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Aberzombie: Are you from New Orleans?
That's what the men in the white coats keep telling me.
By the way...loved your rant. Especially points 3 and 4. I also agree with point 2, even though I am a dog lover. But when I have a pooch again he'll learn to poop in the backyard and like it.
And, once again as an aside, I took that test. It said I was a N Human Wizard.
For a change of pace I'm going to rant about something in D&D. ;-D
Why do people think playing chaotic neutral is an excuse for them to do the most abhorrent things possible and say they're neutral because they also do good things? For example, the barbarian/warlock in my game was helping to interrogate two thugs they'd taken prisoner, and his plan was to decapitate one of the thugs and show the still-bleeding head to the other thug and then start asking questions. I (rightly, I think) said "OK, but that's an alignment hit," and he got all annoyed and said "but I'm chaotic neutral, and those guys are evil!" Which they were, but I still think that was a little over the line. Am I wrong here?
Absolutely not! Chaotic Neutral seems to have always been an excuse to do whatever you want with no regards for others whatsoever. That's called Chaotic Evil when it strays into the realm of hurting other people. You can have no regard for an individual, but not seek him harm either, and would not go so far as to harm someone, and that is still Chaotic Neutral.
Simply because the target of an act is evil doesn't somehoe purify the act itself. I agree that the alignment issue can be sticky at times (is this on the good/evil or lawful/chaotic axis?, etc.), but that one is cut and dry.
Now, that stated, I wouldn't automatically make him evil, but rather put a "mark" (and a rather big one at that) towards evil. You can keep it simple with a "three strikes and you're out" style, or just kind of intuit when you feel his alignment has shifted.
I hate it when people use their alignment to justify their actions, and/or have only a tenuous grasp on the nature of what it means to be that alignment in the first place. The alignment is defined by what you do! You can choose one early on as a simple, two-word guide to how your character views the world and himself, but that's all it is, a guide. In the end, it is shaped by the actions that your character takes and the MOTIVATION behind those actions. You don't do an action because "you're evil" or "good"; you're evil or good because you do those actions, you nitwits! AAARRGGGHHH!!! SAERN SMASH STUPID PEOPLE!!!!
Okay, calming down... I also dislike how people often dismiss the alignment system because "people never play it right." Look, if you actually understand how the alignment system is supposed to work and have seen it done right before, and still don't like it, change away! Or maybe you've just got this other thought that's really really cool and you want to try it. Fine, have at it!
But just because you've never seen anyone do it right doesn't mean that it's broken, for the same reason that, if one has an issue with powergamers, D&D isn't broken simply because they exist! The argument that "no one pays attention to the alignment system, so it's no good," makes no sense whatsoever! I would ask if that wasn't obvious, but then again, you did make the faulty connection in the first place, so apparently it isn't as much as I would have hoped.
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It's been awhile, so here it goes----
I hate Meepo the metal chewing pit bull, giant hippers from the Chandler skatepark, myspace.com, all 5 of my players that don't even own one(even one!!!) sourcebook, selecting feats and skills and spells and weapons for said players, vin diesel, pop culture these days where everyone wants to be "famous" w/o actually having any type of talent!??!!!
P.S.
I love d and d though :)
Found another cool D&D test for you guys! Don't let the rating tag fool you, it SHOULD be rated Teen, besides a few naughty words and suggestive themes, The Koga has seen worse on saturday morning cartoon shows..
http://quizilla.com/users/SpellJammer/quizzes/Your%20D%26D%20Alingment%20Te st./
And ofcourse The Koga got chaotic good. ~_~
Simply because the target of an act is evil doesn't somehoe purify the act itself. I agree that the alignment issue can be sticky at times (is this on the good/evil or lawful/chaotic axis?, etc.), but that one is cut and dry.
Fully agreed, especially that first statement.
Now, that stated, I wouldn't automatically make him evil, but rather put a "mark" (and a rather big one at that) towards evil. You can keep it simple with a "three strikes and you're out" style, or just kind of intuit when you feel his alignment has shifted.
That's actually what I've been doing, it's what I meant by an alignment hit- basically it's the three strikes rule. Since then that guy has earned another hit by slaying a kuo-toa who had dropped its weapons and surrendered. *sigh* It's like he WANTS to be evil...
It said I'm lawful evil.
That's such b.s.
Me? Lawful?
Puh-lease.
I know! Lawful evil? More like Chaotic Evil spelled in big cancer-causing neon lights!
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And why do people freak out when they miss their freakin left turn on the road? Just go a block up, do a yewey, and do a freakin right and you're where you wanted to be upwards max of 2 minutes later. It's not worth causing a major traffic accident to get in the friggin turn lane, stupid!
Onnyhoo....
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Found another cool D&D test for you guys! Don't let the rating tag fool you, it SHOULD be rated Teen, besides a few naughty words and suggestive themes, The Koga has seen worse on saturday morning cartoon shows..
http://quizilla.com/users/SpellJammer/quizzes/Your%20D%26D%20Alingment%20Te st./
And of course The Koga got chaotic good. ~_~
Hmmm... True Neutral once again. Despite what I would do for that candy bar...
It said I'm lawful evil.
I got Neutral Evil!?!
And I was being nice (of course I'm always nice)!Apparently I should befriend Lawful Evil people and mooch off their success.
I think I preferred the first test: Lawful Neutral Halfling Sorcerer. The more that I think about it, the more the result makes sense.
Getting back to the topic in hand, something else I hate:
Poppies - Not the living type, but the fake red paper types that are used here in the UK to 'celebrate' V-Day. Seeing all of the newsreaders and journalists wearing those poppies makes my blood boil. I feel as though the whole affair has been touted as a "Wearing this 'thing' shows that you care. If you don't wear one, then you are not worthy of living..." when in fact they just seem patronising, more than anything else. I don't really believe that people truly see this paper monstrosity as a symbol, but more as a chore. We don't need a paper-poppy to remember or to show our respect.
At what point did we decide that anyone asking anything, no matter how scattered and pointless, had created an actual quiz?
I am simply not Lawful Evil as this quiz suggested. I am often true neutral philophically, but in action, I consistently walk the path of neutral good. Studied the alignments for decades and soul searched. That's how I know.
BTW, look at these numbers it quoted;
14 other people got this result!
This quiz has been taken 30 times.
48% of people had this result.
Not only is there no discernable schema behind this quiz but clearly even the simple math behind its grading was never properly computed.
I am simply not Lawful Evil as this quiz suggested. I am often true neutral philophically, but in action, I consistently walk the path of neutral good. Studied the alignments for decades and soul searched. That's how I know.
I consider myself Lawful Neutral. I have a tendency, for good or ill, to be loyal to a fault. :D
I am simply not Lawful Evil as this quiz suggested. I am often true neutral philosophically, but in action, I consistently walk the path of neutral good. Studied the alignments for decades and soul searched. That's how I know.I consider myself Lawful Neutral. I have a tendency, for good or ill, to be loyal to a fault. :D
I wonder if people, in general, would consider themselves aligned to the side of 'Good'. I then wonder if those fantastically evolved few who play D&D are often more likely see their own ethos as being a compromised melange of best intentions marinating in personal weaknesses.
Oh yeah, rant thread. Hmm...
I am loyaler to a faulter! (#216 on the 'worst arguments ever attempted' list)
Found another cool D&D test for you guys!
I went to take the test, and could not get past the first quesiton. Because I did not agree with any of the offered choices, and I could not just choose one without disagreeing with some part of the choice.
What alignment does that make me?
I think my alignment is: Intelligent Passion
possibley even: Enchanting Alure
:)
Another rant!
Everybody always wants The Koga to GM, WHY GOD?! The Koga hates GMing! All the planning, and the responsibility, and the having to keep track of sheets and stastics and hear the whining.
"Koga, Shanna's poking me!" "Am not.."
"Koga, they're abusing thier special ability!" "Am not.."
"Koga, Josh is eating all the immitation crab you got us!" "Am not.."
"Koga, John is secretly inlove with you!" "Am.. ok yah.."-_ -;;
Lol.
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It's been awhile, so here it goes----
I hate Meepo the metal chewing pit bull, giant hippers from the Chandler skatepark, myspace.com, all 5 of my players that don't even own one(even one!!!) sourcebook, selecting feats and skills and spells and weapons for said players, vin diesel, pop culture these days where everyone wants to be "famous" w/o actually having any type of talent!??!!!
P.S.
I love d and d though :)
Chandler skatepark? Chandler... Arizona? Could it be that we live nearby?!?
I hate when my computer at work doesn't allow me access to certain websites. My little brother just sent me a link to an article that apparently talks about a possible animated Dragonlance movie...and I can't f#~!ing open it. AAARRRGGGHHHH!
I'll reply to the other thread with the details, 'Zombie. Us braineater types gotta stick together...
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*warning: anti-rant ahead...beware*
I hate that yesterday is over. An evening of Latin Dancing followed by a great session of D&D, capped off by a long drive home at midnight in a beefed up Camaro while listening to Evanescence and watching lightning streak repeatedly across the sky. Ahhh...back to work.
Latin dancing and then D&D? Cool...I think...?
Latin dancing and then D&D? Cool...I think...?
Haven't you heard about the new Lambadia game world setting?
You should see the prestige classes! Very passionate.
An' forBEEDen!
It said I'm lawful evil.
That's such b.s.
Me? Lawful?
Puh-lease.
Lol.
For a change of pace I'm going to rant about something in D&D. ;-D
Why do people think playing chaotic neutral is an excuse for them to do the most abhorrent things possible and say they're neutral because they also do good things? For example, the barbarian/warlock in my game was helping to interrogate two thugs they'd taken prisoner, and his plan was to decapitate one of the thugs and show the still-bleeding head to the other thug and then start asking questions. I (rightly, I think) said "OK, but that's an alignment hit," and he got all annoyed and said "but I'm chaotic neutral, and those guys are evil!" Which they were, but I still think that was a little over the line. Am I wrong here?
I would say that is evil. No wait Thats EVIL!
I once played with person who thought eating elves was not evil but chaotic neutral. No eating elves or any sentient life form is EVIL.
I once played with person who thought eating elves was not evil but chaotic neutral. No eating elves or any sentient life form is EVIL.
Unless you were a shark or tiger or bear are something then eating a ssentient creature would just be natural.
Unless you were an enlightened shark or tiger or bear, then would it be evil. Or would it.
moral and ethics are such slippery issues. Thats why debating ethics and morals is fun.
Latin dancing, D&D beefed up camaro, lightning storms ooh evenscence I was almost in love. Oh well latin dancing D&D and muscle cars and lightning storms are cool.
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I hate that, in the eastcoast timezone, I had to stay up till 11:00 to watch all of the Nightmares and Dreamscapes premier (which was excellent, by the way). Damn it, that took away from my beauty sleep, and when your a walking corpse, you need all the beauty sleep you can get. Couldn't they just have started the show at 8:00 instead?
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I hate that, in the eastcoast timezone, I had to stay up till 11:00 to watch all of the Nightmares and Dreamscapes premier (which was excellent, by the way). Damn it, that took away from my beauty sleep, and when your a walking corpse, you need all the beauty sleep you can get. Couldn't they just have started the show at 8:00 instead?
That was pretty sweet. I watched the William Hurt episode; one of my fave stories from kiddydom. That was flippin schweeeot.
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I hate that I smoke. I hate the money it costs and the potential damage I'm doing to my health. I hate that I've not been able to permanently quit yet.
I smoked for 14 years. I finally quite a little over a year ago, and its still hard sometimes. My main reasons were the money it cost, and that my (then) girlfriend (now fiance) has bad allergies and we were getting ready to move in together. I didn't use the gum, or the patch, or anything like that. I just did it cold turkey. In my opinion, its the only way.
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I hate that I smoke. I hate the money it costs and the potential damage I'm doing to my health. I hate that I've not been able to permanently quit yet.I smoked for 14 years. I finally quite a little over a year ago, and its still hard sometimes. My main reasons were the money it cost, and that my (then) girlfriend (now fiance) has bad allergies and we were getting ready to move in together. I didn't use the gum, or the patch, or anything like that. I just did it cold turkey. In my opinion, its the only way.
I smoked 2packs a day for 10+years. I quit 4 years ago. I needed the patch or I would have killed someone, literally. Barely did it with the patch(4 weeks). It gets easier but when you walk past someone smoking and smell it you get a little pang.
Good job to all the quitters!
FH(scraping his lungs clean)
My other half rolls his own cigarettes, as the standard filtered fare makes me sneeze (especially Marlboros...gack!). I've got a strict house rule about cigars too, so he usually only gets the good kind. Certain loose tobacco has been banned as well, as it smells particularly foul when it's burning (Top and one French kind that I swear smells like burning dog...well, I'm sure you get it).
SUMMER VACATION (He's looking at me, she's touching me, he won't leave me alone, she took my (insert favorite toy of the moment here))
School districts that have to have a fourteen week summer vacation so they can built more schools.
Grumble. Back in the old country we went to school all year. And we walked there. Every day. Up hill. Both ways.
And we were grateful!
I smoked for 14 years. I finally quite a little over a year ago, and its still hard sometimes. My main reasons were the money it cost, and that my (then) girlfriend (now fiance) has bad allergies and we were getting ready to move in together. I didn't use the gum, or the patch, or anything like that. I just did it cold turkey. In my opinion, its the only way.
Me too, I quit cold turkey after 10 years, on my 4th try. I haven't had a cigarette for two years now and they smell absolutely disgusting to me. My brain must have set up a huge mental block in order for me to stay off them :)
Don't give up eric, like I said it took me 4 tries before it stuck. The only advice I can give is
A: It won't work unless you REALLY want to quit. Really 100%. Be honest.
And B: Quit drinking totally for the first three months (assuming you do drink). That's what I did, and man was it hard with Australia's pub culture and all. Thank God I don't live in England!
I´m fed up with game designers using foreign-tongue names for their places, and top it with getting the spelling wrong every second time!
Really, the "Erde" setting by TLG just bothers me for its name. Would you want to play in setting calles "Earth" ? And placenames like "Bergruken" (which should be spelled "Bergrücken" correctly) just don´t do it,especially considering that Bergruken means "mountainside"... What kind of placename is that ? So stop misusing foreign languages in that manner! Either use the correctly and in an imaginative way, or don´t use them at all!
Stefan
(Top and one French kind that I swear smells like burning dog...well, I'm sure you get it).I know I probably shouldn't ask this, but...How do you know what burning dog smells like?
Camping accident. :O
My rant o' the day:
Stupid wanna-be technogeeks that micromanage every aspect of their project so they can stroke their e-peens, while the people that have to do their work (me) get time taken out of the day to sit and listen to them talk about how cool they are and how much they've accomplished.
Grr. Rawr. *kaiju stomp*
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I hate that I smoke. I hate the money it costs and the potential damage I'm doing to my health. I hate that I've not been able to permanently quit yet.
One 'quitting aid' a buddy and I used was to add up the money we spent on smokes in a month and multiply by 12... Now, consider how much of that could be used for the infinitely more rewarding vices of gaming and comics. Trading one vice for another was pretty good for us.
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Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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I hate when people present their opinions as objective facts. I hate when people assume that everyone shares the same opinion as they do. I hate the fact that inductive logic is routinely beaten upside the head by half-baked posts that equate personal preference with market trends.
Most of all, I hate the internet.
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I hate that I smoke. I hate the money it costs and the potential damage I'm doing to my health. I hate that I've not been able to permanently quit yet.I smoked for 14 years. I finally quite a little over a year ago, and its still hard sometimes. My main reasons were the money it cost, and that my (then) girlfriend (now fiance) has bad allergies and we were getting ready to move in together. I didn't use the gum, or the patch, or anything like that. I just did it cold turkey. In my opinion, its the only way.I smoked 2packs a day for 10+years. I quit 4 years ago. I needed the patch or I would have killed someone, literally. Barely did it with the patch(4 weeks). It gets easier but when you walk past someone smoking and smell it you get a little pang.
Good job to all the quitters!
FH(scraping his lungs clean)
I had to develop asthma and nearly end up in the hospital before I was able to stop. It isn't really a method that I recommend but I have been off cigarettes for the last 11 1/2 years.
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To those of you who've quit, well done!
S. Baldrick- It's unfortunate about the asthma thing. Do you still suffer from it?
Not very often. Thanks for asking. When I get a chest cold, sometimes I have to use an inhaler but that is about it. All I really needed to do was stop smoking to control my asthma.
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Not very often. Thanks for asking. When I get a chest cold, sometimes I have to use an inhaler but that is about it. All I really needed to do was stop smoking to control my asthma.To those of you who've quit, well done!
S. Baldrick- It's unfortunate about the asthma thing. Do you still suffer from it?
It is utterly amazing how much smoking effects almost every aspect of your health. For instance, my father had 3 mild strokes in the last 2 years. Doctor's told him smoking contributes to the reduction in size of the blood vessels in the brain and makes strokes more frequent and of a stronger magnitude. The idiot (my father) was told to quit smoking and eat right 15 years ago but refused to listen to the doctors. Now at 59 I wonder if he is gonna make it past 60-63. If he had quit he would probably have made 70+. Idiot.
FH
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It is utterly amazing how much smoking effects almost every aspect of your health. For instance, my father had 3 mild strokes in the last 2 years. Doctor's told him smoking contributes to the reduction in size of the blood vessels in the brain and makes strokes more frequent and of a stronger magnitude. The idiot (my father) was told to quit smoking and eat right 15 years ago but refused to listen to the doctors. Now at 59 I wonder if he is gonna make it past 60-63. If he had quit he would probably have made 70+. Idiot.
FH
We've been encouraging my dad to quit for years now. No luck so far.