“The proportions of [the woodchuck’s] body seemed slightly altered in a way impossible to describe, while its face had taken on an expression which no one ever saw in a woodchuck before.”
Thoughts on GMing: Some GMs (and players) think that the biggest danger is the GM. It is actually the players themselves.
Congratulations, you killed the BBEG early. Now there's a power vacuum that their right-hand man happily fills, they're now out for blood, and most importantly, they know how you fight.
Congratulations, you stopped an evil cult from summoning the dread god H'vuhptwmbt. Unfortunately you destroyed a town to do so and are now a wanted fugitive in twelve kingdoms and a principality.
Congratulations, you stole a magical artifact of immense power. You now have the undivided attention of several mildly annoyed cosmic divinities.
Thoughts on GMing: Some GMs (and players) think that the biggest danger is the GM. It is actually the players themselves.
You don't even need to consider unintended consequences for this. PCs are loot-crazed murderhobos with an unnatural love of arson, it just sort of follows.
i don't really like that comic but if i want to get from Peanuts to PBF and then Phoebe and her Unicorn the easiest way is to click past it, so i end up seeing it and being irritated by it
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i don't really like that comic but if i want to get from Peanuts to PBF and then Phoebe and her Unicorn the easiest way is to click past it, so i end up seeing it and being irritated by it
this is the laziest problem
The only part of Pearls Before Swine I'm really fond of are the Sunday strips with the overly-long setup for a GMH-esque pun.
i don't really like that comic but if i want to get from Peanuts to PBF and then Phoebe and her Unicorn the easiest way is to click past it, so i end up seeing it and being irritated by it
this is the laziest problem
The only part of Pearls Before Swine I'm really fond of are the Sunday strips with the overly-long setup for a GMH-esque pun.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what contrast always amused me?
Eddie's homemade forum software choked on a couple years of old threads, leading him to purge it every so often.
Something Awful, on the other hand, keeps forum archives of the past 14 years, handles thousands of simultaneous users, and still performs decently well.
Granted, SA has more money to throw at maintenance and server costs than Eddie did, but the point is running a forum the size of TVT's is feasible.
Eddie's homemade forum software choked on a couple years of old threads, leading him to purge it every so often.
Something Awful, on the other hand, keeps forum archives of the past 14 years, handles thousands of simultaneous users, and still performs decently well.
Granted, SA has more money to throw at maintenance and server costs than Eddie did, but the point is running a forum the size of TVT's is feasible.
otoh SA requires a membership fee and is just generally worse.
Eddie's homemade forum software choked on a couple years of old threads, leading him to purge it every so often.
Something Awful, on the other hand, keeps forum archives of the past 14 years, handles thousands of simultaneous users, and still performs decently well.
Granted, SA has more money to throw at maintenance and server costs than Eddie did, but the point is running a forum the size of TVT's is feasible.
actually the something awful search was really horrible and they lost at least a few months of archives by accident
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.
John Hammond: I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery, and not act?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
Dr. Byron J. Thinkpiece from the audience: Hmm, I am certainly having my intellect tickled by this film.
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people on TVT called me out on it and i gradually mellowed out on that
ugh
It still bleeds over into my personal places, though (Tumblr, Treman's Thread, my music, etc.)
I have never forgiven Wikipedia.
i don't think i quite would have before, but that video brought it home to me.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
What's an eidolon?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Congratulations, you killed the BBEG early. Now there's a power vacuum that their right-hand man happily fills, they're now out for blood, and most importantly, they know how you fight.
Congratulations, you stopped an evil cult from summoning the dread god H'vuhptwmbt. Unfortunately you destroyed a town to do so and are now a wanted fugitive in twelve kingdoms and a principality.
Congratulations, you stole a magical artifact of immense power. You now have the undivided attention of several mildly annoyed cosmic divinities.
it's true
I cannot find my camera.
It will not remain so
I almost felt the need to post an historical, even though that doesn't make sense in my accent.
Eliezer Yudmouseky
this is the laziest problem
Let's be Pastis Buddies!
the puns are ok
Eddie's homemade forum software choked on a couple years of old threads, leading him to purge it every so often.
Something Awful, on the other hand, keeps forum archives of the past 14 years, handles thousands of simultaneous users, and still performs decently well.
Granted, SA has more money to throw at maintenance and server costs than Eddie did, but the point is running a forum the size of TVT's is feasible.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.
John Hammond: I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery, and not act?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
Dr. Byron J. Thinkpiece from the audience: Hmm, I am certainly having my intellect tickled by this film.