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Thomas Markov

19:00

@BardicWizard Seems like all of those owe a lot to not having home work ;)

@RevenantBacon I hate coconut rather passionately.

Like, if I could make a career out of hating coconut, I'd never retire.

The only thing coconuts are good for is making horsey sounds.

RevenantBacon

@ThomasMarkov You sound like my dad, he hates it that much too.

My mom, on the other hand, loves it as much as I do

kviiri

@BardicWizard I was one of those weird kids who loved brussel sprouts, broccoli and well. All things cabbage tbh

RevenantBacon

I could live on coconut macaroons

kviiri

A lot of childrens' media was hard to relate to in the gastronomic sense

RevenantBacon

Well, besides the fact that I would die from lack of proper vitamins and variety

Bardic Wizard

19:08

@ThomasMarkov more like not having school in general

@kviiri I like Brussels sprouts but my siblings don’t

RevenantBacon

@BardicWizard Well, then you should be outraged that your parents ate them all and didn't leave any for you! :p

Thomas Markov

I like to saute brussels sprouts and asparagus in bacon grease and then add the bacon I used to make the bacon grease.

Vegetables are only optionally healthy.

TheDragonOfFlame

I've moved up to top 2% this quarter

RevenantBacon

@ThomasMarkov I like them roasted in the oven with maple syrup and bacon applied liberally

And enough cheese on my broccoli to drown in :p

TheDragonOfFlame

@ThomasMarkov I'll just take the bacon if you don't mind

Thomas Markov

19:13

Pretty sure any vegetable can be improved upon by adding Caesar dressing and shredded Parmesan.

TheDragonOfFlame

@RevenantBacon Ooh maple glazed bacon is so good

Thomas Markov

@TheDragonOfFlame I got my 300th bronze badge today

TheDragonOfFlame

@ThomasMarkov wow..

I've only been on nine months..

Of course, youve only been on 10

Thomas Markov

I mostly just lurked for the first three months lol

RevenantBacon

He spends a very large amount of time on the site

TheDragonOfFlame

19:19

Yeah.. well.. top 2%

Thomas Markov

Here's my very first answer: rpg.stackexchange.com/a/169954/62294

TheDragonOfFlame

Of course you are top .03%

RevenantBacon

Also, out of those 300 badges, over 200 of them are "Nice Answer" which is like, the easiest badge to get

David Coffron

@ThomasMarkov I remember that answer! I asked the question!

@RevenantBacon I have 268 Nice Answer badges lol

TheDragonOfFlame

I dont think I've even written 200 answers..

David Coffron

19:21

(63% of my bronze badges)

TheDragonOfFlame

I am still mostly lurking tbh

Ive written 17 answers

RevenantBacon

@DavidCoffron I only have 14 LMAO

David Coffron

@TheDragonOfFlame You have 17 answers, but your average answer score is 3.76 which isn't terrible

Thomas Markov

@RevenantBacon My silver badges are 65% enlightened badges.

RevenantBacon

@ThomasMarkov 435 answers, with 216 "Nice Answer" badges. That's pretty close to a 50% ratio

David Coffron

19:24

My average answer score is 11.97, so it makes sense that I have so many Nice Answer badges

Thomas' is 11.38, so also makes sense with those badges

Source

Thomas Markov

My uncapped rep is 58000

David Coffron

@ThomasMarkov That's really good for less than a year, dang

Thomas Markov

I've lost almost 24000 rep to the rep cap

Also only 24 days away from legendary

David Coffron

@ThomasMarkov You're closer to Legendary than me (I need 26). Bravo

@ThomasMarkov 1000 more lost to cap and you could create a fully privileged user out of your lost rep

Thomas Markov

This is my favorite badge related statistic: run this from 06-01-2020 data.stackexchange.com/rpg/query/1293554/…

David Coffron

19:33

@ThomasMarkov Dang. That's a lot of quick high-quality answers

Thomas Markov

Since July 1st ive received 24.8% of all the enlightened badges given out

David Coffron

That used to be NautArch's wheel-house but you are knocking it out of the park

(if you run it for 2019, NautArch is the clear leader)

I had a lot in 2018 (close to 100), but I slowed down after that

Thomas Markov

Im still ahead of Naut for badges since 01-01-2019

David Coffron

@ThomasMarkov Yep, that's what I'm saying. 2018-2019 it was Rubiksmoose, NautArch, and myself as the most prolific answerers (if i remember correctly), but you are outpacing the three of us in our prime this year

RevenantBacon

@ThomasMarkov You've lost more rep than the total that I've gained

Oof

David Coffron

19:37

Oh dear, I've lost 70,757 to rep cap

Thomas Markov

That doesnt sound right..

David Coffron

I ran this: data.stackexchange.com/rpg/query/1233930/…

Thomas Markov

Thats your total rep if there was no cap

data.stackexchange.com/rpg/query/1310248/…

Run this.

David Coffron

Oooh. The text in the beginning is worded weird

18383

@ThomasMarkov YOu've lost 68% of rep to cap, dang

Thomas Markov

That calculation seems incorrect, it does (lost rep) / (actual rep) rather than (lost rep)/(lost rep + actual rep)

kviiri

19:43

5

Q: Slaying the Target Outright

In Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition's Player's Handbook I. on page 288 states: Under "Coup De Grace," there is the rule "Slaying the Target Outright": "If you deal damage greater than or equal to the target's bloodied value, the target dies." Does the above rule apply to standard combat or only f...

Case in point about one of my favorite topics, DnD 4e pre-MM3 damage values :P

David Coffron

@kviiri I wish 5e would do the Monster Manual 1, 2, 3 thing instead of giving us weird unbalanced supplements with a bunch of random stuff. (the supplements all have a mix of subclasses, monsters, races, and dungeon master's tools)

Thomas Markov

@Someone_Evil do we want SmokeDetector to report here for experimental reasons?

Or @kviiri youre authorized technically as a room owner to make that call.

kviiri

@ThomasMarkov What does this mean in practice?

Thomas Markov

I dont know lol, Someone_Evil responded over in Charcoal HQ

kviiri

(I'm not going to make the decision alone, but I'll be happy to provide some input)

David Coffron

19:51

I thought Smoke Detector was already in this room:

2 days ago, by SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of body (43): Thoughts on Monster Class Homebrew (pokemon trainer) by Alan Busca Pe Huynh on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose)

kviiri

Yep, that's a part of my confusion, so I suspect the "experimental reasons" here is the meat of the question?

Someone_Evil

I think we're fine without it (I passed on the option for now). It's not like things aren't generally picked up, so I think we can save ourselves the false positives as the smokey folks work out heuristics

Thomas Markov

I think the procedure that would have caused ol smokey to catch that one is "experimental"

we dont need smokey when we have thomas

3 hours ago, by Thomas Markov

spam on this question: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/q/14035/62294

AncientSwordRage

@BardicWizard that's some beautiful parenting

David Coffron

@AncientSwordRage I concur

Bardic Wizard

19:56

@AncientSwordRage I love my mom and dad, but they make me nervous sometimes

AncientSwordRage

@BardicWizard you and I have similar parents then

Bardic Wizard

@AncientSwordRage I think it applies to all parents

David Coffron

@BardicWizard At least all biological parents. They make our nervous system :P

RevenantBacon

@DavidCoffron sigh

@BardicWizard What happened?

Bardic Wizard

@RevenantBacon the Brussels sprouts thing

I meant “my parents are wonderful angelic creatures”, of course (Mom’s looking over my shoulder)

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

20:09

@BardicWizard First thing an angel says is 'Do not fear, mortal', eh?

David Coffron

@BardicWizard isn't that pwoms (or is that no longer used)

That was the acronym back in the AOL messenger days

Bardic Wizard

@DavidCoffron what’s aol? I’ve also never heard that abbreviation

David Coffron

The users who have more than 100 posts and an average post score of 20+ are nitsua60, guildsbounty, Tiggerous

@BardicWizard Gosh, now I feel old. It's a service provider and used to be super commonly used for email and instant messaging. You may have also heard AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)

It was popular in the early 2000s

AncientSwordRage

I remember ICQ.... hah, that takes me back!

RevenantBacon

@BardicWizard Ah, so nervous in the sense that "Oh no, now I won't get any brussel sprouts!"

You can tell them that a Random Stranger on the Internet (tm) approves of their tomfoolery

David Coffron

20:24

@RevenantBacon So that's what RSOI stands for; I always thought it had something to do with the military

Thomas Markov

@DavidCoffron guildsbounty's badge distribution is pretty crazy.

David Coffron

:P

@ThomasMarkov Yeah, nearly every bronze badge has a corresponding silver badge

It's because his Enlightened, Guru, and Good Answers nearly equal his Nice Answer badges

Bardic Wizard

@DavidCoffron I keep telling people I’m just really young so they’re not as old as they think

David Coffron

@RevenantBacon I'm close to there as well; I spoke to some of my old friends for about 3 minuts on Facebook because I was trying to remember a board game I used to play in HS. That's the extent of it for me lol

@BardicWizard Fair enough.

RevenantBacon

@BardicWizard Oh no, I missed that bit. I really am old

David Coffron

20:36

@RevenantBacon I mean if your breakfast foods are undead, I can only imagine how long you've been around

RevenantBacon

@DavidCoffron That's pretty presumptuous of you

Imagine, thinking that bacon is only a breakfast food

David Coffron

@RevenantBacon I personally don't eat bacon at all, so I am un-knowledgable in that venture

I just cant stand the taste

RevenantBacon

@DavidCoffron First of all, how dare you. Secondly, how dare you

Bacon is LIFE

I could LIVE off of bacon

:p

David Coffron

@RevenantBacon I figured I was in for it when I said that and then looked at your profile picture. :P

RevenantBacon

@DavidCoffron You come in to my house

David Coffron

20:43

@RevenantBacon If it makes you feel any better I can tolerate turkey bacon :P

Thomas Markov

Turkey bacon is worse than coconuts.

David Coffron

@ThomasMarkov I love coconuts. Have it on my cupcakes every birthday

RevenantBacon

@ThomasMarkov In this, we are in agreement

@DavidCoffron Not sure if this is actually worse

David Coffron

@RevenantBacon I also put bacon bits on my salad sometimes, but it has to be a really light sprinkling (and only if I don't have any pepperoni to add)

RevenantBacon

Like real bacon bits, or that crunchy artificially flavored stuff?

David Coffron

20:49

@RevenantBacon Uh... the kind my girlfriend has in the pantry. Probably the fake stuff

RevenantBacon

Ohhhh dear

David Coffron

@RevenantBacon Venison though, I can eat all day

RevenantBacon

@DavidCoffron Alright, I'll allow it. You can be pardoned

Let it be known, that on this day, December the Twenty-Third of the year Two Thousand Twenty, @DavidCoffron has been officially pardoned for the crime of Not Really Liking Bacon All That Much.

:p

David Coffron

@RevenantBacon Wipes sweat from brow

Bardic Wizard

21:06

@RevenantBacon bacon is gross

(Says the vegetarian)

RevenantBacon

@BardicWizard The earth shakes beneath you

You hear a wailing in the distance

David Coffron

@BardicWizard Vegan bacon is definitely worse than any other kind. It's literally just gluten hunks with smoke flavoring

RevenantBacon

The smell of freshly fried bacon begins to fill the air around you

The sky darkens, as clouds being to form from seemingly nowhere

David Coffron

@RevenantBacon Lovecraftian swinepeople?

I miss Call of Cthulu

(not that it went anywhere, but the playgroup I had that used to play it dissolved a few years ago)

RevenantBacon

A voice booms from the sky

"OK, that's it, those are all the ominous things I could think of"

"Repent now, or forever be known as:"

"That one person, who hates bacon"

David Coffron

21:17

returns to the store and buys some cookies with the money I got from returning the bacon

"Okay, it's respent, we good now?"

RevenantBacon

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David Coffron

That kind of looks like bacon. Or am I being affected by the toxic brain waves of this entity...

RevenantBacon

@DavidCoffron This has tangentially reminded me of a meme

Wait, no, it was from SMBC

David Coffron

@RevenantBacon that's a bit of a stretch, but a good stretch; like one that makes your back crack just right

RevenantBacon

Yeah, the site is full of goofy stuff like this

David Coffron

21:28

I think some have been posted here before; definitely good fun

Jul 20 '18 at 13:17, by kviiri

(obligatory SMBC regarding "verbed")

goodguy5

5And does anyone else get this thing where you smell smoke, but there's no smoke?

trogdor

21:43

I know one or two people who say they smell smoke when there isn't any

although that's usually when someone is cooking food so they smell combustion so I don't know if that counts

goodguy5

idk, almost 1/day I smell phantom smoke. Today it's enough to give me a headache

trogdor

huh

goodguy5

It's only been in this house. I've been trying to figure out if I've developed something health-wise, or if it's the house.

no one else ever notices it

RevenantBacon

@goodguy5 That makes it very concerning

goodguy5

I KNOW RIGHT

but, in "everyone's" defense, it's in the basement, where it's mostly just me

sometimes people come down, but it's 90%+ just me

and that's the main place I smell it

the main thing that makes me think that it's environmental is that I can like cover my nose with a cloth or something and I can't smell it anymore.

trogdor

21:50

I think you should have that room checked out

RevenantBacon

^

Is there like a water heater, or a furnace, or something else like that that's down there?

AncientSwordRage

@goodguy5 if its not physical, look up phantosmia

goodguy5

oh, I have

@RevenantBacon a boiler yea. I've got a CO detector near it

AncientSwordRage

@BardicWizard non-vegetarian here, not gross for me but I do not get the obsession.

Its salt + smoke

goodguy5

@trogdor As soon as I feel like I can have technicians in my house without worrying about the rona.....

RevenantBacon

21:55

@AncientSwordRage I'm surrounded by heathens

AncientSwordRage

@RevenantBacon you're outnumbered

RevenantBacon

@goodguy5 Then there's probably something on or around the heating portion of the boiler that's putting off the smell

trogdor

@goodguy5 yeah that is an unfortunate complication

goodguy5

@RevenantBacon that's my guess. I know that my nose is a little more sensitive than my wife's so I can't tell if it's me or not

AncientSwordRage

@goodguy5 my wife and I are the same but she's the one with super-senses

RevenantBacon

21:57

@goodguy5 Before you go and have a tech over, give it a once-over and see if there's an inordinate amount of dust/cobwebs/etc around it, maybe it just needs a bit of a cleaning off (assuming you haven't done so already)

goodguy5

@RevenantBacon I've given it about a once over, maybe a half over

I'll check this later. done work now

RevenantBacon

@AncientSwordRage in New York gangster accent Careful boys, they've got us surrounded!

AncientSwordRage

I mean, who wants to eat anything that has to be cured before it's edible. I want healthy food.

trogdor

lol

RevenantBacon

The only thing that bacon needs to be cured of is being alive!

Bardic Wizard

22:11

@RevenantBacon what’s the matter with live pigs? Pigs are better alive than dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In fact all animals are better alive than dead!!!! Except mosquitoes!!! Destroy all mosquitoes!

trogdor

yeess

destroy the useless bug

not other bugs just the one that sucks blood

and spreads desease

all mosquitoes must die

(maybe not actually all but a large number of them should be sacrificed each year)

(mostly I'm worried about the innocent creatures that rely on mosquitoes as food, not the stupid mosquitoes themselves)

Mark Wells

technically I think all of them die each year

trogdor

lol

I mean that's a fair point

but I mean like, tie them all up and put them on the tables of dragonflies and stuff

XD

Bardic Wizard

@trogdor yeah. Can we create a less awful bug to take their place? Please?

Mark Wells

(yeah, I know, then why are they still around? per tradition I am inclined to blame the Devil.)

trogdor

22:21

lol

yeah something that chews on leaves but has the same nutrition for predators appropriate for their size would be nice

Bardic Wizard

goes around shouting “SACRIFICE!!! SACRIFICE!!!” again

trogdor

lol

Mark Wells

@BardicWizard I was meaning to ask because you, too, have seen the fog: San Joaquin Delta on a winter night. Would you describe it as "eldritch", or "uncanny"?

Bardic Wizard

@MarkWells I’m more in the greater Sac area, but probably “eldritch” in general, especially when the sunset or sunrise hits it and it just barely glows. “Uncanny“ would also work but I’d more use that to describe morning fog that makes it impossible to see 20 feet in front of you

Mark Wells

thanks

Bardic Wizard

22:29

That’s an interesting question though, why? In other contexts, there’s sometimes other words I’d use for it

Mark Wells

Weird California RPG setting

TheDragonOfFlame

@DavidCoffron though I do delete most of my unpopular answers..

Bardic Wizard

Really early in the morning, before there’s much light (~6:30), I’d call it eerie (Especially when it’s just super thick and cold and wet and not fun to walk through especially in the dark)

By 10 am or so it’s more “awkwardly still there and wet but not as cold” though I don’t think there’s a single word for it

Mark Wells

the Delta is very haunted, like Dead Marshes level. the fog is a manifestation of the ghosts of everyone who has fallen prey to the hippos and giant catfish.

Bardic Wizard

I’m not often up in the middle of the night but “cold” is the best description of it then

And when there’s frost on the grass, it’s “fricking freezing and freaking wet” as my bff calls it

@MarkWells I’ve never seen either giant catfish or hippos in either the Sacramento River or the American River, and I don’t think the zoo has either animal

Shalvenay

22:38

@BardicWizard yeah, no hippos -- harder to rule out the giant catfish though

Bardic Wizard

@Shalvenay the zoo wants to get a hippo though I think

TheDragonOfFlame

@BardicWizard I have a literal phobia of giant catfish

Bardic Wizard

And fairy tale town has a fake hippo I think

TheDragonOfFlame

and normal catfish

Mark Wells

They are fairly terrifying.

Shalvenay

22:43

@BardicWizard although as it turns out, all of the native North American large catfish species have ranges that are by and large restricted to east of the Rockies

Bardic Wizard

@Shalvenay THANK GOODNESS.

Today’s weather report: “After our morning fog, it’s been mostly sunny, though clouds will be forming overnight and expect more fog for Christmas”

That’s how prevalent fog is around here

(Source: the radio station does the weather every hour)

AncientSwordRage

23:09

@BardicWizard phelddagrif?

Someone_Evil

@AncientSwordRage Are you insinuating those aren't real?

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil I don't have a PhD in them, so I wouldn't know...

Bardic Wizard

@AncientSwordRage no, this is what I was talking about

Someone_Evil

Putting your head into the maw of a real hippo would be a terrible idea

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Q: Slaying the Target Outright

In Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition's Player's Handbook I. on page 288 states: Under "Coup De Grace," there is the rule "Slaying the Target Outright": "If you deal damage greater than or equal to the target's bloodied value, the target dies." Does the above rule apply to standard combat or only f...

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Bardic Wizard

23:24

@Someone_Evil definitely... while I loved ftt when I was younger, half the stuff that’s there now scares me by its implications

AncientSwordRage

@BardicWizard oooooh

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