OOTS #1269 - The Discussion Thread

[Kish]

That's not really 3 or 3.5 ed, but The Order of the Scribble is technically from earlier editions.

The group with the epic elf druid and the sorcerer with two levels of ranger is technically nothing of the kind.

"Old" only means "1ed" if Rich wants to make a joke about it meaning that.

[Sigako]

Dorukan sheltered monsters from the old editions, Serini might've shared the idea, that's what I mean.

[Fish]

In other words, people have been getting it wrong for so long that dictionaries have started to accept it.

But I assume you always use every word in your lexicon in its original, ancient sense, pronouncing it as it was when the word was invented.

[bunsen_h]

I'm pretty sure the glue thing has been there since the OD&D.

The AD&D Monster Manual says that "When a creature touches the mimic, the latter lashes out with a pseudopod, delivering 3-12 points of damage per hit. Meanwhile, the mimic excretes a glue which holds fast whatever member the creature touched the mimic with." There's no more detail about the glue -- how to get unstuck from it, catching weapons, any of that stuff.

[Ruck]

Ahhh, evening the score with Durkon for his tacit complicity in the past.

Or his active participation.

[Raven777]

In other words, people have been getting it wrong for so long that dictionaries have started to accept it. By the by, what's meaning number 2?

You know not what you have unleashed! ...

...

I take bets that six to eight pages from now this thread will still bear echoes of a Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism debate. I'll return tomorrow to check! :D

[DiMono]

New comic is in the wrong place in the list on the homepage. It's between 1266 and 1267.

[Yirggzmb]

but since you think it's possible to freeze language in place due to the Internet, you think it's suddenly bad?

Not specifically replying to you, but building off this thought.

I'd almost be willing to argue that the internet *speeds up* the way language changes. Every time a word is used, there's a chance someone is using it in a different or new context. And the internet enables so much conversation all the time, with people from all over the world. The potential for new and interesting uses of a word is so high on the internet.

I find it really interesting watching words change in use subtly as time goes on, or in some cases spring up out of whole cloth. Language is so much like a living thing that it's fascinating

[Tzardok]

But I assume you always use every word in your lexicon in its original, ancient sense, pronouncing it as it was when the word was invented.

Of course I do. I'm speaking nothing but Indo-Germanic in my day-to-day life.

[Laurentio III]

Of course I do. I'm speaking nothing but Indo-Germanic in my day-to-day life.

Pff. I only speak in guttural grunts, even when writing.
I just have an EXCELLENT auto-correct.

[Tzardok]

I think your autocorrect is saying things you didn't want to say. Like any other autocorrect, but more insidious.

[Thermophille]

So we've been speaking to the AI in Laurentio's autocorrect this entire time?

[Laurentio III]

It's me, not ai AI. And I'm not in danger, and in need of help, unable to comunicate with the outside because of a malicious software.

[Crimsonmantle]

New comic is in the wrong place in the list on the homepage. It's between 1266 and 1267.

Prescriptivist!

[Blazurmlak]

The advice didn't work out for Durkon, but maybe the mimic felt better. He's a ranger after all, he knows his stuff. Belkar, I mean, not the mimic

[mjasghar]

If you have problems with the use of bemused maybe you should look up the word awful and it’s initial meaning.
And that’s not counting how meanings have changed when words are borrowed from other languages and their meaning changed by cultural context.

[Beni-Kujaku]

It's me, not ai AI. And I'm not in danger, and in need of help, unable to comunicate with the outside because of a malicious software.

Oh, ok, good. I was worried there for a moment.

[Thecommander236]

Belkar is relapsing here. XD

[KorvinStarmast]

"A well placed short rest..." Is The Giant referencing 5e now?

Maybe.

I'm starting to think that halflings in this setting have an optional Sadistic Jerk racial trait.

How many have we seen?

Mimics to the left of me.
Rogues to the right of me.
Stuck in a meeting with you.

You forgot the "here I am" bit
Mimics to the left of me.
Rogues to the right of me.
Here I am
Stuck in a meeting with you
For those not aware, the original song said it like this:
Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the Middle with you..

... while the comic wasn't getting "updated," he wouldn't hesitate to use it as a source of jokes--"I go where the humor takes me."

Works for me.

The AD&D Monster Manual says that "When a creature touches the mimic, the latter lashes out with a pseudopod, delivering 3-12 points of damage per hit. Meanwhile, the mimic excretes a glue which holds fast whatever member the creature touched the mimic with."

I will guess that acetone might be useful for removing it.

[NihhusHuotAliro]

Owning more stools than you have people to sit on them is perfectly normal, and everyone I know does it.

*sigh*

I guess I learn another thing I thought was normal is weird and yet strangely common in my experience.

[Fyraltari]

Owning more stools than you have people to sit on them is perfectly normal, and everyone I know does it.

*sigh*

I guess I learn another thing I thought was normal is weird and yet strangely common in my experience.

She owns three while being the only one to use them. How many more than needed do you consider normal to own?

[The MunchKING]

She owns three while being the only one to use them. How many more than needed do you consider normal to own?

I've only got one stool, but I have like 10 chairs in my house. so a 10:1 Ratio still seems normal to me.

[bunsen_h]

She owns three while being the only one to use them. How many more than needed do you consider normal to own?

Enough to seat the largest plausible number of residents + visitors appropriately for the various contexts. Enough dinner-table chairs for your largest plausible dinner party, enough living-room chairs to seat people for a social gathering, etc., with some of those chairs probably being multi-purpose. Constraints: ability to obtain the desirable number of chairs; available storage space and a desire to avoid clutter. Serini never expected to need to host a party of adventurers; rather, she expected to be isolated. So she's got a couple of extras against the possibility of, say, her former colleagues coming to visit, or some other emergency visitors, and she's got "alternative seating" in the form of the mimics.

[Fyraltari]

I've only got one stool, but I have like 10 chairs in my house. so a 10:1 Ratio still seems normal to me.

I'm going to take a guess that your house is bigger than this room and isn't smack-dab in the middle of the Arctic where nobody ever comes to visit.

[Metastachydium]

I'm going to take a guess that your house is bigger than this room and isn't smack-dab in the middle of the Arctic where nobody ever comes to visit.

Well, the half of my house that might be slightly smaller in terms of useful surface area than that room has three chairs, two armchairs (one of them isn't mine) and two stools (I wouldn't sit on); the other half, that's, well, actually still slightly smaller than Serini's has seven chairs, a large armchair and a stool. I also have a folding chair and a folding stool in storage.

Nobody ever comes to visit.

[Mike Havran]

Looks like mimics are funnier than palm trees

[elros]

Am I foolish for thinking the latest comic is foreshadowing how the mimics will be used against Team Evil? I suspect a mimic will stick to Xykon, which will add to his growing list of distractions that will ultimately lead to his downfall.

[Coppercloud]

Am I foolish for thinking the latest comic is foreshadowing how the mimics will be used against Team Evil? I suspect a mimic will stick to Xykon, which will add to his growing list of distractions that will ultimately lead to his downfall.

A mimic isn't much of a distraction when you can obliterate it with a Fireball without a second thought, as Xykon would. Instead of using them as cannon fodder, I think turning several mimics into a fake Gate or something like that would be be more beneficial to the Order. We'll see!

[dancrilis]

Am I foolish for thinking the latest comic is foreshadowing how the mimics will be used against Team Evil? I suspect a mimic will stick to Xykon, which will add to his growing list of distractions that will ultimately lead to his downfall.

I was going to say that Xykon is immune to glue - but looked it up and it turns out he isn't, which was something of a 'huh, it works like that?' moment.

[Riftwolf]

I was going to say that Xykon is immune to glue - but looked it up and it turns out he isn't, which was something of a 'huh, it works like that?' moment.

He has Freedom of Movement from his new shoes though. So lichs don't have glue immunity but Xykon does.