Recent content by dbolack

Typically, not enough eyes that are attached to people whose brains won't gap fill in the same way the authors' did.

Could be both. I once ran into a brain-numbing uninitialized strings issue when uplifting from 32 bit to 64 bit libraries that never triggered in the previous decade because... No idea. The folks who wrote the code woulda failed a 101 class because the (&)&( compiler they used before porting to...

I do forget that part ... every time ... this comes up. :) It looks like Shadowrun gets the blame here.

Ghostbusters generally gets the credit/blame there. I've never heard of an earlier dice pool RPG, but one may exist.

Also. Handfuls of dice are FUN.

I was wondering about him a bit back...

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/now-diamond-comics-the-debtor-is-suing-all-the-comic-book-publishers/

Nothing. But Hillbillies and farm folk from Kansas are rather different. The accents were a little weird. And there's a lotta variation in "hillbillies". That said, most of the bits aside from the accent were simply older parents bits - a return to the idea that the Kents were at the upper end...

Oh, I will be...

Weird ass habit from being in a Corps style marching band 30 years ago with not future reinforcement I still can't shake.

That makes sense.

I took that to include aftershocks and other soon after the quake potential failures ( gas leaks, etc. )

I thought I was replying to a comment about Synnibar without McCracken.. Not sure if I tagged the wrong post or edited poorly there.

Fair enough. Though my memory of that period was everyone was still trying to figure things out... Agreed on the original stuff. Shame about Periphery.

This is all correct.