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Author Topic: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)  (Read 14545744 times)

Bauglir

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Re: [~~__ o( ><)o] Oh god the melting! (Happy Thread)
« Reply #74460 on: March 19, 2012, 02:50:21 am »

My no-doubt wildly unbalanced social combat rules are complete! At least, the rough draft is. I'm actually really happy with how this turned out. Surprisingly effective fusion of Burning Wheel ideas with a D&D style turn system and my own game's design paradigms, at least I think so at 3 in the morning having just written it. The core ruleset is about 75% complete now. I need to set up the basis for skills, objects (including magic items, powered entirely through the owner's badassitude), and the secondary "encounter" systems designed to take the place of more recent editions' skill challenges, and then all that's left is content generation and editing.
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“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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« Reply #74461 on: March 19, 2012, 02:52:08 am »

Fun fact, velocipede is to bicycle, what automobile is to car. The bicycle is a subset of velocipede, but people apparently preferred to say bicycle to velocipede so much that the term fell into disuse...

This should be remedied... so I'm formally announcing my campaign to put "velocipede" back into the English language.
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Re: [~~__ o( ><)o] Oh god the melting! (Happy Thread)
« Reply #74462 on: March 19, 2012, 03:02:22 am »


New avatar episode. Just found out today.

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Re: [~~__ o( ><)o] Oh god the melting! (Happy Thread)
« Reply #74463 on: March 19, 2012, 03:23:58 am »

I watched the last HP movie with my cousin just the other month, and being someone that is not at all ingratiated into the HP universe, I found myself constantly asking why they used wands to blast at eachother rather than just, you know, use a gun. Probably alot cheaper to get mooks, or hell, just animate some golems that have atleast one arm and hand and give'em conventional weapons.

I'm probably missing the point.
Wait. Lemme look for that Sluggy Freelance strip.

Spoiler: Oh, here it is. (click to show/hide)

JK Rowling's explanation was that magic would often scramble electronics and ruin machinery that wasn't magical anyway.

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« Reply #74464 on: March 19, 2012, 03:30:26 am »

So what you are saying is that not only do they fail to teach any sort of logical maths (Protip: saying 2 + 5 = 5 because of maaagic does not make it true!) but these wizards are cursed by their magic so that should they ever attempt to pick up a calculator it will explode.

Fuck it, muggle pride!

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Re: [~~__ o( ><)o] Oh god the melting! (Happy Thread)
« Reply #74465 on: March 19, 2012, 03:34:31 am »

The thing with muggles, we could probably harness Magic, bend it, shape it, make it better and control it so much better than the wizards, just by sheer fact that we know how to figure things out from first principles, and have the SCIENTIFIC METHOD! :D

Which is explored in HP:MoR~ THE CIIIIIRCLE OF FANFIC!
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Re: [~~__ o( ><)o] Oh god the melting! (Happy Thread)
« Reply #74466 on: March 19, 2012, 03:38:00 am »

JK Rowling's explanation was that magic would often scramble electronics and ruin machinery that wasn't magical anyway.
Shotguns are electronic?

Mind = blown
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« Reply #74467 on: March 19, 2012, 03:43:10 am »

Most modern day advanced weapons have some small electronic parts, dont believe a traditional shotgun does though, they arn't gas operated either...
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Re: [~~__ o( ><)o] Oh god the melting! (Happy Thread)
« Reply #74469 on: March 19, 2012, 04:11:50 am »

Using adblock. It's nice not to have 4 seperate video advertisements start and destroy my ears.
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« Reply #74470 on: March 19, 2012, 04:46:27 am »

I can't say much because it needs to be kept a secret. But...


I may have created a monster.
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« Reply #74471 on: March 19, 2012, 04:57:09 am »

Well there's  first time everything. Just make sure it doesn't eat anybody important.
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« Reply #74472 on: March 19, 2012, 05:08:51 am »

I know a dealer who specialises in iron chains of custom sizes, tasers, and various food stuffs both live and processed, delivered right to your door! Perfect for the budding young disciple of Frankenstein's works...

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« Reply #74473 on: March 19, 2012, 07:41:41 am »

Alma mater won their 2nd consecutive upset in the Tournament. Awww yeahhh, Sweet 16!

Also, finally got around to playing some online M:TG with JoshuaFH last night. I got roflstomped in every single game (usually by the AI, which seems to hold a hatred for humans on par with SHODAN) but it was fun.
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« Reply #74474 on: March 19, 2012, 07:58:43 am »

Alma mater won their 2nd consecutive upset in the Tournament. Awww yeahhh, Sweet 16!

Also, finally got around to playing some online M:TG with JoshuaFH last night. I got roflstomped in every single game (usually by the AI, which seems to hold a hatred for humans on par with SHODAN) but it was fun.

That AI in the first game was suicidally aggressive and hellbent on your destruction. He could have withstood the attack from my growing forces if he remained defensive and held back, but nope, it's programmed hatred mandated taking you out at all costs.

Then you gave it Eldrazi and we both cried.

We finally got back at it in the Archenemy game though, provided we were stomped beforehand by Jace, thanks to our no-doubt-conspiring-against-us AI partner.
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