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Urist McDwarf has gone berserk!

WWUD if he bit off a werelama's head while berserk?

So is wild sex with redhead models

I am in general concurrence with the above statement.  But I'm married, so it would only solve the question, "am I getting divorced in the future?"

I assure you, I will enjoy them, and I will continue using them in my endless fight to drive metric users mad converting the measurements I provide using my antiquated system.

Gods no, I fucking hate weed.  Can't stand even the smell of it.  I just had a normal drip solution to apply once a day.

Oh, you wanted to talk about weights and volumes, not distance.  I'll bite, metric handles that way better than Imperial does, but those aren't measurements that I need to convert between basically ever, so I don't care.

But Celsius is bullshit arbitrary dogcrap and I will not be convinced otherwise.

Though, to be fair, so is Fahrenheit.

I got a kind of happy today, my new ophthalmologist says she doesn't think I actually have glaucoma.  In spite of five years lapsing since my last appointment to have my eyes checked out there doesn't appear to be any damage to the ocular nerve bundle, or even any inflammation.  My eye pressure is just a little high but it doesn't seem to be an actual problem, so maybe I just experience occasional severe eye strain?

Got an appointment for a field of vision test in a month just to be sure there hasn't been any loss of vision.  I don't think there has been, there never was at any of my previous tests, but I'm not a specialist obviously.

It's only a kind of happy because I have never in my life spent so much time at a medical appointment doing so many short steps interspersed with so much waiting, and I've been through the US Army's medical system.

Jimmy, that some very expressive waxing on the subject, but again, this thread isn't really about the esoterics (unless people really think that's fine, right now I only have your opinion and mine on the subject), it's about methodology and the player/DM stories themselves.

I mean, what good does thematic dissection of the setting and methodology of storytelling used to portray it serve when the point isn't how the original writer conceived of the concepts but what you do with the provided material?

The argument certainly exists that creator intentions inform DM and player interpretation, and that argument has definite merit, however how does that factor into situation where the DM has radically restructured core setting elements and is only utilizing the mathematical framework as an interactive structure for their own distinct storytelling?  ( I do this a lot, like, a whole lot, I know that I am a relative minority in PnP in doing so.)

I get that allowing some level of that discussion can be beneficial, but where is the cutoff?  Do I allow discussion of the work itself and ask that outside factors be left out?  Do I allow authorial intent to be brought up and discussion of their personal motivations and beliefs?

I'm trying to figure out where the line should be to keep the thread from turning into a completely meandering mess, and I also know that what would be meandering to me might not be adequate exploration of the subject to someone else, so I'm looking for a tolerable medium based on people's perception of how far it should be allowed to stray.

So we can put Jimmy down as a solid "let the discussions of expanded matters run mostly free."

(edited for a little clarity)

No, the base unit is 1/40000000th the circumference of the Earth, and everything is base 10. It's a good system. As measuring with body parts... You're just messing with us, right? You do realise once you learn metric it becomes intuitive too... Right?

Imma address this right quick.  The claim aside, that is also a silly arbitrary measurement to base things off of as the estimate of that circumference is inaccurate because the Earth's diameter is in flux due to magma flows, volcanic activity, and earthquakes all the time.  And why, oh why, does your base ten system use a 40 millionth for the meter anyway? doesn't that completely defeat the concept of strict base ten?  Shouldn't it use either a ten millionth or a hundred millionth for consistency?

It's all shitposting in good humor.  Really, I find metric pretty useless at the macro scale but I can certainly agree with the merits of the system at the micro and nano scale, there is no meaningful way to scale imperial down that far so having the honestly much more fine-tuned digital setup of metric makes that kind of work possible.