now, and slam my head against my wall at how my Hobby is progressing.

Announcement

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:59:37 GMT

I have completed the moving process.

That is all.

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:06:40 GMT

To my various managers.....

Fuck off.

That is all.

Longest Combat

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:14:04 GMT

D&D Combat that starts in one room and ends up running into another room with even more bad guys.

9 Hours Real Time

2 Minutes 24 seconds D&D Time.

THAT is tactical, minature based, D&D combat. Accept no imitations.

Randomness

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:40:10 GMT

Undead generating, sentient boxes of doom can kiss my dice slinging ass.

That is all.

This one's for you Jared....

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:53:57 GMT

http://www.cthulhuthemovie.com/

Yeeeup. Someone is makeing a Cthullhu movie. Far as I can tell though, this one is very much an Indy project. It's being made by a pair of relative un-knowns in the movie industry and seems to be focusing on the Cult of Cthulu as opposed to the actual beast himself.

Who knows. It might be good. As as the works of H.P Lovecraft have inspired more than afew Call of Cthullhu RPGs, I'll offically categorize this one as an RPG movie just for the sake of argument. So I hope that it'll be good....

Just remember...

That is not dead which can eternal lie.....And with strange aeons even death my die....

>=3

RPG De-motivational posters

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:55:58 GMT

I was browsing RPG.net forums, and I ended up finding these RPG "Motivational" posters and they were so funny I thught I'd toss them up here so that everyone can take a look see. It's alot of images, so I put em behind a cut here....

A Shadowrun E-mail....

Wed, 24 May 2006 05:12:47 GMT

PAN to PAN Transfer
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From: Janet
To: Hex, Felix, Sami, Mako, Bookwyrm and Whispers
Subject: Group Code of Conduct

Okay team, I feel that I should cover this since there was a little bit of debate tonight about how we were going to take down the DocWagon facility. I will not embarass the team member by mentioning their name, or the details of the plan, but suffice to say the plan had a high chance of not working and causing alot of collateral death amoung the security crew. So, I feel that I should clarify a few important points.

1.) We are professionals, and I expect us to act like it. I will not tolerate rageing violent psycopaths in my team. Yes, corp security is a bitch sometimes, but that does not mean we should go out of our way, or take needless risks that might get great numbes of them killed. Remember, they're people with friends and family too. Leathal force will usually be this teams last option. Gel rounds and other incapacitating weapons aren't that expensive.

Of coruse, things like Insect Spirits, mass murdering Toxic Shamans, genocidal Humanis members and other such things, are exceptions, and will be judged on a case by case basis.

2.) It is not this teams policy to accept Wetwork missions. Unless its one of the afore mentioned exceptions, we will not have anything to do with assassinations and other such "murder for hire" missions. If you have a problem with this, find another team. If I find any member of this team accepting such a mission behind my back, not only will I toss you out of this team, I will make sure you never work in the city of Seattle again. If that's the kind of work you want to engage in, find a Shadowrunning team that engages in that kind of work.

If anyone has a problem with this, you can leave now and I won't hold it against them. Hell if they want, I'll write them a reccomendation letter. But, I'm not going to budge on this.

-Janet Brunwald

Free at last....

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:39:30 GMT

Well, as some of you know, I finally flipped out at Karen yesterday and told her to "Get out of my life and never come back." I was afraid of some form of repercussion, but today she made a post in her LJ that basically said that she was as glad to be as rid of me as I was glad to be rid of her.

Albeit, she did call me a "spoiled, no-talent hack", but I'm just glad that she's gone. A clean break. Its over finito. Done. Thank, frikin God....

Time to come out and say it....

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:56:26 GMT

The following message does not apply to all my net friends and Red or Brea, so feel free to skip on by.

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I've been debating how to go about doing this for weeks now, but there is no nice way to say this. There is no nice way to tell someone that you don't want to hang out with them anymore. But, I'm sorry Shin, I have no desire to play in your D&D campaigns anymore.

They're bad...almost the living manifestation of what I consider bad D&D campaigns. I really thought that after the Exodus campaign and some of the criticims that he got, he would have changed things, but the last session I sat in on was just how I remembered the last one.

I know this is probably going to tank what friendships I had at that apartment, but I call them like I see them, and I just don't want to play in his style of campaign anymore. So,crucify me if you want to, but I'm not changeing my opinion on this one.

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:52:45 GMT

God, Bhudda, and any other divne or quazi divine beings that might be out there, please, please give me the strength to make it through the rest of this quarter. And please have my teachers show enough mercy that they'll help me out for a change....

P.S.: Evil deities and the Wyrm need not apply.

Throttle Me Elmo!

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:48:58 GMT

The follownig is something that a Vampire PC of mine discovered off of a demonically possessed Tickle Me Elmo doll in http://www.thehollowcity.com/

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on the front side:

A Toy by Uncle Drossy

On the reverse:

Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Throttle Me Elmo.
Caution: Throttle Me Elmo may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Throttle Me Elmo Contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use Throttle Me Elmo on concrete.

Discontinue use of Throttle Me Elmo if any of the following occurs:
Itching
Vertigo
Dizziness
Tingling in extremities
Loss of balance or coordination
Slurred speech
Temporary blindness
Profuse sweating
Heart palpitations
Random Toy Attacks

If Throttle Me Elmo begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
Throttle Me Elmo may stick to certain types of skin.

When not in use, Throttle Me Elmo should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration...

Failure to do so relieves the makers of Throttle Me Elmo , Uncle Drossy's Toys Ltd. of any and all liability.

Ingredients of Throttle Me Elmo include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.

Throttle Me Elmo has been shipped to our troops in Afganistan and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.

Do not taunt Throttle Me Elmo.

Throttle Me Elmo comes with a lifetime guarantee.

Throttle Me Elmo!

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:17:00 GMT

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/imageviewer.html?/info/underdev/1p9/,images/general/,6,12,http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/

New end game armor set for Paladins in WoW. Cause sometimes you just got to stop playing "nice" and lay down a heafty hammer of retribution, Inquisitor style.

Purge the mutant, the alien, the heratic....

headdesk

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:58:50 GMT

I'm so screwed right now. My Mixed Media class has been nothing but a running disastor since day one. Projects being stolen, things being lost, and today, the tutoring that I was supposed to be getting ended up falling through.

Don't know who's fault it was....probably mine since I forgot to call to make sure that things were gonna happen. It had been about half a week since I had mentioned it to Sara. This class was probably the easiest of all the ones I had and now I'm probably going to fail it.

Damn it...I hate it. I hate everything about my life right now. I'm tired of being a burden to all my friends. They're probably all sick to death of hearing me mope and bitch on a regular basis. I can't really blame them. Friends of mine that are in trouble I can't help, the others I'm just a pain in the ass too. How am I supposed to help people who are close to being evicted when I'm a walking disaster.

I'm so screwed up metally right now. Totally confused as to what my sexuality is. I was so sure for a time period, I was positive that I was Trans-sexual. But now I'm so fucking confused about everything that its just adding to my problems. Hell, I'm terrified of telling the Martinsburg group about how I feel. I don't want them to look at me like some kind of freak. I don't want to loose them like I did my friends back in High School.

I'm a failure. My GPA is total crap and I know it. I don't do the work that I'm supposed to. I do everything that I shouldn't do in my school. I know all of this and I don't do a fucking thing to change it. Why?! WHY!? I'm ruining my life and I'm not doing anything to change it! I'm draining my parents resorces, my drawing still sucks, I'm one fucking dead weight on everyone I know and care about.

There are some days, that I wake up in the morning and think that it would just be better if I died in a car crash or a heart attack, or something. I'd stop being a burden to everyone. I hate it! I hate being 22 years old with no clue, no hope and no future. Being only good enough to serve as an example of what *not* to do with your life.

I just want it to end. One way or another. And I don't care which way it ends anymore.

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:14:13 GMT

While working on some of my homework toady, I happened to see a commercial for Wendy's that featrued none other than WWE's own HHH.

....I work for a company that hired professional wrestlings biggest stuck up, show boating asshole as its spokes person.

.......I feel dirty...>_<...

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:46:49 GMT

Dear Life.

Fuck off.

-Ethan

Randomness!

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:31:36 GMT

How to make a ethan_2

Ingredients:

5 parts success

1 part courage

1 part instinct

Method:
Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Serve with a slice of sadness and a pinch of salt. Yum!

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:04:02 GMT

i....Pod...

@_@...Shiney! SHINEY! SHINEY! SHINEY! SHINEY! SHINEY! SHINEY!

IT'S MINE!! ALL MINE!!!!

*runs off giggling like a loon*

WoD: The Final Analyasis

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:16:51 GMT

Today I read Gehenna for Vampire: The Masquerade and its been rather....enlightening, in the sence of why White Wolf made certain decisions when it came to the new edition of their world.

Disclaimer: The following is entirely my own opinion and not some blanket statement of how the White Wolf devlopers think.

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Its called many things, but the term that I like to use to what happened to the World of Darkness is "X-Files Syndrome." For those who got no idea what I'm talking about, let me elaborate. The X-Files series finalle was considered by many to be a chaotic mish-mash of ideas and concepts that all managed to combine into one load of incomprehensible dribble.

The reason that this happened is beacause the X-Files had established so many hidden plot lines and double dealings that a veritbly mythology had sprung up around the show. So when they tried to wrap up all the loose ends, it didn't work that well.

The World of Darkness ended up suffering from the same syndrome. With 8 games all crammed into one world, some with conflicting mythologies and histories the WoD began to create its own uber mythos that began to spiral out of control. So it finally came to a head....something had to give.

So the creators did the only thing they could. Hit the cosmic rest button and make a new WoD where none of the old mythology mattered anymore. Of course, there were some casulties in the process, but perhaps it really was for the best. For those who doubt me I submit the following evidence from Gehenna.

* The Tzimicise Anti-Deluvian becoming a 300 ft tall monster that slumbered under New York City while its spirit zipped around happily.

* The Nosferatu Anti-Dev invading the world with an army of super powered sea monsters.

* The Lasombra Anti-Dev covering the world in darkness for 3 weeks, despite the fact that he was destroyed back in the 13th century, and then vanishing mysteriously at the end of those 3 weeks.

* The Gangrel Anti-Dev MERGEING WITH THE EARTH'S CORE and having power over the planet.

And meanwhile, the Wyrm has manifested on the North American continent, the Earthbound demons are enslaving the population, the Hunters are killing every monster they can see.....mythos' that were never ment to mix clashing totally out of control. Perhaps it really needed to be put down.

Just my two cents....

Cause I was bored....

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:36:23 GMT

the Cutting Edge

(57% dark, 46% spontaneous, 21% vulgar)

your humor style:
CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARK

Your humor's mostly innocent and off-the-cuff, but somehow there's something slightly menacing about you. Part of your humor is making people a little uncomfortable, even if the things you say aren't themselves confrontational. You probably have a very dry delivery, or are seriously over-the-top.

Your type is the most likely to appreciate a good insult and/or broken bone and/or very very fat person dancing.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: David Letterman - John Belushi

The 3-Variable Funny Test!
- it rules -

If you're interested, try my latest: The Terrorism Test

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 65% on darkness

You scored higher than 51% on spontaneity

You scored higher than 13% on vulgarity

Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:52:45 GMT

Your IQ Is 85

Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average
Your Verbal Intelligence is Exceptional
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Below Average
Your General Knowledge is Above Average

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

Whelp. Color me fucked then....