TRPG General Chat

G. Moylan

1:06 PM

I wonder why they decided they needed to move that

I think it all looks more scrunched now

whereas it was very clear beforehand

Someone_Evil

I think it is fine, you'll probably get used to it fairly quickly

G. Moylan

probably

Someone_Evil

The new setup uses slightly less space, which is one thing

Also having useful information in a sidebar like that isn't great for people using narrow windows for the site; such as half of a 1080p screen like I normally do

KorvinStarmast

@Rubiksmoose Is this on mobile? It doesn't seem different to me today, but maybe I'm not looking at it correctly.

Sdjz

Also visible on mobile version now

KorvinStarmast

1:17 PM

My favorite question this week so far is about making your own flying carpet. I suspect that the recent hype about the Aladdin movie has inspired some people. 8^)

@Rubiksmoose Aha, I just noticed that detail on a meta question. Hmm, more stuff of unknown value.

I guess I should be asking: how did we ever manage to cope without that line of information in the header? "Fixing what isn't broken with the UI at SE, episode nine, in which ..."

Someone_Evil

I'll agree that it wasn't broken, but as someone who doesn't have the sidebar at the side (it's at the very bottom instead), I welcome the (small) improvement

David Coffron

@KorvinStarmast I just hope my players don't catch wind of it (one of them is a charlatan who sells fake magic items sometimes)

NautArch

@DavidCoffron actions have consequences :)

G. Moylan

that PF2 character sheet is accosting the eyes

NautArch

@KorvinStarmast I was pretty disappointed in that movie

David Coffron

1:26 PM

@NautArch Eh. I liked a lot of it, but the beginning was really rough, and the line-delivery was mediocre in spots

G. Moylan

@G.Moylan that and there's so much unnecessary filler background color. lots of wasted ink/toner

NautArch

@DavidCoffron Imostly felt that the animated version was superior in literally every aspect.

I can't think of anything where this was 'better'.

David Coffron

@NautArch I agree except for Jafar. I know its an unpopular opinion, but I prefer the direction the took with Jafar in the live action

G. Moylan

@NautArch I noticed they corrected "sunday salaam" to "friday salaam" in the Prince Ali song, but that's literally the only "improvement"

NautArch

@DavidCoffron I do have to admit that nostalgia may play a part. But it's really hard to improve on robin williams/gilbert gottfried :D

David Coffron

1:29 PM

@DavidCoffron You could really see the ambition-side of Jafar's character in the live action, rather than just feeling like a generic evil dude.

KorvinStarmast

@NautArch should I wait until it comes out on netflix? Wife is thinking we might go.

G. Moylan

@KorvinStarmast cough Disney+ cough

KorvinStarmast

Hmm, another data point for my musing about our legs being pulled ....

Someone_Evil

@G.Moylan They have their own service, yes?

NautArch

@G.Moylan @KorvinStarmast It is quite likely we'll be signing up for that :(. Netflix, Amazon, Disney...no more cost savings for streaming.

KorvinStarmast

1:41 PM

@G.Moylan Yeah, well, there is that. (Are you familiar with Carl Hiaasen's investigative reporting on Disney Corp? Not his funny books, but his work as a journalist? ) He's not complimentary ..

NautArch

I personally don't see a need to spend the $$ for a theatre experience, though @KorvinStarmast

@KorvinStarmast <insert Fry shocked meme>

KorvinStarmast

@NautArch I agree, I have a real hard time going to the theater anymore.

G. Moylan

@Someone_Evil it comes out this fall and they're migrating all their content

@NautArch yup streaming is the new cable

@KorvinStarmast I'm not but I don't doubt it

NautArch

@G.Moylan and yet I still pay for DirectTV/cable.

Sir Cinnamon

I only have cable because of the massive employee discount i get, Otherwise between Amazon and Netflix I figure i could fill my tv time just fine

So i guess my tip is get a job at your cable company

G. Moylan

1:46 PM

@KorvinStarmast yeah that reads like a joke. And yet.... it's not that crazy to think someone might legitimately ask that

NautArch

@G.Moylan What do they mean subtweet?

Someone_Evil

@NautArch Maybe subtweet is related to subwoofer?

KorvinStarmast

@Someone_Evil Heh, you are taking me back to my audiophile days of the 80's, before my hearing got messed up by turbine engine noise ...

@G.Moylan While one of his more famous pieces was called "The Rat that Roared" he did a number of treatments of the impact of the whole Disney borg on central Florida.

G. Moylan

@NautArch no clue, but I agree with @KorvinStarmast that it makes it appear as if there's another dialogue going on, probably on twitter

KorvinStarmast

@G.Moylan yeah. Check out the profile of the commentor. Also check out the edit history, that wasn't the original title.

Hmm, Team Rodent was another one ...

G. Moylan

1:55 PM

@KorvinStarmast that's also an awful lot of upvotes for something I wouldn't think people would vote on much

@KorvinStarmast and the commentor's profile doesn't stand out to me. what am I suppoed to be seeing? I flipped through his twitter and didn't spot anything

Someone_Evil

Short, snappy title on the HNQ, interesting viewpoint, I can totally see a lot of driveby votes on that

G. Moylan

@G.Moylan other than he created an RPG profile specifically to make that comment, it would seem

@Someone_Evil fair

Someone_Evil

@G.Moylan Unless we're talking about different commentator, they have a closed Q from last year

G. Moylan

@Someone_Evil yeah that one's interesting. I'm not sure how much it's worth reading into

NautArch

2:15 PM

@G.Moylan The 'offiicial' tweet in the history doesn't have any replies.

Rubiksmoose

@KorvinStarmast Did you have your Secret Spy Specs(tm) on at the time? ;)

@KorvinStarmast also I'm still meaning to look at your comment on the sun soul thing. Just haven't had the time yet to look up those abilities (I'm not familiar with them off hand).

NautArch

In other rehashing news, I've definitely settled on picking up magic initiate for healing word. I think it makes good party sense, but I also lost my in-game brother because I couldn't save him (failed medicine checks 3 rounds in a row and he failed his death save 3 times.) Wanting to not lose another brother-in-arms makes sense.

Rubiksmoose

2:37 PM

@KorvinStarmast et al just as an FYI I'm not seeing anything mod side that would lead me to conclude this is not an earnest question, but we're definitely keeping an eye on things and appreciate everyone doing the same :)

NautArch

@Rubiksmoose Their followup comment/answer also lends to credence to this being legit. Alhough did they create a new account just to answer?

Rubiksmoose

@NautArch oh hey waddya know. I didn't catch that. Strange indeed.

David Coffron

@NautArch The account is unregistered so it's possible that you have to? It's the same prof pic though so idk

Rubiksmoose

Oh I see. This could be just a common newbie error. They posted unregistered then accidentally created another unregistered account, found they couldn't post a comment because they weren't OP and didn't have the rep, so posted as an answer instead.

Carcer

@NautArch fyi subtweeting is retweeting something by copy/paste rather than using twitter's actual retweet mechanism, so it doesn't show up in a way you can follow from the original tweet

NautArch

2:42 PM

@Carcer ah, thank you. I am proud of my ignorance of social media :D.

Carcer

related term subposting, which is doing the same thing on facebook or tumblr or whatever

I'm not sure which around they came or what the derivation is

KorvinStarmast

@Rubiksmoose we talked about it last night, and you are most likely right. I edited that title shortly after it was posted, so I saw that question in a different light initially.

Rubiksmoose

@KorvinStarmast (fwiw I'm not saying you're wrong, just contributing that tidbit to the group so people know)

KorvinStarmast

@Rubiksmoose That's cool. When you can I'd like your take on that.

Rubiksmoose

And thanks for editing that title. I missed that edit for a while and once I saw it things made much more sense.

Hot RPG Questions

2:54 PM

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KorvinStarmast

@G.Moylan When I clicked on that profile and looked at the closed question, something jogged in my memory that may be a partial, or evern mixed up memory, about an interchange during the process of that closing. But my memory may be playing tricks on me.

Rubiksmoose

My take right now, from everything I can see is that they are probably just a new user asking a very hard-on-themself question. But, admittedly, my troll sense is almost nonexistant. I might be one of the easiest people ever to troll given that I've never hung out in areas of the net that had them such that I would have had to deal.

So I definitely listen to people who have a more attuned sense. But the post has been around for a while with nothing funnier than that comment which I have no idea how to read so [shrug].

Someone_Evil

@Rubiksmoose I think it is the question posted ("Help, I'm trapped in a problem player") is a perfectly valid question for the site, if there is anything funky going on it's possibly best we don't know it.

KorvinStarmast

@Rubiksmoose It seems to be going well and it has generated some nice answers. (Joel's I like in particular)

All in all, a good result.

Pierre Cathé

related xkcd : xkcd.com/810

Rubiksmoose

2:58 PM

@Someone_Evil Yup exactly. If they're trolling they are doing an amazing job.

@PierreCathé Was just about to request that lol

Pierre Cathé

@Rubiksmoose ;)

Rubiksmoose

@KorvinStarmast yup! :D

KorvinStarmast

@PierreCathé Grin! :)

@Rubiksmoose Heh, no, I had on my Goggles of Night, since I was at the same time trying to figure out what one uncommon magic item I could put onto my sun soul monk for a playtest event. No wonder I missed it!

David Coffron

3:38 PM

This turns me off of Adventurer's League so much. Sure, I understand having characters with legendary magic items retire to keep sensibility (since you could in theory have two characters in the same group with the same magic item), but "some crimes are beyond forgiveness" removes all the agency for that character. It's like the adventurers of the world sought you out and killed you for taking someone's stuff.

I'm glad it was updated in the new version to just talk about retiring, and not have that line

goodguy5

3:50 PM

permanently and irrovocably retired is a heluva statement

Rubiksmoose

@DavidCoffron yowza

G. Moylan

@DavidCoffron I get that the sentiment was that the items are too powerful to keep around, but that penalty is unnecessarily harsh. The Season 8 modification to that is much better

not sure if it's just a timing thing, but I just flagged a comment and it immediately disappeared

new change?

this question: rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/152409/…

Sdjz

4:08 PM

@G.Moylan Flags can sometimes auto-delete comments

yesterday, by Rubiksmoose

@Someone_Evil Number of flags as well as some other criteria. For example, shorter comments or comments that meet certain patterns can take fewer (or even just 1) flag to remove.

Also some more details on comment deletion from flags in this meta post

G. Moylan

4:25 PM

@Sdjz huh. TIL.

Carcer

4:37 PM

air conditioning

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (93): Please help, I’m a problem player by bhosly on rpg.SE

NautArch

@SmokeDetector Those 4cash folks really are very political.

David Coffron

@NautArch I just don't get it. Why do they think someone would click on a random link because of some super vague commentary on an unmentioned political or corporate entity? Or if it does work, why do people click on those links? xD

NautArch

4:53 PM

@DavidCoffron I can't answer because of our Be Nice policy :P

David Coffron

@NautArch Fair

NautArch

@DavidCoffron But let's just say I don't have a generally favorable view about humans.

Xirema

@DavidCoffron I maintain my hypothesis that these are a "Help I'm trapped in a Fax Machine!" situation, where users are writing their angry political rants (legitimate or crazed) into a third party form for a spammer, and then the spammer is distributing those rants without any kind of oversight into what actually got typed into their system.

May or may not be related to the "Family Finger Songs" insanity that has been popping up on Youtube in the last few years.

NautArch

Is this question too broad if it's for all editions?

David Coffron

@NautArch Probably, but I also think it is a duplicate for most D&D versions

Xirema

4:58 PM

@NautArch I would argue yes. I think the answers differ quite dramatically depending on the edition.

NautArch

argh, i think we've got most of them. going to close as duplicate for now and list htem.

...and i can't. already VTC as unclear :/

David Coffron

That feeling when animate objects on a Huge object is almost strictly better than fly at 5th level (unless moving through a tight space). EDIT: actually the speed is doubled for fly, I stand correct

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