Posts made by Thenomain

@Chime said in What Do You Collect?:

Take a peek at https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font if you want to see a faithful modern take on the 3270 font though... very nice.

Oh yes, and I collect fonts.

@Miss-Demeanor

I dunno. I have it from very good authority of making it up just now that @Chime doesn't wear underwear.

@Tyche said in RL things I love:

@Insomnia said in RL things I love:

I just love that this is happening. NSFW, maybe? 3D printed clitoris to teach girls about sexuality in France.

Really? I mean it's not like giving a smart phone to a cave woman. Woman have had this equipment for thousands of years and billions of them have figured out how to use it without the 3d models or classes.

Like any tool, you can always become better at its use.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Best author, Martin or Tolkien?

Tolkien rapped the shit out of Martin, so that one's answered.

@ThatGuyThere

See, the problem I have with the entirety of nerd arguments is they usually boil down to: This is not what I understand and/or prefer, therefore it is wrong. As long as there is the acceptance that the argument is over opinion, then the arguments can be pretty interesting.

Or to be slightly more pedantic, I think there is a big difference between the sentiments of "you are wrong" and "I prefer my view".

In a little under two days, Monte Cook's latest RPG, Invisible Sun, was successfully Kickstarted for $210,653.

At $197 a copy.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/invisible-sun/

(Note, if The Community ever wanted to pay me for coding, I think this would be what I'd ask for. And then not know what to do with it. I am deeply intrigued.)

@Lotherio said:

Beyond this all honestly depends on what the players do.

And there is the key. What do players do on this game? What do characters? You say you don't want dirt-toiling realism, but then what's? Are the characters leaders trying to stave back the Danes? Will they be allowed to? What character model would you use? How to they do this, because I can't even begin to imagine unless you have traits that would answer these questions. (D&D had one for a while that I can't remember. Birthright?)

What RP scenarios are there for Vikings? For monks? Yes, I know some of it writes itself (Chicago 1930s), but most of it doesn't.

@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

Rather inapplicable in context here

On the contrary, it's very applicable to those people who are saying that the depiction of Character-Name-Here is not the right one. It's not the only explanation for this behavior, but it is a very popular one.

@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

that is who Dr. Freeze is now, in the hearts and minds of a generation of Batman lovers.

Always worth another go:
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2007/06/16/

@Chime collects posts and responds to them all at once.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

What about the laws we have in place to protect people with allergies?

Which laws are those?

I assume (bad on me, I know) that the whole "this stuff is made in a place that does peanuts" is a law and/or regulation. I know like hell that "if someone asks for the detailed breakdown of your food you have to give it to them" is.

Or non-smoking regulations?

You mean, those blatantly unconstitutional regulations that have had no demonstrable effect on smoking or related-cancer rates?

I'm absolutely talking about the extensively tested and considered health regulations concerning second-hand smoke in enclosed spaces, yes.

You know, since you made this political when I was pretty carefully trying not to go there.

@ThatGuyThere

Absolutely. And a well-behaved, clean dog in a store shouldn't be a big deal.

Just as taking your smoking outside or somewhere else shouldn't be a big deal. I think it's a question as to who is harmed to what degree. Filter through the commons of discussion and viola! We can easier decide who's responsible for what.

Mind you, "the commons of discussion" are a strange beast indeed.

@Kanye-Qwest said in What Do You Collect?:

Sunglasses. Used to be nametags.

That reminds me: Paraphernalia from places I used to work, sometimes as a reminder that even McDonald's would be a better job.

@ThatGuyThere said in RL Anger:

On the topic of allergies, if you have allergies it is on you to avoid them.

What about the laws we have in place to protect people with allergies? Or non-smoking regulations? These things are about the health of the public. I know what you were getting at, but there is clearly an acceptable line in our current society where we're willing to control health choices, mostly if not entirely around the "life or death" level, and these days edging well into the "quality of that life" level.

Audio drama podcasts.

(Welcome to Nightvale/Alice Isn't Dead/Within the Wires, Our Fair City, Ars Paradoxica, and because it's about storytelling I'll include The Myths & Legends Podcast which you absolutely must listen to, go now, go go.)

Slang, current and out-dated, plus their origins if at all possible.

I've run into a few in the various games where I would think it would be better named something else, but that name was already taken for a different Condition or Tilt.

@Vorpal

Wasn't talking about you being up in arms, no.

I am talking about how it doesn't matter about the character for people new to the canon, which I am. The movie defines them in the scope of the movie, and I find it hilarious people like you want to merge the comic source and the movie source together when they're clearly not.

Well, I don't find it hilarious, but I find people who use the term "I find it hilarious" worth mocking for not spending any time to rub two brain cells together and come up with a real argument.

Comic book movies are serious business, yo.

(final edit:) Cute Kermit Spider is cute.

@Vorpal

In the cartoon series, they keep possessed demonic artifacts in safe keeping in their closet, sure.

I have no idea who Amanda Walker is, or why anyone is getting this up in arms over a comic book movie because for flip's sake it's a comic book turned into a movie.

I liked the X-Men movies because they weren't. I liked Spider Man (MacGuire) because they weren't. I hated Wolverine vs. Japan because it was. Everyone was universally bored out of their mind by the first half of the Hobbit movie because it tried too hard to be the source material. Movies are only at their best when they're allowed to be movies.

And no matter how much money Suciide Squad made or how low the ratings, even that statement isn't saying much.

Edit: Exception that proves the rule: Scott Pilgrim

@Vorpal said in Good or New Movies Review:

I mean. Who the fuck keeps an ancient and demonically possessed artifact in their fucking closet?

Er, the Ghostbsters?