Posts made by ThatGuyThere

@ortallus
It should always be an option, we live in a time when I can get a good look at the situation of a house I have not lived in for 20 plus years because I remember the address.
Now I fully agree that the the caller should be prosecuted, the officer should definitely face a disciplinary hearing though not necessarily criminal prosecution, and the person who supplied the caller with the info to enable the call should also face prosecution.

@ortallus said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

What should the officers have done differently? You still haven't answered that, and until you can, your arguments hold no sway over me.

How about the same thing I would expect any professional to do in any situation, determine what is actually happening before taking action.
This is doubly so when your action have a high probability of being uncorrectable.

@arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

Having said all that, if you asked me who the GOAT is, I want to strongly consider Kareem as well.

I am not sure who I would put as my #1 but Kareem is in my top five. Along with Magic, Jordan, James and the great but mostly forgotten, Oscar Robinson. I can see an argument for putting any one of those five on top, I just lump them together as the top 5.

@buttercup
I would be on your partners side in this, but I don't get the whole watching tv together thing in general. Yeah if I am in a relationship and we can watch something together cool, but if I have time to watch something and want to I will, if i know they want to see it and haven't yet I will avoid mentioning spoilers, but that is as far as I go. Hell I will even watch it with them again if they wanted but not going to not watch so I can watch with someone else later.

@arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

Kareem Abdul-Jabars of the future to have a place, dammit.

Jabar would thrive in the NBA of today. When the NCAA banned the dunk to handicap him he master the skyhook over one summer, I have little doubt had the 3-point line been the weapon it is today he would have developed that skill as well. By the mid and late 80s he was a shadow of his former self watch his early years in the NBA he was a beast. While he would look like a different player than the one I remember I have zero doubt Kareem would be a dominant player in any era including today. Hell with modern nutrition and training he would be scary as all hell.

Edit to note: Remember just how long Kareem was in the league, his first season was 69-70, he was traded to the Lakers in 75, by the time Lakers v Celtics made the NBA popular he was past his prime.

@thatonedude said in Silly things you'd been tempted to do on/for a MU*:

We just need one more dude, with abs.

Since it is in my name and all I will be that guy that points out all people have abs it is just a question of if they are pleasant to look at or not.

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

Our 'grandpa/ma on the rockin' chair' stories are going to make the boomer tales about Woodstock and whatnot look like a Disney film, and that is absolutely winning.

So much this, I am very thankful my college days were before the advent of smartphones and everything being visually documented.

@auspice
I watched it in a sports bar, and since I oddly live in an area with a lot of ex-Minnesotans and a lot people who migrated up because of Katrina and stayed around the place was pretty full and roughly evenly split so the atmosphere for amazing given the mood swings of it.

@auspice said in The Football Thread:

Saints/Vikings game totally made up for how lackluster yesterday felt.

Goddamn.

Hells to the yeah, while I am certainly biased being a Vikings fan, that was the best ending to a game I have seen in years, 4 lead changes in the last 3:01, and a spectacular winning play. Games like that are why I watch football and my team winning only make it better. ... And I should admit between it happening live and all the TV replays then me watching it on you tube I have probably seen that last play a good 35 times.

I never knew the thing with the %t either, since I almost never log, though I have to admit given my general disinterest in logging knowing it is a hassle for them won't change my use of them, which I will admit is rarely if ever.

@arkandel
For me the most important is tempo, the next big factor is details. The poses that really get me to seek out RP with a person are one that paint a specific image in my head.
Those are about the only form factor type things the really matter to me, I can handle typos and misspellings as long as the meaning is clear.
Though unlike a lot of folks on the board I tend to be pretty strongly in favor of pose order.
About the form things that would cause me to avoid someone would be slowness or posing not in present tense.

Also I would think the team could easily point to contracts for future seasons being based on expectations of future performance rather than a estimation of current skill level.

@thenomain said in Changeling the Lost 2e: The Huntsman Chronicles:

So, Clarity is now a health track. Your ability to keep your head level is wavers from day to day, much like oChangeling, but without the 'Banality' bollocks. I consider that a plus, at least.

Now this part I really like, kind of like an emotional health track. One of the things I really love about the fate system is how stress tracks allow the abstraction and modeling of non-physical damage. I.e. a nasty argument with a friend can have a (sometimes lasting) mechanical impact on a character. Edit: Also adds to making the characters feel more real, I am sure I am not the only one who has gone out and done something stupid after an argument because my brain was still swimming in the emotions of the fight and later regretted it.
Or like in Diaspora where a ship has an economic stress track so you can do a we have to take seedy jobs to stay flying story without it beginning all about actual number crunching.

@thenomain said in Changeling the Lost 2e: The Huntsman Chronicles:

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edit, because I don't read things sometimes:

I will likely never make a character who escaped from Arcadia using their greatest strength, that just has no interest for me, so if that is where the game line is headed that is fine but it also means I know not to bother with the game.

One of the many, many things people did not read in CtL, even though it was there in black and white, is that to come back from Arcadia, you'd need the emotional strength and to have something to come back to.

Yes but emotional strength and connection to Earth he want to get back to does not equal escaped by using what he was game mechanically inclined towards(What I would term as any characters greatest strength). My current PC as many reasons for for the strong connection to Earth exactly none of them have any connection to his mechanics, except one of his skill specs that I have not rolled for in years of playing him because it was one I knew had almost zero change of ever being applicable in a scene. (But skill specs are cheap enough to be throw away things.)
My issue comes down to can I play person with X powers that used other thing Y to escape, and how much of a mechanical disadvantage if any does that bring. Story is it's own thing separate from mechanics, although I do think the two should compliment each other.

@thenomain said in Changeling the Lost 2e: The Huntsman Chronicles:

For instance, you are drawing parallels from CtL1e and 2e. You can't. Seemings are now personality types, not physical archetypes. Your statement about Ogres is now more accurately: "To get out through strength makes you an Ogre."

The Kith is now your primary form. You can be a short stubby kudzu-person and be an Ogre, because you're all about the prying strength of plants.

Well unless the change the system pretty radically I am assuming Seemings will have affinity contracts much like Clans still have in clan disciplines, etc.
So my concern is if I want to play someone super strong but did not escape Arcadia through strength how easily can that be done, and how disadvantaged will that character be compared to Person who escaped Arcadia through strength that also wants to be super strong.
It is is a small increase in xp cost no worries, if it is more onerous or even impossible then my thoughts on the game top out at meh.
I will likely never make a character who escaped from Arcadia using their greatest strength, that just has no interest for me, so if that is where the game line is headed that is fine but it also means I know not to bother with the game.
For me the fun of changeling is succeeding how you want despite the fact you were built to do other things, my ogre tries to out think problems even though he knows that is he bad at it and hates using his strength unless it is to defend someone else, because he sees it as Them winning because he is becoming more like what They made.

@thenomain said in Changeling the Lost 2e: The Huntsman Chronicles:

The Seemings are now your strongest personality trait and therefore the one that got you out of Arcadia.

This one sentence is why I have no interest in Changeling 2.0, one of the things I find appealing about Changeling is the open endedness of what you can put together but now to be an Ogre you had to get out though strength. Of course it doesn't help that I tend to make characters that play against type. For example my current Changeling PC who is an Ogre that escaped Arcadia via trickeration is impossible, or any of a dozen viable examples that could be but can't because of the seeming thing.

It hearkens back to the one thing that absolutely ruins Werewolf 2.0 for me, your tribe is defined by your preferred play, that is great on the surface but ruins the game for me because the spirit side of things has always been my favorite part of werewolf, yet i have no interest in playing a Bone Shadow, they just don't appeal to me, so Yay I am effectively cut off from playing in the part of the world I like most.

@tyche said in Table-top gadgets:

Except me, as GM they get paranoid when they hear dice rolling, so it's easier for me to swipe roll them silently on my phone or surface.

That is precisely why you should roll real dice as the GM. Making the players paranoid is roughly half the fun of GMing. Trust me on this, during a random scene just roll a few dice with no purpose whatsoever, it works best when the players are talking among themselves at the time and then grin as they try to figure out what might be happening. This has had an unforeseen benefit because now my current group is so used to purposeless rolls that I can sneak in roles that do have a purpose into scenes without causing the OOC paranoia because they think it is just me messing with them.

@sunny
That is pretty much how the table top group I am in handles phones as well. Though we a re a little less strict, one of the players has a job that requires him to be on call 24/7 and the multiple folks have spouses, but the general assumed etiquette is don't mess with the phone unless it is a call or message that could be /important/.
For the most part we all follow this though I don't think me or the other GM (we have two games that alternate weeks in the same timeslot) have made an official rule about phones.

@sg said in Good TV:

I remember being so upset when I got my first Misfits tape and finding out it was a Danzig band and not the evil band from Jem.

This post literally made me laugh.
The odd thing for me is I really like both sets of Misfits, though I usually refer to them Misfits and Misfits <delay caused by brain remembering things> um the cartoon version.

@bobotron
Not really I like a lot of the stuff in 13th age, about the only thing I really don't like is the one thing that keeps me from running it. Set damage instead of rolled for NPCs.