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2019-07-22, 02:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
1) I was emulating brian's thought process (though I still don't think he exists) and applying it to, well, revenge. If forced marriage has existed for so long, so has revenge.
2) Well, I still say he's a figment of my imagination.
3) Hilgya didn't show boredom at first in this particular battle, she was focused on Kudzu.
4) Cool. How many children do you have?
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2019-07-22, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
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"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
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2019-07-22, 02:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-22, 02:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-22, 02:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
You statement seems irrelevant then, or possibly a poor choice at best. You are suggesting that this is a situation where the experience relevant to it is only found through raising a kid and a very small set of other options, but you aren't actually a part of that. So you are defending a hill as if it was your own, but you don't even live near there nor do you know anyone who does.
Sorry, that got kinda incoherent there.Last edited by Squire Doodad; 2019-07-22 at 03:00 PM.
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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2019-07-22, 03:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
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2019-07-22, 03:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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2019-07-22, 03:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-22, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
However, as the odds of it happening at least one increase from world to world, the odds of that group of survivors lasting through all of those worlds goes down. It is possible if not probable that at least one world has a group who survived the cataclysm into the new world, but there's also the fact that they wouldn't neccesarily survive the next several thousand years. Things happen - plague, famine, bloody revolt, mandrake attack, and so on. Eventually, the group will fall even if the gods never notice them. There could hypothetically be a group there at the moment, but I doubt any of them would make it past a generation or two.
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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2019-07-22, 03:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
Basically this page.
Well, any of his people who survived.
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2019-07-22, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
And even then, there are explicitly creatures that are explicitly tasked with putting a stop to stuff like that:
Marut
Size/Type:Large Construct (Extraplanar, Lawful)
Maruts confront those who would try to deny the grave itself. Any who use unnatural means to extend their life span could be targeted by a marut. Those who take extraordinary measures to cheat death in some other way might be labeled transgressors as well. When a marut has identified its target, it walks surely and implacably toward the foe, never resting.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-07-22, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
I didn't take issue, specifically, with people having a right to choose whether or not they have children, I took an issue with your (continued) assertion that individual choices can't have societal implications or that no one is ever obliged to at least consider them.
I'd just like to point out that saying that something unsupported is the case unless someone else can prove that it is not is an utter failure of logic. - Kish
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2019-07-22, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
Not necesarily, adventurers on a quest that takes to another plane or that simply live there, isnt that one of the ways genasi are born? Or half outsiders? Remember that most mortals are completely unaware that all of creation is on the verge of being destroyed currently in comic. Granted, plane shift is a mid to high level spell, but it isnt the only way to travel the planes. Astral caravan comes to mind as a psionic alternative that is only 5th level. Plus there are several creatures that are capable of doing so innately. heck imagine that the posibility exists and someone has blink activate on the exact second the world gets destroyed and their soul is left behind for the snarl to destroy.
Yet the fact that they have, countless times, implies that they have ways to bypass protections set by mortals to prevent that death. Most if not all the pantheons have a god/ess of magic that would know the back door to, say a contingency from an epic wizard that time stops in the peril of inminent death or smth of the like, remember that they made the rules of the universe the mortals are residing.
if they can prevent them to come back, wouldnt it imply they can interfere with their magic, and thus able to cash their soul?
This all assuming they remake the world instantly and not take eons to do so like some other people are suggesting.
You guys think the gods have templates by now? Or they balance ecosystems by hand each time? Maybe there is a market for macros in there.
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2019-07-22, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-22, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
I'd just like to point out that saying that something unsupported is the case unless someone else can prove that it is not is an utter failure of logic. - Kish
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2019-07-22, 04:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
Sooo
Dwarven Waraxe, them?Each one of us, alone, is but a drop in the sea
Our powers pale compared with the great heroes
Our battles don’t hit theheadlines or shake the earth
But they are few, can’t be everywhere, and we, many
So, when the world or universe needs saving, they come
But when people needs saving, we are the ones to appear
We're underdogs, but we rise up to the challenge to be heroes.
(Wishing Joe, a low-powered superhero)
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2019-07-22, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-22, 04:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
Not a big fan of the tragedy of the commons, I take it? Pollution just isn't a thing that exists, nobody ever got hurt from gaming the stock market, and the social contract isn't worth the paper it's written on?
As the poster who said "Societies where the family unit can be easily broken have issues X, Y and Z" I haven't actually had a chance to take issue with your response yet, but there's no shortage of people jumping on the straw men you keep raising.
I don't expect you to suddenly start caring about everyone else because some guy on the internet said it was wrong to be a jerk, but hopefully someone who maybe has never heard of "tragedy of the commons" or wonders what a social contract is might become curious and learn about the assumptions our society is built on and the horrors that happen when those assumptions stop being true.
I mean, last time western civilization collapsed it only caused about a thousand year Dark Age. Maybe we'll be lucky this time and escape to Mars. Or the Snarl will escape and the gods will harvest us because the Snarl is secretly allergic to nuclear power and our power plants make it sneeze.Last edited by diremage; 2019-07-22 at 04:55 PM.
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2019-07-22, 04:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-22, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
Our society would have taken away the kids Hilgya carelessly birthed through partying and having a good time, and would have stuck her in jail indefinitely for attempted murder and probably endangering her child by bringing it on an adventure with her.
HER society instead stuck some poor sod with the task of surviving her murder rampages, being nice to her and ignoring her assorted indiscretions while attempting to limit the danger that she, as a walking, psychotic IED, could inflict to herself and the society around her.
She has so far literally murdered or attempted to murder both the people we know to have had intimate relationships with her, and went so far as to steal every penny her family owned, leaving them destitute and probably condemned to an eternity of damnation from working in the mines.
OUR society sacrifices that kind of "minority" by locking them away for "the common good." She may at some point have been a tragic, misunderstood victim of her family's law-abiding ways, although we only have a very one-sided and myopic account of that incident; by the time she gets ready to exit stage right she is definitely not working on any kind of a normal moral system or within the laws of her society.
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2019-07-22, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-07-22, 05:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
I do declare, good sir, I could grant you twelve hundred years but including either the Renaissance or the centuries prior to the final Fall of Rome is just not generally done.
I grant, insomuch as it was the final push that toppled the corpse, that we in the modern era fear less the Visigoths and the Huns than we once might, but in their place arise bogeymen of our devise, specters of violence sufficient to cause fear and shaking in otherwise stout-hearted men; agents, one may venture, of Terror.
You shall find no memes here, I warrant; any such nonsense should be quickly fixed by a sturdy clap to the inner ear.Last edited by diremage; 2019-07-22 at 05:33 PM.
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2019-07-22, 05:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1171 - The Discussion Thread
The_weirdo: Take the strangest thing your imagination can figment, and add a wizard who has conjured it. That wizard is me. Because I have caused your imagination to figment, I am therefore beyond and superior to the figment I have caused.
I should also add that if you are regularly telling your figments that they don't exist, you might want to ask your doctor for some stronger medication. Talking to the elephant in the room is rarely productive, especially when it's just a wizard summon.
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad