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2022-10-11, 06:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
OOTS 1114: Elan's first guess for who "you people" referred to was puppeteers, and the fourth was going to be humans. Anyone have any ideas what 2 and 3 were going to be?
I mean, I assume one of them would be bards, but that still leaves one unaccounted for.
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2022-10-11, 07:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
Bards, my family, adventurers, artists, idiots, healers... pick any two and go for it, really. I've always guessed "bards" and "adventurers" myself.
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2022-10-11, 09:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
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2022-10-12, 06:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
If you think "interesting" is an anticlimax, I feel sorry for you because it means you don't really know about interesting.
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2022-10-12, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-12, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
Being a bit more serious now, it looks like the guess is going from specific to broad. So puppeteers being very specific, and humans being as broad as possible, I'm thinking Bard would be guess #3 while #2 is something like "storyteller" since that's a subsect of bardic profession.
If you think "interesting" is an anticlimax, I feel sorry for you because it means you don't really know about interesting.
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2022-10-12, 01:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
I always assumed something like this:
1. Puppeteer
2. Bard
3. Adventurer
4. Human
Also going from specific to general, and from Elan's point of view.
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2022-10-12, 10:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
You can leave the name calling at home.
No, Elan's been a buffoon since about strip 1. Belkar made a remark about taking the biggest dump since Elan assigned his INT stat... would take me a while to find the strip... at the moment, not worth the time.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2022-10-12 at 10:13 PM.
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2022-10-12, 10:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
... And? Nobody said intelligence was Elan's second highest stat, or that all bards ever always had intelligence as the second highest stat. I'm from Alabama and I hate grits, does that mean that people from Alabama don't often enjoy grits? Ten bonus points to whoever quotes My Cousin Vinny, btw
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2022-10-13, 12:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
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2022-10-13, 12:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-13, 01:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-13, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2022-10-13 at 09:25 AM.
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
Second known member of the Greyview Appreciation Society
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2022-10-13, 02:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
1. Puppeteers
2. Bards
3. The Order of the Stick
4. HumansAvatar by Gurgleflep
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2022-10-13, 02:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
1. Puppeteers;
2. founding fathers of churches;
3. blondfolksmales in happy and fulfilling lon-term relationships;
4. humans.Last edited by Metastachydium; 2022-10-13 at 03:09 PM.
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2022-10-13, 02:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-13, 03:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-13, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-13, 03:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-13, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Peelee; 2022-10-13 at 04:36 PM.
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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2022-10-13, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-13, 04:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-13, 05:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
Which helps establish the proper timeline! I only saw My Cousin Vinny once.
Grits are a type of porridge based on maize/corn. It's one of those strange words that's become almost exclusively used in the plural when talking about food; whereas the singular is more about coarseness in sand/tone/stone.Last edited by Jasdoif; 2022-10-13 at 05:09 PM.
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The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
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2022-10-13, 05:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's made out of corn. Them hominy grits.
The kids were on trial for murder but I think this is the real crime.
It's the most procedurally accurate legal movie ever made! They use it as a teaching aid in numerous law schools! And it's got one of the greatest actors of our time, Joe Pesci! Truly it is a masterpiece for the ages.Last edited by Peelee; 2022-10-13 at 05:11 PM.
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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2022-10-13, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
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2022-10-13, 05:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Peelee; 2022-10-13 at 05:15 PM.
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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2022-10-13, 06:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
Second known member of the Greyview Appreciation Society
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2022-10-13, 07:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Discussion: What were Elan's second and third guesses going to be?
Yup. Great film. If I'm channel surfing (yeah, some of us still do that, stop judging me!), and I see this, doesn't matter how far into it it is, I'll stop and watch the rest.
Seriously. It's that good of a film. If you haven't seen it, just watch. It's just this magical balance of fun, sarcastic, dramatic, silly, serious(ish), and a ton of other superlative things. The character portrayals by Pesci and Tomei are simultaneously over the top and yet perfect at the same time. There are no actual "bad guys" in the film at all. The antagonist is the legal system (but not on a condemnatory way, just "really unlucky circumstances"). And it does a very good job of showing the legal process as well without it ever being out of reach for any random person to understand and follow.
And yeah. The courtroom scenes make the film. I watch that film, then I watch literally any courtroom scene from Law and Order, and I just shake my head (at how absolutely horrifically nonsensically bad the latter is, especially for a show where the hook is supposed to be that the "courtroom" aspects are to be equal to the police work aspects). So yeah. Go watch it.