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Your Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score
Category	Your Score	Average
Hacklust	74.53% Enjoys the occasional head-lopping	52.6%
Sensitive Roleplaying	67.09% Will talk after everyone important's been killed	52.5%
GM Experience	71.01% Ran a module once or twice	67.8%
Systems Knowledge	94.63% Played in a couple of campaigns	89.5%
Livin' La Vida Dorka	86.21% Nobody at work would ever suspect	61.3%
You are 79.68% pure Average Score: 67.4%
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Meetings

Meetings are a good way to use up a morning. I went straight from home to see a client, and only got into the office at lunch time. I thoroughly approve of that idea. The less time I have to spend here, bored out of my mind, the better. The client I went to see is one of the cooler ones. He knows what he's doing and he knows that we know what we're doing, and he just sort of lets us get on with it. He's also not stingy with his cash. You wouldn't believe the number of companies out there who are still of the opinion that it should be possible to get a professional website for less than a grand. Thing is, they think nothing of handing over a shitload of money for a one page advert, or a crappy printed brochure.

The problem I have now is that I've got to schedule my time between this new project and the myriad other ones I'm already doing. Joy.

Are there any jobs where you can just sit in a little office and code all day without actually having to come into contact with customers or cow-orkers at all? That would be cool. I could cope with that. I suspect that's not how it would work though, unfortunately. I work with computers because I don't like people, why does no one understand that? It's ok when they're moderately normal, or at least like-minded, but all too often they're just morons. I don't know how that works. There are loads of normal people on here (well, there are loads of weirdos as well, but they're generally quite nice too), why aren't there normal people out here in the real world? Why are they all irritating gobshites?

Ooh! My T shirt order has been processed! w00t! I hope they come out well. The guy sent me an email saying my womble wasn't big enough (cheeky bastard), so I sent him a bigger one. I don't think 2 custom printed T-shirts for £30 is too bad really.

Geeks with dice

The roleplaying thingummyjig earlier has made me nostalgic. I wanna do an RPG! Now! Wiv superheroes and everyfink. I used to really enjoy that.

Palladium RPGs were my thing (simply because that was what I was introduced to first, well, that and Fighting Fantasy). I did Ninjas and Superspies and my mate did Heroes Unlimited and it was fucking excellent. I still remember all of my characters fondly. I remember drawing them all in proper pen and ink on an A3 pad. Some were a little lame, but one of them was fantastic. He was called Arachno, and he was, predictably, Spiderman-esque. I did roll all his stats and powers though, so it's not like I picked it myself. He didn't act like Spid. He was more like Wolverine. Hard as fuck. He had a black and silver costume, with a hood and a mirrored mask to conceal his disfigured face. He beat the crap out of my mate's favourite villain too. He thought this guy was unkillable, he actually thought he'd made him too hard. Silly boy.

/me wonders briefly if there are any muds, moos or mushes around dedicated to Heroes Unlimited. That would be cool...