You hear that, Mr Andersen?

RPSSL, HR, WARGS, Taser++

See, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your roshambo-losophy.

Thanks to the Indie-tits comments for "Please Hammer don't hurt 'em or release any more albums", which is where I saw this graphic. :)

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HR have come back with another offer, which I've decided to take. I think I could have beaten them up a bit more, but what the heck - I'll have another opportunity to ask for more money come the 1st of November, and now I don't have to think about it for a while. ;)

Of course, one of the downsides of a higher pay rate means that taking any time off work just keeps getting more expensive, and thus harder to justify to myself. Oh woe! I suspect that anyone who has time to write a blog isn't likely to expire of overwork anytime soon. ;)

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Went to WARGS last night, and am now actually a fully paid-up member. I don't expect to go to meetings any more frequently than I have (i.e. intermittently), but I decided that it's an organization I'd like to support, and I happened to have the cash in my wallet.

It was hix's first time there, and since the game he arrived to play didn't run, we had a quick game of Universalis with Luke and Sam - which turned out to be a surprisingly complicated political thriller, as well as the musical romantic comedy we were aiming for. Basically, a plot by a sleeper cell of the Otago Farmers association to trigger a civil war by assassinating the President of the North Island with a small child trained in ninjitsu was complicated by the fact that the kid loved another kid, who was actually a secret super-weapon developed by the Taupo Secret Service, but who was being subverted by her handler, a mechanical teddybear who was actually playing both sides off against the other in a bid to lead mechanicals in a coup where he would become the Supreme Leader. Except it was a little more complicated than that... There were only four scenes, and we provided titles for the songs as they appeared, rather than having to write them at the time - there were duets, expository ballads, and at least one reprise of a song that had previously appeared. ;) I think it worked fairly well, all things considered.

Did the game change my thinking about using the game to create the 48-Hour script? Yes, I think it has changed it; but I'm not sure whether it's made me more or less positive. I'll write more about this later.

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And finally - what's better than a taser? A 110,000 Volt 30-barrel taser cannon, you say? Well, how can anyone disagree with that?

"Most spectators experience some degree of sinus discomfort after several firings, due to the high brissance of the plasma explosion." Indeed.

Posted by svend at May 4, 2005 12:16 PM