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Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

I can't believe this hasn't been posted here yet.

WTF? Werewolf: the Apocalypse posted:

Steve: Even wolf men need to hire CPAs to do their taxes.

Zack: Vampire meltdown carpet cleaning: $200. Traveled through a mirror into alternate reality and lost my watch: $500. You can't write this stuff off business expenses, Walks On Butt.

Steve: To a werewolf all taxes are the theft of Gaia.

This is why werewolves should join the Tea Party. They already have a Mama Grizzly, and they will find common ground in smaller government and hating black(spiral dancer)s.

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Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Piedmon Sama posted:

Maybe this isn't the right thread but, what exactly are we defining as steam punk? Because if you count steam technology and the questioning of social mores most of Joseph Conrad's novels are steampunk.

It's not really Steampunk without the longing for what should have been. Conrad was writing contemporary and perhaps science fiction for his time. He was looking forward, Steampunk is looking backward and sideways.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2011 08:59

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

a pipe smoking dog posted:

I'd disagree with that, China doesn't really mean China as such, but is instead used as the most distant place imaginable at the time. In the story its fairly obvious that everyone in the story is meant to be middle eastern.

It's similar to the way that a European fairy tales might be set in a "far away land" but everyone in the story is still European.

Or when you have stories about Jesus and the Apostles in Judea but everyone's White.

# ¿ May 9, 2011 00:35

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Oh boy, new WTF, DND?!

I couldn't help but read "Upon donning the Neutral Control Helmet, the six laser, jet balls jump to life..." with Gary Owens's voice.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2011 07:57

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Costumes? Delivery? What are you all talking about?

# ¿ Oct 27, 2012 20:46

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Angela Christine posted:

If it dies the demiplane collapses and its contents are forever lost.

"Good work, you destroyed the heart! As you high-five the ground starts to shake, the walls fall in, and the demiplane collapses around you. You are nothing. Whoops, guess you should have just waited for rescue."

Not many can choose to live forever. But one can choose how to die. The death of the unsung hero, removing an abomination from our world, is the highest form of honor and self-sacrifice.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2013 20:08

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

There is going to be hate-mail. I hope we see this hate-mail.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2013 20:14

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

The Don Pardo bit made me realize that you guys should next move back a few decades and do a bit with John Belushi and Gilda Radner. They would kill a Cthulhu.

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