just like with practically every first world country besides us with healthcare,... it shouldn't be wrapped in a system where rich people don't have to care, and everyone else gets shafted
and I realize I make it sound simpler than it is, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't fix it somehow
(It seems to have been popularised in the '30s and '40s by white comedians, and in those not-pervasive cases where totem poles do represent some kind of hierarchy by vertical position it's the figures who bear the weight and are at eye level who are most important.)
@doppelgreener yep, this is exactly what I mean, and I do hope this goes through, I just have reservations for,..... reasons,.... about celebrating it just yet
in fact at least one of those reasons is in the article you linked, I will let others come to conclusions as to what that could possibly be
don't want to start some kind of political debate here
This probably ranks up there with when I tried to depose my department head a few meetings back. (They were a few minutes late, so we had time to kill.) "If elected, I will buy 2 gross of whiteboard markers, move them from Receiving up to the workroom, and resign."
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I was unanimously elected. Sadly, that didn't actually make me department head.
Actually, I take that back: I also sat on the balcony sipping coffee with my mother on Sunday morning, and took my dad to see the sunset at Fort Santa Agueda on Friday. So the balance is a little in the black.
If they were really thinking it was a good production number... they have no idea what makes rap... rap. Jonah has so little flow I think he actually backed up.
besides which, they also had that strange attempt at nostalgia with the three final antagonists from the prievious version of MST3k, and the horribly confusing cameo of characters from the Time travlers
@BESW well, but he is like, an exception to a rule though
you can't cite exceptions to rules as precedent
I mean, I admit it isn't an excuse, but come on now
OK here, although the weekend did come unglued a bit with nitsua having been pulled off by a RL emergency and some stuff with the PF campaign I'm in (the two folks who invited me split from the campaign over playstyle differences mostly but I'm going to stick around at least a little longer because I suspect some new-DM stuff is influencing that)
@Karelzarath it's a local con (you probably haven't heard of it unless you're in the region) -- I can tell you that it's a heavily tabletop game focused one though (both board/card and RPG)
and I also plan to bring my 5e one-shot to see if I can gain a bit of impromptu convention-game experience from that side of the screen so to speak in addition to participating in one of the scheduled playtests if they have a seat open and/or doing some pickup stuff
mostly trying to reckon if I should go both afternoons or just one
I once had a lamb shank at a Persian restaurant that was so good I didn't eat meat for seven years afterward. (Jan 2001 -> summer 2008) </true confession>
@nitsua60 Okay, I'm not sure how religious of an experience it needs to be for one to do that, but it sounds like that's the sort of meal I'd literally kill to eat a second time. And I don't mean in the stupid vegetarian way.
@nitsua60 Now I wonder: did you up and decide "I won't eat meat anymore in honor of this" or try eating meat again and just realize it'll never be the same?
@trogdor I saw a graph someone linked of a year's daily averages and thought "that's not so different from my weather." Then I double-checked and the vertical axis was humidity, not temperature.
(Maybe it was chance of precipitation, then? I remember something that ranged from 40s to 90s and thinking "oh, it's just rather-warmer at the low end, but not too different at the high end." Then seeing the axis-label.)
I knew that going into Mysterious Portals was a bad idea, but then some guy was like "yeah it's great for getting ahead, the loot is awesome" and now my guy is dead
because every single monster in the dungeon spawned in the same room...the first room
@SPavel f you get the right other skill trees, it's actually ok, I beat the game once as a vamp with a hybrid of healing/damaging spells and some limited melee ability
crafting is a pain for sure
I go one specific craft tree only because it also has the best trap disarm, and disarming traps with a high skill is free exp XD
@A_S00 All that needs to happen is that the 3 candidates throw enough mud at each other that all of their supporters stay at home and don't vote out of disgust.
I notice the election candidates all have "candidate scores".
I don't want to be a moderator, but I do want to view my candidate score. Is there a way to view this without being a candidate?
If I self-nominate, will there be a way to un-self-nominate after viewing my score?
Something I've been wondering about all day - is there a term for the concept where someone pretends to be a good person, but because pretending to be a good person means doing good things, they effectively are a good person? Kinda like this guy?
@nitsua60 a lot of work. I've suspended my DW campaign for 2 months. Two days ago resumed it. Also bought a Switch(I've already boasted about this here :P )
ah. OK here. would be better if last weekend had panned out a bit better, but oh well :) hoping to see nitsua's shortform wrap up this upcoming Saturday although that leaves me in a slight lurch re: what I had planned with Ash and co.
@Miniman This Rattata has a low credit score, and can't get a mortgage for its dream burrow! Let's take it to a gym battle to prove to its creditors that it's got what it takes!
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@Shalvenay my SO is working another Saturday late so if you need time for that that's fine.
@Ash (yeah -- there's always the crew call desk ringing you at 2AM as an option...haha -- so I'm not plussed at all about people with inconsistent schedules other than the natural frustrations that form)
@RollingFeles I tried the Switch out the other day. I played loads of Breath of the Wild. I'll probably buy it when I can get BotW in a bundle for around $250.
where would a question about the wider-online-RPG-discussion-world belong? mainsite? meta? neither?
@RollingFeles -- also got into a PF campaign but not sure how it'll go longer-run as the DM's rather new and got into a bit of a muddle first couple sessions in
@Papayaman1000 BotW is one of the best games I've ever played. I really think that game designers that strive to be great must play it, because I can see so many details where Zelda creators thought about how to make player experience better.
@Papayaman1000 The Switch is as excited as I've been about a console for a long time, but I'm waiting until there's more than one game (and hopefully it's a bit cheaper too).
@Shalvenay :36774751 I suppose it depends on what the actual question is. "How do we best tone down heated argument in the RPG-verse" strikes me as OT on either platform. "Should RPGSE add 'being a model for civility within the RPG-verse' to its mission?" might be suitable on meta. "Why is the RPG-verse so uncivil" would get insta-closed for POB mainsite....
"Is the assumed tone of RPG discourse on online fora 'agree or argue?'" is where I'm getting at here -- trying to see if I'm askew in some way on my views of the broader RPG-discussion world
@Papayaman1000 I wouldn't say that, the way they handle weapons breaking could at least be done better, it kinda annoys me that the one you are using breaks in your hand, and you have to apparently switch it out yourself,... breaking up the action of the fight
@Shalvenay personally, I'm not attracted to PF. I think there is too many mechanics that make game too complicated. And I think it will be pretty hard for a new DM. Help them and support them(well, if they put effort to make their game better). They need it :)
@RollingFeles That's how I feel too - PF came about when people who didn't understand systems design decided to fix the symptoms and not the root problems, and then failed.
@Papayaman1000 yeah seems to be about what I observed too,... which is honestly a little fast, especially for the unique weapons that don't seem to break any slower than most
@Shalvenay they really could have stood to treat these weapons a little more like they were actually forged out of metal rather than soggy wood, just saying XD
My favorite part was the labyrinth around that one shrine -- I played it with my friend who owns the system and after learning the most basic mechanics I used the bird power to "JUMP WHITE BOY", collect a diamond, and eventually find the proper hole in the proper side of the proper wall
I notice the election candidates all have "candidate scores".
I don't want to be a moderator, but I do want to view my candidate score. Is there a way to view this without being a candidate?
If I self-nominate, will there be a way to un-self-nominate after viewing my score?
