Posts made by Coin

@WTFE said:

@Thenomain said:

@TNP said:

@Thenomain said:

We're #1! You're #0!

Who is number one? You are number six.

I am the new Number Two.

"Who is Number One?"

"You are, Number Six."

I told a friend who was a serious Prisoners freak, that there was a pause between "are" and "number" there (just like I punctuated it) and that it meant that Number Six was really Number One. His problem was that when I told him this there were no copies of the show handy for him to double-check. He was left the rest of the day pondering what that would imply and what that meant for the "meaning" of the show until he got home and slid in a tape. Next day he punched me.

1. Good job. Freaking out Prisoner nerds is awesome.
6. You still deserved it.

@BetterJudgment said:

I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet, get up 45 minutes earlier each morning (which means 5:15 AM some mornings), and go speedwalking. I'm not running because I don't think my knees will take it. Too bad doing this stuff is so freaking boring, but if I can get rid of my gut it will be worth it.

This is why I bike everywhere and do kung fu.

I absolutely hate exercising for exercise's sake. Even the "be healthier, feel better" aspect doesn't get through to me. So I bike when I need to go somewhere (and soon it will be like 10 miles every day) because the exercise has a separate, guiding purpose; and I do martial arts, where I am at least with people, socializing and learning something both interesting (to me) and practical.

I have a 19" monitor at home. I like smaller fonts, as evidenced by the Eldritch wiki. Reno's current layout irks me because the font is too big. I liked the size it was at before.

I don't know if this helps or exemplifies. I don't remember my resolution at home. If you poke me on Skype I'll check tonight.

@ZombieGenesis said:

Also, in the Buffy RPG the combat system is driven so much towards the Dex attribute that it is probably broken. As such I've had several apps (or app convos) that involved putting few points in other attributes but pumping Dexterity up to 8 or 9.

"Probably" is being generous. It's absolutely broken. The difference that having higher DEX makes (better initiative, better defensive ability, better offensive ability, and extra actions) gets ridiculous.

I would legit make DEX cost twice as much as any other Attribute, at least with the Enhanced Attribute Quality.

I drink Coke Classic. But I ONLY drink it on weekends. It has helped. Not much, but I was a real fiend before, so.

@Arkandel said:

Although that's true, losing excess weight is a matter of diet regulation a whole lot more than adding additional exercise.

Life isn't fair. We can eat calories way easier and faster than we can consume their energy.

Depending on the stretch, someone who doesn't gorge themselves every day can keep fit with just a bike ride to and from work. It also has to do with metabolism. The older you get, the less it will work.

@thebird said:

I went off some medication a few months ago and it seems my hormones are now hella out of whack.

On the one hand, I feel like a bloated fat pig and don't want to do anything about because blah blah doom and gloom, woe. /Eeyore

On the other, I bought a bike on a whim to help fix Eeyore feelings. I've gone on a few bike rides, and man...I forgot how much exercising (at least after the fact) feels good. Now I just need to find the energy to keep doing it, even if I'm so out of shape I can hardly make it a mile, haha.

Also, guys. You can totally forget how to ride a bike. My scraped knee says so.

Other than the general motivation of not feeling like shit anymore, anyone have any bike riding tips on what worked for you? Keeping up with the habit while still working on your feet all day?

Do you work far from home or too close? If your work is bike-distance, go to and from work on your bike. Just that. It'll be difficult at first, but you'll get used to it, and it will help you shed excess weight easily.

@JaySherman said:

@Ganymede said:

I attribute this to the movement of games away from rewarding players for just being out and RPing. Most games have opted for a flat-XP increase, with activity-XP increases based on PRP involvement and running.

I also attribute the aging/maturing of the hobby's participants. After a full day of work, my mind would like a little break. With kids, my patience is limited. So, there are fewer people willing to gin up NPCs, PRPs, and other plottage on a nightly basis.

This is likely the case. Curse those RL responsibilities.

I realize that the ability to be on and investigate crap 24/7 is not the case any longer for the vast majority of RPers. I suppose my motivation to gin up RP out of anything and keep IC exploration/interaction going, even when it's only a few hours a week, has remained a habit.

This is going to sound pretty retarded but I have a small notebook where I'll jot down things like 'Talk to Captain Bargle about his first mate plotting to kill him' and then just get to that whenever I have time online.

This doesn't sound retarded. It just sounds like you do in a notebook what other people do on their wiki talk pages or something. I have a whole friggin' wiki now for my game's plots. >.>

@HelloRaptor said:

@Coin

You're still a dork for getting hung up on him talking at the speed of light while being okay with him, say, having a physical body while successfully traveling at the speed of light.

If you were going to suspend belief over anything in Doom, it should be that Scarecrow's fear toxin, however modified, would effect Hal Jordan to begin with as even when they're not 'suited up' the power rings have a passive effect of scanning for and removing toxins and foreign pathogens from their host's body unless actively instructed not to (like when they want to get drunk).

I am a dork. But at the same time, I clearly cut off my rant regarding that early on to just say the whole thing was stupid. If I had gone on, I would have pointed out all the bits and pieces that bothered me. I mean, I did state the whole thing was shit.

Here's the thing: I came to expect a certain degree of decent writing in those Animated Films. So whether the source material supports that sort of stupidity or not, my actual suspension of disbelief was genuine because my expectations within that particular interpretation of the medium were such.

Is it nitpicky? Sure. But at the moment, I flipped a desk because it was retarded even within context.

So you guys can go piss up a rope, jerkfases. ;____________;

@HelloRaptor

Look.

1. It was something easily fixed by using any other measure of impressive speed. Speed of sound. Even half the speed of light. Whatever.
2. Shut up.

@HelloRaptor Yeah, well, this was particularly stupid and you should shut up, jerkfase. XD

@Derp Because Cobalt made this one and every single time someone posts on it, it notifies her and it's driving her crazy. So she asked for a new one, it was made.

Maybe a mod can shut this one down. @Glitch? @Thenomain? @EmmahSue?

@Arkandel No youtube at work.

@Silver said:

@HelloRaptor It's interesting that you bring up suspension of disbelief. This touches on something I really think about a bit when it comes to stories, and it is that in my opinion anyway the suspension of disbelief is most easily done when the setting and characters are structured in a way so as to be plausible. Given that it is one of the storyteller's jobs to help the experiencer (a word I use just to cover movie-watchers, TV-watchers, book-readers, etc) suspend that disbelief, I think the more skillful a storyteller is at embracing the plausible the better.

Unless you're telling a story in the form of a fable, which might be something like Flatland or Jonathan Livingston Seagull, or similar. In which case go hog wild.

I think the word you're looking for is "audience". Heh.

Also, by and large--and this is likely covered in the wikipedia article, I just haven't bothered to read it--suspension of disbelief is less about "what is plausible in the minds of the audience" and more "what is plausible within the structure, theme, and dynamic of the world within which the story is happening". If you can accept a core premise, your suspension of disbelief towards that story will be guided by that premise and your acceptance of it.

A few examples:

Example #1: Superman is an alien who looks exactly like us but gains god-like powers due to how his body processes solar radiation from a young sun in its "yellow" phase, because his race is so old their sun has entered its "red" phase. Okay. I can accept that. Aliens with the technology to encrypt DNA within the blood of one of their own (especially if when presented to us, they are done so as a species that now exclusive relies on artificial genetic manipulation to procreate and have a caste-based system right out of fucking Brave New World) do not seem far-fetched within this world. I can suspend my disbelief for that, because I've suspended it for other things that are more ludicrous (the concept that this eponymous alien can fucking fly because "lulz, powers from the sun").

Example #2: A show whose cast of characters are a number of geniuses at a fictional scientific research institute, who join forces with an FBI agent to solve crimes that require their specific and particularly expensive forensic abilities. Okay, I can accept that things go a little faster for them--maybe this world is slightly more advanced (because they cite real world sources all the time so they can't be too far ahead) and they've got federal grants and money to operate their equipment. It would never fly in the real world, but it's not that big of a stretch. But then one of the psychopaths they hunt inscribes bones with certain patterns that when scanned into a computer as images proceed to fucking hack the computer and give it viruses. It's at this point that my brain goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, WHAT? And that is a break in suspension of disbelief, because for fucking five seasons, nothing that fucking ludicrous happened--and then they dropped it on a dime and it was fucking stupid.

Naturally, some people have different thresholds and their areas of interest might color what they can accept. Maybe @Misadventure just has an interest in genetics and flails because "it can't work that way!!!1111!1oneeleven" and that's fine for her, (but then she should probably be flailing at a flying man because solar radiation lulz). And some people care so very little about the physics of computer technology, that they ooed and ahed at Pilant hacking people via bone incriptions and then kept right on watching (and more power to them, even if they are dumb >.< god that was so fucking dumb).

Example #3: In the DC Animated Feature Justice League: Doom, Hal Jordan is actually speaking while flying at the speed of light to f--you know what, fuck it, at that point I was like "this is a shit movie, did the writers even? DID THEY EVEN?" And you can break suspension of disbelief in just about anything if you're enough of an asshole and your audience has half a fucking brain, seriously, what the fuck, writers? That was a shit movie.

Sources: Superman, Man of Steel, fucking Bones. Fuck Bones. And fuck Justice League: Doom.

@Ganymede said:

Midi-chlorians.

Fuck. You.

(I don't even mind midichlorians. >.>)

Probably because Kryptonians aren't the only alien race that pretty much looks exactly like humans and that would open up a huge can of worms. I, myself, like the Star Trek explanation of 'precursors seeded worlds with what would later be humanoids, but environments changed them as time went on'.

When I ran a Marvel/DC MU, I wanted to make the Kree an off-shoot of Kryptonians who left the planet during its early space-exploration phase, and after a few hundred thousand years, have had some physiological changes (including skin color). They aren't as strong as pure kryptonians because their atmosphere/sun is much more like Earth's (or whatever), but they've kept similar naming conventions (Noh-Varr, Mar-Vell; Kal-El, Lor-Zod).

I had a whole thing written out, and I even had a great link-up for The Supreme Intelligence to be a bio-organic precursor to Brainiac.

(And now that I think about it, Kreeptonian. Ugh. It's so easy.)

Yeah, because "alien who looks exactly like a human but gains god-like powers upon contact with our atmosphere and the yellow sun's rays" is super easy to swallow compared to "DNA-data encryption from the same alien species".

<.<

Looks like someone's a fan. They dug up Murnau's grave at his family cemetery and stole his head.

@Arkandel said:

Some people are such asshats. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/breastfeeding-mother-baby-snatched-primark-154502930.html

For reals. Breastfeeding at a store. Gawd.