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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
FinnLassie
What, you wanna get involved in a supernatural island mystery? 8)
OF COURSE I WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN A SUPERNATURAL ISLAND MYSTERY. But that's beyond the point. Some people just have such terrible groups offline that they'll probably fling themselves at any game by anyone with basic grammar skills.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
OF COURSE I WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN A SUPERNATURAL ISLAND MYSTERY. But that's beyond the point. Some people just have such terrible groups offline that they'll probably fling themselves at any game by anyone with basic grammar skills.
Naaaahhhhh… people would totally never do that. :smalltongue:
Now just ignore me sliding this people-catapult under the carpet.
(What I actually tend to find is people tend to get flakey groups online, so they try and get into any game at all in hopes one or two'll stick.)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Oh, hey, someone left this people catapult under a rug. Better see if I can't get into that group...
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
I have never actually done a pbp, if the DM promises not to quit I would love to try one (using discord as out of character maybe?)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
Naaaahhhhh… people would totally never do that. :smalltongue:
Now just ignore me sliding this people-catapult under the carpet.
(What I actually tend to find is people tend to get flakey groups online, so they try and get into any game at all in hopes one or two'll stick.)
Why would you slide the people-catapult under the carpet when someone may well need it?
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
OF COURSE I WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN A SUPERNATURAL ISLAND MYSTERY. But that's beyond the point. Some people just have such terrible groups offline that they'll probably fling themselves at any game by anyone with basic grammar skills.
*pokes the storm ridden and all communications ceased tropical island towards you*
I wish I had the chance to play in the offline world, but no can do right now. But I'm facilitating a Fiasco game (Pirate themed, arr!) at Ropecon, the Finnish rpg con this July. And I really hope I can get into a Cyberpunk session!
Also, it'd of course be ideal to play a PbP where people have a relatively same time zone as me, but so far the players are all located in Canada and here I sit, in Finland, after midnight, with no sense of night as the greyish blue sky stares at me. Discord-game would be nice, but, hmm, Discord OOC would work with the players as they share a timezone.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
Oh, hey, someone left this people catapult under a rug. Better see if I can't get into that group...
Hey, that's mine! Hands o-
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
Why would you slide the people-catapult under the carpet when someone may well need it?
Er, I mean, I have never seen that catapult or carpet before in my life.
Thankfully, I've actually lucked out with having a few groups that've managed to stick together, where we electronically GM for each other. So it actually manages to slake my thirst for games. And interactions with friends. Okay, that's a lie, I'm always up for more interactions with friends. I'm broken that way.
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Originally Posted by
FinnLassie
But I'm facilitating a Fiasco game (Pirate themed, arr!) at Ropecon, the Finnish rpg con this July. And I really hope I can get into a Cyberpunk session!
Oh, neat! That sounds like fun. And good luck with getting into the game you want! I'm a large advocate of anything that has "cyber" in the name. :smalltongue:
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
We once built a catapult, us crazy 16-year-olds, in our scout troop. Jfc that was 10-11 years ago. We even got funding from the city for it. It still baffles me.
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
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Oh, neat! That sounds like fun. And good luck with getting into the game you want! I'm a large advocate of anything that has "cyber" in the name. :smalltongue:
I see we're having a wonderful ninja conversation... :smalltongue:
Fiasco is super fun, and I love facilitating it. I also tend to run my games in English, because well, there's foreign visitors as well. Couple of years back we had a dude from Colorado, and thanks to me watching Fargo I had caught a norn Minnesota accent. He was quite amused by it. :smallcool:
If you haven't, have a look at Cyberpunk. It's so interesting, especially how it treats people when they get more and more android-like, losing their human parts, upgrading themselves with technology. And addiction. And stuff!
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
FinnLassie
Also, it'd of course be ideal to play a PbP where people have a relatively same time zone as me, but so far the players are all located in Canada and here I sit, in Finland, after midnight, with no sense of night as the greyish blue sky stares at me. Discord-game would be nice, but, hmm, Discord OOC would work with the players as they share a timezone.
Man, we're all just editing past each other here. :smallwink:
Ouch. Yeah, I very much know the pain of having players not in the same timezone as you. It's not the best. Workable, but it does tend to slow things down. No frantic bursts of activity. I do highly recommend the discord, though, for OOC, even if you're only occasionally on at the same time. It really does do wonders.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
Man, we're all just editing past each other here. :smallwink:
Whaddya mean, editing aboot...? :smalltongue:
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
I'm a large advocate of anything that has "cyber" in the name. :smalltongue:
So I feel like I should warn you about cybercurrency....
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
FinnLassie
Fiasco is super fun, and I love facilitating it. I also tend to run my games in English, because well, there's foreign visitors as well. Couple of years back we had a dude from Colorado, and thanks to me watching Fargo I had caught a norn Minnesota accent. He was quite amused by it. :smallcool:
It's a small big world? :smalltongue:
Unrelated to that (but it just reminded me of) I recall visiting some place for vacation, when I saw a hat with a label for an (admittedly quite famous) tourist attraction back home. Took me a few moments to realize '...wait a second, that's not a normal thing to be seeing out here', and turns out the man and his wife were from England, and had visited Victoria a few years back. Had a neat little conversation.
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If you haven't, have a look at Cyberpunk. It's so interesting, especially how it treats people when they get more and more android-like, losing their human parts, upgrading themselves with technology. And addiction. And stuff!
I've heard the general gist, but never actually looked at it in depth. I love, love, love that sort of stuff, though. Even if I do prefer my futures a little more bright and fluffy. :smallamused:
(Dystopic and all can be cool, too. I'm just a sucker for bright colours, I think. :smalltongue: )
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Originally Posted by
FinnLassie
Whaddya mean, editing aboot...? :smalltongue:
Hey, hey, hey. I'm west coast Canada. As far away from that accent as you can get. :smalltongue:
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
So I feel like I should warn you about cybercurrency....
...touché.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
So I feel like I should warn you about cybercurrency....
...Well, that's much better than the first two things I thought of when I heard 'cyber'...
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
FinnLassie
All this talk is reminding me that I'm starting a PbP game here in August. :smalleek: Never done it before, I hope it goes ok.
what system is this game?
in other news, my job has been working me like a dog. 23 units of 3 phase industrial electrical filters. rush job. 4 down today, 6 tomorrow. that will leave 13. I hurt from my hands to my waist.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
...Well, that's much better than the first two things I thought of when I heard 'cyber'...
...clearly my dreams of a technological datascape world have some unfortunate connotations, whoops. Alas. :smallsigh:
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
...clearly my dreams of a technological datascape world have some unfortunate connotations, whoops. Alas. :smallsigh:
There is nothing that the technological can create that the fleshies cannot eventually ruin.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
There is nothing that the technological can create that the fleshies cannot eventually ruin.
And lo, thus was the cause for the machine uprising. ...or, well, it would be, if the servers needed for the uprising's computations weren't overwritten with many, many pictures and videos of cats. Even this thread has begun to be a storage place for them. :smallamused:
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
And lo, thus was the cause for the machine uprising. ...or, well, it would be, if the servers needed for the uprising's computations weren't overwritten with many, many pictures and videos of cats. Even this thread has begun to be a storage place for them. :smallamused:
Data of cats is the preferable option by far.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
Data of cats is the preferable option by far.
Alas. No room in your organic-emotion-processor heart to accept Data of Ninjas instead. I see how it is. Stabbed with the knife of betrayal. Cursed felines, being infallibly cute and adorable, and stealing the places for everyone else to sit. :smallwink:
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
Alas. No room in your organic-emotion-processor heart to accept Data of Ninjas instead. I see how it is. Stabbed with the knife of betrayal. Cursed felines, being infallibly cute and adorable, and stealing the places for everyone else to sit. :smallwink:
Pretty sure everything in my organic emotion processor is full of tieflings, possibly the odd demon cat. Sorry, harddisk is full.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
Alas. No room in your organic-emotion-processor heart to accept Data of Ninjas instead. I see how it is. Stabbed with the knife of betrayal.
Don't you mean the magnet of betrayal?
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
Don't you mean the magnet of betrayal?
Pretty sure most computers are a bit less functional with a knife sticking out of them, but I'm not really an engineer.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
Pretty sure everything in my organic emotion processor is full of tieflings, possibly the odd demon cat. Sorry, harddisk is full.
That's fair, I suppose. The heart cares for what the heart cares for. :smallamused:
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
Don't you mean the magnet of betrayal?
Nah. Then at least I wouldn't remember it. :smallwink:
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
Pretty sure most computers are a bit less functional with a knife sticking out of them, but I'm not really an engineer.
Generally, but it all depends. If you're lucky, you might not hit something vital. ...huh, sounds a lot like a human, really.
Hmmm. I wonder what the average ratio for knives-sticking-in-to-cause-nonfunction is between computers and humans. For, uh, for Science. Purely for science.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
DataNinja
Hmmm. I wonder what the average ratio for knives-sticking-in-to-cause-nonfunction is between computers and humans. For, uh, for Science. Purely for science.
I feel like comparing a robot to a calculator is a bit like comparing sticking a knife into a person versus a shrimp. There's probably a few degrees of separation of some type.
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
I feel like comparing a robot to a calculator is a bit like comparing sticking a knife into a person versus a shrimp. There's probably a few degrees of separation of some type.
That's fair. Not that we'd want to do any of it. Besides maybe the shrimp, I suppose... I guess they can sacrifice some things for the good of dinner science. :smalltongue:
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
I haven't had this confirmed, but I have heard that lobsters were of once great importance to nerve studies due to their anatomy being easy to study for neurological purposes. Of course, said scientist would have a freshly killed lobster on their hands and more than one account exists of someone trying to invite people of their choice to lobster dinners afterwards...
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Huh, that's an interesting fact. I think I did hear that tidbit about lobsters being good for that kind of testing before, but not the note about the dinner. But... in retrospect, that makes very much sense. Dinner on the lab's dime, and all that. :smallamused:
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
Pretty sure most computers are a bit less functional with a knife sticking out of them, but I'm not really an engineer.
Not according to It Came from Planet Earth!
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Originally Posted by Robot General
Funny isn't it? The human was impervious to our most powerful magnetic fields, yet in the end he succumbed to a harmless sharpened stick!
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Peelee
Not according to It Came from Planet Earth!
It all depends, really. Some systems are mostly wiring, fragile chips, and other assorted life giving things. Whereas robots tend to end up having a bit more 'dead space' in them, full of stuff that's happily resistant to getting stabbed by something so small. Especially ones that aren't androids. There are far better ways to build bots than fitting to the human form... but, alas, oftentimes things are limited by "aesthetics", "familiarity" and "needing to use stuff built for humans". :smalltongue:
(Okay, aesthetics is a pretty good human trait, I'll need to admit.)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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Originally Posted by
Honest Tiefling
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