TRPG General Chat

2:00 PM

@Helwar I can say with near-certainty: Yes, that behavior is probably possible. That said, I have no idea how (never used WeChat)

Helwar

@Delioth how the heck did you find the question? I mean, I can figure out how, but... why did you take the time to do it? Thanks!

I've emailed WeChat 2 times in the last week, still awaiting a response on them. An official account is needed for the SDK and all that jazz, and they handle them individually so... waiting time

Colin Gross

@Rubiksmoose Brevity is often difficult to achieve.

Hobo_warrior

Just had a speaker in health talk about the very real P**n epidemic in the us

Helwar

what?

Colin Gross

@Hobo_warrior porn epidemic?

goodguy5

2:15 PM

whatnow?

oh yea

There is a certain amount of truth to it.

Helwar

I don't get it, what are we talking about?

goodguy5

pornography

Colin Gross

Yeah, not at my tabletop. Some of those erotica themed rpg questions and game themes make me cringe.

Leave porn where it belongs. On the internet.

goodguy5

but ... but... that's where we are

as far as I know, you are all simulations

Colin Gross

I know you're not.

SPavel

2:18 PM

@trogdor sad-ass?

Helwar

porn is an epidemic? Since when? and if it is so extended... what's wrong with it?

Colin Gross

@goodguy5 I don't know which human you are, but I'm certain that you are a human.

SPavel

Colin Gross

@Helwar Can we agree to blame the Romans?

And just move on with it.

goodguy5

I mean, the porn thing is pretty interesting.

Delioth

2:20 PM

@Helwar As a dev, it's frustrating when no-one hears you cry sometimes. Could have been one of the fields that I'm knowledgeable in. Good luck on that though

Colin Gross

@goodguy5 Not in an RPG... at least not to me.

Helwar

@Delioth Thanks a lot :)

@ColinGross IT depends what kind of RPG and who are you playing it with

goodguy5

Very similar to a lot of the body dismorphia that's going on, in the US especially. There's a lot of unrealistic sexual expectations, especially in males.

Yuuki

@goodguy5 Yeah, not all of us can grow facial hair, Hollywood.

goodguy5

ha

Yuuki

2:22 PM

Did you see Infinity War? I'm fairly certain Marvel is using Chris Evans to make me change my sexual orientation.

goodguy5

But this seems to be making colin uncomfortable, so I'll leave it.

Colin Gross

@goodguy5 Just out of place. There's probably a different stack for it. I don't come in here to discuss programming oddities... there's a stack for that.

Delioth

@Helwar Definitely. A fade-to-black scene in a group of dudes who are just gonna leave it as that is way different from a series or rolls and detailed descriptions coming from one person to a frightened other person

Yuuki

> Player: "I'm gonna roll to take off my clothes!"
> DM: "You know you can just... take off your clothes, right? You don't need to roll."
> Player: "I got a 1!"
> DM: "... as you attempt to take off your pants, your foot gets caught on the fabric and you stumble around the room before falling and knocking your head against the bed frame. You pass out."

2

Hobo_warrior

Lol

DM: ”you know what? Fine! Roll to see which crickets are scared and which are horny”

player: got a 1

DM: They are all horny and follow you around

Player:Sweet!

NautArch

2:30 PM

@ColinGross let's not get solopsistic :)

Colin Gross

@NautArch I lived with a philosophy major and I work with philosophy grads now. I know better than to take that bait.

SPavel

@ColinGross you've already suffered enough

NautArch

@ColinGross I was only a philosophy minor

Colin Gross

@SPavel Ha!

Hobo_warrior

Wait? No one is going to mention the horny crickets?!

NautArch

2:33 PM

@Hobo_warrior <crickets>

Colin Gross

@Hobo_warrior Armoured katydid?

Helwar

@Hobo_warrior we discuss reverse minotaurs, vampire hibrids and tentacle appendixes regularly... nothing surprises us

SPavel

@NautArch So you dropped philosophy when you turned 18?

NautArch

@SPavel :D

Hobo_warrior

DM: “THROWING THE WORLD EATING DEMON INSIDE THE WIDOWS HOME IS NOT DIPLOMACY!”

Colin Gross

2:35 PM

@SPavel I see what you did there.

SPavel

@Hobo_warrior "Giratina, I choose you!"

Yuuki

Rude, Giratina is not a demon nor does it eat worlds.

Hobo_warrior

@Yuuki no, but your mom is

BOOM!

Yuuki

y u so mean :(

Helwar

@Hobo_warrior /me rolls eyes

Hobo_warrior

2:37 PM

@Yuuki ;P

Yuuki

@Hobo_warrior Well, your mom is a wonderful person, you son of a nice lady.

Colin Gross

Kids these days. I remember when "yo mamma" jokes where new.. then trite... then new again.

NautArch

@ColinGross your momma jokes never get old. Unlike Your momma.

Billal BEGUERADJ

Hello, I want to ask an off-topic question for people who are Americans or from UK. The man on this video (Darren Till) is Brittish (according to the wikipedia page), however he speaks like a foreigner ... somehow like Germans, do you think he is really Brittish? youtube.com/watch?v=CM14WF0BRdE&t=4s

Colin Gross

@BillalBEGUERADJ Isn't there a subreddit where you could ask that?

Hobo_warrior

2:39 PM

@Yuuki yeah, right, they both kicked me out the house

Yuuki

That's... a weird question from someone I've never seen in this chatroom before.

Billal BEGUERADJ

I do not know where to ask, sorry @ColinGross

Hobo_warrior

@hobo_warrior what?

@hobo_warrior idk, what u wanna talk about?

@hobo_warrior idk....

@hobo_warrior you a twit!

@hobo_warrior AM NOT!

@hobo_warrior @hobo_warrior shut up both of you!

GET OUT OF MY HEADDDD!

ACuriousMind

@Hobo_warrior Uh...you okay there, buddy?

Colin Gross

@BillalBEGUERADJ reddit.com/r/AskABrit

Billal BEGUERADJ

2:43 PM

Thank you

Colin Gross

@ACuriousMind Sometimes people spam chats?

NautArch

@BillalBEGUERADJ Welcome to RPG.SE chat, and while this is unrelated, we are ahelpful bunch. Remember, you can be from one place, but live in another long enough to pick up an accent. Not the Wikipedia is always right, but if it (and other sources) say they are British, then they're British. But you can have an accent from somewhere else, too.

Billal BEGUERADJ

Thank you for the hints

goodguy5

also, Colin. we go off topic all the time. there are so many conversations about non magical, non familiar, non giant eagles

Hobo_warrior

@ACuriousMind he doesn’t want to talk to u rn

SPavel

2:44 PM

@BillalBEGUERADJ Look at Hugh Laurie's performance in House, MD

Colin Gross

@goodguy5 go back to this baby eagles theory

SPavel

Then listen to him in A Bit of Fry and Laurie or Blackadder

People can do different accents

ACuriousMind

@goodguy5 The eagles are definitely magical!

goodguy5

James Marsters

also, there are so many parts of Britain.

Yuuki

Tom Holland (newest Spider-Man) is also British, IIRC.

Billal BEGUERADJ

2:46 PM

Weird ... I will not feel shy for my foreign accent anymore

goodguy5

I don't think Britain has quite the accent diversity of the United States, but it definitely has a much higher accent diversity per square mile.

Hobo_warrior

Watashi wa doko ni iru no idk, shikashi, hōbō watashi o koko ni okutta...

NautArch

@BillalBEGUERADJ Did you ask on the Martial Arts Stack?

Hobo_warrior

Shikashi, anata wa nani o awadateru ka.

??.

goodguy5

@Hobo_warrior Hanzo, is that you?

Billal BEGUERADJ

2:48 PM

They do not answer to such questions there (IMHO), besides, it is better to avoid talking to Martial Arts SE community

Hobo_warrior

Hai!

Simon H.

i need healinG

Hobo_warrior

@goodguy5 hai!

Nani ga okotte iru watashi wa kanto no tagu wa arimasen....??

Yuuki

donde esta la biblioteca

goodguy5

Hanzo Ult - Ryuu-ga, Wa-ga-te-ki-wo, Ku-ra-u. "Let the dragon consume my enemies."

Genji ult - Ryūjin no ken wo kūrae! "The dragon becomes me!"

Yuuki

2:51 PM

yo tengo a key

zug zug

Simon H.

tu vas a mexico?

Hobo_warrior

@Yuuki HAI! JAPANESE!!

yo no ah lol

Yuuki

me not that kind of orc

Simon H.

espanol es muy bonito

Delioth

@goodguy5 I'd hope it wouldn't have the accent diversity of the US. The US is within a couple percent of the landmass of the entirety of Europe (though it only has ~half the population)

Hobo_warrior

2:56 PM

Yo no hablo esponyol

goodguy5

that's exactly my point. US only has a lot of accents because of its girth.

Hobo_warrior

*espanyoal

DAMNIT FRICKING AUTO CORRECt

Simon H.

too no abblas espanyol?

Hobo_warrior

@SimonH. Mass o menos

*mas

Simon H.

@Hobo_warrior perdon, senyor

Yuuki

2:58 PM

@goodguy5 Hey, rude.

Just because we have an obesity issue doesn't mean you can say that.

Delioth

Yeah, we don't have the centuries of being split up into hundreds of little villages which end up mostly isolated from all but the surrounding villages. Lots of isolation builds accents/dialects, but the bits of travel that did occur helps make it so the different ways to speak don't diverge so far that they're not recognizable as the same language

Simon H.

@Yuuki uh, it's not an issue, weight is a commodity here?

we're like sumo wrestlers

Hobo_warrior

@SimonH. Hahahaha hahahha senorita hahahah

Mike Q

What in tarnations is going on here

NautArch

DO you folks use Variant Encumberance in 5e?

Simon H.

3:01 PM

@Hobo_warrior yo tengo 1,000 anyos, tu llamas mi "senyora"

A Very Large Bear

@NautArch I've used it once, and it was enough of a pain that I never bothered again.

Yuuki

I realize that encumbrance is a form of game balance and somebody like the realism, but I hate dealing with encumbrance.

It's basically just dealing with a spreadsheet.

Simon H.

I've never been in a game that handles encumberence.

A Very Large Bear

My philosophy was as long as it's not ridiculous, I'd rather not deal with it, like tracking cp and torches

Yuuki

It doesn't really provide meaningful interactions, imo.

goodguy5

3:04 PM

@NautArch no

Delioth

@Yuuki I'll use it if I'm using a tool that'll keep track of everything for me and will apply penalties automagically; and if I'm GMing I'll make sure my players start with at least knowing how much weight they're carrying... but I don't bother much past character creation (only if they're doing things that are obviously taking advantage of it, like a 5 Str rogue carrying 10 battleaxes)

Mike Q

@NautArch Yes, we use a hyperrealistic version where players have to roll to determine random back pains from carrying so much. Also a creature's move speed is variable (base speed x current weight / max encumbrance). Yay realism!

A Very Large Bear

@MikeQ is there a chiropractor domain for clerics too?

SPavel

@Delioth 5 Str or not, if a rogue sees 10 battleaxes just lying around, he's stealing them

Delioth

@SPavel He'll try... but 5 Str in Pathfinder roughly equates to like an Eagle. Cain't move with that much weight.

Yuuki

3:07 PM

@SPavel I guess a rogue wouldn't axe too many questions about free loot.

Delioth

Not sure of 5e's relationship there, but probably still "not much"

goodguy5