Quote from: Gene Weigel;637871I know this isn't directed at me but if I was to answer that I'd say I don't even know who he is.

Folks say the same about you.

Quote from: Sacrificial Lamb;637893Gene, I miss the days when you were actually coherent. Oh, and 2e rocks, suckah!

Ah those salad days, when you padded your games with 2E style easy hits for the players. Wait, you better tighten up that treasure chest! An iron piece might roll out! GASP!

Quote from: Gene Weigel;637947Ah those salad days, when you padded your games with 2E style easy hits for the players. Wait, you better tighten up that treasure chest! An iron piece might roll out! GASP!

Seriously, what the fuck are you talking about?  I don't mean this in irritated or angry way.  I'm seriously having a hard time trying to follow whatever it is you're trying to say.

What is a 'salad day'?  a "2e style easy hit"?  WTF does "tighted up that treasure chest" mean?

Quote from: Sacrosanct;637955Seriously, what the fuck are you talking about?  I don't mean this in irritated or angry way.  I'm seriously having a hard time trying to follow whatever it is you're trying to say.

What is a 'salad day'?  a "2e style easy hit"?  WTF does "tighted up that treasure chest" mean?

As someone who is having his first exposure to this fellow I have to say I too am completely lost.

I can make sense of Gene's Jive Talk, but I'm confused whether he is unaware of how generally incomprehensible he is, just doesn't care, or is being deliberately obtuse.

EDIT: I should say, I think I generally understand what Gene is attempting to communicate.

Ah good, I thought it was just me who didn't have a single clue what the hell this Gene guy was going on about.  Literally nothing he's posted has made a bit of sense to me...

Quote from: Gene Weigel;637947Ah those salad days, when you padded your games with 2E style easy hits for the players. Wait, you better tighten up that treasure chest! An iron piece might roll out! GASP!

Salad days means good times. Like halcyon.  

So...Good times when you made things easy but were stingy with treasure.

I think...

Quote from: Mistwell;637841You're jealous of JRT's mad analyzing skills.  Why do you hate JRT?

I am so full of hate.

Hate. Hate. Hate.

Especially at l33+ analysis skills.

HATE.

Quote from: The Butcher;637855OK, now I want my swashbuckling campaign to focus on Italian merchants vs. pirates of the Barbary Coast, who are led by a mysterious figure known only as the Black Ulema.

I'm in.

Quote from: One Horse Town;637968Salad days means good times. Like halcyon.  

So...Good times when you made things easy but were stingy with treasure.

I think...

That's my interpretation as well.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;637493Welcome back, _kent_.

Formally known as Will Graham, sock of Kent.

So a sock of a sock if you will.

Shit, the guy has so many socks, he could open a new branch of Primark (A nice UK joke for those interested).

Is there a Gene Weigel FAQ somewhere to explain him to those of us who prefer not to spend ages decoding his babbling?

Quote from: Zevious Zoquis;637965Ah good, I thought it was just me who didn't have a single clue what the hell this Gene guy was going on about.  Literally nothing he's posted has made a bit of sense to me...

Me either.

My theory was either someone writing in another language and using Babelfish to translate into English, or starting with English and doing the "to X language and back to English" thing...

Those, or the drugs.

Yup. I think he's on the drugs.

Quote from: Warthur;637991Is there a Gene Weigel FAQ somewhere to explain him to those of us who prefer not to spend ages decoding his babbling?

One of those "I was there way back when it began man" guys. Used to try and pass himself off as some sort of TSR insider until he was called out & proven more or less a fraud by an actual TSR employee.

I've seen him post in a few places now and have found most of his posts unfathomable to the point I usually just skip them now.

I hear that Gene played in a wicked game of Braunstein at Woodstock...