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2024-05-13, 07:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Gale is just classic wizard hubris guys, I don't know what to tell ya. guy looks at ancient long ago wizard doing same thing he's doing and failing and figures he's just built different or something.
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2024-05-13, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-05-13, 08:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
He's a classic self insert wizard, albeit one that is now actively facing consequences for doing stupid protagonist stuff. It's why I suspect playing as him makes him actually bearable.
Like Gale is the modern version of a male human fighter on the run because the king took offence to his boasting.
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2024-05-13, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Well I wrote Chapter 11 in my Dungeons & Dragons: The Dragoon Family story today.
It's time to get my Magikarp on!
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2024-05-14, 04:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
I think the thing I like about the party's Tragic Backstories™ in BG3 is the way the party's circumstances overlap which basically carry a theme of being unwillingly bound to the service of a more powerful being, and the ways they cope with it and have been forcefully changed by it. Which just ties into the themes of the main plot (i.e. the threat of that) in so many ways!
Spoiler: Spoilers for the character backstoriesObviously you have the obvious ones like Karlach having a demonic motorbike engine in her chest cavity, Astarian being a vampire spawn and Wyll getting tief'd by his Patron. But then there's the more subtle ones like Shadowheart and Lae'Zel being gaslit by their gods (whose service they were raised in), and Gale being pressured to straight up kill himself for the greater good.Hi, I'm back, I guess. ^_^I cosplay and stream LPs of single player games on Twitch! Mon, Wed & Fri; currently playing: Fallout: New Vegas (Mon/Wed) and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Thurs or Fri)
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2024-05-14, 04:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
This discussion reminds me that I really need to play BG3 at some point. I keep putting it off, thinking I'll save it for when I have more time (since it's the type of game that's likely to swallow me whole) but I might've forgotten that I'm an adult and all that free time is unlikely to magically appear.
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2024-05-14, 01:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
We're going to a baseball game this week as part of a work thing.
A lot of people joke about baseball being boring, though that's kind of what I like about it. It's not the most dynamic sport but there are always a couple of neat moments, and it gives you a good chance to sit and talk and enjoy nice weather.
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2024-05-14, 02:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
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2024-05-14, 03:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-14, 03:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
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2024-05-14, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
I hate paperwork both physically and electronically. Today I went to see my doctor and have a Men's Group Therapy Session a new hospital rule that I have to sign paperwork every time I visit to see my doctor. It's ****ing irritating.
It's time to get my Magikarp on!
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2024-05-14, 05:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
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2024-05-14, 08:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2024-05-14, 09:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-14, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
I read the wikipedia article on that book and it made me think of the movie The Producers but like backwards. Like, in The Producers they need the play to close after one show so they deliberately put on an offensive and racist play but they do it so badly that it just comes off as funny. Whereas here Heinlien has tried to write an anti-racist book but executed it so poorly that it ends up coming off as offensive and racist
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2024-05-15, 02:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Yes, I am slightly egomaniac. Why didn't you ask?
Free haiku !
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2024-05-15, 02:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2024-05-15, 02:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
I would imagine like links in a chain. A given chain link is not as a rule linked to the links that the links it is linked to are linked to
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I despise paperwork. Half the time they're asking for information that they have easier access to than I doLast edited by Bohandas; 2024-05-15 at 03:05 AM.
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2024-05-15, 03:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Link and Lonk were asked by Princess Zelda whether they would use "had" or "had had" in a certain sentence. Link, while Lonk had had "had" had had "had had." "Had had" had had a better effect on the princess.
EDIT: The variation with the Fish-and-Chips Sign is basically the natural language equivalent of Leaning Toothpick Syndrome.Last edited by enderlord99; 2024-05-15 at 03:42 AM.
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2024-05-15, 04:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
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2024-05-15, 07:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
I haven't but from what I've heard burning it is considered insulting. What did that poor fire do to you!?
Really awkward group sex. Plus an idea that gay men hate masculinity.
Considering at least some of his love interest characters are 'men it's okay for me to **** because they're actually women' I've yet to be convinced that he wasn't a repressed bisexual.Last edited by Anonymouswizard; 2024-05-15 at 07:05 AM.
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2024-05-15, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Last edited by Bohandas; 2024-05-15 at 08:36 AM.
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2024-05-15, 08:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
"Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"
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2024-05-15, 09:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2024-05-15, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Hung up some more wall art today to cover up some holes and slight wall damage (why repaint when I can just cover it up? :D). Occult + cyberpunk themed stuff. Now my walls aren't almost bare anymore and my apartment is finally taking on a bit more personality.
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2024-05-15, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-15, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-15, 12:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Spoiler: Cyberpunk tarot
The fool:
The tower:
I also have a cyberpunk variant of the tarot card The World, but I haven't quite yet decided where to put that one. Probably in the entrance hallway where The Tower is also located. The Tower is right in front of the entrance door, so it's the first thing anyone sees on entering.
I kind of regret not getting the gloss variant of these? These are matte, which results in less glare but also has less vibrant colors. Eh, good enough.
Spoiler: Star chart
Spoiler: Goetic demons
Marbass, Glasya-labolas, Astaroth & Stolas. All associated with knowledge in some way. Except for Stolas I guess, he's associated with astronomy, which is still a kind of knowledge! I don't remember exactly which is which.
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2024-05-15, 06:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-16, 01:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Anyone else watch Helluva Boss?
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