Posts made by HelloRaptor

@silentsophia said:

@HelloRaptor Yeah, I just grabbed a micro USB. We'll see how this one works. Brand names can be nice, but I just don't see myself paying full price for it.

I've had really good luck with the amazon basics stuff, as far as straight cords go. The Nexus 7 seems to be kind of finicky in terms of chargers themselves, too. Are you just plugging your tablet into a usb porn on a computer, or into a socket charge-base? If the latter ever wears down, be careful in what you replace it with.

Or there's always something like this that seems to get good reviews, but would limit you to charging with an outlet only.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

@HelloRaptor Sarcastic response: If it's not white, eurocentric, and would fit in World of Warcraft, gone.

Actual response: If it's not white, eurocentric, and would fit in World of Warcraft, gone.

Chult? Native civilizations wiped out.

Halruaa: Exploded.

Luiren: Caught in the shockwaves of Halruaa exploding.

Mulhorand: Swallowed up by some resurgent shit from Netheril, completely expunged.

Maztica: Whole continent replaced so they could have Dragonborn.

Al-Qadim and Kara-Tur didn't get touched on, mostly because the FR 4e writers didn't have time to bring them to ruin to add in the kingdom of blue-skinned elves who are often druids but totally not a WoW-rip.

Ahh, thanks for the info. Our FR games generally took place in the Dales and surrounding eurocentric areas. I knew a lot of shit exploded in 4E, but never really sat down to look at exactly what went boom.

@silentsophia said:

I think I'm gonna say no thanks to that because looking at the end, it really is just a generic micro-USB.

It's a mini-usb cable, which is what you said. Did you mean micro-usb?

As for the cost, I assumed you just meant the cable, not the whole charger. Far as I can tell the Nexus 7 uses micro-usb, which are still pretty damn cheap, at least in the US. The 'official' one might get jacked up, though. They like to charge an arm and a leg for that.

@silentsophia

It wasn't even a funny joke. It was more an outright insult.

As @Ganymede said, I can't control how people choose to react. Whether or not it was funny, it was intended to be, if only mildly. I'm honestly not sure how anyone could read it as an insult (veiled or outright), but again, I've got no say in what you read into it.

If a topic upsets someone and it's known, why provoke them?

Maybe this just relates to the other shit you were talking about, but to be clear, if there was some post at some point by @Usekh saying "Hey guys I'm super sensitive about this so please no jokes, even little dumb ones, that use me and cancer as a framework." or anything of the kind, I never saw it. If there was, and if I had, I wouldn't have made the joke.

The response to 'dude, wtf' wasn't very good, either.

My response to what really were outright insults, you mean? YMMV, I guess. I felt they were pretty measured given what I wanted to type. I didn't even throw in any cancer jokes in my response to him. Almost as if once he'd made it clear they actually upset him, I didn't use them to provoke him. That didn't get him a get out of jail free card for how he framed his response, though. New depths? Really?

Also, 45 bucks for a fucking mini USB cord to charge my tablet? Jesus H. Christ.

What the fuck? Were you in an airport or something? I mean, you're talking about one of these, right? O.o

Since he was using a comedian as a reference, @Arkandel, I don't think that part was meant to be taken seriously. Hopefully. Even Denis Leary doesn't think that's true.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

I mean, if I ran FR, I'd definately be using the 2E timeline, because the ass-end of 3.5's events were craptastic, and the 4E writers stripped anything out of the setting that wasn't white and eurocentric. It was an absolute travesty.

I admit the idea of Birthright has always intrigued me, mostly because it has mechanics for titles and estates other settings don't.

What did they strip out in the 4E setting? We didn't play any FR games when we were doing 4E, so I only know what bits I caught in the few novels I read at the time. Admittedly I did like most of the 3.x stuff for it, even towards the end.

@Shebakoby said:

@HelloRaptor Denis Leary keeps telling everyone, "'If you quit smoking, you can live an extra 10 years, you can live an extra 20 years.' I've got news for you folks, it's the ones at the END! It's the wheelchair, adult diaper, kidney dialysis f'ken years, you can have those years, we don't want em!"

I had a relative that smoked like a chimney. He died at age 38 (heart attack). I had another relative that smoked like a chimney. Died at age 65 (cause unknown, thought to be stroke.). Then there's other smokers that live to nearly 100. It's no guarantee one way or the other.

In 2001 they concluded a 50 year study in England that showed that fully fifty percent of smokers die from smoking related illnesses, and of those (smoking-related deaths only), over fifty percent died before the age of 50. My father's been smoking since he was a teenager and he's 60 or so now, but anecdotal evidence is not the best kind of evidence.

'Do what you want, we all die anyway so it doesn't matter.' remains bad advice.

@Arkandel said:

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@tragedyjones said:

Has anyone else been watching Mr. Robot? Currently airing on USA, it is a modern cyberpunk hacker-drama. I am actually really impressed with it thus far.

It's so Demon.

Don't you fucking dare make me want to play Demon, asshole. It may inspire a firebrand hacker Carthian Mekhet.

There are no spots on Eldritch now, and Eerie posted there won't be any again for months, so.

Maybe they're trying to thin out the herd.

To zero.

...

@Eerie

@Misadventure said:

M or Krang you make the call.

4 Disturbing Questions About Krang from Ninja Turtles

Many lulz.

@AmishRakeFight

So maybe people should chill the fuck out and realize that no one gets out alive and making everyone feel like shit about their size means about fuckall in the end.

Yeah, why should anybody care about links between obesity and heart disease, when we're all going to die eventually anyway? It's not like we give people shit for smoking over the cancer related health risks, right?

This weasel., doing what it can to put an end to the tyrrany of seagulls.

Fuck those birds.

@Jaded

You could check out the Greyhawk source material. Oerth is pretty diverse like Forgotten Realms but not as magic heavy. While it has Elves, Dwarves, etc. I'd consider it a more low fantasy setting compared to the high fantasy that FR is.

Greyhawk is more middle-magic to FR's high-magic, with LotR being a pretty low-magic fantasy setting.

Greyhawk has a ton of high level magic shit happening almost everywhere there are people, it's just not as pervasive to the setting as it is in Forgotten Realms. Anywhere there are magic-marts (even if only in major cities) where you can buy all manner of magical goods, isn't going to qualify as low-magic.

I prefer low/medium/high-magic over low/medium/high-fantasy, because LotR was plenty high fantasy while being distinctly low-magic, really.

@The-Tree-of-Woe

Well, somewhere along the line for awhile (5e's attempted to reinforce the point) it became lost that hit points are an abstraction and that one "attack" for the round is actually a sequence of blows and parries.

3.x and Pathfinder have systems that split up hit points into Vitality and Wound points, which we rather like. Vitality represents that sort of cinematic durability that gets worn away but returns quickly (i.e. almost every action hero for the first hour of a movie) and Wound points which recover more slowly and represent actual damage that is going to take time or magic to recover from.

Unfortunately they require a lot of adjustment for the rest of the systems, and how they interact with feats, spells, etc is often kind of kludgy. I haven't played 5e, so I'll have to go look up their hit point system to see if we could adapt it.

@Derp

Thac0 is awesome, and sensible.

Or the opposite of both of those things. I'm kidding about the 'or', it's just that one, the opposite of those things one.

How much AC does a suit of Chain Mail (AC 5) +3 give you? If you answered 2, congratulations, you got it in one. Because of course 5+3 is 2. Except that lower is better so the 5 is dropping you from the 10 of an unarmored human so 2 is better than 5 is better than 10 so obviously +3 really means -3. And if you're really lucky you can get to the point of having a negative value so that when figuring out your to-hit number you can subtract a negative number and...

Yeah, sensible and awesome, totally.

I realize that much of that is a factor of AC rather than of THAC0 directly, but it's part and parcel of the same subsystem so it's just as guilty.

Thac0 is just too much mathing.

If you've got an AC of -3 and a THAC0 of 12, and your enemy has an AC of 2 and a THAC0 of 15:

• Your chance of hitting them is 12 - 2 = 10, if no armor v weapon interaction.
• Their chance of hitting you is 15 - -3 = 18, if no armor v weapon interaction.

For 3.x/Pathfinder it's the same numbers, just calculated differently, with 20-(THACo or AC) to get the converted values. You'd have an AC of 23 and To-Hit of 8, they'd have an AC of 18 and To-Hit of 5.

The difference being that there's not stupid shit like listing positive modifiers to represent negative values, or subtracting negatives. A + is a + and a - is a -. Positives are good to have, negatives are bad to have, period.

THAC0 offers absolutely nothing over the 3.x model except a less intuitive system, and slightly worse to-hit numbers for non-warrior classes. That's not exactly hitting 'sensible and awesome' for me, I guess.

Who knew that as you progressed in level, you would get harder to hit by dint of being a combat veteran? No, fighters and such remain just as hittable forever, better have nicer armor

Err. Okay, it's been a loooong time since I played AD&D, but I don't remember getting AC bonuses by level. 10 was unarmored human, modified from there by armor. So an unarmored fighter and an unarmored wizard with the same exact Dexterity both had the same AC.

Am I misremembering this? It's possible.

tl;dr - You're both monsters.

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@Derp said:

@HelloRaptor

Duh. That's why everyone loves you, you gruff sumbitch.

Or it just means nobody should pay attention to reputation metrics and people who do deserve every ounce of disappointment that comes their way.

I mean, you cited @Coin as someone with a respected opinion, and he thinks Power Rings letting you talk while traveling at light speed is the line to draw in the sand. Clearly, your formula for interpretation leaves much to be desired.

Go grow some boobs, asshole. XD

I'm never letting go of that, @Coin. Not ever.

@Derp said:

@HelloRaptor

Duh. That's why everyone loves you, you gruff sumbitch.

Or it just means nobody should pay attention to reputation metrics and people who do deserve every ounce of disappointment that comes their way.

I mean, you cited @Coin as someone with a respected opinion, and he thinks Power Rings letting you talk while traveling at light speed is the line to draw in the sand. Clearly, your formula for interpretation leaves much to be desired.

@Derp

It shows who is established, and gives a baseline for how well-respected people's opinions are for new users. One of the first things I did here was look at by-post and by-reputation user lists, @arkandel and @coin being in the top two spots in both places.

Man, I made it into the top 5 posters, top 3 reputation,, and apparently have the highest ratio of posts to upvotes (edging out @Ganymede only barely).

I can only assume that

@spasticgoat said:

@Arkandel Because WW is fucking stupid when it comes to their naming convention. They mix Greek, Latin, and French words up into a single lexicon, because the game designed for Americans to play tragic-goth trenchcoat holders needs shit like that.

And nobody in America gives a fuck since our language is like Jack the Ripper to all you foreign whore-languages.

We do however give a fuck when they don't stick to <Creature Type>: The <Thing About Creature Type>. Vampire: The Requiem, Werewolf: The Forsaken, Mage: The Awakening, Promethean: The Created. Even Changeling: The Lost.

But no, Geist has to be ass backwards, because fuck Geist.

@Thenomain said:

@EmmahSue said:

It's a question for the community at large, not just Admin to decide.

You take all the fun out of this, you know.

You're starting to understand the truth!

@Tempest said:

Yeah, I just noticed today that apparently 'hovering' will show names of who upvoted a post, but not who downvoted it. I second that boo.

Edit : I now have another question. Please excuse me while I alternate upvoting/downvoting raptor's post for a few seconds. Do you get more than one notification?

Nah, only the one, but I do get a bunch of notifications if a bunch of people upvote the same post. Thanks, forum, I guess you want me to know I'm... loved?

Being able to shut off vote notifications would be cool, but it's pretty ridiculous that it only shows the upvotes, regardless.

@Glitch
So does the forum only notify on upvotes? I have at times noticed someone upvoting something but seeing a 0 in the post total, while still showing their name on voicover. Also, I can't recall ever seeing a downvote notification, but probability is implausibly low that nobody's ever downvoted me.

Pretty lame if it doesn't notify on downvotes (or show the names of downvoters) but does for upvotes. Boo.