Jokes and Riddles Centre - Page 99

Randallw · #**981** March 19th, 2005, 11:48 PM

Well a quick Google tells me a Koan is the type of story that that is ie. puzzling. It is a joke that Zen stories make no sense (unless I guess you are enlightened

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Puke · #**982** March 20th, 2005, 05:18 AM

and it rhymes with "cone" which is the hollow conical cookie thing that you put scoops of ice cream on.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #**983** March 21st, 2005, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Randallw said:
Well a quick Google tells me a Koan is the type of story that that is ie. puzzling. It is a joke that Zen stories make no sense (unless I guess you are enlightened

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Where "Enlightened" is that you walk around carrying lots and lots of light bulbs with you? or am I missing something here?

narf poit chez BOOM · #**984** March 21st, 2005, 04:07 PM

Speaks for itself, I think: http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/do...ewcomic&id=996

Alneyan · #**985** March 21st, 2005, 04:17 PM

The players mentioned in that cartoon sure are silly. If you have the muscle and the wits to pull that sort of scheme off, it would be so much better to enslave the whole world rather than destroy it. I mean, why destroy your future playthings?

narf poit chez BOOM · #**986** March 21st, 2005, 05:11 PM

Um...I don't think they have wits or muscle...Just the brute, destructive force of stupidity...

Kamog · #**987** March 22nd, 2005, 04:06 AM

You cannot take over the world in Call of Cthulhu. Even when you win, you don't win, you only delay the inevitable. There are only two possible ways your character will end up: (1) dead, or (2) permanently and completely insane. With a lot of work and some luck you can gain all sorts of powerful magic and mystical knowledge, but you go insane in the process. Once you lose too much SAN, your character is lost.

Call of Cthulhu is an unusual game in that it really doesn't pay to make a strong fighter-type character. You can be the toughest guy in the world and have tons of heavy weapons, and it's completely useless. The monsters and aliens are about a billion times more powerful and more intelligent than humans, and many of them cannot be hurt by physical means. Humans are only sane because they don't know the truth. It'a a rather hopeless situation you are in in that game.

narf poit chez BOOM · #**988** March 22nd, 2005, 04:20 AM

Yes. That's not the funny part. The funny part is that they blew up the world in a game called 'bunnies and burrows'.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #**989** March 22nd, 2005, 05:16 AM

.....and who is this "Cthulhu" persona anyway?

Randallw · #**990** March 22nd, 2005, 05:31 AM

I'm going to assume you're being serious. Excuse me that my Elder knowledge isn't complete. Cthulhu (pronounced shoo-thool-hu by the way) is one of the Elder Gods along with The Goat of a thousand young and that which man was not meant to know. basically something like 5 Billion years ago a race of ancient aliens colonised the Earth. When I say aliens I don't mean greys or anthromorphic creatures. Think something like 100 tentacles and even more eyes. I'm not sure, but Cthulhu is about 1 kilometer high (then again I might be wrong) and I once read of a game session where someone tried to attack it the reponse being "What, are you kidding. It's Cthulhu. He doesn't even have a hit point score", as it would be impossible to harm him. The writer (whose name I cannot at this time recall) must have been insane and continually on mind altering drugs, or at least thats what it appears like.

Edit: doh!. Why the heck am I showing my lack of knowledge by trying unsuccesfully to explain when I can link to info

http://www.cthulhu.org/cthulhu/