Posts made by TNP

@Cirno said:

There are exceptions to the rule, but I am much of your opinion where this is concerned.

Actually, I didn't say that was the norm. You only have to look here to find people who act like... you know, adults. For every Bigbad there are 10 (a statistic pulled out of thin air) who aren't. I think that, generally, most people aren't assholes. Not even Muers despite the stereotype. WORA, and to a lesser extent this board, are echo chamber for all the worst Mu behavior. That's what it was created for: to complain about assholes while being assholes.

It's a sad fact that the squeaky wheel gets the oil and that assholes are the ones who get the attention. Dismiss them and you'll find that who's left are generally regular people, both good and bad. But there's still a tendency for a lot of people to not care how they present themselves because it's anonymous.

It's really no different than WORA (or the internet in general) is/was. It's just a game. It's just a message forum. It's just the internet. It's just fill in the blank because it's not "real life".

People don't care how they present themselves. It's fine to come off as illiterate. It's fine to come off as a troll. They don't care that this is the only impression others can base their opinion of them on because they don't care about those people. They're not "real".

So come off as someone who failed third grade? As someone who's a bully and/or a total jackass? Whatever dude.

Is there an ignore thread plugin?

I never got my degree even though I had almost enough credits to do so. They were spread around so broadly for the simple fact that I had no idea what I wanted to do. Or rather, I knew and that was learn something about everything, especially as the mood struck me.

It wasn't till much, much later that I realized I should have been a research librarian but by then I had no interest in going back to college, especially as it requires a Masters. Fortunately, I fell into my present career and love it. Hopefully, it's something I can manage to keep doing for a few decades.

@Misadventure said:

Block would be convenient. Unless there is something we users could do to get that function installed, this is just whining that is wasting my time.

No one makes you read their posts, or read this forum.

@WTFE said:

Basically I view the block buttons as the social equivalent of ad blockers: a tool to eliminate the irritating and repetitive from your digital experience.

Yes. Also, my time has value. No one has a right to my time. And we have certainly had people who post the equivalent of 'your face is stupid' here.

I've never liked Deadpool.

This movie (very possibly solely because of Ryan Reynolds) is making me reconsider that opinion.

Actually, it's incorrect to label it non-Western. The swastika appears on ancient Greek coins up to 2500 years ago.

I'm not sure I'd call M&M fast and simple. It's one of the crunchier systems around. 3e?

A big part of privilege is not what happens to you because you have it. It's what does NOT happen to you because you have it.

Okay, that was fucking amazing. My first thought watching it was 'This is the Star Wars I remember.' My second thought watching it was 'This IS the Star Wars I remember.' I don't care. It was amazing. It was a fantastic story the first time and it still is. I consider it an homage to Star Wars in addition to advancing the story and being a damn fine movie in its own right.

I remember watching the original when it first came out in the theater and this took me right back to it. I'll be less pleased if the next two movies are just retellings as well but this brought it alive again.

http://www.behindthename.com/name/renaud

And...

I'm not seeing a connection. What's the point of posting Reynaud's finger info? What does it have to do with Renaud? And that Custodius uses that name on other games doesn't mean much when it's used on a game heavy with French names.

@Coin http://nerdist.com/of-course-the-deadpool-script-notes-are-insane/

An update on the forthcoming games would be nice.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

Harrison Ford is in bizarro good shape for a man his age, which I guess comes from doing volunteer aviation search-and-rescue of hikers. So it's not fair to compare him to normal old humans.

You know who's is amazing shape? Dick Van Dyke. The guy is 90 and I just saw him dance a soft shoe. Not the most strenuous dance but he didn't move stiffly.

It's a lot more complicated than that and worth a read. The city had multiple names for centuries (if not millennia) it seems.

@Warma-Sheen said:

The writing was on the mall only about a month or two after it opened.

Having one of the 2 wizards (not counting Theno/code staff) go AWOL was a pretty clear indicator that it was in trouble. But it was fun for a time.