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Shalvenay

12:20 AM

hey there @nitsua60

nitsua60

@Shalvenay Hiya

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 what's up?

nitsua60

@Shalvenay I'm wondering if I've gone and gotten myself embroiled in two pissing matches (1, 2) in one day =\

Miniman

@nitsua60 It's really all one big pissing match, though.

"Can something be official if it doesn't say it is and neither does anything else?"

nitsua60

@Miniman And it's one I (personally) don't really care about, so I keep vacillating between "GRAAH you're WRONG!" and "who gives a...?"

Shalvenay

12:27 AM

@nitsua60 sigh I'm confused by WB.SE these days :/

(had another Q get closed for off-topic-ness despite getting several upvotes as well -- talk about conflicting signals!)

Miniman

@Shalvenay Hey, you're finally like the rest of us!

nitsua60

Somewhere there's a good meta.SE post about the orthogonality of those two systems--I was looking for it earlier today (actually, in an attempt to contribute to WB.meta!) but couldn't find it.

@Miniman Seriously, man. WB's... complicated.

Some day I gotta take Monica out for a beer and just ask "what?"

(For a brief moment I thought I might actually know HDE, but he turned out to be a different kid at the same magnet where I've done some programs.)

@Shalvenay what's up with you?

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 other than being puzzled by WB.SE? not much. did you see what VI posted earlier btw?

nitsua60

@Shalvenay Just saw it, yeah. I've got about ten minutes 'til kid-duties, then figured I'd ping when I was done.

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 alrighty, NP

BESW

12:34 AM

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nitsua60

What do you think if I change the "playable races" question to say D&D, not WotC? That strikes Zendikar, but I don't think it changes anything else? (Except now UA's in the mix?) AL-legal strikes me as too restrictive, but allowing UA seems too loose =\
I guess the right answer's just to say all of that in the question post, eh?

Miniman

@nitsua60 As long s you leave the word "official" in there, UA's out - it explicitly calls itself unofficial.

Hmmm, at least that's what I thought...but now that I look for it, I can't find a strong statement.

nitsua60

@Miniman Yeah--it's the SA/twitter things where WotC's actually made that distinction.

Miniman

@nitsua60 Honestly, at this point I'm going to give up and admit that my definition of what's official and what's not is actually "Duh, it's obvious" and leave it at that.

nitsua60

12:49 AM

@Miniman Yeah--I've gone ahead and scoped it to D&D (following your observation on meta), struck Zendikar, and don't even mention UA. Moving on.

@mxyzplk thanks for the chat move--I hadn't thought of that, but I think it's the best solution.

Miniman

1:19 AM

@nitsua60 I think you'd have trouble playing an Anthropomorphic Mouse in AL.

Also, the flying races - I went ahead and fixed those.

Also, if no-one's done it by the time I get home, I'll add the UA ones.

nitsua60

@Miniman Thanks. I've got other things to work on this evening; I appreciate the second (and third) set of eyes and hands.

Also, I love what it says about this game that the question "where do I get the rules" could (a) be one of my highest-ranked questions, and (b) be so contentious =\

BESW

1:38 AM

"if, by some divine mistake, you find the lady of the forest, you can only ask her a single question. pray that it’s one she knows how to answer."

trogdor

lol

Adeptus

1:53 AM

@nitsua60 I'm somewhat amazed by how much rep I've gained by saying "this is what the rules say: (insert quote)"

nitsua60

@Adeptus Srsly, man. The only thing that makes me feel better about it is reading this month's SA article: Jeremy seems to spend half his time doing exactly the same thing =\

Adeptus

@nitsua60 The difference being, he presumably gets paid for it. I only get paid in Imaginary Internet Points (TM)

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 -- kidlets to bed?

BESW

...I remember when I answered questions in systems where "Here's what the rules say" could be a complete answer.

nitsua60

@Shalvenay Yeah, and off the phone now. Is @VisuallyImpaired around?

Shalvenay

2:08 AM

@nitsua60 no idea -- he said his schedule is mostly free though

5 hours ago, by Visually Impaired

@nitsua60 @Shalvenay I'm still in and mostly free. Just let me know when/how we're doing this. :)

BESW

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nitsua60

@Shalvenay [giving it five minutes to see if the ping does anything]

BESW

Question for the folks who have been recommending Stranger Things: is it more of a Twin Peaks/Broadchurch thing where you have to pay close attention or you'll miss important bits, or is it more of a CSI/Primeval thing where you can half-listen and they'll spell out everything in clear dialogue and the music will cue you on when you need to start paying attention?

Magician

I haven't noticed missing important details.

nitsua60

@BESW I'd say it's mostly a "this is so awesome OMG they got my childhood on screen, minus, yanno, the monsters and stuff, but it totally feels right!"

BESW

2:21 AM

'cause most of my show-watching time these days is "thing to keep my brain from imploding while doing drudgery design work."

@nitsua60 ....ah. That might be a swing and a miss for me.

nitsua60

But to answer honestly, there's not a lot of subtle breadcrumbs that you're going to regret missing.

To me it had a strong "Stand By Me" feel: ostensibly about something gruesome, but the emotional impression is standard "kids come together to tackle something that seems too big, and discover their own capacity...."

And tracking shots of kids riding bikes. Lots of those =)

Magician

And walkie-talkies. Those were cool.

nitsua60

@VisuallyImpaired @Shalvenay @BESW @trogdor @Adeptus @kviiri @Anaphory @eimyr @ToshinouKyouko and anyone else interested: here's a room for those interested in a possible upcoming online DW game.

BESW

Ping all the people!

nitsua60

[Goes to write ping-script. It turns out nowhere as game-changing as Pong.]

BESW

2:30 AM

@nitsua60 It wasn't until I was in my late teens that I fully realised all the exotic series I'd been reading, about suburban kids with pre-planned neighbourhoods and sidewalks and malls within walking distance? Were supposed to be about familiar people doing things I could identify with.

[mind = blown]

For me, "riding bikes" meant "put the bikes in the trunk and drive ten minutes to a trailhead for off-roading in the grasslands."

nitsua60

So, I live in a neighborhood sandwiched between two streets, where fourteen houses' backyards abut (7x2) and there's a paved sidewalk/walking path ringing the central "green."

For my kids "riding bikes" means the start of an insane race composed of everything from ten-speeders to tricycles in "The Village Velodrome."

Night, all.

BESW

ttfn

Shalvenay

@BESW heh. I grew up more or less in the 'hood myself :P

(not exactly total ghetto, but definitely not the 'burbs either)

BESW

@Shalvenay For contrast:

Malojloj, Guam

►

(My house was actually in the boonies on the right around 50s into this one, just before you leave Malojloj proper and go down into Inarajan.)

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