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This whole topic is driving me wild. This is probably one of my favorite subjects. Its thrilling.

I remember hearing that a lot of the science in TBBT was real but they were really sloppy and fake with their pop culture references. If I took a shot for every time they got something wrong, I'd die of alcohol poisoning.

I swear, I cringed so hard when they talked about having a memory card for Super Mario 64. I was like "WTF" and it just made the cast sound stupid because if they had ever played it, they know better.

So their friend was offended so the signs were removed? Oh no, those damn signs, so offensive.

Southernfatman posted...

These. It's sort of like how John didn't have sex with prostitutes in the first game because he's married.

Yeah but I get that with John. I figured this would be different.

Ivynn posted...

Also, Arthur is meant to be his own character, he's not an RPG MC.

yeah I suppose you're right. I guess I'm getting too used to the fact that there's almost romance options in everything.

I remember playing it the first time and wishing I could get with one of the gals at the camp or maybe even someone from another town. Oh well ;_;

averagejoel posted...

trickster types are fun, but there are lots of other ways to play a rogue.

like you could go Swashbuckler for an Inigo Montoya type

I actually made a Rogue/Bard multiclass with the swashbuckler theme but the game we played in was so terrible that it felt like a waste.

philsov posted...

It's possible to be a rogue and do none of this shit. Or be a "trickster barbarbian" and do all of it as well.

Toxicity is class-neutral.

lol yeah, I'd probably play barbarian like a stereotype though...I tend to, sadly. I DO try to make things interesting in play but I'm stuck with classic themes when I make characters. I'm also not going to use it as an excuse, if I play rogue, I'd play it differently, but my best friend will probably not think so which is my reasoning for disregarding rogue. So its more for his sake than my own.

philsov posted...

yes, being annoying and toxic makes people not like you.

Oh thank you! Omg, I never would have thought that! Even after I announced it myself, you had the heart to tell me something I already said...oh bless you sir! Your post will not go wasted! I promise you!

Itachi157 posted...

Yeah I think the general rule is don't antagonize or try to pull one over on the people you're supposed to be partied up and working together with, as its supposed to be a cooperative game. From the D&D stories I've read some DMs and players get annoyed when a player "has their own agenda" and tries to screw over their friends.

Yeah, I suppose I had that issue as well. I made the biggest mistake of "He'll warm up to them and become a better character" but considering evolution needs to take place, that might never come. Besides, he didn't try to kill or do much beyond the gambling and the arrow stealing...he followed the quest as necessary and the worst part was that most of hte players were just quiet in general. It was a bad idea for me to play Rogue in a group with new people with one who just wanted to get out of the house and wasn't even trying to learn...even after I took over as DM and we played for 10 sessions.

It was like teaching a child to play. If I was just a background noise, I think they wouldn't have been so bothered but it was like I was the only one willing to move forward..and having a chaotic character like that is stupid..I'd rather just be comic relief or popping off one liners. I think my friend said he was monologuing and no one answered and my character said something funny and he felt like it ruined his experience but I told him I only did it because I was in character and it was just awkward silence...

but its made me want to not be that kind of player, especially around him. But it still doesn't beat my game's warlock doing a foot race against another player and deciding that it'd be funnier if he stuck his finger up the guy's butt and kept ruining the feeling of dread I was trying to promote.

Funkydog posted...

I mean, you could just play a "non toxic" rogue, and avoid the things players have a problem with.

Maybe, you're right, but I end up getting too into character and I have a habit of playing trickster rogues. I still rather enjoy a lot of the other classes anyway. When I told him I wanted to try a gunslinger with a level in rogue, he just looked at me and I said "I just want sneak attack dude...,please believe me"

I tend to be a DM and I think of myself as fair and no one's quit on me yet so...there's that and my best friend says that he hates my rogue because I play the most annoying halfling rogue ever and that I do a lot of toxic things(in character) and he knows its in character because I tend to play some really cool ones like my Paladin or Fighter but he said that Milo gave him PTSD(especially when I brought him in as a guest NPC in my game) and even gave the option to have him offed if they wanted it.

He was the type of guy who would steal arrows on the field after battles and then try to sell them back...and he'd always want to gamble and cheat during the games. I honestly didn't even realize it was that bad until I started marathoning these DnD horror stories and how toxic some players were...while mine never left into out of character experiences, I realize that even then, its still terrible for the party ;_; xD

I love rogues...and I will never play one again.

Hayame Zero posted...

I'm caught up with the MSQ, have three level 80 Jobs, enjoy tanking, but still have yet to run a dungeon/roulette as a healer. Shit sounds stressful.

The beauty is that you start off in lower levels so you get used to them as they come. Just don't jump in immediately at a high level and try it lol. As someone who ran Summoner but not Scholar...NOT A GREAT IDEA lmao

Despised posted...

I am currently running as lancer

Lancer/Dragoon is fun. It used to get on my nerves a little because of how strict the rotation is but they lightened up on it. I currently main Monk but I'm a little mad because they made it TOO easy. Monk is basically about your positions because almost every skill uses either rear or flank and you end up getting used to which is which.

Then you have to worry about the stacks of greased lightning(which increases your attack speed per stack) but now they removed that and it just feels...like I don't have to think or plan ahead xD.

I remember when we used to have something called TP which is like MP but with regular attacks. As a Monk in heavensward, you'd run out of TP so easy during raids that you constantly had to worry about dealing with that..

Game is still great, I love it, but some things I do miss.(not TP though. That stuff is gross)

Healing on FF14 is anxiety on steroids. Even before they tried to dampen your dps, I was having a hard time with it. I panic as a healer lol. Tanking is easier now but it was still not that hard before.

Despised posted...

Nice, I'm on Gilgamesh as Dr Instagig

I didn't see you announced your class but which did you start with?

I remember before this big crash of FFXIV and how it wasn't talked about but now I just see everyone talking about it!

I've been a player since beta and I'm so proud to see it getting the love and care it deserves.

I play on Cactuar. Name's Cactuar Daddy.

I agree but only because I like writing stories and roleplay. Pathfinder feels like its there to poke holes into that. 5e is amazing in that sense. Sure there's many things that make Pathfinder better, especially classes, but I get more out of 5e. Its easier to bend.

I'm terrible at puzzles and I was terrible at Portal and terrible at BoTW's shrines lol. Always used a walkthrough

It took me awhile to find out that Chris Evans was in Scott Pilgrim as well. Its pretty crazy how much range Chris Evans has.

Watching Knives Out, I honestly started flipping out when he was cursing because I've watched too much Captain America >_<

Ratchetrockon posted...

I know someone on a discord server that lived in his car for some time after his brother kicked him out of the house (he was living with his brother at the time). He'd park his car in some forest for the night, took showers at a gym in the morning, and just bought cheap food at the groceries. Had a couple of phone banks that he'd charge at some public place I don't think he ever said where maybe a starbucks lol. He did this while working at Walmart. This was in one of the northern towns in California not too far from Oregon.

Maybe a viable tactic if you don't make a lot of money

I don't know if I'd go into the woods nor would I sleep in a car. Maybe a van but not a car. At least with a van, you could have more room. Although I'd go crazy without the internet or my games so...

Unclover028 posted...

Did you take her back? I hope you didnt if she came back crawling to you.

Nah. She was right to leave me. I was going through a terrible phase of my life and I was horridly jealous even if I felt I was rightful to. I was being clingy and obsessive.

She's very strong, although I guess because he was really good looking and charming, she didn't notice the obvious red flags. She's currently engaged to one of my friends and he's a really good guy and I'm glad that they're together because they work well.

I WAS upset that she left me but I was getting over it until I realized that she was dating him and then I got pissed off for a good five years.

I mean...I've had the same situation happen. She left me for him and then he had sex with her once, broke up with her, claiming that she wasn't what he expected(thinking she was wilder).

DieselWeasel posted...

It feels a bit too.. Much for me to allow in my campaigns. One of the archetypes let's you make automated turrets while another let's you make yourself an ironman suit. I like my fantasy to be a bit more... Fantasy

And I let guns into my game so..lol. I really don't mind. I love fantasy but I also like a little modern attachments. At the very least, I put some 1800s into my game.

Smackems posted...

Lol I know I'll check it out. I was just sayin

I tend to get physical copies because I love reading them but I play online with people so I don't really use them too much. I don't buy teh books outright either, I just buy the necessary information since my players use the Character sheets online. I'll buy the stat blocks for monsters so I don't have to keep pages tabbed. Instead, I just have open tabs of monster blocks which make things infinitely easier. Rather, if I started playing in person again, I'd still bring a laptop because bringing a bunch of thick ass books is tiring.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's eberron exclusive. Playing them elsewhere is a little bizarre.

Its not exclusive anymore. The new sourcebook put them into the Forgotten Realms.

Smackems posted...

I'd like to have it physically because I'm a weirdo. I'll Google it later

I mean, I have all the physical copies but it doesn't hurt to look at what classes do and such. Looking at that page doesn't cost you a dime.

Smackems posted...

What book should I get to get in on these new classes

Oh nm someone already said. But is there a book that collects all the new classes and stuff or are they just scattered through other campaigns

they don't conflict with one another and you can basically go on DnD Beyond and find out what all the official classes are.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes

Smackems posted...

This artificer class must be an add on or something. What's up with them

Like goat said, they were attached to the newest source book.

MorbidFaithless posted...

Artificer.

I was coming to say this. Basically you could use that technology for yourself too. It'll be great for flavor.

Because trashy girls tend to be easy too.

No

Dorfmann_ posted...

I dont recognize the name, but I havent played regularly since 2015. Ive come back for a few days here or there during different promotions, but Im always reminded why I stopped. I just dont have enough time to devote to an MMO. I do miss it though.

lol around 2015, I was named someone else but probably not as easily recognizable. I became cactuar daddy around 2017 or so. Cactuar's gotten...huge. Still butt obsessed but..lol

Zikten posted...

My mom was a a military wife but she never boasted about it. I've heard of wives of soldiers who will try to pretend like they have the same rank as their husband. Like an officer wife might bully a non officer wife

Or expect special treatment only meant for her husband

yes, this happens several times, I hear lol. Like...its crazy. Americans....

I find modern gaming satisfying because I enjoy a great world with interesting characters and plot. If I remember correctly, retro games did not have a lot of that. But that's why we have a lot of indie games now which can still make those people happy. But I'm not one of them.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Which twitch streamer is this topic about

I need to start putting hashtags in my posts. #Iwastellingajoke

ImAMarvel posted...

IIRC, a pretty big proportion of black Americans work service industry, and it'd probably do us a lot of good if we quit and demanded better wages and actual benefits for our labor.

On that note, this is why I stopped working service industry a long time ago. Though now that I have my Associate's and seeing that plenty of places are raising wages now, I kinda want to start looking for another job real soon.

Oh, okay, so it was positive.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

They hate him because he tells the truth and he doesnt sidestep issues or mince words.

Are you defending Asmongold or Donald Trump?

Dorfmann_ posted...

I haven't played FFXIV in a few years, but apparently this guy is on my server. I'm tempted to take advantage of the free log-in campaign just to see how much this guy's presence has changed the server.

@Dorfmann_ You're on Cactuar as well? As am I. I don't know if you've seen me though, but I play a character named Cactuar Daddy. I'm usually in Novice Network

PatrickMahomes posted...

AbstraktProfSC2 posted...
Just did these, good stuff indeed for a newb

I accidentally started as a conjurer which seems to be the prevalent healer class -- i was thinking it was going to be the proverbial elemental DPS mage using lightning and ice and fire and whatever. Whoops

Yeah, when I first started during beta, I wasn't sure what was going on because all of these classes weren't what I signed up for. Turned out that you would get jobs later on and they're part of the classic FF stuff so...yeah, conjurer is healer lol. Thaumaturge is your blackmage. The beauty here is that you did not mess up since, unlike WoW, and so many MMOs, you can change your job and play every job per. After all, I started out as a Warrior and now I'm a monk main...

and...meh. I might have to change my main. Monk has been dumbed down so much, it lost some of its flair.

No thanks. Because at first it seems like an easy take but after years of this one thing bothering you, you'll probably end up taking yourself out.

I'm good. I'm not greedy at all. a million dollars will get me something, sure, but I rather suffer from the shit I already deal with than tack that on.

I was able to get mine the first time I went to the Playstation website and had to sit in queue. I was so happy but I felt bad because my best friend wanted one and he has trouble with his card so..I spent the last half year trying to get him one and finally got a place in queue to get his PS5. Came in today. He's going to pick it up from my place tomorrow.

I'm almost as excited for him as I was for me.

ImAMarvel posted...

Good.

I hope a lot of them are black too.

What does this mean? O.o

Was that the game on the gamecube? I remember getting it with a black gamecube and I lost the game...or someone stole it, I don't know.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

Yea players like that suck. I had joined a game online with someone that was trying to learn to be a better DM, so I suspected the story might not be all that great and was expecting things to move a little slow but I didn't really care because we all have to start somewhere. So another guy joins the game as well and just turns out to be a similar kind of player and just absolutely destroys the game because he felt the need to just be an ass about the whole thing. Like everyone that joined the game knew it was an inexperienced DM and the guy is treating him like he should have 20 years experience. He took advantage of every loophole he could find and made the DM just give up.

Yeah, I'm sorta inexperienced even with a few years under my belt but you can't just learn everything all at once. I was worried but the 2 experienced players seemed to like my game because even if I don't know all the rules, I at least put up a good story and have a narrative. I could never GM a 3.5 game though. I'm a storyteller, Jim, not a rocket scientist.

LightningAce11 posted...

I think I've been pretty lucky to have great dm's in all my campaigns. Players range from awesome to ok.

Last game I was a player of, there were 8 of us and 1 of them was so loud and took all the attention. I really disliked the game because I felt ignored half the time and I came up with a great detective-like story and I thought our GM would be like me and use backstories and character types. But instead, I was relegated to just...battles.

The player who stole all the spotlight spent most of it trying to undermine the GM and constantly trying to break the game for his amusement. It was like he was playing a character who knew he wasn't real and he kept doing meta stuff like...we found a device and he immediately knew what it was because he read about it and he had all this knowledge so he knew what every weakness was and he was yelling at us(that's how he talked) and was telling us how to defeat the enemy outside the game.

And to top it off, he was a min-maxer. After about four games, I quit.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

Yea I didn't mean humiliating when describing my experiences, just have been involved in sexual situations in regards to playing and DMing.

Having to flirt with one of my best friends is probably the weirdest experience I ever had been in...especially trying to play a beautiful escort.