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All I know about 40k, I learned from the Board. Which might make being dragged in even more awesome.

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Hi there. Have a pile of multi coloured pens.

I just remembered that Chinese robot combat show King Of Bots is entirely available on YouTube courtesy of its Chinese broadcasters - if you need a fix for robot combat, it's got some damned good fights in it. The guys who built the House Robots for the RW reboot rocked up with an attempt at making a competitively viable heavyweight crusher and the results have to be seen to be believed, and the Chinese competitors have some seriously good robots among their number.

The YouTube playlist is available here and it's well worth a watch. =]

Yeah so if you have anything for the Cards Against Boarders deck, I'll take those suggestions.

With profuse and profound apologies to Marty Robbins.

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To a village on Barbarus came a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
For they all knew his business, and no-one would make a slip
For the tall and handsome stranger wore a big scythe on his hip,
Big scythe on his hip

It was early in the morning when he strode into the town
He came walking from the south and everybody here around
Had heard about this stranger on whom poison had no grip
And was here to do some business with the big scythe on his hip,
Big scythe on his hip

In this town there lived a soldier, and Alleb was her name
And to this grizzled vet'ran every warlord was the same
She was fair and just and kept Barbarus raiders from her door
And the warlords that she'd slain they numbered one and nineteen more,
One and nineteen more

Now the stranger started talking and made plain to folks around
That a great warlord was comin' and they'd have to stand their ground
And though that warlord's army was a vicious one, he said
Mortarion had come and he would see that warlord dead,
See that warlord dead

The news got back to Alleb that Mortarion was here
And was trainin' up the townsfolk for to rid them of their fear
She marched down and she tole him twenty warlords made a slip
And another notch she'd carve upon the pistol at her hip,
Pistol at her hip

The flow of time just slowed down on the day they were to meet
When Mortarion and Alleb they first met eyes in the street
Folks watching from the ramparts, they let out a gasp of breath,
As the two kissed and to warlords soon would be the kiss of death,
Be the kiss of death

There were fifty thousand zombies when the Primarch made his stand
With his Alleb by his side and a new ring upon his hand
The warlord's undead masses felt the hew and tear and rip
From the laspistol of Alleb and the new scythe at her hip,
New scythe at her hip

It was over in a day and all the townsfolk gathered round
Before them was the warlord lying dead upon the ground
Oh, he might have kept on living, but he made the fateful slips
Of challenging the couple with the big scythes at their hips,
Big scythes at their hips

Of challenging the couple with the big scythes at their hips

Although I have to ask Ix, did you know my Top 500 team *before* banning half of it? (despite only one of them now being banned on the Doubles OU ladder?) :p

Oh well, time to come up with a different team.

All I can say for the moment is. Winds will change.

We'll see if it comes together before someone else does him.

hS

And yes, I fully expect that it will be done by the book. *g*

~Neshomeh, not volunteering to write it, since she still has to do Kaitlyn/Lorgar.

He wasn't that bad, and he looks like Daniel Craig in the official artwork.

For the Emperor! Hydra Dominatus!

But seriously (not seriously), imagine a Roboute Guilliman ship:

"I will now demonstrate the CORRECT missionary position."

• Beedrill
  - Nihilego
  - Nidoking
  - Gengar
  - Crobat
  - Venusaur
  - Reserve: ZE RETURN OF DOKTOR TROLLENFISCH

Who wants to be the very best, like no-one ever was?

That's right, it's time for the PPC Pokémon Tournament signups to begin!

In keeping with the pattern I have going so far—normal rules, special rules, normal rules, special—this year, we're doing a slightly different format. Instead of singles battles, the format this year... is doubles.

Since last time, the double elimination bracket took us literal months to complete the tournament, we'll be going back to a single elimination format in the hopes of wrapping the tournament up by June.

See the rules list here, along with the team lineups, bracket, et cetera, et cetera.

And I do apologize for not starting signups at the beginning of March like normal; it just totally slipped my mind.

You have one month to sign up and/or finalize your team. April 20th will mark the last day for signups, and then the bracket will be posted and the battles can begin.

Happy battling!

I think I said this to someone else, but I'm so glad we gave it that urple armor so we can actually take a smidgen of credit for it. ^^;

Also glad there was some impact from Derik blowing his stack. With someone actually willing and able to restrain him on hand, I could finally let him go a bit flamethrower-crazy (sledgehammer-crazy?).

I don't know about that Quenya bit. Whose idea was that, anyway? ^~

Thanks for commenting so long after the fact!

~Neshomeh

Some of my favorites:

"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
Yes, in know, but if you like video games and 80's pop culture then this is a book for you! (I can't wait to see the movie, and forget all the haters.)

"Soon I Will be Invincible" by Austin Grossman
An somewhat different take on the superhero genre, with interesting characters and concepts. Shame there's no sequel, the universe on display is worth another look.

If you like superhero comics, I highly recommend the novelization of "Kingdom Come", which takes an already good story and adds more to it. The only downside is a lack of Alex Ross' gorgeous artwork.

Enjoy!

I'm reading Dune, Mr. Flood's Last Resort, (those are the books) and Paranatural, Kill Six Billion Demons, and lots of other webcomics.

But when it comes to 'actual' books, the ones I'm reading at the moments are Sanderson's. Warbreaker and Stormlight more recently, but I received pretty much all of them (sans the Mistborn ones I already had)... and have to find the time to read them, despite usually being able to read quite fast.

I also been thinking about reading a trilogy from a certain Justin Cronin. If I got it right, it would be 'zombie apocalypse, except the zombies are replaced with vampires'.

(And to discreetly feed your videogame distraction problem, did you heard about this mod of FFVI with its own story with Ponies, aptly named Filly Fantasy VI?)

Welcome newbie! Here, have some chocolate and enjoy your stay! And don't worry, we don't bite... much.

*flying tackleglomp*

I haven't read anything new lately—all rereads—but I'd recommend the Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. It's about witches and boggarts and things that go bump in the night, and the people who fight them. It's also genuinely scary at some points, so if you like horror lite I'd recommend it. :)

Canonically, Dorn does not have a moustache. But he looks less handsome without it.