Here's the rules (yeah, this will last about 5 posts).

Start your post with:

Dumpshock is:

and then summarize it in one (humorous) sentence.


-M&P

Dumpshock is:

A party of shadowrunners that include a Lone Star Cop riding a Unicorn, a werewolf with questionable sexual preferences, a drop bear and the ADAM AI on a mission to see the Tiger Eyes Magic Belly Button Jewel.

Dumpshock is:

Seattle at 3 AM in a cold November rain after six straight hours of planning, in anticipation of six minutes of mayhem and chaos.

Dumpshock is:

Ancient History's sig.

(Face it you fraggers, Dumpshock is a sub-divided, pain-wracked, schizophrenic, self-serving, epileptic, sado-masochist haven for the divinely warped.)

Dumpshock is:

A sanity-blasting horror in text format.

Dumpshock Is:

a black background with grey boxes and bright green highlights everywhere.

Dumpshock is:

Storming into a building, littering it with grenades, getting 15 hits on an Intimidation test, and then finding out your enemies haven't been there in half a year.

Dumpshock is a dude in a black trenchcoat sporting a pink Mohawk and mirrorshades.

Dumpshock Is:

A haven for those outcast from everyday life who delve into the depths of astral space and the matrix to perceive the world of the future owned by the AAA Corporations, and when the future gets fragged, it'll be the people of dumpshock who will know what to do.

Reminds me of a quote I heard on the radio, something to the effect of:

"When people hear about your book* they're either going to stick their fingers in their ears and go 'Lalalalala' or go down into their basement and oil their guns because the apocalypse is upon us."

*As I was leaving work, so I missed the title of the book, it was about the economy though.

Dumpshock is:
Really painful for your brain and you should really try to log out properly in the future.


Silly thing is, I think that bad pun works on a couple levels.

Dumpshock is a whirlwind of teeth that just wants to be friends.

Nebis..... soreeee

Dumpshock is:

A bunch of threads that never stay on topic, explain everything, and describes nothing.

Dumpshock is:

A bunch of magicians arguing about whose tradition is best.

Dumpshock is:

My home on the internet and where I get my Shadowrun fix.

Dumpshock is:

My home away from home!

Where Trollmen go to die.

OR

The world's largest online gathering of people who hate Loren L Coleman and yet will continue to make him richer because, hey, the product is that good.

OR

18,450 rabid, maladjusted Shadowrun fans with 55,350 opinions on any given subject.

OR



LOL - I'm not sure what could top that one.

"Ask 100 people for an opinion and receive 101 different answers."

Dumpshock is:

The longest, slowest argument you will ever find yourself in

Nah. Only the second most painful.

The most was some religious nut who was claiming that he met a dragon in the Iraq desert who was a direct agent of the Christian god who's job was to eat sinners.

Getting off topic a bit, as i feel obligated to do, I once talked to a guy who said he was a christian scientist and that the world used to be completely covered with trees surrounded by an ice shield. (No offense to Christian scientists) It took me an hour to slowly crawl out of that conversation.

That's pretty bad, but I still think mine was worse, but attempting to explain would make me look like a nut job too.

Lets just say that he directly stated that all of the personal beliefs I have were blatantly wrong and that I would be on this Iraq dragon's "most wanted dishes" list because of them.* And the reason I held such beliefs were because I was trying to hide from the dragon.

Also, the guy is (supposedly) writing the dragon's memoir.

Took me a week or more to claw my way out of that flamewar.

*I'm (already) going to hell in a handbasket, but for different reasons.

Dumpshock is:

Poets, scholars, and monkeys

Flinging poo.

Dumpshock Is: A list of ways to make newer more munchkiny characters

Dumpshock is: A 20 page thread where your players pick one reply and use it as gospel to defend their munchkin-ness.

Dumpshock is: a bunch of posters that deride 'munchkins', not realizing that optimization and roleplay are not mutually exclusive.

Sounds like a idea for a high level run.

Except the dragon doesn't eat you because you have a "Historian" badge on your shoulder.

Instead of, you know, eating sinners, and writing its own memoirs (it is immortal,* so what's it care about how long it takes?)

*Speaking of which, why doesn't it just rampage around the middle east eating everyone left right and center? It is immortal.

Dumpshock is:

The feeling you get when your twin Ares Crusaders modded for full-auto and loaded with APDS slide out of your twin cyberarm slides and everything is right with the world.

I keep hitting the shift key...

Dumpshock is:

The feeling you get when your twin Ares Crusaders modded for full-auto and loaded with APDS slide out of your twin cyberarm slides and the clips accidentally eject.

Dumpshock is swordfish mustardball.

Indeed.

Dumpshock is:

The place Tom Dowd makes a cameo!

Dumpshock, is us.

Dumpshock is the insanity that keeps me sane in an insane world.

Dumpshock is: the place where I'm really worried what qualifies as insanity for Red_Cap, if this place is keeping him/her sane.

At the moment, Iraq. Rockets and mortars and AKs, oh my!

Dumbshock is... the place where you can forget to watch your back, miss a target, waste ammo and cut deals with the occasional dragon and still live to see how others carefully elaborate what you've done wrong.

Dumpshock is:

... the measuring stick I use to see how well I'm writing for Shadowrun: the less my work is discussed, the better I'm doing.

I'm stunned no one said it yet:

Dumpshock is:

Better than NERPS.

No no no...

Dumpshock IS NERPS!

Thank you for your service.

Dumpshock is the 6 hour heated discussion the team has before finally just settling on 6 minutes of chaos.

Alternate Dumpshock is at the top of my history list due to obsessive visits.

Dumpshock is People!

Dumpshock is:

the reason we all are on a government watch list.

a place where everybody knows your (street)name.

my homepage.

where a PAC, napalm, and a nerve agent are viable druggie deterent methods.

You know, that's kinda sad...


Dumpshock is: a place where the thin skinned run away crying and you're left with people who can actually have a discussion without constantly worrying about PC landmines.

That's why I use a Mac!
(I don't actually)


Dumpshock is:
a hydra with severe dissociative identity disorder and moderate Tourettes. On acid.

Dumpshock is:
Burning not only all YOUR edge, but the edge of everyone in the party, just to hear the other poster say, "You're right, I guess I read the rules wrong."