I'd be an exponent, er, proponent of a Taylor-Maclaurin version, but despite the geometry, it'd be highly derivative.

Japanese pi is a copy of American pi, but perfected. Don't tell Don McLean.

I'm holding out for the 3.14 series. Kind of over-rounded, but has the most internal space for the amount of surface. Not too bad for drag, either. Most cars that come close to what I'd like have too many triangle shapes, and shapes with too many facets just aren't appealing.

Wow. I'd seen a clip of Martha and the Vandellas on one of the music shows, but this is on a whole other level.

I refuse to CP a '78 BargeCar convertible in black. Ever. What're ya gonna do, get a V6 Mustang at that price, or this?

I'm planning to do an interesting spin on that, actually. Players can be any alignment they want (4e), but will actually be magically bound to one another in such a way that a permanent death unresolved to anyone will lead to death for all. Also, the player background will lean "unaligned", with the players being…

Yep. I've run DMPC helper characters in exactly this way in both good and evil games, and sometimes they get killed or excised for excessive creepiness. Fortunately, I usually create them to fill low-level gaps in such a way that they are made redundant enough for the party to drop. (I don't plot-armor helpers at all,…

I don't stress alignment when I run a game, but I do let it come up naturally. It also doesn't hurt for there to be a bigger picture: forces of abject good and abject evil in battle. However, if a character represents as actually being attached to those things in a real way (LG Paladin, etc.), I will expect it of…

LE is probably more likely to think they're in the right based on high-mindedness, NE in the right based on feeling or personal reasons. The "own code of conduct" rule as a base to establish lawfulness outside of local law is useful at times, but can't stand on its own: it absolutely *must* have some abstract for…

I'd agree that "keeping things in balance constantly" and "I refuse to take any sides ever" are bad for party consistency. The chief problem being that they're both intellectually lazy but require a lot of work to maintain. It's okay for NPCs to be intellectually lazy in that respect, but those facets of "neutral"…

Brilleous? Hidiant? Velostrous?

"2006 Aveo" seems oddly specific, but at the same time, I'm not sure I want to find out why...

I, for one, can't believe it's not butter.

I see your point re: unaligned/neutral, but people insisting on active alignment to neutral were mostly people not paying attention to guidelines and descriptive text. Neutral in religious pantheons and elsewhere *can* mean dedication to neutrality/balance as a concept (f'ing Druids, mechanus/planar law things), but…

O'Rourke kicks ass. Haven't read that book, though.

Center console? I think I know...

Orange you glad I didn't say Maserati?

Not really. That orange seems to highlight a lot more yellow than red in the bright spots. Lots of seed corn out there not too different from, say, the A-pillar reflection.

I had an '82 pickup in diesel with 242k miles I sold to paint another car. I still miss it.

I had a friend with, I think, a ca. '08 Camry who absolutely despised it. Not purely because of beigeness, but because of the egregiousness of wallow in its underpinnings, a margin of unreliability, and the step beyond yesterday's beige to bloated sterility. A beige car can be un-soulsucking. The current Camry, at…