Well.. coming out of separation I was a big guy.  Still am.  6'4, close to 230 with a BFI of about 14%.  So I opted for inventory.  Me and the guys were all part timers.  Just there for some extra spending cash and a workout.  Now this would be back just before flat screens.  So we're one manning 27" Tubes all day long.  Great work out.  Well.. one of our co-workers was a really nice guy, worked in IT and did Best Buy two nights a week for his hobby money to keep his wife happy.  He was also black.  We hit it off.. became buddies.  Still are, actually.  We had a floor manager who was a bit of a young, self centered jackass.  One night, we had a double truck and we're just exhausted.  The rest of the store is standing around doing nothing, and its almost closing time.  This manager asks my friend to go get the carriages outside.  It's like.. 10F out.  We're hot, sweaty and exhausted.  And we still have stuff to upstock.  He points that out and the next words out of the managers mouth is where the problem begins.  "I should have expected that answer from one of you people."  Buddy instantly goes wide eyed.. and they start to squabble.  I try to get between them and pull him off before he gets fired.  Manager throws a right hook.  Misses him.  Hits me.  I'm not sure if it was Reflex or just general ill will for this guy, but I don't even think.  He catches the back of my elbow across his jaw, and I continue my spin to completely turn face and use my approaching arm to take him down to the ground as hard as I can.  Broke his jaw.  Concussion.  Bruised his ribs (I knelt on him once he was down).  And.. yeah.. I'm no longer allowed to work at Best Buy.

[sniff][sniff] That...  That was beautiful man.  You... are a real American hero.

[TWENTY FIVE YEARS.]

Guys, I've been working retail for...

Wait a sec...



$#!+, I need more fingers...


TWENTY FIVE YEARS.(killmenow)

Out of those 25, I've probably done 20 Christmahankwanadans (we don't send children to war in this country.)
These have been in family businesses, so you can knock my service by saying I've never dropped into a Black Friday hotzone.

What the hell do I get?

Hell, I think I have a rare set laying around somewhere, just have to find it.

Just got hit with a crapload of spam in Off Topic and Mistborn, multiple usernames.  

Edit: huanlanlui, nifiepulliela, kawoccawL are spamming like mad.

Ever an innovator, Cobra looks for crowdfunding.

All I can see is that certain Feats and other character options may grant a character a Final Attack and, additionally, that a Final Attack may never grant more than one attack - but what exactly is it?

Actually, that's it.  There are several character abilities that grant a final attack, and it's short hand for "you may make an attack on the target, and that attack can not  trigger any character options that grant another attack. "  For example, Combat Instincts (p172) grants a final attack when opponents misses your Defense by 5 or more, and if you drop the opponent with that attack, it will not trigger Cleave Basics (p177).

It just occurred to me that there is absolutely no mention of the original two, Wayne and Grayson.  An interesting choice for a saved reveal, even if it is just a constant tease with no payoff.  (How much more can you really say about them after all these years?)

Reaper also has one -

Ah-hyuck, I went me with two dump stats!

I love that figure - he was used for one of the rangers in my Elf & Orc War fantasy game. (Think French & Indian War.)

Yeeeeeah . It's the face.  That face just kills it for me.  That mug does not say "heroic adventurer" to me.  I'm not good enough to modify it, especially since the turkey on his shoulder would have to go, too.  The gnome long gunner isn't perfect either, but I think it will be easier to just trim the ears and the mustache.  Admittedly, I'm still up in the air on the mustache, as I was shooting for "Quigley the Hobbit" (and landed well into "touched in the head" tinkerer territory.)

[nowNOW]

I'm torn.  On one hand, I want to buy these nownowNOW.  On the other, I want to wait until the copypasta mistakes shake out and get corrected before I download them.

I told you not to lick Ms Püdelwumpkins.

How does that animal lick itself? You'd think its tongue would melt off.

How should I know? It was Koala's +1.

And you thought rolling up in the pimped out, completely LED-underboat kit'd USS Iowa was impressive... that tongue.. lemme tell you.. it's either a CIA torture device or a DoD weapons program.  I STILL can't figure out which.

Which one is more likely to incorporate Sonic the Hedgehog fan-art into their projects?  That would be your culprit.  Now pass me another Unicorn Chaser.

[Down the sweet, beautiful brain bleach]

Now Scott, stop posting teasers with Pat's username. We all now that Pat would never be this cruHAHAHAHAHAHAHA damn it I almost made it through that sentence.

If you remember the big Stonehaven "Dwarven Adventures" set, their "Gnomish Adventurers" set is well on its way.  Maybe more "Pathfinder" gnome than hobbit-esque Pech, but most look like they will do in a pinch.  Me, I need a figure for a halfling musket master for a Runelords game I'm in, and the K.S.S. long gunner is the first fig I've seen that is even remotely close. 

[still]

Seven pages and you are still feeding this troll?  Come on guys, I thought you were smarter than this.

[end.]

[deletes rant on geek subculture and labels and starts over with a better, on topic point.  Maybe I have some left over rage from Christmas.]

Or, I don't know, why don't we let stories do what they used to do: end.  Yeah, I know it was awesome and you don't want it to stop.   You know what else stops when you don't want it to?  Life.  Funny how that works out.  Almost like one is supposed to reflect the other.  Almost like its.. wait for it.. natural.

[Wow]

I recently saw a "Best/Worst of Geekdom '12" list that listed the Disney buyout as both one of the best and worst things that went down last year.  Yeah, Lucas lost his touch ages ago (maybe even never had one), but the fact that they didn't even stop to breath in announcing Episode VII makes me wary of the whole enterprise.  It's a horrible idea that can only be salvaged by finding the right artist and letting them go at their own pace, and no megacorp is going to wait to cash in on their shiny new I.P.  Nerd culture's perpetual Stockholm syndrome with the franchise means they don't have to, as nerds will go out and shove money into their hands while gagging form the smell a town over.  This isn't Crafty we are dealing with, it's WotC.



...Wow sorry that came out bitter.

That's mighty tempting.  A six-pack of brass balls d6's.  Nice.