Grapevine Mills Mall

BrassMonkey · Post by **BrassMonkey** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:58 pm

Based on your sig, I would say you are SWG?

Anyone who doesn't get it, just move along, these aren't the droids you are looking for. it is to hard to explain, but for the mods, it is not inappropriate...

LedJedi wrote:
BrassMonkey wrote:Whatever, it gives me +2 Ranged and has a random proc :-D

I imagine only a handful of people here get that. Luckily i'm one of them. pretty cute.

pbandjelly · Post by **pbandjelly** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:01 pm

HankB wrote:
pbandjelly wrote: . . . most of you self-proclaimed "gun nuts" have only the perspective that gun, in and of itself, can keep you safe. . . .
Ummm . . . actually, I don't see this at all.

I don't think you took that as I had initially meant it, two months ago.

what I'm saying is that there is a group that feels that without their gun, they are just helpless. "taking the teeth out of the sheep dog" is one way I've heard it.
thaaaaaat's what I was referring to. those that forget about the only "weapon" we each posses.
one that which you, Hank, are obviously adept at using.
good points, btw.

Seburiel · Post by **Seburiel** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:26 pm

[quote="BrassMonkey"]Whatever, it gives me +2 Ranged and has a random proc :-D[quote]

That's nothing - mine's a vorpal defender top that

BrassMonkey · Post by **BrassMonkey** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:31 pm

LOL... You a Pally?

Seburiel wrote:
BrassMonkey wrote:Whatever, it gives me +2 Ranged and has a random proc :-D

That's nothing - mine's a vorpal defender top that

LedJedi · Post by **LedJedi** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:55 pm

Seburiel wrote:
BrassMonkey wrote:Whatever, it gives me +2 Ranged and has a random proc :-D

That's nothing - mine's a vorpal defender top that

vorpal defender = magnum ?

I wanna see the guy who's got Dancing cast on his CCW. :)

Post by **Crossfire** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:59 pm

BrassMonkey wrote:Based on your sig, I would say you are SWG?

Anyone who doesn't get it, just move along, these aren't the droids you are looking for. it is to hard to explain, but for the mods, it is not inappropriate...

Maybe it's not inappropriate, but what in the world does it have to do with CHL?

Seburiel · Post by **Seburiel** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:15 pm

BrassMonkey wrote:LOL... You a Pally?

Yes. And I have a warhorse

LedJedi wrote:vorpal defender = magnum ?

man, you're good

pbandjelly · Post by **pbandjelly** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:28 pm

llwatson wrote:
BrassMonkey wrote:Based on your sig, I would say you are SWG?

Anyone who doesn't get it, just move along, these aren't the droids you are looking for. it is to hard to explain, but for the mods, it is not inappropriate...
Maybe it's not inappropriate, but what in the world does it have to do with CHL?

it's like weapon types for World of Warcraft, or something of that nature.

BrassMonkey · Post by **BrassMonkey** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:09 pm

***sigh***

+2 Ranged means it increases yoru ranged weapon skill my 2 points, conversely, there can also be -6 or whatever number.

This is reference to MMORPG's primarily, think of Dungeons and Dragons on a computer that is extremely addictive.\

Someone brought up a "magic talisman" and I could not resist...

If you think I am a nerd (I have not played since my son was born) check out these larper moneys... This is what they do in their free time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufaBKdY60w

And for the record, there is no way that kid had enough mana to cast that many lightning spells in that short a time period, and if he did, he would have taken agro....

LedJedi · Post by **LedJedi** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:50 pm

Vorpal means basically "take the head off on a lucky hit"

and I think defender means it makes you harder to hit.

not that any of this has squat to do with CHL. it's just funny. not regular funny, but geek funny for sure.

Seburiel · Post by **Seburiel** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:36 pm

okay, my last OT post for this conversation, but, just had to posit this stuff:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorpal Wikipedia!
"He took his vorpal sword in hand" and "One, two! One, two! And through and through / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! / He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back." Vorpal is commonly assumed to mean "deadly" or "extremely sharp", derived from the words "voracious" (hungry) and "corporal" (Latin, relating to corpus - the body) meaning hungry for flesh, or perhaps to imply that the blade has magical properties. Many role-playing games have taken the latter interpretation and, since the hero brings the dead Jabberwock's head home in triumph, have used "vorpal" to identify weapons with a magically enhanced ability to behead enemies. It is also occasionally interpreted as meaning the blade is warped=-

HankB · Post by **HankB** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:00 am

pbandjelly wrote:
HankB wrote:
pbandjelly wrote: . . . most of you self-proclaimed "gun nuts" have only the perspective that gun, in and of itself, can keep you safe. . . .
Ummm . . . actually, I don't see this at all.
I don't think you took that as I had initially meant it, two months ago.

OK, your explanation sheds more light on it, and I don't disagree.

As for the "+2" and "Vorpal" stuff my post prompted . . . my reaction was

until the explanations.

Now it's

BrassMonkey · Post by **BrassMonkey** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:12 am

lol on the

jimlongley · Post by **jimlongley** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:04 am

Seburiel wrote:okay, my last OT post for this conversation, but, just had to posit this stuff:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorpal Wikipedia!
"He took his vorpal sword in hand" and "One, two! One, two! And through and through / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! / He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back." Vorpal is commonly assumed to mean "deadly" or "extremely sharp", derived from the words "voracious" (hungry) and "corporal" (Latin, relating to corpus - the body) meaning hungry for flesh, or perhaps to imply that the blade has magical properties. Many role-playing games have taken the latter interpretation and, since the hero brings the dead Jabberwock's head home in triumph, have used "vorpal" to identify weapons with a magically enhanced ability to behead enemies. It is also occasionally interpreted as meaning the blade is warped=-

On the other hand, since he used other words in Joberwocky, maybe he just used "vorpal" because it sounded interesting.

"'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe . . ."

Many real words, used for their interesting sounds.

LedJedi · Post by **LedJedi** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:27 am

one of my fav poems.

Back in the day when I used to spar a LOT with buddies in HS they'd start smack talkin. I would break out with some jabberwokey. Throws em for a loop every time. Course when you run into the other dorks who paid attention in English class you both just start laughing.

Great stuff. I saw a leather bound copy (maybe pleather) of Lewis Carol's complete works in B&N the other day. I so should have picked it up. I already have similar binding in Poe.