backflung and thanks, vw.

Happy belated Birthday Lilty and dw! How did I miss this? Hope the day was grand.

Yay Trudy. May they fight over you and offer great benefits.

I've never watched South Park.

That's all I got.

A friend elsewhere asks this:

Anyone know of a decent turn-based RPG that I could get? I'm stuck playing games that are knocking on for 10 years old, and I don't really like the real-time format, because I can't watch telly and play at the same time without pausing the whole game. All I can really find through google are articles about how the format is dying, and that's not really much help.

I'm a particular fan of the usual swords and sorcery schtick, rather than something more real-life-y, like Civ, or anything set in space (yuk).

billytea? Raq? Pete? Anyone? Bueller?

Anyone know of a decent turn-based RPG that I could get?

Cindy, what about [link] Kingdom of Loathing? It may fit the bill, and is by turns witty, silly, and puzzling. I enjoyed it quite a bit when I was playing. Meat is the local currency, making and drinking cocktails is an important part of the process, and there are plenty of swords, sorcery, and dungeons. Featuring shout-outs to everything from the Beetles (ok, I couldn't think of anything starting with A, offhand, Ok?) to Zork, it is web-based, and free (donations encouraged). And it has quite a healthy community surrounding it.

Thank you, WindSparrow. I have marked your post and will pass that on! The price is certainly right.

Timelies!

I hope one (or more) of your offers turns out to be a terrific job, Trudy.

The whole porn thing upthread's kind of amusing. I don't really have a dog in the religious relationship to porn/chick flick thing (I read straight up porn way more than romances, and I'm not a member of the religious right), aside from wondering why the FBI would be involved in any of it. But I do sometime wonder if the whole Thou shalt not read Silhouette Romances thing is an attempt to lower expectations on the part of the extreme religious right. If a woman marries as a virgin, never reads any racey novels, never plays with herself, and never has an affair or gets divorced, she's not going to have a lot to compare her one and only fella to. She might be less inclined to pressure her husband to bother with things like figuring out how to get her off or help out around the house so she has more energy for good sex, etc. if she doesn't know that hot, multi-orgasmic sex is an option. If the goal is to produce undemanding, obedient brood mares for the patriarchy, that does seem to be one way to go about it.

On the other hand, my sister's a Conservative Christian who reads sexy romances and, from all non-explicite conversations, seems to have a blast with her fella. So my feminist, anti-religious right cynicism may be in over-drive on this issue.

I've always figured really sane, truly virtuous religious right sexual morality would more closely resemble the sexual morality espoused in your average Shakespeare comedy: well aware of sex, can talk and laugh about it, planning to enjoy it robustly when married. This victorian smothering the candle under a bushel-basket thing never really made sense to me.

P.S. My idea of a chick flick is anything with Rutger Hauer in it. Which, other than Lady Hawk pretty much ain't.

Busy, busy day today. Already had a doctor's appointment (see LiveJournal about that. CRAZINESS!). Now I'm at school. Gotta run and get my big loan check. Then it's off to classes, then off to work. I'm done at 5:30. Someone remind me I can do all this!

I'm kind of afraid of him. And not in that good way in which I get afraid of Detective Stabler. I can't really explain it.