I think I found something worth checking out today.

[Grimm]

this is Confidence Interval if it's good http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museum/misfits005.php

[Confidence Interval]

I guess if a thing's worth posting it's worth posting twice...

[Grimm]

Check again, it's only once now.

[Jabberwocky]

So from what you've heard - since, as you point out, you're not legally able to drink it - is it any good?

I've heard it's good, and the receiver of the gift ought to be opening it shortly, so I'll have a first-hand opinion shortly.

From Orygun to Kaybeck.

It's pronounced either Kuhbeck or Kebeck, not Kaybeck. Of course, there's also the hideous 'Merican pronunciation of Qwuhbek.

[Jabberwocky]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20804249

[Grimm]

From Orygun to Kaybeck.

It's pronounced either Kuhbeck or Kebeck, not Kaybeck. Of course, there's also the hideous 'Merican pronunciation of Qwuhbek.

Yes it's not pronounced Orygun either.

[Grimm]

This one's for you HЗDGЭFФЖ! http://imgur.com/gallery/hQ9ex

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Well, this is for you, Grimm. http://www.toco.be/splut/rules.htm

[Grimm]

That's pretty cool.

[Ninjorp]

I'm not sure if this si too heavy for this forum, but I believe this is worth reading.

http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=45633

[Grimm]

[Jabberwocky]

I'm not sure if this si too heavy for this forum, but I believe this is worth reading.

http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=45633

If that's all true, and much of it is true from what I've seen, am seeing, and will see, I'm glad I'm just north of the 45th, rather than south.

[snowstorm]

I think i just found 3 gigs of crawl. Nifty!
http://i.imgur.com/NJKTZ.jpg

also, wtf man?

[Grimm]

If that's all true, and much of it is true from what I've seen, am seeing, and will see, I'm glad I'm just north of the 45th, rather than south.

I'd do a little more fact checking if I were you. That piece contains some howlers, such as the assertion that Reagan met with the Taliban ten years before the Taliban came into existence.

[Ninjorp]

Perfectly correct, but weren't they the Mujahedin who later became the Taliban? Regardless, the point made was that yesterdays friend is suddenly todays enemy, and the public's memory is so short and easily led by the media that they don't tend to notice.

It's always wise to read everything with a critical eye, good catch Grimm.

[Grimm]

Perfectly correct, but weren't they the Mujahedin who later became the Taliban?

If you're asking, as your grammar connotes, whether the specific mujahideen in that photo later became Taliban, I don't know. But if you're suggesting that the mujahideen in general later became the Taliban, the answer is No, that's a dreadful oversimplification. Some did, some didn't. It's roughly analogous to saying "Didn't the American Revolutionaries later become Confederates?"

Regardless, the point made was that yesterdays friend is suddenly todays enemy, and the public's memory is so short and easily led by the media that they don't tend to notice.

I don't mean to be rude but it's a bit rich for you to refer to the public's poor understanding when you yourself aren't quite sure of the difference between the mujahideen and the Taliban, and seem unaware of the larger context of the Afghan situation, preferring instead the, I'm sorry but sweetly naïve American notion that a group of "friends" suddenly, mysteriously - mirabile dictu - became "enemies" while we weren't looking. And after all we did for them!

I agree that the author was trying to make the point that people should pay much closer attention to what their governments are doing. This is a worthy sentiment. But the fact that not a single one of his commenters, busy posting their ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ .jpgs, caught the Taliban goof, and the fact that to a man they are overfull with praise for a blog posting which is itself as chockablock with clumsy distortions, leaps and lacunae of logic, and crass emotional manipulativeness as any of the campaigns of Bernays and Big Brother which it purports to expose, tells me that that crowd is not one that will be paying the requisite attention.

I feel I have already said too much because the last thing I want is to have political discussions anywhere in the Tavern. If it turns out this posting sets off an exchange, I will delete it and everything that follows.

[Jabberwocky]

If I may throw in my opinion on this article, pathos works. Not everything has to be true, and much propaganda certainly isn't true, but that doesn't make it any less effective. While the article makes gaffs, it certainly has a worthy sentiment. Of course when it gets out of hand you have "Big Brother" distorting facts about how "evil" "Big Sister" is, and "Big Sister" distorting facts about how "evil" "Big Brother" is until no one can tell what's true, as was happening to a certain extent in this article.
In any case, it's good to read with a critical eye, and since I was tired and not paying full attention to the article, some things may have crept by. Anyways, off to bed.

[Grimm]

While the article makes gaffs, it certainly has a worthy sentiment.

No it doesn't. The sentiment of the article as a whole is "Everyone else but you and I is blind and stupid and doomed." This is a bad, i.e. fruitless, thought.

[Ninjorp]

Well, thank you both for you feedback, if this sort of thing is verboten on this forum I will not post anything like this again or continue to discuss this.

[Sphara]

159216 | Tomb:3 | Noticed an ancient lich

I was spectating 0.11.1-34-ga762aef (webtiles) game when I saw this.

[Moanerette]

This woman has found an unusual and engaging niche for her creativity (don't be put off by the word 'lavatory' in the URL, the page is perfectly work-safe).

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2012/04/lavatory-self-portraits/

[Jabberwocky]

I didn't know CI was a musician as well as a physician.

[Grimm]

That can't be a Scotchite - he's got no sporran.

[Confidence Interval]

True but just look at the size of his instrument.

[Grimm]

it's black

[Confidence Interval]

With a little red bit. It's a runed axe.

[Grimm]

Is that common up there

[Confidence Interval]

Is that common down there

ftfy

[Grimm]

WELL DONE SIR

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

This time, I made something worth checking out. =)

While I was ill (from the last Friday before New Year until, hm, the fourteenth of January), I made a set of blank-and-white cards for a little dice game called "Weilong".
It is something akin to Pirate Poker (Yahtzee), but with more simplified rules and with special tasks and abilities for each player (designated by the cards).

The cards are black-and-white, and printer-friendly (I designed them to be printed at home without any special equipment).

Here are my cards -- printed on Whatman paper, scribbled over with a marker, and laminated:





They have seen the play when I got better. Do check out the session review, please. =)

[Grimm]

And regardez la photo of Foxy and his better half: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1534176/weilong

[Confidence Interval]

And regardez la photo of Foxy and his better half: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1534176/weilong

What a charming couple they look.

[Grimm]

I officially dub them the First Couple of Crawl.

Cons you should join BGG and help me flood it with Soviet Russia jokes.

[cerebovssquire]

I officially dub them the First Couple of Crawl.

Cons you should join BGG and help me flood it with Soviet Russia jokes.

but but but

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

She is not into BGG or DCSS. =)

[Confidence Interval]

That is probably very healthy. My partner has seen me play DCSS many times and refers to it as "that weird game with the little man running about in a maze".

[Grimm]

She is not into BGG or DCSS. =)

For that very reason is she the First Lady of Crawl.

My partner has seen me play DCSS many times and refers to it as "that weird game with the little man running about in a maze".

Doesn't she know Hu is a challenge race?

[Confidence Interval]

Doesn't she know Hu is a challenge race?

Interesting take - I always presumed she was referring to Crawl but perhaps she is, indeed, referring to life.

I second your proposal of Ekaterina as First Lady of DCSS.

[Jabberwocky]

What about my mom? Can I nominate my mom to be the First Lady of Crawl?

[Grimm]

I always presumed she was referring to Crawl but perhaps she is, indeed, referring to life.

There is no separation.

What about my mom? Can I nominate my mom to be the First Lady of Crawl?

No.

[Jabberwocky]

I always presumed she was referring to Crawl but perhaps she is, indeed, referring to life.

There is no separation.

What about my mom? Can I nominate my mom to be the First Lady of Crawl?

No.

Why not? My mom actually plays crawl, unlike some of the candidates.

[Confidence Interval]

There is no separation.

Yes, very true.

Why not? My mom actually plays crawl, unlike some of the candidates.

But there! That is the very fact that disqualifies her from the role, don't you see?
I refer you to m'learned colleague Grimm's comments, above, for further clarification.

[Grimm]

Remind him I'm a cop, Conno.

[Confidence Interval]

Did you hear that, perp? He is the Law.

[Grimm]

DROKK YOU JABBERWOKKY

[Confidence Interval]

You tell em, Joe!

[Jabberwocky]

I have just got a report back from the recipient, apparently it is "powerful" "sprightly" and "too strong neat for a curmudgeon like me".

[Confidence Interval]

Sounds good to me. Send over a bottle and I'll give you a second opinion.

[Jabberwocky]

You mail me the postage and filled out paperwork and I'll send you a bottle. Shipping whiskey from Quebec to Scotland won't be cheap. Alternatively, we can do a back-alley swap when your down in Boston, you can give me my shipment of spur'tles and I'll give you a couple of bottles of whippersnapper.

[Grimm]

Shipping whiskey from Quebec to Scotland

coals to Newcastle