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2019-08-27, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1177 - The Discussion Thread
So... Loki's still an ass, but he does genuinely care for Hel? Sounds fair.
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2019-08-27, 09:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-08-27, 10:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Besides, in the case of the drunken deaths, it's not the dwarves that are being honored... (those livers deserve it, you know? :-p )
Each one of us, alone, is but a drop in the sea
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2019-08-27, 10:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-27, 11:36 AM (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.
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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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2019-08-27, 11:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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I guess this strip goes into the "Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped" section, under "necessary reminder that Evil-aligned gods and characters are still self-centered a-holes at heart and don't deserve to be held up as being cool".
Seriously, there seems to be this trend among popular media, in recent years, to worship a-holes and villains above the heroes and positive role models. I find it unhealthy on many levels, but I digress.I prepared Explosive Runes before writing this signature.
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2019-08-27, 11:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-27, 12:17 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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2019-08-27, 12:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-27, 12:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
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2019-08-27, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1177 - The Discussion Thread
I like the way it is in Hogfather does it
Originally Posted by Terry Pratchett
Eh?
The pine thing I think is to do with the look of a pine cone. And apple is probably just the taste. They really don't taste like rhubarb, pairs or other English fruit.
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2019-08-27, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1177 - The Discussion Thread
Specifically, he's in charge of bringing up the sun after the Winter Solstice. Not every sunrise is in his purview, just the end of the longest night.
Like someone said earlier, "apple" used to mean "fruit" (Old English æppel "apple; any kind of fruit; fruit in general,"). A pineapple is the fruit that looks sort of like a pine cone. It's a logical name.
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2019-08-27, 01:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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What do you mean, recent? Ain’t nobody reading Jonhattan Harker. Tell people ‘‘Professor Aronax’’ and you get blank stares, but when you say ‘‘Captain Nemo’’ you get ‘‘Oh, the cool submarine dude’’.
Villains have been more popular than heroes pretty much ever since villains were allowed to be characters rather than plot devices.
I mean Paradise Lost, anyone?
It’s really not worth anybody’s time but if you must know you should google it. It would not be an appropriate subject of discussion around here.Last edited by Fyraltari; 2019-08-27 at 01:50 PM.
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2019-08-27, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-27, 02:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-27, 02:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-27, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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According to my really brief search, "cone" wasn't in common use in English at the the time.
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The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
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2019-08-27, 02:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-27, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1177 - The Discussion Thread
The boring answer is that most, if not all, assigned meaning in language is arbitrary. That is, if a wolf bares its teeth or a bear raises its claws or a swordsman draws his sword or Clint Eastwood throws back his poncho, the resulting communication is iconic rather than representational. There’s no reason for cats to be represented by “cat” or by “felis domesticus” or by “James Corden.” So there’s no reason why anything like or similar to cats (eg, lions) should be referred to by any word used for cats. Likewise, there’s no reason that the aforementioned Lions should be represented by, say, a decent quarterback or a healthy special teams unit.
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2019-08-27, 02:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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A lot of medieval bestiaries are full of real animals that they knew of from bad descriptions or from Roman fragments. Rome had imported Rhinos, Giraffes, Rhinos, and possibly Norwegian Brown Bears. Imagine reading about a Nile Crocodile and the biggest reptile you have seen is a garden snake.
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2019-08-27, 02:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2019-08-27, 02:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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One would need to know that both kinds exist. Animals with horns pretty much always have two, so seeing an animal with one and needing a name for it "One-horn" is in fact an excellent idea. And then when you find a two-horned rhino you call it something else since it's a different (if obviously close) kind of animal, just like horses and donkeys.
We gave animals names long before we came up with taxonomy is what I'm saying.Forum Wisdom
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2019-08-27, 02:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-27, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1177 - The Discussion Thread
But words don’t have to, as every morning DJ (“why do we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway”) has observed. Ladybugs aren’t ladies, nor are they bugs; butterflies aren’t made of butter, nor do they eat it, make it, or use it for nests; a ham radio has no pork; a baker’s dozen isn’t a dozen. To your point, we call centipedes “hundred feet” when it is not necessarily so.
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2019-08-27, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1177 - The Discussion Thread
Elasmotherium? It had slightly longer legs than regular rhinos - but would still have looked much more like a (very furry) rhino than like a horned horse IMO.
Harry-the-Fox is one of the best prehistoric animal artists on Deviantart: here's his takes on the woolly rhino, white rhino, and Elasmotherium:
White Rhino
Woolly Rhino
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2019-08-27, 02:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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I had a big ass issue with multiverse theory because to me the word "universe" meant "everything that is", so having several would be nonsensical. Then I realised it didn't bother me in the slightest that atoms can be dismantled in smaller parts despite the etymology of the word explicitly indicating they shouldn't, and now I'm cured of my prescriptivism.
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2019-08-27, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Too much to bet, the next comic might be IFCC offering something to Hel?