So what do you do in the evening, then?

[davywavy]

In the comments to my post the other day, I mentioned that I don't own a TV. This is unusual - figures from the TV licensing people suggest that 99.5% of households in the country have a telly in them and such is the ubiquity of the gogglebox that the Joseph Rountree Foundation uses non-ownership of one as an indicator of poverty (this surprises me, as the people I know who don't own a TV tend to be both better educated and in better jobs than the average).
The are distinct advantages to not owning a TV. I don't run the risk of wasting my time watching witless crap like Eastenders, X-Factor, Big Brother or the new Doctor Who, and anything decent like Life on Mars I can pick up DVDs of at Cash Converters six months after they come out.
What was interesting about my comment was that it pulled out a number of other people on my friends list who don't own TV's. According to the above statistic, only one person in every 200 should be telly-less, and so I should only have one person reading me who doesn't as opposed to several which seems to be the case.

So, to satisfy my curiosity:

[Poll #1070038]

Comments

Deconstructing Firefly

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Mal Reynolds: 7th Level fighter/theif, party leader.
Jayne: 5th level 1/2-orc fighter.
Book: 4th level cleric
Inara: 4th level illusionist, played by a male gamer.
River Tam: 21st level Ninja/Psionicist, played by the DM's 17-stone girlfriend.

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

My eyes glazed over when I read 'Fi'

I really didn't understand the appeal of Fir-zzzzzz when it was on. Saw the pilot and thought it looked a lot like Crapylon 5, except without G'kar.

Inara: 4th level illusionist, played by a male gamer.

This is true....... :(

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[(Anonymous)]

Jayne is the only character with any appeal, it must be said. I found the cleric particularly unappealing. And the chubby emo cow playing the uber psycho ninja? No wonder the game folded.

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

She always whined when she didn't understand an element of the rules and it worked against her. Or if the Doritos and sour cream dip ran out.

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[(Anonymous)]

In 3 words:

Size 20 thong.

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

It has to be hot pink.

Let's hear it for the BBWs.

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[(Anonymous)]

There is no such thing.

Skimpy underwear is a privelige not a right. In much the same way as it's funny to put people who can't drive in high performance vehicles, perhaps with a couple of pints inside them, and let them loose on the general public, fat gurls in tight or skimpy clothing are all very amusing until an innocent bystander gets crushed to death.

Best observed from a distance.

Through a scope.

"I say Carruthers, pass up the Holland & Holland would you? There's a particularly grotesque specimen for the billiard room wall!"

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

One of the best things I've ever seen on my ghetto ass council estate was a heavily overweight woman with orange-blonde hair in cycling shorts and a pink t-shirt that said 'PRINCESS' stumbling around with a bottle of fortified wine.

She was SEXY.

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[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Even better than a bunch of geeks on LJ making fun of overweight people? Not sure what is sadder, actually.

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[(Anonymous)]

To quote the unforgettable Independent review of a TV programme about male impotence, it's "ribald entertainment for the unafflicted."

H

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

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[(Anonymous)]

What broke the link between normal people & what used to be called 'disadvantaged' so that instead of our pity these people now inspire our contempt, and that instead of wanting to help them I now just want to bulldoze them into a landfill?

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Sorry - Played by a male gamer who has never had a girlfriend.

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[(Anonymous)]

I recall *several people* having characters like that. But no, teh ref wouldn't put up with the ECL14 difference if he wasn't getting something out of the deal, and just how he sold it to the rest of the players is beyond me. Did you read the KODT article on overpowered girlfriend pcs? I have it pdf'd if you want a copy.

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I believe I read that and thought "Boy, I can hear my brother nodding from here."

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[(Anonymous)]

So me scanning it & hording it for 7 years for this particular moment doesn't horify you? I wasted my time then.

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You expect me to be horrified by the realisation that you're obsessive? Perhaps I was, twenty years ago.

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Or been mildly aware of the concept of female beyond White Wolf sketches?

Ooops - got one wrong:

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Book: 5th level Assassin/cleric, played by the player who thinks that refusing to talk about his character's mysterious, 30 pages of closely-typed background makes him interesting.

Re: Ooops - got one wrong:

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Something happened 50 years ago that ruined his perception of women and made him a misanthrope. Don't you want to know what that was?! Don't you?!

Re: Ooops - got one wrong:

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

If you do want to know what it was, you'll have to interact with him daily for six months before he'll tell you.
I decided that learning the sekrit wasn't worth having him on my friends list for.

Re: Ooops - got one wrong:

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

More importantly though, would he buy me gin?

Re: Ooops - got one wrong:

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I buy you gin, and I've never once tred to tell you about my kewl Hobbit Sorceror.

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[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Dear gods! I'm not alone.

I just thought it was a complete re-run of Buffy, with some added pseudo-western slang thrown in for good measure. River was Buffy, thus continuing Joss Whedon's strange conviction that if you want a serious combatent, teach a 5'2" tall, 6 stone girl kung fu. Then nothing will stand in her way.

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you. We can fend off the angry nerd brigade together.