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'Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë! “The day has come! Behold, people of the Eldar and Fathers of Men, the day has come!" And all those who heard his great voice echo in the hills answered, crying:'Auta i lómë!" The night is passing!"
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Pity Thor’s not humming a certain Sting song in regards to followers like Durkon. I would be, were I in his place. :)
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2019-08-26, 01:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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They are both chaotic (CG Thor vs CE-or-CN-pick-what-you-want-for-Loki) so their personalities are not all that different except for the critical difference.
I note up thread that someone picked out the "nothing matters" Neutral Evil for Hell's domain. Works for me. Hmm, I just noticed the Lulz blob has an orange tinge. Wonder if that's Loki's domain.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2019-08-26 at 01:51 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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2019-08-26, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1177 - The Discussion Thread
Attention LotR fans
Spoiler: LotRThe scouring of the Shire never happened. That's right. After reading books I, II, and III, I stopped reading when the One Ring was thrown into Mount Doom. The story ends there. Nothing worthwhile happened afterwards. Middle-Earth was saved.
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Thor: "You were gone too soon Laser Snail."
Loki: "I should be helping slam dunk this clichéd* world in the trash where it belongs so my daughter can ride a tidal wave of dead dwarves to victory."
Tells you anything you need to know about these two.
These are the Outer Planes, the gods live there but the Planes don't belong to any one of them. According to Hilgya Loki lives in Valhalla with Thor, anyway.
*"Clichéd"? Is cliché an English verb now?Last edited by Fyraltari; 2019-08-26 at 02:07 PM.
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2019-08-26, 02:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1177 - The Discussion Thread
This is the first time the Giant has used the same title for a 3rd strip. Guess he's really into Role play.
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So does that mean that the gods can survive without worship, but worships somehow enhances or affects them anyway due to the rules of the 'verse being different from beyond the chaos?
Or does it mean that the gods have actually tied their very existence to worship now which balances out their godly power?
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Ceterum autem censeo Hilgya malefica est
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Dad of the Year material, there.
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I'm not sure it's quite the same. In the Sandman, the way the Endless are perceived is entirely a function of who's looking at them--so the Martian Manhunter sees something different than a modern-day Earthly mortal does, and Nada sees something else again. Dream's personality is the same in all cases, though. The belief in the Stickverse seems to actually shape how the gods look and act for everyone, so even someone who believes Thor should have ginger hair will see him as blond if they meet him, because that's the majority viewpoint over many years.
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Yes, I am slightly egomaniac. Why didn't you ask?
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I am pretty sure that is an adjective.
marked by or abounding in clichés
That usage is a few decades old. At least. I recall seeing it in both movie criticism and literary criticism. I'll check to see its origin.
EDIT: Apparently, 1925 is the first cited usage. Synonym is hackneyed.
My source is Merriam Webster, not sure what OED citations would be for that.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2019-08-26 at 02:40 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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Interested in MitD? Join us in MitD's thread.There is a world of imagination
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Ceterum autem censeo Hilgya malefica est
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Cliché is the past particple of the French verb clicher which means "to click" (no longer in use, replaced by "cliquer"). It was substantized so that "un cliché" means a photograph and, by metaphor, a sterotype.
What confuses me is the d, that in English usually marks the past participle at the end of "clichéd". That implies that English use "to cliché" as a verb. I'm guessing to mean "filling something with clichés".Forum Wisdom
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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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Yes, I am slightly egomaniac. Why didn't you ask?
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Yes, this looks like a way to mirror, this transition.
I like how we cut to and back to the gods through their devices to observe the world, Hel's basin does that a lot too.
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A verb cannot mean "something that is X" that is an adjective or a noun. In order for "clichéd" to mean "something filledwith clichés", "to cliché" would need to mean "filling something with clichés".Last edited by Fyraltari; 2019-08-26 at 02:56 PM.
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It is not a 100% the same, true. Then again, the pantheons are not as defined as the Stickverse.
The gods do need worship, but unlike in the Sandman and American Gods, the Stickverse gods have the whole "worship me for power" thing set up and they don't find themselves pole dancing for some worship (well, Hel may end up doing that, who knows)
Like in Sandman, the gods without believers or forgotten gods are the dead gods (there is a line on how people and gods truly die when no one remembers them).Last edited by AJ the Ronin; 2019-08-26 at 02:58 PM.
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There is some evidence that English should be classified as a creole language — that is, one formed by the co-mingling of two or more languages through close contact, borrowing the lexicon of both and simplifying the grammar as it goes. It has many of the hallmarks of other languages formed in this way. It’s not completely convincing, based on what we know of modern creole languages (not much).
The idea of “verbing” a non-verb comes from the ability in English to freely change a word’s part of speech without necessarily marking it. Normally we do this with Latin suffixes, like -al (noun to adj), -ness (adj to n), -ment (v to n). Sometimes we do it with stress (proJECT vs PROject). Other times we just say, “Meh, screw it, it’s a verb now.”Last edited by Fish; 2019-08-26 at 03:08 PM.
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