It is the time of year when I mention the huge sale on my holiday cards, honey badger prints, mugs, shirts, etc! http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/1438418.html
so...anyone taken the issues with inspiration back up now that the 5e DMG is out? I just picked up the bookset myself, but didn't pay that much attention to the inspiration rules save for noting the option for the GM to abstain from the mechanic, letting he players handle t
The projection gripe is fair, though these are commonly linked together with standard displays/projectors.
See: various police procedurals screened on CBS which actually use these.
@BESW It's using the image sensors distributed all across the screen, which I think is what the original used too. This allows them to use fiducials, which imo are the ideal way to track known objects over a surface.
Also would work well for rolling dice on the table.
hrm -- I'm thinking about omitting the background page on the character sheets for the 5e 1shot I'm putting together -- you think that makes sense, or should I leave it in "just in case"?
WoW greatly expanded the MMO market, so even if it made the percentage of bad MMOs higher, it's unlikely that it made there be less creative MMO projects overall.
I'd also argue that there wasn't much creativity going on before WoW either. There was basically just Everquest with the same dominance but over a smaller market.
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Nothing, just bored mainly. My wife is staying the night at a family members house for a birthday party, so I'm finding ways to distract myself from doing real work
I mean, I could weigh in with "The speed at which a trebuchet projects objects is not survivable, we're talking fly on a windscreen here", but true as it might be it has nothing to do with 4e
and the bottom 3 answers are effectively on that level of quality (or lack thereof)
Also talks about the best act ever: The Bird Poop Island Act.
Anyways, if you liked it, I'd highly recommend watching some of his other stuff. He does a similar overview of the UK and I think the Netherlands as well.
The GB one is pretty great too. "Even though England in particular likes to pretend that it's an island in the mid-atlantic rather than 50 kilometers off the coast of France."
My daughter got a world map for a gift and I noticed that Haiti is apparently right off the US coast, whereas I always thought it was in the Pacific somewhere. Made me feel like a complete idiot (probably rightly so).
Yep, right next to Cuba. Also: Not actually an island, but rather one half of one.
From the netherlands video: "So despite being separated by Belgium on the European Map, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the French Republic share a border on the other side of the world on an island so nice they named it thrice."
@KyleS. It's okay, I went to college in the mainland US and met people who thought Guam was: in the Middle East; off the coast of Peru; near Cuba; and not an English-speaking locale.
@AgentPaper Yeah but each civ has a couple page article describing its history and other fun stuff. And there are nifty historical scenarios you can play through. Also just knowing the 30-40 biggest cities of each civilization is cool.
I suppose. But in EU4 you play as the actual countries on an actual world map fighting over actual pieces of land, so you tend to learn a lot more accurate stuff.
All these sales. I get so indecisive over purchase decisions that I never buy anything at all in the end... or else I just impulse buy. It's one or the other.
Bah. I can spend a little more (but still less than I'm paying now) to go to a larger RAM package for my Minecraft server, or I can go really cheap for the same size. I don't need more RAM (I have more than enough already), but it's a really good deal, and going for the latter will only be a total of $15 saved per year. Which is better than nothing, but... hmm.
No room for a PC, so I'm stuck buying a laptop, not building a PC. :B I have a pretty good idea, and I had almost decided finally, but I lost the model number.
I want one that handles modern games, and what I'd really like I'm not gonna get for under $1000, sadly. Except Lenovo, which I will never buy again (let's just say I've had problems with this current one).
This one, in addition to freezing issues that it's had since I got it which have lasted through every kind of diagnosis attempt and a couple of formats, has overheated consistently (turned its cooling paste to dust) and literally began to fall apart, all this with very gentle usage.
What I'm looking at is an i7 processor, at least an Nvidia GTX 850M graphics card (860 would be nicer), and it would be super nice if the graphics were upgradeable. I found a Clevo like that, but I can't remember which, for $1100 or so.
@AgentPaper Graphics card isn't what I'm looking for. That is perhaps the most important thing with gaming laptops because you can't upgrade it on the vast majority of lappies, so I'm really looking for one that's going to age well.
But that screen reminds me, I'd kill for a Surface Pro, just for drawing on.
Anyways, this is really what fits what you want best, with the i7, the graphics card you want, good ram, and even a touchpad for a reasonable cost...if you're willing to give Lenovo another shot.
For whatever it's worth, the computer I've gotten from them has been very solid, and I've never heard anything bad about them. Obviously that doesn't make your experience not matter, but it is what it is.
Unfortunately, I'm really not... not right now, anyway. This one has been such a disaster. Maybe, maybe if I could go to a store, look at where the vents are, and check out the screw design.
This one is getting on my last nerves. :I I've been checking out some Acer and Asus, too. But I'm leaning toward getting a Clevo/Sager from a reseller with a good reputation.
See, that's why I got one, because if you look at what goes into them they're the best value for a gaming laptop. But this one is ridiculous. Having hangup issues instantly and falling apart before it's even 2 years old is just not acceptable, and the falling apart is a direct result of their hinge design; this is not a fluke. I imagine that's something they might have fixed on newer models.
Could be. They're a fairly new company, from what I understand. At any rate, I can vouch for the y510p being solid, but I guess that's as much as I can go. Anyways, I wasn't really trying to convince you that hard anyways. I'm looking at other stuff now.
It got to the point that I couldn't play the games I bought it to play because it was overheating so badly, pretty early on. They designed it in kind of a strange way that requires taking it entirely apart to clean it out and apply new cooling grease, which we had to do twice within a very short period... it still runs kinda hot even now.
On the other hand, my much-abused Toshiba has lasted at least twice as long with zero issues (except a weird rust thing on the mouse button? why would you make a mouse button out of material that rusts???). I've had good experiences with Toshiba stuff.
One thing to note is that you could buy the y50 through newegg, which I believe would allow you to return it if you found it to be not to your liking. Just an option in case you don't find what you want elsewhere. (and I'm done talking about Lenovo for reals now)
With Notebookcheck, I tend to look at all the games and compare them. This one looks pretty sufficient. I'm not sure if it's quite as good, but it'd likely work -- site describes it as "upper mid-range" which is where I want to be.
Ahh, a Satellite. It does look pretty solid. Not quite as good of a card as the others I'm looking at, especially when I put the two side by side, but... hm... Amazon claims that it is a dedicated GPU.
For whatever it's worth, the site I was using to find these was Logicbuy, which is essentially a coupon magazine sort of thing for tech stuff.
In website form, obviously.
Just a convenient way to look at stuff that is currently discounted. Good first place to check, I got my computer for something like 40% off during a "back to school" sale because of it. Won't always have what you need, obviously.
Of course, you need to be wary of crap that's on there because it didn't sell normally, but there's also plenty of legitimately good stuff, so it's still useful.
Anyways, I need to get to bed. Good luck with your computer purchase! It's always very exciting. :D
So my country (practically) legalized gay marriage yesterday. No longer will our campaigns have to fail because we're too busy fighting for social change!
Things which tonight's session established exist in our campaign world: - giant mercenary atomic moles (Canadian?) - Amazon.com's nuclear fusion program - mousers (from TMNT) are a common security measure - a nuclear goldfish
It looks and behaves like a fish, except for being a powerful source of nuclear energy and preferring to live in the heavy water of nuclear coolant pools.
It seems to have appeared without explanation in a Russian nuclear power plant, and is now contained by the PCs' company where they hope to harness it as a power source for their space lab.
They were hired by the Russians to kidnap amazon.com's leading nuclear fusion engineer, and his prototype energy shield, to contain the goldfish before it went critical.
And then this guy went skinny-dipping in the coolant pool:
(He dove in to wrangle the goldfish into the energy-shield cage. He came out Slightly irradiated and Missing "fingers.")
It is fast becoming apparent that my role in this campaign will probably be the straight man. Every chance my players get, they make the world ridiculously awesome or awesomely ridiculous. I can't hope to match them, and I'm better off giving the world some sort of grounding.
Me: You'll need to bypass the electronic security. Greener: That should be robots! Dan: I'm thinking about the Mousers from TMNT. Me: ....YES. Ben: I HATE those things!
My character was a bureucrat who wanted to get a promotion in the Interstellar Bureau of Bureaus by resolving the Darcy situation.
"Ahem! As someone well versed in the laws and customs of the Consortium worlds and our unconscious captain's chief advisor in formal matters, I humbly propose that I be chosen as his replacement for the time being."
I wanted to try being a full-blown Laser (rational, cold, calculating, logical) diplomat.
I could make up legislation as I went as long as I succeeded in rolls could describe the laws in sufficient detail :P
I kinda wanted to twist the "smooth talking diplomat" trope a bit by making my character a negotiator who relied more on raw knowledge - laws, customs, all sorts of trivia from all over the galaxy.
(if you're wondering about the Star of Ashmarir -- it's one of these: wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Curse fitted for pure GJ/s energy draining and shielding capability)
They have a ranking system - newly initiated professional paper-pushers are given a single stamp as a sign of their authority, but as their knowledge rises, they get more stamps as a symbol of their increased prestige.
(it's like military insignia for bureaucrats)
Three stamps already indicates serious respect and four stamps means you're a part of the leadership of the Bureau.
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