TRPG General Chat

BESW

00:00

"And I'm so excited that I'm about to do something enthusiastically ill-advised."

Bardic Wizard

@BESW that is a really cute and terrifying riding beast

mostly terrifying

trogdor

welcome to Agaptus XD

BESW

The setting is "grimsical," meaning simultaneously whimsical and grim.

Bardic Wizard

stands stock-still in fear that’s ..... fascinating ....... runs

Ben

@KorvinStarmast I can't say that I have

BESW

00:07

You know how the early Muppet sketches often ended with one Muppet just eating another? Yeah.

Bardic Wizard

@BESW that was before I was born

BESW

Same, but my family watched the Muppet Show on DVD a lot.

trogdor

it's exactly my kind of style XD

BESW

I'm gonna need to ask for a few things to be toned down or veiled at the table, but I'm mostly up for it.

Ben

Morning all

user15026

00:12

I wish I could figure out why I can't seem to have brains for ttrg stuff.

BESW

For the last year or two I've been having a lot of trouble with inhabiting characters?

user15026

(part of it is totally fear and self-doubt! And I hate it. But for some reason I feel totally like a useless unimaginative potato)

trogdor

for the last year or two I haven't been able to bring myself to learn new rulsets

user15026

I want to playthings! I have humans to play with! My brain just goes "you're going to be a potato"

trogdor

@BESW I was definitely thinking we could just eliminate any trace of canabalism

only one faction does it but that's probably still one faction too many

I have like, 4 secret hats

XD

BESW

00:26

@trogdor Yes please. I was gonna ask to have it at least be very off-screen.

Also the vomiting needs to be described as little as possible.

Ben

@Ash There's nothing wrong with potatoes. They can run computers you know.

user15026

@Ben fair enough

Ben

But in all seriousness I really find that immediate anxiety and dread is only stopping you from starting. Once you commit to doing it, you'll probably find it easier to do what you want.

AncientSwordRage

Brains need potato time

trogdor

@BESW I don't know what makes you think I am even comfortable with intricately describing vomiting XD

BESW

00:31

@trogdor Something I've been learning about safety process is to telegraph my needs even if I'm quite confident the rest of the group won't come up against them.

AncientSwordRage

I can understand cannibalism in a game, but I don't know why it would have vomiting...

Ben

@Ash We have one player that is similar. They're constantly asking "what should I do", "how do I do that again", they don't want to make the decisions themselves. Which is fine. What they do enjoy (and the rest of us enjoy as well) is their willingness to involve themselves, in whatever way they try.

AncientSwordRage

.... dragons?

BESW

@AncientSwordRage One of the factions uses stomach acid as a tool and weapon.

Bardic Wizard

@BESW EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW

trogdor

00:33

@BESW that is far more than fair yeah

Ben

@BESW I immediately heard the Boomer noises from L4D

AncientSwordRage

Oh

That doesn't even need to be stomach related

BESW

@AncientSwordRage Thematically it does, as it's also the sapients-eating-sapients faction.

AncientSwordRage

Okies, they can go bye bye

Ben

@AncientSwordRage Make sure you stay out of the splash zone

BESW

00:39

@trogdor I figure we can just walk away from the Kuld, literally, by having a mission that sends us south to look for a cure to the Catastrophe or something like that.

trogdor

seems like at least one approach to it

BESW

@Ben That is one option for the Kuld, yes.

@trogdor I think it'd be the path of least resistance, requiring no cascading changes to lore.

trogdor

mk

BESW

And we can just put a veil on the Kuld at the beginning of the game, that they will be a distant pressure who never directly impact the plot.

user15026

01:11

@Ben That's not really what I meant for myself, but okay

Ben

:56469630I guess the point I'm trying to make is that when you've got that "I'm gonna be potato" mindset, If you do potato, then people are (or at least should) be willing to help you. At the very least, you can make potato jokes.

It's not about doing well, or being the best, it's about having fun :)

And again, I'm not trying to tell you what you already know. I think I just have a knee-jerk reaction to anxiety-based walls that stop people from doing things.

Perceived or otherwise 😅

And I'm also going to stop talking now. Lol

BESW

01:29

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AncientSwordRage

01:47

@Ben I think for a lot of people overcoming that first hurdle is enormous, and it's not enough to just take a leap. If it was as simple to do as it was to say people wouldn't have anxiety. Its very easy to say something that simplifies to "just don't be anxious, then you won't be anxious" even if that's not how you mean it.

Its much better to accept and validate people struggles and emotions, because that acknowledge is sometimes half the battle, figuratively speaking

@BESW would something like "how to publish on itch.io" be answerable on the main site?

Adeptus

02:01

the propeller on my hat doesn't show up very well

AncientSwordRage

It works I think

BESW

@AncientSwordRage Close as too broad.

AncientSwordRage

@BESW ok, time to do some research then

BESW

Typical comments I'd leave might include

> Please [edit] your question to tell us about the problem or challenge you're facing, your own research, and specifically what you're confused by in what you've found.

Hot RPG Questions

02:23

5

Q: Does resurrecting a creature killed by the disintegrate spell (or similar) with wish trigger the non-spell replicating penalties of the wish spell?

The first thing that causes me to question this, is the general design of it, which is more of a RAI assessment. From what I can tell, wish's non-spell replicating punishment is meant to be a limit and punishment to keep players from breaking the game with repeated and frequent uses of wish to re...

AncientSwordRage

02:36

@BESW that would be fair

BESW

Are you asking about how prepare files for uploading? What kinds of blurbs and banners are most effective? How to make an account in the first place? Setting up payment options? etc.

AncientSwordRage

@BESW I don't know the answer to that. I guess my general question is... How does the itch.io model work? Which is still vague, but I'm not sure how to narrow it down further.

Bardic Wizard

03:01

The stack needs an option to flag as “what the heck”

AncientSwordRage

@BardicWizard we used to joke, on SFF that "closed as unclear what your smoking" was a valid reason, but I'm less keen on that phrasing now

Bardic Wizard

Theres an... interesting first post that I just flagged as not an answer

Shalvenay

@BardicWizard yeah, some things just leave you shaking your head sigh

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: Does Undead Fortitude work if you have only 1 HP?

Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5+the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the zombie drops to 1 hit point instead. If a zombie has 1 HP (usually from activating Und...

dnd-5e monsters

AncientSwordRage

03:38

Hah! I've just noticed how subtle @BardicWizard's hat is

2

Kudos to them!

trogdor

04:01

subtle hats eh?

(I made my very unsubtle hat bigger XD)

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: Does something count as "dealing damage" if its damage is reduced to zero?

An example of a feature where this sort of thing matters is the Optional Favored Foe feature for the Ranger from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (emphasis mine): [...] The first time on each of your turns that you hit the favored enemy and deal damage to it, including when you mark it, you can in...

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nitsua60

04:42

@NautArch Foot-and-a-half or so between about 6pm yesterday and noon today. Kids were home today: the superintendent's ruled that the district may have three "real" snow days this year. No remote learning today, just playing with toddlers and snow forts and sledding at unsafe speeds =)

TheDragonOfFlame

@nitsua60 sigh. I remember snow days

nitsua60

@TheDragonOfFlame Is it that you've aged out of them, or that you've moved somewhere too warm?

(Or am I misreading the sigh?)

TheDragonOfFlame

If I had a snow day now, I most likely would be inside doing homework

nitsua60

@TheDragonOfFlame Ah, yeah. That's the unfortunate reality. I'm glad our superintendent made this call: sometimes you just ahve to heed the messages the universe's sending you.

Bardic Wizard

@AncientSwordRage thank you! I haven’t ever directly danced the role of the nutcracker, but the waltz of the snowflakes follows the fight scene (if you follow balanchine’s choreography) and so I’ve watched many years of the nutcracker fighting the mouse king. The flag hat looked a little like a sword so I positioned it like I would have a sword. I really actually like the cross stitch chart I used for the picture and I might keep it year round (also then my friends won’t blackmail me next year)

BESW

04:53

Our no-school-because-of-weather days were typhoon days, so you'd be indoors, likely with no electricity and maybe no running water.

Adeptus

We had heat days about twice in my school life. The criteria was something like "over 36C and no airconditioning". Though I also had one at work last year when the AC died.

TheDragonOfFlame

@BardicWizard I was like "you shouldn't tell strangers what state you are from, then I realized, california has bigger population than canada

BESW

Kickstarter: The Well Roleplaying Game by Shoeless Pete Games. A fun, lightweight tabletop roleplaying game of exploring dungeons, finding treasures, and collecting grievous wounds.

TheDragonOfFlame

@Adeptus thats worse than a snow day.. you cant do anything, its too hot

and its one packed place

C---------------------------A--------------N----A-------D--------------------A

CALIFORNIA

(note: this model is not to scale)

Ben

05:53

@AncientSwordRage Yes, very true. Apologies for that - I can sometimes find it hard to say it without saying it... I guess my aim is to direct the focus away from it and onto something else. Distract yourself from the issue with some other focus.

kviiri

@AncientSwordRage A big reason why I asked is, that's a rather not-recommended way to do it in DnD 4e

But I kinda missed out the fact it's a roll20 question

TheDragonOfFlame

@kviiri This is my question? To clarify, I was asking because for 5e there is a special way to make monster stats

BESW

4e has PC stats, monster stats, and NPC stats, all of which are rather unique and mostly unrelated.

I mostly ignored NPC stats and just did monster stats for them.

@trogdor

> Sparky the Gromal
Concept: Agile mountain-side mount
Trouble: Not too patient
Faction: An enthusiastic participant
Equipment: Venomous spines
Freeform: Smarter than you think
Freeform:

Careful +0
Clever +2
Flashy +1
Forceful +1
Quick +3
Sneaky +2

Faction: Because I am a mountain-side mount, I get +2 to Cleverly create advantages dealing with terrain.
Equipment: Because I have venomous spines, once per session I deal lethal damage when I make a Quick attack successfully.
Freeform: Because I am a gromal mount, my weight counts as 2 in physial conflicts when I have at least one friend in m…

trogdor

06:08

ooh

XD

BESW

Obviously I'll build a new character with everyone else in the first session, but I think this is a solid proof of concept.

The rules made it pretty easy to translate the bestiary entry into player character mechanics.

Hot RPG Questions

06:35

8

Q: How to make monsters stat blocks?

Is there a way that I can turn a character sheet into a monster stat block? I am trying to make some monsters, but there are sections for class and paragon path that are obviously meant for a PC. I have the D&D-4e sheet on.

dnd-4e roll20

kviiri

@TheDragonOfFlame My confusion laid in the fact that I thought you were designing monsters, not just converting the designs into stat blocks

4e does have a monster design system of its own. Two of them, actually, should I recall correctly (pre-MM3 and post-MM3).

And similarly to 5e, monsters' expected role in the game is so different, they... are best not built using the PC rules. But whichever form of visual representatiom you use, of course, matters much less and the most important thing is you made the choice that works for you.

kviiri

07:11

@BESW Also, same here. The one time I tried to use NPC stats I had lots of trouble for meager benefits, overall I found it much easier to just make 'em monsters and play it by the ear whenever I needed something unexpected.

kviiri

08:10

I really wish I had been less dogmatic overall when running DnD 4e was still a thing for me

I should've taken ALL the shortcuts

AncientSwordRage

09:20

@Ben distractions can sometimes work, so that's very useful

@kviiri I think that's very true

@BardicWizard I've only paying awareness of the nutcracker. Its a play/musical/dance? And it features a nut cracker.

I didn't even realise the nutcracker has a sword in the production!

Also, no guarantee they won't re-blackmail you to change it again next year...

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: Can you apply Hex damage when the target is immune to the initial damage?

The Warlock is fighting a Ochre Jelly. On his turn, he cast Hex on the Jelly as a bonus action, then hits it with his Short sword. The Ochre Jelly is immune to the slashing damage, so the attack does zero damage regardless of what the Warlock rolls, however is the Hex able to proc, and deal 1d6...

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kviiri

10:34

@AncientSwordRage It's a ballet with a famous score by Tchaikovsky. The score is the most famous part of the ballet and you'd probably recognize some of it because it's often used in pop-culture.

AncientSwordRage

@kviiri That's likely where I've seen it

kviiri

The story of the ballet is actually an adaptation of an earlier work but the ballet is much better known

youtube.com/watch?v=mis0O8CZk90 I found the full music presentation on YouTube, the overture (right at the beginning) is one particularly well-known piece and like the ballet itself, it's often associated with Christmas in pop-culture

AncientSwordRage

I always find it interesting when you find how a story you think you know if based on something even older

kviiri

Yea :D

There are surprisingly many works whose best-known incarnation overshadows an earlier installment. Sometimes even by the same people.

AncientSwordRage

This is why "The book adaptation/sequel is always worse", people just don't know the book/first piece of media

kviiri

10:45

Disney is such a serial "offender" that people are sometimes thinking even their original stories are lifted from somewhere x)

AncientSwordRage

and even when they're not, it's extremely easy to be influenced by other stories

kviiri

youtube.com/watch?v=-3goZ00ESck the Trepak Russian dance is another particularly well-known bit from the Nutcracker

I had to skim through a lot of songs to get there – I was pretty sure that's from the Nutcracker but had to confirm and didn't remember the name

"Music everyone knows but not everyone knows the name of" is yet another fun culture deal

BESW

11:06

@kviiri [amused] Phantom of the Opera and The Princess Bride immediately come to mind as films for which I've personally caused "there's a book?!" moments in friends.

trogdor

I didn't know there was a book yeah

BESW

(And there's a long tradition of white people making hits off of Black songs, because of course there is.)

trogdor

until the first time someone mentioned it after I had seen the movie at least a couple times

and I think it was you who told me at least the first time or something

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Q: Can only Wizards become Liches?

I am in the process of world building for a new game. My ultimate antagonist is going to be a lich, but the bit of research I have done so far all refers to liches having to be wizards, due to the spell and phylactery creation requirement. I am therefore wondering: Could a non-magic user become ...

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BESW

@HotRPGQuestions I do not aspire to become a lich, but I don't think I'd complain about becoming a lichen.

doppelgreener

11:16

We could consult the Lich-ness Monster.

trogdor

lol

AncientSwordRage

@BESW which part of the lichen would you be?

kviiri

@BESW Sometimes it's even an earlier installment by the same people, see eg. Naked Gun completely overshadowing Police Squad

@BESW I actually have been confused about this in my youth... I mean, liches and lichens

I seem to have also spoke of it here before

Jun 1 at 13:49, by kviiri

@doppelgreener When I was twelve or so years, I was already familiar with liches through Heroes of Might and Magic, and then I started playing NetHack. And I actually believed there was a connection there x)

BESW

@kviiri I recently learned that Keystone Kops was a set of comedy skits from the days of silent film.

AncientSwordRage

@BESW in a nice exception, TLC - Waterfalls was claimed to be a cover/heavily inspired by McCartney's song, but TLC's "version" was more successful.

kviiri

11:25

@BESW That actually clicked for me because of NetHack :)

I had seen homages and parodies, NetHack is the first place that gave them a name in my mind

AncientSwordRage

My favourite is that Airplane! is a parody/remake of Zero Hour with some scenes exactly the same but played for laughs

BESW

There's a TON of parodies which newer generations of viewers don't recognize as deriving from something earlier.

Austin Powers isn't just broad pastiche, for example, it makes a lot of direct visual quotations.

(As does Star Wars, the granddaddy of all films successful enough to obscure their source material.)

AncientSwordRage

@BESW Tolkien's work at the time was a tiny sapling in a forest of other small trees. It's now a towering oak shadowing all the other historical works

kviiri

11:45

@BESW This reminds me of when I found out about the Odessa steps

AncientSwordRage

@BESW I think I largely missed those

BESW

@AncientSwordRage Imminently skippable. There's some clever bits but a lot of it has, ah, let's say "aged poorly" and pretend that it wasn't objectionable at the time.

AncientSwordRage

youch

BESW

You've probably seen all the good bits in meme videos already.

AncientSwordRage

I'm a big fan of those

Powerdork

12:01

Speaking of British super spy films (which is to say, James Bond 007), there's a pretty good podcast from LoadingReadyRun called From Rewatch With Love that's been assessing each Bond film in order (including Casino Royale no the other one), and it's a real ride to even hear what some of these films are; you get to understanding exactly why Austin Powers is what it is.

Someone_Evil

I've also been enjoying that!

BESW

Honestly James Bond is quite tame compared to a lot of what Austin Powers is quoting.

Bond is ordinary enough for the mainstream and cross-Atlantic appeal.

Like, the "frozen in the 70s and unfrozen in the 90s" thing? That's not a Captain America reference.

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I know what you're wondering: is Adam Adamant also as racist, sexist, and into body-shaming as Austin Powers? No, Powers toned down the racism and sexism but upped the body-shaming.

Mohammad Fahmi wrote a twitter thread of Indonesian-made (computer) games.

doppelgreener

13:44

@Someone_Evil I've got a request: could we have an Event created for Winterbash in the community sidebar, lasting up until the end of Jan 4th, linking to our photo album on meta?

Someone_Evil

@doppelgreener Sure, give me a moment to figure out how that tool works :)

Thomas Markov

If I dont get the rainbow puke hat Im pretty pleased with this sombrero.

doppelgreener

@Someone_Evil \o/

Bardic Wizard

14:01

@AncientSwordRage it’s a ballet, traditionally done at Christmas

Oh wait someone already said that

It’s usually the source of revenue for a lot of ballet places, especially community theaters and stuff, cause everyone knows it and wants to see it

kviiri

I guess it helps that people know it has a story and everything

Lots of people assume ballet is only dances and poses

But who am I kidding, it's probably largely because it's just entrenched

Bardic Wizard

@kviiri yeah it’s that. Tchaikovsky did other story ballets, even (swan lake, a couple others), that aren’t as well known

kviiri

@BardicWizard Heh, I would've said that when it comes to ballet I'd bet most people know only Swan Lake in addition to Nutcracker

Bardic Wizard

Many ballets have stories, and actually ballets such as Jewels that are abstract are pretty uncommon

@kviiri I’m fond of Giselle and the sleeping beauty myself

kviiri

That said, I'm not very cultured in this aspect either, I've been more interested in contemporary opera

@BardicWizard Yeah, I guess that's lost to many though, due to only getting a rather filtered perception of what ballet is

Like many think opera is just the lady shrieking

Bardic Wizard

14:22

@kviiri both opera and ballet are a lot more interesting than people think and have some really cool stories

Yes, the second half of the nutcracker, if you follow Balanchine’s arrangement, is meant to show off dancers and not a story, but many ballets are that way so that they get to show off the principals’ technical skills and variations — swan lake has the swans, coppelia has the dolls dancing, Giselle has the Willis, the sleeping beauty has the wedding scenes, etc

I have lots of Opinions about ballet

kviiri

This one time I was listening to a recording of Ahknaten, an opera composed by Philip Glass, when my then-SO came home. She sat on her computer and began working on her homework. After a while, she asked me something along the lines of "when is this going to stop sounding like the same all the time?"

She had a lot to learn about Philip Glass.

Or should I say... Phi-LOOP Glass. He does repetition, and quite often he does it well.

BESW

@kviiri KOYAAANISQATSI

My dad really liked Glass.

kviiri

@BESW That's a good one. The music really works wonders in the film

BESW

Have you seen Candyman? Glass's soundtrack shouldn't work, but it absolutely does.

kviiri

Nope! Haven't

BESW

14:36

Recommend! It's a bit... fraught... but completely by accident it does some really good racial commentary while thinking it's making entirely different racial commentary.

The sequels aren't as good, but I'm super looking forward to the new one next year.

CW for... ah.... racism, lynching, mutilation, BEES.

kviiri

I'll see if I can find it and the time & energy

BESW

It's not a light watch.

kviiri

I'm usually good with heavy watches too, but last year has been an exception.

Wouldn't go as far as to say I'm uncomfortable watching more miserable or emotion-provoking stuff, but I've been very much in the mood for positive, life-affirming and light stuff instead.

BESW

I hear ya. My to-read list has been backing up with Heavy Thoughts while I re-read comfort food like Murderbot.

RevenantBacon

I feel like we're all generally more drained this year than we would have been otherwise.

For obvious reasons

BESW

14:49

I can still process some films with heavier themes, partly because it's easier to sit back and focus on the craft of the medium, which gives distance.

(And it's not like Murderbot or A Memory Called Empire are without weighty thoughts on hefty topics, but they're presented in a way that I find more accessible than, say, Broken Earth, which I tried to re-read this year and put down very quickly.)

kviiri

I did watch a Nordic noir series about an emotionally troubled detective who is assigned to solve a case of serial ritual murders in his home village where almost everyone is a member of a conservative revival sect that disapproves of his homosexuality, but I really feel like softer stuff after that.

BESW

Oof

kviiri

@RevenantBacon In an unusual twist of events, this year has been largely positive for me, but mainly because I'm recovering from a lot of baggage from the past few years. The new pages I've turned have been quite full of happy things though

BESW

I've actually been watching a lot of horror films this year, in part because a good horror film is an emotionally intimate experience as the film creators share their deepest fears with the audience and hope that the audience fears those things too.

RevenantBacon

@kviiri Well, that's something good then :)

BESW

14:54

(A bad horror film displays fears that they assume the audience has without the creators reflecting on what it feels like to have those fears.)

RevenantBacon

@BESW Are we talking horror films, or "horror", that mostly rely on jump scares?

Because in my opinion, the ones that mostly rely on just jump scare tactics are cheesy and not entertaining

kviiri

@BESW Aye! I've heard horror having been compared, for those and other reasons, to genres like romance – they rely a lot on that emotional connection, and are unusually heavy on "how you say it" against "what you say"

BESW

Aye. It's a great example of exploding the false idea that innovation is more valuable than craft.

Say the same thing a thousand other people have said, but say it really really well, and the world will beat a path to your door.

kviiri

So true!

I think that's also why recommending comedy series to people is really hard, the synopses all sound bland and generic

the real value is in the execution, always

BESW

Unfortunately it's also why a high level of gloss and sparkle will make it easy for people to endorse certain media while ignoring obvious problematic elements. (Buffyspeak, I'm lookin' at you.)

But yeah, like. Jump scares aren't bad. They're effective, or they wouldn't have become such a reliable replacement for thoughtful scares. And if a jump scare is used thoughtfully, it can have truly excellent effect. Candyman doesn't do much with jump scares, but there's one in particular that is placed just beautifully because it doesn't just startle, it answers a question that the film had been asking up to that point, and the answer raises the stakes for the rest of the film.

You startle, and the whole movie changes in that moment.

Just like the tension in a romance novel can be a tragic misunderstanding, but it can be a great novel or a tedious one depending on how the misunderstanding was built and executed (eg, is it believable that they aren't just sitting down to check in with each other on what's going on?)

(Personally, I find a good tragic misunderstanding to be about as rare as a good jump scare; I prefer romantic tension to come from things that are still an obstacle after everyone is on the same page about them.)

RevenantBacon

15:19

@BESW I'm gonna have to strongly disagree with this statement right here. Jump scares became a replacement, because they're easier to pull off, not because one tactic is more or les effective than the other

@BESW Yeah, sadly, most of the tragic "misunderstandings" are because someone said something, the other person made a superman jump to a ridiculous conclusion, and then the first person just doesn't bother to correct them.

It's disappointing really. And surprisingly common in anime for some reason.

I am now feeling an intense desire to go on TVTropes

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

@RevenantBacon The longer I live, the more I'm convinced that it's supper common in real life, though the way it expresses in fiction differs somewhat from real life due to fiction usually narrowing down misunderstanding types to the ones that are relevant in accordance to a given genre's conventions, while real life isn't limited in such a way.

user15026

15:58

@BESW having read maaaaany romance novels, I agree. I appreciate ones that actually work to avoid this sort of trope.

user15026

Or that manage to actually make it something other than "we just decided not to communicate because being flouncy mad is easier"

Thomas Markov

16:39

I got an accept check on an answer but no upvote. This is weird.

doppelgreener

@ThomasMarkov yeah that's always weird when that happens

Thomas Markov

The hunt for rainbow puke continues

Thomas Markov

17:03

The hunt is over

I have achieved my final form.

doppelgreener

well that hat's a bit horrifying

Thomas Markov

@doppelgreener If you draw me with this hat I'll make it my profile picture.

doppelgreener

@ThomasMarkov i could do that

Thomas Markov

The only thing that could make this better would be if I could wear the sombrero at the same time.

The Oracle

18:27

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Q: Dealing with More Comments After Movements to Chat as a User

This isn't a huge issue, (and may be a duplicate, but I didn't see another like it), but on a recent question there was quite a bit of discussion on a pair of answers which was ultimately moved to chat. The discussion seemed to generate some heat and unhappiness. Currently, more comments are bein...

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TheDragonOfFlame

18:53

I have had +137 rep this year and I am in top 3%.. that’s funny, because I was inactive for the majority of the year

Thomas Markov

...youve only had +137?

Youve had 161 this week

TheDragonOfFlame

Yeah I know

thats why it’s funny

Thomas Markov

Im confused.,

TheDragonOfFlame

also I’m 99th for reputation increase

Thomas Markov

Youve earned 2377 rep this year.

TheDragonOfFlame

18:55

Yeah that can’t be right

maybe it’s +137 this week

that would make more sense

Thomas Markov

rpg.stackexchange.com/users/62513/…

RevenantBacon

@ThomasMarkov Is that this year, or this quarter?

Thomas Markov

Year

RevenantBacon

Oh, just looked at profile. Yep, def this year

kviiri

I think it's 137 places up?

TheDragonOfFlame

18:56

It’s because it says 2478 [+137], top 3% this year

but I think the +137 is this week

Thomas Markov

@TheDragonOfFlame since you last checked the rep tab

TheDragonOfFlame

Which was probably a few days ago

How do you get a gold badge? I can’t figure it out

Thomas Markov

@TheDragonOfFlame There are lots of gold badges.

RevenantBacon

On your activity page

Thomas Markov

See this page: rpg.stackexchange.com/help/badges

RevenantBacon

18:59

where it says track next badge

Click the little gear symbol

TheDragonOfFlame

Woah

RevenantBacon

Yeah

TheDragonOfFlame

those look hard ahhh (100 votes yikes)

RevenantBacon

100 votes is EZ PZ

you get 24 votes per day

just go through questions, find ones you like, and give em an updoot

TheDragonOfFlame

100 votes on one question asked by me I mean

I must be close to getting fanatic though

Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days.

Is there a way to check how many days I’ve been on in a row?

MikeQ

19:06

Should be visible when you view your user profile. "Visited ___ days, ___ consecutive"

Rubiksmoose

^

@TheDragonOfFlame Just go to the profile tab of your user page, it'll say Visited X days, X consecutive on the right hand side.

RevenantBacon

I just set Fanatic to my tracked badge.

Rubiksmoose

That works too! Until you get the badge anyways

TheDragonOfFlame

@Rubiksmoose I don’t see that

Rubiksmoose

> Visited 114 days, 32 consecutive

RevenantBacon

19:10

@Rubiksmoose Yeah, but once I've gotten it, I don't need to keep track anymore lol

TheDragonOfFlame

I’ve got 32 consecutive

Rubiksmoose

@TheDragonOfFlame rpg.stackexchange.com/users/62513/thedragonofflame?tab=profile

Thomas Markov

Visited 272 days, 208 consecutive

Rubiksmoose

I think I broke my streak somewhere around 600

Somehow in April

TheDragonOfFlame

@ThomasMarkov Somehow I’m surprised.. you have been on the site less than a year?!?

Thomas Markov

19:17

I joined last February, but didn't become active until around the 1st of June

TheDragonOfFlame

Oh wow

for some reason I thought you had always been here for the past 6 years or whatever’s

Thomas Markov

Yeah, June 2nd my rep was 214

TheDragonOfFlame

Wow

thats about what mine was then too

RevenantBacon

@ThomasMarkov And since then, he's been on almost constantly

Also: LMAO the rainbow puke hat

Thomas Markov

@RevenantBacon It's perfect.

RevenantBacon

19:21

Oh snap, you're 2 rep off of the 200 for todays quota on Legendary. BRB

Thomas Markov

I already hit it

I had an accept earlier.

Im at 213 on the day.

rofl Ill get a silver badge for that vote, thanks.

RevenantBacon

Oh, cuz when I just looked, it said 198/200 :p

LMAO

Someone_Evil

Do the accept bonuses count for epic/legendary?

Thomas Markov

@Someone_Evil I thought so? maybe not. Ill look.

Someone_Evil

Apparently it does

RevenantBacon

19:26

@Someone_Evil And that explains why the tracker only showed 198: the tracker only shows upvotes, not points from comments or bounties or whatever.

Thomas Markov

I'll be the next legendary badge awarded.

Should get it late January/Early February.

@RevenantBacon that was a good observation on my post about wish

Bardic Wizard

I’m finally free from finals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RevenantBacon

@BardicWizard Excitement!!!!!

Bardic Wizard

I am really really happy!!!!!

RevenantBacon

But are you as excited as a dog when their person comes home?

:p

TheDragonOfFlame

19:36

@BardicWizard noice

Thomas Markov

Fun fact, SSD has earned 7400 rep this year, despite not making a single post.

RevenantBacon

SSD?

Thomas Markov

SevenSidedDie

TheDragonOfFlame

Is there a way of awarding rep for edits?

@ThomasMarkov wooah

Thomas Markov

19:51

No, they just have so many posts that they get rep passively from drive through upvotes.

TheDragonOfFlame

So there isn’t a way to get rep through edits?

seems like there should be

Thomas Markov

New users can earn rep through suggesting edits, but once you hit a certain rep you cant suggest edits anymore.

TheDragonOfFlame

Seems like the editors do as much work as the answerers / questioners, of not more..

RevenantBacon

LMAO, just took a look.

Well, maybe not that last bit

TheDragonOfFlame

@ThomasMarkov top .04% lol

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