So the card collection has expanded a bit again. As I said I had two more decks coming in and they arrived today. Unfortunately I lied: it turns out there was a whole genre of cards I was unaware of and I've just ordered two of those now. I expect them by the end of the week.
In this batch:
So, my card collection is ramping down (for a while at least) and in exchange my musical instrument collection is ramping up. This was today's arrivals. (These and my cards all came in at once because their normal delivery times were spread out over a national holiday so instead of having a few every day I had a lot all at once.)
Clickable links, yadda yadda yadda and yes, there will be more. I've got a large number of small ocarinas coming in (as gifts for students whose parents annoy me, as with the last batch).
I figure talk of my [weird-ass playing cards collection] is probably better kept in here than in "RL Things I Love". (I kind of completely zoned on the existence of this thread while I was posting there. Sorry 'bout that. If admins want to move my cards posts from over there to here, that'd be fine by me.)
Anyway, the cards have expanded:
Clickable pics for full details and large size.
(Yes, there are more decks forthcoming, but not many. I've got two more decks on the way and then I'm done with these kinds of cards for a while. You may celebrate at your convenience.)
Whereas I'd always heard it in the context of performances where it was a way of registering disapproval with something.
Language is weird.
You know, I'm still not actually certain what a catcall is.
@surreality said in The 100: The Mush:
I'mma just go on record and say that having spoken to both of them generally on and off, both @Ghost and @tek are both pretty cool people, explosions or not.
Surr, you know I love you like a sister (and I mean that Kentucky style!), but I'mma gonna go on record and say that I'mma have to disagree with you on @Ghost. Literally 100% of the time that I've seen him here he's been a twat. I'm not even falling back to the Chambers Constant here (99.44%). 100%.
@Ghost said in The 100: The Mush:
I have an opinion. Yay. We'll all live thru this, I promise.
The issue, Sparky, isn't that you have an opinion. It isn't even that anybody necessarily disagrees with your opinion. (I certainly don't because, as stated before, I have no opinion on the people in question.)
The issue is that you express your opinion like a cross between an incontinent baboon and a three year old child throwing a tantrum.
edited to add
Cases in point:
Also, I apologize, I didn't mean to sound patronizing when I talked about people who don't have a lot of out-of-the-home outlets.
…he said while proceeding to be probably the most patronizing shithead this side of @Ganymede and @Thenomain blended together on their worst days over the past decade…
I'd like to say that I always try to keep those people in mind when I'm out there, MU*ing.
I'm sure they're happy to hear that you're thinking of all the little folk.
In the least patronizing way possible, the reality is that I have a wife, a coffee house, guitars, clean bill of health, working legs, live in one of the largest cities in America, have a biweekly tabletop group, a corner bar, a working car, and a couple of downtown areas with regular concerts and events.
I know no one asked for me to speak on their behalf […]
…he said as he proceeded to speak on their behalf…
[…]I really do feel for those people who run into these shit issues and have to keep plucking the chicken.
@Ghost is the kind of person who spends his life "working for others. You can tell the others by the hunted look."
[…] I've offset my old frustration with some aspects of MUgaming with shrugging and voting with my feet.
Yeah, that's what your incoherent rants look like. Shrugging and voting with your feet. Keep telling yourself that, Sparky, and even you may some day believe it.
I was riffing off "don't know from Adam" and yours was the only name I could think of in my panic. Sorry.
Oh, @GirlCalledBlu and @Seraphim73: now that I've publicly defended you, can I join your game? 
@Seraphim73 said in The 100: The Mush:
@WTFE @GirlCalledBlu and I never actually played on The Fifth Wave, let alone staffed (I don't know that I'd ever heard of it, in fact). We did run The 100, The Fifth World, and staffed on a couple of Star Wars and Wheel of Time games between us back in the day.
I stand corrected then.
It's official: I have no fucking idea who these two are. I only know that their critics sound unhinged and delusional. This is not a good way to get your point across if they really are as bad as you appear to think they are. It kind of must makes, well, you, well, seem kind of unhinged. And, well, delusional.
As for @Ghost's variant of "I'm only doing it for my own amusement": bottoms up!
Shine on you crazy diamond!
I have no dog in this fight. I don't didn't play on The 100 and I don't didn't play on The Fifth World. I did play for a brief time on The Fifth Wave which, IIRC, was run by the same people, but time zones interfered with any hope of meaningful RP so I dropped it. I don't know the game runners of any of these games from @Ganymede.
What I do know is this: the people whining about The 100 right now are making me think that they, not the people who run the various aforementioned games, are fucking morons. Or fucking obsessed. Or fucking obsessed morons. Or fucking moronic obsessives. Or some other such similarly denigrating set of adjectives and descriptive nouns. If the game runners of The 100, The Fifth World, and (maybe) The Fifth Wave are bad people (again, I have no opinion either way since I've never knowingly interacted with any of them) their purported badness is being grossly outweighed by the fucking idiocy of their critics.
If you have legit beefs, I'd suggest perhaps dialing it back a notch or ten thousand and trying not to come across as a bunch of thundering twats best left in the bozo bin, m'kay?
A friend of mine died over a year ago. Her parents (?) still log in as her occasionally and "like" things on Facebook. This needs to fucking stop.
Seriously, block that page. Now. Seeing this constantly can be incredibly damaging. Whoever's doing it is a dick.
I used to collect RPGs just that way. Indeed to a very limited extent I still do in that I have several RPGs but don't play RPGs in person ever. I just read them and sigh. (And yes, one of them is Fate Core plus the system toolkit plus Fate Accelerated plus the Romance in the Air setting book…)
Basically whenever "money" and "personal obsession" cross paths in my life, I start collecting. It's pretty fucking bad, actually. There's a reason why my wife manages the money.
So this came in today. I'm ready for the "Adult Themes" thread once again.
I'm pretty sure that model railroads, for the serious geek, outweigh historical miniatures and Warhammer put together.
I had 'em beat. I played historical miniatures and had a broad range of tastes in history. Three samurai armies, five Chinese armies from various points in history, Old, Middle and New Kingdom Egyptian armies plus many of their opponents (Hittites, Sea People, Assyrians, etc.). I passed over the Classical armies, thankfully. I saw too many of my friends mortgaging their homes to field Greeks and Romans (plus their opponents, natch). I did pick up in medievals, though. Oh so many fucking horsemen. Oh so many fucking Vikings and Picts. Then I again skipped over Napoleonics and ACW as money sinks for the indolently wealthy and got into WWII instead.
So. Many. Tanks.
Warhammer don't hold a candle to historical miniatures fanatics.
@Olsson said in What Do You Collect?:
Wargaming Miniatures, it's kinda part of the hobby.
Oh God yeah. So many thousands of dollars spent on that hobby way back when. 
My wife's eye-rolling, long-suffering sigh reminded me that I do collect musical instruments of various sorts as well.
And my bizarre card collection has expanded yet again (with more to come, possibly even this afternoon; if so I'll just edit this message). This time I've added another 乐山二七十 (Leshan 2,7,10) deck, in the "Crystal PVC" format.
I've also added a handmade, plasticized silk set of 娃兒牌 (doll cards) from Sichuan. I'm not even going to try to explain these…
as promised, editing to add
Late in the day a set came in that I wasn't expecting to arrive. These are handmade of plasticized silk as well, but they are [紙骨牌 (Domino Cards)] instead of the "Doll Cards".
In addition to the above, which are Chinese cards, I snagged a poker deck from India which is not in the album because, you know, not a weird Chinese playing card deck. I will also not be putting the image here because it could be considered NSFW for those workplaces who think classic Hindu texts on virtue and gracious living are bad. Follow the link iff you're OK with Hindu holy texts being illustrated. On poker cards.
