TRPG General Chat

Zachiel

12:14 AM

@BESW 9 stars now.

BESW

3:35 AM

@kleinschmidt Hi!

Alex P

4:07 AM

Hey folks.

BESW

Yawp.

Magician

Mornin'

Alex P

4:23 AM

Next dungeon is NP-Complete. Solving it is its own reward.

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BESW

Third dungeon turns out to actually be two dungeons, one on top of the other.

Getting to the bottom dungeon is nearly impossible, but actions in the top dungeon cause parallel activity in the bottom dungeon, which then produce resultant responses in some other part of the top dungeon.

Sometimes, for no apparent reason, you're dumped into a random room in the bottom dungeon and have to crawl back to the top one before you can continue.

Alex P

4:52 AM

Dragonslayer was on TV today. I like that movie.

BESW

Ah, yes, from the era when filmmakers were positive fantasy film could become a breakaway genre but had no idea who their audience would be or what would attract them.

There's lots of awesome experimental fantasy film from that period.

Alex P

I think it did a good job breaking ground on special effects without biting off more than it could chew.

I also like that it's not a conventional zero-to-hero bildungsroman in most ways.

This hotel fills me with disquiet. It's a small high-rise but the layout is like a motel, almost. Like imagine an apartment building with a big gaping hole in the middle and all the rooms open onto this motel-like walkway overlooking the big gaping hole.

It's also a rather narrow walkway given that they could just use as much space as they damn wanted since it's just internal.

What fills me with disquiet is that I keep hearing kids, like, goofing around outside or something, several times a day.

trogdor

10:19 AM

lol

that sounds like it sucks

@BESW this would make me about as mad as Rose Tyler coming back

Metacrisis Doctor was a stupid idea, at least in my opinion, and besides which, he is stuck in a dimension 10 said twice is inescapable

Rose getting out of said dimension the first (and second) time has already been enough to make me mad

if only because the show itself couldn't seem to decide what it was doing

BESW

10:40 AM

Dear iTunes DRM: go jump in a pit of fiery weasels.

I tried to show The Day of the Doctor to my family by hooking my laptop up to the TV and playing my iTunes-bought copy using the dual-screen function.

But the TV isn't compatible with iTunes DRM, so iTunes won't let it display the show.

I'm just doing a dual-monitor setup!

Avner Shahar-Kashtan

Poor weasels.

BESW

You're right. Make that fiery stoats.

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Kethryweryn

Hi there !

Metool

11:00 AM

@BESW Yeah, you gotta get something AirPlay compatible, like an Apple TV, to do that. Sadness.

BESW

It's odd because I've got the TV hooked up to an ASUS media PC and I've played other iTunes-bought content using that rig.

I just hadn't downloaded this particular thing on that rig yet, so I unhooked the cables from the ASUS and plugged them into the MacBook (I've used the same setup to show Netflix on this TV before we got the ASUS).

Avner Shahar-Kashtan

The only reason I was never won over by Apple's "It just works" features is those occasions when "It just doesn't work".

BESW

11:17 AM

@Kethryweryn Oh, hi. Sorry we passed right by you.

@trogdor Your eldritch Fudge dice arrived today.

trogdor

yeah

nice

Avner Shahar-Kashtan

I think I'll order me some Fudge dice, as a general pact with myself to get a Fate game going one of these days.

Evil Hat's Fate dice are ugly.

I tend to get very particular about dice fonts.

Zachiel

12:01 PM

Mom just had the municipality change the direction of a lamp that shines over a local monument at night, so that it does not point on her room's window. And then, following links on stouts, I found this: i.imgur.com/raih8.jpg

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Kethryweryn

12:22 PM

@BESW Too late now ! I'm sad and depressed :D

@AvnerShahar-Kashtan That's a good idea. I'm quite tempted by Fate aswell, should do the same.

RedRiderX

1:33 PM

@Zachiel I had trouble breathing by the fourth email, but then it just keeps getting better.

Magician

"Our primary spoken language is screaming." As an Australian, I can confirm this.

Kethryweryn

1:56 PM

Hahahaha. I'll forward this to an australian friend. :D

Zachiel

3:00 PM

@RedRiderX Because of laughter?

RedRiderX

@Zachiel Yes.

I would have been rather worried if it was due to something else.

Zachiel

Me too, that's why I asked. XD

RedRiderX

4:53 PM

Eergh Black Friday why u do dis?

amazon.ca/Q-Workshop-QWS-56MST35-Steampunk-Metal/dp/B0078NHJE2/…

amazon.ca/Q-Workshop-QWS-SPAT23-Pathfinder-Crimson/dp/…

I am this close to pulling the trigger.

Can someone remind me if Q-Workshop dice are high quality?

user61230

5:15 PM

@RedRider They're not well balanced, but the inking is great.

user61230

They're not off by much, though, and you probably wouldn't notice in-game.

user61230

My d20, for instance, averages to 10.7, and never rolls 10s.

user61230

Then again, dice never roll good distributions for me. Like, seriously. I took GameScience dice and they were off. By less than I usually see, but still.

user61230

But yeah. The one thing I've never complained about is their inking and design. Both are superb.

Kethryweryn

Shouldn't have taken "Probability field" as an option when you last reincarnated.

user61230

5:19 PM

@Zachiel Source from 27bslash6.com (nsfw - language); all of his are great.

user61230

@Keth That explains a LOT. It's not like I had a choice, though...

RedRiderX

@Emracool Wow you must have really pissed off the RNG.

user61230

@Red Here is my longer analysis.

user61230

And yes. I have upset the God of Random, who will rain nonsense upon my life.

RedRiderX

@Emracool Hmm, it seems like this isn't really a public google doc.

user61230

5:30 PM

Minute...

user61230

@Red Fixed.

RedRiderX

Oh my.

This is detailed.

And this is for the (what I assume is) plastic dice?

I don't really care if the metal dice are super precise, they seem like they'd be just nice to have show pieces.

user61230

5:48 PM

@Red Yep, for plastic W/B steampunk dice

user61230

6:21 PM

I don't trust any seller that uses an "either/and" condition to describe the item.

RedRiderX

@Emracool ?

Who does that?

user61230

There's a seller describing an electronics kit. "Comes with either a charger AND data cable."

RedRiderX

@Emracool Oh my.

That is disconcerting.

user61230

It's... yeah. I'm finding a different seller, s' what it comes down to.

user61230

How is everyone on this fine Friday of Sudden Death by Trampling?

RedRiderX

6:28 PM

@Emracool Sitting in my comfy chair far away from any dangerous store entrances.

Avner Shahar-Kashtan

A friend was in Sweden, and I asked him to get me something strange and weird and random from a supermarket there. I like strange snacks.

That is possibly the most disgusting snack I have ever tasted.

RedRiderX

The Nordic countries are host to a great many unthinkable sweets and snack foods.

user61230

Wait, wait... they made a firewood-flavored snack?

Avner Shahar-Kashtan

Tyrkisk Peber

Tyrkisk Peber (Danish for "Turkish Pepper", often referred to as "Turkinpippuri" in Finland, "Tyrkisk pepper" in Norway, "Turkisk peppar" in Sweden and "Türkisch Pfeffer" in Germany) is a strong liquorice candy flavored with ammonium chloride (salmiakki) and pepper, made by the Finnish company Fazer and popular in Scandinavia. Tyrkisk Peber was originally invented by Per Fjelsten, his wife's name was Elly, therefore the company name Perelly, in 1976 and made by the Danish company Perelly, which was taken over by Fazer. The basic variant is a large, hollow round shell both coated and fi...

Salted and peppered licorice sweets.

An acquired taste that I fear I shall not be acquiring any time soon.

user61230

I don't like the taste of ammonium chloride, thank you.

Avner Shahar-Kashtan

6:38 PM

Apparently this "firewood" variant is the mild flavor.

I shudder.

Apparently they're also ground to a powder and mixed with vodka.

"Salty liquorice is an acquired taste and people not familiar with ammonium chloride might find the taste physically overwhelming and unlikeable", says Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is wise.

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user61230

6:51 PM

Ammonium chloride is also a minor health hazard.

RedRiderX

@Emracool Is it?

user61230

@Red According to NFPA, yeah. Minor.

RedRiderX

@Emracool The NFPA?

National Fire Protection Association

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a United States trade association, albeit with some international members, that creates and maintains private, copyrighted, standards and codes for usage and adoption by local governments. This includes publications from model building codes to the many on equipment utilized by firefighters while engaging in hazardous material (hazmat) response, rescue response, and some firefighting. History The NFPA was formed in 1896 by a group of insurance firms with the stated purpose of standardizing the new and burgeoning market of fire sprin...

user61230

Yep, the NFPA maintains a codification of relative chemical hazards called the NFPA-704 Standard.

user61230

NFPA 704

{| class="wikitable" align=right width=225px |- ! style="background:#FF9900" | NFPA 704 |- | align=center | |- | Fire diamond for Sodium borohydride |} "NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response" is a standard maintained by the U.S.-based National Fire Protection Association. First "tentatively adopted as a guide" in 1960, and revised several times since then, it defines the colloquial "fire diamond" used by emergency personnel to quickly and easily identify the risks posed by hazardous materials. This helps determine what, if any,...

RedRiderX

6:58 PM

Oh I see.

user61230

> Exposure would cause irritation with only minor residual injury.

user61230

Now, put that in the advertisement.

user61230

"This candy only causes irritation and minor residual injury!"

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