Today a person said I'm completely out of my mind because I felt that his quiet, extremely safe country town with a crime rate of pretty much 0 sounded a bit boring compared to the city I live in, where you can be attacked in a crowded grocery store in broad daylight.
I may have exaggerated slightly, but my point wasn't made up. There's something kinda fun about living in a large city, though give me another 19 years and I guarantee I'll never want to see another one again.
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Fri May 26, 2017 12:35 am
#1577
I know that there are places here where you will probably get robbed at night, but the risk is fairly low.
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
Well...in what country do you live again?IronDuke wrote:Today a person said I'm completely out of my mind because I felt that his quiet, extremely safe country town with a crime rate of pretty much 0 sounded a bit boring compared to the city I live in, where you can be attacked in a crowded grocery store in broad daylight.
I may have exaggerated slightly, but my point wasn't made up. There's something kinda fun about living in a large city, though give me another 19 years and I guarantee I'll never want to see another one again.
--IronDuke
I know that there are places here where you will probably get robbed at night, but the risk is fairly low.
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Fri May 26, 2017 3:04 pm
#1578
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. The southern part of the city is particularly nasty. :3
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Fri May 26, 2017 3:34 pm
#1579
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
Welp. 'Murica n stuff?IronDuke wrote:Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. The southern part of the city is particularly nasty. :3
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Sat May 27, 2017 1:41 pm
#1580
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
This post on the World of Warships forum. It's kind of a wall of text, but 100% worth reading. I laughed out loud several times. It's totally worth taking a few minutes to read.
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Sat May 27, 2017 1:51 pm
#1581
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
I read it, but I'm not really sure what was going on, not being a player of that game myself.
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Sat May 27, 2017 2:02 pm
#1582
I understood some parts of it...
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
What?IronDuke wrote:This post on the World of Warships forum. It's kind of a wall of text, but 100% worth reading. I laughed out loud several times. It's totally worth taking a few minutes to read.
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I understood some parts of it...
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Sat May 27, 2017 2:19 pm
#1583
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
Non-technical summary, CM style.
The guy decided to do a "scientific" study to see how your level of drunkenness affects your play.
1. The "control group" where he played a few battles without drinking anything. He described the outcomes of the battles; they were pretty much normal for him.
2. He drank 3 "navy grogs" without eating anything. He explained what the drink is (seems real potent) then went to relate his play experience. He played nine games, and it seems his statistics worsened, but being highly drunk now, he didn't care. Even his sentence structure here was vastly different, and he mentioned forgetting a large number of things.
3. He drank even more grogs. Now his word choice and spelling are completely screwed up, and he said a lot of things that are relatively stupid in the context of the game. He then scolded "experienced" players for claiming that it was a skill-based game and being right about it, saying that lousy skill was clearly much more fun.
After all this, he posted the statistical results. They're completely spaghettified - only one of them actually was an ingame stat, the rest are gibberish. Except diapers.
He then made a callout to River (a user who made a forum-post-formatting-guide) crying that upon reading his post it didn't seem to make much sense.
In the context of the game, this post was absolutely ludicrous.
--IronDuke
The guy decided to do a "scientific" study to see how your level of drunkenness affects your play.
1. The "control group" where he played a few battles without drinking anything. He described the outcomes of the battles; they were pretty much normal for him.
2. He drank 3 "navy grogs" without eating anything. He explained what the drink is (seems real potent) then went to relate his play experience. He played nine games, and it seems his statistics worsened, but being highly drunk now, he didn't care. Even his sentence structure here was vastly different, and he mentioned forgetting a large number of things.
3. He drank even more grogs. Now his word choice and spelling are completely screwed up, and he said a lot of things that are relatively stupid in the context of the game. He then scolded "experienced" players for claiming that it was a skill-based game and being right about it, saying that lousy skill was clearly much more fun.
After all this, he posted the statistical results. They're completely spaghettified - only one of them actually was an ingame stat, the rest are gibberish. Except diapers.
He then made a callout to River (a user who made a forum-post-formatting-guide) crying that upon reading his post it didn't seem to make much sense.
In the context of the game, this post was absolutely ludicrous.
--IronDuke
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Sun May 28, 2017 12:23 am
#1584
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I didn't understand what he wrote in the third part and was trying to get a relation between the things he said and worl of warships, but didn't find any. Now it's clear why. Was able to have a laugh now. Thanks.IronDuke wrote:Non-technical summary, CM style.
The guy decided to do a "scientific" study to see how your level of drunkenness affects your play.
1. The "control group" where he played a few battles without drinking anything. He described the outcomes of the battles; they were pretty much normal for him.
2. He drank 3 "navy grogs" without eating anything. He explained what the drink is (seems real potent) then went to relate his play experience. He played nine games, and it seems his statistics worsened, but being highly drunk now, he didn't care. Even his sentence structure here was vastly different, and he mentioned forgetting a large number of things.
3. He drank even more grogs. Now his word choice and spelling are completely screwed up, and he said a lot of things that are relatively stupid in the context of the game. He then scolded "experienced" players for claiming that it was a skill-based game and being right about it, saying that lousy skill was clearly much more fun.
After all this, he posted the statistical results. They're completely spaghettified - only one of them actually was an ingame stat, the rest are gibberish. Except diapers.
He then made a callout to River (a user who made a forum-post-formatting-guide) crying that upon reading his post it didn't seem to make much sense.
In the context of the game, this post was absolutely ludicrous.
--IronDuke
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Sun May 28, 2017 3:07 am
#1585
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
Now we all can see how a new user feels when he/she finds our little forum and reads some random posts...
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Sun May 28, 2017 8:23 am
#1586
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
True.Lum wrote:Now we all can see how a new user feels when he/she finds our little forum and reads some random posts...
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Flatfingers wrote: 23.01.2017: "Show me the smoldering corpse of Perfectionist Josh"
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Mon May 29, 2017 1:12 am
#1587
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
So, GF's friends had organised a various games and DnD weekend with a 4 hour DnD scenario (Pathfinder system) for newbs (as only one of the players ever DnD'd) and she invited me along so I could meet her friends. Was fun, she and I played the rogue together (there were only characters for 5 people and we had 6 players)
Highlight: the evil orc priest that was the endboss chugged down an invisibility potion at 1 HP and started retreating back to his lair (where we later found he had a variety of scrolls that would have made things harder had he gotten to use them - cure wounds, summon monster etc.)
However, he'd forgotten that our cleric had cast a light spell on him, so we could actually still see him because he was giving off light. So our mage just finished him with a burning hands scroll.
Highlight: the evil orc priest that was the endboss chugged down an invisibility potion at 1 HP and started retreating back to his lair (where we later found he had a variety of scrolls that would have made things harder had he gotten to use them - cure wounds, summon monster etc.)
However, he'd forgotten that our cleric had cast a light spell on him, so we could actually still see him because he was giving off light. So our mage just finished him with a burning hands scroll.
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Mon May 29, 2017 1:26 am
#1588
I need to sort out a campaign for my Wife, Sister and her BF. :V
Might need to find a fourth for that though... :V
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
Pathfinder is great.Dinosawer wrote:So, GF's friends had organised a various games and DnD weekend with a 4 hour DnD scenario (Pathfinder system) for newbs (as only one of the players ever DnD'd) and she invited me along so I could meet her friends. Was fun, she and I played the rogue together (there were only characters for 5 people and we had 6 players)
Highlight: the evil orc priest that was the endboss chugged down an invisibility potion at 1 HP and started retreating back to his lair (where we later found he had a variety of scrolls that would have mad things harder had he gotten to use them - cure wounds, summon monster etc.)
However, he'd forgotten that our cleric had cast a light spell on him, so we could actually still see him because he was giving off light. So our mage just finished him with a burning hands scroll.
I need to sort out a campaign for my Wife, Sister and her BF. :V
Might need to find a fourth for that though... :V
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Mon May 29, 2017 1:44 am
#1589
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
Yeah, I like that casters can use their level 0 spells infinite times, that kinda fixes my major gripe with things like Baldur's Gate, where your mage was mostly a hitter-with-stick at low levels with only a few spells per day.
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Mon May 29, 2017 2:25 am
#1590
We once tried to figure out a way over a ravine in a cave. The ravine was 4m wide and we had a rope that was (really sneaky there GM) 4m long. So...yeah. No way to attach the rope anywhere. We asked if there were any stalactites where we could lasso the rope around and reach the other side if we could go down the ravine, walk around it or anything. We asked if the mage could use levitation, or if the cave was high enough for a long jump with a pole. We sat there for nearly 20 minutes, and in the end, no one knew a solution. In the end I said, that I would try to throw my torch to the other side to see, if there was anything useful on the other side. I rolled on dexterity, rolled something too low and already thought "Great. Now I lost my torch" but the DM said, I quote "You throw the only stalagmite on the other side of the ravine. The torch bounces off the stalagmite and in a high bow comes back into your direction. The torch lands in the middle of the ravine on what looks like an invisible bridge with a high "ping" tone, at the same height as the cliff you are standing on." and we all just sat there and looked like the GM just told us, that the dinosaurs still exist. He had a hard time to not stop laughing out loud.
Re: Things That Made You Happy Today
Reasons why you gotta love DnD: ^ThisDinosawer wrote: However, he'd forgotten that our cleric had cast a light spell on him, so we could actually still see him because he was giving off light. So our mage just finished him with a burning hands scroll.
We once tried to figure out a way over a ravine in a cave. The ravine was 4m wide and we had a rope that was (really sneaky there GM) 4m long. So...yeah. No way to attach the rope anywhere. We asked if there were any stalactites where we could lasso the rope around and reach the other side if we could go down the ravine, walk around it or anything. We asked if the mage could use levitation, or if the cave was high enough for a long jump with a pole. We sat there for nearly 20 minutes, and in the end, no one knew a solution. In the end I said, that I would try to throw my torch to the other side to see, if there was anything useful on the other side. I rolled on dexterity, rolled something too low and already thought "Great. Now I lost my torch" but the DM said, I quote "You throw the only stalagmite on the other side of the ravine. The torch bounces off the stalagmite and in a high bow comes back into your direction. The torch lands in the middle of the ravine on what looks like an invisible bridge with a high "ping" tone, at the same height as the cliff you are standing on." and we all just sat there and looked like the GM just told us, that the dinosaurs still exist. He had a hard time to not stop laughing out loud.
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