Game Fodder / Story Fodder

[robotkarateman]

So it's cats, not bees, that carry the black ooze.

BRB, off to kill cats in the name of self preservation.

[Dogfish]

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/dot-shot-sinkhole-in-guatemala-city/?src=mv

[Kroack]

So it's cats, not bees, that carry the black ooze.

BRB, off to kill cats in the name of self preservation.

PLAY DWARF FORTRESS

[robotkarateman]

PLAY DWARF FORTRESS

NO

[Setherick]

Ohio and Arizona say no to human-animal hybrids (not that anyone was actually working on any): http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/animal-human-hybrids-banned-states/story?id=10831325

[Kroack]

Yeah, nobody was even thinking of working on hybrids. Not at all

[Setherick]

Yeah, nobody was even thinking of working on hybrids. Not at all

Depends on what you mean by hybrid compared to how the law defines them.

[Kroack]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacanti_mouse

Related: LOLZ

[robotkarateman]

Mathematical Model Shows What Future Flags Would Look Like as U.S. Grows

Maybe not direct story fodder, but playing around with the low numbers gave me some great inspiration for sci-fi flags, coalitions, and insignias.

[Setherick]

And you thought your shoes were old: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/09/tech/main6565327.shtml

[Setherick]

Meet the dark pulse laser: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609171804.htm

[robotkarateman]

Meet the dark pulse laser

That's some Justice League shit right there.

[clockworkjoe]

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/modeling-enemy.html

Use a model of a fortress you've captured to show badass you are by parading around a city with it.


These triumphant returning soldiers would sometimes "carry models of forts captured by the victorious army," she explains. "Enthusiastic accounts of the procession held these models to be so accurate that the places were 'easily recognizable' to the participants in the various battles." It was about "the success of display no less than the display of success," she quips.

Next New World module will have a triumph as a magic item

[Bronnen]

Why use weapons when you can use... PUPPIES!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37710921/ns/world_news-weird_news

[Boyos]

Why use weapons when you can use... PUPPIES!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37710921/ns/world_news-weird_news

... Puppies! oh and a bulldozer, but the puppies is what pissed them off!