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Tiggum posted:D&D using 5'x5' squares/cubes for everything is dumb. That's too big. A human takes up a 5'x5' area of floorspace? How big are these humans? Are they walking around with their arms stretched out? A door is 5' wide? Have you ever seen a door? 1m (or 3', I guess, if you insist on American units) would be a much better size. If I remember correctly the one medium sized creature / 5 foot square is just in combat. Represent the amount of space that you take up when you're actively trying to swat things around you with a sword.
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Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress is a better X-Men story than any actual X-Men story.
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Tiggum posted:Just get some of your friends on board and play then - or play a better RPG because D&D is overly complicated and not very interesting. Or if your friends aren't interested, look up a game shop near where you live and go in there and ask if they run D&D games and if there's a group you can join. what is "friends"
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I'm gonna claim that the vast majority of adults, myself included, do not have friends they could talk into playing tabletop RPGs with them, and especially not consistently over and over again. That is the kind of thing you do when you are a kid. Old men work, drink booze, and eat rear end.
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doverhog posted:I'm gonna claim that the vast majority of adults, myself included, do not have friends they could talk into playing tabletop RPGs with them, and especially not consistently over and over again. my problem with them is taking them seriously. I got uninvited from one because I kept showing up hammered on steel reserve demanding to do logical things and they kept being like "you can't do that do we have to read the rules to you again" and yeah they loving did because the rules are boring let me cast a spell
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Jun 13, 2019 02:14
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yeah I eat rear end posted:my problem with them is taking them seriously. I got uninvited from one because I kept showing up hammered on steel reserve demanding to do logical things and they kept being like "you can't do that do we have to read the rules to you again" and yeah they loving did because the rules are boring let me cast a spell You disrespected the game and frankly they should've slapped you on your way out.
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Jun 13, 2019 02:16
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Don't care, it's a poo poo game. If it was a real game like risk i would have brought my A game
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D&D as adults can be fun but it depends 1000% on who you're playing with and what your attitude is. I've had some truly awful experiences finding random groups, but also some really great ones. The current trend in LA of having out-of-work actors livestream their sessions can die in a fire though, I don't know who enjoys watching that. This was cute though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3658C2y4LlA Colbert has insane RPG OG creds (like "Oh I used to watch the Beatles try out songs in Berlin, they were rubbish" levels of cred) and this was his first time playing a game since the 80s, and since it's only like 40 minutes there's very little fat. You can see how old-school Colbert is in his play too, being ultra-cautious to the point where the DM has to remind him that this is all a charity event and he's not gonna get ganked by some bullshit trap.
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Jun 13, 2019 02:21
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Do you bring it to the realest game of all, life?
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Jun 13, 2019 02:23
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you mean Colbert's script writer has insane RPG OG creds
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Matt Mercer does the voice of Mcree in overwatch and he's a cool dude (that's the DM in the vid).
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Jun 13, 2019 02:26
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yeah I eat rear end posted:you mean Colbert's script writer has insane RPG OG creds Nah homeboy is legit. He's joked about it for years and you can see in the vid he knows his poo poo. doverhog posted:Do you bring it to the realest game of all, life? yeah i eat rear end
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Jun 13, 2019 02:30
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Sports in which the players use some kind of tool are almost always worse than sports in which they don’t. Football and basketball are better than baseball and hockey but so are soccer, handball, volleyball, and maybe rugby. Tennis is cool though (and I would get more into hockey if it didn’t overlap so much with basketball season). I will not elaborate on this because i think it’s coincidental that my sports taste went that way but it’s a pattern!
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So you'd agree then MMA is the best sport?
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Jun 13, 2019 02:39
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doverhog posted:So you'd agree then MMA is the best sport? Combat sports are their own separate category of stuff that I don’t understand. Unless you count Battlebots.
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doverhog posted:So you'd agree then MMA is the best sport? I sure do! Edit: PHUO: People who complain about "real" mayo being labeled as such have no one but themselves to blame for buying Miracle Whip. Tubgoat has a new favorite as of 02:45 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Jun 13, 2019 02:42
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mind the walrus posted:Nah homeboy is legit. He's joked about it for years and you can see in the vid he knows his poo poo. All i see is a late night host reading off his teleprompter. Colbert is a fraud and I don't like him.
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Jun 13, 2019 02:44
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yeah I eat rear end posted:All i see is a late night host reading off his teleprompter. Colbert is a fraud and I don't like him. I get it. I don't like Fallon either. Henchman of Santa posted:Combat sports are their own separate category of stuff that I don’t understand. Unless you count Battlebots. In theory MMA is interesting but in practice it just reminds me how horrible actual fights are.
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Jun 13, 2019 02:49
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mind the walrus posted:I get it. I don't like Fallon either. Fallon is in another league. He'd even double over laughing slapping his desk at my own posts.
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Jun 13, 2019 02:51
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Jimmy Fallon? The only thing he should host is a parasite.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Colbert is a liberal and I don't like him. Gripweed posted:Jimmy Fallon? The only thing he should host is a parasite.
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Jun 13, 2019 02:53
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Please don't alter my incredibly well thought out words. I hate Colbert for a lot of reasons. That's not the one. I would like to shove his hipster frames up his rear end though.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Please don't alter my incredibly well thought out words. I hate Colbert for a lot of reasons. That's not the one. I would like to shove his hipster frames up his rear end though. After your whole "lefter than thou" schtick, Colbert's collaboration with the right-wing media isn't one of your issues with him?
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Jun 13, 2019 02:57
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Colbert is absolutely a showbiz phony, no arguments there, but the devil is in the details. All I'm saying is that when you're in the know about nerdy poo poo like Tolkein or D&D-- and that isn't gatekeeping or anything, anyone can learn it-- you can see lots of little details that a poser would either get wrong or not think to include at all, so he's either a masterful poser with a truly dedicated long-term writing staff or he's legit.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Combat sports are their own separate category of stuff that I don’t understand. Unless you count Battlebots. I've watched Battlebots and like half the teams bring bots that are not really intended to win, they have features that clearly don't work, like flame throwers of whatever. Spinning drums or disks are to battlebots what wrestling is to MMA.
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doverhog posted:I've watched Battlebots and like half the teams bring bots that are not really intended to win, they have features that clearly don't work, like flame throwers of whatever. Spinning drums or disks are to battlebots what wrestling is to MMA. The best robot, back in the old days, was the one that was super low to the ground and incredibly flat, its bottom inclined to its top like a wedge. It also had a hidden "arm" on its top that moved vertically. So basically, it could get literally underneath its opponents with all their dumb gimmicks, then flip them upside down and win the match.
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I liked the one that had pad locks on it that would spin around. I think the ramp-flippy bot beat it pretty quick though.
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It's like sci-fi novels where war robots iterate on designs to the point where they're incredibly lame-looking spheres or some poo poo playing 10-dimensional chess. The best battlebots are essentially pancakes with pneumatics.
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mind the walrus posted:It's like sci-fi novels where war robots iterate on designs to the point where they're incredibly lame-looking spheres or some poo poo playing 10-dimensional chess. The best battlebots are essentially pancakes with pneumatics. Pneumancakes. 
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The Mighty Moltres posted:The best robot, back in the old days, was the one that was super low to the ground and incredibly flat, its bottom inclined to its top like a wedge. Yes, well said. Flipper arms are wrestling, spinning drums are striking. Flame throwers are aikido.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:my problem with them is taking them seriously. I got uninvited from one because I kept showing up hammered on steel reserve demanding to do logical things and they kept being like "you can't do that do we have to read the rules to you again" and yeah they loving did because the rules are boring let me cast a spell I mean if you're just going to show up hammered and go out of your way to ruin everyone else's fun it sounds like the problem wasn't the game so much as it was you.
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mind the walrus posted:It's like sci-fi novels where war robots iterate on designs to the point where they're incredibly lame-looking spheres or some poo poo playing 10-dimensional chess. The best battlebots are essentially pancakes with pneumatics. I agree in the sense that as long battlebots are our slaves, we are safe from them. A sphere is not lame, nor would a robot capable of playing dimensional chess be. I just wish any AI that iterates on designs will be more like a Culture Mind, instead of Skynet. I'd prefer humanity as pets, rather than a collection of tenement graves.
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Gripweed posted:Jimmy Fallon? The only thing he should host is a parasite. Hi Mike, you hack fraud
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doverhog posted:I agree in the sense that as long battlebots are our slaves, we are safe from them. Well yeah we all want The Culture to be our preferred future, but I'm saying robot fights would be hideously boring to watch as an observer.
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Just do battlebots vs mma fighters. Baseball is merely the second worst sport, next to Nascar.
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Jun 13, 2019 18:55
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Faustian Bargain posted:Baseball is merely the second worst sport, next to Nascar. Have you seen cricket?
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Faustian Bargain posted:Just do battlebots vs mma fighters. The fighters would lose, obviously. You put meat and bone against a spinning metal blade, the flesh will lose. Force the bot to climb stairs first, and give the fighter a gun. We are in the last years in which we can say the robot would lose even then.
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I smell a new variant on "The Running Man!"
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christmas boots posted:I mean if you're just going to show up hammered and go out of your way to ruin everyone else's fun it sounds like the problem wasn't the game so much as it was you. a game where being sober and intelligent is a requirement isn't a fun game imho Tubgoat posted:After your whole "lefter than thou" schtick, Colbert's collaboration with the right-wing media isn't one of your issues with him? when did i have such a schtick? e: I mean i've drunk-posted itt about wanting to turn the world into the movie Equilibrium and such but I'm pretty sure i've never been so drunk to advocate for leftist ideals.
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