Forum Overview :: Article Submissions :: This counting words in paragraphs thing is pure gold!

[quote name="Jhoh Cable o_O"]Buy stock in it because it'll never go away and clearly stands up to repeated use, especially where you can just skip the whole "reading" thing and say "that paragraph appears to be around 300 words." The only missing step here is you getting promoted to mod on the something awful boards so you can ban people who write paragraphs that are too long. Or become a premiere wikipedia member so you can revert or mark paragraphs that are too long (also do they cite sources? SOMEONE DO SOMETHING). It's kind of hard to see, but those are my squadron's two dropships in the distance, surrounded by my squadmates. The interesting thing to note here is that the only weapon HQ decided to give me is the one pictured in the upper right corner of the screenshot. That's right - confronted with the prospect of having to repel an alien invasion, the best plan Space Command could dream up was to send me down with a knife. Granted, it's one of those larger Rambo-style knives that you can get in the martial arts store at the mall - along with a ninja outfit that actually has the word "ninja" written on it - but that didn't make me or especially Chet feel any better about our side's chances of winning the war. To make matters worse, we later discovered that most of the other soldiers had guns, which opens up the whole issue of who knows who, and, on the other hand, favoritism. Maybe it's all part of some complex political subplot. We never found out. When faced with insurmountable odds, we take our cue from the black people in Bowery Boys haunted house comedies when they're faced with spooks - we scream "ooooooooooooooooooo" then run the other way. So that was that for that game.[/quote]