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2019-06-22, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Just finished episode 5. Crowley has been pretty ok so far, but in that episode he strapped himself to the "best character" rocket, added more boosters, and ignited the whole dang thing. Every second with him in it, he kept getting better and better. Shame it's only 6 episodes total, I want more of that Crowley.
Also, the American Gods Easter egg amused me.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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2019-06-22, 09:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Non caerulea sum, Caerulea nomen meum est.
Extended Signature.
I'm not not a humanoid. Come not not be one too.
Answer trivial questions in the OOTS trivia thread!
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2019-06-22, 09:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
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Professor Emeritus:Studies of Supernatural Events and Countermeasures;
Miscatonic University, Nashville Campus
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2019-06-22, 09:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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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2019-06-22, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-06-22, 09:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-22, 09:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-22, 09:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-22, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-06-22, 10:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-23, 12:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
I was having trouble controlling my urges, so I split one of them into demiurges and now I'm the grandfather of two universes!
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2019-06-23, 09:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
In addition to it being the way the story was written, I think a lot of it has to do with the lack of Prachett.
SpoilerEspecially with Satan's appearance. Satan just not showing up is exactly the kind of twist Prachett would pull out and the new scene also feels a lot more like Gaiman's style.
Plus I also get why, in a visual medium, you might want to visually differentiate the angels and demons more, but even so Crowley's design shows you can still do it while reflecting the way angels dress. It just seems weird when they're spending a lot of time comparing the two sides and showing how similar they are.
Oh, I'm also not thrilled on the entire 'Crowley and Aziraphale on trial' sequence at the end, but I honestly don't think that the book's ending would work as well for the series. I think the only actual change I'd make there would be to remove 'Agnes's last prophecy'.
Still worth it for Ep. 5 Crowley though.
I should probably make it clear that I really like the series, but my friends are still getting the book for their birthdays anyway (ideally the classic black cover that was on the version I read about a decade ago). Going back to the book, it's much better then I remembered it being.
But for now I've got an interview for prepare for, and a friend got me one of these D&D Choose Your Own Adventure books for my birthday that I need to play through. Makes me wish I still knew if the old Fighting Fantasy books were a thing.
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2019-06-23, 09:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Spoiler: Angel/demon similaritiesImean, for the ending alone where they execute Azirophile and Crowley, playing up the similarities would have fully paid off regardless.
Also, my biggest disappointment was that was the most telegraphed part of the entire story. The whole time I knew what the deal was. Still enjoyable to watch.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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2019-06-23, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-06-23, 10:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
What do you think of Facebook Groups? I think most Facebook Groups are always dramatic. Although I'm in a few groups for other things even I run a Facebook Group for my childhood school.
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2019-06-23, 01:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
I am in a few groups, in which a few are fun and others are a bit too political for it to be fun. 50/50 I say.
Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
Side employment:
Professor Emeritus:Studies of Supernatural Events and Countermeasures;
Miscatonic University, Nashville Campus
sig thread is here
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2019-06-23, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-23, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
If you have Amazon Prime give it a go, you can always stop watching if the changes get too much.
If you don't? Then honestly it's not worth getting it just for this.
My experience of Facebook is a bit weird. I don't actively use most groups I'm in, and gave up trying to leave a flat earth group a long time ago after a 'friend' kept readding me. These days I just treat them as user-created forums, and little surprises me when they devolve into sharing the same memes as everywhere else as even if they have moderators they rarely have an easily available and clearly worded set of rules.
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2019-06-23, 05:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
"PEMDAS" isn't very good at helping memory, since it's (P)(E)(MD)(AS) but looks like it would be (P)(E)(M)(D)(A)(S)
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2019-06-23, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-23, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Eh, I've encountered that, but what I've encountered more often is the admin and moderators being lazy (or in one case overworked, as what had originally been a relatively small group exploded, at the same time changing the majority from UK to US and causing significant friction until the culture clash began to die down). Which is a large part of what leads to the 'convergence of Facebook groups', the tendency for all Facebook groups dedicated to a certain topic to gravitate towards the same set of memes instead of actual discussion and the like.
The one group where I haven't seen that happen is the one with the very overworked moderators, who systematically delete any memes they find deemed to be 'not relevant' (which for a writers group consists of about 80% of the writing based ones), get rid of all self promotion they can with the acception of one pinned comment thread and simple statements of fact ('my book was just published'), and ruthlessly follow up all reported cases of harrassment to attempt to keep the group welcoming despite having 35000 members and only four moderatos*. It's been far the group I've got the most out of being a member of.
*Although to be fair at this point sheer scale buries anything off topic under people actually talking.
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2019-06-23, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
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2019-06-23, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Today for my birthday my 14 years old son took my 3 years old son into the backyard to play and to let me get some cooking and reading done, and from the 3 years old I heard in a loud chipper voice: "A BEEHIVE! HELLO BEE!"
FWLIW, despite my STUNNING HUMILITY!!!, a wrote a rather long post that I thought I'd share here.
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2019-06-23, 07:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Last edited by Insane Jeenyus; 2019-06-23 at 07:18 PM.
Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
Side employment:
Professor Emeritus:Studies of Supernatural Events and Countermeasures;
Miscatonic University, Nashville Campus
sig thread is here
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2019-06-23, 07:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-23, 07:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-23, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Facebook is in theory 'social media, a new form of communicating on the Web!'
In reality? It's more a forum with little in the way of restriction or moderation but heavy control in what the user wants to see, with inbuilt image hosting, user created subforums, and inbuilt IM. The latter being most of the reason I've used it during the last half decade if I'm honest.
And in unrelated matters, here's the story of my greatest Facebook woes.
Spoiler: Story TimeOkay, so my university had a Gaming Society which had a heavy focus on video games, because at that time that's what most members wanted. I talked to the exec about setting up a separate Facebook group for thoseinterested in tabletop games so people interested in finding groups could do so without having to wade through the video games discussion, and they okay ed it. Thus in Term 1 was born the [Uni] Gaming Society Tabletop page.
Everything went fine, a couple of groups got created but nothing much happened, and board games got more accepted at society meetups. Heck, I met one of my best friends by playing Mario Kart at a fresher's society meetup (three rooms, one Xbox, one Wii, one in theory for PC gaming but in practice for whatever people wanted).
Then the next year essentially the entirety of the exec were replaced. Suddenly only one member regularly played tabletop games, with most of the rest being 'hardcore' video gamers. Suddenly generalised game meetups stop, the only ones that happened were specifically for Smash Brother, or 'online meetups" that were AV excuse to play the multilayer games the exec wanted to play . At the same time there was a surge of increase in interest for tabletop gaming, in particular D&D and Pathfinder.
A month after term started I got an angry message from the Web Officer demanding why we were using the society name and asking for a DM (yeah.... on a tabletop gaming group filled with roleplayers, PM would have been better, or just message). Despite me being very clearly the only admin.the eventual result was a conversation that boiled down to 'how dare you have the nerve to use the society's mane with permission, no you should have asked first, no we will not heavy permission why would we want to be linked to your tabletop gaming page". Well the eventual result was that I just changed the name of the page, started actually promoting it to spite them, and then let the page die it's slow death.
There wasn't much happening over the next few months, a few people suggested meetups that got shot down, including my idea for a weekly board games evening (that I would host if they'd just book me the room and make the event). Turned down because 'none of us have the free time to host, and you can just play board games at the socials'. The socials that took place in the very loud campus pub, not the best place to play Seven Wonders.
Everything came to a head the day after the AGM. Announced about eighteen hours before it happened the first myself and many other members heard about it was sheet it was over and the exec tried to blame the us for the result being 'we want more focus on Smash Brothers'. What followed was the most activity the group had seen in months, as the membership rose up in fury. Not only had they not given anybody sufficient notice of the meeting, they had spent the entire year only supporting physical meetups for Smash Brothers or in the pub, and the 'Internet meetups' not appealing to the large section of the society (now known to have been the majority by a small but significant margin) who wanted to meet up and play games, maybe two or three in a four hour meetup.
Or in other words 'you dug your own hole, if you don't like it climb out by yourself'.
A second AGM was quickly organised and promoted sensibly, but the damage was done. By the next Fresher's Week the returning 2nd and 3rd years remembered the lack of support and decided to spend their money on joining other societies. The 1st years found something else to do. By the end of the year the society didn't exist, and the ex exec had posted for the first time in a year in the traditional strongly worded letter style with explicit examples of where that year's exec had gone wrong.
But that tabletop gaming page I started? It died a quiet death a few months before the university year ended. The Science Fiction society started pulling double duty as the place to find a group, while the Chaplaincy started promoting it's board game collection. I'd had to stop supporting my page when my ditties asSecretaryEvil Vizier* of the creative writing society, which proved to be a more fulfilling use of my time.
*Everybody had informal titles styled after a stereotypical fantasy court. The secretary had originally been the Chief Scribe, but in the previous AGM I'd consolidated the day to day running in the position so that the Chair/Overlord could focus on preparing for meetings and planning events.
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2019-06-23, 08:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-06-23, 09:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Not-So-Mith'd Opportunity: Random Banter # 222
Thanks AW!
I actually think I understand it a bit more, "Forum without Mods" sounds clear.
(also, who wouldn't want a board game club? Sheesh!)
Thanks @Mith!
I haven't played oD&D since the early '80's (or AD&D since the late '80's), but I played some B/X D&D (which is really close) this last decade, and a little King Arthur Pendragon (my favorite RPG that actually is a RPG) as well, so I indeed had occasion to "role under", but 5e D&D opportunities are more plentiful these days so high rolls are much appreciated!
Oh! I played some Risk and DUNGEON! with my son a year or ten ago, and those are roll high.
(I could go for a RPG with a "Risk" based combat system come to think of it...)
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2019-06-23, 10:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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