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Post by Peter on Apr 21, 2020 9:10:30 GMT
Regrettably, right now it seems to be a prequel to Freeway Fighter. Or Battleblade Warrior? Besieged in our homes, hoping for a hero?
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kieran
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Favourite Gamebook Series: Fighting Fantasy
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Post by kieran on Apr 21, 2020 18:11:17 GMT
Or Sky Lord - where all explanations of our situation merely confuse us further.
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Post by vastariner on Apr 22, 2020 9:03:26 GMT
Regrettably, right now it seems to be a prequel to Freeway Fighter. On the plus side. England in the World Cup Final. I'll take that.
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vagsancho
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Post by vagsancho on Apr 22, 2020 17:50:52 GMT
Regrettably, right now it seems to be a prequel to Freeway Fighter. It is not the present situation that makes real life a gamebook. Real life was already a gamebook before that.
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kieran
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Post by kieran on Apr 23, 2020 7:23:46 GMT
Regrettably, right now it seems to be a prequel to Freeway Fighter. On the plus side. England in the World Cup Final. I'll take that. Typical England - finally get to a final and the world ends. Bit of a change from going out in a penalty shootout at least.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Apr 23, 2020 17:56:23 GMT
On the plus side. England in the World Cup Final. I'll take that. Typical England - finally get to a final and the world ends. Bit of a change from going out in a penalty shootout at least. Preferable to getting knocked out of a major competition by Iceland, a country with a population about the same size as that of Leicester.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Sept 8, 2020 1:15:25 GMT
JOLENE
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Nov 14, 2020 14:01:29 GMT
This is silly but it made me chuckle.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Jan 26, 2021 2:29:23 GMT
No apologies.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Apr 6, 2021 22:16:45 GMT
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Jun 27, 2021 20:26:54 GMT
One for anyone who's ever asked "How come no one ever ... in fiction?"
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Jun 27, 2021 20:28:00 GMT
Not always second best...
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Post by The Count on Jun 28, 2021 22:09:49 GMT
One for anyone who's ever asked "How come no one ever ... in fiction?" Cos that is clearly fiction.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Jul 2, 2021 2:19:59 GMT
One for anyone who's ever asked "How come no one ever ... in fiction?" Cos that is clearly fiction. I think I'm being dense here – I'm guessing you're not telling me know that D&D is fiction – maybe that only in fiction could you pee enough to put out a fire if you were being burnt alive? I think if I was DM-ing I'd only consider allowing it if it had been a plan and they'd drunk a lot in advance. Not a patch on the Blackadder method.
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Post by The Count on Jul 2, 2021 11:08:45 GMT
Cos that is clearly fiction. I think I'm being dense here – I'm guessing you're not telling me know that D&D is fiction – maybe that only in fiction could you pee enough to put out a fire if you were being burnt alive? I think if I was DM-ing I'd only consider allowing it if it had been a plan and they'd drunk a lot in advance. Not a patch on the Blackadder method.
The story in the tweet. It's one of those things that's been doing the rounds for years. Similar to the loud shouty woman on the till at the pharmacy when you are buying condoms / hair dye / hair removal cream / viagra / treatment for piles etc story.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Jul 2, 2021 14:59:44 GMT
I think I'm being dense here – I'm guessing you're not telling me know that D&D is fiction – maybe that only in fiction could you pee enough to put out a fire if you were being burnt alive? I think if I was DM-ing I'd only consider allowing it if it had been a plan and they'd drunk a lot in advance. Not a patch on the Blackadder method.
The story in the tweet. It's one of those things that's been doing the rounds for years. Similar to the loud shouty woman on the till at the pharmacy when you are buying condoms / hair dye / hair removal cream / viagra / treatment for piles etc story. Oh I see, well yes I can believe that. Still it's a nice change people pretending to do stuff in in-person roleplaying rather than pretending they'd never do it.
Before we get off this important topic, I only recently realised how important Vince Vega going to the toilet is in Pulp Fiction: whenever he does, things go wrong.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Aug 16, 2021 23:14:32 GMT
I've already got all those rabbits to skin...
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Post by The Count on Aug 17, 2021 17:46:22 GMT
On the plus side. England in the World Cup Final. I'll take that. Typical England - finally get to a final and the world ends. Bit of a change from going out in a penalty shootout at least.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Jul 16, 2022 14:52:37 GMT
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Aug 5, 2022 17:37:27 GMT
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Post by CharlesX on Aug 5, 2022 18:21:37 GMT
If Doctor Who's Slitheen can have explosive farts.. Actually that does very little to answer the question at all! My first thinking is yes - but then it could burn the Dragon's cave and treasure, and Dragons are powerful and sophisticated (unlike the 2-bit Slitheen). It sounds a lot like a potential David Walliams book.
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Post by a moderator on Aug 6, 2022 0:51:02 GMT
Grail Quest dragons - probably not. They have a secondary stomach that converts vegetation into methane, which is ignited when the friction of encrustations on the dragon's teeth against each other causes a spark. Even if the dragon were somehow to swallow its own flame, passage through its digestive system would most likely extinguish the flame before it could come out at the other end.
I don't know enough about the biology of dragons in other series to be able to speculate.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Jan 3, 2023 2:57:18 GMT
A very late festive reference for all of you Egyptologist George Michael fans.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Apr 12, 2023 3:01:56 GMT
What this reminded me of more than anything was watching Knightmare in which it was just accepted that the satchel-thing the dungeoneer carried was somehow an externalised stomach. They just dumped food into it any which way for sustenance, but what was really going on in there?
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Oct 18, 2024 18:34:32 GMT
The days when quests were delivered by an owl or a cat seem like ancient history.
The language used by software designers is often rather noteworthy.
I'm reminded that my brother found that if he left his university computer account alone for too long it would give an error message which was not
"You have been logged out due to inactivity"
but instead:
"Your ORPHAN session has been KILLED"
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