Friday is the day to start your serious GAMING!

[undercovergeek]

I dare anyone to come in here now and tell us how The Doors sucked. Go ahead.

Jim Morrison is an overrated drunken putz and the band decided that 'rampant keyboard noodling' was a replacement for 'good music'. They were wrong.

hooray!!!

"By the second album it became apparent to quick listeners that the Doors were limited, that Morrison's vision, if we ever took it seriously in the first place, was usually morbid in the most obvious possible way, and thus cheap, and that the whole nightmare could translate into the parody it ultimately became so easily that, well. . .but when he shot and hit it straight and deep and full force:

People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you are down

"...You knew he felt the chill and lived it and that was perhaps the saddest part, that he recognized his own clown within too late to turn the tide, so like a true asshole and ultimate relic of his time he picked up the Lizard King cartoon and wore it like a bib to keep the drunkdrool from rolling down to stain his shirt and burn a hole through to his heart, absurd, absurd, as the tales proliferated and Jim Morrison, who symbolized the ultimate possibilities and terrors seething at the farthest shores of sexual adventure to an entire generation, just got drunker and fat and fatter and pretty soon the word was out all down the line and high school kids were scornful of the Doors."

[Gusington]

^Who are you quoting?

I still love The Doors so you can both proceed to suck it.

[undercovergeek]

its either Rolling Stone magazine or my Dad, i cant remember which

i love your hairy assed little self but its a no on the Jim front im afraid

[Staggerwing]

high school kids were scornful of the Doors."

Not if you were in my High School in the latter half of 70's and didn't like Southern Rock.

[Boggit]

Jim Morrison could knock out some pretty good Blues when he chose to. Check out this one made with John Lee Hooker (outstanding in his own right). :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYgLr2_o0Ck&feature=related

[Huw the Poo]

"By the second album it became apparent to quick listeners that the Doors were limited, that Morrison's vision, if we ever took it seriously in the first place, was usually morbid in the most obvious possible way, and thus cheap, and that the whole nightmare could translate into the parody it ultimately became so easily that, well. . .but when he shot and hit it straight and deep and full force:

People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you are down

"...You knew he felt the chill and lived it and that was perhaps the saddest part, that he recognized his own clown within too late to turn the tide, so like a true asshole and ultimate relic of his time he picked up the Lizard King cartoon and wore it like a bib to keep the drunkdrool from rolling down to stain his shirt and burn a hole through to his heart, absurd, absurd, as the tales proliferated and Jim Morrison, who symbolized the ultimate possibilities and terrors seething at the farthest shores of sexual adventure to an entire generation, just got drunker and fat and fatter and pretty soon the word was out all down the line and high school kids were scornful of the Doors."

Jesus christ, just tell us whether the new album is any good.  Shit like this is the reason I stopped reading Q magazine, who are even further up their own arse.

[undercovergeek]

im no expert, but i reckon from the subtext of the piece, the answer is no Huw

[Nefaro]

I have had to put my EUIV game aside for the moment to take care of some work.  It was all going quite well until I declared war on Muscovy.  I am Lithuania.  I had numbers and a full war chest and max manpower reserves.  It's four years in and I have achieved my war goal, but, my ally, Novgorod, brought my War Score down in the -40's and then made a seperate peace.  In the meantime, Sweden has joined Muscovy in their war with me and I am bankrupt, with two loans out, no manpower and three armies on my soil, sieging MY territory.

Always your damned allies screwing things up.

I try to keep as few as possible, but it's never few enough.  Yet you gotta pick up at least one so your covetous neighbors, who have allies, will think twice.  Quandary.

[MetalDog]

I started over.  I couldn't figure out how to end the war with Muscovy and if taking over all my territory was the way to do it, I wasn't going to sit there and watch it.  I gained a CB against Crimea in my new game.  Already allied with Poland and seeing that the Crimea was at war with the Golden Horde, I declared war.  I had four provinces sieged and occupied, won several battles, enough for a ticking warscore and  then Crimea allied with the Ottomans.  The best I was able to get was a White Peace as the Bashi-Bazouks sieged Moldavia and broke in to my undefended interior.

[Huw the Poo]

im no expert, but i reckon from the subtext of the piece, the answer is no Huw

Precisely my point...

[Toonces]

I've been doing pure CK2 this weekend.  There are some nuances of the game that completely elude me, though. 

[Tuna]

Continued PBEM PON with SDR and UCG.

Couple of FSX flights

Some AOW III

and CMBN (all the battlefront posts gave me an itch!)

[KyzBP]

^Who are you quoting?

I still love The Doors so you can both proceed to suck it.

+1

[Gusington]

^Yes. YES! But whatever - if peeps don't like'em - I can't make'em. Subjective arguments like this are ridiculous.

[undercovergeek]

I've been doing pure CK2 this weekend.  There are some nuances of the game that completely elude me, though.

which ones Toonces