Doppel’s Dementia

Wow, I didn’t know dice overload until I saw Game Master Dice Store, Game Dice, RPG Dice and Board Game Dice. They have got some really nice dice sets in metal and as long as you are buying a lot the flat $7 shipping charge isn’t bad. I am thinking of these bad boys for my Hunter game.

I’m not sure whether to be horrified at the complex mechanics or excited at so many dice. Apparently the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game has seven completely different kinds of dice. You have a different colored dice pool for different functions, there are some eight-sided, some ten-sided and some six-sided. None of them use pips, the each have a combination of custom symbols and blank faces.

One of the new features of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay are the custom dice used during task resolution. The core set includes 36 custom dice. With these dice, the characters can perform a wide variety of actions while accounting for changing tactics, situations, and effects. Rather than numbers, these dice feature special symbols.

Of Dice and Men – A look at the custom dice and core mechanics of WFRP

I saw this on The Soup the other night and it has got to be the worst pet invention ever. I can’t even imagine what kind of person would subject their dog to wearing a full-body harness that holds a poop bag up to their butt. How lazy/squeamish do you have to be to buy this product? I would be embarassed to have my dog walking around wearing this contraption.

Poo Trap

Yes, I’ve finally branched out. I have been playing a Protectorate of Menoth army (Warmachine) for over a year and decided that for my second faction I would go with the Legion of Everblight (Hordes). I found a second-hand army on eBay at a good discount off retail, even better is that the beasts are all at least basecoated and the Harriers and Seraph are basically done. The rest of the models are either basecoated or at least primed. Below are pics of the new army. My biggest challenge will be getting the remaining paint on the Carnivean to match the quality of the existing paint as well as the flying beasties. I really hope that whatever my next beast is that I can live up to this quality.

Wow Little Wheel has got to be the most stylish Flash game I’ve ever seen. Great story and the setting/atmosphere was awesome. Too bad it’s a one-shot game, once you finish it there’s not really a reason to play again. Hopefully the authors (OneClickDog.com) in Slovakia will put out another installment.

Play Little Wheel, a free online game on Kongregate.

I ran across LOLcaptions over at Kongregate today. For some reason I really enjoy stupid image macros, don’t ask me why. In this game you join a room with other players and create captions for random photos on flikr, then everybody votes on their favorite.

Launch the full version of Whirled

I can’t figure out if this guy “Dick Doper” is serious with his blog or just mocking the far-right loonies. I think that the latest post about pink light atop the Hancock tower in Chicago tips the balance in favor of the mocking theory. Below is a snippet from that post:

A commie code pinko spit in the face from the city that stinks. The city of Sickago. This is the confirmation that Sickago has gone completely liberal/regressive insane.

WINGNUT WEBZINE TOO, Political Blog, Conservative Bloggers, Republican Blogspot, Political Blogs.

We finally went and saw District 9 today and it was a totally kick-ass movie. I knew just the basic premise but intentionally ignored all the commercials for it to avoid spoilers. There was a lot more to the plot than I expected and lots more character development as well.

The marketing web site is really cool, lots of content and buttons for other mini-sites at the bottom as well.

D-9.com

Prehistoric Yeast Used to Brew Fossil Fuels Beer – Slashfood

Yes, someone did the old “extract some yeast from ancient amber and then use it to brew” trick. Kinda like Jurassic Park but tastier (hopefully). Now I have an excuse to head up to the Bay area (although I’m sure I won’t).

A buddy of mine went to Comic-Con last Friday and recited this great quote to me the next day:

There was a Princess Leia costume contest out on the floor and it was so packed you couldn’t get within 100 yards of it. The whole area was fanboys jumping up to snap beat-off pictures for later.

SEXY PEOPLE. Yes, this site is absolute comedy gold. A friend of mine (thanks Darana!) got sent a link to this site via Twitter-spam and I browsed around a bit and fell off my damn chair. Check out the Acid Wash and Stache?? pages first. The sub-title of the site is “a celebration of the perfect portrait” so I think he just trolls the Internet for portrait images to use on his site.

Meanwhile… at the Hall of Justice: A Collection of Superhero Mishaps is a neat looking exhibition that Subtext is putting on the weekend of Comic-Con.

Let’s face it, everyone has a bad day. Even superheroes. And this July, Subtext will host a group exhibition that captures those mishaps for all to see. Did you know that the Hulk has been arrested for wreckless endangerment? Aquaman did some time for fishing in international waters without permits, and the Wonder Twins were still awaiting trial for public indecency. It just reminds us that even though they are super, they are still human (some of them anyways). Join us during Comic Con weekend at Subtext, and see for yourself what infractions your favorite heroes have been hiding under their capes.

Subtext Gallery & Design Bookstore

I got really bad about posting my Warmachine work in progress (WIP) photos over the last nine months or so. I would take the pictures but then never crop them to post. Here’s a few from September 2008 showing my work table and the pieces I was working on at the time.

I know this update is ten days late but we spent the $10 each to spend the evening of the 4th of July on the deck of the U.S.S. Midway floating aircraft carrier museum. We got there around 7:30pm, put a blanket down on the canted part of the flight deck and hung out until the fireworks at 9pm. It was a nice relaxing evening and they actually shot the same set of fireworks off from three different spots around the bay which was kinda cool.

They also had a nice custom soundtrack instead of the stupid easy listening crap that the radio stations usually play. It had a bit of the Rammstein “living in America” song and a sound bit which could have been R. Lee Ermey saying “Listen up maggots! Happy 4th of July, hoo-rah and Semper Fi”. All in all it was an enjoyable day.

So my router couldn’t get an IP via DHCP from my cable modem tonight for some reason. I first go through my usual ritual of power cycling the modem, then the router (which works 50% of the time). No dice, still getting 192.168.100.2 on the router. I then call up Cox tech support, using their automated system will get me back up & running about 90% of the time. Unfortunately tonight the IVR piped me into the queue for a live ticket taker.

Even more unfortunate was her attitude. I explained that even after power cycling both pieces of equipment my router was not getting an IP via the cable modem. Her instant response was “Cox does not troubleshoot wireless routers” so I explained that the router is wired directly to the modem. She then said “Cox does not troubleshoot routers” and we went around and around. Finally she decided to try to help me by walking me the long way through Start > Run > Cmd and doing an ipconfig. I played along to that point but told her that this info wouldn’t help since my computer was getting its IP from the router and the router wasn’t getting a valid IP from Cox.

I then insisted on speaking to a Tier 2 tech so she put me on hold for about three minutes. Of course just before she picked back up the router finally got an IP (since I kept clicking the Renew button in the interface). The sad part is that I asked about the intelligent IVR that usually takes care of the problem by remotely resetting my cable modem and such and she said they still have it so I’m frustrated that I had to speak to a ticket taker when the IVR does a better job.