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I_Always_Die posted...

I always thought they were like little bacteria attracted to the force. they dont actually give you your force powers, theyre just really prevalent in people with a strong connection.

Lokarin posted...

I'd best interpret it as microbes that FEED on the force, so that they can be used as an INDICATOR - but not actually the cause.

Lucas has said multiple times this isn't the case, though. They're literally the thing that connects people to the Force and allows them to manipulate it. Without them, there is no Force, and life wouldn't exist.



Lokarin posted...

Otherwise there'd be no way for the Force to interact with things like rocks or starships.

A telekinetic can pick up objects without those objects themselves having telekinesis.

The Force can interact with unliving things. By definition, the Force only applies to living things. Ergo, the Force can affect things that do not inherently possess the Force themselves.
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Lokarin posted...

They're different things.

This.

Even more complicated when you realize that the same word can apply to different things as well. For instance, a suit jacket is different from a bomber jacket.
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Nade Duck posted...

it's a schooner.

Damn it, beat me to it.
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No! I'll crush you with my bare hands!
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Most people in the world would be dead in about a week, because even using Metric measurements you're not going to be able to get shoe sizes over 50 or so, and 50 IQ is deep into mental impairment territory (and if you're sticking to Imperial/Standard, then the vast majority of people are going to be 15 and lower).

So imagine a world entirely populated by the most mentally impaired people who've ever lived, who need constant supervision (which they won't be getting) just to survive.

Also, you've posted this question before. The answer was the same then.
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I never really hated it, but I never really related to it or loved it all that much, either. It was just sort of meh.
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This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhHhXukovMU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zen_zRmbKaM
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BUMPED2002 posted...

If Viking explorer Leif Eriksson Day reached N America hundreds of years before Columbus, should Columbus be credited with "discovering" America?

Since absolutely nothing meaningful or long-term impactful came of it, no. In the same way that I don't really care whether or not the Portuguese got here in the early 1400s (very possible), the Chinese got here even earlier in the late 1300/early 1400s (less likely), or the Welsh at some point way prior to that (extremely unlikely), or Africans and Polynesians (relatively possible), and so on.

Though if Leif had spread enough disease to kill off 90%+ of the native population and pave the way for centuries worth of immigration, colonization, settlement, and total cultural restructuring, I'd be all about giving him his own day as a reward.

Like it or not, Columbus MADE the modern world. Leif... didn't even really "find" North America (his dad founded the first successful colony on Greenland, though his people knew it was there even before that). Leif heard rumors of land west of Greenland from other Icelandic sailors, eventually landed in Canada, tried to establish a colony that failed, and then he went back to Greenland and eventually died . -I've- done more meaningful things in my life. Give me my own day!

Leif basically became the default reaction to "Oh, we're starting to feel guilty about all that native-murdering we did, maybe we should stop glorifying Columbus", but he never really did much to actually deserve the praise. It's just that there aren't all that many other options where you can literally name a specific person, and "discovering" North America in 1000 AD is such a nice round number that people love the idea of it.
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Mead posted...

female perspective conspiracy

RCtheWSBC posted...

Yes, we're best friends who talk to each other often and have the same sense of humor

I'd assume what he was actually implying was that the two responses following so quickly one after the other meant that RC immediately messaged Jen and told her to come post in this topic to back her opinion.

Or that they're both the same person and that person is sock puppeting.

That's kind of how I read his post.
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Magical mitochondria.
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You're still posting on an Internet message board full of nerds, so you still have one habit left to quit.
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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Again, because people like to argue two separate concepts being only one concept because in common usage we use words for them that used to only describe a single concept.

The problem is, one of those concepts is arguably a social construct that has no real meaningful existence or objective reality, while the other is a biological function that pretty clearly exists as an either/or binary (with occasional abnormal exceptions).

Biological sex is pretty well set. Cultural sex/gender is only really meaningful as an expression of biological sex and becomes completely superfluous the moment you attempt to extend it too far.
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Jen0125 posted...

Trump inherited a good economy

To be fair, Clinton benefited from a powerful economy he did almost nothing to promote and yet people haven't stopped sucking his cock for it over the last 25 years.
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Blaqthourne posted...

There wasn't much anime to rent where I was. I do remember some friends and I finding Golgo 13 in the kids section at Blockbuster, because, you know, if it's animated, it must be for kids.

Blockbuster is where I rented all my anime from. All of my local Blockbusters when I was in college had fairly significant anime sections. I honestly can't remember much of what it was now (that was like 20 years ago). The only one I'm vaguely remembering is Ninja Scroll. Oh, and Demon City Shinjuku. Maybe The Castle of Cagliostro (Lupin III)?

For 90s stuff, I kind of have a hard time remembering what I rented, what I watched because friends had it, and what I picked up as a bootleg sub from a local shop.
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I have DVDs for Bubblegum Crisis and Magic Knight Rayearth (among other things). I've seen Cowboy Bebop, Dominion Tank Police, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Urusei Yatsura, and Vampire Hunter D (I went through a phase in college where I was renting like two VHS tapes from movies/series every week or so, so I watched a lot of anime I never bought).

If memory serves, the first "real" anime (as opposed to localized stuff like Voltron) I ever watched was Fist of the North Star. I think the first one I ever bought on VHS was Record of Lodoss War. I've got a bunch of other stuff as well.



Blaqthourne posted...

Venus 5

Hang on a minute...

-_-
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Mead posted...

Edge of Tomorrow is such a good action movie

Don't you mean "Live, Die, Repeat"?











But yeah, it was a good movie. It just got a bad rep because it was marketed so poorly, and because Tom Cruise's rep often discourages some people from watching his movies.
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Zeus posted...

He probably also has the Franken Berry and Boo Berry Pop!s... and even the ultra rare Fruit Brute Pop!

What, no Yummy Mummy? Scandalous!
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I_Abibde posted...

My favorite D&D name gag remains Rary. His player -- another one from the Gygax group -- wanted to make a medium-sized human so that he would be ... Medium Rary.

That wasn't the joke.

In early D&D, every class had level titles. So when you were a level 1 Fighter, you'd be a Veteran, once you advanced to level 2 you'd be a Warrior, at level 3 you became a Swordsman, etc. And the implication is that people in-universe would call you that, so if you meet someone who is introduced as "Vicar Johannes", he's a level 4 Cleric.

One of the Magic-User (aka the proto-Wizard) titles is "Medium". So Brian Blume named his character Rary so that, when he reached that level, he'd be "Medium Rary". And then he never played that character again, so he would be that forever.



I_Abibde posted...

I doubt he envisioned Rary becoming the James Bond-style supervillain that he eventually became in Greyhawk canon, but there you go.

To be fair, Brian Blume kind of deserved it.

He was one of the three co-owners of TSR - Gygax and Don Kaye established the company, but needed a money man investor, and Brian Blume had the cash and was willing to support them, so they made him an equal partner after-the-fact. But then Don Kaye died, and they needed to find someone to buy out his ownership stakes. Brian Blume talked Gygax into transferring Kaye's stake to Brian's father, who later gave control to his other son, Kevin.

So basically Brian and Kevin Blume controlled 2/3rds of a company they didn't establish and for which they didn't actually create any IP. And then they used that control to marginalize Gygax in the company, pretty much ran it into the ground financially, and then vindictively sold off their shares to Lorraine Williams when Gygax tried to force them out to fix things.

Lorraine Williams basically ran the company even further into debt (not helped by the fact that, as many people have pointed out, she never actually liked D&D and tended to pursue more exploitative sales tactics that alienated gamers), until she ultimately had to sell it off to Wizards of the Coast (who had a shit-ton of cash from the success of Magic: the Gathering). Most of D&D's current success was built on WotC's much better management - in the mid-90s, the game was almost completely dead both in terms of sales and popularity.

So if later writers who actually liked D&D and were respectful to Gygax's creation of it wanted to throw in little jabs at the people they saw as responsible for almost killing the company, it's hard to fault them. That actually started before the Blume's sold their shares - at least one artist got in trouble because in one module he drew a multi-headed monster with faces that kind of looked like the Blumes.

It's kind of telling that Rob Kuntz always complained that they made his character Robilar a villain (so much so that later writers actually retconned the whole thing and made it an evil doppleganger of Robilar instead), but always seemed pretty okay with the idea that Rary was probably a traitorous dick.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Or you.

I already have one, actually.
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BlackScythe0 posted...

I figured everyone had seen mortons salt in the store.

I actually use it.

BECAUSE WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS. GET IT?



Jen0125 posted...

Tell me you don't want a Count Chocula funko OP

Silly Jen, he probably already has one:

http://www.amazon.com/Funko-Count-Chocula-Limited-Figure/dp/B081Y3WGRD
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Dragen posted...

Yep. Funny how ongoing oversights keep being posted about.

Funny how everyone here continues to not even remotely give a shit.

We can't even be bothered to give the actual answer ("They don't like including Other as an option because then 95% of the votes would be for Other and the poll would be useless for demographic purposes, which is the only reason they still do polls at all"), or the smartass answers ("We're terribly sorry the poll doesn't cater to your specific and unique situation, precious snowflake, we'll try harder next time"). anymore.

Are you happy now? You've broken us. Food no longer has taste, music simply sounds like noise. Life has no color now. Everything is sadness.
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Meh. The only games on there that even remotely look worthwhile to me, I already own.

I suppose I could go for Banner Saga, though that's always looked like a game where the art and narrative seem appealing, but the gameplay would be a total dealbreaker. Or Dark Forces II: Jedi Outcast, which I didn't realize they'd up-ported to the PS4... but which might be a bit too archaic at this point, and feel way too clunky to play for the first time in 2020 with no nostalgia helping write off the problems.
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Filthy lies.
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NightMareBunny posted...

I'm not complaining just to complain...this is a toy of A Salt Company's mascot....Salt

i can see people collecting merchandise for soda's or cereal's or even snack food's but salt?

is there such a thing as a morton's salt fanboy? i surely hope not

I used to own a Pillsbury Dough Boy figure as a kid.

People buy weird shit.
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Mead posted...

I like the Netflix show based on that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcTvQ2PwQ7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiXafKF9XCU
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No. It's a "rite of passage".
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I_Always_Die posted...

My main got warned for talking about the people who supposedly set up 9/11.

fuck this website

If you were literally naming names and making accusations, that's technically libel/slander, which would fall under "illegal activities", which fits into the ass-covering parts of the ToS, so that would be a "Fair, next" situation.

If not, I wouldn't say it's modworthy, but it's still stupid.
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NightMareBunny posted...

they'll give a funko pop to anything and anyone

They'll never make one of you.



NightMareBunny posted...

whose the audience for this one?

http://www.amazon.com/Funko-Golden-Action-Figure-Collectors/dp/B01F6W8OIG
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Mead posted...

okay but Ive never heard anyone talk about this melf character

Then presumably, you either don't play D&D, haven't been playing long, or just don't bother looking back at stuff from the past.

You probably don't even know about The Gazebo or the Head of Vecna!



Mead posted...

and why is it still called that even in other campaign settings

Because the D&D reality is a multiverse. Melf's from Greyhawk, but so is Mordenkainen (who was one of Gary Gygax's personal characters). And Mordenkainen's shown up in Barovia (Ravenloft), Faerun (Forgotten Realms), and even Earth (Ed Greenwood used to say that he'd occasionally meet up with Elminster and Mordenkainen and discuss metaphysics).

Basically, magic gets around, so the names get around as well. It's not a case that a dozen different mages invented the exact same spell in a dozen different universes.

Also, the books basically tell you straight up you can rename any spell if you want. And you can always have players who rename their own spells to imply their wizards are pretentious. Like Jim Darkmagic from Acquisitions Incorporated casting "Jim's Magic Missile".
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Because it's an arrow, made out of acid, created by a spell, which was invented by Melf.

Hard to get much simpler than that.

A lot of D&D spells are named after the mages who created them. And a lot of the mage names either come from the names of characters that people played in Gygax's original campaign, or were named by later developers (like Snilloc's Snowball is named after Snilloc, which was basically just Collins backwards, because Dave Collins invented the spells, and Jim Ward named spells after the wizard Drawmij).

There are quite a few spells named after Tenser, and that's Ernest (one of Gygax's sons) rearranged. Melf was just "Male Elf" (because Luke, Gygax's other son, was like 5 when he first played, and the part of the character sheet for Sex/Gender was right next to the part for race, so it read like M. Elf, so he called him Melf). Otiluke's another mage named after Luke. Gygax's daughter Elise played Ahlissa, and had a kingdom named after her. Gygax's friends Rob and Terry Kuntz played as Robilar and Terik.

Those were simpler times.

Though Richard Garfield deliberately homaged that naming convention when he made Magic: the Gathering. Most of the Djinn and Efreet cards from Arabian Nights are different people's names spelled backwards or shuffled up, and the card Nevinyrral's Disc is named after Larry Niven.
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BeerOnTap posted...

They have one song that people have heard and if it werent for that nobody outside of Germany would know who they are.

Even if I'd never heard Du Hast, I still would have heard this:

ParanoidObsessive posted...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10JDA8SvwX8

Granted, that might not have led me to actually look for any of their other work, but still.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Go Mechromancer

This was going to be my recommendation.



acesxhigh posted...

maybe I chose the wrong character, I have the turret and it's kinda boring

Axton is the basic beginner character. Easy to use, relatively simple, nothing too complicated in terms of build or tactics. The average character who isn't overly strong or weak in any facet - basically, he's the Mario. Most of the others have more exotic play mechanics. If you find Axton boring, you might want to try one of the others instead.
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Are there any crabs living in there?
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If you truly believe that, then you've been relatively untouched by the darkest corners of the Internet, and I envy you.
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Yellow posted...

I have a new favorite band now.

You should try and see if you can find any clips from their live concerts on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXUaUNX-Bo









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10JDA8SvwX8
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WastelandCowboy posted...

Why? It's not our war. Let Iran and Iraq fight it out.

To be fair, we're pretty much responsible for 90% of the tension between the two and were tits deep in the shit the last time they fought as well, so it's like tradition for us at this point.
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Depends on whether I'm using it as a noun or a verb.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

The second game is a lot more fun and less clunky than the first.

This.

Also, the plot is WAAAAAY better, most characters have more personality, most quests feel more enjoyable, and the Vault Hunters you play as feel more dynamic.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thumb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbelina
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Live in a world where voters actually hold representatives responsible for their decisions as opposed to the one where voters have the memory of goldfish and vote for the politician with the best PR campaign or just knee-jerk vote for one party universally (regardless of whether or not that party actually represents them in any meaningful way).
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The softness/hardness of your mattress mostly depends on your sleeping habits. Depending on how you sleep, a soft mattress may actually be worse for you than a harder one.
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hypnox posted...

You really hate conversations dont you. You are like my annoying friend that if you ask him about anything his response is "google is your friend" sometimes people ask questions for a conversation starter.

I was actually trying to help you. Because the odds of anyone here on PotD having played it were pretty much slim to none, so you were likely never going to get the answer or the discussion you're looking for. I provided an alternative option to research it, because for all I know, you might not be aware that people playing board games is a big thing on YouTube, and didn't know to look there.

But hey, you know, you're free to fuck off and never learn anything. Doesn't really matter to me whether or not you ever get an answer to your question.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Daily Mail isn't news? Huh.

The Daily Mail is basically the British equivalent to the National Enquirer, which means no, it isn't really news at all.
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I've always found meat in mac & cheese to be utterly repugnant.
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If you look on Youtube, you can find a bunch of playthroughs and rules videos that can give you a pretty good idea of what the game is like.
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Yes, he is indeed a good looking dude.
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