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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 10:07 pm
(December 9, 2011 at 8:56 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: I love how high of a percentage of Atheists appear to be nerds.
Any of you also play dungeons and dragons (or other tabletop roleplaying games or war games?)
No I don't. Yet. 
My bf is into D&D (2nd edition, though) and I frequently hear about his games and characters. I've been invited a couple of times to play with his gang, but they are all such hardcore gamers, that I don't dare to join them. When we move in together this summer, I'll get better access to his books, and I actually thought of glancing through the Player's Handbook to get a better grasp of the mechanics of the game. So who knows, maybe it's a new hobby for me in the future.. 
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 10:27 pm
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Shell, have I mentioned I'm in love with you?
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 10:29 pm
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(December 9, 2011 at 8:56 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: I love how high of a percentage of Atheists appear to be nerds.
Any of you also play dungeons and dragons (or other tabletop roleplaying games or war games?)
3.5 edition, Pathfinder, and d20 modern all the way.
Does Lord of the Rings edition RISK count or even the traditional version?
I'm waiting for them to come out with an American Revolution edition. That would be epic.
(December 9, 2011 at 10:28 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Shell, have I mentioned I'm in love with you?
Is that what you were saying? I couldn't hear you. Your mouth was full of pastry. 
Love you too, Summer dear.
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 10:33 pm
(December 9, 2011 at 10:29 pm)Shell B Wrote: (December 9, 2011 at 8:56 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: I love how high of a percentage of Atheists appear to be nerds.
Any of you also play dungeons and dragons (or other tabletop roleplaying games or war games?)
3.5 edition, Pathfinder, and d20 modern all the way.
Does Lord of the Rings edition RISK count or even the traditional version?
Man, it has been a LONG time since I played RISK. Fun game. Great Game, overall.
I've never played a Lord of the Rings version but that and an American Revolution or Civil War version would be very, very sweet.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 10:35 pm
The Lord of the Rings one is awesome. Fear my orc army!
I got into RISK when I was cooking at a restaurant near a college. One of my cook buddies was totally into the game, so we would get out at around 1 in the morning and go to his house to play. There would nearly always be a raging party going on around us. I think it pissed people off. Haha.
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December 9, 2011 at 11:12 pm
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Oooh! RISK is awesome! I used to play it too with my friends, but then they moved to my nation's capital, and no more RISK games for Kay.. :'(
Well, my bf and his friends like to play the new RISK with moon bases and such.. It just hasn't got the same feeling to it as the old one 
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 9, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Risk is fun too! I played the Lord of the Rings version with my ex stepfather a couple years ago. It was fun, although, I confess I am not at all a fan of the books/movies. Don't know why, it just never captured me, I suppose.
I am more of a science fiction chick, all around. I am a Douglas Adams fanatic. I also enjoy historical books and films.
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 10, 2011 at 7:28 am
Lord of the Rings trumps almost anything else created by man.
I used to play LOTR Warhammer... But I haven't taken any of my models out for a long time.
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RE: Star Trek vs. Star Wars - An Objective Analysis
December 10, 2011 at 10:02 am
I used to play Magic: The Gathering but it was like crack only more expensive. I couldn't get into D&D but I loved Battletech.
(And Star Wars all the way, original trilogy that is)
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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