TRPG General Chat

Zachiel

2:01 PM

OK, OK, IT'S GONE NOW! (XD)

Landir

Eh, you asked for unspecific help, be very afraid of what you could get XD

Zachiel

Speaking about gaining the road.

BESW

I could've used pony gifs.

Or worse, gifs of the Second Doctor making funny faces.

Landir

Oh, that would have been hilarious XD

Zachiel

I should go to the employment office and ask for a job. I'm pretty sure they'll tell me they have none for my profile, which is why they never called me in the first place. But I'll never know if I don't go, right?

BESW

2:03 PM

I still can.

Landir

Ahahahahah
@Zachiel: right, you don't know until you try.
As in here: you don't know what kind of help you get until you ask for it XD

Zachiel

(technically, I should decide which job I want to do and try to be the best possible choice among people who want that job, but am I the only one thinking that would be madness?)

wax eagle

@Zachiel definitely. Doing your due diligence is important when looking for a job

Zachiel

Is it really due? Or is it just, well, industries making searches because they get statal contributes for doing so, and then employing that guy who asked them by mail three years ago?

BESW

Okay, I'm done.

Zachiel

2:07 PM

I feel like I'm not the right person for doing any job, let alone the job consisting in finding a job.

We do have a .se site on the matter, right?

Joshua Aslan Smith

@Zachiel Are you talking about general professional workplace issues, like crafting a resume, how to interview well, managing upwards etc. ?

if so

Zachiel

I've been looking at the general chatlist and found it already, along with Personal Productivity

I'm not really sure how wandering around Personal Productivity could really make me more productive XD

No wonder the room is almost empty

BESW

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Landir

Until you don't "spend too much time talking about a thing, instead of doing it" I think you'll be fine :D

Zachiel

@Landir Am I at the employment office? No, I'm not. I'm here talking about that with you guys and the problem is that I like this more than going there.

Landir

2:15 PM

Yep, but you're "acquiring information about something so you can be better at it" ^^

Joshua Aslan Smith

you dont need to like your job

you just need one

Landir

But it's soooo much better when you've got a job you like....

Joshua Aslan Smith

liking your job is a maslow 2nd or third tier achievement above having a job to have cashflow to have necessities like food

@landir oh I agree but if you're not sure what kind of a job you want or your skillset still needs work getting a job you may not like in the meantime is still better

plus you'll know exactly what to look for to avoid in future jobs if you dont like it

Landir

Good point about knowing what you don't like by experience ^^

wax eagle

step 1. get job.
step 2. look for job you'll enjoy
step 3. work job
step 4. profit

Lord_Gareth

2:23 PM

Aaaaaah...new blood.

Welcome, @Landir

TO MY LAIR

wax eagle

(steps 2-4 are optional)

Joshua Aslan Smith

@Lord_Gareth that wasn't even the least creepy at all, ever

Landir

Ahemm... It seems I've forgotten an appointment... See ya people runs away XD

BESW

@Lord_Gareth Your lair?

Lord_Gareth

@BESW I give optimization advice on this chat. That makes me a supervillainous scumbag, remember? :p

Joshua Aslan Smith

2:25 PM

I would associate the rpg.se general chat as being either besw's or waxeagle's lair at least during the times I hop on

@Lord_Gareth whoa whoa whoa, theres a lot of 4e minded people who are pro-optimization, dont worry you are not alone

BESW

@JoshuaAslanSmith The numbers agree; I'm at nearly 72k messages and wax is about 20.5k.

Lord_Gareth

@JoshuaAslanSmith I have gotten exceedingly touchy lately.

Part of it is that I've been forced into the Paizo forums

Which, for all future reference, are a war crime

wax eagle

BESW is the room owner, I just site back and wield the modbat

BESW

Joshua Aslan Smith

lol nice gif

hmmm I enjoy the frequently in this room page, populated by people I enjoy talking too even if I dont always agree with them

BESW

2:28 PM

By participation per message, myself, waxeagle, Zachiel, AlexP, Gareth, and then Joshua.

Joshua Aslan Smith

@Lord_Gareth well yeah 3.5 has and PF by extension has all this weird RPG meta baggage attached to it

BESW

@JoshuaAslanSmith I think you can probably leave out "RPG meta" and be equally accurate.

wax eagle

BESW has accounted for nearly a quarter of the all time messages in here :)

BESW

<ArloGuthrie> I'm not proud... or tired. </ArloGuthrie>

Joshua Aslan Smith

@BESW true but specificity never heart anyone

@waxeagle totally makes sense

BESW

2:31 PM

@JoshuaAslanSmith <3?

Joshua Aslan Smith

I will leave that unedited because now its like your passing me a yes, no, maybe note with that heart sign

Lord_Gareth

And part of it has been recent difficulties here on the Stack which I don't need to elaborate on. This is a nice place. I hate seeing the...baggage...carried over, especially since it always seems like the other side gets to run off at the mouth whenever they want.

BESW

@Lord_Gareth The more we frame it as "us vs them," the harder it will be to reconcile. I know it's rough.

Joshua Aslan Smith

@Lord_Gareth I think its because we end up talking across paradigms.

Lord_Gareth

@BESW I get very touchy about unequal treatment. Very touchy.

BESW

2:34 PM

@Lord_Gareth We've been over that, and while I agree with the point, I strongly disagree with the standard response.

[squint] I'm a filly and what is this?

Lord_Gareth

@BESW Sinking to their level or sacrificing a black she-goat at a crossroads under the new moon so that Hecate, the Triple Goddess, will strike down my enemies and grant me a vision of their final wails of sorrow and loss?

BESW

@Lord_Gareth The latter, obviously, as it's just plain sexist. What's wrong with using a he-goat?

Lord_Gareth

@BESW Talk to Hecate. I don't make the rules, I just exploit them.

Zachiel

@JoshuaAslanSmith I think I need a job I can keep with my qualities. I want money, right, but I also want a stable income of it, that allows me not to worry about my future. My current needs (eating tonight, having a roof over my head) are granted by my family, so I have no real "need" to get a job. I have this idea of needing to put some acorns away, but... it's not enough to worry me on a practical level.

Not how it works with me. It's always been
step 1. get job
step 2. aaaah finally I can stop searching
step 3. we're sorry we're not going to keep you
step 4. despair

Joshua Aslan Smith

@zachiel possible suggestion? Move out. The combination of ultimate freedom and ultimate responsibility it both the scariest and most motivating force I have ever felt. (also liberating)

Landir

2:38 PM

@Zachiel then you're in a quite good situation ^^ Experiment around, see places, do things. So you learn what you really like to do :)

wax eagle

@Zachiel most places here will train you into a position they hire you for. But I'm not sure what that looks like other places

Lord_Gareth

But yeah, in all seriousness

Past a certain point you lose the motivation to be the bigger man or the professional.

BESW

@Landir Usually when Zachiel gets lugubrious, we offer generally supportive sentiments and try not to delve into specifics. He's very good at being in situations a heckuvalot more complicated than Chat People are qualified to deal with.

Lord_Gareth

When the other side keeps insisting that they have the right to be 11-year-oldds.

BESW

@Lord_Gareth Take it to a side chat if you need to continue, please.

Landir

2:41 PM

@BESW Ah, I see ^^

Zachiel

@Landir I wish chatting with people was a job :p

Lord_Gareth

BLASSSSSSDFDASGASF Fiiiiiine

Zachiel

@BESW I guess it's related to how I hate compromising

Joshua Aslan Smith

@Lord_Gareth I would totally chat this up with you in a side chat though I feel like its a better convo for sitting at a bar

also at work so I couldn't tele-sit at a bar and drink with you while chatting this either sadly

Lord_Gareth

@JoshuaAslanSmith Heh, I do get kinda funny when I'm drinking. @BESW's been here for a few of my drunk answers to questions.

None of which have been deleted

[/Victory] [/makes more sense drunk than sober]

Joshua Aslan Smith

2:45 PM

in vino veritas has some basis

you may be more willing/able to face core truths since the alcohol helps to remove self-censorship

Lord_Gareth

Room opened

Not a bar, but plays one on TV

I'm not a place to unwind after work, but I play one on TV.

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Zachiel

2:58 PM

@Lord_Gareth Now I wonder which they were

BESW

@Zachiel Here, have a clue.

Landir

@Zachiel Chatting with people could become a job. Try looking for Community Manager ^^

Zachiel

@BESW O.o some of those sentences don't even contain the word "drunk".

BESW

@Zachiel It's powered by Google: Reading Your Mind One Search At A Time.™

Lord_Gareth

Feel the power of @BESW's Google-fu

Cower in fear before him

BESW

3:02 PM

I permit post-cowering as well as pre-cowering.

Aaron

My google-fu needs polishing.

BESW

Wax on, wax off?

wax eagle

me doing that what now?

;)

Lord_Gareth

AFK

Aaron

@BESW Something like that

@waxeagle I think he flipped your power switch and rebooted you. Are you processing faster now?

Lord_Gareth

3:17 PM

@waxeagle Information is being requested in Not a bar. I'd be honored if you'd inform us; you don't have to comment on the discussion if you don't wish to. It's just stuff you'd know as a mod.

BESW

@Lord_Gareth @waxeagle No need, it's information commonly available.

Zachiel

3:36 PM

As maybe the only italian male who couldn't care less about sports, especially soccer: EA sports, your community manager requirements are not viable to me. ç.ç

Landir

I see your problem, and you're not "the only italian male who couldn't care less about sports", we're at least 2 :D

Aaron

I am one of the few people that I know in america who doesn't have any knowledge of sports. I don't even know names of teams.

BESW

I, also, do not sport.

Aaron

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Joshua Aslan Smith

3:52 PM

Zachiel

Oh, they don't want people to play free-to-play games, they want people to play one of theirs. Why am I even writing a resume.

Aaron

@JoshuaAslanSmith hitting a Frisbee into a soccer goal with a golf club, flipping backwards. If they had then thrown a football into a basketball hoop they would have all their bases covered.

Oh Something about baseball as well.... Hmmm

BESW

@Aaron It's okay, they would already have covered the bases.

Aaron

@BESW Hehehe. I see what you did there.

Zachiel

4:30 PM

I'm doing one of those "find your job" tests. The first question asks me if I'm more charismatic, perseverant or imaginative. WTH, none of the three!

wax eagle

@Zachiel you're a gamer, imaginative wins by default probably :)

Zachiel

4:58 PM

@waxeagle I'm not that sure, I usually go with other people's ideas. Anyway, got to go now. Ta ta.

wax eagle

5:23 PM

woo!:

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A: Permanent banner for game-recommendation tag

Done, tweaked as follows: As this is a game-recommendation question, please adhere to the FAQ, the rules for subjective questions as outlined in Good Subjective, Bad Subjective and our rules for game recommendations. All responses must cite actual experience or reference others' experiences!

Joshua Aslan Smith

totally read that as wool

Zachiel

@JoshuaAslanSmith w00t

Aaron

5:38 PM

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Q: Can I use Sow Thought to make someone my servant?

There´s a first-level spell on the Witch's spell list avaliable for Changellings, Sow Thought, that says: You plant an idea, concept, or suspicion in the mind of the subject. The target genuinely believes that the idea is his own, but is not required to act upon it. I could use this spe...

pathfinder

I read this as Sow like the pig O.o

Joshua Aslan Smith

oink oink

Aaron

Cast's Sow Thought. Foe leaps into mudpit.

The Oracle

6:44 PM

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Q: Expand Moderaters to meet RPG.SE's Growth?

First, no disrespect meant to our current moderators. C.Ross and Brian are not as active as they once were on the site, but when they are they are still extremely helpful and Mxyzplk is/has doing a lot of the work by himself and should be lauded for the time investment he has made in RPG.SE. That...

discussion election

Aaron

8:20 PM

Sooo bored

doppelgreener

10:25 PM

@Aaron play ye some Nidhogg

a local major LAN event this weekend is having a Nidhogg tournament and describes it as a game that needs to be seen to be believed

Not a bar, but plays one on TV

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