Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- General: Five Possible MMO Movies – Some interesting ideas, even if some are firmly tongue in cheek (or cautionary DO NOT DO THIS tales).
- Star Wars Galaxies: Twelve Servers to Close in October – As the galaxies start to collapse into a black hole …
- Vampire Diaries: The Diaries of Other Vampires Revealed – TWoP – Mwah-ha-ha!
- Operation Rescue Broke And On Brink Of Shutting Down: Alan
- Poll: Majority Of Republicans Opposes Wilson’s “You Lie” Outburst – One can but hope for a quiet backlash from the rank-and-file.
- House Dems: We Will Condemn Wilson For “Breach Of Decorum,” Not For “Speech” – It’s actually perfectly appropriate. If I’m at a dinner party and shout at someone that they’re a liar, I should apologize to them for the personal affront and to the host/hostess for being a poor guest. Wilson’s offense to the House was not that he expressed his beliefs, but that his expression was situationally inappropriate for the whole House.
- Rockefeller Announces He Will Not Support Baucus’ Health Care Bill – So most of the Dems aren’t supporting it … the Republicans aren’t supporting it … who the hell is Baucus actually getting to vote the damned thing out of committee?
- Former Health Insurance Executive Explains How Companies Pocket Billions Through ‘Rescission’: Victor Zapanta
- CWA: Repealing DOMA “Will Result in Reverse Discrimination” – Um, not being allowed to tell others how to live their lives is not actually discrimination against you. Really.
- Harry Potter and the Theme Park of Financial Ruin – Ooookay, yeah, it sound fun.
- How did 2,000-year-old feet find their way to a Dublin attic? – The Irish Times – Mon, Sep 14, 2009 – Um … I’m sure the real story is less interesting than all the other stories I could come up with.
- Is This What The Right Is Buying With All Its Maine Money? – And yet, despite nearly every penny coming from outside the state, the ad is full of “us” and “we Mainers”. Wonder why that is …?
- Google Chrome after a year: Sporting a new stable release – Cool. I’ve been using Chrome in parallel with Firefox during our corporate GMail experiment, and I’m pleased to see a new, faster version coming out.
- Rifqa Bary and the Plot To Destroy Our Constituion – All you have to do is read “America is succumbing to the stealth jihad that is inexorably insinuating that seditious Islamic program into our society” and realizing you’re dealing with incendiary style masquerading as substance.
- Alaska’s Lone Congressman Don Young Makes “Most Corrupt” List. Again.: akmuckraker
- Pelosi Stands By Public Option: We Won’t Pass The ‘Private Insurance Profit Perpetuation Act’: Igor
- The evolution of the Origin of Species – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist – That’s pretty darned cool.
- Ben Dimiero: My friend’s cousin said there were 4 million people there – My Lord, when even Little Green Footballs is pointing out your claims are absurdly based, it might give you pause. On the other hand, the Big Lie … does seem to work. For those who want it to be the Big Truth.
- Stormtroopers Never Forget
- The 10 Best (and 6 Worst) TSR Games that Weren’t D&D – This not only brings back memories, it discovers for me an amazing Secret (If Superficial) Connection Between TSR And My MOTHER! Which you won’t know until you get to the final entry, mwah-ha-ha.
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I have Marvel Super Heroes (Dave, do you remember the solo Captain America game I ran for you?) and Top Secret, and I had a “lite” version of Gangbusters, I think (probably came in an issue of Dragon magazine). I am proud (?) to admit that I also have Bullwinkle and Rocky, which I got not so much to play as to have as a novelty.
Honestly, I don’t. I once had a copy of MSH, but got rid of it a long time ago. Not nearly “crunchy” enough for me, though I’d probably like it better now.
I remember one Gen COn when I was @12 or so that I played in a Top Secret competition and was not only on the winning team, but also the top player for both figuring out that the villains had put sugar in our plane’s gastank AND how to survive in an arctic environment until help arrived!
I think I won a gift certificate to the TSR booth. Good times, good times!
You were playing as Captain America. I don’t recall the details, but I think you were up against two villains. I do remember that things weren’t going well, because I had the Human Torch fly by and spot you so he could give you a hand. Probably not the best resolution for the situation. In retrospect, I should have had the baddies slip up.