Better than Amy's negative reinforcement.
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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I might have to move up to Love It! though.
Well don't humour me, bud, only love something if you love it.
I was just yes-anding Poe. 
I only like, love, etc. if I really do.
I only like, love, etc. if I really do.
If its any consolation, it really didn't make sense as I was saying it either.
Whenever my rabbit pees it always seems like she does it RIGHT as I get by the cage. Becuase right when I get there she turns around and splashes me. Either its coincidence, or my rabbit likes peeing on people.
The overwhelming nature of your mere presence just scares the pee out of her.
Okay, so Boston terriers, Minimaxes, and small children unfamiliar with me. Soon the entire WORLD shall fear me! *Thunder-crack*
What do Canadians do when they play Role playing games? Apparently, we roleplay as Americans. My friends and I are starting a game of Monsters and other Childish things, and we decided that 1950s Jerome, Arizona seemed like a good place to set it, for some reason.
Well... how many interesting locales can you think of in Canada that aren't Toronto, Quebec, Alberta, or the fucking woods? Most of your country lives 100 miles from the US border. Not exactly a lot of places to explore.
Off the top of my head?
North Bay
Niagra Falls
Windsor
Kawartha Lakes
Ottawa
Halifax
St Johns
Saint John
Montreal
Vancouver
Whistler
(Alberta is an entire province, you know, so that's a little unfair. I'll assume you meant either Edmonton or Calgary though. So I'll add to that Drumheller National Park, which is one of the largest dinosaur dig sites in the world)
Iqaluit
Yellowknife
White Horse
Dawson City
Especially since we're opening it up to different time periods, so there's a great bit of history that could be used to add more danger and intrigue. Any border city during American prohibition was a port for bootleggers and so would have its shair of organized crime, the Yukon during the Gold rush would be a lot of fun, any coal mining town in Nova Scotia, back when they actually mined coal there, would actually be a pretty perfect place for Monsters and Other Childish Things. Long standing history, very industrially specific town, that's the kind of place where childish urban legends run strong, really. Actually I'm surprised we didn't go with somewhere in Nova Scotia.
Your comment is very similar to the usual TV and movie executive way of thinking of "How many interesting places are there in the US? There's Los Angeles and New York and that's it."
And besides that, what you said doesn't make sense. We picked a small town of 444 people because Canada's population is too small to make for an interesting story? Just how small a population do you think we have up here, exactly, that 444 would apparently be seen as the big, exciting city to us? And how big a population do you think you need in order to make an interesting story?
In actuality, we wanted to set it in the 1950s, under Cold War propaganda and all that, and decided that the UFO Culture of Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico and the desert nuclear test sites (We never had that here in Canada since Canada has never had any Nuclear weapons) would be interesting to throw into the mix as potential explanations for the monsters.
My friend took the American thing a little far and his kid's monster is a robot bald eagle with an American flag painted on its chest and tank treads instead of legs, named President.
What about the Canadian rockies? From what I've read from Wolverine all sorts of actioney stuff looking there!
Now checkeredhat I must know if you are truly if you are roleplaying Arizona correctly? By which I ask when you are roleplaying, do you ever complain "Holy balls its unbearably hot! Why the hell is it so fucking hot?! What sort of justice loving god would make a place as horribly hot as Arizona?" Because that would bring authenticity to your game!
We spent all night just establishing setting and trying to figure out how to make our characters. Next Saturday we begin actually playing.
Cool, well if one of you is playing a northerner who isn't used to the Arizona heat, that is how he/she should act. Add some possible humor to the experience.
And you're in Texas, as far as the rest of the world is concerned (and the rest of your country), you're this guy:
[DOUBLEPOST=1354447337][/DOUBLEPOST]And for some random crap, the city I work in, Edmonton has a population of around a million and the city itself (not metropolitan area, but the city proper) is 684.37 sq. km (264 sq. miles).
Compare that to New York City, which has a city proper (not including water) size of 304.8 square miles (789.4 square kilometers) and a population of 8.2 million.
Edmonton is spread the fuck out.
Yep, we're all "That guy" here in Texas. I would say that Edmonton is more of a normal city than New York. Houston 656 sq. miles (2.1 mil pop), Dallas/Ft. Worth 8991 sq. miles (6.5 million pop).
Yeah, it's hot... but it's a dry heat.
Is it bad that I actually understood that perfectly?
Ugh don't remind me, its like they just concentrated the entire essence of discomfort into one bleeding state!Yeah, it's hot... but it's a dry heat.
GasBandit
Staff member
Perhaps so, but at least they know we're down here.
I really wonder about people sometimes. When my name is clearly spelled out for someone and then they write me a message with it misspelled, I just wonder...
Does that happen to anyone else? Or does my name really just have that odd of a spelling?
Does that happen to anyone else? Or does my name really just have that odd of a spelling?
North_Ranger
Staff member
It has happened to me once or twice, back in the day when they were showing this popular family drama on television of a family whose surname differed from mine by two letters.
For me, the problem is mostly pronunciation when talking with non-Finnish speakers. My first name is especially troublesome, since depending on mispronunciation, I end up being called the namesake of either that raccoon from Pocahontas or a female Japanese porn star.
Which one? I need to look her up. I might be able to masturbate to that.
figmentPez
Staff member
I don't know what to tell you LittelKagsign. Some people just don't care about details.
I have probably more nick-names than anyone I know. Mike, Mickee, Mick, Pineapple, Caveman, Satan, and the other nick-names I don't know about.
Based on the "racoon from Pocahontas" remark, I'm guessing one named Meeko or Miko or Micoh or some other spelling. No way to be sure which one though. Better masturbate to them all just to be safe.
I can't decide if it's pronunciation that also trips people up. In school when they were calling roll I would get called Christina, Christy...and neither of those is my name. I feel like they maybe thought they saw my name wrong so they said what they thought it should be, if that makes sense. It's just Christa, so I was always confused by the changes people would make to it.
I brought this up because I got a message from someone on my facebook page calling me Christy. And my name is clearly spelled out at the top of the page. Like, really? It's cause for a shake my head.
I had someone today who signed in for three appointments to see me on the same day, with a different spelling for each appointment.
So...yes.
--Patrick