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Idle curiosity moment:

For all the tabletop gamers on my flist, what is your ABSOLUTE FAVORITE special ability found in any RPG? Favorite spell, Discipline, Boon, class ability, cantrip, stupidly awesome and badly unbalanced Racial Ability That Should Not Be, etcetera?

Also, if you've horrifically abused same (or seen it being done), please share with the rest of the class. >:3

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Nothing beats Endcat. NOTHING.


....well, maybe this.

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I'd love to travel back to the Victorian era, provided I could be wealthy, white, and male. Mostly the male bit, actually--any time travel past about 1920 or so and us girls are boned.

That said, the spirit of the Victorian era, when there were vast expanses of the world left to explore and when it looked like modern science could fix anything if you just gave it a year or two, is something I'd love to experience firsthand. The industrial pollution, exploitation and destruction of native populations, and brutal oppression of the poor, not so much, but man, science was Science with a capital S back then. What I wouldn't give to meet Nikola Tesla, even if he was batshit insane! And the science fiction back then was incredible--Jules Verne was still writing, Poe tried his hand at science fiction a time or two, and magazine serials abounded. ♥

From scribblemoose:

Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

( Answers, they are below the cut. )

...after a few horrific days of stressing massively over the financing for it, that is. I am now the proud owner of a gunmetal grey 2006 Scion xA. He needs a name. D: Any suggestions? As far as I go, I'm mostly healed, though the insurance paperwork may kill me. @_@

And now, a meme I stole from Kaja!

COMPUTER VOYEUR MEME
█ Stop what you're doing.
█ Print screen your current desktop.
█ If you have Photoshop open, print screen.
█ If you have a music player open, print screen.
█ Pick a folder, open it, print screen.

( For the peeping toms in the audience. )

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Well, that was easy. Though Lieutenant Commander Data was a distant second.

Taken from xian_pu.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me. It will be about or tailored to those five lucky "victims."

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be fic. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well, if you expect me to do something for you!

...Happy New Year, folks. Here's hoping 2009 has at least a minimal quantity of win.

Merry Christmas, those of you who celebrate it! Happy Winter Consumerism Day to those of you who don't.

Speaking of consumerism, I actually just finished my Christmas shopping. >>; Inconvenient paycheck timing is inconvenient. Oh well, better late than never.

My haul thus far:
~Cold hard cash from my mom and Tiff's grandma.
~A microfleece scarf/hat/gloves set from Tiff's mom. I'm excited about the gloves; they'll be my first pair in about two years. :D Also, a sweet fake tree so Tiff and I can quit failing at tree.
~A mysterious present of mystery from mel_the_second and gamer_of_chaos. I get that later tonight.
~A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans from proletariat_x. Is delicious histories, I must read them.
~Lip gloss of yummeh and hot cocoa from sherriaisling. :D Also, PIRATE STICKERS.
~A cute handmade card and bookmark from genuinelie.
~A doll wig from Tiff that has yet to arrive in the mail. Fail, doll company, fail. But wig = win.
~Delicious theoretical cookies from mettathron. I get those on Saturday.
~An evening of tabletop RPGing from jacks_shadow. I also get that on Saturday.
~An AWESOME NEW COMPUTER, from...me. Ah well, I love presents from me, I always know just what to get me.
~Getting to sleep in this morning without an angry cat yelling outside my door, from Vivi.

Pretty good haul, wot wot?

Day 7:

Today was "See Lots of Friends" day! desyhand was visiting from California, brian_kun and dethorats swung down to our neck of the woods to hang out for a little while, and our friend Teffy popped by to say hello. brian_kun and dethorats brought me some very belated and unexpected birthday presents, and holy crap, they actually braved a doll website for me despite being enormously creeped out by BJDs! Lassa now has naff boots and a lovely new shirt. :D So despite today starting off crappy, it turned out good in the end.