Magiluke: Heh, no problem. I'm still a V:TM player, but I never LARPed, nor do I plan to (well, I might do an IFGS event someday, just because whacking people with big foam rubber swords sounds like fun).

Oddly enough, all the V:TM games I play in end up going from sad and moody to action/comedy by the time I'm done with them. I have this way of lightening things up... of course, the fact that my characters have included a wandering gigolo, a psychotic ex-pro-wrestler who believes in his gimmick, and a dense-as-a-box-of-hammers vato gangsta, is probably a very good indication of that.

HeartBurnKid:

IFGS! Yes, I highly recommend IFGS. (Okay, so I'm on one of the Boards of Directors...it's not like I'm biased or anything. Well, maybe a little.)

My GOD! Right now, the front page says this thread has 357 comments.

3+5+7=15.

If you add the 1+5=6. If you put three of those in a row it's 666!


Oh God save us! Save us from D&D!

You do realize that, thanks to you, it has 358, right?

/359 now.

/There goes the joke.

Hey, when I started reading it was at 333.

The funny part? I was running a D&D game online while I was reading *grin*

Oh yeah... is anyone here from Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh has a semi-lousy gaming community.

\Has been running a D&D game for 3 years straight so far
\Has been playing in a D&D game for 5 years straight so far
\Played in an Over the Edge modified game that ran for 6
\Nerd? Yeah.

another obligatory Chick parody

/Ia!

Jack Chick... what a loon.

But, back to more important matters... what 40k race would Mr Chick play? I'm thinking either Sisters of Battle or Grey Knights. He'd be torn between wanting to burn witches or to purge demons, though. See, even fundies can wargame. ;-)

I like my Ultras, Catachans, Biel-Tan and Goff Orks, thanks.

/40k nerd. Sorry, can't help it.

Grumpymonkey

Sisters. Definitely sisters.

Oh, and your Ultras can suck it.

/bug fan

:D

Courage and honour, Spacemarinekilla. ;-)

/Obscure 40k taunt. Non-gamers can ignore this post.

12:16:35 AM ArcadianRefugee

You're my hero. My Lovecraft-loving coworker told me about that a few months ago but all I found was Howard Hallis' site saying that due to legal action he had to take it down.

Funny enough, I just got back from playing D&D. I now have a ninth level thief. Still waiting for the local crime syndicate to call me...

Lousy D&D not being real, and lousy Jack Chick for lying to me...

It's probably already been said, but too bad there's no Chick fark series. The D & D cartoon reminded me of fark.

Ooh, hey. Chick even covers Islam.

It's funny, check it out.

There will be, Bung_Howdy, when Mr Chick sees his host's bandwidth fees for the month.

Grumpymonkey: I dunno. Fark linked to Chick all the time in the "old days," along with "CAP," a Christian movie review site (which was a scream, lemmeetellya. For example, here's his review of Hellboy).

I don't think he ever did a Fark tract, and this site has melted his servers more than once. Not that we don't deserve one, mind you, but I think that's a whole lot to cover in a little 2 by 4 comic book. :)

You guys really need to lay off llarken. It's not like Harley Quinn is an easy character to pull off, demeanor is half the costume.

More importantly, though, why the hell is anyone complaining at all? It is ever so rare for an attractive farkette to post pics of herself, and you guys take the opportunity to rip on her hobby? What the fark, guys.

Stupid Q: Anyone near/around Kingston NY looking for an experienced gamer? I'm moving there in the middle of May until August. :-)

/is using FARK for other things

Azakendt: Um, click your link. It's funny, but not for the reason you think. :)

azakendt, that was just bizarre. Thanks for the LSD-like nightmares, buddy.

Henchman, well, if that's the case we're obviously not trying hard enough. His sever will give up the ghost, eventually, with the right amount of effort...

(preferably in a suitably pyrotechnic fashion that looks like we gamers have summoned Satan upon his fundie ass!)

...and then Fark will receive the attention it deserves from Mr Chick.

Hey, wait a minute, can Jack Chick write off his bandwidth costs for business reasons?

Tigger

I know, I cracked up when I read that too. Heh, and the sick thing is that the whole "logical fallacies" section clearly demonstrates what Jesus was talking about with the "splinter-in-the-eye" thing.

When the Bible and The Qur'an contradict each other, the Bible must logically be given first place as the older authority.

See also: Appeal to Tradition

#1 Proving Allah by the Qur'an and then proving the Qur'an by Allah.

Hmm... that seems familiar. You've been here longer than me, ever see Bevets prove God by the Bible and the Bible by God?

#5 The present meaning of a word is irrelevant to what it meant in ancient times. The word "Allah" is a good example. When confronted by the historical evidence that the word was used by pagan Arabs in pre-Islamic times to refer to a high god who was married to the sun-goddess and had three daughters

'God' comes from the Teutonic, gudo and meant "That which is invoked by sacrifice" and referred to the act of bull slaughter.

And my number one favorite quote,
The average Muslim does not know that his arguments are logically erroneous. He is sincere in his beliefs. Thus you must be patient and kind in sharing with him why his arguments are invalid.

Does the author understand human nature or what?

/Has been writing term papers all day
//Feeling like sharing useless and unsolicited information

I like duckies.

Heh, look here instead.

No, he can more likely write off his bandwidth costs on the grounds his is a non-profit religious organisation. Like a charity, except I'm not willing to donate to his cause.

/Atheism is a non-prophet organisation.

I really miss those days...marathon D&D sessions and a 24 hour Taco Bell...

A funny story:

We were playing, like 6 of us, and I was a thief. A party friendly thief mind you. The meatslab of the party was a Barbarian who in real life did not get along with me too well as he was a hypercompetitive ass and I, at 50lbs less than him and a decent bit smarter, simply owned him on numerous occasions playing pick up football in the Navy.

Remember how Barbarians were supposed to have personality quirks in the second (I think) edition of the rules? This guy had picked birds...he destroyed anything to do with birds. Anyway, there was this key that was hidden in a jewelled egg, and we needed the key to get the hell out of the mess we were in...half the party was on life support, one irrevocably dead, and no one had the strength to try to get it from him, and since it was an egg, he deemed that he ought to throw it down this well; thus, dooming the party. The DM gave no quarter, and we were going to lose 8th level characters for nothing in short order.

Earlier this Barbarian had forcibly gone through my things on suspicion that I had a certain magic jewel...I did, but it was given to me for safe keeping by the party leader in a series of exchanged notes. We kept it secret from everyone but the DM, but since the 'Barbarian' saw us passing notes, he put two and two together...something he clearly wasn't allowed to do 'in character' as he wasn't 'near us' when I took it in the game.

In real life, the DM had a rule that people involved in the game would move up front, while anyone out of action would hang out in the back of the room as things may be said we would have no way of knowing about (mainly an anti-barbarian rule). So he is the only one up there as the cleric was dead and everyone else was at a couple HP or unconscious. The barbarian had like 15 HP...I had two HP but was servicible. Everyone was rolling their eyes as the DM was going over the egg, knowing the barbarian would ace it in short order after some personal teasing, ending the game for good.

If I tried to do something 'in the game' to get up from where I was (namely wounded and lying on the other side of the room with the rest of the party) as soon as I tried to talk to the DM about being stealthy and getting the egg/key back, this guy would know and try to do something about it a la the magic jewel above.

So, silently, I stood up from the back of the dorm room we were playing in and slowly approached the DM and the barbarian...remember, this guy would get back at me in the game if he 'saw' me do anything in real life, so I wanted to get him without his knowing...the DM noticed me out of his peripheral vision as the barbarian was saying all this stupid stuff. I acted as if I drew a knife from my belt, I turned it over and hit it silently in my palm a few times to indicate I wanted to hit with the pommel versus the blade, and then I pointed at the back of this guys head while he was sitting there talking and not paying attention to the fact that I had snuck up behind him in real life.

Yes...I, the thief, backstabbed this guy.

The DM turned ten shades of red trying not to laugh that this goon was about to get his in an embarrassing way. So he, in fairness, coolly picked up a d20 and rolled it as the barbarian was going on about offing us by ditching the egg/key...and I got a 20, a critical hit. The DM let out with a quick, snortling laugh, interrupting the guy talking who only then stopped to pay attention to what was going on as I crept back to my seat in the back in real life.

The DM stopped for a second to formulate his words, and simply said "Everything goes black. You've fallen unconscious."

He was confused...he objected that he had 15 hit points and wasn't close to zero/passing out. The DM reiterated "You've fallen unconscious". He sat there, dumbfounded, his thunder stolen, confused. Then, he suddenly wheeled around to look at the back of the dorm room, specifically looking at me. The others sat there, muffling laughter and trying to act nonchalant, and I winked at him and smiled.

He was furious...a 250lb man from backwoods Alaska, with his lip quivering, bellowed "THAT'S BULLSHIAT!!" and stormed out of there like a little kid. The whole room erupted in laughter..oh my god, it was so funny to see, I can't do it justice in writing...such a temper tantrum over a game, a game in which he was being an ass to everyone and no one could do anything about it..ah, sweet poetic D&D justice.

God I love that game....

i want miss frost.

ok without bothering to read the comments, I just want to say, who is more crazy? the person that thinks D&D leads to real witchcraft and mgical powers, or the person who thinks that magic is all a bunch of hogwash?? I mean come on this chick guy really thinks magic is real! come on get with the times magic is not real no matter how hard you study the occcult, for god's sake D&D is just a game, I never played it but if I had friends who did play it I would have, and I belive in god, but I sure as hell don't belive in magical powers, sheesh the chick sure is a loone, but then he is good for a laugh now and then

knucklebreater: "I don't want to be Elfstar anymore, I want to be Debbie!"

Amen to that! Hehehe
Well, that and the one with the part about the gay guys intentionally organizing to donate AIDS blood. That was classic.

yes TheGoblinKing that is classic...

/I dub you king of the nerds for today. All hail the king!

"I put on my robe and wizard hat."

"You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous."

That's REAL role playing, suckafish!

Back in high school I remember playing D&D in a church, with a pastor in training like guy. I mean come on, he was the DM. If D&D is sooooo bad do you think he would have even done it?

Before Robert Berry replaced weirdopalooza.com with RetroCrush, he had a great commentary on this tract.

Also, I forgot to say this earlier, and I'm surprised no one else brought this up...if Debbie had the power to put mind spells on her dad, why the FARK didn't she ask for something better than some damn books? How about a car?!

For those who take the Old Testament seriously, chipmunk, demon conjuring is a real and dangerous thing, which is why it's explicitly forbidden in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. People when those books were written did that kind of thing regularly (or at least thought they were doing that kind of thing), or they wouldn't have seen a need to forbid it.

And these demons were obviously real because there were unexplained tremblings of the earth, the sun was occasionally blotted out by the moon, plagues of locusts would eat all their crops, their children were born with developmental abnormalities, and sometimes it would snow in July.

I am *so* glad people don't mess with demon conjuring now. Imagine if we had disasters that science couldn't explain.

Well,this was enlivening.

I've played DND for years. Great game.

Also, played 40K for even longer.

And now, I've joined Fark.

See you at the bus stop...the one with the red sign, yo....

I am frequently told to "get a life" or write about something more important than D&D, like social justice or world hunger. The devil would sure like that.


Yea, but don't you think he'd like it even more if you shut the hell up and stopped writing all these stupid comics?

Chick is a sad, delusional little man.... Thank you, Jack Chick, for making us laugh about religion AGAIN

That was Chickaliscious!