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I wanna say it's "a unique". "An unique" sounds really awkward to say out loud. I always say if you're not sure go with whatever sounds less awkward instead of what your teacher told you was the rule in first grade, because English is a half-assed mishmash of a language anyway and any given rule is broken more than it's followed.
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It doesn't take a literary genius (or a go one) to figure out the Monster in the Dark will turn out to be a good guy and help the heroes in the end. Heck he already just saved them from being wiped by Xykon.
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Dolash posted:It doesn't take a literary genius (or a go one) to figure out the Monster in the Dark will turn out to be a good guy and help the heroes in the end. Heck he already just saved them from being wiped by Xykon. Yes, this seems a given - the real poser is how Rich will make that well-worn trope interesting (as I trust he will), because so far it's looking too on-the-nose for him.
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Earnestly posted:Edit: drat, is it a or an unique? I think it depends on whether you're British or American. (Known fact: These are the only two types of people in the world. Just ask any English speaker.) My prediction for the strip is that Jenny from Greysky City is going to reveal that she's carrying Belkar's child. From there, the strip will take a soap-operatic turn: Nale will somehow be alive but have amnesia, and be mistaken for Elan yet again. Belkar will reveal that he's had a terminal disease all this time, the only symptom of which is a cough, and Roy will turn out to be Haley's real father. When they reach the north, they'll find that Xykon has been mysteriously shot by an unknown assassin. ...I know that's unlikely. I was just thinking about Belkar's interlude with Jenny and wondered if he'd knocked her up.
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My prediction is it will turn out Xykon was a 1HD normal skeleton the entire time, followed and controlled by an invisible stalker with lots of levels of wizard.
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TheAceOfLungs posted:...I know that's unlikely. The Order of the Stick: ...I know that's unlikely
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Dr. Buttass posted:I wanna say it's "a unique". "An unique" sounds really awkward to say out loud. I always say if you're not sure go with whatever sounds less awkward instead of what your teacher told you was the rule in first grade, because English is a half-assed mishmash of a language anyway and any given rule is broken more than it's followed. The rule of thumb is you go by phonetic or you'll sound like an rear end, and phonetic y is not a vowel in this case.
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TheAceOfLungs posted:...I know that's unlikely. I was just thinking about Belkar's interlude with Jenny and wondered if he'd knocked her up. Half-Halfling? Quarterling? 
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Jan 31, 2014 05:24
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jng2058 posted:Half-Halfling? Quarterling? Smidgen?
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jng2058 posted:Half-Halfling? Quarterling? The terrible secret origin of Kender.
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Cabbit posted:The terrible secret origin of Kender. Kender are straight up halflings with a different default personality, though. It's like if the entire race was Peregrin Took on cocaine.
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Jan 31, 2014 13:03
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Ursine Asylum posted:The rule of thumb is you go by phonetic or you'll sound like an rear end, and phonetic y is not a vowel in this case. It's not a rule of thumb, it's the actual rule. You don't say an union or an youngster or a hour, either. jng2058 posted:Half-Halfling? Quarterling? Three-quartersling.
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Lurdiak posted:Kender are straight up halflings with a different default personality, though. It's like if the entire race was Peregrin Took on cocaine. Cocaine would also explain why they're skinnier than hobbit-halflings.
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And a bunch of thieving bastards with the attention span of a parakeet.
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quote:Three-quartersling Exercise: Let H be the set of real numbers r such that an r-ling could possibly belong to a human/halfling lineage. Prove that H: 1. Has cardinality aleph-null 2. Has zero measure 3. Is dense in the interval [0.5,1]
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Jan 31, 2014 13:49
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Half halfling half gnome titan, the gnomeling. Hackmaster 4th edition represent.
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Best halfling races were (of course) from Progress Quest: the Half Halfling and the Double Hobbit.
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Triple Elation posted:Exercise: Let H be the set of real numbers r such that an r-ling could possibly belong to a human/halfling lineage. Prove that H:
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PFlats posted:There's a bean machine joke in here somewhere, but damned if I can find it. That's extra credit.
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It is neither "a unique" or "an unique", it's "the unique" or it isn't actually unique in the first place.
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Umbra Dubium posted:It is neither "a unique" or "an unique", it's "the unique" or it isn't actually unique in the first place. Are you really saying that the sentence should have read, "Wow, what the unique plot twist!"? Anyways, there can be more than one unique member of a category. For instance, the world's ugliest dog and world's largest dog are both unique dogs. Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 31, 2014 |
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Umbra Dubium posted:It is neither "a unique" or "an unique", it's "the unique" or it isn't actually unique in the first place. Somehow I don't think "Wow, what the unique plot twist!" would work. There is not only one unique plot twist in existence.
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Umbra Dubium posted:It is neither "a unique" or "an unique", it's "the unique" or it isn't actually unique in the first place.  Regardless, you are a unique individual.
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prefect posted:Best halfling races were (of course) from Progress Quest: the Half Halfling and the Double Hobbit. I liked to imagine that a Double Hobbit is one Hobbit standing on another Hobbit's shoulders.
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The Half & Halfling, which qualifies for all Skim Hobbit feats.
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fallingdownjoe posted:I'm actually a little disappointed by that: it would have been a stunning callback. But it's still a really nice little touch all the same. He should do it like Andrew Hussie, replace the original srip and pretend it was always like that.
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Sefer posted:Somehow I don't think "Wow, what the unique plot twist!" would work. There is not only one unique plot twist in existence. Why are you guys getting so cranky? The twist was pretty unique. I mean, it wasn't the uniquest, but it was uniquer than some plot twists I've seen before.
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Lurdiak posted:Kender are straight up halflings with a different default personality, though. It's like if the entire race was Peregrin Took on cocaine. Tasslehoff I think straight up was my favorite character in the entire franchise next to Commander Kang. Something about a race of people whose default personality is unintentional Troll while also generally being badass, largely hated and loathed everywhere they go and they get by with a knife and a glorified slingshot-staff thing.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Anyways, there can be more than one unique member of a category. For instance, the world's ugliest dog and world's largest dog are both unique dogs. Not if they're both YOUR MOM! Who really is a lovely, unique person, and you should feel blessed to have her.
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Colonel Cool posted:What the heck is going on in this thread? Gee, I hope Rich is ok...
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Colonel Cool posted:What the heck is going on in this thread? The unique post.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Tasslehoff I think straight up was my favorite character in the entire franchise next to Commander Kang. Something about a race of people whose default personality is unintentional Troll while also generally being badass, largely hated and loathed everywhere they go and they get by with a knife and a glorified slingshot-staff thing. Spoken like someone who hasn't had to deal with a kender PC
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This reminds me of one person I played with who set out to prove that the only thing worse than hearing the party kender say "I'm booooooooooooored!" is hearing him/her say "I'm hooooooooooooooorny!" I mean... gosh, I hope Rich's computer is okay.
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Eifert Posting posted:Some people take games awful goddamn serious. Yeah, I mean whoever wrote that book churned out like five columns of text for "Hobbits, but with ADD".
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That's a post from /tg/ alright. All it's missing is the racial slurs.
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