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That poor dog is bleeding.

doppelgreener

2:14 AM

@ProfessorLokiCaprion Actually we get to keep keep them until Friday the 3rd of January according to the Winter Bash 2013 blog post

but yup they disappear after Winter Bash is over

it's a once-a-year fun event and it is probably best we don't get all hung up on hats year-round

Blog - Stack Exchange: Winter Bash 2013 is here!

3:06 AM

Wow, lots of activity on the site.

Lord_Gareth

3:16 AM

Where in the unholy hell did these hats come from?

doppelgreener

3:36 AM

@Lord_Gareth It's Winter Bash!

Abby T. Miller on December 15, 2013

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Here at Stack Exchange, we wanted to get each of you an awesome, personal gift, and mail it to you as our way of saying “thanks.” But our accountant pointed out that there are 4.5 million of you, which promptly reminded us that the holidays aren’t about gifts. The real spirit of the holidays can only be captured with… …

Alyksandrei

3:51 AM

I keep reloading the page, but nothing happens! I cleared my cache and reloaded, and nothing happened! Has Tweets to Campaign By gone on hiatus or something? Has the queue run out? I look forward to reading them! I've seen a few here in chat, but there's something about seeing it in tumblr as well ... Maybe I've got a gremlin interfering.

Alex P

@BESW It's the Library!

So, Almost Human is pretty awesome. I missed out on it previously but the backlog has finally hit my on-demand.

4:11 AM

dang, I had to go to the third page of stars to find @Magician's blog...we're slacking off guys

Magician

Hahaha. My fault, I guess I've stopped writing things worth referencing.

@Magician was specifically looking for your old stuff on late level 4e play (IIRC you had some stuff on that that BESW used). We're actually just getting started on Paragon but combat takes forever

Magician

@waxeagle Make sure you're using MM3 monster math, paragon is where the old math starts to break down.

@Magician yeah, I'm not sure he's really minding where he's getting his monsters (pretty sure it's MV stuff which means it's MM3), just linked him the L1 damage equivalencies that should help a bit.

6:23 AM

@Alyksandrei Sorry, thought I had enough in the queue to get me through this patch.

6:58 AM

Also, it is very heartening to know that people enjoy the tumblr! I don't get much feedback on it.

10:53 AM

I have secret hats.

I do not know why I have these secret hats.

I do not know what the secret hats mean.

doppelgreener

@lisardggY I hear it's a secret

Ladies and gentlemen, the next Dr. Seuss.

I kind of like my secret hat.
I think I'll mention it in Chat.

Did I get it for upvoting?
Or for a question I'm promoting?

11:38 AM

I'm a snowman! :D

11:52 AM

@ProfessorLokiCaprion On a deeper emotional, psychological - nay, even essential level - aren't we all, in fact, snowmen?

No. We are not.

Because I'm a turtle.

My mind is blown.

This may be entirely due to the fact that it's early in the morning and I've not had coffee.

It's just past lunchtime here, and I'm having my coffee right now, and my mind is not so much blown as it has melted to a puddle.

Mostly due to a completely pointless two-hour meeting this morning.

Aren't all meetings?

Where the CEO (or whatever his actual title is) summarized the year, including strategic plans and acquisitions, and outlined the plan for 2014.

I, it must be noted, am not actually employed here, and am merely a contractor for a limited time.

[snuggles Prof]

11:55 AM

So my care-o-meter was showing remarkably low readings.

And I tried to avoid the meeting but was roped in so I got in at the last minute so I was sitting up front right next to the CEO so I couldn't even fiddle with my phone to pass the time.

So, you know, brain-puddle.

:3

But I do hate those "summary" meetings. We have them here every quarter, and EVERYONE has to attend. Everyone.

So we have the branch manager talking for an hour about sales and profit margins and our current trading profit, while a whole bunch of order pickers and truck drivers are staring blankly, wondering why the hell they need to listen to this when there's things to be done.

The only redeeming quality was the CEO's delightful Scottish brogue.

I really really hate this answer.

It mystifies the GM and idolizes the artist.

Artists are working blokes like everybody else, and everyone can be an artist.

@BESW I've known several people who subscribe to the RPGs-as-art school, and while I have agreed or disagreed with them on several issues (the importance of fun, for one), at least they didn't treat the GM as the artist and the players as passive audience.

And a good GM will share with his players his reasons for doing things, at least on a general level, because it's a collaborative process.

12:09 PM

Rather, they (well, "both of them", to be specific) viewed the group dynamic as the work of art in question, with all players being a part of its creation.

I appreciate the sentiment you're expressing, but you make it sound like players are passive audiences for the art of the GM. A "good DM" probably shares his motives with the players because he understands RPGs are a collaborative process. And a "good artist" is a hard worker who is constantly improving his craft, not a mystically perfect savant. — BESW 27 secs ago

In other news, sorry about the T2CB queue drying up for a couple days.

I, for one, am a mystically perfect savant, but I don't really see myself as a good artist.

Q: YA novel about sister is alien with two hearts and assassins come

I really do need user submissions in order to keep the tumblr cranking them out regularly.

Oh, my.

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Plot of novel: sister is actually some alien planet's royalty but due to a coup d'etat she is surgically changed into a human and sent to live on earth in disguise. Unfortunately they get the wrong planet and gave her two hearts. An accident causes this to be revealed and now assassins are after ...

story-identification

I wish this were about what it sounds like it's about.

The Pathfinder GM who recruited my wife and I is pre-genning characters for us; but I did tell him I wanted to be a Carnivalist and she wanted to be a Dirge Singer. Hopefully he'll take that into account!

@BESW Is that you, Jenny?

Can you imagine someone prepping to hide among Gallifreyan society and getting dumped on Earth instead?

12:18 PM

@BESW She'd be absolutely terrified of the President.

I was thinking Interstella 5555 from the description.

Her first clue something's wrong is that the President isn't a woman.

(Long live Lady President Romanadvoratrelundar!)

Logged into my ThinkGeek account for the first time in a while. Turns out the address I have listed is two apartments and 3 years ago.

Also one last name ago.

Wow.

[Changes names to "rdnagnumroJ" and chews on lisardggY]

12:26 PM

Just hope rohT doesn't show up.

Ah, I forgot I told RPG.chat to link to my RPG.SE account instead of my main SO account.

...reminds me of the very first one-on-one game I ran.

Chat.SE, Avner?

Yes, probably.

12:53 PM

Aww, Carnivalist doesn't start with a Sneak Attack... but I get a familiar. Hmmm....

But your familiar also gets sneak attack, which is awesome.

Flanking buddies!

You can sent your monkey to flank, and both of you stabby-stabby-stab anything to pieces.

I also have no idea if we're starting at level 1.

Or if he'll let me play a Carnivalist.

I can't imagine why it would be banned.

12:57 PM

I've no idea! I never played Pathfinder, or with these people.

They just liked my wife and I from our space game on Monday.

That's nice.

(Games... in... spaaaaaaaaace!)

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I'm always interested in how other groups vet participants.

Did you synchronize your character concept with your wife? A pair of circus runaways?

I've only played one campaign with my wife, so far, and while we did decide on some links between our characters, it wasn't very serious, and didn't come up in play too much.

Mostly because I tried to avoid creating a relationship in-character, either positive or antagonistic, to avoid the already-existing natural bias to focus on her during the game.

Well, she has two ideas, actually. Either way, we're going to be siblings. Also, either way, I'm going to be the "bubbly" one and she's going to be somewhat morose (think April and Andy from Parks and Rec, if that helps).

1:02 PM

I had a couple playing in one game who made it a firm policy that their characters would never have any connection beyond what was necessary to get them in the same party.

Depending on what the DM allows, I can be bubbly and HAVE A MONKEY!

@ProfessorLokiCaprion Monkeys are a big responsibility. Can Bubbles handle it?

@BESW Our characters usually end up hating each other, when we're both players.

@BESW I'm confident! I'll keep my monkey forever!

(I am now imagining that your character is a Powerpuff girl who has somehow tamed one of her villains.)

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@BESW OH! OH YES YES!!!

1:08 PM

Mornin

Heyo!

@Aaron, @GilesRoberts Hi!

Giles Roberts

Hello

@GilesRoberts What's new?

And hello, Giles!

1:14 PM

Anyone on here play Tekkit?

I don't but I'm looking for something to do.

@Metool Do you like minecraft?

Roughly.

Tekkit is a secondary launcher you can download that allows for a bunch of pre determined mods that work together to be downloaded with ease. You can also create your own mod packs.

@Metool I play on a Tekkit lite server called FiveKingdoms.

Tekkit lite adds many things, nuclear reactors, solar panels, electric furnaces, macerators which when you put or in them double the ores output.

Does it fix rendering so that my hand stops being black at certain angles?

1:19 PM

I have never experienced that.

@Metool Been sitting here trying to think of a joke for how "roughly" can be a play on Minecraft, but I got nothin'.

@ProfessorLokiCaprion so like Dwarf Fortress is the best I'm coming up with...and I'm not familiar with either game enough to know if that works :P

@waxeagle I don't even know Dwarf Fortress!