What about people who collect underwear?
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RE: Um...What?
@shincashay said in Um...What?:
Uh.. sometimes you just HAVE to match your shoes with your purse with your outfit and your headband.
Sure. If you're WEARING them. But if you're buying them just to say you have them?
Otherwise, be as fabulous as you can be.
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RE: Um...What?
@surreality said in Um...What?:
@thenomain What's unnerving to me here is that there are so many stranger things that people collect.
It's not that it's strange, it's that it's something that could be used instead of collected. It's like collecting toys instead of playing with them, it's like sealing comics away before reading them, it's like making children make shoes instead of educating them.
I had someone point out a pair of sneakers that someone else was wearing that were, I kid you not, $500, because they were collectable. Maybe this is how much Nike would demand sweat-shop shoes would be if they paid a fair wage, but it was still something that made me go "um...what?"
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RE: Um...What?
It just never occurred to me that the Air Jordans craze created a movement where people treat sweat-shop shoes as art. It's just not part of the world I live in.
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RE: Um...What?
Recently I discovered that people collect sneakers to the point where this is a thing that people take pretty seriously.
Um...so...yeah.
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RE: TMC
To be honest the original Wora was mainly there to out shitty staff by trolling them hard. This is why Rasheem, to get back to Wora’s roots, went to Pillow Fort and pretended to be nice in order to report on how they manipulated other games, and to out them hard and laugh about it.
Whether or not he was successful is another story.
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RE: The Board Game Thread
Wow, I didn't know there was one of these. Almost a year since a reply? Like a virus, you can't completely kill it.
Continuing @EmmahSue and my spoiler-free Pandemic Legacy (Season One) story.
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AUGUST.
Things have really started to fall apart. Northern United States is still in a panic over the July 4th Riots (even though they weren't technically on the 4th, but close enough for government work) and the hell born of Africa's fertile disease vectors has given us a lot more to think about.
John Doe (@EmmahSue) was shaken when the truth was revealed. No, I shouldn't say the truth, but a truth. Truths have been coming as fast as they can, hard truths—anti-vaxers protesting in the streets and denying their role in all this—as well as good truths—we have a handle on this and the CDC has given us leeway like never before.
We will see if we still have a job with them at the end of this.
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Other board games that are awesome:
- Hardback
- Qwirkle
- I can't think of any others. @Cobaltasaurus ?
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RE: Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0
Absolutely. There are ways that it can be done, but there's also my Secret Plans (er, which is to say, how I'd like to see it done).
While handwaving magic is always an option, consider what a computer does, and what is required to make it do it. Between the complexity of its infrastructure and complexity of its internals, maintaining our modern technology is very difficult.
Not to say that I can't find a way, but that suit-wearing goblins getting into their Lexus from a good day on Wall Street is not going to be a thing.
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RE: Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0
@wildbaboons said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:
Is your idea natives are gone, fantasy races are here.. and have no idea about modern day life? Cars, computers, etc all foreign?
Sorry, I missed this with images of incredibly well-makeuped orcs/goblins/whatever.
Yes. They are all foreign.
However I figure Tolkein/D&D people can very quickly get ahold of many things.
- Locks.
- Engines.
- Generators.
It's until modern electronics that things start being difficult for them.
This is the key to the poll. Around WW2, we start heading toward the Age of Electronics. Capacitors, resistors, LEDs, etc. These are things that would be magic for a people who are used to dwarven-level locks and ancient complex traps.
I would find a way to work this out if Noir Fantasy is less interesting than Modern Fantasy but man, working out how to make my vision work and let goblins use radios and computers is not trivial!
That's the way people are leaning right now. S'all good.
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RE: Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0
Then I shall create one.
FANTASY EARTH: Our Earth, but fantasy elements are open.
Now I can check off my "do something today" item.
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RE: Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0
Both of them come from similar conceits: Fantasy races exist openly alongside humanity. In the case of SR, it's more recent.
Genres are not one-off things. Things can (and usually do) fall under more than one category. Even the categories are more suggestions than anything.
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RE: Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0
I do like Victoriana. It is a game as much about breaking the social mores of the day as they are dwarves with guns. In the start of the book it pretty much lays it out, saying something like (paraphrased), "All characters are played by people from a more socially enlightened age, and as such the characters are going to do things that brand them as pariahs or outcasts. Roll with it."
I'm a bit burnt-out on Victoran (Steampunk) and Edwardian (late Steampunk/early Dieselpunk).
Does the genre that includes Castle Falkenstein, Victoriana, Bright and Shadowrun have a name? "Urban Fantasy" doesn't feel right; the origins of U.F. more about modern-day ghost stories and faerie-tales, while the previous list is about the Tolkeinized fantasy world existing side-by-side with the evolution of society and known history.
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RE: Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0
@bobotron said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:
Wasn't the Victoriana RPG this but in 1890s London with a fantastical overlay?
No? Victoriana was (to me) re-imagined Castle Falkenstein. Again: Fantasy alongside natives.
It was, however, ten thousand times better thought-out than Bright.
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RE: Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0
@saulot said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:
D20 Modern? I'm mostly for it.
Close but not quite. In D20 Modern, the fantasy races have been slipping over for a while and are quasi-hiding side-by-side by us natives.
In my imagining, we natives are gone, and they appear in a flash, all at once.
@Coin called it a soft apocalypse, which is a good summary.
(edit: I love the concept of d20M if played in the low-power, hiding-in-plain-sight manner.)
(edit edit: That was RPG-awakening for me. Now I know what about Changeling I keep getting drawn back to.)(edit edit edit: But if people would rather a Bright/d20Modern, that is also quite interesting.)
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
So I was interested in a particular LaCie hard drive that just came out (the DJI Copilot) and thought, hmm, can this be used as a connected hard drive to iOS devices?
There's no "contact sales" on their web page, so I put in a trouble ticket. This is what happened.
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Me: Hello, does this hard drive allow transfer of files to iOS devices?
Support: Here's a link to the manual, have a great day!
Me: Hello, thanks, that doesn't answer the question. The information in there is good, but it's extremely vague if it can do this particular thing.
Support: Hi, I understand you're looking for information about using the hard drive, have you tried <thing>?
Me: <Thing> is for a different problem. I want to know how to transfer files to iOS devices.
Support: Hi! I understand you're trying to transfer files to iOS devices! Here's a link to the manual, hope that helped!
Me: No...that...didn't help, no. Here's the question again. Please escalate this.
Support: Hello, I understand your question is "how do I transfer files to iOS devices". Here's a link to a video review from someone on the Internet. Have a great day!
Me: I could not find an answer in that video. Please show me in that video where my question is answered. Thanks.
Each time I mail, a different person responds.
I can't wait for tomorrow's unhelpful email.
I hope I'm ruining their metrics, because this is ridiculous.
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In contrast, I sent a contact request to Henge about a dock they sell, and got not only the precise answer I was asking for (amperage on their USB ports), but in different situations (docked and undocked). I was floored.
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RE: Fallout: Montreal
@tragedyjones said in Fallout: Montreal:
rip off the Atom Cats
In the first Fallout, putting a car back together was a giant, expensive, tricky task, but since you were on a timer it was so worth it.
Do that.
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Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0
To explain (to those who haven't heard me talk about it before), imagine that all humanity, every man, woman, and child disappeared in an instant, and in that same instant every man, woman, child, and other from the D&D- or Pathfinder-style worlds appears in our place. What time period would be interested to read, see, hear, or play this in?
While I'm mostly interested in "Day Zero" stories about this, it could be some 15 years later when the chaos subsides.
( @Coin : I know what we talked about; I'm still batting it around. )
edit: I cannot stop this poll from being displayed twice. When in doubt, use the top one.