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Darius099 posted:So I have an encounter for my fantasy game that I want to run, where a famous researcher bard is trying to reconstruct the true happenings of an ancient battle/siege. He has commissioned a powerful spell that will allow him to look through a specially prepared lens and see what the things/places on the other side looked like in the distant past. I wanted to set this up as a fun investigative scene and use props for it but I don't quite know if what I want exists. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tech_Spec#Generation_1 The decoders are the first thing that came to mind.
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I'm just going to speak up in favor of "cardboard sheet with a hole cut into it".
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Sep 27, 2014 18:36
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RPZip posted:I'm just going to speak up in favor of "cardboard sheet with a hole cut into it". I was thinking the same thing. Just a sheet with a hole cut in it that you move over the map so it restricts you to seeing only a piece at a time. Also keeps you from seeing the Jackson Pollock black light motif.
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Sep 27, 2014 18:41
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LongDarkNight posted:http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tech_Spec#Generation_1 Yeah this is what I was thinking. With access to a color printer it wouldn't be hard to do. You print your image in blue, and then print a red grid over it. Looking through a red filter will reveal the blue image.
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Sep 27, 2014 23:01
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Is it coming after Exalted 3e or far west? It's 95% completed. At worst, I figure I'm no more than a week to 10 days behind schedule. Expect it in a couple weeks, when I'm done adding some sexy ghosts.
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Sep 28, 2014 01:49
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Ettin posted:It's 95% completed. At worst, I figure I'm no more than a week to 10 days behind schedule. Expect it in a couple weeks, when I'm done adding some sexy ghosts. Its what I've always wanted out of a Fate game: spooky, sexy skeletons.
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Sep 28, 2014 01:52
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Ettin posted:It's 95% completed. At worst, I figure I'm no more than a week to 10 days behind schedule. Expect it in a couple weeks, when I'm done adding some sexy ghosts. Are they shirtless bishie ghosts? Does the ectoplasm make them sparkle?
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Sep 28, 2014 01:53
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Ettin posted:It's 95% completed. At worst, I figure I'm no more than a week to 10 days behind schedule. Expect it in a couple weeks, when I'm done adding some sexy ghosts. Hell yes, good to see you aren't backpedaling about sex ghost controversy like those pussies on Ex3.
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Sep 28, 2014 01:57
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Hell yes, good to see you aren't backpedaling about sex ghost controversy like those pussies on Ex3. Theres a huge difference between sexy ghosts and
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Sep 28, 2014 02:34
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Hell yes, good to see you aren't backpedaling about sex ghost controversy like those pussies on Ex3. It'd be cool if you could, like, not try to get the thread locked again with pointlessly inflammatory bullshit.
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Sep 28, 2014 02:39
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Gazetteer posted:It'd be cool if you could, like, not try to get the thread locked again with pointlessly inflammatory bullshit. I don't think that the last or maybe even the rest of the chat thread lockdowns were my fault. That being said, you are the one being inflammatory here and I ask you to cease that.
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Sep 28, 2014 02:49
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I don't know, I think the non-ghost is a lot sexier
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Sep 28, 2014 02:50
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:I don't think that the last or maybe even the rest of the chat thread lockdowns were my fault. That being said, you are the one being inflammatory here and I ask you to cease that. I don't actually think that the last lockdown was your fault either. I can see how I might have been unclear there -- all I meant by "locked again" was that it had just literally been locked two days ago.
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Darius099 posted:So I have an encounter for my fantasy game that I want to run, where a famous researcher bard is trying to reconstruct the true happenings of an ancient battle/siege. He has commissioned a powerful spell that will allow him to look through a specially prepared lens and see what the things/places on the other side looked like in the distant past. I wanted to set this up as a fun investigative scene and use props for it but I don't quite know if what I want exists. RPZip posted:I'm just going to speak up in favor of "cardboard sheet with a hole cut into it". A Catastrophe fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 03:32
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Don't make me start posting bishonen interventions again. I mean, I'm happy to do it, but I don't know if anybody else is.
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Sep 28, 2014 03:47
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Davin Valkri posted:Don't make me start posting bishonen interventions again. I mean, I'm happy to do it, but I don't know if anybody else is. I am.
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Davin Valkri posted:Don't make me start posting bishonen interventions again. I mean, I'm happy to do it, but I don't know if anybody else is. I am always down for hot boys.
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Sep 28, 2014 17:31
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hypothetically speaking, for a friend, what kind of shitposting would make you intervene
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Sep 28, 2014 18:12
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Davin Valkri posted:Don't make me start posting bishonen interventions again. I mean, I'm happy to do it, but I don't know if anybody else is. This is inflammatory to me
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Sep 28, 2014 20:32
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Forums Terrorist posted:I am. Zurui posted:I am always down for hot boys. Tollymain posted:hypothetically speaking, for a friend, what kind of shitposting would make you intervene Captain Foo posted:
Well, Davin, I guess you'll jut have to give the people what they want.
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Sep 28, 2014 20:45
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Looking forward to Ettin's Choice as he must decide between his inherent moe nature and the need to ban anime posting.
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Sep 28, 2014 20:55
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random science fiction genre-related thought; could an artificial society designed by people well-informed by sociology and psychology be workable in the long-term?
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Sep 28, 2014 20:56
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Tollymain posted:could society be workable in the long-term? There is no precedent for this I'm afraid.
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heh true hey, i'm trying to find the january contest thread, because i might actually have the ability to finish judging the stuff now, even though nobody probably cares anymore; but i can't find it. help?
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Tollymain posted:random science fiction genre-related thought; could an artificial society designed by people well-informed by sociology and psychology be workable in the long-term? What do you mean by artificial?
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DocBubonic posted:What do you mean by artificial? I'm guessing either very carefully selected at the inception of the society, or populated by AIs, vat-grown humans, or something similar. No idea about the second. For the first you need only look at the Utopian community movement of the 19th century to see how well that works. There's a reason "utopia" as it is normally spelled is a pun on "good place" (which would be "Eutopia") and "no place". And to counteract that seriousness, what sort of bishies do you all prefer? Still vaguely masculine or CLAMP-style full on makeup and noodle arms? 
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Davin Valkri posted:I'm guessing either very carefully selected at the inception of the society, or populated by AIs, vat-grown humans, or something similar. No idea about the second. For the first you need only look at the Utopian community movement of the 19th century to see how well that works. There's a reason "utopia" as it is normally spelled is a pun on "good place" (which would be "Eutopia") and "no place". CLAMP STYLE I WANT TO SEE CLAMP STYLE
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Davin Valkri posted:And to counteract that seriousness, what sort of bishies do you all prefer? Still vaguely masculine or CLAMP-style full on makeup and noodle arms? Why can't we have both?
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Sep 28, 2014 21:20
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just post some baras 
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DocBubonic posted:What do you mean by artificial? Basically I mean an intentional attempt to create a specifically defined society; the clones/AIs/carefully selected volunteers are optional, mainly the thought is "create a nondysfunctional society based on what we know of the sciences of psychology and sociology". I'd include economics but that's not really a science 
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Tollymain posted:Basically I mean an intentional attempt to create a specifically defined society; the clones/AIs/carefully selected volunteers are optional, mainly the thought is "create a nondysfunctional society based on what we know of the sciences of psychology and sociology". If the story is for a USA audience it's really hard to not make it seem dystopian when your book has explicit themes about the use of psychology and sociology in a planned society.
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I think I understand what you're trying to say but I'm not sure, please clarify 
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Sep 28, 2014 21:35
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Tollymain posted:just post some baras
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Tollymain posted:I think I understand what you're trying to say but I'm not sure, please clarify have you read 1984 by george r r orwell op
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i don't know if i'd call that a nondysfunctional society :v
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Tollymain posted:I think I understand what you're trying to say but I'm not sure, please clarify Just the cultural expectation of freedom = good, less freedom = worse, more freedom = better, psychologists = tricky little devils who will remove your free will with their jedi mind tricks. It's all very silly and based on a juvenile understanding of freedom and psychology, but it'll be really hard to break people past that.
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Jon Joe posted:Just the cultural expectation of freedom = good, less freedom = worse, more freedom = better, psychologists = tricky little devils who will remove your free will with their jedi mind tricks. Heh? I've never heard that sentiment outside of Scientology. Where's that from?
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Well, there's Plato's Republic if you don't mind the basis of your society revolving around a lie and the fact that no science went into it, just an old Greek dude going "This seems plausible."Davin Valkri posted:And to counteract that seriousness, what sort of bishies do you all prefer? Still vaguely masculine or CLAMP-style full on makeup and noodle arms? If they're in the style of Free!, then go for it. 
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Davin Valkri posted:Heh? I've never heard that sentiment outside of Scientology. Where's that from? Go ask your random American what they think about psychology/psychologists. You'll probably get a combo of freudian stereotypes, mindreaders, drug pushers, manipulators, and incompetent quacks. Bonus points if they've been to one and it didn't work for them that one time so it never works, except on all the other people in form of advertising because I'm smart and they're dumb  Oh my other favorite one is if you give them the psychological generalization of a study, they often go "but that doesn't apply to me!/my sister!/my dog! and is therefore wrong!!!"
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Jon Joe posted:Go ask your random American what they think about psychology/psychologists. You'll probably get a combo of freudian stereotypes, mindreaders, drug pushers, manipulators, and incompetent quacks. Bonus points if they've been to one and it didn't work for them that one time so it never works, except on all the other people in form of advertising because I'm smart and they're dumb How do you post on the internet from the middle of the last century? Americans, for a few decades now, are all too happy to eat up any sort of bullshit pop psychoanalysis that enters the public consciousness and are incredibly credulous when it comes to the curative powers of psychiatric medication. As a society, we are convinced a few sessions of therapy and the right prescription can solve any personal problems. The last American embarrassed by his trips to the therapist was Tony Soprano.
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