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My favorite Spanish phrase is one from the game "The Curse of Monkey Island" referencing.... (insert dramatic lead in, followed by stated phrase in foreboding voice) "El Pollo Diablo."

Edit: The fact that this is the most interesting thing I could come up with should give you an idea of just how familiar I am with the Spanish language. But then that was obvious, and I'm wasting space by spelling it out for you all.



Don't mind me... I waste space frequently on forums.

..and perhaps that is yet another valid argument as to why the Voices in your Head should not be included when tallying the majority opinion on any particular topic.

Several threads on this forum got me thinking.. would it be possible to use a forum thread to collaborate on building a game system? No, I'm not talking about working with an online team to develop a quality game system -- it would be more like a "round-robin" style story, but each poster would contribute their own mostly-self-contained rules that build off of existing rules.

It may not be very balanced, or even very logical -- but I dunno, maybe it could be fun.

For instance, if I were going to start it, I'd write something simple like:


Character Building - Stats

The three primary stats that define a character's abilities are:
Physical
Mental
Spiritual

Three secondary stats are derived from the primary stats:
Dexterity = Physical + Mental
Charisma = Physical + Spiritual influence
Wisdom = Spiritual + Mental

Maybe a strange idea, maybe a ridiculous one, but its something to do, at least. Comments of all kinds welcome.

donkey

I didn't think it was necessary to include them, since you already are the majority. But if you want to include them, I suppose we could -- we just haven't been properly introduced yet.

Isn't MRAM founded on the same basic concept as floppy disks and magnetic tape? They work OK as long as you don't leave them near any strong magnetic fields for too long.

Actually, my biggest concern is the need to clear the memory -- one of the most common reasons for restarting the computer is to completely clear the RAM and start fresh when things go haywire (which they are bound to do at some point). With MRAM everything would be basically stored in the RAM by default, including any settings that happened to be screwy.

That is sick and really freaky.. but it doesn't suggest to me that Japan has violence issues so much as some really deep social issues. I hope their government will start to put two and two together on this.

No, its not my place to criticize the accepted practices of other cultures, but there are a number univeral truths in this world, and one is the fragility of the human psyche.

Hey, those people were doing a really great job of hijacking the thread, and you ruined it, Stacer.

I like the new Gatorade flavors ok -- Freeze, Ice, Fierce, etc -- and would like to try their "Propel fitness water" but find it stupid that they cost like $2-3, and cursive died for me around 5th grade, when I realized I was never going to get it down and really didn't care to. I print, and then only when I absolutely have to. Granted it shows in my handwriting, which is readable but quite terrifying nonetheless.

Like how I combined them both into one sentence, as if they were the same topic? You don't? Oh. Well too bad.