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TopicIf were forced to choose between all liberal or all conservative worlds
synth_real
09/12/17 6:08:10 AM
#2
Do I want Brave New World or do I want 1984?
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TopicDMed my second game of DnD yesterday.
synth_real
09/06/17 1:31:03 AM
#226
ParanoidObsessive posted...
Quick question:

You know how the usual defining trait of a berserker is "being really pissed off", and D&D basically treats "berserker" as the defining characteristic of the Barbarian class?

I was thinking the other day about keeping all the rules the same, but changing the flavor of the berserking. Like, instead of a character who is frothing-at-the-mouth burning with raw, screaming rage, having a more "cold", focused fury. Where the warrior isn't screaming and hacking and going full-bore crazypants, but has more of a dead calm, tunnel-vision, inhuman killing machine sort of feel (so if one was after you, they'd look less Tasmanian Devil and more Terminator).

I was trying to think of real-world cultural stuff to see if I could come up with a name to describe that sort of combat trance, but all I could think of was the various takes on rage/berserking (like the "warp spasm" of Celtic stories or the bear/wolf/boar-serkers of the Norse). I was wondering if anyone here might be able to think of something I missed.


You'd have to look to something like people that work themselves into a trance and firewalk or Shaolin monks, something of that nature.
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TopicOne of my coworkers is literally begging people for food like a hobo
synth_real
08/25/17 2:11:25 PM
#18
Next time she does it, make it extremely crystal fucking clear to her that you're not helping her.
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TopicDMed my second game of DnD yesterday.
synth_real
08/21/17 9:31:50 PM
#182
You could make a portal maze. Make 10-20 square(ish) rooms with four portals, one in each corner/side. Number the rooms, then write out their numbers 4 times on little pieces of paper and mix them all up in a hat. Then, go through each room, and for each portal pull one number out of the hat, that will be the room that portal goes to. Fill the rooms as you desire. Most, but not all of them should have some kind of a distinctive feature. Figure out the path out of the maze, and maybe make one or two key portals require a special item to use or maybe make the player restore the power and leave the solution in another room.
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TopicWhat is your favorite D&D monster?
synth_real
08/21/17 12:02:13 AM
#9
The illithid. Completely alien and see the human race as food.
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TopicDoes masturbation and procrastination go hand in hand?
synth_real
08/19/17 2:12:15 AM
#10
One of them does.
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TopicMost unique place you've banged?
synth_real
08/18/17 12:37:23 PM
#45
Church parking lot at 5AM Sunday morning. We left the condom there as our little gay sex artifact for the church ladies to find.
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TopicHow hyped are you guys for Elder Scrolls VI?
synth_real
08/10/17 5:26:14 AM
#12
Dash_Harber posted...
Imagine a Hashashin inspired Dark Brotherhood

Only if they have moon sugar before they kill, then I'm in.
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TopicDon't pick up baby birds off the ground, it causes it to die.
synth_real
08/06/17 7:22:59 PM
#25
HappyDog posted...
Axiom posted...
Duncanwii posted...
Because the second mother bird comes back she'll smell your scent on the chick and abandon it. Then the chick will either starve or get eaten by predators. So, good job.

That's a myth

Yeah, I know rabbits and other small mammals do it, but I've never heard of birds doing it.

It just recently happened at a National park with a bison calf, tourist put it in their car to warm it up on a cold day, and the mother rejected it.
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TopicAny tips for going through a day with only 3 hours of sleep?
synth_real
08/06/17 7:18:41 PM
#5
Caffeine and willpower.

But don't load up on caffeine too late, better to do that at the beginning. If you need a boost to keep you going late into the day, load up on sugar instead. You'll crash hard when it wears off, so if you start you have to keep going until you're ready to relax.
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TopicHow do you feel about parents putting leashes on their young children?
synth_real
08/05/17 6:58:17 PM
#23
Some little brats genuinely need to be kept on a choke chain, but since we can't do that a body harness will have to do.
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TopicI challenge you to name me a worse chain restaurant than Panda Express
synth_real
08/04/17 7:32:57 PM
#108
Pizza Pizza. It's basically acidic sauce and a sprinkle of cheese on a cardboard disk. I'd rather eat Little Caesar's any day, and I hate that place.
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TopicBarry Bonds is the greatest baseball player of all time
synth_real
07/28/17 5:45:47 AM
#25
s0nicfan posted...
Antifar posted...
s0nicfan posted...
I mean, he's also those things, but the "neat" statistic you pointed to specifically highlighted that his OPS was heavily influenced by the amount he was walked.

The amount he was walked is a direct result of his hitting ability.


Yes, that is true. So use a statistic that correlates only to his hitting ability, and doesn't also roll in walks to produce a grossly inflated number. Why is this so hard?

They're rolled in together like that because they're both important. On-base percentage is important, because they have to get on base to score, and they can't hit home runs every time. Drawing walks is great, it's a no-risk way to get on base, especially when the double play is a possibility. Non-intentional walks also mean the batter is seeing the ball well and not swinging at garbage, which is the mark of a good hitter. Slugging is also important, because extra base hits put the batter into scoring position and drive in more RBIs. Putting those two together gives you one stat to measure their offensive potential.
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TopicEvil fun-hating umpire ejects fun-loving baseball player for trying to have fun.
synth_real
07/27/17 6:08:15 AM
#6
Some umpires take themselves a little too seriously.
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TopicWhat's up with all the rape shit in Game of Thrones?
synth_real
07/26/17 7:41:52 AM
#98
Neoconkers posted...
because look at this guy

https://winteriscoming.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/385/files/2015/02/George-RR-Martin.jpg

you know he was writing all those rape scenes one-handed

So that's why the next book is taking so long...
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Topicwhy do guitarists never know how to read music ffs
synth_real
07/23/17 6:20:03 PM
#36
iron jojo posted...
TC, when you are a better musician than everybody who doesnt read music, make this topic. Until then...

Personally, I would argue that anyone who can't read sheet music at all is a piss-poor musician. There's plenty of guys out there who are great guitarists, but shit musicians, guys who can play better than EVH but have no clue what they're playing or how it all works together. Music theory is super helpful for writing music, once you understand it you'll know what you're doing and what you're looking for when you write music.

With that much said, sometimes sheet music is a pain in the ass for guitar because there's multiple places to play the same note, it's especially frustrating for unfamiliar chords.
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TopicWas Sophie Turner a good Jean Grey?
synth_real
07/22/17 6:11:25 PM
#15
YoshitoKikuchi posted...
What would have been a better way to defeat Apocalypse?

It's been a while for me, but doesn't he have a weak spot somewhere that they can hit?
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TopicIs there a rule against wearing warpaint as a pro athlete?
synth_real
07/20/17 4:59:05 AM
#5
SEGASonicNinja posted...
Sativa_Rose posted...
Not that I know of, don't football players put black lines on their face for some reason?

eye black is worn to reduce glare and improve color contrast

And some of them (at least baseball players) have been switching to black stickers instead.
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TopicWould you rather your daughter convert to Islam or become a stripper?
synth_real
07/20/17 4:04:07 AM
#51
Stripper, it's the more practical choice of the two.
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TopicQuestion about Lord of the Rings SPOILERS
synth_real
07/19/17 4:10:00 PM
#2
Sauron never touched the Elven rings, so he wasn't able to control them like the others. He did have some of the Dwarven rings, the others were lost or destroyed.
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TopicJotun free on Steam for a limited time.
synth_real
07/15/17 10:11:06 PM
#5
Also free on GOG.com, got mine already
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TopicDMed my second game of DnD yesterday.
synth_real
07/13/17 6:35:49 PM
#49
ParanoidObsessive posted...
In some ways, it fits the pattern of how organized crime groups tend to form and establish territory in the real world, albeit with the official civil government actually recognizing them as a valid entity with permission to operate "outside the law" (not entirely dissimilar to the Mafia's offer to work for the US government during WWII, or implied Mafia/CIA ties afterwards).

I was about to say that what you were describing sounded an awful lot like the Five Families of the New York Mafia
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TopicSometimes I think we should abolish all civilization and return to hunter gather
synth_real
07/12/17 8:02:54 AM
#6
Billions would perish.
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TopicIt would be stupid to give up a full time job right?
synth_real
07/12/17 6:28:58 AM
#23
If you want to leave badly enough, call in sick and sign up with some temp agencies. They won't pay great, but they'll find you work right away. If one doesn't get you working within a week, go sign up at another one. If you don't like the place they send you to, ask to go to another one. Temp agencies don't pay well, but you can use them to shop around for jobs, and most places that have used the agencies for a while don't have particularly high expectations for temps (because a lot of them are awful people)
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TopicYou can't open the airplane exit door while the plane is in flight can you?
synth_real
07/08/17 5:05:32 PM
#21
You can tell who here doesn't interact with the outside world much
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TopicThoughts on THAC0?
synth_real
07/08/17 4:51:47 PM
#22
It's not really that complicated, maybe it feels a little weird when lower scores are better
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TopicHow to Write the good Villains: interviews with some renowned RPG developers.
synth_real
07/07/17 11:20:26 PM
#23
Another thing that I like about Irenicus is that he is literally a soulless monster, but still remains an interesting and memorable character.

Also, the whole of Baldur's Gate can be summed up as people trying to kill you to become a god.

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TopicIs it safe to say that all willing pornstars are nymphos?
synth_real
07/07/17 5:10:08 PM
#6
The stories I've heard and read about how porn is shot make it seem like it would make a person hate sex after a while. They film it about a minute at a time, just as it starts getting good the director yells cut and they have to stop. Imagine an entire day of that.
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TopicDo you think that if you had no money that you could resort to panhandling?
synth_real
07/07/17 4:20:49 PM
#6
If I gotta hustle people to make money, I can find lots of better hustles than begging for change.
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Topichow does ce feel about Apocalypse Now
synth_real
07/04/17 8:19:25 PM
#22
The original edition is a brilliant movie, the extra scenes don't really add much to the movie.
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TopicGame companies haven't bothered negotiating with the voice actors on strike
synth_real
07/03/17 6:46:02 PM
#19
From what I understand, video games are some of the worst work for voice actors to do. They do a lot of yelling battle cries all day, which kinda shreds your vocal cords after a while.
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TopicDo you ever use the math you learned in high school or college weekly?
synth_real
07/03/17 2:54:16 PM
#28
I do use algebra on a semi-regular basis. At my job, we have a formula that we use to determine the needling density of the product based on the machine settings. I can rearrange that formula to tell me what machine settings I need to get the required density when the layout sheets from the lab are completely fucked because A) the idiot that types them up can't check his own work with a calculator or B) the layouts are 15 years old and the machine hasn't been able to run at those speeds for 10
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TopicWhy do people only hate Superman for being Overpowered
synth_real
07/03/17 2:26:41 PM
#19
Muffinz0rz posted...
Can someone who has read the comics share with me exactly how he can be beaten without the use of kryptonite?

Epic, dragged-out fights against powerful cosmic entities (one of whom was created specifically to kill him)
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TopicDMed my second game of DnD yesterday.
synth_real
07/03/17 2:17:43 PM
#17
Dikitain posted...
Mario_VS_DK posted...

Dikitain posted...
I am playing a Drow Assassin in my current game. I describe my role as "Keeping the DM and the rest of the party on their toes". I have already threatened a noble, stolen from a high elf bank, poisoned a guard captain, and tricked the party into following me into the Underdark. And we aren't even at level 4 yet.


And you've gotten away with all of that? No consequences or anything?


Some of it yes. I rolled a high enough stealth to rob the bank, and a high enough deception to get away with poisoning the guard. The noble not so much, that actually lead to a mini quest to help clear my (and the parties) name. It still is kind of unresolved so I could see that coming back later (the DM mentioned as an aside to me that I supposedly wasn't supposed to trigger that quest until like level 8). The Underdark thing is part of my "personal quest" so that one my character was going to do anyways, and I actually have a whole story-line reason why the party would want to help me to complete it.

Going to the Underdark at level 3 is the consequences. Just wait until you wander into your first group of Myconids
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TopicTrudeau gave up on electoral reform in Canada.
synth_real
07/02/17 5:42:33 PM
#37
I like the idea of a hybrid of FPTP and PropRep. Give half the seats to PropRep so that way regional representation is still a thing in Parliament (which is why we have FPTP to begin with) because sometimes what's good for Ontario and Quebec isn't what's good for the Prairies and the Maritimes.
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TopicMassive stray cat problem here. How to remove?
synth_real
07/02/17 5:27:54 PM
#9
Go to the next neighbourhood over or two and find a good spot to plant a shitload of catnip
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TopicWhy the fuck is Chrono Trigger not in the SNES mini classic line up?
synth_real
06/30/17 5:30:05 PM
#23
CT would be one of the only reasons I would buy the thing. I got bored with FF6 part way through and gave up on it.
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Topic$300 to survive 3 minutes against a professional fighter.
synth_real
06/27/17 10:30:55 PM
#17
I think I could run around in circles for 3 minutes with enough pain to motivate me
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TopicThis Colorado Man is so OBSESSED with GUNS that he has 200 MACHINE GUNS!!!
synth_real
06/26/17 10:40:53 PM
#15
Life goals right there.
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TopicHow many numbers have matheticians found so far?
synth_real
06/26/17 10:36:00 PM
#17
They don't have a number big enough for the amount of numbers they've found.
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TopicWould you ever consider having surgery to turn your eyes into blue eyes?
synth_real
06/24/17 9:43:30 PM
#33
My eyes are already such a deep blue that I've been asked on a couple of occasions if I wear contact lenses (I don't)
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TopicWould you rather go to a big amusement park or an MLB game?
synth_real
06/24/17 2:11:51 PM
#19
I don't really like roller coasters nearly as much as I used to when I was younger, I probably wouldn't want to spend a whole day riding them. I'll go see a Blue Jays game any time, though.
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TopicWhy does it feel like most peeps playing Skyrim marry Lydia? >_>
synth_real
06/24/17 1:56:34 PM
#47
Too bad that when you marry Mjoll, Aerin literally moves into your house along with her.
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TopicWhat's worse, finding out that you're a clone, or that you're number 11?
synth_real
06/24/17 12:13:34 PM
#11
For me, I'd be ok with being the 11th. I'd figure that my creators wanted to see what happened when they left one up to it's own devices.
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TopicWithout naming the movie, what's the one quote that would give it away?
synth_real
06/19/17 7:56:57 PM
#77
We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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TopicHow can anyone with a brain oppose minimum wage raises?
synth_real
06/18/17 11:19:23 PM
#36
GOATSLAYER posted...
AlBundy33 posted...
there absolutely zero downsides to raising minimum wage, unfortunately most people who run companies(like walmart and such) lack a brain, so they do not understand it would actually benefit their business

Because the minimum wage is rising, businesses don't want to hire as many people because it costs them more money. Mcdonald's is actually trying to replace most of their staff with an automated service to cut costs. Its similar to how uber wants to replace its drivers with driverless cars. So raising the minimum wage just creates less jobs which makes the economy worse

The McDonalds around here have already been doing that before any minimum wage increases were announced.
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TopicTop court overturns conviction for masturbating in home
synth_real
06/18/17 12:58:59 AM
#24
For once, a court ruling that follows common sense in this country.
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TopicTell me what video games you are playing through right now.
synth_real
06/18/17 12:53:43 AM
#32
Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition
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TopicWhat if a guy hit a home run but died before he could finish running the bases?
synth_real
06/15/17 5:17:29 AM
#2
They might be able to allow a pinch runner in this case.
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TopicThanks to capitalism, an extremely effective Carbon Removal Plant is now online
synth_real
06/08/17 5:48:08 AM
#31
Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
ReignFury posted...
Maybe they can turn the carbon into manmade wood or oil or something. Theres about 1000 trees in an acre so depending on the surface area one of these machines could remove as much carbon as an acre of trees.


Do you not see how inefficient this plant is when we could just not deforest 18,000,000 acres a year?

God damn, TC, you bought into this idea?
Go back to school, fuck.

If only the people making money on deforestation would listen.
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