Best posts made by WTFE

It takes more than a near-700GB data loss to keep me down, motherfuckers!

Edited to add:

And, point of order, that photo was taken while I was recovering data. Yeah, I'm just that hard core. By which I mean, obviously, stupid.

While we're all bruising our brains to stop the damage from reading @Jaunt's ravings, has anybody here ever tried Tatratea's liqeurs? I can get them here, but they're really expensive, so I'm not really willing to take the plunge unless I get some good reviews. I'm most interested in these ones:

Peach and White Tea (42%/84 proof)

Original Tea Liqeur (52%/104 proof)

Forest Fruit (62%/124 proof)

The other ones may be of interest too, but those aer the three I'm most interested in. Some of the questions I have are:

• How much of the actual tea flavour shines through in these? And here I mean the full complex of tea flavours, not just the bitter quantities. If I want stomach bitters I can drink Jägermeister.
• How much flavour is lost to the alcohol burn? For example, that mare's milk hooch I linked earlier I originally got in a 38%abv version, then the 52%. I was afraid the parts that made it taste awesome would be overshadowed by the alcohol burn, but thankfully I was wrong. The awesome parts got more concentrated. Is it the same for the Tatratea line?

If there's two ways to do things...

1. Stupid;
2. Really stupid;

...Steve Jackson will pick the third option:

3. Really fucking stupid.

This is true every time. It covers game design, marketing, customer relations, legal interpretations. You name it. He will invariably pick "really fucking stupid" as the way to go ahead with things.

As far as I can tell the entire purpose of having staff at Steve Jackson Games is to get Jackson as far away from actually touching things as is humanly possible.

@crayon said:

This is, a thousand times over, the reason why I'm not really interested in engaging in 'discussion', particularly with the likes of @Sunny and @WTFE and company where the 'conversation' has mostly consisted of calling us names and trying to insinuate that we are in some way awful people because we're targeting a specific subset of games.

See, this is why I think you're a yapping little shih-tzu. Dude, I fucking LINKED to my first post in this thread. Please point to where I called you names in it or where I insinuated that you are in some way awful people for targeting a specific subset of games. (Hint: this is not possible.)

As I pointed out to your asthmatic pit bull earlier, it took this thread lurching around for 57 more messages before I finally fucking lost it and wrote you assholes off as, well, assholes.

No amount of inner narrative rewriting is going to change the cold, hard facts here, Yappy the Wonder Pooch: you had never even once seriously considered engaging in actual conversation here. You started in broadcast mode from message #1 and continued in that until long after you'd pissed us off.

Now you're saying "we just don't want to talk with some specific people who are misbehaving". This isn't merely disingenuous anymore. This is a flat-out, fucking, lie. And a pathetic one since there's a 24-page record (at this point) proving quite the opposite.

We've had some marvelous people come by and participate on OR from advertising here…

Name three. Oh, right. You "won't" (read: can't).

I'm personally going to bow out of it.

You know, this is the second time you've promised this and you STILL WON'T FUCKING SHUT THE FUCK UP. For some reason I think you're lying. Again.

So, let me pose a question. How do you think OR as a community would behave if MU Soapbox advertised on our board?

You'd be condescending pricks, just like you were here. Duh!

… you've been pretty clearly behaving like a belligerent attack dog from the get-go.

It's almost as if you haven't actually been reading.

Oh, wait. Scratch that "almost" part. Replace it with "exactly".

@wizz said in Make MSB great again!:

@wtfe said in Make MSB great again!:

There was maybe once a small window in which a site could have been built that was WORA for adults. That ship has long since sailed

If that genuinely turns out to be the consensus and the majority here feels like they are not obligated to ever change and grow up...LOL, good luck with that. It's been a trip MSB, but I'm too old for this shit.

Obligated? I think everybody here barring a few dissidents wishes things were otherwise.

Things aren't otherwise, however. This is WORA with a fancier, hipster piece of software instead of dull, plodding, old, reliable software. Nothing has changed. The DNA of the very first WORA still runs all through this place.

Is there room somewhere for a grown-ups version of WORA? Sure. MSB just isn't it and I'm pretty sure will never be it.

I assume that now that Cirno has stopped huffing glue (or whatever it is he's doing when he's not bored and trolling) there will be more impetus in getting an ignore feature into the BBS software?

No, you don't understand @Sunny. OR has always been at war with @WTFE.

@ganymede said in Make MSB great again!:

The toxic part of this place is this place.

If you asked me to come to your business and tell you how it could be better and I told you to burn it to the ground and start over, I am pretty sure you would not listen to me, and would, in fact, probably stop listening to me.

You're not helping.

You're mis-characterizing my response.

I'm not telling you to burn it down and start over. I'm telling you what your business really is and to stop pretending it's something else.

An abattoir owner calls me over and asks me to suggest how they could make their business better. I go take a look and find that, for some reason, he's trying to make his abattoir a fine dining lounge. I look around at the horrified diners trying to eat their food while all around them there's blood and entrails flying along with a stench of death in the air.

Telling said abattoir owner to stop trying to sell the place as a fine dining lounge and just, you know, run it as an abattoir is not "burn this all down and start over". Saying that the abattoir can't be converted into a fine dining lounge and that's best left as a separate business entirely is also not saying "burn it all down".

I'm not saying WORA should be burned down. I'm saying it should just fucking accept what it is instead of pretending it's something else.

My son's artistic abilities are improving.

@crayon said:

@Sunny said:

Except the whole 'coming into a community I don't intend to participate in' bit, which is, again, completely classless.

You should probably not make assumptions about my intentions. I was very interested in this community, and participating in it insofar as my time and interests allowed, up until the insults started getting thrown around left and right.

Bullshit. Pure, unadulterated, 100%, American Grade A bullshit.

You were piping up with PR blurbs EXCLUSIVELY until the insults started getting thrown around left and right. That's, for the record, about 400 messages deep before, for example, I started throwing insults around. Others may have started throwing them around up to ten messages earlier (or not; frankly I'm too lazy now to bother looking on your behalf—it's not as if you actually read what people say anyway!). Let's assume that's the right number, though. That's 390 opportunities for you express your interest in this community and actually start participating in it. 390 opportunities that you not only ignored, in some cases you practically spit upon.

Yappy, we're not "making assumptions" about your intentions. We're "making observations" about your actions and inferring your intentions from these. If your intentions and actions don't match … that's entirely on you my little shih-tzu.

We're not actively trying to exclude anybody, and most of our forum policies are built around inclusion.

Yes. The inclusive "if you're not matching our specific idea of what games are, you can go to the back of the bus^W^W^W^WOther Games area of the board" approach.

We have several regular posters who aren't part of the target 'RPI' community, and they're welcomed as much as anybody.

My best childhood friend was black.

It broke my heart when Daddy sold him.

At the same time, we're not going to change the goals and basic principles of our community to appeal to a wider audience, and I don't think that really qualifies as exclusion, though it's certainly likely to narrow the number of people who are interested in our community.

Nobody—literally nobody, that's 0% of the people here—have asked you to change your goals or basic principles. 没有人. Niemand. Personne n'a. What has been asked—repeatedly, at length, and in a variety of styles ranging from polite discourse to froth-spewing venom—is that you stop shitting over here where you hold the people in such obvious disdain that you won't even actually discuss your goals or basic principles, nor even engage in meaningful conversation of any kind. THAT is what's pissing people off here, not the fact that you're not changing your goals.

Oh, that and being utterly and completely inconsistent from day to day and person to person as to what those basic principles and goals are…

But of course this will fall on ears as deaf as they were back on page 5 or so. Because you're just that kind of special. (Oh, and you lied. As I predicted. Here you bow out. Then you keep talking.)

@seraphim73 Aural, not oral. Unless you're into some really weird kinks playing by ear is not generally found in pornography.

They say the pun is the lowest form of humour.

"They" are incorrect.

The prank is the lowest form of humour. And the April Fool's Day joke is the lowest form of prank. Even lower than this, however, is the fucktard who keeps an April Fool's Day prank running all day. And below even that, to the point that it's actually got bootprints of the former on its face, is the total shit-for-brains that keeps the joke running longer than the actual day. (I'm looking at you here, Walker@MUS*H, you fucking retarded shit.)

Don't do April Fool's Day jokes. The only fool involved in these is the fool who thinks they're funny. In all of fucking history you can count the number of April Fool's Day jokes that were funny on one hand. You could do it on that hand even after the bizarre gardening accident that sheared off all your fingers.

(And yes, Walker, I will be hunting you down to shear off all your fingers just so you can't type such an ill-conceived, ill-bred, ill-executed fucking shitty excuse for a prank ever again.)

Wait, @TNP… You're saying the principals at Optional Realities/Project Redshift are not actually reading for comprehension and are instead reading what they want reality to be?

You take that back! These people are paragons of communication!

Three consecutive lost databases makes me ... well, I'll keep a local copy anyway.

"Zhang" in this context is just a surname without any particular meaning. In other contexts it can be used to mean "nervous" or "open" or even "string".

A point of order, @Jaunt claims to be posting for his own amusement. Which is why I've been posting all that stuff about booze. We need something to drink for The Game.

@Arkandel: One of the advantages to Mythic is that its core mechanism is literally one table. If players know only that table and a three-step method, they know the game enough to play it.

@Auspice: PM me and I'll hook you up.

Marzipan wasn't available. I get what I can.

@Arkandel said:

We're a pool of sharks.

Shit! I knew I was doing something wrong. I thought we were a pool of hippos.