Alright, so minis are becoming prohibitively expensive. The solution? Tokens. Not just any tokens though, homemade magic magnetic tokens. Enormous images behind the cut. I'm too lazy to shoop them any smaller (the originals were already enormous).

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Here's my christmas list!

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Deleted the whole damn mess, it's so pretentious to post a Christmas list when my family doesn't read this anyway >_<
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Well, mistress_kabuki wanted me to post some of my poop from the Wacom tablet that bakasaru_chan gave me for my bday. Here's something I made this morning... so far it's the only thing I've drawn that I don't hate.

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You are a Social Liberal (63% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (28% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid.com: Free Online Dating Also : The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

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Alright, so I wound up dicking around looking at videos of holograms. I use the term "hologram" loosely here, since one of them is just a projector and a complex sprinkler, but still very nice.

I figured Lena would like these, but I'm too lazy to actually email them to her.

These quizzes... they're contagious. I can't stand them, but I'm compelled to complete every single one that comes close to my sphere of influence in Livejournal. So, here is how many vacations I get in hell. I thought it was kinda cool that I'm lustful.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Moderate
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

Take the Dante's Inferno Test

I Am A: Neutral Good Elf Sorcerer (2nd Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-11

Dexterity-13

Constitution-10

Intelligence-15

Wisdom-13

Charisma-11


Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.


Race:
Elves are known for their poetry, song, and magical arts, but when danger threatens they show great skill with weapons and strategy. Elves can live to be over 700 years old and, by human standards, are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. Elves are slim and stand 4.5 to 5.5 feet tall. They have no facial or body hair, prefer comfortable clothes, and possess unearthly grace. Many others races find them hauntingly beautiful.


Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

It's 2008, my computer represents the finest technology of about 4 years ago (it still runs modern games damn it), and what am I doing? Playing a 12 year old game -- and having the most fun I've had in years.




Why Diablo? Because modern Action RPGs aren't hardcore enough. It isn't fun unless the following criteria are met:

1) You have kids trying to steal your crap when you die, because the game is hardcore enough that your shit drops on the ground when you screw up.

2) Your fight or flight mechanism kicks in every time you play online, because somebody knows you have a badass unique item equipped and you're squishy.

3) You are freaking scared to touch shrines, because some of them screw you up permanently.

Permanently!

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN2959643420080129

Sci-fi novel "Ender's Game" to become video game

By Scott Hillis

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Life!) - "Ender's Game", the classic science fiction novel about a boy military genius who is trained through war games to fight aliens, is finally becoming a game itself.

Under a deal announced on Tuesday, Chair Entertainment, the game studio behind the recent hit "Undertow", will develop titles based on Orson Scott Card's book.

The novel, with its probing of the line between reality and games, has long been eyed by video game fans as a rich source of material for the medium.

Chair plans to make several titles based on the book, with the first one slated to be a downloadable game that should be available in 2009.

Card said he decided to move ahead with an "Ender's Game" video game after years of wrangling to make a feature film bore no fruit.

"There is going to be a universe of 'Ender's Game' games, hopefully. But that's like someone starting a restaurant and thinking about opening 100 franchises all over the country," Card told Reuters.

"Let's make this one work first," Card said.

The first game will focus on the Battle Room, the elite military academy where Ender hones his strategic and tactical skills and that provided some of the most memorable scenes in the book.

Based in Provo, Utah, privately held Chair enjoyed success with "Undertow", a downloadable game for Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 console that pits teams of players against each other in a fast-paced underwater battle.

"The really cool thing about 'Ender's Game' is that there's lots of potential for lots of types of gameplay. We wanted to initially create the Battle Room, that's really what jumped out to me as a gamer that I really wanted to play," said Chair's creative director Donald Mustard.

"We have not fully designed the game yet. I think that the game will play very much what we've all imagined the Battle School is, a cross between 'Call of Duty' with zero-g with hardcore strategy elements more like a sports game," Mustard said, referring to a popular military shooting game.

It is the latest collaboration for Card and Chair, which is making a game based on Card's recent novel "Empire".