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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 13, 2019 23:33:30 GMT -5
"You Have The Right to Remain Innocent". An attorney telling the rest of us the same thing that cops tell their kids. Never, ever talk to the police. Nothing you say will be used to prove your innocence, and everything possible will be twisted and taken out of context to prove you guilty. Everything that they say to you from the moment that you become a suspect. Not that they are bad people, but they are trained to be deceitful and encouraged to do anything possible to get a conviction. If an innocent person goes to jail it's not their fault. Good advice. I am sad to agree with you. With a senior cop in my family and my working for a firm of retired cops, what you write is too often so. I have seen it first hand. I have had friends that were cops, but there was always a wall around them. I think the people in charge do them a real disservice with their training. It permanently sets them outside of anyone outside of law enforcement. Something like 40 percent of prisoners exonerated by DNA had given false confessions after hours of questioning. How many people are in prison who are innocent? My BIL shouldn't be back in prison, but it was so easy for them because he is a dying 2 time loser. |
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Post by JimInks on Feb 14, 2019 3:32:36 GMT -5
The Jack Kirby Collector issue 75. This book length magazine deals with what Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had to say in chronological order about the creations and creative processes that went into forming the Marvel Universe. A few portions of my artist biographies are included in the book.
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Post by toshtego on Feb 14, 2019 11:14:37 GMT -5
The Jack Kirby Collector issue 75. This book length magazine deals with what Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had to say in chronological order about the creations and creative processes that went into forming the Marvel Universe. A few portions of my artist biographies are included in the book. I bet that is interesting reading. |
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Post by jackdiamond on Feb 14, 2019 12:08:44 GMT -5
Interesting. I’m currently running a Call of Cthulhu campaign on Saturday nights for my sons and nephews. One nephew runs DND and we alternate. This guy has the answer! hahaha I'm always bummed I have no one to game with- He said heck with it and raised a group of his own gamers. Do you have any experience with GURPS? |
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Post by sperrytops on Feb 14, 2019 12:24:48 GMT -5
This guy has the answer! hahaha I'm always bummed I have no one to game with- He said heck with it and raised a group of his own gamers. Do you have any experience with GURPS? I am not familiar with GURPS, though I was just looking at their website. I know of Steve Jackson Games. Are they one and the same? I try to limit the number of game systems I have to learn as each one gets more complicated year after year. I have a slight familiarity with Pathfinder, which as I understand it is an older version of DnD that is open (not copyrighted). It's a lot for me to keep up with DnD, to be honest. It's gotten pretty complicated. I know the Chaosium version of CoC rules set, as I've been using it a lot lately. But now Modiphius has come out with their own version of Cthulhu rules, I suspect to avoid paying licensing to Chaosium. I simply don't plan to use those as I don't want to learn the system. In contrast, my nephew who is a bigger gamer than me is familiar with many of these systems and is probably the one who has mentioned Steve Jackson games to me. What kinds of games do you run with GURPS? |
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Post by JimInks on Feb 14, 2019 14:09:57 GMT -5
The Jack Kirby Collector issue 75. This book length magazine deals with what Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had to say in chronological order about the creations and creative processes that went into forming the Marvel Universe. A few portions of my artist biographies are included in the book. I bet that is interesting reading. It is. John Morrow tried to be as fair as possible. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 14, 2019 15:37:27 GMT -5
This guy has the answer! hahaha I'm always bummed I have no one to game with- He said heck with it and raised a group of his own gamers. Do you have any experience with GURPS? I actually had to google it yesterday. haha I've only really played 2nd and 3rd edition D&D.
I have been thinking of finding a group at the nearby shop for awhile... Just like I have been talking about buying a motorcycle, getting into woodworking, getting back into art, dusting of the guitars and making a record for fun, and getting a gym membership. |
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Post by just ol ed on Feb 14, 2019 15:51:13 GMT -5
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Post by jackdiamond on Feb 14, 2019 17:33:24 GMT -5
Do you have any experience with GURPS? I am not familiar with GURPS, though I was just looking at their website. I know of Steve Jackson Games. Are they one and the same? I try to limit the number of game systems I have to learn as each one gets more complicated year after year. I have a slight familiarity with Pathfinder, which as I understand it is an older version of DnD that is open (not copyrighted). It's a lot for me to keep up with DnD, to be honest. It's gotten pretty complicated. I know the Chaosium version of CoC rules set, as I've been using it a lot lately. But now Modiphius has come out with their own version of Cthulhu rules, I suspect to avoid paying licensing to Chaosium. I simply don't plan to use those as I don't want to learn the system. In contrast, my nephew who is a bigger gamer than me is familiar with many of these systems and is probably the one who has mentioned Steve Jackson games to me. What kinds of games do you run with GURPS? GURPS is just a system, so you can run whatever you want with it. I'm gonna run a short survival game in Viking era England. After that, I'm planning a major campaign that crosses time, space, & universes. |
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Post by jeffd on Feb 17, 2019 19:44:37 GMT -5
Reading "Economics in One Lesson" by Hazlett. I recommend it. Very understandable.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 17, 2019 19:51:44 GMT -5
Upon recommendation by a fellow pipe club member...just got a Sunday delivery from Amazon.  |
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Post by jackdiamond on Feb 17, 2019 21:03:35 GMT -5
*On Disobedience* by Erich Fromm. He makes the case that every free and intelligent person ought to be prepared to disobey authority if that authority demands a moral compromise.
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Post by stilllernin on Feb 17, 2019 21:06:51 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 17, 2019 21:21:43 GMT -5
*On Disobedience* by Erich Fromm. He makes the case that every free and intelligent person ought to be prepared to disobey authority if that authority demands a moral compromise. Amen. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 25, 2019 0:35:04 GMT -5
The Journal of The Gun by Richard Matheson. A very different story about how a regular person becomes a gunfighter in the Old West. What happened to him and the results of his decisions. Excellent read.
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Post by Chuckus on Feb 25, 2019 8:29:14 GMT -5
Bullies by Ben Shapiro
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Post by just ol ed on Feb 25, 2019 9:40:15 GMT -5
after the Ed is fed, finish the daily newspapers. Later, current copy of NASPC
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 22:30:11 GMT -5
"Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past" by David Reich.  |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Feb 28, 2019 22:55:41 GMT -5
Reading James Lee Burke's "Light of the World"...I'm on a James Lee Burke binge lately...got pretty much all of his books.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 23:02:44 GMT -5
Just started book ten of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. "Crossroads of Twilight".
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Post by Dramatwist on Feb 28, 2019 23:21:16 GMT -5
"Bing Crosby, Swinging on a Star, The War Years 1940-1946" by Gary Giddins. Fascinating read, very well written. Recommended by JimInks. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 1, 2019 13:06:27 GMT -5
Just started a little space detective story that starts with him dying. Not bad so far. Cleansing the mental palate for either another Western or a new fantasy series. Or maybe I should start The Archer's Tale series by Bernard Cornwell.
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Post by jeffd on Mar 1, 2019 13:20:25 GMT -5
The Journal of The Gun by Richard Matheson. A very different story about how a regular person becomes a gunfighter in the Old West. What happened to him and the results of his decisions. Excellent read. Richard Matheson is more known for horror and weird. Tons of his stories have become major movies, Twilight Zone episodes, etc. (I Am Legend, Button Box, The Shrinking Man, and still one of the best SF/Scary stories ever: Born of Man and Woman.) I have a collection of his that knocks me down every time - how classic science fiction fantasy and horror was so creative, and how creativity is not as much valued in those genres today. They used to go for that Ohhhhh Myyyyyy Goshhhhh experience, and now its more of the Ewwwwwww, or the Yikes experience. Between Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison there have been more original ideas than most of what has followed them. I have got to try this book. I did not know Matheson did a western. Wow. Thanks for the heads up. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 1, 2019 13:36:13 GMT -5
The Journal of The Gun by Richard Matheson. A very different story about how a regular person becomes a gunfighter in the Old West. What happened to him and the results of his decisions. Excellent read. Richard Matheson is more known for horror and weird. Tons of his stories have become major movies, Twilight Zone episodes, etc. (I Am Legend, Button Box, The Shrinking Man, and still one of the best SF/Scary stories ever: Born of Man and Woman.) I have a collection of his that knocks me down every time - how classic science fiction fantasy and horror was so creative, and how creativity is not as much valued in those genres today. They used to go for that Ohhhhh Myyyyyy Goshhhhh experience, and now its more of the Ewwwwwww, or the Yikes experience. Between Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison there have been more original ideas than most of what has followed them. I have got to try this book. I did not know Matheson did a western. Wow. Thanks for the heads up. I knew that. In fact I was looking at his horror stories when I came across the Journal. It is obviously very different from Zane Grey. 😁 It's not like anything else I have read. Very straight forward and matter of fact study of what goes on in a man's mind when he feels like he isn't in control of his life. It really fits with his other work in a way. |
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Post by qmechanics on Mar 1, 2019 14:30:07 GMT -5
Krondor the Betrayal, Book one of the Riftwar Legacy by Raymond E. Feist
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 15:01:31 GMT -5
The Journal of The Gun by Richard Matheson. A very different story about how a regular person becomes a gunfighter in the Old West. What happened to him and the results of his decisions. Excellent read. Richard Matheson is more known for horror and weird. Tons of his stories have become major movies, Twilight Zone episodes, etc. (I Am Legend, Button Box, The Shrinking Man, and still one of the best SF/Scary stories ever: Born of Man and Woman.) I have a collection of his that knocks me down every time - how classic science fiction fantasy and horror was so creative, and how creativity is not as much valued in those genres today. They used to go for that Ohhhhh Myyyyyy Goshhhhh experience, and now its more of the Ewwwwwww, or the Yikes experience. Between Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison there have been more original ideas than most of what has followed them. I have got to try this book. I did not know Matheson did a western. Wow. Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know that Matheson wrote a western either. I liked his apocalyptic sci fi book, "I Am Legend". |
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Post by balticbriar on Mar 3, 2019 22:41:14 GMT -5
"Player Piano", by Kurt Vonnegut  |
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Post by mgtarheel on Mar 6, 2019 12:27:49 GMT -5
"Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
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Post by sperrytops on Mar 6, 2019 12:37:04 GMT -5
Just finished the 'Crimes of Grindelwald' by JK Rowling. Enjoyed it but was also disappointed. It read fast as it was only a script. So a result you follow the story pretty well, but you don't really feel like you're there, as you do in her Harry Potter books. I get the feeling the book only came out to promote movie attendance. Disappointing as it seemed more money ploy than a genuine effort.
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Post by jackdiamond on Mar 6, 2019 20:53:48 GMT -5
"The Devil All the Time" by Donald Ray Pollack. I love this book but cannot, in good conscience, recommend it to anyone without a strong stomach.
Part satire, part genre-fiction, it follows several horrible people from Kentucky as they traipse through a bored and violent existence.
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