Started reading Order of the Stick earlier today, my favorite so far is #101. giantitp.com/comics/oots0101.html

@JohnLocke I'd forgotten about that one. It's good.

On a completely unrelated topic, does anyone know why SE decided to make downvotes so much less rep-changing than upvotes? I've been wondering why it's entirely possible to have a post with a very negative score that still results in a gain of reputation.

@JohnLocke This is one of my favourite early ones: giantitp.com/comics/oots0110.html

@Gryphon I think minus 10 would be pretty extreme for a bad answer, and the random downvotes would bring down user rep a lot. If it's only -1 rep for the downvoter, people would downvote way more. If it was -5 or -9 for the downvoter, people would downvote a lot less. I would be less inclined to give up that much rep unless the answer was really bad.

@Gryphon Okay, I'm almost to that point, so I'll look at it when I get there.

@JohnLocke Oh, sorry, it was only like 10 past the one you linked, so I assumed you'd be there. My bad.

@Gryphon I liked the last row of 115

@JohnLocke Both 123 and 129 are pretty great.

135, 136, and 138 are good too.

Is this one of these "Questions disguised as a rant"? worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/139750/…

giantitp.com/comics/oots0038.html

@James Nice one. But it's dangerous to have that comics here... it might reduce some people's productivity! :)

@James on the offchance

darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html

Good morning/happy timezone, everyone.

happy timezone dear weird-shaped cat

@Kepotx I... have never actually been called a weird-shaped cat before. I suppose that's what I evolved from, though.

(That linked answer is one of my favourites on the site).

wow, that's a huge wall of text. probably interesting but too busy to read it know

@Kepotx I don't blame you. The author said it was originally longer, but they ran into the max character limit for answers. It's really interesting, though, and very well thought out.

@Gryphon i just read the title, seems a great answer, so upvote it and will read it later

@Gryphon I had missed that question altogether. It is really well done.

I had a gryphon mount in a DnD campaign once...we thought we were really tough so we dropped into the middle of a barbarian horde all superhero-like. We survived...my poor gryphon, not so much.

It was very sad. :'(

Ever since then I refrain from naming mounts...well ok I did name a dragon that I had as a mount, but its a freaking dragon. He could eat demons whole.

@James I would love to find a group to play DnD with. The problems with living in a small town... maybe when I get to uni.

Solus Linux is best op system, change my mind.

@Mephistopheles Does it run Bioshock?

@AndyD273 I haven't tried yet, but

gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/bioshock-guide.162

They did.

And who needs Bioshock when you have

rg3.github.io/youtube-dl

I luv it

@Mephistopheles So what you're saying is "who needs air when you have water?" then point to a program that will run under every OS.

@AndyD273 Notepad++

@AndyD273 Privacy, no, wait, that won't run on Windows 10. Don't try to hide it, Cortana, I know you're working for the Mossad.

@James I'll take what is an example of a non sequitur for $1000 James.

@Gryphon There's a meme about DnD that goes something like. "Nerdiest game ever made, requires friends to play."

@AndyD273 Am I right?

C'mon, tell me I am right.

Sorry, this one:

In D&D, does communication fall under charisma, intelligence, or wisdom?

I'm trying to figure out which one has been debuffed on me today.

@AndyD273 Charisma

mostly at least.

Charisma is what you use for deception, persuasion and intimidation. Though you can arguably substitute strength for intimidation at times, we also situationally allow people to use wisdom or intelligence checks on things when it makes sense.

@HDE226868 Hola

@James Afternoon.

@HDE226868 That is my favorite "make me think" book.

@James ?

@HDE226868 Dostoyevski

Oh, yes. That was quite a good read.

It should be required reading for all science and philosophy majors.

I can agree with that.

Science says...! -- Yeah but my brain says...!

Its fabulous.