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12:03 AM
(Actually, strictly speaking, "retro" is imitative of the recent past.)
 
That reminds me of one time I was on my way to a SCA event, in costume. I stopped for petrol, and the girl at the counter asked if there was a costume party, or was this a new fashion thing. I said, "yeah, it's extremely retro"
 
12:19 AM
The SCA makes me think of the SPCA, which makes me think of the Society for the Presentation of Cutlery to Animals.
 
Weird realisation: I really hate daylight savings.
 
Alright, I must away. There are checks to pick up.
 
@BESW *Society for Creative Anachronism. A medieval/renaissance reenactment/re-creation group
 
Oh, I know.
 
12:56 AM
@Miniman Really? I thought I was the only one.
Morning, by the way :)
 
hey there @Nyoze
 
@Nyoze Hi! (Noon-ish)
 
@Nyoze You are far from the only one. Many people do not like it. Many people in the business world decry it because of what it does to interstate and international communications. I'm fine with it personally, but then I haven't been living in a state with daylight savings since I was a kid.
 
@doppelgreener Heh, I'm way too selfish to care about any of that. I just hate how it makes it harder to get to sleep at night while simultaneously forcing me to wake up earlier with less ambient natural light to assist me in waking up.
 
@doppelgreener Business world, I get. But everyone I know locally at least, loves the extra hour of daylight and it still being light when they finish work.
 
1:06 AM
@Nyoze Oh yay, we get to do rush hour in glare instead of darkness. Minimum visibility instead of maximum visibility, awesome.
 
Yeah, that's kinda how I see it... People don't really care though.
Everyone at work is glowing about the weather this week. I just ask since when is 30+ degree heat in october a good thing for anybody? :\
 
@Nyoze Celsius or Fahrenheit?
 
@Miniman One thing I've learned to be mindful of is: living to the west of work, if I'm driving, is not good. I'll drive to work facing the sun, then drive home facing the sun. Living north/south is great, living east is OK (you'll still get the sun's reflections).
 
Celsius. If it was Fahrenheit, I would have no issues with the temperature being the 30s all year long :)
 
If I'm catching a bus or train, east/west is fine because the roof will block out the sun. North/south is OK, if I can avoid sitting beside the sunny windows.
 
1:15 AM
@Nyoze also, if you're up for it -- it seems like I'll be available to continue our dungeon run
 
@Shal I'm in and out, but more in then out :)
@Shalvenay I'm there when you're ready.
 
2:04 AM
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Q: What distinction is being drawn between house-rules and homebrew?

nitsua60While thinking about Does stuff strapped to the outside of a Backpack count toward the total weight a backpack can carry? I ended up looking at both the house-rules and homebrew tag descriptions. What distinction is being drawn there? Is it that house-rule = a tweak to an existing rule to try...

 
2:44 AM
in Genesis, 2 hours ago, by Adeptus
If anyone likes mashups, check out Ben Kling. His song Descending is beautiful. And his album/EP Double Dutch part 2 is in a similar vein to Girl Talk but possibly better. (I don't know where part 1 is, the part 2 page says it's "forthcoming" but that was in 2013)
 
2:58 AM
I really want to find a pvp group on roll 20 now... :D
 
3:23 AM
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A: Why in 5e D&D the criminal background does not give you thieves cant

the dark wandererBackgrounds give you small bonuses. Possession of Thieves' Cant, Druidic, or other secret languages is a big deal. Therefore, possession of such abilities will not be granted by backgrounds, because the designers will choose mechanical verisimilitude over narrative verisimilitude when the two c...

 
That title makes me cringe :\
 
How big of a deal is thieves' cant?
 
I'm sorry, but it does.
 
No arguments there.
 
@MaximillianLaumeister Hi!
 
3:25 AM
I'll be honest, a thieves' cant isn't really that much of a deal, it's atually typically just a funny accent and way of talking that most people find indecipherable, kinda like pidgeon english.
And it differs from group to group, so a thieves' cant in one city is completely different to that in another.
 
Yeah. It's a tiny narrative bit, that can rarely be used to some advantage. Seems like a perfect fit to a background.
 
@Nyoze How much does D&D 5e adhere to that concept? How big of a deal is it in 5e?
 
That being said, I'd rather know thieves' can't then Druidic.
@BESW That, I have no idea. :\ All my research into this was based on free-form RP before I got back into tabletops :(
 
Really not a big deal.
It was explicitly called out in an Unearthed Arcana article as a "Ribbon" ability.
 
There's at least one background that gives out a language, Inquirer.
 
3:27 AM
(An ability that is purely flavour.)
 
So, the solution to the question is "do you think Criminal background should give thieves' cant? Do that." The answer, however, is likely nonexistent.
 
@Magician Frame Chall Enge! Frame Chall Enge! Frame Chall Enge!
 
Do I gotta? Sigh. What're the things I should cover?
 
Don't look at me, I'm the resident 5e ignoramus.
 
Resident Ignoramus is my next username.
3
 
3:35 AM
Then I shall be Itinerant Ignoramus.
 
@Nyoze why thieves' cant over what Druids get for bonus languages?
 
Well, think about it. I'm not a druid, okay. I can go looking through the forest forever and a day, and I will never find a druid that doesn't want to be found. They'll look at me, know I'm not a druid, and if they want to talk to me, it will be in common or not at all.
Now, I'm not a thief. But damned if I can't pretend to be one. There's a thieves guild everywhere, they're not as secretive or hard to find, and they don't have any requirements like "You can't have anything metal ever" that I have to figure out a way around.
 
Isn't thieves' cant meant to be specific to a particular thieves' guild?
 
@Miniman can you please find that article?
 
@Nyoze I suppose you're right about not being able to find a druid that doesn't want to be found ;) D&D 3.x druids in particular are terrifying in their native environs, partly because you can never pin down where they are or if they're watching you...
 
3:41 AM
Well, yes and no, depending on what rules/interpretation you're going by. Even if you don't understand a guild's cant, you can still have a better disguise using any cant, then not at all.
 
@Magician It's in the Waterborne Adventures one, I think.
 
@BESW Oh hey! I actually joined this room by accident looking for one of the Stack Overflow rooms. Hi!
 
@Miniman Great, thanks. Google showed me that page, but the name seemed... unfitting.
 
Fair enough. You're welcome to hang out if you like, of course.
 
@Nyoze ...I suppose so? (the only gangs I'd probably ever hear talking are track gangs, not that railroad jargon isn't a language all its own, that is ;)
 
3:43 AM
@MaximillianLaumeister Welcome then :)
 
@Nyoze Thanks!
 
@Magician It was mostly as a point of comparison, but it should help refute that "Having Thieves' Cant, Druidic, or other secret languages is a big deal."
(Cos it really isn't.)
 
Well, again, it's as important as the setting and the group make it.
 
@BESW exactly.
 
@Shalvenay Actually, looking at the real world examples, it was a specific language that was very far reaching, so that you could peddle stolen goods or plan a job without letting to authorities know you were planning on it.
 
3:45 AM
Relevant question on the actual nature of thieves' cant:
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Q: Can Thieves' Cant be understood without a level in Rogue?

sadaqahThe Player's Basic Rules and Player's Handbook describe the Thieves' Cant class feature as: ... a secret mix of dialect, jargon and code allows you to hide messages in seemingly normal conversation. Only another creature that knows thieves' cant understands such messages. It takes four times ...

 
Thieves' cant or Rogues' cant, also known as peddler's French, was a secret language (a cant or cryptolect) which was formerly used by thieves, beggars and hustlers of various kinds in Great Britain and to a lesser extent in other English-speaking countries. The classic, colourful argot is now mostly obsolete, and is largely relegated to the realm of literature and fantasy role-playing, although individual terms continue to be used in the criminal subcultures of both Britain and the U.S. Its South German and Swiss equivalent is the Rotwelsch and Serbo-Croatian equivalent is Šatrovački. ==...
 
You can run a game where thieves' cant is an exclusive privilege amongst the meritorious elite of a ridiculously organised criminal underworld, for example.
 
@BESW Or anyone who multiclassed into Rogue.
 
Or you can run a game where you have to learn each local gang's cant individually and it may not even be useful the next neighbourhood over.
 
What's the escape character around these parts? trying to have a '*' symbol at the start of the line, without creating a bullet point.
 
3:47 AM
@Magician The privilege of heroic exceptionalism, obviously.
 
@Magician Backslash
 
Grave accent? `
 
@BESW That's the code character, backslash will make the next, special, character do precisely nothing (and the backslash itself will be invisible)
 
Ahah. [learns things]
 
Cool, thanks.
 
3:48 AM
*Observe, an escaped\* asterisk.* -> Observe, an escaped* asterisk.
*Observe, an unescaped* asterisk.* -> Observe, an unescaped asterisk.*
 
@doppelgreener Quick! Catch it before it gets away!
 
@Adeptus No, it's fine, it's meant to do that.
 
Frustration!
I'm trying to copy my grandfather's files from a portable drive to his factory-image laptop.
> The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file system. Try moving to a location which has a shorter path name, or try renaming to shorter name(s) before attempting this operation.
 
 
@doppelgreener No, but it's... escaped... [play on words humour fail]
 
3:50 AM
This is a problem unique to Windows.
 
Oooer.
 
Actually, I think it's an issue uniquie to an NTFS file system?
 
@IronHeart hmm... zip & then unzip?
 
Most disk formats have limits on file names (length and content), which involve trade-offs with other features like maximum size of the file itself.
 
@Nyoze then again, rogues are by far and wide not my specialty -- the only one I play is in NWN, doesn't use thieves' cant at all, speaks his Common in a strong Southern drawl, and does all his writing in Orcish (he's a half-orc). (In fact, I treat Rogues as "DEX-based fighters with some get-places ability" instead of as "shady underworld folk with thief-type abilities")
 
3:51 AM
@IronHeart At the least, you can put it in the top folder of a drive to minimise path length.
 
NTFS just has a particularly picky set of file name limitations that we tend to run into more often.
 
a'ight, back soon :)
 
@Adeptus I got you, don't worry. It is designed to escape. It's a very confusing design. We don't know who would design something with the sole purpose of escaping, but, well, they did it, and it worked.
 
(Is your fridge running?)
 
@BESW (No, it's just chilling :P)
 
3:56 AM
Well played.
 
@Miniman Yeah, part of what I'm doing, as well as copying in small groups to minimize the relevance of the issue.
 
(if only copying 5 folders at a time, only 5 folders are suspects when the issue arises again, as well)
@Magician that is a neat power.
 
4:14 AM
@Magician ...the ability to cast reparo with a welding torch?
 
@BESW Video game logic in general, I think. Hit people with a medkit to heal them. Step on items to put them in your bag. Cause a building to explode by kicking it repeatedly. And yes, repair any object with a blowtorch and/or a wrench.
 
That reminds me of the early 3.5 game I ran with the theme of "dysfunctional PCs."
The caster was an elf who'd been an archer in the military when he accidentally discovered that he was a really good wizard while fooling around with a friend's spellbook.
He'd much rather be an archer, but he's not very good at it and he's very good at casting spells.
So he quickly developed a mental block: the only way he can prepare spells each morning is to imbue them in arrows, which release the spell when they're shot at something.
This means short-range and touch spells gain ridiculous ranges... but it also means he'd have to convince the party to get shot in order to buff them.
 
@Magician I should've given that magical beat-people-to-life medkit to the dwarven field medic in our dwarf sessions.
 
"What are you DOING?!"
"...casting 'mass invisibility', what does it look like?"
"It LOOKS like you're going to kill us all."
 
@BESW Ah, the Magica method of healing. Throw stones imbued with life at people.
 
4:34 AM
Behold D02, the greatest system. A system that know no limit.
> Experience: Characterscan gain new abilitys over time by adding them to the character sheet when the D02 Master isn't looking.
 
Thank you for providing our annual mention of d02.
 
Ah, it has been beheld.
 
I think about once a year is a good reminder rate.
 
I'd never encountered it before. Heh, I see even the bit I quoted has been quoted.
 
@Pixie This is why it should be mentioned every year! So new folks can find out about it.
 
4:44 AM
Yes. A vital tool to add to anyone's gaming repertoire.
 
Well, that was the weirdest 5 minutes of browsing I've had in at least a week.
 
That's... Terrifying.
It even scared me into spelling it right.
 
@Nyoze I'm pretty sure that was where the whole thing started.
 
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
 
5:04 AM
Well... That has given me my laughing fit for the day :)
 
5:44 AM
A scene from our recent tremulus game. That is all.
 
He caught an arrow with an arm that doesn't exist?? :\
 
He lifted an arrow they brought from... elsewhere. With the arm that he'd lost a while back.
 
Oh, Guardian. You're so smug and nearsighted, but sometimes you're also adorably snarky.
 
I've never seen the point of prophesying about doomsday. Either you're wrong, and you look like an idiot the next day, or you're right, and the world ends, and you don't get to enjoy being right.
 
5:59 AM
@Miniman But imagine the great end of the world parties you can have when you know there's no point saving money again!
 
@BESW I should do an editorial doodle with a whiteboard with several dozen dates written up and crossed off, and a couple of people standing around the latest (uncrossed) number saying "We've definitely got the right date we'll all be destroyed this time."
 
Heheh.
I find myself in a peculiar position with this sort of thing; my faith does believe these are times of great change, we just don't think of it as an eschaton in the absolute sense.
 
6:30 AM
Well, I think Baha'i doesn't have a position that the world will necessarily blow up on any particular date in the coming few centuries, so you're probably at least not mixed up in this business.
 
 
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8:18 AM
Vodafone Foundation Australia and Garven are teaming up to release Dreamlab - An app which will use your phones spare processor power while fully charged to help study cancer - similar to other distributed computing models available for computers.
I'll have links for you tomorrow hopefully :)
Correction - Links today. Have a look at DreamLab for more information for Android devices, or search the iTunes store.
 
8:55 AM
Morning.
A little service notice I already gave on some other boards I am on.
in Sugarcube Corner on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 2 hours ago, by SPArchaeologist
@b_jonas @IronHeart Service message: due to a change in the way I will connect to stack, I probably will drop my old idea of a chat bot (the Derpy Bot account) and start using that account as my account for accessing Stack chat when I won't be able to use my main connection.
This means that since most of the times I connect outside home I am using a connection I do not longer trust with my main data, now I will chat with you as Derpy and do all the answering as SPArcheologist when I am at home.
 
That will be good to know
Thank you for the update SP
I'll pin that for you so everyone knows
 
9:15 AM
Ohaio!
 
9:42 AM
@doppelgreener We're actually quite confident humanity stick around for more than a thousand years more, at the absolute minimum!
@eimyr Oiaho?
 
Ohio.
@BESW What faith is that? It sounds... reasonable?
 
Sounds good.
 
If you ever want to chat about it I'd be happy to, but we should probably do it in the Not A Bar.
 
I could, since my knowledge of that faith is minimal, but even though I'm not religious myself I can appreciate a good religious movement. Thanks for the offer.
 
10:05 AM
Howdy there SP
 
@eimyr Ohayo gozaimasu!
 
@eimyr My pleasure. And, of course, there'd be no pressure to convert or anything. (Baha'is are forbidden to proselytise, actually.)
 
@SPArchaeologist I demand that you explain your nick!
@BESW No worries, I just wanted to get it out of the way in case Baha'i would be more like Jehovah's witnesses.
 
@eimyr Shetland Pony Archaeologist, obviously.
 
I never would have guessed.
 
10:11 AM
Obviously its Super Pony Archaeologist
 
Siberian Peninsula Archaeologist?
Or maybe it's just a deliberate typo, and he's actually a Sparkaeologist.
 
Or how about
Suspicious, Puny Archaeologist
 
@Sandwich Again, the actual reason I had that nick is that many users on SharePoint have a SP prefix on their names, to mock the way many sharepony SharePoint classed start with SP (SPUtility, SPSecurity, SPWeb, SPSite, SPListItem and so on)
 
"I know there are Dinosaur bones here.. I can feel it!"
That doesnt prevent us from Extrapolating about non-theoratical conversations SP
 
When I created it, I didn't ever yet liked MLP.
 
10:14 AM
Huh.
Nice to know.
Now to go back to 2-3 months lurking before I ask the next person about their nick.
 
That is something I explored later, when I was trying to understand why there is this strange "nerds/It Geeks love unicorns" meme going
From there, thanks to him I watched that show of colorful ponies, saw it was one of the most shonen like American animations ever made, and the rest is story.
Now Fluttershy is my smartphone wallpaper.
 
Fluttershy?!
:I
Is winter wrap up your ringtone
 
10:46 AM
@Sandwich nope, but I have my collection of pony song
Notice: I said song :P One of the mlp fandom problems is that we seem to call "pony music" whatever electro music we have put a pony related name on.
I only collect song that actually have lyrics about the show / characters.
Some are pretty good indeed.
@Sandwich Search for "Lullaby for a princess" on youtube, and select the animated version.
 
@BESW I'm having a problem with difficulties in my Fate game.
 
Not really in the mood for a lullaby right now but I'll definitely remember to do this later.
 
Yaaarp?
 
The rolls are not a challenge to the players.
They generally are either passing them without much trouble (spending a Fate point or two at most) or failing miserably.
 
Hmm.
So, three things.
 
10:52 AM
Even though I'm aiming for a quite high overcomes - +5 or similar.
They have +3 max skills but stack advantages all the time like it's no big deal
 
Not all rolls must be challenging; spending resources (Fate points and limited-use stunts) doesn't mean rolls aren't challenging; not all rolls must be passable.
 
Am I doing something wrong?
 
Limited resources are there to make it possible for PCs to do anything that really matters... at the cost of knowing they'll have fewer resources to succeed at things later.
 
They don't seem to be limited by Fate points. We do not roll often and they end up with unspent Fate points.
 
A couple weeks ago I set a +9 difficulty on a task, and the player threw down resources to get a +17 on it. On the other hand, last year I had a ninja fail to kick down a +1 door.
Repeatedly.
(I mishandled the exchange, but the point stands.)
So let's look at trends.
You say they spend resources to trivialise some actions, and other times they fail miserably.
And they're ending the session with unspent Fate points.
That means, to me, that they're choosing to fail some rolls so they can beat others.
Iztroo?
 
10:59 AM
Well.. yes
but that's mostly due to circumstance
yesterday they had to beat +5 difficulty with a +2 skill
I upped that to +7, they got a lucky roll and chipped in - got a success. It was a pretty inconsequential failure though.
(They were trying to make a Scroll of Kaboom to have a backup in case their original plan falls through)
Then they had a major conversation (after they Kaboomed a bit too much) that could've turned their shortcomings into political advantages.
Difficulty +4 against skill +1, rolled "0" twice. "Nah, I don't think I can use any of those 3 invokable and relevant situation aspects"
 
The player had Fate points and aspects that you'd let them invoke, but they felt the aspects weren't relevant enough to justify?
 
Pretty much.
 
That's... frankly kinda awesome.
 
the thing is - they had a "mission" to find an ally.
They chose to approach Port Admiral with a proposition of helping him with local smugglers.
 
New idea. Participate in a cosplay contest dressed as a panda.
Everybody will assume you are Ranma father.
 
11:08 AM
Then they approached the smugglers promising to get the heat of their tails if the smugglers agree to sink one of their boats.
They managed to sink that boat (as a show for the Port Admiral) with a bit too much kaboom. Now entire city is watching the riverbank for smugglers etc.
Port Admiral is furious.
Smugglers are furious.
 
That's awesome.
 
Then, you enter, watch at the public for about 10 second doing nothing but looking angry, go to the jury table and smack a pile of paper you already placed them before (the jury would know this is a part of your sketch). Finally, you look at the public again an proceed to put on the table a pack of Panda Cheese....
 
Failure forward into the next session!
 
Players approach Port Admiral who is, well, [Furious] and [Busy beyond belief] as well as [Drunkard] from his personal flaw. I would allow invoking any of those aspects, as well as creation of "But after a while no one will want to smuggle out of fear of being kaboomed!" aspect.
Nah, why bother.
So they failed their mission to get an ally and instead have [Smugglers are out to get me!] and no allies.
 
@Sandwich Sorry, late reply. It isn't actually a "lullaby", it is a song Celestia sings to Luna while she is banished on the moon. It is a sort of sad/regrets song, very well made and loyal to the show. The pmv version also feature a fully animated story with Celestia singing and remembering when she banished her sister.
It is very well made
 
11:12 AM
I see
So its the Rex Duodecim Angelus of MLP Songs
 
it is probably one of the most well made animations, along with Snowdrop (which would probably make the kindest ones like Pixie cry), Fall of the Crystal Empire, Story of one Shadow and a few others.
@Sandwich here
The only thing I really don't like that much is the thumbnail since it seem to show anger, and that is not at all the focus of the song.
There are also a song called Luna Reply that is the same music but with Luna lyrics and a merge of the two with them sort of "speaking" over the stars. Both are still pretty sad and portrait the regrets from both the sisters.
Those aren't animated.
 
@BESW So, should I be concerned?
 
Haroom.
How do the players feel?
 
I don't think they noticed anything.
But we didn't have time for a post mortem
 
It sounds less like "trouble with setting difficulties" and more like "not sure I understand my players' interactions with the Fate point economy."
Which is... harder for me to help with, but potentially easy to fix just by talking with 'em.
 
11:28 AM
My players do not understand Fate a lot too.
 
From here it sounds like they're comfortable using Fate points, and also comfortable not using them when they think that's better.
 
They are reluctant to chip in to the narrative, I need to ask them for input.
And while their characters are proactive competent etc., the players themselves arent'
 
Well, Fate doesn't need players to act as co-GMs.
 
But it would be nice if they made up stuff about their surroundings etc.
 
Yeah.
Hitting the balance that's comfortable for your group may take time, and it'll shift over time too.
 
11:33 AM
The classic from yesterday: "You arrive at the riverbank. It's a fairly brisk river, and the starless night does not give much visibility - perfect for smuggling..." <dead silence> "What do you think the weather's like?"
 
Hi @trogdor
 
hello
I would have been on sooner but I had a class go over time
no biggie, it does mean I learned more
 
11:53 AM
I like how the word for fish in japan also means love
 
the word for 4 is also death
I am saddened by this
it is my favorite number
 
@trogdor nope. The sound of the word is the same, the kanji is different.
 
ah
a bit off
 
the superstition is because of the sound
 
still
this does not make me particularly happy
I still got it right that the 2 things are connected in a way that does not benefit the number
 
11:56 AM
that's is why they usually skip room 4 in hotels, like some European/American ones skip 17/13
actually, there is a very "interesting story"
4:44 am is also considered unlucky
 
17
who skips 17?
 
@trogdor afaik mostly Italy
 
ah
just an unlucky number for them?
 
Yep, no special meaning I am aware off
Anyway, 4:44 is considered pretty unlucky in japan.
 
I can imagine
 
12:01 PM
Old folk tales say that that if you look in a mirror at that hour, you would see the devil
Someone may remember this begin the plot of one of the first Urusei Yatsura episodes.
 
That's mighty obliging of him.
It's not every supernatural figure who'll appear so readily in the mirrors of folks whose culture doesn't feature him.
 
yeah
 
@BESW devil == some death divinity I don't recall the name, probably one of the shinigami gods
 
the devil is a western christian thing
 
I could check
I know I know I just used a word you should have understood the general meaning because I didn't remember the actual god/demon they had
anyway....
What fewer knows is that one of the Harvest Moon games had a "bug" - very probably made on purpose - which would lock your game if you locked at a precise spot in your house when the ingame clock was at 4:44
 
12:10 PM
Good morning
 
Even better since we all play with dices here
@trogdor Throwing two dices and getting "4 - 2" is considered a specially bad omen.
It would read as "Shi Ni"
which happens to have the same sound as "To Die"
 
2d6
 
 
@Sandwich Close.
 
If I was playing Craps I'd win
But my luck is really bad though XP
 
12:19 PM
@DiceService this was unsettling close.
 
If anyone would roll and get 4-2 it'd be me
 
2d6
 
 
@SPArchaeologist I can see why people would have issues with that
 
@trogdor I know this may sound a bad joke since the superstition is pretty common there, but it would be especially bad if that one was the result that made you fail some roll and your current character die.
 
12:22 PM
I never knew 42 was so varied
I mean
I knew it was the meaning of life
And the answer to all questions
 
@Sandwich here
I don't think Adam knew that.
As for me, 42 means Twilight Sparkle.
(I think I may already have explained the reasoning, if not fell free to ask)
 
12:49 PM
There was also a fan comic about that. I don't like it much because of a bad joke near the end (not that it wasn't unexpected or the worst I heard, but it really doesn't fit well with the rest of the comic imho)
 
1:24 PM
@Sandwich leaved it in the other room - chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24585352#24585352
 
Hm
Well if that was her number and she won the race that should be enough
 
@Sandwich she was third or fourth. Didn't win, but placed before Dash because she and AJ were constantly trying to make the other one lose time during the whole race.
 
1:45 PM
Anyway, I don't know if all of that convoluted explanation was actually planned, but I do like to think so.
Since it would be so true.
 
2:12 PM
@Miniman I used to feel the same about Thieves' Cant until reading The Thief-Taker Hangings, on criminal activity in 17th-C London. Its many-page glossary of TC and how prominently TC enhanced the ability of one man to both act as government agent tasked with cleaning up the streets and as major crime-boss really struck me.
@Miniman Doesn't change any of your thoughts on the mechanics of TC vs a standard/exotic language, but if one chooses to play with TC featuring prominently, it's a great reference.
 
 
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Q: Why was this question about VtM dice mechanics deleted?

Ilmari KaronenI just happened to randomly click on the "deleted recent answers" link in my profile, and noticed that this answer had been deleted along with its question, How to calculate the probability of the outcome of a Vampire the Masqurade roll? (both links 10k+ only). Since I don't have 10k rep on this...

 
3:44 PM
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Q: Should we be more pro-active about seeking clarification on questions tagged with two systems?

KRyanRight now, it’s pretty common to have both dnd-3.5e and pathfinder on a question, or dnd-3e and dnd-3.5e.1 In cases such as these, it’s not always clear if the tags are a union (“either-or-or-both”) or an intersection (“only-in-both”). Personally, I tend to interpret it as: If it’s a “how do t...

 
 
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Q: Tool Reccomendations Should not be Disallowed

the dark wandererOur game-rec discussion that (improperly and to much chagrin) ended in game-recs being banned focused specifically on game-system recommendation questions (i.e. those tagged game-rec) for the meta-statistics used to support banning. The same statistics do not hold true for tool-rec, which has no...

 
@JoshuaAslanSmith heya
 
6:21 PM
just a heads up, no game tonight, I've gotta work :(
cc @Shalvenay @Grubermensch
 
@waxeagle Ill let ken know
]thank you for the advance warning
 
6:35 PM
@JoshuaAslanSmith yep, sorry it wasn't sooner
 
6:48 PM
@waxeagle nah its fine i know youre super busy and you have your family
 
 
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8:00 PM
@waxeagle ten-four hopefully we can get one in next week
 
8:11 PM
@Grubermensch yes, hoping so
 
 
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9:13 PM
This school wanted radioactive vampire walruses in our make-up-a-fairy-tale bit. I am happy to oblige!
 
9:56 PM
@eimyr Your profile pic reminds me of something.
 
not that flower man
that flower is a jerk
 
@nitsua60 Oh, I'd never deny that Thieves' Cant is cool, or even that it's useful IRL, or even that it can be useful in an RPG, just that it's more useful than a regular language.
 
10:50 PM
@Nyoze They already have Folding@Home on Android (and probably iPhone, I don't know)
 
11:38 PM
 
11:54 PM
you should see the other rooms
every other one I am in has been dead for hours or days
 
Mos Eisley is kind of active. I suppose I could also... do work
 
shudders
 

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