TRPG General Chat

doppelgreener

12:13 AM

Aw XD

trogdor

didn't they rename Big Ben that?

wax eagle

@trogdor big ben is the bell :P

trogdor

pretty sure they also called the tower that

doppelgreener

the tower is also nicknamed the big ben, as a synecdoche

Ben

1:10 AM

So I just spoke to someone about my belief in the Random Number Goddess... They gave me a weird look

And they're Catholic

@waxeagle For most of my childhood I was known as "Little Ben", because there was a Maori kid also named Ben, twice my size. AKA "Big Ben"

BESW

Heh.

I once had a social group which contained Big Will, Little Will, Angry Will, and Will Will.

Ben

@BESW Will Will Will will it?

Next Will I meet I'm going to nickname them "Won't Will"

doppelgreener

2:05 AM

@Ben [ponders] If we can never really tell whether a prayer will be answered and in what for it will be answered, it does stand to reason that the recipient of prayers is effectively a Random Number Goddess.

Ben

You pose an interesting point there sir. However, my Caffeine:Blood ratio is below the required 5:1, so I am currently unable to develop this further :P

In the meantime however... Keanu Reeves is ageing...

Ben

2:18 AM

@doppelgreener also - The* Random Number Goddess. Not a*

Lol

doppelgreener

@Ben There could be more than one! Why would our Random Number Goddess be relegated to a single entity? Why not an arbitrary number of Random Number Goddesses, a random individual or number of which are involved in each earthly incident?

Adeptus

@trogdor Tower of London != Big Ben

Apparently, Big Ben used to be officially "the Clock Tower" and is now officially "Elizabeth Tower"

Big Ben

Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower. The tower is officially known as the Elizabeth Tower, renamed as such to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II (prior to being renamed in 2012 it was known simply as "Clock Tower"). The tower holds the second largest four-faced chiming clock in the world (Minneapolis City Hall having the largest). The tower was completed in 1858 and had its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009, during which celebratory events took place...

Ben

@doppelgreener Actually that's true. I would not doubt there would be an individual Entity for the situations like the "Crit 1" or the "Crit 20", or even the "Unexpected result". Though I think these Demigods are really just in charge of the outcomes, not the process itself.

if (TowerOfLondon == BigBen)
    Console.WriteLine("Well that was unexpected");

Warning: The result of the expression is always 'false' since a value of type 'Fortress' is never equal to 'Bell' of type 'ClockTower'

Shalvenay

2:53 AM

@Ben Error: no suitable match found for call to 'operator==(const Fortress&, const ClockTower::Bell&)'

Ben

Who said coding isn't funny :P

doppelgreener

3:57 AM

@Ben [runs through PHP just to see what will happen]

Ben

4:18 AM

@doppelgreener I am now mildly curious :P

The Oracle

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Q: Is there a pre-build way to incorporate a comment into an answer?

Two comments to this answer would, I think, be nice to incorporate into the answer proper. Is there a way to do this wholesale, or do I effectively need to re-create each of the commenter's references from scratch? I don't mind that tiny bit of work. It just seems that a way to absorb the commen...

Magician

4:44 AM

Greetings

Miniman

@Magician Hi!

doppelgreener

7:02 AM

@BESW Could you move the above to the Fate chat?

[discussion ended in here, we'll move to fate chat, carry on regulars]

BESW

7:15 AM

→ 148 messages moved to Fate chat and game room

Nyoze

7:33 AM

/Yawn

Pixie

[adds all the lovely things she got from Bundle of Holding to the Pixiedragon hoard of games she has no occasion to use]

Tired :(

Hiyo.

Heya.

I'm so sorry to interru-hupt but I couldn't possibly head back home without mentioning what handsome scales you have.
And those scales have to be hidden away in some silly cave for a hundred years? Personally, I think you should skip the snoozing and be out there.
Showing them off.
Obviously, I would be more than happy to keep an eye on your games while you're gone.

Adeptus

7:42 AM

@Pixie I know that feel. About 290 games in Steam; about 40 of those I've played. Or even installed. Also several disc-based games in various cupboards & shelves, similarly unplayed. I used to be too poor to afford many games; now (especially with bundles & Steam sales) I can afford plenty but don't have much time to play them.

Pixie

@SPArchaeologist You have nice manners for a thief and a liar! [WHEN REFERENCES COLLIDE]

@Adeptus Heh, yes, video games wind up like that for me too. And DVDs. And everything.

But tabletop games present a special problem: I cannot play them by myself (at least not most of them). So much more coordination involved. But I can collect them, and I do. xD Free and low cost games, mostly, so the hoard only increases.

deadEarth: The Chargenning

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