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"Now explain it to me, as you would a five year old"
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Typical.
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"Now explain it to me, as you would a five year old"
Dude. That's a restraining order for sure.
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Forgot to include whom I was referencing, also didn't realize a new page was imminent.
Surely, I must've been Ninja'd, I'm sure there's a conspiracy against me buried somewhere, somehow.
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Anubis = A Nude. Bis!
I think it's got everything to do with your choice of avatar.
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Yup, switching to Hell's Rebels this weekend.
The kids discovered Kineticists and Yoon, and the teamwork feat combining blasts. Also Gom-Gom.
So guess who gets to go out and price printers (which we need anyway) and get some character sheets printed so I can fill out 70% of it after the important stuff like abilities are rolled and shopping is done. :-)
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The General is making a Treesinger Druid with a floating fungal puffball plant companion and Pea Bear is making a Hydrokineticist named Spike..?.. Kids and character names, amiright.
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Inlaws Rock!
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So guess who gets to go out and price printers (which we need anyway) and get some character sheets printed so I can fill out 70% of it after the important stuff like abilities are rolled and shopping is done. :-)
I feel as if I'm the only gamer for who still hand-writes his character sheets on scrap paper. Or maybe hand-written CSs were never a thing, just my thing...
*Bah, get off my lawn!*
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Hey, random question: anyone know how Mikaze is doing?
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Hey, random question: anyone know how Mikaze is doing?
~looks at Mikaze's profile~
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Has he written anything since Hordes of Belkzen?
Mayhaps an internet search for his pen name will uncover something. :-)
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Well, Impus Major and his friends went and saw, "Batman vs. Superman" last night, and his five-word review is pretty damning: "It was stupid. Because... physics!"
Even though I have NEVER discussed comic books, superheroes, or anything else in that genre with Impus Major, that is precisely why I was always a Marvel fan, rather DC. DC's entire motto seemed to be, "Our heroes can do whatever they need to do at the moment, whether or not it's even internally consistent within a single issue, because as long as a DC fan can say to a Marvel fan, 'MY superhero can beat up YOUR superhero', it's all good."
Superman was the worst of the worst (though Green Lantern was a close second). On one page he'd be carrying a 40,000-ton ship 2,000 miles to shore to save it from some disaster. Ten pages later he'd be struggling with the crippling weight of a 15-ton school bus, desperately telling the kids, "Get out! I can't hold it much longer!"
Sometimes he could move planets. Other times a particular boulder might be too heavy. Superman was as strong as, "Whatever is convenient in this particular scene."
I could go on and on with examples: Being able to move faster than light, but either stupid enough or masochistic enough to get hit by every friggin' bad guy's punch from here to eternity. Being able to see through walls, but not ever bothering to use it to, say, track a flying villain who'd hidden behind a building.
I could go on and on (Batman just happening to have a vehicle in stock for every conceivable (and inconceivable) environment), but it was the "Superman's powers can vary from scene to scene" that apparently did in Batman v. Superman for Impus Major. Superman's invulnerability was apparently, "Whatever is convenient in this particular scene of the movie."
It's always been the shortcoming of Superman for me. They don't sit down, define his powers, and then work out stuff that at least seems reasonable at first glance. Getting hit with a meteor is many, many orders of magnitude more energetic than getting hit with a school bus, but most audiences will accept, "Oh, the meteor stunned him a bit. Oh, the school bus stunned him a bit," as internally consistent.
If you can't even bother with (stuff described in the spoiler), you're really not trying.
You're pandering to people who just love loud noises and shaky cameras.
And apparently a group of 14-year-old boys wasn't the target audience, 'cause they didn't like it.
Weird.
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Hey, random question: anyone know how Mikaze is doing?
I believe he is still working on stuff both for paizo and others.
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Well, Impus Major and his friends went and saw, "Batman vs. Superman" last night, and his five-word review is pretty damning: "It was stupid. Because... physics!"
** spoiler omitted **...
you will never ever do the spoilered stuff without splitting the fanbase into a million pieces. Ever.
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you will never ever do the spoilered stuff without splitting the fanbase into a million pieces. Ever.Well, Impus Major and his friends went and saw, "Batman vs. Superman" last night, and his five-word review is pretty damning: "It was stupid. Because... physics!"
** spoiler omitted **...
The opinions in the spoiler reflect the individual views of NobodysHome (and apparently, Impus Major), and should not be construed as an endorsement nor condemnation of the Superman fan base as a whole... ;-)
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I don't think I've ever read a comic book ever, and said "those powers are totally realistic!"
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I will admit I was a huge Batman fan as a kid, but this movie holds exactly zero interest for me.
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The three movies I will watch in the theaters this summer or spring
1) Captain America, Civil War (The one Pea Bear is most excited about)
2) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Out of the Shadows (The one Tiny T-Rex is most excited for)
3) Suicide Squad (The one I and the General are most excited for, also Pea Bear)
Pea Bear also wants to see The Jungle book and Tarzan.
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I don't think I've ever read a comic book ever, and said "those powers are totally realistic!"
I have never read comics...Well I used to read "Heavy Metal" once in a while so comic book movies hold zero interest for me. Back in the day our local theater used to play "The song remains the same", "Heavy Metal" and "Rocky horror" in constant rotation for midnight movies on saturday nights.
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I don't think I've ever read a comic book ever, and said "those powers are totally realistic!"
NO! NO NO NO!!! Super powers are not realistic? ~cries~ WHY? Why did no one ever tell me? My world is RUINED!!!
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I don't think I've ever read a comic book ever, and said "those powers are totally realistic!"
I know you meant it tongue-in-cheek, but when they were working on revising the Hulk it so epitomized what was wrong: In one issue of the comic book he was bulletproof. In the next issue he wasn't. WTH?
My father and I had vast differences in tastes, but he did put it very well: "Good science fiction breaks one law of physics in a very consistent manner."
Even on that, I'd argue that restricting it to ONE law of physics is pretty restrictive.
I'd rather say, "Good writing breaks as few laws of physics as necessary to tell an entertaining tale, but breaks them all in a consistent manner."
As soon as you've both abandoned the laws of physics and consistency, you've reduced the whole thing to, "My protagonist can do/fail to do whatever is necessary in this particular scene in order to pursue my story, and any relationship to any other scene is purely coincidental."
As evidence, I cite the widespread ridicule when Obi Wan looks at the destroyed Sand Crawler and says, "Look at the accuracy of those shots. Only Imperial Storm Troopers could have been that accurate."
I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea...
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I don't think I've ever read a comic book ever, and said "those powers are totally realistic!"I know you meant it tongue-in-cheek, but when they were working on revising the Hulk it so epitomized what was wrong: In one issue of the comic book he was bulletproof. In the next issue he wasn't. WTH?
My father and I had vast differences in tastes, but he did put it very well: "Good science fiction breaks one law of physics in a very consistent manner."
Even on that, I'd argue that restricting it to ONE law of physics is pretty restrictive.
I'd rather say, "Good writing breaks as few laws of physics as necessary to tell an entertaining tale, but breaks them all in a consistent manner."
As soon as you've both abandoned the laws of physics and consistency, you've reduced the whole thing to, "My protagonist can do/fail to do whatever is necessary in this particular scene in order to pursue my story, and any relationship to any other scene is purely coincidental."
As evidence, I cite the widespread ridicule when Obi Wan looks at the destroyed Sand Crawler and says, "Look at the accuracy of those shots. Only Imperial Storm Troopers could have been that accurate."
I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea...
Actually "keep it internally consistent" works quite well for all stories, including fantasy stories with totally outlandish sets of physics (or even those that run on divine will).
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I just want to know why Batman can't catch the Joker, yet evidently killing Superman (Jesus) is easy peasy.
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Also, why does Captain America nearly fail from getting capped like four times by the winter soldier, yet takes a shot point blank in the chest by Ultron and doesn't even react. (Bullets that hurt his feelings is Captain America's one weakness, who knew!) O_o
Also, despite the rant, I love both those movies. :-)
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Impus Minor: "Oh, no! Pain! The only thing that can hurt me!"
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Pea Bear just learned not to use front brakes on a mountain bike, she's soaking her scraped up hands now. :-)
And she takes first place in our summer scrapes competition.
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Stormtrooper in It's a Trap! (Family Guy Rotj) "why do we even have these guns, have you ever hit anything with one of these, I'm just saying"
Other Stormtrooper "I hit a bird once"
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It's been a very fighty weekend so far.
Today I did Eastern European sabre, dual-wielding side swords and rapier and cloak - the latter two were especially good fun - and entered the backsword tournament. No medals, but I enjoyed myself very much.
Now sitting up in bed in hotel room with a four pack of Guinness, preparing for more frolics tomorrow.
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Typical. I get the s&#*ty crashing inventory thingamajig.
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I've never seen it do that before, interesting.
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MARVEL-FOR-LYFE*
(I'm still looking forward to BvS, though, and I generally like all super-heroes, despite totally agreeing with NH's general sentiments/statements. Also the DCAU was awesome - esp. BTAS - so, you know.)
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Actually "keep it internally consistent" works quite well for all stories, including fantasy stories with totally outlandish sets of physics (or even those that run on divine will).
WORD UP TO YOUR MOTHER!
(I presume there is a non-bad Polish translation of this. If not, you may, instead, simply tell your mother - or not, at your option - that I said, "Hello.")
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It's been a very fighty weekend so far.
Today I did Eastern European sabre, dual-wielding side swords and rapier and cloak - the latter two were especially good fun - and entered the backsword tournament. No medals, but I enjoyed myself very much.
Now sitting up in bed in hotel room with a four pack of Guinness, preparing for more frolics tomorrow.
kickass.
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I don't think I've ever read a comic book ever, and said "those powers are totally realistic!"I know you meant it tongue-in-cheek, but when they were working on revising the Hulk it so epitomized what was wrong: In one issue of the comic book he was bulletproof. In the next issue he wasn't. WTH?
My father and I had vast differences in tastes, but he did put it very well: "Good science fiction breaks one law of physics in a very consistent manner."
Even on that, I'd argue that restricting it to ONE law of physics is pretty restrictive.
I'd rather say, "Good writing breaks as few laws of physics as necessary to tell an entertaining tale, but breaks them all in a consistent manner."
As soon as you've both abandoned the laws of physics and consistency, you've reduced the whole thing to, "My protagonist can do/fail to do whatever is necessary in this particular scene in order to pursue my story, and any relationship to any other scene is purely coincidental."
As evidence, I cite the widespread ridicule when Obi Wan looks at the destroyed Sand Crawler and says, "Look at the accuracy of those shots. Only Imperial Storm Troopers could have been that accurate."
I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea...
pah.
Internal consistency works well for singular works but terribly anything over a three part series.
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I was looking over some of my old posts the other day and saw some reactions to them by Mikaze. Whatever happened to him?
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Questions the parenting books can't prepare you for.
Pea Bear: Can I learn voodoo?
Me: we'll see if the Y has a program for that.
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I was looking over some of my old posts the other day and saw some reactions to them by Mikaze. Whatever happened to him?
Real life, as far as anyone can tell. He hasn't been on the forums in almost a year now.
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All this time I thought that was a she...
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All this time I thought that was a she...
Everyone thinks that, but nope. :-)
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Happy Easter FaWtL folks!
I was up at 5:30 for... reasons.
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Happy "Rezzin' Before It Was Cool" day to those that celebrate.
...actually even if you don't, happy regardless.
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HOPPY EASTER EVERYONE
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Happy Easter! May the Lord bless us all.
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Ah, fuzzy morning brain!
Worked on the garage for 6-7 hours yesterday, so I slept... HARD!
This morning I got up to type the clues for the kids (they follow a series of poorly-written rhymes, each leading to the next, until they find their Easter baskets at the end of the trail), typed 'em up pre-coffee, started stashing them around the house, and learned that I had TWO clues pointing to the oven.
It was already "late" (6:45 am, and Impus Major wakes up around 7, even on Sundays. Yeah. He's MY kid alright...), and I was already lazy, so I just put one on the stovetop and one in the oven. Hopefully the kids'll be forgiving.
I LOVE them for going along with the charade. Impus Major is 14 and he still talks about Santa in front of us as if he's a real person, though we've overheard him in other conversations so he knows the truth. He just can't bear to break it to us...
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Speaking of "proud parent" moments, Impus Major isn't the world's best student, but he oozes Charisma. To the point that at one music festival, while the choir was being debriefed by a judge on their performance, the judge stopped, pointed at Impus Major, and said, "Now, THIS young man. His performance was magnetic. I was supposed to be watching all of you, but I couldn't keep my eyes off of him. He smiled, he danced, he was obviously so "into" the music and the performance that I couldn't help but join in his joy. It was mesmerizing. You should all take clues from him and try to be like him on stage."
So the kids had a massive debate project, with lots of research, a debate team, and a general nightmare for a horrifically-disorganized 9th grader.
And in a, "Sometimes, the world just isn't fair" moment, the best student in Brendan's entire grade was assigned to his team. And she took him under her wing, gave him talking points, reviewed his speeches, set him up, and turned him loose. (Yeah, she's scary smart, and she knew what she had in her arsenal...)
As one girl on the other team put it, "Aw, man! You guys have Impus Major! That's not fair! Everyone LOVES Impus Major!"
So yeah, bad research skills, but prepped by a master and charismatic as heck, Impus buried his poor competition.
Unfortunately, the debate was team-based and apparently some members of his team really got killed, but hearing that not only did he not do poorly, but that he really nailed his part of the debate was a "proud papa" moment...
Happy Easter! May the Lord bless us all.
Amen, and seconded!
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Speaking of "proud parent" moments, Impus Major isn't the world's best student, but he oozes Charisma. To the point that at one music festival, while the choir was being debriefed by a judge on their performance, the judge stopped, pointed at Impus Major, and said, "Now, THIS young man. His performance was magnetic. I was supposed to be watching all of you, but I couldn't keep my eyes off of him. He smiled, he danced, he was obviously so "into" the music and the performance that I couldn't help but join in his joy. It was mesmerizing. You should all take clues from him and try to be like him on stage."
So the kids had a massive debate project, with lots of research, a debate team, and a general nightmare for a horrifically-disorganized 9th grader.
And in a, "Sometimes, the world just isn't fair" moment, the best student in Brendan's entire grade was assigned to his team. And she took him under her wing, gave him talking points, reviewed his speeches, set him up, and turned him loose. (Yeah, she's scary smart, and she knew what she had in her arsenal...)
As one girl on the other team put it, "Aw, man! You guys have Impus Major! That's not fair! Everyone LOVES Impus Major!"
So yeah, bad research skills, but prepped by a master and charismatic as heck, Impus buried his poor competition.
Unfortunately, the debate was team-based and apparently some members of his team really got killed, but hearing that not only did he not do poorly, but that he really nailed his part of the debate was a "proud papa" moment...
sounds like your son has a real gift! Hope you and the general(not to mention the young man himself) find a way to not just use it properly but also to make a living.