@waxeagle A report on what? On backburnered stuff?

@JonathanHobbs lol, there are a couple of key user reports that would be very helpful that are currently lacking as far as chat moderation goes, mostly to help deal with repeat offenders

we've been given a few user reports in the past couple of years, things like flag history, reports on some other potentially abusive behavior and who might merit more notice etc. But the chat mod tools lag heavily behind the main site tools

@waxeagle I'm now super curious about what those are like

But yeah, there's a lot of main site projects going on, so I can understand not dealing with chat features

@mxyzplk Search "twosies rpg" rather than just "twosies"? Anyway, I wasn't actually advocating a new synonym--though I think it's appropriate--just a note on the answer.

This answer features a turn of phrase I very much like and have not seen before.

> On the other hand, it is conceivable (albeit unlikely) that the cops here were loaded up with armor-piercing rounds [which Magneto could more easily stop.] On the third appendage, bringing a heavy steel bullet from hypersonic velocity to a complete stop that quickly [would still require mind-boggling, astronomical amounts of force].

Heh.

It's a poor answer to the question asked, but well expressed.

It seems fairly effective: "He couldn't, really; it'd take totally inane amounts of force to stop it." - enough that other, actually magnetic items in the room would buckle or fly toward the bullet and turn the space in front of the police officer's head into a metallic maelstrom, likely endangering his life and defeating the entire point of stopping the bullet in the first place.

well here is my take, generally

people's genetics don't give them magnetic powers

if I let that stop me watching X- Men there would be plenty of other reasons

IIRC X-Men originally had its roots in dealing with the moral issues of xenophobia!

as well as the difficult moral issues of laser beams and punching people

Magneto is not about magnets; he manipulates electromagnetic fields. The scope of his power is far beyond what the answer focuses on.

He could have turned the bullet into a cupcake.

Granted, it would've been exhausting and ridiculous overkill.

There is no such thing as overkill.

schlockmercenary.com/2004-02-23

Oh, man. This dog looks exactly like my old dog.

[sniffles]

@BESW [rubs back] :(

Thanks. She was a good dog.

...even if she did bark at pancakes.

goodness

The wonderful thing about Wookies/ Is Wookies are wonderful things...

lol

@Zachiel A fan-made 'mod' for Mage: The Awakening. I was looking too far the wrong way, though. When I found it I recognized it from its page's layout (hah!), but nothing else (the blurp, or the mechanics; granted, I remembered very little overall) was the same.

@Noein Hi!

Fun fact: Jim Cummings was also Minsc from Baldur's Gate.

"Go for the eyes, Pooh!"

^Paraphrased.

@Patlatus Hi.

@DuckTapeAl Thinking about a rabid Winnie the Pooh attacking someone... how amusing.

Tigger would be Darth Maul

@trogdor I'd be scared of Darth Tigger

same

he is just too fast

bouncing around everywhere

I'm guessing this means it's "Christopher Obi-Robin."

probably

not sure why the rabbit is darth vader, but wtv

face/helmet shape?

I guess

And, well. Darth Eeyore? Darth Kanga? Darth Piglet?

yeah, they kinda don't fit any better

young padawan Ro

;)

@LessPop_MoreFizz [wave]

Morning.

Hey.

Rabbit is the moody one of the group

"I like the way you sound when you stop talking" Hehehehe. I just heard someone say that in the office.

Is quiet today.

So, grognards.txt. Oh my. In between all the usual terrible misogyny (kicked up to insane levels this week), there is this absolute jewel:

MODERATELY BALANCED AUTHORITARIAN!!

Fine, I will make all the jokes myself.

I cast Protection from Responsibility!

Sword +2, +4 vs. authoritarians.

You can't tell me wildshape is OP, it says "objectively balanced" right here on my character sheet.

@AlexP Nice grid.

crickets

@AlexP That vertical text... [shudders]

[commences alignment argument with GM over how much being "moderately responsible" allows me to be completely irresponsible]

[rolls an ogre which uses horrible system exploits to explosively instakill multiple enemies per round and on opportunity attacks, and which runs into the fray with a battlecry of "I AM MODERATELY BALANCED!!"]

I think that the "Fanatically Balanced" group is probably just a kind of planking.

@BESW I like to imagine that they're somehow completely irresponsible in their ecstatic application of their ideals (that's the implications "fanatic" carries for me anyway), so that would work fine.

looks liks I missed out on all the 4e goodness today

And here we see some Fanatically Balanced Collectivists.

I love how for a while that was newsworthy and now I have stopped hearing about it completely

I suspect these two are related

I preferred Batmanning, myself.

@BESW how's that work?

hanging upside down from stuff, I believe

Haha, lovely.

@besw dont know if you heard about this... joblo.com/movie-news/…

He's been talking about that for years... anything new?

its actually going to happen

Hrm. That'll be... interesting...

yeah I know he basically doesn't like anything that got made from his movie really

so its like hey were going to 100 percent reboot the property

Yeah, he has neither the desire nor the legal ability to use any of the post-film intellectual content.

As much as I like the original film Im tenuous about where it could go

So I guess we shall see

Mm. Stargate is one of the few films I think Ebert didn't understand.

Like, he totally missed what it was going for.

he is 100 percent hit or miss on a lot of sci-fi stuff

he doesnt do it in degrees, either the big buy/concept captures him or he is utterly bored

I think if he doesnt buy in/is bored he amuses himself by mercilessly finding every flaw

You are talking about Ebert in the present tense?

Ebert always admires a film for achieving what it sets out to do--even if he disagrees with its choices.

@AdrianoVaroliPiazza It's standard practice to refer to an author in the present tense when discussing his presence in his work, rather than his actual life events.

@besw you are just getting all my stars right now

man, thinking about Stargate now makes me want to try to find a 5th avenue

With Stargate, I think Ebert mis-read Emmerich's motives.

He does seem to be expecting a cerebral sci-fi thriller (he mentions 2001 as a comparison, really unfair comparison)

Aye.

Emmerich was making a "tribute" to the films that Ebert complains it's too much like.

lol at this trailer

"One man will break the code and open the door" Shot of daniel jackson crossing out door to heaven and writing stargate

And yes, Stargate is not an especially well-written film, and some of its acting is laughable, and it drags a lot in the third act; but it's earnest and it thinks big, it's visually impressive and it's successfully rooted in deeply-ingrained cultural themes.

oh yes you and I could (and have) talk about this for hours

I enjoyed in S2 of SG-1 the obvious budget increase where you got to see the Heru-ur jaffa helmet dissolve like the ones in the movie did.

only in like 1 or 2 shots, but definitely cool to see the film referenced in that way

old trailers are so bad

I literally took a class only on Trailers my senior year of undergrad would love to remake a trailer for Stargate.

Alas, Storium is totally unsuited for my SG-1 campaign.

lol

Is it?

thats major sadness

mmm. I need more ability to control its direction and scope.

Storium isn't especially good for campaigns with, yanno, intentional plot.

lol

If you decide to try it let me know, I would love to take part

hmmm trying to think of what to use for my wild strength toward puzzling out the ruin

Maybe you have an unexpected hobby.

yeah I think I should make another move obviously just thinking about what it would be is all

hey anyone here has a dndi subscription?

Not for about a year, I'm afraid.

i have a problem, everytime i try to open the character builder it says i haven't logged in or my session has expired, but i can''t log out so i can relog

i already restarted the browser

Have you tried the usual stuff--clearing cache and cookies, using a different browser?

When I used the DDI, the character builder would randomly change which browser it would freak out about.

wasn't ctrl+f5 clear cashe or something?

[shrug] I'm not on a Windows machine.

haha

it's just wierd i cant logout

I have one

what do you need to know

i want to check if you have the same problem

clear out your history etc for your browser

yeah ill go check right now

compendium or character builder?

cb

both are workign fine for me

so you can logout?

ok IE works

chrome is bugging

yeah its probably not really supported for chrome that well

its on silverlight so theres all sorts of issues with that sometimes too

Im using Aurora right now as my browser

Yeah, Chrome never worked very well for me--I found that Safari and Firefox were better fits.

whe in doubt try IE in general for any browser problems

If I recall, Chrome is not officially supported.