Imagine Bonding a Myddraal as a Warder...
Me: only a black ajah would dare, methinks. Or she would be accused of being black ajah if she did
Matt: True, but it would be absolutely hilarious. "Tell me more of this wonderful thing you call humor, *insert first name here* Sedai!"
Matt: Can't you just imagine it? A Fade addicted to chocolate? "You will hand over this substance known as 'chocolate,' or I will tear off your skin in strips and make you dance in your bones. After you hand it over, I will pay for it with this Andoran gold mark. Thank you, good day."
Me: "Only one? For all of that?"
Matt: "The rest is the store owners gratitude for not being made to dance in his bones." All very serious-like with the Myrddraal's non-existant humor.
Matt: I think it would be awesome if I Myrddraal (the "Addicted One," we shall call him), were to be fighting a Warder, and then offer to withdraw from combat if the Warder would be kind enough to ask his Aes Sedai to use the One Power to summon up a Milky Way bar... Milky Way Dark, naturally. If I were playing a Myrddraal in someone else's campaign, I would so do that. And, I would do it with a straight face. I wonder what the Warder and Aes Sedai would do?
Me: wonder wtf a milky way bar is
Matt: Well, that's true. I'd say someting more believable for the Wheel of Time, like maybe a brick of Taraboner chocolate. And once they had done so, I would be as good as my word. I might even share some with my Trollocs (if I had any).
Me: they wouldn't appreciate it
Matt: Imagine the two making their report to the Amyrlin seat though. And that's true, the Trollocs wouldn't. Too bad.
Me: How would you make sure they kept their word though?
Matt: I'm a Myrddraal, and I'm badass. I would make it especially known to them that they could not possibly defeat me, and that all I want is some bloody chocolate, damn it!
-----------------------------------------------------
Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
-----------------------------------------------------
I was taking this quiz, earlier, one peaseblossom03 had posted on her lj. I didn't bother with keeping the results because it wasn't all that interesting. Mostly I just raged against the questions, or at least, the options for answering the questions. Not like, super-pissed off raged, just sort of--none of these apply! Or all of them do! Like this one question:
Given only these choices, which of these U.S. television drama programs would you decide to watch?
-CSI (any of them)
-House
-Law & Order (any of them)
-Lost
...how about ALL OF THEM?! Okay, I can live without CSI Miami and NY, and I'm okay missing an ep. or two of any of the Law & Order's. But I do love Lost, and House, and the original CSI.
-----------------------------------------------------
*argues politics with Matt*
Lacy Underwear says: http://www.livejournal.com/users/etcet/314931.html
Hot Cocoa Addict says: And yes, I know what is going in New Orleans. Personally? Serves them right for having their ancestors build there. Now aside from that, the ineptitude of the U.S. relief forces is appalling, and I notice that no other countries have offered us help. We spent somewhere around 60 billion on the tsunami relief effort, but no one in the world is helping us.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Yes, I am a terrible person.
Lacy Underwear says: the head of a major river like the Mississippi, though, was the ideal place to build a major seaport. Even if it's below sealevel and in a place that gets frequented by hurricanes... if somewhere like the Netherlands can build dykes and levees to keep out the sea, they can do much the same
Lacy Underwear says: hell, the damage may not have been so bad if funding for the levees hadn't been pulled for the war effort
Hot Cocoa Addict says: No really, New Orleans was originally mostly underwater, as it's wetlands there. the ground isn't stable enough.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: And yes, the war effort. You know what? We should be pulling our troops out of every Goddamned country and tell them to deal with their own problems.
Lacy Underwear says: and I'm not surprised other countries aren't offering help--America is supposed to be the big, rich, well funded place, and be able to dedicate resources for the mess they've got themselves into.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Yeah, with every fucking politician scrambling to make a bigger mess out of what's already there.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: No... America should go isolationist again, like we did after World War I. Let the world deal with it's own problems. Sure, we would have some tough times to face because of the lack of trade, but just think how irreparably damaged our enemies would be economically?
Hot Cocoa Addict says: No more outsourcing. No more trade. No more world stock market. No more American military bases in their countries generating revenue.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Besides, we still got nukes.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Nobody wants to face MAD.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Most of my fellow Americans would be totally appalled at me. And why? Because they can't imagine for one moment that the world sees us as an enemy, not a friend. We meddle too much in other people's affairs. So what if there's an evil dictator oppressing his people? Why don't THEY grow a fucking spine and off him themselves?
Lacy Underwear says: sometimes it's not just a matter of growing a spine, because not every revolution succeeds as well as the American one did
Hot Cocoa Addict says: *shrugs* Why don't they just form terrorist cells of their own? They can do a lot of damage. Just ask New York, and our boys in Iraq. And while yes, our revolution was a fluke, that doesn't mean that we have to solve everyone's problems.
Lacy Underwear says: nor does it mean everyone was asking you to
Hot Cocoa Addict says: They sure act like. "Oh why isn't America throwing more money and resources at the tsunami victims? Oh why doesn't America send their people to help us back on their feet?"
Hot Cocoa Addict says: *act like it.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: *our feet.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: That's all I heard on the news from foreign correspondants for SIX MONTHS after the tsunami.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: People bitching and whining that we weren't doing enough to help them.
Lacy Underwear says: yes, well, they'd rather America spent it's money on tsunami relief than on a war that most the world neither likes nor approves
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Heh, well maybe I don't approve of the rest of the world? How would they all like to take on this super-power? The last remaining super-power.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: You know why most countries won't fight us? It's not because our military is better. It
Hot Cocoa Addict says: It's not.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: It's because we have nuclear weapons. More than any other country, and they know we would use them if it meant winning or losing. And yes, I realize in a nuke fight, nobody wins. But at least THEY wouldn't win.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: But in any case, we should stop helping people.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: We should stop fighting wars unless they start it.
Lacy Underwear says: I think America needs to fix itself more than it needs to fix the rest of the world
Hot Cocoa Addict says: We should stop hunting terrorists, why? 'Cause it's not bloody getting anywhere. And yes, I agree with you. Hence why we should go isolationist again.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: "Ooo, Americans! They're evil!" That's what the rest of the world says about us. If that were true, we would've conquered everybody by now. Hell, we beat the only ones who even had a chance at it... And maybe we shouldn't have.
Lacy Underwear says: most of the world sees America as a bunch of arrogant capitalist wasters, and yeah, are quite distasteful of the more militant actions the US has taken recently
Lacy Underwear says: America is not great. Powerful, yes. Great? No. It's a shit hole. It's the biggest shit hole that everyone else went to to escape their old shit holes. But it's not the greatest place in the world or anything.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Yeah, but they would've whined about us not doing anything if we hadn't.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Ah, not true. Just ask all the people on the Mexican/U.S. border.
Lacy Underwear says: you can't carry the donkey and ride it too
Lacy Underwear says: not matter WHAT America does, someone will be upset
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Which is why I think we should leave them to their troubles. They seem quite content with it.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: And we will just welcome with open arms all of the Mexicans and Cubans who want to be here.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: That's what America should do.
diea: balance, balance, balance, it's all about balance and realizing we are just one nation in the world and not THE nation in the world. We have too much influence and it's all gone to our heads, but pulling away and hiding in a corner isn't going to do us much good either. We're to dependent on foreign markets to buy and sell with.
Yes. I realise America isn't the worst fucking place out there. But at the same time, neither is it the greatest. I just... I can't stand it when Matt (or whoever I may debate this with) acts like... like just because America has Nukes, and is highly influential in world matters, etc... it's not fucking great. Power doesn't necessarily mean greatness. And I don't like it when Matt talks like the rest of the world are a bunch of spineless whiny pricks incapable of achieving anything nearly so greatly as America has.
Argh. I'm not really succeeding at expressing myself verbally today.
Fin.
Matt: True, but it would be absolutely hilarious. "Tell me more of this wonderful thing you call humor, *insert first name here* Sedai!"
Matt: Can't you just imagine it? A Fade addicted to chocolate? "You will hand over this substance known as 'chocolate,' or I will tear off your skin in strips and make you dance in your bones. After you hand it over, I will pay for it with this Andoran gold mark. Thank you, good day."
Me: "Only one? For all of that?"
Matt: "The rest is the store owners gratitude for not being made to dance in his bones." All very serious-like with the Myrddraal's non-existant humor.
Matt: I think it would be awesome if I Myrddraal (the "Addicted One," we shall call him), were to be fighting a Warder, and then offer to withdraw from combat if the Warder would be kind enough to ask his Aes Sedai to use the One Power to summon up a Milky Way bar... Milky Way Dark, naturally. If I were playing a Myrddraal in someone else's campaign, I would so do that. And, I would do it with a straight face. I wonder what the Warder and Aes Sedai would do?
Me: wonder wtf a milky way bar is
Matt: Well, that's true. I'd say someting more believable for the Wheel of Time, like maybe a brick of Taraboner chocolate. And once they had done so, I would be as good as my word. I might even share some with my Trollocs (if I had any).
Me: they wouldn't appreciate it
Matt: Imagine the two making their report to the Amyrlin seat though. And that's true, the Trollocs wouldn't. Too bad.
Me: How would you make sure they kept their word though?
Matt: I'm a Myrddraal, and I'm badass. I would make it especially known to them that they could not possibly defeat me, and that all I want is some bloody chocolate, damn it!
-----------------------------------------------------
Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
-----------------------------------------------------
I was taking this quiz, earlier, one peaseblossom03 had posted on her lj. I didn't bother with keeping the results because it wasn't all that interesting. Mostly I just raged against the questions, or at least, the options for answering the questions. Not like, super-pissed off raged, just sort of--none of these apply! Or all of them do! Like this one question:
Given only these choices, which of these U.S. television drama programs would you decide to watch?
-CSI (any of them)
-House
-Law & Order (any of them)
-Lost
...how about ALL OF THEM?! Okay, I can live without CSI Miami and NY, and I'm okay missing an ep. or two of any of the Law & Order's. But I do love Lost, and House, and the original CSI.
-----------------------------------------------------
*argues politics with Matt*
Lacy Underwear says: http://www.livejournal.com/users/etcet/314931.html
Hot Cocoa Addict says: And yes, I know what is going in New Orleans. Personally? Serves them right for having their ancestors build there. Now aside from that, the ineptitude of the U.S. relief forces is appalling, and I notice that no other countries have offered us help. We spent somewhere around 60 billion on the tsunami relief effort, but no one in the world is helping us.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Yes, I am a terrible person.
Lacy Underwear says: the head of a major river like the Mississippi, though, was the ideal place to build a major seaport. Even if it's below sealevel and in a place that gets frequented by hurricanes... if somewhere like the Netherlands can build dykes and levees to keep out the sea, they can do much the same
Lacy Underwear says: hell, the damage may not have been so bad if funding for the levees hadn't been pulled for the war effort
Hot Cocoa Addict says: No really, New Orleans was originally mostly underwater, as it's wetlands there. the ground isn't stable enough.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: And yes, the war effort. You know what? We should be pulling our troops out of every Goddamned country and tell them to deal with their own problems.
Lacy Underwear says: and I'm not surprised other countries aren't offering help--America is supposed to be the big, rich, well funded place, and be able to dedicate resources for the mess they've got themselves into.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Yeah, with every fucking politician scrambling to make a bigger mess out of what's already there.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: No... America should go isolationist again, like we did after World War I. Let the world deal with it's own problems. Sure, we would have some tough times to face because of the lack of trade, but just think how irreparably damaged our enemies would be economically?
Hot Cocoa Addict says: No more outsourcing. No more trade. No more world stock market. No more American military bases in their countries generating revenue.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Besides, we still got nukes.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Nobody wants to face MAD.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Most of my fellow Americans would be totally appalled at me. And why? Because they can't imagine for one moment that the world sees us as an enemy, not a friend. We meddle too much in other people's affairs. So what if there's an evil dictator oppressing his people? Why don't THEY grow a fucking spine and off him themselves?
Lacy Underwear says: sometimes it's not just a matter of growing a spine, because not every revolution succeeds as well as the American one did
Hot Cocoa Addict says: *shrugs* Why don't they just form terrorist cells of their own? They can do a lot of damage. Just ask New York, and our boys in Iraq. And while yes, our revolution was a fluke, that doesn't mean that we have to solve everyone's problems.
Lacy Underwear says: nor does it mean everyone was asking you to
Hot Cocoa Addict says: They sure act like. "Oh why isn't America throwing more money and resources at the tsunami victims? Oh why doesn't America send their people to help us back on their feet?"
Hot Cocoa Addict says: *act like it.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: *our feet.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: That's all I heard on the news from foreign correspondants for SIX MONTHS after the tsunami.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: People bitching and whining that we weren't doing enough to help them.
Lacy Underwear says: yes, well, they'd rather America spent it's money on tsunami relief than on a war that most the world neither likes nor approves
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Heh, well maybe I don't approve of the rest of the world? How would they all like to take on this super-power? The last remaining super-power.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: You know why most countries won't fight us? It's not because our military is better. It
Hot Cocoa Addict says: It's not.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: It's because we have nuclear weapons. More than any other country, and they know we would use them if it meant winning or losing. And yes, I realize in a nuke fight, nobody wins. But at least THEY wouldn't win.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: But in any case, we should stop helping people.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: We should stop fighting wars unless they start it.
Lacy Underwear says: I think America needs to fix itself more than it needs to fix the rest of the world
Hot Cocoa Addict says: We should stop hunting terrorists, why? 'Cause it's not bloody getting anywhere. And yes, I agree with you. Hence why we should go isolationist again.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: "Ooo, Americans! They're evil!" That's what the rest of the world says about us. If that were true, we would've conquered everybody by now. Hell, we beat the only ones who even had a chance at it... And maybe we shouldn't have.
Lacy Underwear says: most of the world sees America as a bunch of arrogant capitalist wasters, and yeah, are quite distasteful of the more militant actions the US has taken recently
Lacy Underwear says: America is not great. Powerful, yes. Great? No. It's a shit hole. It's the biggest shit hole that everyone else went to to escape their old shit holes. But it's not the greatest place in the world or anything.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Yeah, but they would've whined about us not doing anything if we hadn't.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Ah, not true. Just ask all the people on the Mexican/U.S. border.
Lacy Underwear says: you can't carry the donkey and ride it too
Lacy Underwear says: not matter WHAT America does, someone will be upset
Hot Cocoa Addict says: Which is why I think we should leave them to their troubles. They seem quite content with it.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: And we will just welcome with open arms all of the Mexicans and Cubans who want to be here.
Hot Cocoa Addict says: That's what America should do.
diea: balance, balance, balance, it's all about balance and realizing we are just one nation in the world and not THE nation in the world. We have too much influence and it's all gone to our heads, but pulling away and hiding in a corner isn't going to do us much good either. We're to dependent on foreign markets to buy and sell with.
Yes. I realise America isn't the worst fucking place out there. But at the same time, neither is it the greatest. I just... I can't stand it when Matt (or whoever I may debate this with) acts like... like just because America has Nukes, and is highly influential in world matters, etc... it's not fucking great. Power doesn't necessarily mean greatness. And I don't like it when Matt talks like the rest of the world are a bunch of spineless whiny pricks incapable of achieving anything nearly so greatly as America has.
Argh. I'm not really succeeding at expressing myself verbally today.
Fin.