A 1970 Corvette

Pretty sure this song is going to come up more than once since as far as Japan is concerned it's one of the core Christmas Carols:
 
 

Almost all Train Simulator DLC is on sale as part of the Black Friday sale:
 
https://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/Train_Simulator_2020/
 
You can now grab all the DLC for the low cost of $4923.22

Jeez, and I was mulling over an Planetside conversion hack for Ops and Tactics. 
 
I don't know how you could do it without taking liberties with classes tbh. I do like the idea of Scout being a halfling though, the mental image makes me laugh.

Based off the success of the Gravel Wars adaptation of BECMI's mass combat rules, I've experimented off and on with altering the BECMI D&D rules to make a TF2 rpg.  Obviously everything would have be completely replaced in terms of flavor, but the spirit of the exercise was to see if I could keep the system very similar and still have it work.  For example, I'd like to keep most class abilities pretty similar.  But that raises the question of which class becomes which TF2 class.
 
Some are obvious (like Cleric -> Medic, Thief -> Spy).  But many are not so obvious. Heavy probably works as fighter, just to get the most HP if nothing else.  Maybe have Elf and Magic User become some combination of Soldier and Demoman, with magic being strongly focused on explosive attacks, though that leaves one of them really squishy unless we mess with the classes a bit more.  Maybe one becomes elf, and the other becomes a dwarf with some of the alternate spellcasting rules for demihumans.  You can also make the argument that engineer should be Magic-User and then focus on utility spells.  Scout could be halfling I suppose.  Nothing in BECMI really focuses that heavily on archery, so there's no obvious choice for sniper, though probably there's something from one of the Creature Crucibles.  Pyro might work as a variant of the extremely wacky monk class, though an acrobatic monk could also work for scout.

One year Moore will die.  Then the next year two more big names in the foundations of IT will die.  Then four the next year, then eight...

Bullshit, I panned you when you were running away invisible, ya motherfucker.
You're lucky that I don't have any physical proof of this.

All I care about is the Marc avatar.

So it's basically the equivalent of one of these?

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.
EDIT: There's a lot of fingers of speech in there, I might have missed some since I did it myself but I'm pretty sure that's close to 100 cement right.

Just do like I do and pull pretty much everything out of your ass on the fly.
 
Your players are going to fuck up anything you plan anyway, so may as well just roll with it. If you're always prepared to be unprepared, you can never be caught off guard.

This EP is my favourite math audiobook

I guess this thread is as good of place for this as any.
 
As I've mentioned elsewhere, one of my favorite bands is Blue Oyster Cult.  One of the most frequent questions asked of the band is where the heck the name came from.  The answer you will find online (all over the place) is that it is an anagram of "Cully Stout Beer."
 
And it's true that it's an anagram... but you'll never find any mention of "Cully Stout Beer" anywhere but this factoid.  It doesn't even really make sense as a name of a beer, since a stout is going to be a beer.
 
There is another story for the name, which is that it comes from the poetry of the band's producer, Sandy Pearlman.  And if you are familiar with the band, you'll see that a lot of the songs do come from Pearlman's poetry (most famously Astronomy, but the album Imaginos is entirely derived from it).  In these poems it refers to a cult devoted to a group of aliens who secretly control the world's events (the aliens themselves are also referred to as the cult).  The "Oyster" part presumably comes from the appearance of the aliens (what is being referred to by lyric "oyster boys are swimming now, hear them chatter on the tide" in Subhuman and Blue Oyster Cult).
 
It's also clear that Pearlman had a thing for weird three word band titles.  Before being "Blue Oyster Cult" the band had previously been called "Stalk Forrest Group" and "Soft White Underbelly."  Neither of these titles has ever explained as an anagram, they were just phrases that were chosen because they easily stick in your mind.
 
The only evidence for the "Cully Stout Beer" theory is one statement from Pearlman from one interview.  Since Pearlman was the type of guy who certainly would fuck around with others if he thought it would be amusing, it's just as possible that "Cully Stout Beer" was formed as an anagram of the pre-existing "Blue Oyster Cult."
 
Yet the story of "Cully Stout Beer" is treated as indisputable fact most places, especially now that it has stuck to the Wikipedia page.
 
What I find interesting about the story is both how much effort people have spent in spreading a (probably) false factoid which means so little, as well as what it implies about how easy it is to get a lie to stick.

Never a bad thing to remember the past. I never remove people from my friends list unless they're something like a trade bot.
 
 
Yeah, they got it right early on and then just kept innovating until it became shit.
 
I, personally, blame phoneposters for the demise of forums.

Big fan

There's been a lot of Half-Life 1 videos lately:
 
 

You ever wake up from a dream with a prominent specific element, and you struggle to remember if that element had popped up across several of your recent dreams, or if it was just one really long dream you just had?

Read Clark Ashton Smith's story "Genius Loci."  Halfway through I realized that the plot is what inspired this song and had the song running through my head throughout the rest of my read through:
 
 
 
Iron Maiden has some good taste in literature.

Fixed.

I can't wait.

Because "brownout" is more evocative of the shitty situation it causes.