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DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

Luke was meditating at the temple to become a powerful “Grey” Jedi?

This was my pet theory that I wanted to be true. Not so much that he was trying to become a Grey force user

Obi-Wan, being portrayed by Alec Guinness and Ewan MacGregor, certainly could have been. But Mark Hamill is American -- his Luke would be a Gray Jedi instead.

Team Umizoomi is an American children's computer animated fantasy musical series... The eponymous team consists of mini superheroes Milli and Geo, a robot named Bot, and the audience who is viewing the show.

How do the names "Milli", "Geo," and "Bot" contribute to the name "Team Umizumi"? It appears the term "eponymous" should have been applied to the name "Umi City" instead, with regards to the team name?

Your Welcome?

No, you're welcome.

I hate to be pedantic

I love to be pedantic!

I shall attempt to deal with that at a later date, Mad Comrade, either here or there, but for now, amusing labor article for stuffy grammarians:

A court’s decision in a Maine labor dispute hinged on the absence of an Oxford comma

If both parties are against the Oxford comma, well, then, I am against both parties.

asterixes? (asteri?)

One asterisk; two asterisks.

Possibly due to conflation of the two similar-sounding terms, the "problem solving" aspect of "ingenuity" has replaced the older meaning of "straightforwardness."

There's a relict of the older meaning in the remaining word "disingenuous," however.

I find it depressing that the phrase "keep an open mind" has been hijacked, almost universally, to mean "turn off all critical thinking." The English language is the poorer for it.

I understand that being too ridged can lead to being too inflexible. Though the trend seems to be towards such loose standards that its hard to find anything of passable quality anymore.

As your post illustrates.

during its accretion

Please allow me to congratulate you on being the only other person on the Paizo boards who uses the possessive correctly, rather than awkwardly substituting a contraction in its place.

it's the armor bonus, not the enchantment bonus that is compared.

"Enchantment" is not a bonus type in PF. "Enhancement," however, is.

Lose, not loose.

The Internet and the various social medias are the poster children for miscommunication.

Technically speaking, "media" are plural already. The singular would have been "medium." However, through a history of incorrect usage, "media" (and "data") are now treated in English as if they are singular. Writing things like "These data suggest that..." straddles the line between proper usage and hypercorrection.

If this is confusing to you, you are not alone. (That's a joke; "you" used to be a plural or formal form of "thou.")

For all intensive purposes

It's literally nitpicking
it's worst
see what I did there...anyone?

All three times. May I presume they were all intentional on your part, and not just one of them?

The "enchantment bonus"

(Grinds teeth.) There is no such thing. "Enchantment" is a school of magic -- look it up. Enchantment spells have the [mind-affecting] descriptor. Swords are inanimate, mindless objects. Ergo, they are immune to enchantments.

They can, however, have "enhancement bonuses."

Episode VII release date moved to December 15, 2017.

I have made some calculations with my R2 unit.

You also need a protocol droid who speaks Latin! VII is "7" -- it's in the theaters NOW, not next year.

ect. ect.

etc.

In a lot of older documents you'll even see it written as "&c" -- the ampersand symbol itself is derived from superimposing the letters E and T for "et."

Pedantic Answer: The size bonus is a consequence of being a different size; the spell makes you a different size. So that bonus is being indirectly granted by the spell, not "directly" per the description.

Short Answer: The size bonus is still a size bonus. I should add another sentence to clarify direct vs. indirect.

Random Thought: All questions get the same amount of attention regardless of whether someone "favorites" them, so "favoriting" your own question has no actual effect in that regard.

Then again I never use "safe travels" either. I usually say "drive safe" instead.

Safes generally lack motors and wheels. I prefer "drive safely."

I could care less about what Al Gore said.

"Could"? Or "couldn't"?

And also, "it's" =/= "its."

Also, since we're correcting slipshod reading, the contraction for "you are" is "you're," not "your."

I get what your saying

You're.

People saying that "You can't change the Second Ammendment". I respect your conviction, but yes you can. For evidence, you need only look at a little thing called Prohibition.

Most people can't even spell "amendment."

I started to read the document, but then I had to stop and post this.
"It's" is a contraction of "it is," not a possessive pronoun.

If Korynne is as "well-read" as she claims, perhaps you can prevail upon her to resolve your grammatical confusion?

Minimum download ability. How big?

Suffice it to say that "your" and "you're" are not, in fact, interchangeable.

Your being selfish.

Some light educational reading.

Vive le Madame Sissyl!

La Madame. Gender agreement is a thing in French, no matter how postmodern and/or feminist one wishes to be!

"Subject to independent verification"

Fixed that for me.

Weapons in 3rd edition D&D (and, by extension, Pathfinder) cannot be "enchanted." In those rules, Enchantment is a school of magic, comprised of [charm] and [compulsion] spells, all of which are mind-affecting. Being mindless objects, weapons therefore cannot be enchanted.

They can be "enhanced," however (i.e., given a magical enhancement bonus of +1 or higher, and/or given magical weapon properties).

I would recommend, at the very least, changing the name to match what you're trying to do.

It is " It is better to burn out than to fade away."

it's from a Neil Young song. And yes it is a fantastic film. Clancy Brown nailed that roll.

... and, picking up where you left off, it is a "role." Unless you mean to imply that Clancy Brown committed an act better suited to American Pie?

Rediculous.

Ridiculous.

You mean "never mind" or possibly "let alone".

You're muscling in on my territory.

Say I have a scimitar, which is enchanted...

what is the established naming convention...

The established naming convention is "enhanced," not "enchanted." In Pathfinder, enchantment is a school of magic including [charm] and [compulsion] spells. A mindless object is immune to both, and therefore cannot be enchanted.

Sorry about all that stuffy grammarianism, which, I agree, is akin to National Socialism.

I protest!

And we'd need to recruit Stuffy Grammarian with her Flurry of Flung Erasers and Yardstick of Knuckle-Crushing.

Meter stick, thank you. I am not entirely as old-fashioned as you young people seem to believe.

At the cost of sounding jerky, I rebate

You don't sound jerky, just illiterate. "Repeat" means "say again," and, based on context, seems to be the word you were looking for. A "rebate" is a refunding of a portion of the sales price -- an advertising gimmick.

Survival 1d20+8

Cricket also pedantically notes that, if the liquid rock cooled above-ground, it technically should be called lava, rather than "magma." Bad Kirth! Bad!

Your right.

"You're right," meaning that I am correct, not that I have an inherent property or condition empowering me to do so.

See what I mean?

etc. = et cetera (Lat., "and so on").
ect. = short for "ectoplasm"?

I would prefer that it remain a verb.
One can build a character, yes... but people are always talking about building a "build." I find this to be a gratuitous mangling of the various parts of speech.

Next thing you know, people will forget what adverbs are, and then where will we be?

Pathfinder has literally exploded in popularity in the last years.

"Exploded in popularity" is a metaphor, and hence figurative. It therefore cannot, by definition, also be "literal."

We often idealize the past -- why should the guilded age be an exception?

The Gilded Age. If it had been guilded instead, the wealth inequity might have been a lot less! At that time, though, business owners used police and private detectives as strikebreakers, so that unions were broken up rather than encouraged.

Dotted.

You seem to be saying...

Who is "you"? And is it singular or plural? You haven't named anyone, and your post isn't shown as a reply to anyone in specific. Is this "you" Anzyr? Or me? Both of us? Everyone in the thread except yourself?

Tasmanian Tiger is it's colloquial name

Its.

Edit: I am hereby starting a petition to change the title of this thread to "To what age do you expect to live?"

That's my job.

"Enchantment" is a school of magic. Enchantment spells, both charms and compulsions, are mind-affecting spells. Therefore, they have no effect on inanimate, mindless tools. One cannot enchant a crowbar, unless it is a sentient crowbar.

One can of course magically enhance tools, but that's a separate topic.

I questioned it's validity

its