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2022-10-26, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1269 - The Discussion Thread
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2022-10-26, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-26, 06:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1269 - The Discussion Thread
The Librarian's last day:
"Sir? A Mr.Isildur has an overdue copy of The Care And Feeding Of White Trees. Shall I impose late fees on his account?"
"Let's give him a few days."
"But, Sir, if we don't maintain strict return policies..."
"What's the worst that can happen? The island won't sink beneath the waves over an overdue library book."
*rumblerumblerumbleRUMBLE!*
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2022-10-27, 11:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm thinking that Tolkien would actually have a pretty good idea how long it takes to find references to something in a thousand year old scroll, being as that his profession involved thousand year old texts.
The thing is the Azurites don't use a single color; they use a single hue. The use light blue, dark blue, black, white, glossy blue, off-white with a bluish tint. They sky's the limit, as long as it's blue.
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2022-10-28, 08:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1269 - The Discussion Thread
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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2022-10-28, 03:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm thinking perhaps a race with lifespans of 1,000-3,000 years might have a significant stabilising effect on linguistic drift. On the other hand they are few in number compared to humans, and might not want to be prescriptivists.
Also I just realized they have their own language, and barely a handful actually bothered to learn the languages of men through the ages. Still, I don't think we can make comparisons with our reality, it's clear Middle Earth had far superior preservation (magically enhanced or otherwise). Perhaps it's just something we shouldn't look at too closely.
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2022-10-28, 06:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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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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2022-10-28, 06:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-28, 10:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-29, 12:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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According to the big LotR wiki, Galadriel lived for 138 years in the Years of the Trees, then through the 590 years, 3441 years, and 3021 years of the First, Second, and Third ages respectively.
"Call these stars? They're nothing like the stars we had when I was a lad..."Last edited by bunsen_h; 2022-10-29 at 12:15 AM.
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2022-10-29, 12:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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I thought people died when they're killed? :D
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2022-10-29, 12:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-29, 01:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-29, 01:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-29, 07:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-29, 03:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-10-30, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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My understanding is that "People die if they are killed" grew out of an awkward translation of Fate: Stay Night, and its initial* popularity grew from amusingly encapsulating a tendency for shounen protagonists to have more passion than common sense. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/peopl...hey-are-killed
* - I just don't want to cause a Dragon*Con incident. (I recently saw a bunch of younger people get mad at someone who contradicted their knowledge that it's always been primarily a sci-fi convention.)
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2022-10-30, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's more or less both.
In Japanese phrases like that are relatively common, while sounding strange to English speakers (see also a common phrase in shonen anime: "He wouldn't die, even if you killed him.") A better translation that involved context would have been "People should die when they are killed", but even with the translation they actually used it's understandable what was meant if you, well, take it in context.Last edited by Tzardok; 2022-10-30 at 02:07 PM.
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2022-10-30, 05:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Individual mileage may vary. (^_^)
When I watched FSN, Shirou came across as one of the best/worst examples in existence of a protagonist with more passion than common sense. One scene (before he started leveling up in any way) left a vivid impression of "You're a girl, so even though you're a heroic spirit (bordering on demigod) who can take far more punishment than my frail mortal body, I'll jump between you and another heroic spirit to protect you!" (o_0)
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Cool elan Illithid Slayer by linkele.
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2022-10-31, 11:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Just extrapolating, that sounds like a completely-logical development for an element that emits radiation which can penetrate every substance but lead... but also sounds a great deal like a one-off plot device that was rarely if ever used again. XD
(Googled, and it appears to bear out - this property is mentioned on wikipedia, but there are far more mentions of all the various permutations of kryptonite that have been similarly contrived as plot devices.)
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