And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.

PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.


billytea - May 28, 2008 6:33:43 pm PDT #750 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

SO NOT FINE.

Spiders are superfine.

Actually, I'm not keen on them in person either. (Have you seen our spiders? [link] I get over it, because they're just so cool. But arachnophobia is quite comprehensible to me. (I trust it's obvious that arachnophobes should not be clicking on my link.)

OTOH, I have pretty much zero fear of snakes, who are actually more dangerous.


Sean K - May 28, 2008 6:33:51 pm PDT #751 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I considered having a tarantula as a pet.

::shudder::


Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 28, 2008 6:34:31 pm PDT #752 of 26133
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

Happy Birthday, Sean!

That's all I got.


omnis_audis - May 28, 2008 6:35:45 pm PDT #753 of 26133
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

um. I thought i was in the GAMING thread. When did it become NON WHITE FONTED CREEPY BUG THREAD.

:: shivers ::


Sean K - May 28, 2008 6:37:06 pm PDT #754 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Have you seen our spiders?

Wasn't it the funnel web spider that Peter Jackson used as one of the main inspirations for Shelob?

Wow, this turned into the anti-Jilli thread fast.

OTOH, I have pretty much zero fear of snakes, who are actually more dangerous.

Heh. I don't really have a snake fear either, but I give them a healthy respect (and as much distance or interposing glass as I can muster).


amych - May 28, 2008 6:38:38 pm PDT #755 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

See, I like spiders when they DON'T COME FROM THE FREAKY CONTINENT OF FREAKY FREAKASSED FREAK SPIDERS. But that funnel-web thingie? It's allowed to be 5 cm long or deadly poisonous. But its insistence being both at once is just showing off.


Laga - May 28, 2008 6:40:03 pm PDT #756 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

she sure looks like Shelob


Connie Neil - May 28, 2008 6:41:54 pm PDT #757 of 26133
brillig

re: billy's spider link (which I did not click on)

Hubby wanted me to say that when he lived in Hawaii in the 70s, his mother once thought a spider on the wall was a clock. Hubby was also once caught in a spider web that was strung between two banana trees. He was 11 at the time, but still.

edit: I also just handed him the rest of my dinner, because his glee in telling the tale made me lose my appetite.


Atropa - May 28, 2008 6:43:13 pm PDT #758 of 26133
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Wow, this turned into the anti-Jilli thread fast.

I AM NOT CLICKING ANY LINKS YOU PEOPLE POST.


Laga - May 28, 2008 6:45:02 pm PDT #759 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

caught in a spider web

you mean like someone else had to free him?