Random MetaBanter – Random Banter no. 236 (now with Flowers!)

[Keltest]

If I had the legs for it, I'd wear kilts.

It's gotta be more comfortable than pants, right? For some irrational reason, people get pissy if you go out in public in pajamas and sweat pants aren't a good look on anybody, so that leaves jeans and... They're more comfortable than formal pants, but.

I can confirm that they are substantially more comfortable than most forms of pants... if you get a proper kilt, and boots/socks to go along with it.

[dafrca]

I can confirm that they are substantially more comfortable than most forms of pants... if you get a proper kilt, and boots/socks to go along with it.

Had a friend who loved to wear his OD Green Kilt with his Doc Martens. Said he loved how comfortable he felt in them.

[Rater202]

You should wear a kilt even if you don't have the legs for it. It's not about whether you are appealing to others- though on that note I do just go out in sweat pants, or yoga pants, or skirts with no pants when it isn't winter. You owe no one nothing and deserve your comfort.

It's not an appealing thing, it's a confidence thing...

If I knew what county my family was from I'd get a traditional Irish kilt to use as formal wear.

...I keep forgetting those are a thing.

Bit of a shame they're much longer though, I do have good legs.

...Really now?

Edit: Okay, they're not quite long enough for my needs but I'm kind of in love with the look of a saffron kilt.

[Peelee]

It's not an appealing thing, it's a confidence thing...

Make your own confidence. It's straight up what I had to do. Not easy, but worth it.

If I knew what county my family was from I'd get a traditional Irish kilt

I can't help but imagine that would work best if you knew the country was Ireland.

[Rater202]

Make your own confidence. It's straight up what I had to do. Not easy, but worth it.

I can't help but imagine that would work best if you knew the country was Ireland.

County, not country.

Having literally just looked it up, Irish Kilts have Tartan Patterns that respond to where in the country your family is from rather than a specific unique pattern for each family.

So, for example, since the O'Leary Clan were originally from Cork, someone with the surname O'Leary might wear a kilt with the Cork tartan.

...Assuming I've got it right. The article I found didn't go into detail.

[Peelee]

County, not country.

Thanks, I was wondering about that. I'm clearly more tired than I realized.

[Anonymouswizard]

County, not country.

Having literally just looked it up, Irish Kilts have Tartan Patterns that respond to where in the country your family is from rather than a specific unique pattern for each family.

So, for example, since the O'Leary Clan were originally from Cork, someone with the surname O'Leary might wear a kilt with the Cork tartan.

...Assuming I've got it right. The article I found didn't go into detail.

Pretty much as I understand it.


Getting back into writing my games, and realised that next time I should go in with a clearer idea of the world than the genre. Might drop my fantasy system and start again from scratch, but keeping the world building details I've come up with.

I mean, as a sort of crunchy fantasy system it'll work, but I'm realising that it lacks a lot in flavour. It's just pretty generic low powered fantasy.

So I'm going to try expanding the setting and then writing new rules to go along with it. It'll let me go more crazy with setting details and make something more unique (if I don't just throw 90% of it out as I'm working).

[Mystic Muse]

Gonna be streaming Mega Man X3: Zero Project in about half an hour if anyone wants to watch.

[Rater202]

Tried Neo-Kobe pizza again. The mushroom sausage pizza goes better with miso broth than the pepperoni sausage did, but... Still doesn't live up to the hype.

[Mystic Muse]

Fun little twist on a random internet game.

The main character of the last show you've watched has kidnapped you. Who is it, and why?

In my case, it's Frasier and he's making me watch an Opera or play he's written, starring himself.

[Fyraltari]

Fun little twist on a random internet game.

The main character of the last show you've watched has kidnapped you. Who is it, and why?

In my case, it's Frasier and he's making me watch an Opera or play he's written, starring himself.

The Doctor, from Doctor Who.

That's completely in-character, so I guess I'm off to explore space and time.

[Peelee]

Fun little twist on a random internet game.

The main character of the last show you've watched has kidnapped you. Who is it, and why?

In my case, it's Frasier and he's making me watch an Opera or play he's written, starring himself.

Scrooge Mcduck, from the newer version of Ducktales. Probably because I'm poor.

Frasier is a tough act to beat. Also, egotistical as he was, he wouldn't write an opera starring himself. He'd cast it, and then find fault with the actor while directing it only to start taking over the role completely until Niles csme around at which point he'd hide because Niles knew he'd try to cast himself in the lead and Frasier wouldn't want to admit it.

And then probably get some coffee or something.

[Form]

Fun little twist on a random internet game.

The main character of the last show you've watched has kidnapped you. Who is it, and why?

James Holden from The Expanse and he probably thinks I have the proto-molecule or know something about it.

In my case, it's Frasier and he's making me watch an Opera or play he's written, starring himself.

Goddamnit, Frasier, not this again!

Scrooge Mcduck, from the newer version of Ducktales. Probably because I'm poor.

Frasier is a tough act to beat. Also, egotistical as he was, he wouldn't write an opera starring himself. He'd cast it, and then find fault with the actor while directing it only to start taking over the role completely until Niles csme around at which point he'd hide because Niles knew he'd try to cast himself in the lead and Frasier wouldn't want to admit it.

And then probably get some coffee or something.

Followed up by some psycho-analysis of the actor and then himself no doubt.

[HalfTangible]

Fun little twist on a random internet game.

The main character of the last show you've watched has kidnapped you. Who is it, and why?

In my case, it's Frasier and he's making me watch an Opera or play he's written, starring himself.

An assassin from our world reincarnated as an aristocrat? Probably to lure in his real target. After all if I were the target I'd be dead already.

[Mystic Muse]

Scrooge Mcduck, from the newer version of Ducktales. Probably because I'm poor.

Frasier is a tough act to beat. Also, egotistical as he was, he wouldn't write an opera starring himself. He'd cast it, and then find fault with the actor while directing it only to start taking over the role completely until Niles csme around at which point he'd hide because Niles knew he'd try to cast himself in the lead and Frasier wouldn't want to admit it.

And then probably get some coffee or something.

To be fair, there is the Radio Drama episode where he's writer, director, and main actor. Which is why I figured this premise.

At least Frasier can in fact act and sing.

[Rater202]

Fun little twist on a random internet game.

The main character of the last show you've watched has kidnapped you. Who is it, and why?

In my case, it's Frasier and he's making me watch an Opera or play he's written, starring himself.

Do you mean the last thing we caught an episode of or the last thing we actually sat down and watched deliberately because that's two different questions with radically differant answers.

[Peelee]

To be fair, there is the Radio Drama episode where he's writer, director, and main actor. Which is why I figured this premise.

Oh, you mean one of the best episodes they ever did?

That one and the doors in the lake house one are Frasier firing on all cylinders.

[Mystic Muse]

Do you mean the last thing we caught an episode of or the last thing we actually sat down and watched deliberately because that's two different questions with radically differant answers.

Let's say both.

Oh, you mean one of the best episodes they ever did?

That one and the doors in the lake house one are Frasier firing on all cylinders.

Is that the one with the dead seal? Not sure which one you mean exactly.

[Peelee]

Is that the one with the dead seal? Not sure which one you mean exactly.

No, i was wrong about lake house. It was a ski lodge. I found out becuase the episode was called The Ski Lodge.

Very remnisicient of the movie Noises Off (which I also love).

[Rater202]

Let's say both.

So the last thing I caught an episode of was Futurama, so...

I guess Fry wanted someone to tell him how his shows ended?

The last thing I deliberately sat down and watched was the second season of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid...

...So, the episode where Kanna runs away from home and flies to New York City also had a segment where it turns out that the rich American girl Kanna made friends with is coming to Tokyo to visit but w don't see that onscreen... Maybe Kobayashi's English isn't so good and Tohru wanted a translator and didn't bother to check if I knew more than ten words of Japanese?

Wait? By show you mean "TV show" right? Becuase if "show" includes things like longer youtube videos, then the last thing I watched deliberately that like, actually has plot, prior to seeing this question was...

Zodi's MegaMan Battle Network stream...

...Zodi, why did you kidnap me?

[Peelee]

So the last thing I caught an episode of was Futurama, so...

Ah, the best show ever made.

[Rater202]

Ah, the best show ever made.

I mean, I just returned ont the TV for background noise and Bender's Game was on.

...I was really excited for that when it came out but in hindsight, that episode is just weird. Especially since Igner being the Professor's son, to my knowledge, never comes up again.

[Mystic Muse]

No, i was wrong about lake house. It was a ski lodge. I found out becuase the episode was called The Ski Lodge.

Very remnisicient of the movie Noises Off (which I also love).

Is that the one where Frasier finally powers through a bunch of his trauma with dating so he can be a good boyfriend?

Not to say his trauma was unwarranted, I just can't think of a better descriptor right now.

[LaZodiac]

So the last thing I caught an episode of was Futurama, so...

I guess Fry wanted someone to tell him how his shows ended?

The last thing I deliberately sat down and watched was the second season of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid...

...So, the episode where Kanna runs away from home and flies to New York City also had a segment where it turns out that the rich American girl Kanna made friends with is coming to Tokyo to visit but w don't see that onscreen... Maybe Kobayashi's English isn't so good and Tohru wanted a translator and didn't bother to check if I knew more than ten words of Japanese?

Wait? By show you mean "TV show" right? Becuase if "show" includes things like longer youtube videos, then the last thing I watched deliberately that like, actually has plot, prior to seeing this question was...

Zodi's MegaMan Battle Network stream...

...Zodi, why did you kidnap me?

Fun fact it's coming back unexpectantly. Again!

I needed someone to beta-read Hidden Embers, obviously.

Anyway my answer for this is "Jolyne Kujo" and I am horrified by the implication that she'd even need someone like me FOR anything. Side characters in Jojo do not have a good time! And god forbid if I actually have a stand...

[Peelee]

Is that the one where Frasier finally powers through a bunch of his trauma with dating so he can be a good boyfriend?

Not to say his trauma was unwarranted, I just can't think of a better descriptor right now.

That's the one where he gets a trip to a ski lodge with Niles, Daphne, and Daphne's friend (who is a swimsuit model) and all parties spend half the night trying to sneak into others' bedrooms.

[Rater202]

Fun fact it's coming back unexpectantly. Again!

Futurama? Okay, now... That's weird.

The final episode was a pretty definitive ending, and the Simpsons crossover is likewise pretty clearly a foot in the door to do more with the characters without properly reviving the show...

...Okay, can I say it's really weird that the episode of the Simpsons that crossed over with Futurama is one of the few episodes to be referenced later and thus be "canon"? For whatever that means in the Simpsons continuity that is?

You'd think that it would be obvious that such an episode wouldn't be canon becuase the Simpsons has made numerous references to Futurama in the context of it being fictional and vice versa, but then every so often a scene in the Simpsons Basement will show Bender in sleep mode waiting to get back to the future the long way again. Marge hides money in his chest compartment.

[DavidSh]

Jean-Luc Picard has kidnapped me as part of an elaborate scheme to undo time meddling by Bajoran fanatics.

[Peelee]

Fun fact it's coming back unexpectantly. Again!

First Law & Order, and now Futurama?! WE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE IN A GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION!

[Mystic Muse]

That's the one where he gets a trip to a ski lodge with Niles, Daphne, and Daphne's friend (who is a swimsuit model) and all parties spend half the night trying to sneak into others' bedrooms.

Ah, okay.

In my defense, there are a lot of "Frasier and Niles go on vacation" episodes.

[Peelee]

Ah, okay.

In my defense, there are a lot of "Frasier and Niles go on vacation" episodes.

My favorite episodes are the ones with Frasier and Niles.

For reals, though, I can't believe that they only created Niles because David Hyde Pierce looked so much like a young Kelsey Grammar. I can't imagine a world without Niles Crane. Such an amazingly perfect character.