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Bardic Wizard

00:14

@Ben I’m getting all the technical difficulties today

you?

More accurately, the kid I’m tutoring is having technical difficulties, but they’re affecting me

BESW

00:32

Anybody got experience making gifs in Procreate 5?

Ben

Parks and Rec - Network connectivity problems

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AncientSwordRage

@BESW none at all unfortunately

BESW

Gaming Like It's 1925 Hosted by Randy Lubin, Copia Gaming. A new year means new material entering the public domain! From January 1st 2021, works from 1925 are free to use and remix.

@AncientSwordRage I'm having technical problems with the export and I'm pretty sure it's because I'm not handling the layers properly but I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

AncientSwordRage

@BESW can you save a flattened version before exporting?

BESW

Procreate animates via layers, so flattening would make it a static image.

Unfortunately, all the good tutorials I'm finding are for previous versions of Procreate that had a much different animation interface.

AncientSwordRage

00:50

@BESW sounds like not handling layers properly is rather a fatal issue then.

Ben

I got a secret hat!

No idea how or why, because it was awarded from RPG.se, and I have had nothing happen (as far as I am aware) since before the Winter Bash started lol

And another..?

BESW

01:12

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KorvinStarmast

01:25

@Ben mine is also a secret. Some of the other ones I really dislike, but this one is a stylish straw hat. I like it. Keeps the sun off of my head and out of my eyes.

TheDragonOfFlame

02:17

@Ben The one you got is awarded by upvoting a users first post..

Thomas Markov

02:54

Check out my hat.

TheDragonOfFlame

Ahhh! What! Ahh!

BESW

It's a reference to the 2018 wuxia film Shadow, I think.

doppelgreener

03:25

I've got an English grammar question: I can say something is perfect or perfected. With or without the -ed is valid, but also very different in implications. Anyway, what's the term for these ... forms? Tenses? Whatever they are? There's words here like "infinitive" that I don't know and I'm sure there's a couple for what "perfect" vs "perfected" is

I want to be able to say "use the {fancy exact English grammar term} version of this word"

BESW

I think that's gonna depend on exactly how it's being used in the sentence.

But this article about past tense vs past participles might be helpful.

I think that most of the time what you're describing is a past participle but grammar terminology and I don't get along well.

Ben

The development has allowed us to perfect it; and in doing so it has been perfected; thus making it perfect.

MikeQ

Maybe it's the present perfect tense because it's the word "perfect"

Ben

03:40

@TheDragonOfFlame So what's the quarantine hair?

BESW

@Ben Wear two different hats, I think.

Ben

@BESW Well, I played with one, but didn't apply it, then put on the other one. Does that count?

BESW

[shrug]

Ben

Lol

I suppose that's why it's a secret :P

BESW

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Q: Winter Bash 2020 hat list 👒 🎩

Winter Bash 2020 has started and the hats (and masks) are listed below. As always, there are only two answers: one for the secret hats, and one for the regular hats. The secret hat list will be updated as we learn them. Please, only edit the secret hat answer with definitive and correct triggers....

Ben

03:51

@BESW Wear a hat.

BESW

I am.

Ben

There you go. That's easy lol

Oh no I meant that's how you unlock the Quarantine hair. You only need one hat lol

Ben

04:06

One might say that it's a bit of a "hat on a hat" situation.

Bardic Wizard

04:20

@Ben as opposed to a “cat in a hat” situation? Though the grinch might be better (I’m grumpy towards the radio station; which plays this same song through the whole Christmas season, and doesn’t rest even when sneezing)

I got myself confused trying to rhyme

Ben

@BardicWizard In all honesty, that's part of the reason why I avoid public places as much as possible this time of year.

It doesn't matter who's singing it, or what song it is, it's the same song. On repeat.

BESW

...I have a tendency to play the HPLHS solstice songs in retaliation.

Ben

I look forward to the dawn of the New Year where Buble realizes that the weather is either too cold, or too hot, to be wearing a 3 piece suit in the "outside" and Mariah Carrey decides that she is sweating too much glitter, and they return to their caves.

BESW

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Bardic Wizard

@Ben our local radio station has three covers of “last Christmas”, 3 versions of “you’re a mean one mister grinch”, and like 8 versions of “its beginning to look a lot like Christmas”. It runs about three hours before it repeats and it’s awful to listen to after about three hours and one minute

trogdor

04:44

yeah there is a lot of Christmas music and some of it is good but all of it is played toooo much

BESW

How about some Bob Dylan Christmas music?

TheDragonOfFlame

@BESW nice.. bob dylan is pretty good

BESW

I'm a fan. He's one of those artists who knows when he's got something to say, and chases that.

TheDragonOfFlame

hw won a nobel for literature

because of his lyrics

BESW

And it annoyed SO MANY people, it was glorious.

TheDragonOfFlame

04:53

@BESW lol

Shalvenay

@BESW "he's a poet, don't'cha know it?"

TheDragonOfFlame

probably going to be mumbling "must be santa.." for the rest of the month

BESW

(Also it wasn't just for "lyrics," it was for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," because literature isn't just writing down words no matter how much Certain People want to say it is so that they can lock entire cultures out of "literature.")

> The words in Shakespeare’s plays were meant to be acted on the stage. Just as lyrics in songs are meant to be sung, not read on a page. And I hope some of you get the chance to listen to these lyrics the way they were intended to be heard: in concert or on record or however people are listening to songs these days. I return once again to Homer, who says, “Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.”
- Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize acceptance speech

TheDragonOfFlame

@BESW alright

BESW

That's one of the things I like about Dylan; quite aside from being a great singer, instrumentalist, and song-writer, he just makes people so mad by exposing the cracks in their assumptions about how things are.

trogdor

05:01

I aspire to that

maybe not on the same scale

XD

BESW

Like when people tried to say he'd "plagiarized" Timrod.

(And yes, I think he's an excellent singer and anybody who says "he's a great lyricist but should only have other people sing his songs" can fight me.)

Glazius

@doppelgreener If you say "past participle", you will be correct, but you may not be understood.

trogdor

@BESW people say that? wow

BESW

@trogdor yeah. Especially for All Along the Watchtower.

trogdor

:/

BESW

05:12

Don't get me wrong, Jimi Hendrix did great stuff with his cover of that song, but it's not a "better" version of Dylan's. It's a completely different song with different meanings.

trogdor

I do think there are great covers of that yeah

but that's like

not great to say just because you like covers XD

BESW

People think his voice is too nasal or that he isn't holding the notes properly or whatever, but like. He knows his instrument, he's workin' with it. Those quavery breaking "all I wanna doo-OOOOO" choruses aren't Dylan failing at singing.

trogdor

I don't have anything against his singing XD

TheDragonOfFlame

his singing is quite evocative of a certain mood.. I for one, enjoy it

Bardic Wizard

05:37

I talked to my mom about getting my extended family to use they/them pronouns for me when we talk to them for Christmas! I feel preemptively excited!

BESW

TheDragonOfFlame

05:53

@BardicWizard that's great / good luck!

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BESW

08:35

I'm guessing nobody here has experience with playing/running War of Ashes?

Sos

Hi everyone, has been a while since I was here (last time was in July).

A quick question: is it possible to tag in chat people who are not here at all? I'd like to give some updates on this question without using the comments back there

i.e. I'd like to tag the people who answered me back there and give them some updates, thought it might be nice :)

BESW

If you try to type their name with the @ in front and it doesn't auto-complete, you can't ping them. You can, however, leave a comment on one of their posts inviting them to chat. If they have a chat profile you can invite them to a chat room. And in extreme cases you can prevail on an elected moderator to use their special powers to ping someone.

Sos

Thanks @BESW :)

Would it be ok if I type my update in here regardless of them being around, and then link it in my comments?

BESW

Sure! Here, or you can make a dedicated chat room for it if you prefer.

Sos

@BESW as I said, my last time here was about 6 months ago when I was starting into D&D as DM. We have had probably only 3 sessions (everyone was quite busy during the summer and fall). I do remember that the community here, you included, was so welcoming to me with all my noob questions.
Thanks everyone for that

AncientSwordRage

08:46

@BardicWizard this sounds awesomely promising!

@BESW no unfortunately not

Sos

Alright, so here's a small update after this question for anyone who has time: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/171544/group-with-split-likes-in-dd-game-role-playing-and-combat
A bit of context is that I'm running my first campaign as DM, and the group is mostly novice. We had probably just a couple of sessions after that - covid and work, people were quite busy. And what I saw was that there would need to be a bit of everything in my sessions. They are about to reach level 3 (only, I know!) but have been having fun.

BESW

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@Sos Glad to hear it!

@AncientSwordRage It's the first game I've read for many years that's more than several dozen pages long, and it's a bit overwhelming. Not helped by all the call-a-rabbit-a-smeerp-ing, either.

trogdor

sorry

we could play something else?

BESW

No, it's fine. You're really looking forward to it, and I'm curious and willing.

I do wish I knew somebody familiar with it in play, who could point me at what deserves more focus.

trogdor

that's fair yeah

BESW

09:02

I could really do without the ylerks and dirkus and runnigum stuff though.

trogdor

just all the weird random names of the animals and stuff?

BESW

It's a yak. Call it a yak.

trogdor

that's fair

I think they really really wanted to go for flavor

and probably overdid it

XD

BESW

It's frustrating because I like a lot of the lore, but their dedication to inventing new words for mundane things sometimes borders on a nearly comprehensible parody of Niven and Final Fantasy, etc.

Could've just gone with McCaffrey's much more sensible approach and used words like runnerbeast, herdbeast, etc.

> Alas, the ensuing dirkus infestation, which in turn attracted packs of runnigum, triggered the presence of roaming Marhn trolls.

An Actual Sentence:

trogdor

I'm sorry

BESW

09:18

[grin] No worries, it's mostly not that bad and I do like a lot of what it's doing.

kviiri

I have no idea what a runnigum is but it certainly sounds naughty

trogdor

it's some kinda thing

XD

some kind of like, Muppit-esk animal monster or something

kviiri

Consult your doctor if you experience a dirkus infestation after runnigum.

Carcer

runnigum puts me in mind of a frog that's gotta go fast

BESW

It fills the role of something like a dire wolf, but looks like this:

Carcer

09:23

that sure is a face

now I'm just thinking of scrabs

trogdor

I definitely like the way it looks

I actually like that

BESW