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STP, 9 message ID's apart. Awwww yeah.

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Seems like we're picking up speed!

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We've got greater than a 1 post/second ratio, but it's not a terribly consistent rate.

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Yeah, it's rush time, isn't it?

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Or am I vastly underestimating it?

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So like 10-20 minutes left, right? Depending on the size of the last-minute rush?

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Dick Butts?

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Tag

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I remember having a dream once, years ago, that I was trespassing on Native American territory with some of my family and friends. Sitting Bull was there, as was a real hot-headed young buck of a tribesman who looked like he wanted us all killed. A lot of other Native Americans were there, some aiding in taking us captive, and some just sort of standing around. For some reason we couldn't communicate; none of them knew English, or at least nobody tried to really talk. Sitting Bull sort of talked down the young, aggressive guy, and I was trying to do the same - I put up my hands, palms facing outwards, and was going "no, no" and "it's okay", just trying to cooperate as much as possible as they began taking us all prisoner. Sitting Bull was calm and stoic, and he just led us further into their encampment by some trees. He was right in front of me as I cooperated fully and stood with my back facing a tree, attempting to communicate my respect for him and apologizing in soft, gentle tones and a non-aggressive stance. I felt certain he understood my soul and that he was taking charge of the situation in a peaceful way as a great leader of men. There was a pause, and then Sitting Bull raised his rifle and shot me through the heart. I definitely woke up with an adrenaline rush, though I don't remember any physical pain from it. It was scary as hell, though. I felt so betrayed and disillusioned. Not to mention, facing death sucks.

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My Little Pony, from Civ V.

(Play as Catherine the Great and be the first civilization to discover Horseback Riding.)

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Take me out to the ball game!

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Came into this topic to say I totally approve of the word sweed.

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A few days ago I cracked most of the code of the wrestler.DAT file from the DATA folder of the game directory and all save files.

Namely, I know the location, meaning and possible values for every property editable by the in-game "File Editor" for Workers.

That leaves only stuff like:

- Injury (arm/leg/etc)
- Injury Time (months left to recover)
- A flag for "will not work for you again" (if such a flag exists.... I seem to remember my experiences showing it probably does, but I'm not certain)

The forums over there are slow compared to here, so I figured I'd mention it here. Is anyone interested in this sort of work? (I've been able to successfully and effectively query against the data I've ripped from the file, to my great satisfaction.)

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I love being a lurker

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I have never understood why so many people think there's actually a hidden word there.

"So long-a Bowser!"
"It's-a me, Mario!"

It's the same thing. It's just an extra syllable because that's how he talks.

Only difference between the two is in his accent, the "g" at the end of "long" becomes pronounced for the beginning of the "uh" sound. So it sounds like "long-guh" instead of "long-uh". It's the same reason people with a stereotypical/exaggerated Long Island accent sound like they're saying "Lawn Guyland" when they're saying "Long Island".

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And the topic runs its course.

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Thanks Raka Putra!

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Tag.

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Bokonon_Lives feels and now retroactively has always felt happy about the state of things.

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Ed Bellis officially just called me a weenie. I don't know how to feel about that.

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and you click on it

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Wow

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I got the console and the couple of games from a retro game store at the mall about 30-60 minutes away from me. I didn't have a lot of time to browse their selection, but as I said, it didn't look great. They just recently opened, though, so their stock could improve.

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I just bought one of those 3-in-1 retro game consoles that can run NES/SNES/Genesis games from the original cartridges.

The store didn't have a very good selection of games, so I barely got anything, but I was hoping we still had my old games from my youth. Unfortunately, my fears were confirmed; we threw them all out ages ago.

I normally use Amazon.com for nearly all my non-food purchases, but this is a very niche sort of thing to go looking for.

Is the answer just "eBay", or are there good, reputable sites where I can get old games for reasonable prices and have good faith that they'll be in good condition?

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Yeah we almost always do point buy. A very high point buy, too. We went with a low power campaign for the role playing and tactical challenge of not being superhero-level characters, but underdogs striving to succeed. It's just apparently not the right group for this sort of experience. Too green to take off the training wheels.

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A 3.5 Monk fails at life and we're supposed to think something went wrong? I don't understand.

Hilarious, but as you can see from the original post, the death was completely avoidable, and the party had numerous chances to help me out and chose not to.

the party composition is all kinds of dumb.

Another fair point, but one thing I didn't mention. We have a very strict rolling system. This is meant to be a gritty, challenging, very-low-power campaign. Whatever stats we roll, we have to work with them and just pick a race and class that is most likely to succeed with those stats.

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CN or Evil done right can be really cool. The same player who currently plays our CN Ranger, was in one of our previous campaigns a LE Blackguard. And he was on our side through and through, he just had devilish personal motivations that happened to not conflict with our primary goals. He was a really great character. And the last character I played before my monk was a CN Half-Orc Rogue who never messed around and was always a credit to the team; he was just gruff and didn't care much for people.

I still don't think there's any active sabotage. There's just really poor decision making, an inability to accurately assess the situations we get put in (running away when we shouldn't, and sticking around when we shouldn't), and an inexperienced player playing too important of a character archetype. (A party shouldn't have a cleric who, despite having the most HP of anyone in the party, is more likely to run away and use her sling to through rocks, than heal people).

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My monk had an intelligent magical sword (yeah, I know, long story) who was screaming at the party for leaving me behind and demanded to be given away to our ship's first mate, an NPC who wasn't involved in our little excursion that got me killed. The first mate's contract was almost up, so he's gone now, left with the sword.

The DM told me in private that he decided that the sword is going to tell the old first mate to come back and kill our cleric. The sword is basically a Paladin and has long had problems with our cleric, who worships an evil deity and was one of the two PC's most responsible for my death. My monk was the sword's disciple; the sword believed I was going to save the world, and he blames the party for my death and wants nothing to do with them.

We ended last session (with the party and my new character) on an island, literally trying to make a deal with a Devil. Next session is when this big showdown is supposed to happen. It's gonna be a game-changer, that's for sure.

The most I can say is my new character won't be defending the cleric. I'm playing a lawful good ex-paladin/fighter, and he's not going to defend an evil cleric he just met versus a good one.

There's very little chance our cleric comes out alive. The ranger is the PC most likely to jump to her aid, so the ranger might die too, but I would have to say that's a lot less likely.

Cleric is Chaotic Neutral "with Evil leanings" (worshipping an Evil deity). Ranger is straight-up Chaotic Neutral.

The rest of us are: Lawful Good; Neutral Good; and Chaotic Neutral "with Good leanings".

If we lose our "troublemaker(s)", all for the better. I have no plans of coming in with a vengeful evil character to kill the party. We'll tear ourselves apart naturally next session - and then we'll be forced to come to a consensus, based on who lives and who dies, as to how we can best form a party that actually gets along for once.

If I had to say, this campaign would have been best played by a decidedly Good-aligned party so far. There were routes we could have taken that would have favored Chaotic Good, and routes that would have favored Lawful Good. At this point, a Chaotic Neutral party that actively abandons the quest to literally save the world is just not going to get anywhere at all. I'm gonna work to bring us back on track with another Good character, and see how it goes.

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I will say that I really hate it when someone tries to take on the role of "party leader." Maybe they didn't want you being their leader.

That's the thing, I didn't force my way up there. I filled a power void left by other deaths. I was our third "party leader", by process of elimination. I hadn't been making any decisions that ran contrary to what other people wanted. It's not like it was "what I say goes" or anything. In truth I didn't really make any executive decisions whatsoever or step on anyone's toes. In fact, my character mostly kept to the background for the longest time until we had lost all existing leadership, our main quest was taking a turn for the worse, and nobody else was willing to step up. It's a decidedly nonlinear campaign, and at the time nobody had any ideas of what to do next, so I gave my input, and nobody disagreed. The one time I gave a party member any backtalk, the player remarked that that was the first time his hardass character actually felt any respect for me. I'm not trying to give myself an inflated sense of self-importance or anything, but the party is definitely in a funk now and complaining about having lost their leader. Players who played our previous "leaders", when their old characters died, they deliberately decided to come back as meeker characters who would not want to be in charge. In fact, when it came to puzzles and planning, players would frequently say that their characters "didn't have the intelligence or wisdom" for it and would volunteer to leave the thinking to me. Leadership done right isn't one person forcing their hand over the rest of the party; it's more laissez-faire than that, it's being the voice of the party, representing them, not just talking for them.

Also, I'm a little weirded out by the number of people who think this may have been a conspiracy where everyone tried to get me killed. These are close friends of mine. Case closed; they wouldn't do that. If they didn't want me being their leader, they were more than welcome to challenge my authority; they'd practically shoved me into the position themselves.

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Thanks, I'll take a look!

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I've never heard of FATE, but we do experiment with other play systems. We did a single session of Call of Cthulhu (but it was extraordinarily low on horror and danger). We're gonna give CoC another, longer run at some point. And I know one of the players wants to run one of these Superhero systems, which sounds incredibly fun (similar to Toon or something).

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The guy playing the ranger claimed he misinterpreted what the troll said. The troll was speaking in broken English. The clearest command I heard was "You give me you treasures, or I SMASH him" - but apparently he also said something about "You boomsticks down"? Which was supposed to mean "put your weapons down" but was interpreted as "kill the other things in the dungeon for me"?

(A subplot in this dungeon was that there were, in fact, two "teams" of native monsters, which were at war with each other, and all also hated us.)

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Eh, they're good people... Most come from a theater or improv background. They just are historically bad at D&D, and this campaign was specifically designed to be the first one we played together that wasn't all "hand-holding".

The DM is my good friend, he's brilliant and experienced as player and DM. I'm almost as good, though I'm not as charismatic and have normally been too shy to DM well. I play good characters though, and he and I typically alternate with each other who is party leader when we play campaigns.

Two of the others were a little green before we started playing together a a group a handful of campaigns ago. They're better now but not perfect. They have good moments.

The other two are girlfriends of other members of our group. One is honestly learning. The other just doesn't seem to care.

Whatever the case...... Worst party.

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The DM is pretty pissed at the party, especially the cleric (she never pays attention and doesn't seem to really like D&D. Also she plays the character like a rogue). I think he's more pissed than I am, and I had very high hopes for my char.

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Nah the druid lived. It was just a stalemate with the druid and the bad guys before backup arrived.

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The DM decided not to kill me outright for something I had no control over. The monsters dragged me through the room slowly, giving the druid a chance to do something about it. He tried fighting them off but rolled poorly and had no backup while the others were rowing a freaking boat or something.

The baddies threw me on a sacrificial altar in the next room over, visible to everyone through an open doorway. Finally the party showed up and started fighting again. They killed the stronger enemy, and the weak guy was standing just in front of the doorway to the altar room where I lay. It said something about sacrificing me to their king.

A good five rounds of combat later, nobody had managed to kill the thing, and nobody had tried to get past it. No tumbles, no grapples, no bull rushes. Someone could've just walked past it - it was primarily a caster, and its attack of opportunity would have been pitifully weak.

So the troll king shows up. He's a huge badass, looks deadly, and is clearly intelligent and wildly evil. He picks me up and tells the party to stop and give him their treasures or he kills me.

The ranger shoots one of the other bad guys, and I get coup de gras'd.

Nobody. Knows. What. They're. Doing.

I think I was sitting there for a good hour not being able to participate. The DM tried everything to save me because he kew things would fall apart without me. But I was just left for dead. After that, everyone fled the temple without finishing it to get its treasures or fulfill the quest we were there for. Leaving my body there.

tl;dr - the party split up, I was injured, the cleric saw me but ran away, the DM tried to save me, but the party made zero effort to get to me, preferring puzzles and combat to healing their knocked out leader. Then the ranger fails to acknowledge diplomacy from a troll, and I died.

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Playing 3.5.

I was playing a human monk with really good ability rolls. He had a fantastic story and was one of my favorite personalities I'd ever roleplayed. He was pretty much the heart and soul and brains of our operation.

I'd gradually been becoming the leader of our rag tag group. The overall party alignment is Chaotic Neutral, but my Lawful Good morals and high mental stats all around made me the only person left in the party with a big sense of what was really going on and how to save the world. Everyone was starting to respect and follow me.

I'd just solved the puzzle in the water temple our DM designed, and I was leading us through the rest of the rooms. As usual, when I moved my token along through the dungeon, most of the rest of the party members just stayed where they were waiting for something to happen.

I ended up getting attacked by two monsters who were each a level below our characters. But they rolled high in combat and knocked out the one other party member who'd come with me, our druid.

So I stand over his square and go with total defense until our cleric or bard can show up. But I get knocked out anyway due to an absurdly high attack roll.

I'd bought enough time, both of us got small cures, and I was attacked and knocked out yet again before I got to take my next turn.

The other enemy cast Stinking Cloud. Everyone failed their save and was nauseated except the cleric. I was the only unconscious character because the bard and ranger had just been messing around elsewhere and still hadn't joined in.

Everyone's action is to exit the stinking cloud. Including the cleric, who saw me fall unconscious and would have been allowed and able to cure me while I was at -7 HP. Everyone just scattered in all directions.

Miraculously I stabilized myself. But since I was abandoned, I couldn't do anything else.

One of the two low-level monsters closed the door, leaving the druid and my unconscious body alone with them. Nobody even attempted to reopen the door. Instead, the rest of the party spent several rounds messing with another puzzle to sail a rowboat in through the aide entrance to the room the fight was taking place in. It was time consuming, and as I said, they hadn't even seen if they could just open the main door first. (They don't lock.)

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Ha. At first I read it too quickly and thought the "jewels" line was a fake-out and that what dropped out of the box were two crack rocks.

Regardless, yeah, it's Texas. Over-the-top is the joke.

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You cross midfield, coinciding with the Spanish border. You are now in France. You are now between the opposing Offense and Defense. An enemy halfback ignores you to pursue the ball.

The Away Team shoots and scores. This is incredibly scandalous. Napoleon gives you a cross look.

The Aliens are in the clocktower. You can no longer see Aliens. To pursue the Aliens, you will need to cross back into Spain. The Aliens' motives cannot currently be discerned by mundane means.

You do not see Lu Bu. An enemy halfback mounts Red Hare. The clocktower is on fire.

You wield the Flamberge and cross further into the French territory. You are now Offsides. A Referee flags you for unsportsmanlike conduct. You receive one (1) Yellow Card. Napoleon is now quite cross.

You are sent to the sideline. You acquire the Tupperware Container with Numerous Oranges. An enemy keeper raises the Battering Ram triumphantly. The clocktower smolders. You hear a high-pitched squeal from the distance.

Obvious Exits are:
- Spain
- France
- Indian in the Cupboard
- Topic List

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bokonon get your sense-making the **** out of this topic now - Cat1001
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You are wearing titanium alloy Special Ops cleats, birchwood shin guards, and a standard issue Jedi Consular robe.

The soccer team chatters nervously. Napoleon looks contemplative. The clocktower is on fire. The Away Team has the ball. Score is 1-1. An enemy halfback menaces.

You see:
- a Flamberge
- a Battering Ram
- a Tupperware Container with Numerous Oranges
- Red Hare, legendary steed of Lu Bu

Obvious exits are:
- Offsides
- Aliens
- France
- Topic List

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http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested-viewing-order/

This made me really excited. I want to watch them in 4-5-2-3-6 order now. It's been a while since I last saw the films (and I've never actually seen Episode 2).

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But by the time I clicked it, it was a no pun.

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I tried Homestuck and I lost 612 pounds! Thanks to Homestuck, I'm now tannin-free! My mother gets Homestuck, and so do I! Homestuck saved my dog's life. Bernie showed Jane how to Homestuck, and now everybody's doing it! I used to feel down in the dumps, but with Homestuck, I can go horseback riding, mountain climbing and Scuba diving! Have you Homestucked today? Homestuck - now in 413 flavors. Thanks, Homestuck!

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How do you guys feel about womepngah? Anybody know where to get the best valued womepngah online? I remember my first womepngah. Top Deals on womepngah!

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I got 10 even.

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Boom, hey, outta here

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...For me to poop on!



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I guess American high school student athletes better...... watch their backs.

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