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It's still all working.
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Hasn't worked for me. The little tiny red one next to the name works fine, but the large white snow one doesn't work. if its browser differences, I'm on firefox.
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Reliant121 wrote:Hasn't worked for me. The little tiny red one next to the name works fine, but the large white snow one doesn't work. if its browser differences, I'm on firefox.
Ditto
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Why would someone want to go for a walk in the snow? Its pretty? No its freezing!!!
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Condan1993 wrote:
Reliant121 wrote:Hasn't worked for me. The little tiny red one next to the name works fine, but the large white snow one doesn't work. if its browser differences, I'm on firefox.
Ditto
Same here, though doesn't work on Chrome, Opera, Safari, IE, Firefox, and Rockmelt for me.
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Teaos wrote:Why would someone want to go for a walk in the snow? Its pretty? No its freezing!!!
I do it because I like that feeling. I enjoy the feeling of freezing my ass off. :D
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Nickswitz wrote:
Teaos wrote:Why would someone want to go for a walk in the snow? Its pretty? No its freezing!!!
I do it because I like that feeling. I enjoy the feeling of freezing my ass off. :D
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We don't all have thin Kiwi blood, you know.
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Nickswitz wrote:No, I think he may mean clicking on them to go into the thread, which does not seem to be working.
Ah, that would be because we're on a different theme. I will tweak it at some point.
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My gaming group switched from D&D to Paranoia tonight. Spent about an hour and a half rolling up characters and getting everyone introduced to the bare basics of the game and world, then off we went. The game really works wonderfully with people who barely know what they are doing, really helps them connect to their troubleshooter. Manage to fit five amusing injuries, 3 deaths, and 8 cases of backstabbing into the remaining 2 hours we had to play. Next session should start off entertainingly enough as they are about to enter the most dangerous part of any mission (except perhaps the debriefing), being strong armed into testing experimental equipment by R&D.

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:lol:

That's another one I'd like to get back to.
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It's an awesome game, I never have so much fun GMing as I do with Paranoia.

Is it too evil to give the MSMS to the team's registered mutant?
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Well, my wife and I had a car accident today. Nothing serious for us, or anyone else involved physically, but it will probably end up writing off the car. We where travelling down a main road behind a very erratic driver so we kept a good distance. Then he slowed and stopped so we stopped about 100 yards behind him. He then put the car in reverse and drove rapidly backwards. He hit our bumper on the near side and then scrapped down the wing, passenger door and ended up behind us! That's quite a feat given we started in the same lane as him. We got his details and some eye witnesses on our side now all we have to do is deal with the insurance people.
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IanKennedy wrote: Then he slowed and stopped so we stopped about 100 yards behind him. He then put the car in reverse and drove rapidly backwards. .
He... wait what?

Glad you and your wife are okay though Ian.
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Condan1993 wrote:
IanKennedy wrote: Then he slowed and stopped so we stopped about 100 yards behind him. He then put the car in reverse and drove rapidly backwards. .
He... wait what?
Yup, he drove backwards down a a main road to get to a road he had just passed. We honked our horn at least three times but he still kept coming. He says he only passed his test two days ago. :bangwall:
Glad you and your wife are okay though Ian.
Thanks, we're fine.
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