D&D Hostage Situation

I played in a D&D Living Forgotten Realms game last weekend. I don't think as a group we got the idea of being a "hero". The characters were given a writ by the king that allowed us to arrest, judge and execute anyone we saw fit in the course of the investigation. Needless to say we abused the authority. To top it off when we did figure out where the the evil guys were going to hold the dark ritual and sacrifice our plan was a bit shady. They approached the temple and we told them to halt. When they wouldn't leave we shot the kid that was going to be the sacrifice. Our thinking was that if the kids dead they can't sacrifice him to the evil god. I'm counting it as a win.

Cable networks that have gone off the reservation

Certain cable TV stations have been bugging me lately. There is an increasing number of them that no longer show what they are named after.

The biggest offender is The Sci-Fi network. Crappy made for TV horror and fantasy movies are not science fiction. ECW wrestling is not science fiction, it is fiction but nothing more. Ghosthunters (both original recipe and international) and what ever show they have on after it are at best fringe science, but what they really are is a reality show that follows a bunch of people around in the dark. So they should either change the name of the channel or start showing some Scifi.

Discovery Channel: They still have some good programs but why in chaos do they have to show Deadliest Catch everyday for several hours in a row. Oh look we discovered seafood. Dirty Jobs at least does new jobs every show. Man vs Wild just plain sucks hes not in danger that he hasn't chosen to be in, plus he has a camera crew.

The History Channel - The majority of its programs cover stuff thats pretty recent. Ice Road Trucker will be history in a few years but right now its just a normal reality show that was filmed the previous winter. They will cover historical events if a big movie comes out. Then they will have several programs that while they are history are just on the air to shill for movie.
History International its sister station seems to have gotten all of the history.

The Learning Channel or TLC: Not much learning going on. American Chopper, a show about a dwarf family, a Tattoo shop, a show about a family with 8 kids, and some fashion show with a woman and a gay man that tell people that their clothes suck.

Court TV used to bug me the same way but at least they changed their name to True Tv so they will be forgiven for their sins.

G4 when they gobbled up TechTV I don't think anyone believed that the the Tech was going to survive at leasts the dropped the Tech TV part. The only thing they have going for them is the geeks dream girl Morgan Webb. Now they just focus on Video games, entertainment news, Cops reruns, and a couple of Japanese game shows.



I'm just waiting for one of the chick channels (Oxygen, Lifetime or WE) to start showing monster truck rallies and professional wrestling.

I just wish there was room on cable for for topical channels that you can depend on if you want your fix of a certain genre of entertainment. Its like going to an icecream parlor and finding out that they only serve ice cream a few days a week and only at certain times.

School is good so far.

Well school is going well so far. I don't regret quiting my old job I was really getting to hate getting up in the mornings. After the last job performance review and crappy raise. I started doing the numbers and figured out that I could afford to do it. I'm sleeping better and seem to be in a much better mood. The whole blog thing still seems like a pretty big waste time especially when no one seems to be reading it or even commenting on it. One last thing I did take the picture on the top of the blog.

TV shows and hot women.

I've been thinking and I realized that a lot of the TV shows or movies I like are because of the Actresses

Veronica Mars : Kristen Bell
Angel: Charisma Carpenter and Amy Acker
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Alyson Hannigan
Charmed: All three of the Leads
How I Met Your Mother: Alyson H. yet again.
Return of the Living Dead III: Melinda Clarke

I also seem to have every movie with Reese Witherspoon in it. I also seem to have lots of movies with Natalie Portman. I even have the DVD of Where The Heart Is.

Tale of the Invisble Woman.

Here is a little situation I want to share. I play Dungeons and Dragons every weekend ( I know its uber-geeky but no worse than a blog). There is a woman who used to play with our group for a few years ago. For the last 4 months she has been say that she wants to start playing again every other weekend. We are not starting on Month five. She has made it exactly ZERO times. She keeps claiming that she has all these emergencies that keep coming up. Its either something medical or something do due with her kids. I myself think its her husband who keeps think thinking up the excuses. I would just like to say she is not longer welcome. Its take a lot of preparation to get ready to run the game. Its not fair to whom ever is running the game that week, they have to change everything so that its an appropriate challenge for the group playing. I think its just rather rude of her to keep doing. She ought to just give up the pretense and say her husband won't let her. In fact no one that plays thinks she is ever gonna show. I don't either, but its getting rather irritating. Well thats it.......Now go do something worthwhile.