Elijah Wood
Someone please kill me now.
Duuude.
Well, as you wish...
I will be merciful... and quick!
Posted on 05/23/2006 12:30:46 PM PDT by Borges
Elijah Wood
Someone please kill me now.
Duuude.
Well, as you wish...
I will be merciful... and quick!
One day at GDW, all of us working at the office had to pretty much drop everything paperwork-wise and run to the warehouse to help assemble and package up game sets (possibly Twilight: 2000, if memory serves correctly) that were behind in production. My job that day was to count out the dice out of the giant bins and place them in the box set before they were shrinkwrapped :-).
Your wife ought to be placed in the same LOTR padded cell with my LOTR-movie-addicted husband. They can have a great old time absorbing themselves with the movies, while you and I go have a beer somewhere ;-).
While there is a harmless side, the "ick" side has been taking over -- people who dress up in fur costumes to have sex. They have become the freaks of all freaks in geeky fandom and are considered freakier than even the anime fans and LARPers. The kinky stuff has become enough of the "face" of Furry fandom that the show "ER" made fun of it in an episode --a Furry shows up in the ER and so does a famous hand puppet from a children's show (think "Lambchop"). The "punchline" has the Furry stealing the hand puppet and, well, pleasuring himself with it. If anime worries you (anime also has a very harmless side), I'd be just as worried about Furry fandom, expecially if it involves making contacts online or attending a fan get together. There are some very creepy people and some very creepy art out there.
LOL, good story.
Not exactly. From what I've heard, it's fall out from fans of stuff like Albedo and classic cartoons to things oke Omaha the Cat Dancer cross-polinating, via gatherings, with the S&M and kinky sex subcultures, leading to people in fur suits having sex with each other as a major activy. And if you think that's creepy, the descriptions of the art I've read (no, I'm not curious enough to actually look at it) is even creepier.
The Sheehan poses little actual threat. Its constant loud wailing will soon draw unwanted attention and result in its being eaten by a Grue.
Of the two Clintons, the female is the more dangerous. Cast "Expecto KarlRovus" spell.
Sounds like your wife already has that covered, sailor. ;-)
I always got the impression that GDW leaned politically right or at least libertarian. Was that your sense (you don't have to name specific names)? Steve Jackson Games tends to be somewhat libertarian, too. The left coast game companies, on the other hand, are pretty liberal. You might find this Salon article interesting. I presume your days at GDW were nothing like that!
Tax-chick, you migth want to see the chart Mr. Jeeves posted and note what's at the bottom...
 Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See "With wit, insight and charm, Hoffman, University of California, Irvine professor of computer science, cognitive science and philosophy, explains in this spectacular volume how we use vision to construct the world around us. Hoffman does a masterful job of demonstrating that vision encompasses so much more than merely what we see, and of illustrating that much of what we see may not, in fact, exist. Presenting the 35 rules of vision that scientists claim we use to piece together our environment ("Rule 1. Always interpret a straight line in an image as a straight line in 3D"), he analyzes many common optical illusions, explains how we perceive motion, color and depth, and philosophizes about the nature of reality and perception. Throughout, Hoffman makes wonderful use of myriad photographs to demonstrate the points he is making. The photos in the chapter on motion fail, necessarily, to catch the imagination the way the others do, but an ancillary Web site allows observation of the full motion of his examples. Not only is this book an outstanding example of creative popular science but, given the many optical illusions it presents, it's also the rare book that, in line with its subject, can be thoroughly enjoyed both right side up and upside down." -- Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
The professor who wrote this great book is working on a new book that makes the extreme case that our consciousness creates not just our vision but our awareness of reality itself. This book focuses on vision, one step at a time, and by the end, his more extreme thoughts about awareness have specific examples that he builds upon. (If this stuff is true, then VR games are kind of a metaphor for our deeper search for a real understanding of the world "around" us.) |
Thanks for the additional information. We're careful about the websites she visits, but I'll have her dad check the computer, again. And get-togethers of any kind are definitely off-limits!
LOL! Thanks for the ping - that was hilarious! One of my best friends from college got married at the Star Trek set in some Las Vegas hotel. This was just a couple of years ago. Her parents were so glad she was (a) getting married at last, and (b) didn't want a $20,000 fairy-tale wedding, that they didn't make a peep about the Star Trek theme!
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