Posts made by insomniac7809

@jennkryst Yeah. Just saying, how I'm seeing it, the split isn't nearly as harsh as it was in earlier editions, so the Bayushi Bushi playspace (sociable warrior type) should be doable with a fighty-focused Bayushi Manipulator. (Unless I'm missing something important.)

@jennkryst said in FFG's Legend of the 5 Rings RPG...:

ETA - There is no Scorpion Bushi school. So you are either Shinobi and pretending (and they are better at faking being a courtier than a bushi), OR you have to go learn from another clan.

Or just be a Bayushi Courtier. They can buy kata.

@shincashay said in Calaveras MUSH:

With that chick with the horrible accent. Jesus.

I mean she literally got rid of the accent in the first non-pilot episode.

But then for some reason they used a clip of her saying "moy-AHH-me" in the into sequence for years.

Manager, I like you. I do.

So if you're gonna ask me to cover your shift with just enough notice to catch forty winks, don't come at me with "do you want overtime" (I don't, particulalrly; I want to spend my day off watching Netflix in my underwear) and don't tell me that District Manager asked you to reach out (every condescending micromanaging word out of DM's mouth is like nails on a chalkboard to me). Just tell me your flight's delayed and can I do you a solid.

@auspice

"As' chairman of the, Merchant's' Guild gentlemen may, I point out that these thing's represent a valuable labor force in this' city—" said Mr. Robert Parker.*

*As a member of the Ancient and Venerable Order of Greengrocers, Mr. Parker was honor-bound never to put his punctuation in the right place.

-Terry Pratchett, Making Money

@twinprince Nitpick of nitpicks, but man, I wouldn't assume Daeva are crippled if their social-fu takes a hit.

Two in-Clan physicals. Daeva is best b/c they does the sex and the violence.

@griatch said in Tomorrow is the Deadline....:

It also doesn't make sense to have a national vote on a work day like many countries have. Either make election day a holiday or move it to the weekend...

I mean, some of us are guaranteed to work on holidays and weekends...

But there is actually a reason that Americans hold elections on Tuesdays.

See, back when we were setting this all up, a whole lot of our population was living on farms. So the assumption was that citizens--or, well, voters, which is to say the man of the house who actually owned the land--would need to take a day to ride into town, and another day to ride back.

And since no good Christian man would be travelling on a Sunday, the idea was that you would ride into town on Monday, vote on Tuesday, and ride back out to the farm on Wednesday.

(I said it was a reason not that it was a good one.)

@shincashay said in RL Anger:

There's enough laid out to cast some serious side-eye at the nomination.

Kavanaugh flipped his shit and swore vengeance against the Democratic party in his confirmation hearings. In a sane universe the President would have withdrawn his nomination already if he lacked the good grace and basic decency to step down himself on that basis alone, even aside from the truth of the allegations.

But we live in Stupidest Timeline so who the fuck even knows.

On the "said" business: you probably don't even need to do that much. You're already sticking it in the middle of a pose that is identified as your PC.

I do try to do the same in prose writing. Like,

Zed wrapped her arms around her stomach, eyes staring at the ground. "I, um. Ate Cody," she said.

Vs

Zed wrapped her arms around her stomach, eyes staring at the ground. "I, um. Ate Cody."

It's still clear who's talking, and I get to end the paragraph with the wham line. The value of "said" is that it doesn't call much attention to itself while identifying the speaker, and if the speaker is clear, you don't even need that.

@kanye-qwest Sounds like you hate America.

@surreality Kinda works, I guess. There's plenty of TV shows with magical or sci-fi shit going on, but... can't say I have a better idea.

Are we at the point where we need a word for "without supernatural whatnots?"

@shincashay What I want to know is if they photoshopped Judge Oompa Loompa just for that bit, or if they already had it handy.

Not sure which would make me happier tbh

Just chiming in as someone who a) has zero ability to code but b) is rooting for you guys

@misadventure said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Weird. Places I go, close the door when they want to stop taking orders. You are often welcome to stay 30-60 minutes after that. They'll let you know when the kitchen is closing.

Places I've worked, people are, of course, allowed to come in right to the very second of our posted business hours and stay as long as they like.

Because the people who set these policies are more than happy to toss another hour of minimum wage at the people who actually have to stay another hour away from our, y'know, families to deal with That Guy.

If you want to see passive aggression embodied, behold the wage slave who isn't actually allowed to kick That Guy out because it's closing time.

Telling a shoe salesperson you want a "walking shoe" conveys zero information. That can mean literally anything from sneakers to low heels.

Work-appropriate, similarly, can mean pumps or steel toed boots depending on what you do for a living.

Help me help you, people.

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@jaded said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yes please continue to lecture me about the topic you have no education in while I sit here and polish my framed degree.

Fuck I hate people.

The best is when a simple Google search would actually give a decent overview of what they're trying to lecture about.

(Hint: movies/TV shows are generally the worst places pull knowledge from. Esp. when it's computer/IT stuff. I present you why I can never watch NCIS.)

I still think a PC game should put in a hacking minigame where you win by typing gibberish as fast as you possibly can. Really immerse yourself in the experience.

Also, https://youtu.be/3aipwDzC2hw

I hear a lot of pop music at work. (I work at a mall.) And there's just two things that keep getting on my nerves.

One is the sad songs where the viewpoint character is super bummed that the object of their affection is either not interested, or is in a committed relationship with someone else. And I mean I get it, it sucks, we've all been there. But when he starts singing about how she should totally get with him instead, it leaves mournfully sweet and gets into entitled creepster.

The second is when they're trying to use Romeo and Juliet for any sort of love song. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, dammit. It's not just a love story, it's a love story that ends with the protagonists and all their friends dead. Star-cross'd lovers doesn't mean that they were really really in love, it means they were cursed by fate. I mean, it's cool if you're singing about a bad breakup or something, but not if you're just using them as shorthand for 'really in love.' Even if someone's parents don't approve. Read a goddamn book, Taylor.

@ominous said in Inspiration material for your current game:

@kanye-qwest My bad. I just assume all things awesome in fantasy are written by Sanderson or Pratchett and as First Law isn't comedic...

It is pretty funny! For a certain sense of humor.

But honestly... there's a good bit of First Law DNA in Arx, but the setting is too much PVP-averse, loaded up with genuinely decent people, and involving conflicts with Capital E Evil threats for me to think of @LordGrimdark's work as a 'required reading' sort of thing.

@deadculture They don't talk about removing harm. That's really hammered on in O'Brien's whole speech to Winston. Trying to compare "if you criticise the government they torture you until you'll believe 1+1=3" with "if you want to call women cunts I'd rather you do it somewhere else" is either disingenuous or rather missing some key points.

Of course, the real point of 1984 is a socialist writing a sci-fi criticism of Stalin.