@apaul no, a good troll would fly a floater to see if he could slip under the radar, establish himself as a legitimate user, then start trolling. It's what I would do, at least.
I don't see anything wrong with the post. SE doesn't like linking to pornographic material/sites or including such images. This post does neither of things. This site is about interpersonal skills and prohibition of this segment of our topic makes us less of a site. This post did a good job of being pretty neutral and minimizing the non-PG subjectmatter.
@TheTinyMan I'm kinda overwhelmed by all the rules, so I'll test the water first if it's a good fit to me. I'm always enticed by D&D but afraid of the complexity of the rules...
then, of course, there was the dual-class cheat. Run a fighter up to level five, then dual-class as a mage. You'd climb back up quickly and not be squishy, ever
@TheTinyMan I forget when the Barbarian got introduced. Just that it could heal, it had bad initial AC, but then things didn't tend to live too long when near a barbarian. Then when the magic resistance kicked in.... Plus, he wasn't allowed to associate with mages at lower levels which also made it kind of unplayable
@Magisch that's... completely outside the SE policy. I'll definitely watch it but unless the CMs tell me otherwise, I'm not going to remove the question.
@TheSnarkKnight Oh, that doesn't even resemble the 3.0 Barbarian. I don't remember the Barbarian (or whatever it was called) in the 2e Complete Fighter's Handbook being that onerous though but it's been a loooong time...
@TheSnarkKnight Which edition was this one? I don't remember Paladin being a sub-class of anything since OD&D, where it was kind of an earned sub-class of "Fighter" that you could get at 9th level. That's not d20 Modern is it?
@TheTinyMan it was a sub class of fighter, then "cavalier" became a class, and Paladin became a sub-class of that. They had ludicrous restrictions, such as not being able to use "peasant" weapons.
God, how did my memory become so loaded with useless things.
@TheSnarkKnight I play a paladin at a LARP these days. xD I wear all white and keep a giant bucket outside my cavern to wash my clothes if they're ever not perfectly white, which happens a lot when I get knocked unconscious in a fight. xD
@TheTinyMan it comes from having worked retail. I was very good at double entendre as well. One of my favorites was "If I were you, I'd feel the same way" (If I were a jackass, that is) Another was "I promise you, I will give your concerns all the attention they deserve"
or "I want you to let you know just how important your concerns are to me" (I want to, but I'd get fired)
@TheTinyMan Dilbert.com used to have the "Employee review generator" which was nothing but double entendres
"Mr smith has never been caught sleeping on the job. Many of his coworkers have been willing to talk about his work. Mr Smith personifies the importance of good hiring practices and the possibility of hiring more people like him should be discussed immediately"
I took a long break though, I didn't play from AD&D until 3.5, and then I was spoiled because my GM was a guy that wrote rulebooks and systems for Iron Crown (ICE).
@TheSnarkKnight Psh. If my SO can't join me in some RP, then I've got the wrong SO! ;-) But that's probably easier to say in my generation than in yours.
@TheTinyMan 5e is pretty good. I think it balances everything pretty well, I haven't come across anything too overpowered. One of hte things I like is they are taking some stuff out of the rules and handing more interpretation/power back to the GM
@TheSnarkKnight I was such a snob at the time that 3.0 was released, that I read through it, and literally the first thing I said to someone about it was, "They replaced THAC0 with this Attack Bonus crap...now anyone, no matter how dumb, can play D&D!" I was so angry my neckbeard never even managed to grow in.
@TheTinyMan in my day, gamer girls were harder to find than a virgin in a cathouse. Everytime someone got a girlfriend, the party dropped by one member
@JohnP Super exciting. :-) I'm starting in a new game soon and the GM was trying to decide between Pathfinder and 5e...I voted for 5e but he thought it sounded more rules-intensive. I've...played neither, but that doesn't fit what I'd heard. xD
@TheSnarkKnight Yep. The times, they have a-changed, and for the better. :-)
@JohnP A mediocre-or-better GM can also say, "hey, bro, what you're doing doesn't fit mechanically with the rest of the game, optimize less and don't rely on broken combinations"
@JohnP I can do pinky, marvin, brain, cookie monster, Yoda, Grover, James Earl Jones, Christopher Walkin, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, James Mason, Peter Faulk, Sean Connery..... and about 100 more
Best compile time error ever: when Visual Studio somehow forgets what the "object" class is and gripes that all of these classes are trying to inherit from this unknown "object" thing that probably doesn't even have a default constructor xD
@TheTinyMan did some VBA work. code worked in one module, EXACT SAME CODE blew up in another. SOLUTION: Copy code to notepad++, delete module, create new module, paste code to new module.
@TheTinyMan In this case, I'll leave it. I think it's needed, even if it were just to diffuse tension.... But yeah, I mentioned before I'm not a big fan of comment jokes since they might have the unmeant side effect of hurting an OP....
Magisch linked to this thing question that I'm not sure how to properly link to yet: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/313332/keep-nsfw-questions-out-of-hot-questions-list Wherein the accepted answer was a good one, there's some kind of private list that someone who's not me has access to that includes banned terms that prevent a question from showing up on certain places in the website, that something might get added to. We're concerned about specific keywords, right?
Just curious, since I know mods have their own chatroom.... Have such things ever been discussed there? I've given a CEO a tour of this site *this afternoon*. If the question had been around at that time, that would have been a LOT more awkward..... Then again, I agree that no matter how awkward the topic, it should be discussable....
@Catija I had a tab open, he saw that I had rep :P So he asked if I was on SO, and I had to admit to being on a site about softskills. He was interested, apparently developers and softskills are a rare combination. So I showed him some questions so he could see what the site was about...
We have a pretty young and cool CEO, despite being a pretty huge company
But like I said, such a question would have made things awkward, but not impossible....
So I don't know which side of NSFW to pick... It might be a good idea to ask a community mod/other mods right away? I can imagine that they're a lot less impressed if someone else flags them in.....
@Catija sniffers are absolutely triggered by keywords, the one you insist on posting would have triggered mine several times already if I weren't in IT.
@Tinkeringbell The general mod consensus is that the question is fine as is... if we want to find a better way to word the title, that's ok, but my concern there is that the users may click into something they they aren't prepared for, particularly from the HNQ.
I dunno.... but @Catija if you're just speaking for yourself .... there might be people that disagree.... I'm not doubting your knowledge of SE or something... but I think it would be nice to hear more people state the same... just like multiple upvotes on meta make a better consensus. ;)
@Catija Than, I'm not going to nag further. Leave it as is.
> There was never anything offensive here; the OP took care to use perfectly civil and non-taboo words. While I could understand removing the specific words from the title, removing all mention from the question is excessive. Even more importantly, your edit has rendered existing answers obsolete. This is not a valid edit. – terdon 1 hour ago
@Tinkeringbell I think it was a good discussion to conclude, though. And I'm not blaming you, I'm just sad that the other people who were talking about it aren't talking now. xD Although I guess I get why @TheSnarkKnight isn't.
Actually, about that weather!
I got to my van this morning and the inside of the windshield was covered in frost! >.< What the heck!
@Tinkeringbell It's funny though, because if I'm in someone else's passenger seat, I'm always so nervous, because I drive so much further behind the car in front of me than other people usually do.
Weird :P I just had a co-worker drive me yesterday, to a meeting. (he was going there too). He drove really recklessly, switching lanes where is wasn't allowed... almost hitting another car. i'm not going to accept his invitations again :P
@Tinkeringbell I do drive faster than many, though, and I don't slow as much for turns as some people do.
@Tinkeringbell Oh, no, I don't switch lanes where it's not allowed unless I'm behind a tractor or something and I don't see a passing segment in view and can see ahead for a a kilometer.
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