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Surely even a three or four hundred pound man would be negligible in comparison with a two thousand ton shuttle (or the Russian equivalent).

So what's up with the death of movie theatres? I admit I avoid the big cineplexes, but I'd be lost without the little local places.

Firefly isn't the only partial season worth watching. "New Amsterdam" happens to be my personal favorite.

Alphabetical order, Tyran? That's quite a list you've got there, and it includes pretty much every still running show I pay attention to, plus several I gave up on. I am limited, however, by my reliance on Hulu, which doesn't carry HBO (for instance) and Netflix, which is often late to the game on things like BBC (I will probably use iTunes to keep up with Sherlock).

If there is a topic like this on Spiderweb, my search skills are not up to the task of locating it. I'd like to hear what the community is watching on TV and in the cinema. This is partially out of curiosity, and partially because my Netflix instant cue is running dry.

 

(My favorite movie of the year, so far, was "Midnight in Paris". I have not watched any new shows, but have been following the new season of Futurama.)

Because it's the mostly widely known, and is at least better than 4?

There's nothing to stop a group of Spiderwebbers from making the break into D&D proper (3.5, of course). Learn on Skype, and you can always teach your friends when you start to feel like an actual human interaction.

Correct me if I'm wrong... but aren't there tablets that run full versions of Windows? If not, surely Acer has a super small laptop with enough power to run these games.

A few years ago, we had the same response to people that asked about iOS. Times change, and if tablets are the future, Jeff will probably be there. In the mean time, I think that most people with access to Android possess a more traditional computer capable of running a Spiderweb game.

I would make the thread right now if I had any business doing so. Some of the ideas pitched by SOT are food for thought as a fairly experienced traditional DM. AIMhack itself is novel and engaging. It may be that, someday, the Spiderweb Software forums will be known as a community which pushed the boundaries of the pen-and-paper RPG and brought it into a new and exciting age. Heaven knows Wizards of the Coast isn't doing it.

I would go to a Dr. Mcninja movie.

With Alorael's tenth Spiderweb anniversary coming up in a few weeks and yours a few weeks past? Not necessarily.

Doesn't sound like they'll be using the current TV doctor. Or the previous one, for that matter. Jack Davenport, maybe? I don't know many British actors besides the ones in Monty Python and Coupling.

Perhaps they could just get David Tennant to do it.

You didn't have to shut it down on my birthday, Tyran.

Perhaps the social equivalent of the Founder Effect? A smaller population is prone to the artificial dominance of behaviors, attitudes, or interests to an extent not representative of the original whole.

 

If they're any more exclusive than the original, they'll leak membership until it's not worth it any more. And if they're not, what's the point? I was a huge fan of Shadow Vale (greater variety of non-game forums was a plus), but the original will always be king.

 

Edit: Or what Thuryl said. The rapid turnover of spiderweb subcultures, in action.

Far is a place were nerds go to split hairs over using the wrong homonym.

Edit: I'm waiting for someone to start meta-hairsplitting and call me on using homonym instead of homophone.

It's too bad they're not partnering with Moffat on this. I wonder how they'll make it work with the canon. Don't most of the older movies fit into the established chronology (perhaps not the right term in a time travel series)?

In my day, a message board was a literal board. It stood outside town, and people posted things on it. Sometimes, they offered rewards for... wait, maybe I'm confusing that with something else.

I feel like I've fallen a little behind on the state of the community outside the forums. Obviously there's AIMhack. I'm trying to get some Skype D&D going. But are any of the satellite boards still active? Does the chat room get traffic? Has anyone tried to set up a game of webDiplomacy?

 

... I'm sure there are better times to ask this than when everyone's off playing Skryim. I'm also aware that I've made more than my share of topics lately. I figure, if it's a problem, I'll either be told to desist, or the threads in question will just shrivel and die.

A lovely image, which reminds me somewhat of https://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html

 

Edit: At the rate I make mistakes, edits are practically my gimmick. But not officially, as I think the mods might not find it amusing.

We've all felt that way at some time or another. Most of us are just a bit more... subtle about it.

When there were more wood burning stoves in town, there was a fair amount of competition for left over newspapers (much less tree trimmings and other free wood). These days, there's as much as a person could want.

Before I give the impression of being a total technophobe, note that I am, even as I type this, on the internet. I also welcome the online distribution of video and music, and consider Audible the greatest things since Wikipedia. I also pay more attention to webcomics than those in the back of the newspaper (though, since I read the local dailies habitually, I usually keep up with those, too).

I'm an antique in my own time, I guess, but I cannot quite click with electronic newspapers, much less books. I like to feel it, fold it, appreciate the formatting, clip out the best bits and keep 'em. I like to thumb through the big bound copies of newspapers from the 1970s and photos from before that.

 

A unprinted word feels, to me, like an undeveloped photograph. Printing something gives it substance, makes it last, and suggests that it's worth having it stick around for a while. I don't know if I'm idealistic, paranoid, or am just an indirect tree-killing psychopath, but that's the visceral reaction I get when I think of taking the books off my shelf or the newspaper off my table.

As someone who works for a small community newspaper, I agree with that assessment as far as it goes. I worry, however, whether the value system that sustains such a thing will continue indefinitely. In addition, I consistently wonder if "print" in the literal sense might be replaced by professional journalism with purely net distribution. I hope not.

Is it dead? Do paid journalists of any sort have a role in a world with blogs and Twitter? Should I just stop asking non-game related questions?