 Laughs in the Shadows, Jokes with a Shadowrun twist |
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 Mar 16 2007, 09:52 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 49 Joined: 9-November 06 From: Doing surgery with shotguns Member No.: 9,810  |
Also, "Gum Bai" is how the Koreans I worked with say it, so that may be it too.
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Mar 16 2007, 10:52 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 546 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Manchester, England Member No.: 1,062 |
Troll walks into a drumkit... badum tish.
Whats got 2 legs, fur and bleeds - half a hellhound. |
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Mar 16 2007, 11:36 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...troll walks into a bar
...bartender says "hey who's gonna pay for that hole in the wall?" [original written under duress of NCAA tournament] oooh bad one eh? |
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Mar 17 2007, 01:53 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
speaking of which, what are the rules for basketball and such in 2070? The no giant/troll/minotaur league? The no cyber/bio/magic league. The surged league. Wheeee
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Mar 17 2007, 02:29 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...I could see the Big Ten recruiting Trolls. Just fits with the conference's "smash-mouth" style of play.
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Mar 17 2007, 02:54 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Meh. Trolls are tall, but they're also slow—Elves get some additional hight, but also a sizable Quickness boost, so they'd probably be more popular as recruits.
~J |
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Mar 17 2007, 03:13 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...remember I said in the Big Ten. Ever watch a Big Ten BB game? Trolls would actually quicken the pace.
Keep in mind in one of the biggest games of the season (#1 Ohio State vs. #2 Wisconsin) neither team broke 50 points & the Buckeyes won by only 1. |
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Mar 17 2007, 04:26 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
i can see the trolls as power centers, they're gonna get the rebound, or they're gonna go in and get the ball and dunk. Who can stop them? Another troll or the entire other team. heh.
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Mar 17 2007, 04:37 AM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Ah, xie xie. |
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Mar 17 2007, 04:57 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I should add that ke[nm]pai and ka[nm]pai are different words, though they both have something to do with drinking (the latter is a toast, the former a noun for the act of offering a drink) and they both have an amusing secondary meaning (the latter being "total defeat", the former "extreme fatigue").
So yeah, any way you slice it he made a very amusing choice of names. ~J |
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Mar 19 2007, 12:23 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Well, any complex plan is more likely to fail. A GOOD plan should be simple. It's like someone here said a while ago. If my plan requires 5 steps and each step has an 85% chance of succeeding my final probability of success is actually extremely low, since it would be .85^5. That's why heist movies are unrealistic and why if you try to pull a heist-movie-like stunt in a game where everything is statted it probably won't work. |
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Mar 19 2007, 12:35 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
I wouldn't call ~44% "extremely low". To get lower than 10% success probability, you need 15 steps with that per-step success percentage.
Also, remember that you can make plans more complex but less failure-prone by branching. ~J |
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Mar 19 2007, 12:58 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Eh, it's extremely low if we assume that you are in danger of dying if things go wrong. Nobody would ever want to routinely take a ~40% chance of being shot to pieces, etc in their plans. |
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Mar 19 2007, 01:20 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
Usually it's more a 40% chance of being shot at, with a 5% chance of facing overwhelming response and another 5% chance of extensive pursuit with a significantly unwanted 2% chance of both.
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Apr 18 2007, 08:45 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
You Think You're Having A Bad Day...
There's a corp wageslave, all nicely dressed in his Neo-Japanese business suit, just sitting at a bar, just looking at his drink. He stays like that for half an hour. After just watching him sit there, standing out like a lump on plate glass, this big trouble-making troll ganger steps next to him, takes the drink from the guy, and just drinks it all down in one shot. The poor man starts crying. The troll says, "Come on, omae, I was just joking. Here, I'll buy you another drink. I just can't stand seeing a man crying." "No, it's not that. This day is the worst of my life. First, I oversleep, and I'm late to my office. My boss, in an outrage, fires me. When I leave the building to my car, I found out it was stolen. Lone Star says they can do nothing, it's been taken off the grids and the transponders are off-line. I get a cab to return home and when I'm walking up to the door, I realize that I left my commlink in there, with my bank account and everything and the cabbie has already driven away. And when I get inside, I find my wife in bed with the gardener. I leave home and come to this bar. And when I was thinking about putting an end to my life, you show up and drink my poison ..." |
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Apr 18 2007, 08:53 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 546 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Manchester, England Member No.: 1,062 |
A Troll walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre. The barman gives him one.
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Apr 18 2007, 09:15 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
Two termite spirits walk into a bar. They look around and ask, "Is the bar tender here?"
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Apr 18 2007, 10:13 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Oak Ridge, TN, CAS Member No.: 407 |
Because I dunno if it's been said yet (and this is a loooong thread):
What's black & tan, and looks good on Villiers? A Doberman. |
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Apr 19 2007, 01:32 AM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
:rotfl: |
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Apr 19 2007, 01:46 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
Thank you! I'm here all week! Don't forget to tip your waitress and try the veal! Edit: A rather tired and battered rigger, with a slab of broken asphalt under his arm, walks into a bar. He sags into a seat and says, "A beer please, and one for the road." This post has been edited by bibliophile20: Apr 19 2007, 01:51 AM |
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Apr 19 2007, 03:01 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
*groan*
Where's the mage mask when we need it? :-P |
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Apr 19 2007, 03:19 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
Two weevil beetle spirits were summoned by a shaman in the CAS. After he got toasted by an Ares bughunter team, they decided to part ways. One ended up in Los Angeles, where she wreaked a great deal of havoc and became quite famous and eventually ended up in a movie (as the antagonist, but hey...).
The other decided to stay behind in the CAS and lived fairly quietly and never really amounted to much, so she naturally became known as the lesser of two weevils. |
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Apr 19 2007, 08:31 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...we need a :groan: smiley.
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Apr 19 2007, 08:48 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,180 Joined: 22-January 07 From: Rochester, NY Member No.: 10,737 |
Two upper-middle class ghouls find that they need to go to Hong Kong in person to close a business deal. Shrugging, they pack, making sure to put some of their required diet in each of their suitcases, as they would be far from home and their normal suppliers.
As they go to board the sub-orbital, the flight attendant looks at the two small suitcases that each is carrying on board and says, "I'm sorry, but the company has a strict policy of one carrion per passenger." |
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Apr 19 2007, 08:49 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
You're unstoppable
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