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2024-03-12, 07:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
As a pre-teen, a 16 hour day, a couple hours of twilight, and "be home when the street lights come on" during summer break was glorious. (Washington state, USA in my case - at 48°N) You could roll out of the house on your bike at 5am, meet your friends who did the same, and not be home till nearly midnight, not having interacted with an adult for the entirety. (carefully scrounge food about 2pm at the house of whoever's parents were both at work that day).
But changing the start and end times with DST wouldn't change the duration.Last edited by Elkad; 2024-03-12 at 07:02 AM.
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2024-03-12, 07:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Too many possibilities to say for sure.
However, him surrendering gives the narrative options in several arcs:
Serini fixing past mistakes, and making new choices when faced with the same problems.
Durkon and Roy actually negotiating with hostiles.
Vaarsuvious and their stunt with the dragons.
Belkar's development, especially if Calder takes out Bloodfeast or, Twelve forbid, Mr. Scruffy before surrender.
Furthermore, if his surrender includes an exit or if he just flatly escapes, he likely runs into TE and continues to contribute that way. Either he strains the power struggle between Xykon and Redcloak, or maybe even manages to contribute to the MitD somehow.
Comparatively, him dying in combat really only states that the order can tackle big threats (already covered if he surrenders/runs anyway) and if Xykon comes across his corpse, maybe a zombification. But he's already done the zombie dragon thing, he doesn't like recycling tricks."Thursdays. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."-Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide
"I had a normal day once. It was a Thursday." -Will Bailey, The West Wing
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2024-03-12, 07:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Of course not! Everyone works according a single clock at the Greenwich Royal Observatory.
I'm sorry to be the one to disillusion you, but companies have been able to decide when their work day starts for quite some time now. And they (like your Montana example) currently seem to not care about whether it's DST or not.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-03-12, 07:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-12, 08:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
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2024-03-12, 08:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Maybe I'm overly optimistic but I'm going to take this as a sign that the Order stands a very good chance of beating Team Evil now. If it wasn't for Oona I'd say the Order would be almost guaranteed a win.
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2024-03-12, 08:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-12, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
For accuracy, sure, but we don't measure plus or minus hours by Paris Mean Time. We keep accuracy based on atomic clocks, but we work off the GMT clock in London.
Which may as well be Paris, really.
I'm half Austrian, and i greatly enjoy the European cultural practice of knocking all European countries at every opportunity.Last edited by Peelee; 2024-03-12 at 08:27 AM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-03-12, 09:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
"Besides, you know the saying: Kill one, and you are a murderer. Kill millions, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." -- Fishman
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2024-03-12, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-12, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
My understanding as an American is that European nations hate their neighbors, like the next country over; e.g., the French hate the Germans, like the Poles.
This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
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2024-03-12, 09:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
The "bleu" is an euphemistic swear word. Like "heck" or "dang" in English.
As a Swiss, I can confirm we have that. We call that "regular, basic cheese".
Oh nah, we European (geographically) hate everyone, it's just in "nested doll" fashion.
Person A hates Person B from the next village over, A & B are united in hate of C from the next valley over, ABC are united in hate of D from the next region over, ABCD are united in hate of E from the next country over, ABCDE are united in hate of F from two countries over, etc.Last edited by Unoriginal; 2024-03-12 at 09:41 AM.
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2024-03-12, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-12, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
I think that this is the issue which got sand into someone's craw: the infantilization of a male who is (or who has developed into) a swashbuckling hero.
Also suspect that the complainant doesn't care for the image at the top of the current page of Haley doing the swoop/kiss move on Elan.
Particularly on a forum heavily populated by opitimizers.
Good suggestion.
Good thought, I had not considered that.
Best to stop there.
I don't understand how the takes "Elan is very capable and is the only one of the Order deserving to be a leader"
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"Elan depends on others to make him do hard things or chew hard things to little pieces so he can digest them" are coming up simultaneously in the same argument.
Because the second argument is exactly what "they should've found a way to include Elan in a meeting against his wishes" essentially is.
Elan used his own initiative to fight the tough lady frost giant when Roy was getting his butt kicked: first, he healed Roy in a cool fashion, and then he disabled the frost giant using a bard spell. (Mind you, he of course began by daydreaming and almost blowing the whole battle).
Suggesting the Order should've used his magic just to make him feel included, even though it would puts everyone in greater danger is just... bad; pretty sure that would be actually criminal in a real-life employment situation.
It's been done, with the Silver Dragon. I don't think that will happen.
Indeed.
I read Calder as intelligent. He might recognize a losing battle in progress, and choose "survival" as his best option.
That's the literal name of Sunny's creature type, and Calder isn't allowed to call them their species' name because lawyers.
Correct. They have not been properly introduced. (I also doubt Calder cares what Sunny's name is).
And now we will hear the complaint that Roy is micromanaging his team ...
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And Calder gets to learn how it feels to be Extremeinated!Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2024-03-12 at 10:40 AM.
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2024-03-12, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-12, 10:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
From the point of view of strict practicality, if Calder had stuck to a one- or two-word term ("slave", "minion") he might have been able to get out a command in the second panel.
Do we know for sure that he was aware for decades? Page 1295 implied that he didn't know how long he'd been stuck there. Though it would be challenging to keep track of time, under the circumstances, if he'd been conscious-but-contained for that long.
"It isn't etiquette to cut any one you've been introduced to." -- Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
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2024-03-12, 10:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Before the thread was derailed, I had said that I thought that Roy might try to negotiate with Calder again if the dragon submitted. But then someone mentioned that this would be the perfect time for Serini to show what an epic rogue can do... and given that Serini did say she wanted to kill Calder before, I think she might take the opportunity for a sneak attack here - maybe even as Roy tries to talk to Calder.
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2024-03-12, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
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2024-03-12, 11:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
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2024-03-12, 11:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Honestly, I don't see it. A dual wield sneak attack monster might have some points to make here, but Serini has leaned hard into deception and poisons and the like. She can maker her presence felt but it's not likely to change anyhting.
Except that one guy from The Patriot. He's cool."Thursdays. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."-Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide
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2024-03-12, 11:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
He is intelligent, but also prideful, angry and the last time he surrendered ended up in a decade-long nightmare that he declared prefering getting killed than experiencing.
I wouldn't be surprised if Calder goes "kill me and let's be done with it" and/or Serini enthusiastically going "kill him and let's be done with it" too, and then Roy says "no" and give Calder a chance to talk it out without anyone charging at another with an axe.
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2024-03-12, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
So do Americans, we just do it in our own unique gaslighty fashion. "National Brotherhood Week" by legendary snarktastic piano comedian Tom Lehrer from half a century ago:
🎶 But during
National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-One-Another-hood* Week
Be nice to people who are inferior** to you
It's only for a week so have no fear
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year
* - If you get to see a video such as the Copenhagen concert, he adds a deliciously-insincere smile to this line
** - And to this line, he parodies a bigot looking down on someone
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If only. The hours and hours of meetings talking about how to be more productive will keep expanding until productivity improves. (0_o)Last edited by arimareiji; 2024-03-12 at 12:30 PM.
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2024-03-12, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
But does resurrection rebuild from scratch? I think it effectively just restores the condition of the body that it was just before death...so if your body is about to give out just based on degradation of systems (not pathology, poison or trauma), resurrection would just bring you right back to the moment before your body gave out and then it gives out again.
Aging can be considered in part a degradation of system components based on imperfect regeneration of those components, damage to non-refreshed components, and loss of function. Perfect cellular regeneration would correct some of these issues, and refreshing components that normally cannot be refreshed (like teeth, some neurons, etc) beats these down...and prevents or delays loss of function.
So True Rez brings you back to body condition at the time of death...regeneration rebuilds each individual component before death occurs to optimum function...within the limits of what it can manage.
So my pre-theory is that Troll systems minus regeneration might be functional for 20-40 years, but with regen it is 3x-5x higher.
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
I don't hate anyone.
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2024-03-12, 01:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Tom Lehrer: "I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!"
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His own website has lyrics, sheet music, and so on.Last edited by bunsen_h; 2024-03-12 at 01:04 PM.
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2024-03-12, 01:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
I always got the impression it was more like fraternal hate. Europeans can make fun of all other Europeans, but they'll all go for the Americans if they try to edge in, for example.
That's where I fail. I quite like the French.
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2024-03-12, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
You would need to compare lifespans with a halfling without regeneration who had sustained the same injuries.
This is called a con-troll group.
Of course not.
Belkar is going to ride the dinosaur into the disabled stasis circle, dragging Calder with them, and get frozen in place when the circle reboots. Thus, Belkar draws his last breath ever and has no more birthday cake.Last edited by Fish; 2024-03-12 at 01:47 PM.
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2024-03-12, 01:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
{scrubbed}
Notice how an important argument like:
"Level one spell that always works"
was ignored.
In addition, the first post did not present an argument, simply picking the desired topic of conversation "Inclusion! Inclusion! Inclusion!" Instead of making an actual argument in favor of Greater Dispel Magic, such as 'It's a ranged spell, and would free up Haley's turn.'
{scrubbed} This is why there's no actual argument being made in favor of Greater Dispel Magic, {scrubbed}Last edited by Peelee; 2024-03-12 at 02:39 PM.