Posts made by ThatGuyThere

@faraday said in Social Systems:

Yes, but that's kind of core to why we have stats at all. If everyone trusted each other to play reasonably or (for GMs) to judge situations reasonably, we wouldn't need social stats or physical stats.

I disagree with this premise, to me stats are not about a lack of trust but about adding the spice of uncertainty into the situation. True you don't need stats for that you could roll and say even x wins odd y wins but I think that stats allow that with a bit more complexity.
Best why to describe it is comparing stats games to statless, on a stats game in a fight between my combat character and mooks my character will win most of the time but the exact details are up in the air and a loss is possible. On a stat-less game there is not real uncertainty unless it is a continuing plot the PCs will win, if it is a continuing plot whatever happens for the story to continue will happen, while this is not bad it does not feel the same at all compared to one where the result is genuinely up in the air.

@wildbaboons said in Social Systems:

@arkandel I agree... but why I like things affecting NPCs instead of PCs. There was a whole thread on this not that long ago that we don't need to rehash.

My question would be if social can only be used on NPCs but physical can be used on PCs and NPCs and they cost the same , you would be doing yourself a disservice to not buy physical over social.
Especially because in most RP environments a well written pose describing IC awkwardness will win you more friends than a poorly written one describing social awesomeness, so you can follow the mechanical rules pose your low social stats yet get the full benefit of having higher ones except for the occasional use on an NPC.

Wow hearing about childcare cost make me very glad I have never wanted children and through the grace of God and contraception have been lucky enough to avoid them.

Edit: Changed health to child as intended, sadly health cost don't require parenthood.

I use Verizon for internet and yeah my location bounces around my state pretty regularly.
Heck yesterday I was trying to get info on the Panera bread less than a mile from my place and it was pulling locations roughly two hours away. I have gotten to where i ignore the location stuff and just put in the zip code and the business name to search.

@arkandel said in Random links:

There's no price differential here - both critically acclaimed and guilty-pleasure stuff are a click away, already paid for... yet people still chose the latter.

Slight correction, there is no monetary price differential. There is still the expenditure of time. A movie will usually run around 90 minutes with the potential of going longer. A sitcom episode without commercials runs 21-22 minutes.
Now a more fair comparison would be a quality film vs Adam Sandler movie of a similar length.

Batman and Robin is just the tip of the iceberg, in Scooby Doo Team Up they have pretty much met the entire DCU.

@fortydeuce said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

Accurate. Though that one about "would you rather have a sword or be really feared?" was kind of a no-good-choice question for me.

that question stumped me too, I ended up going with sword since cool stuff is alright, and I have zero desire to be feared.

Work place related social activities are probably the biggest bane of modern existence. All the fun or work with none of that pesky getting paid.
Of course I learned in an amusing way that things said at these outings can and will be used against you later at my first job.
This was right after college, a small group of co-workers went out and got coffee after ship and just sat around and shot the shit. During the course of the convo one of the coworkers started telling party stories so I shared a few including one with illegal drug use mentioned. Amazingly enough the next day me and said co-worker were 'randomly' selected for a drug test. The amusing part is they told us what was going on but not the third person who was a lady in her seventies who I think was mainly picked to give the appearance of randomness and had been with the company for over a decade. So we get to the place where the screening will take place and 70 old asks what is up. HR dude tells her and she decided to quit rather than take the test because she said she would not pass it. While me and the other one who were sharing war stories the previous night both tested fine.
Second Favorite moment in work life, was when HR dude who I did not like and did not like me gave me my results and I got to gloat about it. I think my exact words were, "I knew i would pass, but hey any time you want to give me a two hour break to come here and take it again feel free." (Favorite was about 6 months later when HR dude's mommy and daddy sold the company and he got turfed immediately after the meeting where this was announced.)

@lithium
Whataburger is one of those chains I wish we had around her. Though it is likely best for me we do not.
See also Jack in the Box.

Also @FirePuff why would you get a chicken sandwich at a place with burger in it's name? I know a lot of people do it but it always strikes me as odd. I mean if I want chicken it is not like chicken places are hard to find.

I figured so but given the amount of wagering that takes place on NFL games especially playoffs I figured I would clarify.

@ganymede said in The Football Thread:

It is a close call, but I’m not going to bet against Brady. Unless you’re the Ravens or the Mannings, you ain’t gonna win.

Do you mean expect to lose or bet against there. Because if you bet against Brady in the AFC championship you really did win, since the lowest I saw the spread was 9 points and the Pats did not cover.

@ganymede said in The Football Thread:

@th Philly had the 4th best total defense at 306.5 YPG; New England had the 29th rated defense at 366.0 YPG.

While Pats were a poor defense for yards they were also 5th in Points given up, which is the more important measure.
If the game was after only one week I would gives Philly a lot more of a chance but I think the extra week off is a big edge for the Pats.

@apu
Yes Spycraft can work for a GI Joe game, I did so in a tabletop though I also added in some of the rules stuff but not setting stuff from the D20 version of Stargate. (D20 Stargate and Spycraft were pretty close to identical already.)
It worked fairly well not the exact feel I wanted but as close as I have been able to get to what I was looking for. (What I was looking for was basically the Larry Hama written Marvel GI Joe comic in role playing form.)
Now if you are aiming for emulating Cartoon GI Joe go with any edition of Cartoon Action Hour since emulating 80s cartoons is the main goal of that game and it does it well.

Yeah I hat to say it but I think the Superbowl is a foregone conclusion, at least as much as it can be in.
I thought that as soon as the Pats won the AFC championship, Belichek and Patricia with two weeks to prepare will eat Foles alive, I think the Eagles D will keep the score from getting out of hand though.
Should be a good game to watch while drinking and not caring really who wins. (If forced to cheer I will cheer for the Pats just because their win would annoy more people.)

@botulism said in Diceless/Stats Optional:

@seraphim73 No, more PERMANENT Story Points. Temporary points come and go. Permanent is what you refresh to after a story ends.

So you start with 12 permanent story points (let's call them PST). A few Traits in cgen can cost PST, but not many. So say you start the game with 12. This means you start each story with 12 temporary, spendable points.

Things IC can give more, and you can go over that 12 - there's no max. At the end of a story, though, you reset to your PST (12).

Inexperienced lets you start with a higher PST.

My question on this would be how on a mush do you decide when the story points refresh? Every scene? Every week as x time? Etc, because not everyone involved will be on the same story track so refresh at the end of a story is kind of meaningless and can be contradictory. For example in the last week I was in two PRPs they were run by different people, PrP A started scene ended final scene scheduled, PrP B started and finished before the final scene from PrP A. Under the story point thing at which point would Story points refresh?

@tempest
I give them about a 15 % chance I don't think they will win, I don't think it will be all that close, but Tom Coughlin and a strong defense both of which Jacksonville has have proven to be Patriots kryptonite in the past.
In gamer terms though they need one hell of a run a crits to pull it off.

Double post but really on a different topic than the previous one. Took the barltes test and got the results I would have expected.
73 % socializer
73 % explorer
27 % killer
27 % achiever

This seems about right what draws me to games with other people is the interaction with them, both RP and OOC chatting, what draws me to games with out other people is the learning about the world and the story. And I do still explore MU grids to find any hidden cool spots out there to RP that others might miss.

@surreality said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

@ganymede

A: "Come fight me bro, I'm at <not his address!>"
B: <contacts C> "Yo, SWAT this address! <provides address provided by A>"
<SWATs address>

All three have a part of the responsibility here. A shouldn't be getting a pass.

Yeah just to clarify my previously unclear viewpoint, I believe B and C in the above should be prosecuted, A while landing on my list of kinda skuzzy people, I don't think should face charges, not because I think his actons were alright, I thinkthey were deplorable but because there in enough in the middle that he really isn't a proximate cause. (I think I remember that being a thing from my business law classes)

Neither one really excites me but if i had to pick I would go Starfinder, mainly because I already pretty much know the system since I have played 3rd edition and Pathfinder a lot so getting up to speed on the differences would be quicker than entering what all the weird symbols mean into my head.

@ortallus
Going by what I heard which I am not sure are the full facts the caller was not actually the person who was playing against the person they attempted to swat, but was given the info by someone who was and made the call.
I would say giving the info for the purpose of having the swat take place would be worth prosecuting. If someone drives the car of a bank robbery but never goes inside or even has a weapon they can get popped for murder if the robbers inside shot someone. I would have the guy starting this chain face the same charge as the caller. You don't need intent to be guilty, there is depraved indifference which to me starting a swat in motion counts as.
I do have some empathy for the officer he messed up trying to do his job and I have seen nothing to lead me to believe he had malicious intent so I would leave him to a civil or procedural solution rather than a criminal one.