“Your ability to bang your head against reality in the hope that reality will crack first is impressive, but futile.”
— Geoffrey Brent, in rec.games.frp.dnd
Year: 2002
Don’t get it on You
“You just can’t argue with a moron. It’s like handling Nuclear waste. It’s not good, it’s not evil, but for Christ’s sake, don’t get any on you!!”
— Chuck, PCGen mailing list
On English Language
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
– James D. Nicoll
Information Freedom
“While information might or might not want to be free, it definitely doesn’t want to live under a DRM”
— Jonas, on PCGen
Poxy Server
“I’m happy to do the tracker stuff since our Microsoft Poxy Server (that’s poxy, not proxy) won’t let me connect to sourcesafe’s CVS…”
— Karianna, pcgen mailing list
What the Label Says
DM : “You search the storeroom and find a barrel marked ‘elf pudding’.”
Random: “Elven pudding! Wonderful stuff. I haven’t had it since I left the elven homeland. Gimme!”
Dolarn: “We’re in a goblin lair and it says ‘elf pudding’. I wouldn’t.”
Random: “What?! You mean… <hyuuuurfff>”
— at the game
Let’s Just Get Along
Evil High Priest: “Leave now, if you value your skins.”
Garrick: “I’m all for it.”
— at the game
Majority Vote
Logan: “I don’t think it’s a good idea.”
Raven: “The vote is three to one against you — me, the crystal ball, and the little voices in your head.”
— at the game.