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I live in hope that it is so abysmal that it will shut up the randians forever.

Nah, the random number thing is slightly different. There is no true random number generator, they all approach predictability at a certain point.

I raise you any random number generator based on radioactive decay.  Impossible to predict (just possible to model in the macro-scale), and very easy to measure.

Impossible to measure then, so its an impossible random number generator.
They thought they had it last year, when they seeded the generator with white noise from loads of different sensors around the world, but on a long enough time frame it becomes periodic, and thus predictable.

microkinesis is pretty well substantiated
you know, effecting the probable outcome of random number generaters and what not
life is a lot of chance events

ie:you do the math

Actually you are mixing up two different effects here to serve your own benefits.
It is true that random number generators outputs can be influenced and eventually become predictable because of the hardware limitations and the way the random number generator is coded.
It simply doesn't matter what the user is doing, they do not effect the outcome at all.

As the Law of Fives definitively proves, the whole concept of "Random Number" is fatally flawed, therefore any research using "Random Numbers" can be linked with, and used to support any Hypothesis, however spurious, given enough ingenuity on behalf of the researcher.

Nah, the random number thing is slightly different. There is no true random number generator, they all approach predictability at a certain point.

No trolling stormfront from PD.

It's not trolling. It's trolling....WITH SCIENCE!

But really, this doesn't count as trolling in my mind. Advertising? Maybe. An unethical social psychology experiment? Perhaps. But not trolling.

Fucked company was wiped out by SF, and the one time SF was mentioned here, they knew and showed up within a week. I'll find the link later to show.

microkinesis is pretty well substantiated
you know, effecting the probable outcome of random number generaters and what not
life is a lot of chance events

ie:you do the math

Actually you are mixing up two different effects here to serve your own benefits.
It is true that random number generators outputs can be influenced and eventually become predictable because of the hardware limitations and the way the random number generator is coded.
It simply doesn't matter what the user is doing, they do not effect the outcome at all.

ahah! http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=21358.msg722072#msg722072

summary:

experiment preformed
failure resulted
excuses presented
illness blamed
magic1 now = self-hypnosis, NLP, meta-programming, etc.(science of self transformation)
magic2 now = i can change the world with a wave of my wand nutters (precognition, telekinesis, telepathy, et al.)
magic3 now = stage magic or illusionists

the concept of cheating was added and is awaiting a clear explanation

debate about whether believing in magic2 can get you laid is underway

Thank you for saving fifty pages.

been hooked on D&D since like ... 1994? Jesus, I was 12. My enjoyment of it has increased as the average age of people at my table has increased. I still think the hardest part of running a game is getting everybody together every week.

I'm playing with a group of complete newbies right now, it's kind of refreshing, but it's also a bit frustrating.


#5 is my biggest pet peeve. I ran a game where the rogue would always wake up early the day before they started excavating a dungeon, just so he could sneak through it without them and map it out. He wanted this cool moment of the party waking up and he's already got a detailed map of the dungeon and some notes about the monsters. He got pissed when I told him he couldn't do that. "Buh-buh-buh.. but that's what my character wants to do..." Yeah dude, but that means that you and I play D&D for 30 minutes while everybody else's character is asleep. BOGUS.

Incidentally, that same character would always try to start businesses in the adventurer's home city. So when they got back from an adventure, his clam farm would have some more pearls waiting for him. But jesus christ, this is D&D, not Sim City. The amount of time we spent talking about his goddamn clam farm could have been spent drinking ale of out skulls and we all would be better for it.

I got sick of the sim city behavior and the spending real life hours while they dick around in the shop. The shop keepers became the most ill tempered and dangerous aspects of the game, and like The Man, I kept them down in a poverty bracket that owning land or a business was forever out of reach (or until it became a convenient reward).

Yoyoyo,

Last time I checked I wasn't yella'. Gotta make double check after double checking just to make sure, though   

There's a cream you can get for that, clears it right up.

The saddest thing, Barring the laptop thing which I've never seen and would probably have a shitfit about if I ever saw it, is that you see this shit in every group.
And even more baffling is that the slim few who appreciate this usually have at some stage been a gm.

The worst habit I had to stomp out of the group was the magpie syndrome.
They see a shiny object and nearly the whole group fall all over each other trying to get it first.

That's candy.     Illusion + pit o' vipers = WIN.

I've also stopped handing out "best roleplay" & "MVP" bonus XP, because everyone gets butthurt.

Cursed ring of circumcision nipped it in the bud pretty well.

Cork gaming Horror stories:

The guy who eats sugar packets keeping the shared dice in his bellybutton that hangs over his trousers, then putting the shared dice in his toothless mouth.

The misogynist creep who nearly drove away the one girl in the gaming group by continuously coming onto her, when not belittling her.

The guy who insisted on crossing his fingers and putting on a paper hat when he was speaking out of character.

The scat guy.

The saddest thing, Barring the laptop thing which I've never seen and would probably have a shitfit about if I ever saw it, is that you see this shit in every group.
And even more baffling is that the slim few who appreciate this usually have at some stage been a gm.

The worst habit I had to stomp out of the group was the magpie syndrome.
They see a shiny object and nearly the whole group fall all over each other trying to get it first.

Thats a douche move. He really should just be removed from the entire wikileaks operation and allow it to function free of the burden that he is.

I wan't to create Tsunami vibrations.
I cant get the tesla machine working right though, but when I do lets just say I'm really going to shake things up around here.

Colin Baker Sylvester mcCoy was actually excellent in his second series when they switched from juvenile shit to dark and strange. Download the Curse of fenric, its fantastic.

Edit: whoops, nerdlore fail.

Let's face it, Star Trek (all of it) is the best TV/Movie franchise there's ever likely to be. From ToS, to Voyager, it's all good. Except maybe . . . . nah, it's all good, even the bits that are really bad.

(Little known fact, Deanna Troi was once engaged to Graeme Souness)

While I agree Star Trek is awesome, I'd put Doctor Who up against it any day.

Doctor who, for the most part, is unfortunately rubbish, so many different writers means that a lot of it is mediocre, however because there are so many writers, there is occasionally an excellent episode.

This only applies to everything pre season 5 (last years) doctor who. They finally found a good writer in Stephen Moffat and given him his own run, which has been consistently good, and probably will be until he leaves.

The low point of the movie still sticks out like a sore thumb for me: Kirks Allergic reaction that swells up his hands. It was at that point I wrote off the movie and started mentally undressing the actors to pass the time.