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2019-11-13, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
It nice to see Roy so easy going and humorous while being on the tipsy side. And hopefully there only a few detours left at the very most before they reach the north pole. Because if there too many delays then the final gate could possibly already be discovered by Xykon.
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2019-11-13, 02:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
In the real world what makes poison gas a consensus evil weapon isn't that it kills people, pretty much all military weapons kill people, it is that it permanently disables the survivors WITHOUT necessarily stopping them from fighting and the wind could blow it back over your own position (and even if it doesn't, for offensive use you have your own guys advancing into the cloud).
So you permanently cripple large numbers of soldiers from both sides, without necessarily taking them out of the current combat, and it's not even particularly good at winning the battle.
If gas were a war-winner or really useful, it would never have been banned or the ban would never have held. After WWI the consensus was, "It's horrible, and it doesn't even work."
Chlorine gas is in many respects one of the most evil forms of gas warfare, not because it's more effective, but because it's even less effective than the others.
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2019-11-13, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the first time we've ever seen Roy drunk before.
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2019-11-13, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Unless you count drunk on love while out on his date with Celia, yes it is.
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2019-11-13, 02:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Wait, tables are undead?
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2019-11-13, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
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2019-11-13, 03:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
I regularly "cite my sources" as a preemptive counter to anyone who would assert I have zero clue what I'm talking about--this is the internet, after all, and that has specifically happened to me on this forum.
In no way was I trying to imply that I have the highest level of experience possible or that others (such as yourself) might not* have more experience than I; just that I have some level of understanding on the topic that isn't "I read it somewhere on the internet. "
EDIT:
It was a callback to a quote from the Giant:
Originally Posted by The Giant
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?127453-Random-Speculation-Time!-The-Girl-in-Panel-Seven-of-683&p=7066430#post7066430
EDIT 2: *omitted the word "not" which completely changed my meaning; including nowLast edited by The Aboleth; 2019-11-13 at 04:23 PM.
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2019-11-13, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Sure, hence my specifying "natural or depleted". I wouldn't care to handle a half-kilogram of enriched uranium with my hands.
Plutonium 239, however, which can be relatively easily made from Uranium 238, has a critical mass of 10 kilograms, which is a sphere almost ten centimeters in diameter. A Plutonium elemental, once killed, would almost immediately turn into a nuclear fireball that turns everything in a hundred mile radius into glass and ashes.
Am I correct in assuming that element-based elementals aren't from standard gaming rule sets?
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2019-11-13, 03:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 03:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Correct. It's just Rich making fun of some of the game's assumptions.
Fun thought exercise: how big of a plutonium elemental would you need to summon before you have a bigger pile of Pu-239 than is in all the nuclear weapons on Earth?
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2019-11-13, 04:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
I see what you mean.
I was not trying to bash you. Just to invalidate what i perceived as an argument to authority. I tend to be a bit sensitive on this kind of things.
When i was in the space center, with my bachelor, i saw more than once that i knew better than some engineer with a master and less than colleague with an associate degrees, or no degree.
As a teacher, i've been proven wrong more than once by 16 y.o pupil on something i though i knew.
And i can see every time i turn on the TV that i now know much more on political science and macro-economics that the average journalist or politician of my country, despite having never attended a single class on this subjects.
So I tend to judge the validity of an argument only on the argument itself.
I do cite my source when i'm referring to something i read, or when something cannot be proven through argumentation.Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
Resistance Data in MM, Volo's, MToF. -- -- Petrocorus's 3.5 Paladin Builds List. -- -- French vs. EnglishOriginally Posted by King Louis XIII in The Musketeers
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2019-11-13, 04:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
I understand and think we're pretty much on the same page. I didn't think you were trying to bash me, and if my post sounded aggressive towards you I apologize without reservation.
As to the plutoniun/uranium discussion, I had no idea until today you could hold uranium and not have it do irreparable damage to...well, yourself. This is why I keep coming to the forums--I learn weird, random, wonderful things here all the time!Last edited by The Aboleth; 2019-11-13 at 04:18 PM.
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2019-11-13, 04:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Last edited by Petrocorus; 2019-11-13 at 04:24 PM.
Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
Resistance Data in MM, Volo's, MToF. -- -- Petrocorus's 3.5 Paladin Builds List. -- -- French vs. EnglishOriginally Posted by King Louis XIII in The Musketeers
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2019-11-13, 04:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
If it's a particularly pure plutonium-239 elemental, maybe. There are multiple isotypes of plutonium, though; and a small percentage of plutonium-240 is enough to prevent the rapid consumption needed for nuclear explosions (that's the difference between weapons-grade plutonium and reactor-grade plutonium).
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2019-11-13, 04:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 04:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
HAHAHAHA!
This was a good one!
So... drunk Roy is Elan, and drunk Belkar is Vaarsuvius.
We gotta get the others drunk and see who they become."...Look, it's a simple job. Just go down to the docks, book passage on the good ship Harm's Way, set sail for the Isles of Immaculate Doom, pick up the Orb of Despair which is already waiting for you, and bring it back to deliver to that crazy old coot who lives in that creepy old tower in the Swamp of a Thousand Screams. What could possibly go wrong?"
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2019-11-13, 04:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Very, very briefly... I'm reminded of Asimov's The God's Themselves and the implications of finding a jar of plutonium-186.
Oh my goodness, yes. I've met any number of idiots who believed that their degree-of-whatever-kind in [X] granted them authority in completely unrelated fields. And several people with advanced degrees who were idiots even in their own fields of supposed expertise. My first real sign of the potential hollowness of academic advancement was the summer before I started my bachelor's degree, when I saw a doctoral student using a calculator to multiply 2-digit integers by 10 in his lab book.
Mm, I suppose. It depends somewhat on how busy the boss is, and how obvious it should be to me that I ought to be asking some other specific person. If I could reasonably be expected not to know who to ask (and to not have the info myself), the boss shouldn't react in that kind of way.Last edited by bunsen_h; 2019-11-13 at 05:07 PM.
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2019-11-13, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
The Greatest Threads Of GiantITP (in my opinion):
A story of the exact wrong way to run a campaign.
The best thread derailment of all time.
The "canonical" list of Mostly Useless Magic Items.
A ridiculous campaign.
Weird dreams.
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2019-11-13, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 09:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-13, 10:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
I should've guessed that Belkar was better at being a functioning drunk than Roy.
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2019-11-13, 10:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
The Order did better than a draw in that whole battle with the forces of Hel.
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2019-11-13, 11:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Let's w-r-O-l! Forward! And someone get Roy some coffee.
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...6#post15476516
I know I'm stealing this from someone else. But it's SO FUNNY
Zweisteine quoting Razanir:
"I am a human sixtyfourthling! Fear my minimal halfling ancestry!"
From: Razanir
Bagnold could be one sixty-fourth halfling.
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2019-11-13, 11:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Meanwhile on Earth, the North Pole is as drunk as Roy, wandering all over carelessly at high speed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_drift
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2019-11-14, 12:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-14, 01:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-14, 01:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
She's not busy - she spends the rest of the strip in banter with the Order. It's possible that that crew member had asked the same thing several times before, but there's nothing in the strip to hint at that. All we have in the strip is a crew member politely asking the captain a question, then the captain angrily rebuking him, before going back to being friendly with the more important people.
But the grumpiness isn't directed at Andi, it's directed at some random crew member.
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2019-11-14, 01:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
I'd call it irritation rather than anger, for the flat eyebrow. Anger is V-shaped eyebrow.
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2019-11-14, 02:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1186 - The Discussion Thread
Yes. That's why there was so much confusion when Redcloak fired Ti-elementals during the siege.
Plus it's a fun way to wait for an update
Better be safe than sorry...
Eyebrows shaped like an elf wizard? I got to see that!