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- Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:10 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Welcome Back!
- Replies: 152
- Views: 359453
Re: Welcome Back!
I think it's cute that we're all coming up with different ways to permute our names when we make secondary accounts to get back into our originals. It's like we're assembling the roster for a TGDMB all-sidekick spinoff. Can we lock fbmf out for a little while and see if The Lesser Fencebuilder makes...
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 5:49 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: DnD on Earth?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6209
The Wikipedia article for the origin of Washington indicates that 'wheat sheaf' might be a cognate with 'House of Vasa', but I'm not convinced that House of Vasa could be interpreted as 'wheat sheaf'. The modern Swedish word for Wheat appears to be 'vete', while 'vasa' appears most similar to the e...
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:02 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: DnD on Earth?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6209
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tarot Encounter Decks
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4342
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:58 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 64911
Sorry, mates, I'm all outta apocalypse posting energy, Something Awful just had its own succession crisis. I guess I'm not shocked, but I am dimly surprised that the house brand of acerbic catharsis actually started getting to people. I guess I've never deigned to wade in too deeply to the sectarian...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:03 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Wizards of the Hypocritical Coast--Boobs Edition
- Replies: 61
- Views: 15247
The first of those two images is illustrated with a digital painting. That's instantly more high-brow than otherwise. First of all, painting is an old and prestigious craft, and the Louvre is full of paintings of tits. Painting is also very difficult and time-consuming in a way that everyone finds ...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:00 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Wizards of the Hypocritical Coast--Boobs Edition
- Replies: 61
- Views: 15247
Ok. So... I think I might be too libertine to make a proper judgement here. I literally so no difference, in terms of explicitness, between these two images- https://66.media.tumblr.com/28670ce7b95ca773eee6646a20bd7e25/tumblr_msmewpqQUj1s8d9d5o1_640.jpg https://i.imgur.com/r4XJ4xH.jpg Anyone have t...
- Tue May 26, 2020 6:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 6th Edition Speculation Begins
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8798
And when they try, it looks like this . The idea of a drow ranger popping a GoPro on the end of his scimitar and choosing the right metal track to play for his hype vid is LARPer as fuck and so goddamned weird - I am not going to lie: I fucking love that trailer . Apropos of nothing, here's some Re...
- Fri May 22, 2020 11:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 6th Edition Speculation Begins
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8798
Yeah, a couple remarks on the idea that Hasbro executives only see the world through the lens of selling another Batman toy: One: It is the Year of Our Lord MMXX, and video games have been cock-slapping traditional toy manufacturers with ever-growing speed and accuracy since the release of the Ninte...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Alternate M:tG Color Wheel: Take II
- Replies: 111
- Views: 13910
Ah, I see my previous post was pre-empted. Good show. A few comments: You can put religious shit anywhere, it's true - but when you picture a generic ruin, do you picture a generic ruin isn't a ruined temple? Sure. The burnt-down house that was at the end of my cul-de-sac when I was a kid was a ruin...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:31 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Alternate M:tG Color Wheel: Take II
- Replies: 111
- Views: 13910
Following up. These conceits come with a concomitant exercise: When you lay out the symbols of your colors, try to determine if you can come up with satisfactory titles for their intersections. This is what I would read into Mistborn's Nexuses: Void (Ruin) Light (Temple) Nature (Grove) Time (Tower) ...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 1:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Alternate M:tG Color Wheel: Take II
- Replies: 111
- Views: 13910
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 11:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Combat where a backup weapon is handy to have
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6141
There may have been an element of that, the US upgraded to the .45 after finding the .38 less effective then they wanted in the Philippines, IIRC, so it was due to actual combat experience. OTOH, the British were using the .455 Webley, and later went down to a smaller cartridge because it was more ...
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 2:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Combat where a backup weapon is handy to have
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6141
Getting your weapon stuck inside/under someone can easily happen, especially in a chaotic melee. I think it was in Snow Crash that there was this text about how the art of using a katana in battle isn't about putting it inside someone but about pulling it out before that person's angry friend attac...
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:32 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 935929
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:27 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 709008
I seem to recall there was a particular scholar, predating the printing press, who had the propensity to include full copies, with his manuscripts, of works that he was citing or responding to, and there are some significant works that are only extant in the modern day because of his habit for repli...
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 9:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Urban Fantasy Mythic Resonance v Branding
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10850
Mummies are an odd example because I feel like they actually have quite a bit of room to work with but that's mostly because people don't know what to do with them when they try their goofy monster manual undead categorization schemes. Telling your art crew that you want Egyptian mummies gives you ...
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:54 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: It's Personal...
- Replies: 4839
- Views: 630123
- Sat Oct 06, 2018 11:17 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: It's Personal...
- Replies: 4839
- Views: 630123
Poly relationships are annoying sometimes. My primary and my needleplay partner keep talking about wanting to hook up, but the needleplay partner keeps flaking out every time my primary is available. I'm starting to think that she might not really mean this. Also it's annoying that her boyfriend ha...
- Sun Sep 02, 2018 5:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Getting back into M:tG (after ~10 years)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2959
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 8:29 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 709008
Electoral votes are vested in actual individuals who congregate and cast them at the electoral college. Those people can ostensibly vote how they like. There's laws on the books in certain states that compel them to vote for exactly the candidates that they said they would, but the constitutionality...
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953396
My PCs will soon enter a cave that's been sealed to air for some time, and I have a recollection of reading that stagnant air 'goes bad.' Is that a thing, how bad is it, and what can you do about it? Stagnant air will go bad if there's something in there to use up the oxygen. It could have been the...
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 5:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 9 Alignments Again (Hoping to make sense)
- Replies: 83
- Views: 14475
I don't know if this has been answered already, but is there any real need to have an alignment system at all? Absolutely none whatsoever. But if you have a set of tags and you can hang mechanics on those tags, then they can have substantive worth. Also, people seem to like them for some reason. Pl...
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 9 Alignments Again (Hoping to make sense)
- Replies: 83
- Views: 14475
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:20 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Medical Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 962
- Views: 184630
Real doctors can get in trouble for giving medical advice on how to commit fraud, however well intentioned. Yeah, I'm not wild about the idea. But I am offering the benefit of the doubt in assuming that diet genuinely isn't working and that this is a more difficult problem for Starmaker that requir...