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Category: Weirdness
Posted on: September 23, 2009 3:03 PM, by PZ Myers
There can be too much of a good thing. If you actually eat Turbaconucken, you've got a bacon addiction. Seek help.
And if you ever drink Jones Dungeons & Dragons Spellcasting Soda during your weekly D&D game, you are suffering from hypernerdosis. In fact, you are probably even too nerdy for this blog.
I don't even want to imagine someone who serves turbaconucken and spellcasting soda as a snack during their regular FRP sessions.
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Posted by: Kraid
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September 23, 2009 3:14 PM
I want to cast Magic Missile at my thirst!
Posted by: Pascalle
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September 23, 2009 3:14 PM
Well you can always get your mana potions to go with your rp or gamer sessions :)
http://www.manapotions.com/
Posted by: gyeong-hwa
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September 23, 2009 3:16 PM
As a person who frequent the gym very often, all I have to say is:
Bring it on Turbaconucken!
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp
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September 23, 2009 3:17 PM
Even I wouldn't go near the Turbaconucken. Thought I have roasted a turkey with a bacon cap over the breasts.
Nerdsoda on the other hand, I'd probably drink it as Jones makes some good stuff.
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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September 23, 2009 3:21 PM
Yes, but then on which side does the fault lie?
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: flyonthewall
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September 23, 2009 3:27 PM
well they don't just hate us for our freedom now do they?
Posted by: Bobber
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September 23, 2009 3:29 PM
I had to immediately send this out to my D&D cohorts. Mmmmm, nuthin' like that Dwarven Draught while cleaving through a tribe of orcs! HUZZAH!
Posted by: The Pint
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September 23, 2009 3:31 PM
Turbaconucken. Right. Looks like I've got a bit of a kitchen experiment to attempt this weekend. *rubs hands together in glee as the vegan husband weeps in the background*
As for the Jones soda, I agree they do make a tasty beverage, but if that ever shows up at any of the husbands D&D campaigns, I will never let him hear the end of it. Although as I'm a sucker for purple pop, the Illithid Brain Juice does look rather enticing.
Posted by: Desert Son, OM
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September 23, 2009 3:32 PM
Want!
Our group has an annual gathering to roll dice (since we're now scattered hither and yon and can't get together as often as we'd like - real life, such a pain sometimes), and next session may require some supply of this.
We've certainly been happy with New Belgium brewery's Folly Pack variety of beer at our game sessions.
Thanks, PZ!
No kings,
Robert
P.S. Hope this doesn't make me too nerdy for the blog. I can take off the glasses, if that'll help.
Posted by: E.V.
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September 23, 2009 3:33 PM
This reminds me of the Fat Ladies who used to appear on BBC channel. They once prepared a tureen of pheasant which consisted of packing notoriously dry pheasant meat in a bread loaf pan lined and topped with the thickest bacon slices imaginable. Crackly bacon grease soaked pheasant loaf - just add bread, cheese sauce and mayo for the suicidal sandwich crowd.
Posted by: Desert Son, OM
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September 23, 2009 3:36 PM
Bobber,
As did I.
Roll to hit!
No kings,
Robert
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage
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September 23, 2009 3:36 PM
Jones sodas are good, albeit a bit pricey. I particularly like their black cherry soda.
Posted by: Tammy
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September 23, 2009 3:41 PM
I can see those kind of people being the table-top RPG-ers. LARPers tend to actually be able to move around... lol. And too nerdy for THIS blog? Never.
Posted by: Endor
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September 23, 2009 3:42 PM
Turbaconucken has to be the most disgusting looking food I've ever seen. Bile rising just looking at it.
Posted by: BobK
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September 23, 2009 3:42 PM
Hard to see how the sodas are considered excess. I found these about a week ago - I could sure go for some Illithid Brain Juice, though mind flayers are almost cephalopods. Good to see a lot of D&D players on here, not that I'm too surprised given the caliber of nerdiness present.
Posted by: Travis
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September 23, 2009 3:44 PM
I like my bacon a lot more crispy than that, so it is pretty horrifying. But I would try that once if it was prepared correctly.
Now if only there was some beer and lesbians to go with it.
Posted by: Desert Son, OM
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September 23, 2009 3:48 PM
Incidentally, the other images on that blog are pretty hilarious, too. Check out the Oreo cookie stack.
BobK,
Agreed!
No kings,
Robert
Posted by: Fred The Hun
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September 23, 2009 3:49 PM
Huh? 11 bucks for a six pack of flavored carbonated unfermented sugar water?!! You've got to be kidding. I don't care how cool the graphics are. I can get something a little more drinkable for that price.
http://funandsun.com/1tocf/food/beers/beweries.html
Posted by: Tammy
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September 23, 2009 3:50 PM
And OMG I have to mention that when I was in high school, my parents actually bought a book about how Dungeons and Dragons was sending their children to HELL! HELL! I think turbaconucken is MUCH more likely to do that!
Posted by: Krystalline Apostate
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September 23, 2009 3:50 PM
Holy shit, just looking @ the Turbaconucken is giving me high cholesterol.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp
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September 23, 2009 3:50 PM
My favorite and honestly, the diet version is about the best diet soda out there.
Posted by: Kausik Datta
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September 23, 2009 3:52 PM
The Rev at #4:
When I looked at that photo in the post, I swear I thought of you first... thinking, "Eh! It would be short work for the Rev..."imma disappointed.
*pulls a long face*
Posted by: Kobra
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September 23, 2009 3:59 PM
What does FRP mean?
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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September 23, 2009 4:00 PM
I never saw nearly enough of the Two Fat Ladies. Pity.
I only recall their cooking for a boys' choir ("They look like little porkchops with those collars"). The made goose and one of them went all exstatic over the fat - "Oooooh. I just want to rub it all over my chest."
Do you think you could find that recipe? I never liked pheasant much as a kid (turned off gravy at some point for some reason). But I think I could get a couple from my brother-in-law or his father. I have a lovely leg of venison in the freezer now that I need to do something with.
Posted by: Desert Son, OM
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September 23, 2009 4:02 PM
Kobra,
Fantasy Role-Playing.
No kings,
Robert
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage
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September 23, 2009 4:03 PM
So you were exposed to Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeons" at an early age.
Posted by: CJO
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September 23, 2009 4:04 PM
A friend of mine and fellow D&Der (though he's ~1000 miles away, so we do telepresence via Skype to play with him [what was that about being too nerdy...?]) home-brews beer, and he's an artist, too. He gives the brews D&D names and hand prints cool labels for them.
The only two I remember offhand:
Backstab Porter (double hops, double damage.) and Castle Amber Ale (It's colossal!)
Yes, we are grognards.
Posted by: BeamStalk
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September 23, 2009 4:20 PM
I have seen the mana potions but the Jone's D&D drinks are new to me. I just serve pop at my bi-weekly Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy game.
Posted by: Larry
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September 23, 2009 4:28 PM
Only thing missing with that turbaconucken is a side of chocolate dippin' sauce.
Oh, and a diet coke to wash it all down.
Posted by: Sophist
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September 23, 2009 4:29 PM
If you think that sounds decadent, you should try TurbaCanucken. It's a bacon-wrapped turkey, stuffed with a whole Québécois. It's to die for.
Posted by: JackC
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September 23, 2009 4:38 PM
There are some things I have never done - or had to stop doing. For instance, I was forced to promise my caddy, while playing in the Philippines, that I would never again play golf.
When trying to learn Dungeons and Dragons, many years ago, I was rolling for my character skills. It came to Charisma.
I rolled a 3.
Yep - that is three die, and I rolled the lowest possible number.
I have never gone back. It was just too humiliating.
JC
Posted by: liveparadox
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September 23, 2009 4:41 PM
OMG, want.
@#30: LOL.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage
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September 23, 2009 4:43 PM
So your character is butt ugly, picks his nose in public, and is rude, crude and socially unacceptable. If he's got 18-66/100 strength and 17 dex, he's an awesome fighter.
Posted by: otrame
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September 23, 2009 4:48 PM
Have any of you listened to the Penny Arcade podcasts where they sit there and play D & D with the recorder on? At first I thought my son had lost his mind when he wanted to listen to it on a long trip, but I admit I got hooked. Don't have the link here at work, but you bunch of nerds can probably find it.
Posted by: Carlie
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September 23, 2009 4:57 PM
Sophist - only if it's a Québécois baby. The older ones are too tough.
Posted by: Doug Little
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September 23, 2009 4:57 PM
@31,
It's fun to play a character that is severely deficient in one particular aspect, adds a whole other dimension to the game and makes it a lot more fun to play. With a charisma of 3 you probably could have had some sort of repelling protection, I'm sure that being that ugly no one would want to fuck with you.
Posted by: E.V.
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September 23, 2009 5:09 PM
Sili:
It was literally lining a standard metal loaf pan with thick cut bacon, seasoning filleted pheasant meat with salt & pepper and perhaps a small amount of rubbed sage and thyme, then filling the pan with it and adding a bacon layer on the top. This should go into a preheated 325 -350 degree oven for an hour - hour fifteen (165 degrees internal temperature) ought to do it. It should come out nicely once fully rested, don't you agree Rev. BDC?
I remember going pheasant hunting with may dad and granddad as a child in southwestern Kansas. Wringing the wounded bird's neck when it wasn't a direct kill was very troubling image I'll never forget.
There was usually a hunting related death or two each year. One man near Liberal Kansas used his eleven year old son to drive a combine in order to flush the birds into flight. When the man stopped to take aim at the fleeing birds his son was too busy watching the pheasants to stop - you can imagine the rest. Lesson learned: Bird dogs are better for hunting than diesel thrashers operated by adolescents. Others turned out like Cheney's hunting party with a less fortunate outcome. Groups of men and women become blind to anything but the quarry unless they are very vigilant and sober. Pheasants love to fly just above the crop they hide in. 12 ga. birdshot to the chest or head within a 2 yard distance is usually fatal.
I've hunted dove and quail which I enjoy eating; pheasant - not so much since I've never liked the taste (It's also the reason why I don't hunt deer - I've never liked venison) I don't believe in hunting something you don't plan to eat, unless it's a very destructive/harmful animal. And now a word or two by Knockgoats...
Posted by: Jadehawk, OM
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September 23, 2009 5:15 PM
mmm Jones Soda...
I really only drink their cola, but as far as colas go, it can only be beaten by Pepsi Throwback; which doesn't exist anymore AFAIK.
Posted by: Samwise
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September 23, 2009 5:19 PM
Mmmmmm... it looks like a roast headcrab!
http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/downloads/1/17/16760/thumb_620x2000/headcrab.jpg
Posted by: chuckgoecke
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September 23, 2009 5:21 PM
Definitely food porn, and it gets worst if you click thru to the original site. Shameful!
Posted by: Qwerty
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September 23, 2009 5:29 PM
Yes, ditto to Kausik Datta @ # 22. *heaves sigh*
Rev., are you ruining your reputation with this admission?
Patricia OM will have to post that link to the bacon bomb again in order to renew your reputation in baconology circles.
Posted by: ArmandTanzarian
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September 23, 2009 5:37 PM
I've gotten a good chicken recipe off thisiswhyyourefat.com once. No lie. However I've only done that once so far, and that was with modifications too.
Posted by: eddie
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September 23, 2009 5:39 PM
Roll 18 or higher on d20 to save against heart disease.
Rev BDC @4 - "...with a bacon cap on the breasts." Yours or its? ;-)
Also, it's weird but the sign-in options in opera mini browser don't show typepad on the list, but they are on the N97's basic browser.
Posted by: Trug
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September 23, 2009 5:42 PM
C'mon PZ, you can tell us. There's no way a cephalapodophile (if that's a word?) can possibly resist slamming down a few Illithid Brain Juices on a hot summer day. *Especially* after all the salt from the turbaconucken sucks the water from your body like a wrung sponge.
Posted by: mothwentbad
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September 23, 2009 5:54 PM
Man. Now I want to go play NWN2, but I have to grade a midterm and rewrite a horribly-written draft of a research paper I don't fully understand yet.
Posted by: xerhino
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September 23, 2009 6:13 PM
A Turbaconucken is nice, but it's thinking too small, you need to wrap bacon around an Osturduchiquarobingbird:
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/331/e/b/Osturduchiquarobingbird_by_xerhino.jpg
Posted by: skeptical scientist
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September 23, 2009 6:22 PM
How did I know someone was going to describe it as food porn? Possibly because it leaves one feeling both slightly guilty and slightly titillated...
Posted by: Becky
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September 23, 2009 6:56 PM
It really begs for a baconnaise dipping sauce
Posted by: creeper
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September 23, 2009 6:58 PM
If you think excess is bad for you, maybe you're just not doing it right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ew8rdu7ZY4
Posted by: Cath the Canberra Cook
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September 23, 2009 7:07 PM
See, I wouldn't call it food porn. Food porn is supposed to be *attractive*. Though I guess it's whatever turns you on, or as they say these days, YKINMKBIAGK...
Posted by: Uncle Glenny
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September 23, 2009 7:16 PM
eddie@43: Also, it's weird but the sign-in options in opera mini browser don't show typepad on the list, but they are on the N97's basic browser.
I use flock on a Mac, and I've seen this once or twice, where at least once it belatedly appeared like a kid running on stage late at a school production.
becky@48: It really begs for a baconnaise dipping sauce
Got a recipe, or should I try to concoct one?
Posted by: Monimonika
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September 23, 2009 7:24 PM
The spell-casting soda reminds me of these "potion" drinks that were sold for the Final Fantasy gaming franchise. The potions were basically some yucky-tasting tea. Anyway, some Japanese masochist got a blue potion and combined it with several energy/herbal drinks in order to make a "high potion".
The process and result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzA5bSW-j0U
Watch to the end. It still amazes me that the guy managed to stay alive.
Oh, and to tie-in with the "bad-for-your-heart" theme, the same guy later managed to digest a small fraction of the above mixture by diluting it into a huge Mac Shake(*). This needs to be seen to be believed.
Non-subbed video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPQalZzRPwM&
(*)Mac Shake ingredients (all mixed in blender):
1 Big Mac
1 Mega Mac
1 Mega Tomato
some Fackin(?) Chicken Nuggets
1 Cheese Burger
1 Tomato Grilled Chicken Sandwich
1 Shrimp Fillet
1 Chicken Fillet
1 Trouble-Maker (Mondaiji)
1 Teriyaki Mac Burger
1 Mac Pork
1 Bacon Lettuce Burger
1 Double Cheese Burger
1 Mac Wrap
some French Fries
1 Green Salad
1 bottle of Cola
Posted by: Peter G.
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September 23, 2009 7:24 PM
I wonder if I should set out my recipe for bacon wrapped bacon. In any event I'm not sure why the Turbaconucken should be particularly censured. It has, after all, been blessed by Saint Atkins.
Posted by: Skellington
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September 23, 2009 8:00 PM
*rattles cane* Back in my campaigning days, we drank whatever beer was available, called it a health potion, and LIKED it! *grumble*
The other monstrosity seems like a waste of both bacon and bird. Save the bacon to wrap the filet mignon, and spend the evening in godless-tastebud-heaven.
Posted by: The Pint
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September 23, 2009 8:04 PM
@ Monimonika #52
Oh. Sweet. Jebus. I cannot believe someone actually made that monstrosity of a milkshake and DRANK IT. UGH!!
For the baconologists here, Chicago's doing a Baconfest next April - wonder if they'll actually have a turbaconucken at the amateur cooking exhibition? I'm planning on making my bacon chocolate chip cookies for the event, myself.
Posted by: tortorific
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September 23, 2009 8:15 PM
If heaven existed that would be it
Posted by: Pierce R. Butler
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September 23, 2009 9:50 PM
Desert Son @ # 25: Fantasy Role-Playing.
That's a relief. For a moment I feared our host was telling us more than would seem entirely becoming about his familiarity with Furry Ritual Performance halftime cuisine.
Posted by: https://me.yahoo.com/a/vhOTnfQjkf4BTBpQc3gFpgx0mw--#682ef
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September 23, 2009 11:09 PM
Now to see if the Yahoo OpenID works (Google one wouldn't).
My mom was opposed to me playing D&D with the other kids when I was 10 because she saw the BS (As well as that stupid Tom Hank movie)about it turning kids into Satanists.
The funny thing is, I never believed in god(s). Ever. So why would I start believing in the devil?
Then she actually saw us playing in high school and wondered what the big deal was. Even atheists can be tricked into falling for Xian lies if you dress it up and serve it on TV.
Posted by: anthonzi
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September 24, 2009 12:57 AM
I could definitely use the Ilithid Brain Juice. You can never get enough +intellect during finals.
Posted by: dustycrickets
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September 24, 2009 1:00 AM
The problem with 'Fried Butter" is that it's not wrapped in Bacon.
Posted by: masksoferis.wordpress.com
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September 24, 2009 2:31 AM
Spellcasting soda? Opens entirely new possibilities for combining games.
"Behind the corner there's a giant flame-breathing troll! Everyone roll 1d6 for damage and drink one cup per point. If six, do a sanity check, too."
"Man, I hate Killfiles and Trolls. Oh, and I drink a red one to cast Footshot on the troll... wait, concern or regular?"
Posted by: Ranson
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September 24, 2009 7:43 AM
Ahh, so much to comment on.
I like most Jones Sodas, but their cream soda is like drinking pure liquid sugar. The diet Green Apple is ambrosia, however.
As for playing a character with a massive stat flaw, it's great. Some of the most fun I've had is running a deficient character against type. I had a paladin with an INT of 4 (17 WIS, though). To keep his class abilities safe, he carried a little item that told him when he was about to violate alignment. With that, I played him as a sort of noble buffoon, highly aware but just plain uninformed about the basics of how the world worked. With his high WIS and CHA, I would use him as a point man in social situations involving the enemy -- they get exasperated, but he's using his own ignorance as a distraction and intelligence gathering tool for the rest of the party. Once combat rolled around, you don't need high INT to swing an axe.
Nerdcore represent!
Posted by: JackC
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September 24, 2009 10:39 AM
I feel now as if I have missed out on an entire world of success thanks to not trusting in a butt-ugly character.
Or maybe not.
All in all, I prefer Sudoku.
JC
Posted by: https://me.yahoo.com/mike_kc_wagner#29178
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September 24, 2009 11:19 AM
Wow, my Yahoo OpenID a couple of comments above is really ugly. It's too bad that the name field here doesn't override.
I'm not all that impressed with the OpenID method of login.
But I digress.
We also played with flawed characters, and it was a ton of fun. My character had compulsions - mainly a need to try every liquid in a flask (I had an uncle like that - always smelled of aftershave).
So he would steal potions from other players, recklessly down anything in a bottle he found lying about in a dungeon. It caused no end of havoc.
He also was incapable of learning from mistakes. When told he could make poisoned darts by dipping them in giant spider venom he repeatedly fumbled and got poisoned. Each time he'd be healed, he'd immediately go right back to the spider corpse to try and poison his darts. The party had to drag him off eventually.
He was char-broiled by Drow after drinking one too many potions and permanently polymorphing into a dog. :)
Posted by: https://me.yahoo.com/mike_kc_wagner#29178
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September 24, 2009 11:42 AM
Wow, that high potion video was insane.
And hilarious toward the end.
Would the proteins in the energy drinks have mostly degraded due to the cooking process?
He really should be dead otherwise.
Posted by: Tmax01
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September 24, 2009 4:18 PM
Nerdvana is reading Pharyngula while playing D&D, drinking JDDSS, and snacking on Turbaconucken.
Except I'm worried the JDDSS contains neither alcohol nor caffeine. Both problems could be remedied, I suppose.
Posted by: BigDogMi
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September 24, 2009 9:20 PM
@#34
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4arch/pod
Enjoy all you Neo-Nerds and Uber-Nerds alike.
Here's one with Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) playing... For all you Star Trek Nerds. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4pod/20090218
Posted by: Sean3:16
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September 25, 2009 2:53 AM
makes me think we need to invent Turbacco, a smooth tasting cigarette substitute haha