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Anne Rice imbulbiated all over the Amazon.com review section in 2004.

(I just read this again. Hilarious.)

@skew said in Pokemon Go:

@Thenomain said in Pokemon Go:

@Auspice

I've been sincerely wondering if there's really anything more to it than that.

The teams have "philosophies". Team Valor (red) is that you train your Pokemon hard and make them the best. Team Mystic (blue) is that Pokemon are deep and smart and there's a lot of mystery to them that we need to unfold. Team Instinct (yellow) is that you should use your instincts.

So, team yellow is stupid.

And team blue is a bunch of dumb hippies.

RED TEAM!

So basically--

Valor embraces it as cock-fighting slave culture, Mystic shoots itself in the foot by pointing out that the creatures they're enslaving and using in cock-fights are actually way smarter than most people think, and Instinct isn't giving it much thought at all because lulz cock-fighting.

Man, if that isn't an analogy for the way modern society views just about any social issue, I don't know what is.

@tragedyjones said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

Hello, Danny.

There you go.

Hello, Danny.

@tragedyjones said in Good TV:

Full Luke Cage Trailer

Defenders Teaser

So good.

@Vorpal said in Pokemon Go:

@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:

Young man killed after being lured to the location. (No, this isn't the one on Snopes which was false.)

Okay... I don't want to sound calloused... but what the hell? I grew up in Ecuador. When I was a teenager in Ecuador, you DID NOT go out into the street at night by yourself, or even with just a plus one, after a certain time because you were going to end up mugged, dead, or both and worse. If this app had been around when I was a teenager, we would have never gone out at night into the streets to play it... or we would have gone in a gaggle of five PLUS people.

Guatemala is just as dangerous at night as Ecuador is. Did this mother not teach her child about the nature of where he lives? You don't go wandering down random streets at night- stick to public and crowded places, and bring a group with you. That's what tourists do.

To be fair, some kids don't learn or don't care. There is a disconnect between what we teach children and what they assimilate and work into their general attitudes, and sometimes no matter how much your mom wants to teach something, you gotta learn it the hard way. This way was fatal. It saddens me that any nation has this sort of thing happen--mine ain't much better, to be honest. I'm an adult and I still walk pretty quick down the street...

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

@Coin That's the exception that confirms the rule. That woman by the way is really stupid - what she did was actually illegal on top of everything else. How insecure do you need to be to do that?

Yes and no. Shaming doesn't need to be publicized and go out on social media to actually be a problem for the person being shamed.

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

Overheard locker room gym chat.

"I don't get why people don't come work out 'cause they think they're gonna be judged. Unless you're a hot girl, lift a ton of weight or smell bad no one knows you exist."

It's true! Most folks around me are mentally classified as 'person currently using the squat rack' or 'person waiting for the squat rack'. The rest are background noise. Sometimes I exchange manly nods with guys whose faces I kinda recognize but whose names I of course neither know nor care to.

This is one of those things that are directly contradicted by recent news. There was a supermodel or model or whatever who fat-shamed a woman at a gym, posted her picture online all over the place, etc.

Anecdotal vs. Anecdotal, you know?

@Jennkryst said in Fallen World MUX!:

There is some difference between wolf-gifts and spirit-gifts, I think they are called. Cost the same in CG, but one is cheaper XP-wise than the other? Could be wrong.

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

@Miss-Demeanor said in Fallen World MUX!:

@Coin said in Fallen World MUX!:

It's 6 dots in total. So you can get six 1-dot Rotes, or two 3-dot Rotes, etc.

This is one of my biggest mechanical gripes with 2E, because it is the only thing that doesn't conform between CG acquisition and post-CG acquisition (i.e. why do higher-level Rotes cost more Rote CG dots when they all cost 1 experience post-CG).

[shrug]

This is something I've been wondering about. Did they do the same to Werewolves with rituals? Because that seems kinda like something from 1E that somehow managed to slip past editing.

They did not, because while you only get 2 dots of Rites at chargen, Rites cost 1 experience per dot post-chargen, making the two stages of character development congruent, cost-wise.

But, as is usual with Mage, they decided giving Mages all these benefits for having Rotes shouldn't cost much, so they just spend 1 experience for any Rote! It's broke.

@Goldfish said in Fallen World MUX!:

@Coin Yes, thank you! Rotes are pretty cool. I assuming the six starting dots correspond with dots of arcana and the specific spell.

It's 6 dots in total. So you can get six 1-dot Rotes, or two 3-dot Rotes, etc.

This is one of my biggest mechanical gripes with 2E, because it is the only thing that doesn't conform between CG acquisition and post-CG acquisition (i.e. why do higher-level Rotes cost more Rote CG dots when they all cost 1 experience post-CG).

[shrug]

@Goldfish said in Fallen World MUX!:

I'm getting better at this Mage creation thing. I kinda understand spell casting! Except rotes. I don't understand rotes.

Rotes are the same as Spells, with some specific changes. You pay 1experience for the Rote of a spell you can already cast. Because it's a Rote, you're casting a "codified" version of the spell--it's that same spell in a very specific way, and you do it that way every single time (thus the word "rote"). You can cast it a different way, but you wouldn't get the benefits of it being Rote, which are as follows:

1. Your base Gnosis + Arcanum roll adds the Skill of the Rote to it. e.g. if your Mind rote uses Academics, you would roll Gnosis+Mind+Academics (this is potentially +5 dice, not a small bonus)--this counts against your maximum Yantra bonus;
2. If your Skill (Academics in the example above) is part of the Skills favored by your Order (if you have one), then you get an additional +1 (Gnosis+Mind+Academics+1);
3. You can apply as many free Reach factors as if your Arcanum were at 5 (even if it's 1);
4. Your Signature Nimbus is indistinct (making it difficult to accurately pinpoint who is casting the spell);
5. You do not need to spend Mana if the Arcanum is Common/Inferior (like you would for improvised spells), though all additional mana costs still apply.

Praxes, as a bonus, are like Rotes but more internal (less codified by mages in general) and provide two important benefits:

1. Your roll is considered Exceptional at 3 successes, not 5;
2. You do not need to spend Mana if the Arcanum is Common/Inferior (like you would for improvised spells), though all additional mana costs still apply.

Rotes and Praxis benefits do not stack; if you have the same spell as both a Rote and a Praxis, you have to choose, at the time of casting, which benefits will apply.

Does that clear it up?

@Phase-Face said in Making a MU* of your own:

@ThatGuyThere

Shit, he coulda just named the dude 'Exsanguinator' and called it a day.

Clearly not. It would have undermined the purity of his vision.

@Swaggot said in Making a MU* of your own:

@Kanye-Qwest The Powerpuff Girls were terrible. Let me guess: you actually like My Little Pony now?

Having never watch MLP, I can't comment; but Powerpuff Girls was great.

Was there some emnity between E3 and PPG fandoms? Because if so, and I was so blissfully unaware until today, and fuck the both of you for bringing it to my attention.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Making a MU* of your own:

@Coin I have a youthful zest for life that refuses to fade, don't fucking judge me.

I don't judge your youthful zest or refusal to fade; just your lack of chronological acknowledgment when it comes to cartoon shows.

It's okay. Really. I still sort of like you sometimes!

@Kanye-Qwest said in Making a MU* of your own:

@Coin said in Making a MU* of your own:

@Kanye-Qwest said in Making a MU* of your own:

Back in my day we had real cartoons like the Powerpuff Girls and Darkwing Duck and Animaniacs.

Ed, Edd, n Eddie was garbage. That terrible, shaky-cam animation is probably what made me retarded.

Powerpuff Girls and Ed, Edd, n Eddy are from the same timespan.

Obviously, or I would never have seen it.

Unlike Darwing Duck and Animaniacs, which predate them by around a decade?

@ThatGuyThere said in Making a MU* of your own:

@Coin said in Making a MU* of your own:

@ThatGuyThere said in Making a MU* of your own:

I too have played an ex-con werewolf, like Coin's he was a only wolf-blooded while in prison, though to be a bit different he went through the first change in play.

So did mine. Not that different.

Ah well, though this is a nice lesson on why I don't assume character plagiarism with out real evidence since two different people can come up with very similar concepts from reading the same source material.
I hesitate to ask the crime for fear they were complete clones.

Armed robbery.

He was basically Lucas Hood from Banshee, I didn't even pretend he wasn't.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Making a MU* of your own:

Back in my day we had real cartoons like the Powerpuff Girls and Darkwing Duck and Animaniacs.

Ed, Edd, n Eddie was garbage. That terrible, shaky-cam animation is probably what made me retarded.

Powerpuff Girls and Ed, Edd, n Eddy are from the same timespan.

@ThatGuyThere said in Making a MU* of your own:

I too have played an ex-con werewolf, like Coin's he was a only wolf-blooded while in prison, though to be a bit different he went through the first change in play.

So did mine. Not that different.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Making a MU* of your own:

A cartoon that no one liked!

Hey now.

That cartoon was pretty ballin'.