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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: May 04, 2014, 10:55:03 am »
That thing is simultaneously too absurd-looking and too practical for Hollywood to touch.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll To Medium: Worlds Apart [Chapter Two]
« on: May 04, 2014, 10:51:36 am »
Alright. Not much to work with. Just my two bare hands, miles of desolate wilderness, and vaguely-defined but presumably mighty and versatile supernatural powers. Not looking too good.
Attempt to turn the iguanas back to normal. If that fails (okay, when that fails), run and try to get the local flora to ensnare the monstrous "lizards".
Attempt to turn the iguanas back to normal. If that fails (okay, when that fails), run and try to get the local flora to ensnare the monstrous "lizards".
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Nuclear War Survival Skills - Descent into anarchy Aka. Roll to die from cancer
« on: May 04, 2014, 10:40:36 am »
First off, I'd like to make a note about the title. According to Scott Manley's research relating to Orion drives (aka, spaceships that get to space by blowing up nukes behind them), if you launched such a spacecraft into orbit, one more person worldwide would die of cancer from that. I dunno how the calculations were done, but unless the people designing rockets that would fly into space with nukes misunderstood how much radiation was actually emitted by the things by several orders of magnitude, I'm imagining that there wouldn't be much of an increased risk of cancer from a puny little nuclear war.
Second off, I intend to join once I figure out what I want to play. I originally intended to dust off one of my underused standard backups, but then I noticed that it was expressly forbidden.
Second off, I intend to join once I figure out what I want to play. I originally intended to dust off one of my underused standard backups, but then I noticed that it was expressly forbidden.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Special People: Keep on Drivin'
« on: May 04, 2014, 10:21:23 am »
The wonders of pure-text communication.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Rise of the Magic Girls v2 OOC: MOAR LAMPSHADES PLEASE
« on: May 04, 2014, 10:12:46 am »And no one comments on the fact that Icarus didn't earn her emotions and instead Kyle made them for her?Eh. ICARUS isn't the kind of girl you try to talk sense into, between the arrogance and the lasers.
Ones that are basically the real thing.Ditto for
There's hardly a difference in simulations and the real thing.
Alexander is a construct, Cyrielle's programs, the fact that the Persona canon exists so robots with Personas exist, possibly USEC's old character, Osiris....
note how she did not immediatly advise HILDA to kill innocents for convenienceThat sounds more psychopath than sociopath. Note that I'm not sure what the clinical definition of psychopathy is.
For sociopathy, think Peter Wiggin. Sure, he's a bastard, but once he matures he's really good at figuring out what to do to get what he wants. Not all sociopaths are geniuses, but they're more likely to lie than murder. (Although I can think of some squirrels who would testify that Peter's also a sadist, so it's not a perfect example.)
Point is, sociopaths aren't axe murderers.
she is a sociopath because she adviced HILDA to look for alternatives or simply accept her mortality, instead of just killing innocents?No, she's a sociopath because she can turn off her emotions. That's pretty sociopathic.
first paragraph: disadvantages himself to make fights last longerYou left out a "might"; it's an optional component, like saying that The Lancer might be an antihero. ICARUS is definitely close enough to count.
ICARUS: fights in ways that highly endanger herself to deal huge burst damage an end fights as fast as possible
yeah, totaly a blood knight.
She also counts as a "sociopathic hero," between her clinical sociopathy and how she acts towards Rose (the first bits that come to mind), but that's half-irrelevant.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Rise of the Magic Girls v2 OOC: MOAR LAMPSHADES PLEASE
« on: May 04, 2014, 08:52:46 am »ICARUS is kinda embarrassed about HILDA...Understandable.
"Ohh, coral..."Unforgivable. The international laws are in place for a reason. You're just being a rather large jerk to everyone when you destroy coral reefs like that.
ICARUS breaks off one of each kind, especialy the big and rare ones, they are as good as minerals. Screw international laws
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll To Medium: Worlds Apart [Chapter Two]
« on: May 04, 2014, 08:04:41 am »
((I thought the iguanas vanished.
What all do I have again?))
What all do I have again?))
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Special People: Keep on Drivin'
« on: May 04, 2014, 08:00:47 am »((Yes, I think I know what you mean. Sometimes running these missions feels like I'm taking people I like and then I'm blindfolding you, throwing you into a room full of traps, forcing you to go through it and threatening to kill a puppy if you make the wrong choice. I know it's not real and no real people are getting hurt but a small part of me feels bad about that.((As long as no puppies were harmed in the real world, you're doing the right thing.))
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...I should probably diversify my magic artifacts. I seem to be using crystals for everything.((Indeed. There's plenty of inspiration out there.
Try setting some rules. Crystals might be magically-charged, so they're best suited as primal standalone artifacts or power sources for powerful ones. Gold works well with enchantments that need to last a while, but it's harder to enchant (and expensive) so only the really good ones get so much as a pinch. Iron's good at destroying magical things, like demonslaying swords or antimagic fields. Stuff like that.))
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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: May 04, 2014, 07:57:00 am »I can understand the logic there.Why were you shocked with a stun gun?Some guy at a zombie survivalist shop was talking to a few people when I walked by and he was showing them the stun gun. And he called out to me, as salesmen do, to come try it, jokingly telling me to try it on myself to see how effective it was. And I'd been hit by stun guns before in...unrelated incidents, so I decided to mess with him a bit. So I picked a nice, not very sensitive chunk of shoulder and just zapped myself while he and the other people looked on. Made sure to stay completely deadpan about it too, which is the best part. So I shocked myself and the store owner basically said "Oh wow...he actually did it." And the two guys he was talking to said "Really?" And I said "Yeah" and did it again to prove it and then shrugged and handed it back.
Hard to explain my reasoning, but I basically just wanted to see their faces, since most people treat stunguns like something that could kill a man because they're loud and scary looking. So seeing me do that and be completely nonchalant about it...well they looked at me like I just nailed my hand to my knee and then calmly walked away. I found it funny.
Then again, I might not be right in the head.
I know this shouldn't surprise me by now, with all the things I see on the internet, but "Zombie Survivalist Shop"? Selling stun guns?A. My dad says that if you're prepared for a zombie apocalypse, you're prepared for anything. Not 100% true, and I'm not sure if the shoppers' logic went like that, but it's certainly true enough for consideration.
A. I can understand the "Survivalist" part, there are many ways civilisation could end. And while far fetched, I can see the logic behind preparing for the end of civilisation, especially in countries where life is very much dependent on modern technology. But "Zombie"? There are people actually preparing for a zombie apocalypse?
B. Everybody knows that zombies and robots are not affected by stun guns. That guy was obviously trying to scam them.
B. Ayup. Though, see above.
There are entire special themed sets for anti-zombie firearms, so yes, those people do exist.Which is kinda silly. Especially when the modifications get to the point that they don't work so well anymore.
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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette: On ship
« on: May 04, 2014, 07:53:50 am »
((d'Artagnan wasn't one of the Musketeers.))
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: (ISG) The Warrens of Oric the Awesome: 2d capitalism simulator
« on: May 03, 2014, 09:59:39 pm »
Why does this happen every time I agree with something that's not totally straight-laced? Do you guys imagine me as some proper uptight English soft-spoken tea-drinking gentleman or something? I'm one and two halves out of six for that.
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Einsteinian Roulette / Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« on: May 03, 2014, 09:20:20 pm »But... Software and AI are practically free. Unless you're going wetware, but that's not required for a mere tactical AI.In principle, sure. In practice? You'd probably need more computing power, which means more computers. Also the time and cost of development would go up.
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"I [X] before it was cool!" has become a memetic catchphrase of hipsters.EDIT: And I just realized, piecewise is a hipster, because he had his avatar intensify before it was cool....What?
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-snip-Neat idea.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Community vs. Players: Community Thread
« on: May 03, 2014, 07:37:28 pm »This is the terrain we know of:Awfully wide path. And if the path is all that's around...well...there aren't any forests, mountains, or volcanoes around, now are there?
Rocky path
Troll cave
That is all.
We haven't seen any forests or volcanoes or mountains, but that is just because we haven't been anywhere other than this path yet. There is certainly land off this path, and is is highly likely to be a forest, mountain, hill, or volcano.
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No they don't. Real life gorillas don't have health bars, don't have inventories, don't attack in turns, and don't disintegrate when they die.Don't quibble. You know perfectly well what I meant.
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And normal gorillas can live wherever the hell they want in a fantasy world.They really can't. Even if you somehow manage to find a non-magical/disfigured/etc gorilla in a desert or whatever, the fact that it's surviving in a desert means that it can't be normal for a gorilla.