TRPG General Chat

NautArch

12:20 AM

@nitsua60 hmm, couldn't find it (at least not ctrl-f on the chapters :P)

nitsua60

12:32 AM

@NautArch I might have misremembered. Or that might have been changed after playtest?

AncientSwordRage

1:07 AM

@Axoren did you look at the Mouseguard link I posted up?

Axoren

1:22 AM

@AncientSwordRage I missed it, I think. Could you relink?

I think I tried to bookmark it and it didn't save.

AncientSwordRage

@Axoren boardgamegeek.com/thread/923230/article/11405903#11405903

Axoren

I was gonna read through all the links people dropped over the past couple of days tonight after D&D with the handful of us that are working on the system.

AncientSwordRage

Re-reading, it's not perfect, but I remember liking how it was handled

Axoren

@AncientSwordRage Thanks.

AncientSwordRage

NP

Bardic Wizard

5:11 AM

Hiya!

BESW

[wave]

Bardic Wizard

How’s it going?

BESW

Not enough TRPG in my life.

You?

Bardic Wizard

@BESW today could have gone way better, but I’m still alive, so that’s good

BESW

"Haven't assumed room temperature yet."

Bardic Wizard

5:19 AM

@BESW pretty much.

It’s mostly stress. It’s 24 days to the first AP for me, 27 to the other one I’m taking, and the cardigan I’m designing is on the 5th hook and 3rd yarn in a futile attempt to get something I like and allows me to get a second repeat of the bee chart on the back

BESW

Oof

Bardic Wizard

The cardigan is the source of most of the stress. I’m making it based on a character I like, who’s a swarm of bees, from a really cool webcomic, so it’s going very slowly in an attempt to make it good.

In theory, this was a better idea than the reality.

BESW

...Gavotte?

Bardic Wizard

@BESW from skin horse, yeah. My best friend liked it so I gave it a try and now I really like it!

BESW

Such a great comic.

I played a version of Sweetheart in a TRPG a while back.

Aug 27 '15 at 11:23, by BESW

@doppelgreener @AlexMitan: Captain's Fancy Valentine Sweetheart is a Neurotic black ops social worker who is always happiest when There’s a protocol for that and firmly believes that Things need reasons! She's an Uplifted Canadian sled dog who is slowly learning Setting a good example is thankless work.

Adeptus

5:32 AM

I've been reading it recently. I'm up to October 2016...

BESW

If you can, leave positive comments! She's in a hiatus right now that's partly due to the comments getting so consistently negging that it's kind of exhausting.

@Adeptus It's wild to see her art style change so much even over the course of Skin Horse, much less from the early days of Narbonic.

Adeptus

@BESW That's terrible. I haven't seen any negative comments on what I've read so far (I don't always read all the comments, but when I do...)

BESW

The old comments on skin-horse.com got purged in a server error a few years ago but they were mostly very good (eddurd's filks are a thing of glory and I'm glad I saved some of the best), but in the last year or so a few vocal people started leaving "this is repetitive and predictable, how lazy" type comments almost every day.

I've been a fan of Garrity's work since about midway through Narbonic.

Her co-author for Skin Horse, Wells, started out by writing epic and hilarious fanfiction for Narbonic which Garrity then illustrated as a periodical for Sunday filler.

Adeptus

@BESW They may have recovered them somehow? So far I'm seeing plenty of comments (including filks) dated shortly after each strip was released.

Bardic Wizard

@BESW I’ll try!

BESW

5:45 AM

@Adeptus The comment purge was mid 2012, I think. You'll see some of the earlier strips have Kay Gilbert copy-pasting an archive of older comments.

Skin Horse makes Digger look svelte.

Bardic Wizard

@BESW The hiatus is actually why I’m doing this; it made me realize things I love might not be around forever so I should do the projects based off of things I like now, rather than putting them off until it’s too late.

@BESW that was prob before I was born!

BESW

@BardicWizard [feels very very old]

But yeah, Narbonic ran from 2000 to 2006 and I picked it up in early college which would've been 2003/4ish.

Bardic Wizard

I’m just young.

Adeptus

6:15 AM

@BESW [feels very very very old]

I started university about 10 years before you

BESW

6:59 AM

Tonight I'm gonna try carrot greens in my pesto.

Hot RPG Questions

7:33 AM

3

Q: Roll Xd6, keeping highest value and adding +1 for each duplicate of that value?

I'm trying to set something up on Anydice, but I'm having some trouble wrapping my mind around some of the language Anydice uses. What would I need in order to roll a set of dice, keep the highest value, and add +1 for each copy of that die? For instance, if I rolled [3, 5, 5], I'd end up with a ...

doppelgreener

9:39 AM

@BESW Ooh. i'd be interested in how that turns out.

AncientSwordRage

10:03 AM

@BESW if you're able, let us know how it turns out!

BESW

10:18 AM

Okay, I made the pesto but haven't served it yet. Tasting just a little by itself, I feel like the only significant distinction is that maybe the carrot greens absorb the flavors more than the other greens I usually use. Will report again after dinner.

BESW

11:01 AM

Legacy of the Lost by BasiliskOnline. A Belonging Outside Belonging game of community and discovery in a post-apocalyptic sc-fi galaxy.

BESW

11:38 AM

@doppelgreener @AncientSwordRage I overdid the lemon so can't really tell if the carrot did anything subtle! Maybe it's a little sweeter? It did make the texture a bit more gritty, because I kept the stems in and they don't blend super well.

AncientSwordRage

11:53 AM

@BESW hmm, maybe worth more experimentation

BESW

And my pesto tends to pack a punch. In addition to the more expected garlic, olive oil, lemon or calamansi juice, parmesan cheese, and walnuts, it's got ginger and chili sesame oil and black pepper and finadenne' denanche' (local hot pepper condiment).

AncientSwordRage

12:28 PM

sounds amazing

I've never head of using walnuts, ginger or chilli

BESW

walnuts are a relatively common replacement for the ridiculously expensive pine nuts.

AncientSwordRage

that's good to know

BESW

ginger and chili oil, are more of "Things you have to actively stop BESW from adding to whatever he's making."

AncientSwordRage

ahh, we all have those

BESW

I've also used almonds instead of pine nuts, but I prefer walnuts.

AncientSwordRage

12:31 PM

mine is smoked paprika and copious amounts of lemon juice

@BESW I try to avoid using almonds in most things

mainly due to how they're grown in california

BESW

That's very reasonable.

AncientSwordRage

I guess? It's something I can easily give up, and it's a pain to find non-Californian almonds

Not sure what difference it actually makes, but I feel better about it so...

BaconyRevanant

I feel like ginger is a strange thing to add to pesto

AncientSwordRage

@BaconyRevanant you have to actively stop BESW from adding it though

I can definitely see it working

Also, all this time I've been visualising Homous...

BaconyRevanant

I'm not saying it's bad, just that it seems strange

Have any of you done alfredo sauce before?

Someone_Evil

12:46 PM

Yes, albeit with varying success

BESW

@AncientSwordRage yes

Spicy ginger-garlic hummus is most excellent.

AncientSwordRage

@BESW I mean my brain went from pesto -> Humous straight away

@BESW it sounds it!

Hot RPG Questions

1:16 PM

1

Q: Appropriate way to account for readied-action movement time and time to attack

Context I want to play a character that is a Kobold race and make good use of their Pack Tactics. Pack Tactics. You have advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated. Using a Find Familiar-generat...

dnd-5e movement time readied-action reactions

Medix2

Is there an easy way to determine the score of an answer on a given date other than having to manually add and subtract various vote totals?

AncientSwordRage

@Medix2 ask someone in chat to do it?

Medix2

Guess I'll start doing addition and subtraction XD

Thomas Markov

1:35 PM

@Medix2 You gonna make a graph of the post scores

Medix2

@ThomasMarkov Not worth it

Thomas Markov

But it might be.

Medix2

I'm just realizing how undefined the faq process is, but that's the case on almost every Stack...

Thomas Markov

Yeah our FAQ proposal system is kind of in limbo, I think.

Akixkisu

@Medix2 any way, the discussion that we had at the time should be in the transcripts.

Medix2

1:37 PM

@Akixkisu Sorry, I don't follow

What transcripts, and who having what discussion when?

Yay English not having clusivity :(

@Akixkisu I will also say, I upvoted your Meta answer because parts of it, I do agree with and I feel some of the processes mentioned are worthy of discussion

Akixkisu

@Medix2 the discussion about the faq-proposal about the "don't guess the system policy" that I and I think one or two moderators had at that time, when I commented on it. Which should be sometime on or after 17th of nov 20.

So if you are also curious about that, then it should be available.

Not sure if it was this room or dragons though, but one should be able to find them if there is interest.

Thomas Markov

2:11 PM

Wow, the mods have a lot to think about with the community check in.

Akixkisu

2:26 PM

@Medix2 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/56184988#56184988 I feel like there might be a few lines missing that might have happened elsewhere, but I experienced it as a good and productive exchange, so I dug it out.

KorvinStarmast

2:50 PM

Very nice description of how time is understood during combat by linksassin here, I wish this was in the BR and PHB.

Akixkisu

@KorvinStarmast I like the table, but it is a good description.

It is unforunate that the time section and the combat section are so far apart.

KorvinStarmast

3:08 PM

@Akixkisu agree. There are a number of "why did they organize it this way?" questions that I had, but one that trogdor had that really put a finger on it. When Trodgor was going to play a paladin (his most recent experience being with 4e) he was a bit frustrated that he looked into the Paladin sectio nof Chapter 3, and none of his spells were there. He said that they ought to have put the Spell lists in the PC Class section, Ch 3, and the longer I have thought about it the more I agree

(This based on he and I getting our level 1 chars put together when we played some of ToA together on line, discussions in discord)

Akixkisu

@KorvinStarmast I assume it comes from a misinformed understanding of the players using the index to search for concepts. WotC's approach favours researching all related information to an idea via index entries. But they are also not exhaustively doing that. I wonder if they ever talked about that part of organising.

KorvinStarmast

@Akixkisu Given how bad their index is, and their table of contents (the 2018 Basic Rules has a decent ToC) I can only say "who the heck was the tech writer in charge on this project?"

Akixkisu

3:26 PM

@KorvinStarmast that is a very interesting question.

The credits are kind of murky dndbeyond.com/sources/phb/credits

AncientSwordRage

@Akixkisu the editing team?

Akixkisu

@AncientSwordRage I don't think we have good information to assume their roles like that.

AncientSwordRage

@Akixkisu not for certain

but it would be a line of inquiry

NautArch

4:13 PM

I'm starting to feel like all these echo knight questions are really "ask your DM". THey wrote one heckuva unclear subclass.

AncientSwordRage

@NautArch it's really unclearly written

NautArch

@AncientSwordRage It is. Frustratingly so. Thamt whole wildemount book is (and tash'as.)

AncientSwordRage

@NautArch Tasha's isn't quite as bad though, right?

NautArch

@AncientSwordRage It has quite a few moments from my perusal (not very in depth)

AncientSwordRage

I wonder how much the echo knight looks as good and clear as the other subclasses to people less experienced at D&D?

NautArch

4:17 PM

IF you don't know the problems, it'll look fine.

Thomas Markov

Yeah, the spells and subclasses from Wildemount definitely lack polish. As a campaign setting and lore book it is very well done though.

AncientSwordRage

@NautArch oh yeah, from what I heard, but just not as bad

My guess is people must assume that the details of how Images work is well defined, but squirrelled away somewhere

Thomas Markov

The Echo Knight is definitely the chief offender. There are some issues with the Chronurgy wizard, but not as bad as the Echo Knight, and the graviturgy wizard is actually pretty okay.

NautArch

I"m trying to think of what things are similar to the echo, but i don't think there are any.

Spiritual weapon doesn't occupy a space

Telekinesis moves physical objects

KorvinStarmast

@NautArch yes, the lack of polish is noteworthy

NautArch

4:22 PM

Ugh, i think i'm going to write up a generic answer about table decision.

for all of them (which honestly is clear in the other echo knight questions we have that this is unclear)

Thomas Markov

@NautArch Please.

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov first one up, happy for edits before I copypasta to the others.

Thomas Markov

Id suggest that these conversations need to happen prior to choosing the subclass at all, because most of these situations are almost certainly inevitable.

NautArch

^^

adding

Thomas Markov

Which will help better set the player's and DM's expectations going into battle.

Basically, the feature is so odd, that if you don't talk about it beforehand, you're gambling on how your DM will rule on it.

bobble

4:29 PM

I'd capitalize "Echo Knight" but that is a nitpick :)

NautArch

@bobble done and done

bobble

you left out one instance

> none of those have the same properties of the echo knight.

nitsua60

@NautArch They super-rushed the playtest on Wildemount, I know.

(Like, "here's a thing, can you give us feedback in two weeks?")

Thomas Markov

This sentence is a pretty wild ride:

> Helping make sure everyone understands the need gray areas, what needs to be agreed on, and that judgements may come up that require an immediate ruling may happen will go a long way to to mitigating any unhappiness and setting the expectation that this subclass is a little loosey goosey.

AncientSwordRage

@nitsua60 surely it's at the printers by then?

@ThomasMarkov it ends in 'loosey goosey' so it gets a pass from me

Thomas Markov

4:33 PM

I think it's a great stylistic representation of the subclass.

:P

NautArch

Before my last copy-pasta, I'll take an edit on that from y'all :P

Thomas Markov

I'll try to fix it lol

KorvinStarmast

@nitsua60 Which means that whomever is / was in charge of project management doesn't know how to use a time line nor an even flow chart. {remaining comments censored} Nor do they know the 1/3 - 2/3 rule.

Thomas Markov

@NautArch Try it now

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast 1/3 - 2/3 ?

bobble

4:35 PM

4 mins ago, by bobble

> none of those have the same properties of the echo knight.

should be "Echo Knight" :)

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage If you have a deadline~timeline and have others whose plans depend on knowing your plan to make "the project plan" work, allocate no more than, and ideally less than, 1/3 of the time line in getting your overarching plan put together and to them so that thay have 2/3, or more, time to get theirs to you so that the whole plan can be assembled.

Thomas Markov

Alright, I got the changes made to all three answers.

Medix2

@ThomasMarkov Just a note, judgement is a perfectly valid spelling

Thomas Markov

@Medix2 It set off my spellcheck lol

Medix2

So would grey and channelled I assume

Or gray and channeled, fun with English

Thomas Markov

4:40 PM

According to thesaurus.com, "judgment remains the preferred spelling in British legal proceedings"

bobble

bah, who cares about Britain

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov OBJECTION!

@bobble ::cries in tea, union jacks and thoughts of blighty::

@ThomasMarkov I suspect that's a particular legal term, and although we may be rules lawyer, we're not in rules court.

Thomas Markov

When I was in school I was told judgement was incorrect.

Medix2

@ThomasMarkov When I was in school I was told 5 minus 8 was undefined, as was the square root of negative one.

Someone_Evil

Is this another artefact of Webster deciding certain words should be spelled differently?

Medix2

4:46 PM

I wonder if I can find that meme along the lines of "We teach you things and then we teach you how those things were lies"

Thomas Markov

@Medix2 In the sense that there is no group structure on the naturals, this is true.

Medix2

@ThomasMarkov In the sense that other countries do not exist, judgement being wrong is true too

But yeah, English spelling is an absolute mess and it's no wonder we have so many edge cases and oddities with words. Like singeing

Thomas Markov

I imagine youll find much more widespread agreement that the natural numbers are only a monoid than you will that other countries dont exist.

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil even if it is, it's by no means the only time someone's done that

Thomas Markov

@Medix2 Miss me with this silliness.

AncientSwordRage

4:53 PM

Embrace the chaos

Oct 12 '20 at 11:40, by AncientSwordRage

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica My favourite thing, is people assuming words/phrases like "Normalcy" or "do the needful" are new inventions of those who have corrupted english, when actually, they're archaic phrases that persisted past their use in the UK

Jan 21 at 10:53, by AncientSwordRage

Why Is English Spelling So Damn Weird?!

►

one of my favourite 'idiot changes' made to English is that we used to have Ile and Iland, one was a corruption of French (?) and changed to Island to match the original spelling in that language. Ile was changed to follow suit, but no previous spelling of Ile has an S in it.

@NautArch ...is the plan to dupe close those Echo Knight questions?

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage Just to put this all in perspective, I_land means something different that Island if you are a pilot, but if you say it quickly they sound similar. 😁

AncientSwordRage

Hi @Catofdoom2!

Cat of doom2

you noticed i logged on

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast Do you want the Aisle seat, or the seat where you can see the Isle?

Cat of doom2

@AncientSwordRage hello

AncientSwordRage

4:59 PM

@Catofdoom2 there's a little animation when you join chat

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

@AncientSwordRage Tibetan or some such: 'oh hi did not notice you'.

AncientSwordRage

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica ?

Cat of doom2

fire drill

brb

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

@AncientSwordRage Would you believe that English might be not the deepest orthography?

AncientSwordRage

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica yes

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

5:00 PM

Good. ^_^

AncientSwordRage

I think it was nativlang who did Tibetan orthography? Wild stuff

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage Yes. 😎

AncientSwordRage

The whole thing is Moot

whether that means it's worth discussing or not is up to the reader to decide

Cat of doom2

i'm back

no one died

lol

back in 6th grade they said it was a fire drill but it was an actually a gas leak

my players are attempting to make a deal with a high-level fiend. what fiend should I use?

MikeQ

5:25 PM

How are they attempting to make a deal if nobody knows who the fiend is?

Cat of doom2

@AncientSwordRage

they are doing some dumb rutial from one of the books

AncientSwordRage

@Catofdoom2 you should probably know what book and which ritual

unfortunately I have to leave work otherwise I'll be home too late

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

@Catofdoom2 Throw a curveball: a VtM kind of Fiend.

MikeQ

Not sure what book or ritual you're talking about. In any case, if there's 0% chance that it could result in combat (maybe it talks to them through the book or a disembodied voice), then you don't need a stat block. Just say it's some fiend entity that's appropriate for the setting.

NautArch

@AncientSwordRage identical answers aren't identical questions

Cat of doom2

5:53 PM

its apparently greater fiend

or grand fiend

BaconyRevanant

@NautArch not always, but it definitely was ni this case

You guys closed it for no reason, and it's just created excess clutter on the site

"Can the Echo move through [thing]?" and "Can the Echo move through [Other, similar thing]?" is not a useful distinction

@AncientSwordRage Oh oh, I know this one! The answer is "Because English is 3 language roots in a trench coat, Germanic, Latin, and Greek"

AncientSwordRage

6:08 PM

@NautArch I think that must be just how we treat it over on Sci-Fi

@BaconyRevanant try a creole of high norse and old English

@Catofdoom2 they can request that, but as the DM you can and should (sometimes) say no

nitsua60

@AncientSwordRage Well, it was a year before release or so. Just a much shorter than usual playtest window.

@KorvinStarmast That all sounds correct. Aided, IIRC, by a change in the staff responsible for that particular part of products' life cycle.

AncientSwordRage

@nitsua60 ahhhh

@KorvinStarmast I've just finished a draft of my estimation article if you want a look

Mithical

@BaconyRevanant ...rifling through other language's pockets for spare words.

AncientSwordRage

@BaconyRevanant I got some details wrong maybe? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_creole_hypothesis

@Mithical hello SHOUTY MCSHOUTERSON

nitsua60

Which is to say that for many years I was pretty impressed with the playtest process. Over a year out from release, give a few months to run an adventure or test some content, and feedback questionnaires that had obvious thought put into them. (Questions about specific NPCs, or how challenging X was, or how proposed subclass Y compares with established subclasses A, B, and C.)

Axoren

6:18 PM

Oh my, so many Echo Knight questions

Someone must be playing an Echo Knight

doppelgreener

It's my favorite sherson! Hi @nitsua60!

BaconyRevanant

@AncientSwordRage With some Gaelic as a garnish

@Mithical It's amazing how many loan words English has, especially from French

AncientSwordRage

@doppelgreener I had to Google that very carefully

BaconyRevanant

@AncientSwordRage I tried, all I got was that Maylasian chef

Axoren

Sheeple (plural of Sherson)

In a two sentences: The government is lying to us! Wake up, sheeple!

BaconyRevanant

6:23 PM

Ah, so singular case. Neat

doppelgreener

(triple dash for strikeout in chat)

AncientSwordRage

@BaconyRevanant what axoren said

BaconyRevanant

like ~~this~~

Axoren

Man, I wish there was a standard that Reddit, Discord, and SE all followed instead of each doing it differently.

Simple chat-level markup is a solved problem.

BaconyRevanant

I'm of the opinion that they should all just use full unicode libraries and nothing else

Axoren

6:24 PM

Also, Tab-completion vs. Enter-completion. I wish this was also standardized.

AncientSwordRage

@Axoren we should make another standard for them all to follow

2

Axoren

@BaconyRevanant Libraries written for unicode or in unicode?

BaconyRevanant

Unicode™ It's„ what'sß for˜ dinner╛

@Axoren Yes

A Unicode library written in Unicode

Axoren

import ẓ̵̨̛͇̦͗̾̉̈́̓̒͋̀̀͠͝a̴̢̛͎̩͓͚̱͒̅̎̒͌l̷͎̍͒̅̅̇͑͂͝g̴̫̣̣͇̺̝̙̝̤̟̰̖̐͐̈͝ǫ̷̜̦̱̪̘̰̟͙̗̘̽͛̾̈̿̾̈̉̈́͑͆͝ͅ;

As for whether or not people actually do write code in unicode: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/195276/12309

Code Golf exists.

KorvinStarmast

6:55 PM

@AncientSwordRage yes I do.

AncientSwordRage

7:35 PM

@KorvinStarmast how can I contact you?

Are you on discord?

KorvinStarmast

7:46 PM

yes, I'll send you an email address if that 'use it once' app is still working

@NautArch arrgh, what was the name of that thing we used for email addresses, one use and it dies? Hmm.

Mithical

onetimesecret.com

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage yes, I am on discord. Are you on here now?

@Mithical thx

@AncientSwordRage when you and I are both on I can get that email to you and then kill the message.

AncientSwordRage

8:02 PM

@KorvinStarmast I'm on now

And I'm on discord

If you have Besw or Rubik's they can pass a message on

To be honest I'd prefer discord

KorvinStarmast

OK, how do I find you on discord. I think I have it working better on my phone now'

That dies in 5 minutes. Got it?

AncientSwordRage

Got it

KorvinStarmast

Ok, look forward to hearing from you. Do a quick "radio check" email and I'll see if ti gets through

AncientSwordRage

Ahhh, I already sent all my details

My passwords, SSN, my shoe size

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage Nice article, so far about half way through, and you reminded me of somehting as I got about half way down ... Mission Analysis. It's the first thing one does when given a new mission. So when the boss asks, at the water cooler, 'how long does it take' the answer is "in need to do a mission analysis" or "a task analysis" and then you have comitted to doing just that. But you haven't written a deadline yet

@AncientSwordRage Nice article. (And I recognize a few traps I have fallen into in the past!)

AncientSwordRage

8:26 PM

Thanks!

@KorvinStarmast I'm used to that happening during our sprint planning, if it happens at all. Covid has not been kind to us

goodguy5

wait a second, why are we talking about sprint planning?

AncientSwordRage

@goodguy5 I sent Korvin an article about estimation

goodguy5

ah okay

Someone_Evil

8:50 PM

@ThomasMarkov Is it marked that? (sorry to everyone who doesn't have context on that)

Thomas Markov

High priority curation task, I know :P

@Someone_Evil I just read the post more carefully, the flag is probably okay actually.

Decline my flag and I will take my lashes

Someone_Evil

meh, taught me that it may still obfuscate the post to others even if I get no indication of it.

Thomas Markov

That is strange.

In a strange way, it really isn't that bad of an answer. It could use some more support, but the sentiment is decent. And the crude idiom could be salvaged.

Someone_Evil

I mean, usually those posts are deleted by the red flags, which does an additional lock (which we can see) in addition to the obfuscation. But I guess a validated RA flag can do some of the same

bobble

240

A: What are the “spam” and “rude or abusive” (offensive) flags, and how do they work?

Note for moderators: some sites, including Stack Overflow, have more permissive, overriding guidance on the handling of these flags. What makes something spam and when should I flag it? A post should be marked as spam only if it promotes a product, service, or similar; and is unsolicited or lacks...

See bottom part for explanation of what happens to the post

(2nd-to-last part, actually)

Thomas Markov

9:00 PM

@Someone_Evil Are you actually able to "unspam" a post?

Someone_Evil

Yes

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Thomas Markov

10:02 PM

Frozen ravioli bag: ready in 5 minutes!

Also frozen ravioli bag: boil 3 quarts of water.

Someone_Evil

That's just a matter of wattage

BESW

Electric kettle, I choose you!

(I put a small amount of water into the pan on heat, and boil the rest in the kettle, then add the kettle water to the pan.)

Thomas Markov

Btw 3 quarts is about 3 liters for you folks with sensible measurements

There’s something else very wrong about this ravioli bag.

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov Is it filled with tortellini?

Thomas Markov

According to the label there’s 1.2 kg of potassium in this bag.

NautArch

10:15 PM

kg?

and how much does the bag weigh?

BESW

@NautArch That would be something right.

Thomas Markov

The bag weighs .7 kg.

But insists that there is 255 grams of potassium per serving.

Someone_Evil

Someone has forgotten their milli I suspect

NautArch

@Someone_Evil vanilli?

Someone_Evil

@NautArch how much is a vanilligram?

doppelgreener

10:18 PM

@BESW i do this!

BESW

@Someone_Evil Depends, if he sings your message it's extra.

doppelgreener

the small amount of water in the pan is so that i can heat up the pan and not pour my boiling water into a cold pan to then re-heat all over again

BESW

@doppelgreener Exactly! (also heating an empty pan is not great for the pan)

doppelgreener

(heating up the pan with no water in it means two hundred degree very hot metal no good very bad day, even hot water will explosively vaporise if i pour it into there)

BESW

Spoken like someone with experience.

doppelgreener

10:21 PM

i have, at times, run out of water in the pan and gone "yes no problem i will keep it on the gas anyway and not put more water in here. gee this kettle is taking a while."

NautArch

@Someone_Evil It depends on if they're actually measuring or if it's someone else.

doppelgreener

those times were ... two.

BESW

Kickstarter: Orbital Blues by SoulMuppet Publishing. A Blues-infused Space Western Roleplaying Game, with an accompanying Cassette EP. Sinta Posadas is a stretch goal!

BESW

10:33 PM

J.R.Zambrano wrote a twitter thread about how Pasión de las Pasiones (digital, physical) "incentivizes you to get into character in a way I haven't seen another #ttrpg do."

@doppelgreener Lockpicking Lawyer: "Now let's do it again just to show that it's not a fluke."

doppelgreener

@BESW hahahaha, yes

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