Marxist ßastard

You know, it does an old troll good to hear those words. But still, I was told there would be money involved in this.

Coincidentally, I'm working on a project right now that's based on MWSource members and my experiences on this site. I'd like to announce that I'll be entering it in this contest. In case you're interested, the name is Suran Reborn; following is some promotional material that I have laying about: CHOOSE from a variety of PCs, from a fundamentally unstable American to a fundamentally unstable New Zealander. INTERACT using the next-generation dialog system (based on Microsoft's latest MSN® Messenger™ technology). COMPLETE an engaging, in-depth quest line in which you and a companion amplify each others' paranoid tendencies and eventually abandon the community you originally wanted to base a mod on. TAKE CONTROL of a project consisting of only one 5kB ESP file, purely out of spite. FIGHT a variety of enemies—most of which are your own team members. CONFRONT the terrifying end boss: the realization that your mod lost relevance before it ever truly materialized. BLAME Reborn87. SEE someone pay good money to see the same thing happen five and a half years later, since he knows that you're no longer capable of producing such quality drama. Beta testers are always welcome. You may also be interested in my side project, System Advisor: Lost Relics from a Time when Nobody Really Knew What They Were Thinking.

Nobody has died of swine flu in New York. There has only been one death from swine flu in the entire country: a Mexican toddler in Texas. Many of the people who are confirmed to have been infected with swine flu have already recovered; virtually none have even needed to be hospitalized. If there's someone out there telling you that swine flu is killing schoolchildren en masse, it's your duty as an American citizen to tell him he's an idiot.

You shouldn't be. As far as world-ending pandemics go, this is nothing. With summer on the way, the virus's spread will be limited. By fall, when infections would have the potential to pick up again, the disease control people will have had time to make whatever preparations are needed (vaccination campaigns, building stockpiles of antiviral medications, &c.). Not that they even need it, given that many places still have in place preparations made for the last big flu scare. (Do people even remember avian flu?) Except Madagascar. That place is freaking untouchable.

But thankfully, you posted this message in lieu of an epidemic. Earth is saved.

The purpose of this thread is recruitment, and Tiber has said this very clearly. There have been known incidents of military recruiters enlisting civilians without their consent, sometimes maliciously. I can't help but think there is a threat implied by his statement.

Yeah, but defection is much harder if you don't get assigned to an aircraft carrier. And if you do manage it, bringing something of value with you to the other side is pretty much impossible, so there wouldn't be any real bounty for you to collect, and a citizenship offer wouldn't be guaranteed. Sabotage is still there, but it's hard to scuttle a ship if you know that half the men on it have the hots for you. So Air Force is the only realistic option.

Air Force. I really, really liked Top Gun. Plus, it's ridiculously easy to defect.

http://ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/piratekeyboard.jpg

Okay, now we're getting slightly ridiculous here. Are mods playing around with the votes?

Dear lord, we're at five votes now. This is just too perfect.

This is just brilliant. Kudos given.

So, is Limbo of the Lost in the running now? I might actually try to find it over the weekend and get a sense of just how bad it is.

Cupcake, fruitcake, followed by vanilla crazy cake. Achievements are on PC, too.

Well, good luck with your MELF hunting anyways.

Ben is penalized two turns for retreating into his basement and listening to some Megadeth recordings. Guitar solos are lovesome things, Peregrine wot.

SkoomaCat encounters a scarecrow and a lion. Judging by the look of his cape, which is painted a very dignified shade of red, the lion must be the leader of the pair --- but he cannot retain his focus enough to speak coherently on account of what appears to be a very bad case of indigestion. The scarecrow seems willing to barter.

The missiles are suddenly silenced. Obi-wan Kenobi feels very uneasy... I am penalized 15 XP for using that joke too many times. Fortunately, “nearly” is a very relative term, and thus the missiles have only succeeded in demolishing themselves -- or, more accurately, converting a very small amount of their own nuclei into smaller nuclei and high-energy neutrons, and releasing or absorbing the energy difference between the two states. One of Ginji's old nemeses has tracked him down upon hearing that! Ginji is now fighting: An irate 100-level physics professor. Ninja_Lord666 is now fighting: The ghost of irony. Unfortunately, the mystical incantation was delivered in Lojban, and all he gets is a single water molecule roughly the size of a grain of dirt. The ghost of irony uses the water molecule to make it raaaaiiinnn on Ninja_Lord666's wedding day. Ninja_Lord666 is penalized two turns to check up on that snowman he and a few of his colleagues constructed oh so long ago, as his verb tense indicates. Unfortunately, he finds that it has committed suicide. Directly in front of the snowman's (corpse? puddle?) he finds an antique mirror. Ninja_Lord666 gains an antique mirror and a magical hat. The ghost of irony offers Ninja_Lord666 a free riiiiiidddeeeeee to an abandoned house on the outskirts of a snow cossack refugee camp, but he's already there.

Yeah, no vigilantism in this thread. You can only spam.

...Or, you know, change the thumbs-up into a thumbs-down.

"Doggone it, people like me!" the actor playing Stuart Smalley said, before turning to the camera. People say that it's counter-intuitive for some reason --- probably because they forget that the whole routine here actually constitutes a camera change --- but this is actually a great place for a cut. In fact, if the actor moves a few centimeters before taping resumes again, that's even better. The audience picks up on it subconsciously, and it's slightly unsettling for reasons they can't quite discern. We have way too big a budget for this sketch to actually make the scene look campy, so we have to do clever things like that to maintain the right sort of appearance. That's when it finally hit me:

Justinian I was one of very few emporers who were almost overthrown by a crowd of rowdy sports fans --- perhaps the only one.