Twenty Sided

By Shamus Posted Saturday Sep 9, 2006

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BeckoningChasm made a list of 25 favorite characters, and had the same trouble I did at filling the list, even when resorting to cartoon characters.

A different blog, but also by BeckoningChasm is this oil painting project. My wife does oil painting whenever she can (which is about once a year since we had kids) and I enjoy seeing a piece of work come together. I hope he sees it though, it looks like a real challenge. Actually, I’m a sucker for any sort of blog that shows a work in progress. I love to see someone apply their skill and make something.

Okay, I’ve linked to Pete before so this isn’t “someone new”, but this is too good to pass up. Made me laugh, it really did.

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DM of the Rings II:
Been There, Done That

By Shamus Posted Friday Sep 8, 2006

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Lord of the Rings, D&D campaign – Village of Bree, Prancing Pony, Strider the Ranger

A couple of people were foolish enough to encourage me yesterday, so now I’m inflicting another one on you.

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Too Much of a Good Thing

By Shamus Posted Friday Sep 8, 2006

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The waiter staggers over with a dinnerplate the size of a hubcap, loaded with food. He has to use both hands to hold it level, and while he’s trying to maintain his effete demenor you can tell he’s straining from the effort. It hits the table with a solid thud. The salt shaker nearly topples over from the seismic disturbance. He bows slightly, and leaves you to your meal.

It’s incredible. The flavor is fantastic. The texture is perfect. You have no idea if you can eat it all, but once you’ve had a bit you’re willing to give it a try. Halfway through the mountain of food you know you’re full, but you keep at it. At three-quarters of the way down your pants no longer fit and you have to adjust your position in your chair. Your eyes start to water. By four-fifths your progress slows because your body refuses to salivate. At this point you’ve forgotten what the food tastes like; you’re just shoveling now. By the time you can see the plate it’s hard to breathe. The last few bites sit in your mouth for a while before you can summon the will to swallow them.

Someone clears their throat nearby. Your head is swimming. Slowly you turn sideways to see who it is.

The waiter gives you a polite smile as he lifts the plate away, “Very good, sir. Ready for the second course?”

I just watched the first third of King Kong.

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Bloglines Test Post

By Shamus Posted Thursday Sep 7, 2006

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Just fiddling with my feed vs. bloglines. Nothing to see here. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. Move along.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Bloglines Test Post”

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DM of the Rings I:
The Copious Backstory

By Shamus Posted Thursday Sep 7, 2006

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Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign.

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My new toy

By Shamus Posted Thursday Sep 7, 2006

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Comic Book Creator is a lot of fun. In fact, it’s responsible for the total lack of posting here on Monday. It’s a handy tool for making making comic pages, arranging images, adding text bubbles, and so on.

Back when I was writing The Lemon I found that making comics was my favorite part of the site. At the bottom of this post is a comic I did back in 2003. I had a blast with it, but making comics using Paint Shop or Photoshop is a major pain in the butt. The comic below took me the better part of a day to put together. I think it would be a one or two hour job using CBC.

I enjoy making these little comics, although my desire to make them exceeds my ability to fill them with interesting content.

Oh yeah, the comic is huge so I’m not going to put it on the front page. Read on to see the whole thing: Continue reading ⟩⟩ “My new toy”

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Bloglines

By Shamus Posted Thursday Sep 7, 2006

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Gothmog and ARJ mentioned that my hotlink protection image showed up while viewing the site feed on Bloglines. I’ve fixed this, but I just want to ask that if anyone else sees that thing that they let me know. Nobody who reads this blog should see that thing by accident. If you’re using another bloglines-like setup and the evil flashing hotlink image shows up, please tell me. It’s only there to fend off the MySpace leeches, who have a ravenous appetite for other people’s bandwidth and images.

(What I WISH I could do is blacklist certain domains. Right now the hotlink protection bans all hotlinks, and then has a whitelist where I can add domains to allow. I wish I could just ban myspace and a few of the larger forums. That would solve 95% of the problem without affecting the performance of the blog in any way.)

Also, while viewing my site via bloglines the images never work. Bloglines is just convinced that my images directory is parallel to the blog directory, and I can’t find any way to tell it otherwise. It wants to draw images from:

shamusyoung.com/images

Instead of:

shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/images

The latter is correct and makes the most sense to me. I have no idea what Bloglines thinks it’s doing. I just can’t find the controls anywhere to fix this. Anyone have any suggestions?

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