My question is how does anything actually happen in New York the avengers the F4 the x-men mansion all of that is in new York. Surely criminals would think hmm maybe I should hit something up with a little less heat.
In addition to the above, it actually doesn't always happen in New York (though movies sure do). The X-Men mansion might be in New York state, but no one is supposed to know that the X-Men are there... and they have a super-sonic stealth jet that can bring them anywhere.
While the F4 mansion is well-known, most small-time crooks think they're below the radar of such things.
I do have to question the decision-making of small-time crooks, however, beyond the basic failure to understand or grasp social norms, when they think, "Hey this Luke Cage guy literally took a rocket launcher to the face, defeated two criminal organizations, and is immune to bullets - maybe I can stab and/or shoot him to death!" though, or who just keep going at it when Spiderman is known to be active in a given neighborhood. Sure they aren't invulnerable... but there has to be a certain amount of, I don't know... self preservation?... that has to be really ignored to get to that point.
Also, I question why people keep living in places like Hell's Kitchen, given how busy the supers often are, there. It's just... move somewhere else. (Though, from my understanding, the real Hell's Kitchen is nothing like the one from the Marvel comics stuff.)
I think I prefer the flintstons meet the Jetsons crossover better.
... it was amusing. I'll certainly admit that, as a kid, I liked it!
Same^ (also that would be the trippiest its a small world episode of hotel life ever.)
Okay, "Hotel Life" needs to be a show.
Starring you and gran.
And that needs to be an episode.
Hey, NH, call up all those wealthy famous people you clearly know by virtue of living in the same state, and make that happen!
(It'll be set in New York, filmed in California.)
Well, first I get dressed, second: what the heck just happened to my post above this one?
EDIT: Don't quite know what's happening around here, but this post was supposed to be above the one about Hotel Life, and the one about stuff taking place in New York was invisible... look, it's weird is all I'm saying.
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Also, resonance is bad, m'kay.
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Who was the first person to look at a bowl of rice and think "The most efficient way to eat this would be with two sticks."?
Someone who had clean sticks and nasty fingers - not that unlikely, really.
:D
(Normal rice is quite sticky and clumpy, and the sticks are used to scoop, not pinch. Thus chopsticks can serve as extended fingers - without the touching food, which can avoid things like burning in soup or getting burned by hot stuff, while separating hot pieces to cool individually. Or they can serve as a makeshift "spoon" to scoop things like sticky, clumpy rice, which, as I understand it, the scooping is one of the more commonly misunderstood elements (it helps that putting the bowl to your mouth and scooping from the bowl into your mouth is considered decent etiquette, at least in China). Or they can function as a make-shift fork by stabbing a thing, though I don't know that that's considered proper etiquette. If you're really desperate, they can be used as a make-shift knife, too, like pretty much any other utensil - that goes about as well as it does for any other utensil that's not a knife: pretty okay in some instances, horrible in others.)
Also, resonance is bad, m'kay.
Resonance?
True story!
I was mowing this place with another guy and I had accidentally run over a toy with the mower and he was weed whipping and he laughed at me just as he hit a pile of dog poo and ricocheted a piece right into his mouth.
I did NOT laugh at him, I drove him somewhere to wash out his mouth and then let him have the rest of the day off.
More importantly, I didn't tell a single other person we worked with.
Good man, cy - you handled that better than I might have. I really hope he didn't get too sick.
EDIT: for hopeful clarity of intent
Goblin-gourd, a goblin assault construct.
*yyyooooiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnk*
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Random thoughts - who the heck adds cinnamon into their coffee aka pumpkin spice? And smoked Buffalo sausage is nice =)
Pumpkin spice? Only Americans. But cinnamon by itself? I believe the Viennese started that one.
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Random thoughts - who the heck adds cinnamon into their coffee aka pumpkin spice? And smoked Buffalo sausage is nice =)
Every girl in America. And me. And so damn many people. It's a fall thing. And many of us want it to be an all thing.
Its delicious.
Why do people judge other people's food preference? How does me liking pineapple on my pizza hurt anyone else? They don't have to eat it. I'm probably guilty of the judgment too. I'm seriously confused as to why we do it.
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My question is how does anything actually happen in New York the avengers the F4 the x-men mansion all of that is in new York. Surely criminals would think hmm maybe I should hit something up with a little less heat.
The real question is why is all this s%%& in New York? Is Marvel so basic Hollywood that they never heard of LA, Chicago, Houston, Miami, or any other of the over one million population cities, ot which America has over 20?
Lazy writing.
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So I made a dish with couscous last week.
Hermione couldn't remember the word "couscous", so yesterday, when she mentioned it during a casual dinner conversation, she substituted the word "squirrel" instead.
She did it this way:
"So, remember last week, when Mom made--I know this isn't the right word--squirrel for dinner?"
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My question is how does anything actually happen in New York the avengers the F4 the x-men mansion all of that is in new York. Surely criminals would think hmm maybe I should hit something up with a little less heat.The real question is why is all this s@@* in New York? Is Marvel so basic Hollywood that they never heard of LA, Chicago, Houston, Miami, or any other of the over one million population cities, ot which America has over 20?
Lazy writing.
I would happily vote for Miami or Houston getting destroyed next time.
The trouble is, no one would bother fighting to save it.Not even Captain America.
Okay, I take it back, there are a couple of Cuban restaurants in Miami that are worth saving (looking at YOU, El Siboney), but other than that, no, I stand by my first statement.
Which would make a great premise for an episode of an Avengers TV show, really. But since there are already so many freaking Marvel shows out there that they just canceled Luke Cage and Iron Fist, well, no.
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The fact that 2e playtest was happening when I reappeared from my hiautus...well not shocked me but mildly surprised me. I love how James Jacobs spent like 40,000 posts in his page saying "we'll never make a 2e PF" (I followed it for a while back in the day) then changed his tune when they got so desperate for new content they made vampire hunter a base class instead of an archetype or a few archetypes as it should have been.
At some point need for innovation to draw new sales overrides one's actual creativity after millions of class/archetype/race ideas have been churned out. They turned into the very 3.5 sales model they mocked when starting.
The almighty dollar overrides all.
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And also, now I want to come visit Drejk.
Why did I think you lived in Gdansk instead of Krakow?
Krakow and a trip all around Malopolska are on my bucket list.
Okay, I'm going to quit spamming the thread and go get ready for work now.
My question is how does anything actually happen in New York the avengers the F4 the x-men mansion all of that is in new York. Surely criminals would think hmm maybe I should hit something up with a little less heat.The real question is why is all this s@@* in New York? Is Marvel so basic Hollywood that they never heard of LA, Chicago, Houston, Miami, or any other of the over one million population cities, ot which America has over 20?
Lazy writing.
I would happily vote for Miami or Houston getting destroyed next time.
The trouble is, no one would bother fighting to save it.
Not even Captain America.Okay, I take it back, there are a couple of Cuban restaurants in Miami that are worth saving (looking at YOU, El Siboney), but other than that, no, I stand by my first statement.
Hey! Wagons West is pretty rocking, as is Dan Marino's! Oh! And Big Cheese! All totally worth saving!
Which would make a great premise for an episode of an Avengers TV show, really. But since there are already so many freaking Marvel shows out there that they just canceled Luke Cage and Iron Fist, well, no.
... wat. >:I
Who was the first person to look at a bowl of rice and think "The most efficient way to eat this would be with two sticks."?Someone who had clean sticks and nasty fingers - not that unlikely, really.
:D
(Normal rice is quite sticky and clumpy, and the sticks are used to scoop, not pinch. Thus chopsticks can serve as extended fingers - without the touching food, which can avoid things like burning in soup or getting burned by hot stuff, while separating hot pieces to cool individually. Or they can serve as a makeshift "spoon" to scoop things like sticky, clumpy rice, which, as I understand it, the scooping is one of the more commonly misunderstood elements (it helps that putting the bowl to your mouth and scooping from the bowl into your mouth is considered decent etiquette, at least in China). Or they can function as a make-shift fork by stabbing a thing, though I don't know that that's considered proper etiquette. If you're really desperate, they can be used as a make-shift knife, too, like pretty much any other utensil - that goes about as well as it does for any other utensil that's not a knife: pretty okay in some instances, horrible in others.)
Or...and hear me out...you can say f+&& you to cultural preferences and use a fork. I know I've quoted him before but it bares repeating because you missed it:
You know they've seen the fork. They're just being stubborn. They aren't baling hay or plowing fields with two pool cues. - Seinfeld paraphrased
The fact that 2e playtest was happening when I reappeared from my hiautus...well not shocked me but mildly surprised me. I love how James Jacobs spent like 40,000 posts in his page saying "we'll never make a 2e PF" (I followed it for a while back in the day) then changed his tune when they got so desperate for new content they made vampire hunter a base class instead of an archetype or a few archetypes as it should have been.
At some point need for innovation to draw new sales overrides one's actual creativity after millions of class/archetype/race ideas have been churned out. They turned into the very 3.5 sales model they mocked when starting.
The almighty dollar overrides all.
I will say this in their defense:
- 1) they have clarified several times that they were not saying "never" (though, perhaps, in the early days they did), but rather "we have no plans on doing so now or any time in the future" which is, in fact, a different response (and that response had changed, somewhat, prior to the release)
- 2) I don't recall them mocking the 3.5 model? But I could be wrong.
I will say this against the PF2 (both personal and neither strong):
- 1) I don't like several elements of the direction they're taking toward its development in both terminology and design decisions.
- 2) I haven't felt like the kind of customer Paizo has wanted for their products for some time; both my preferences for game system design and rules-building, as well as my preferences for how to present those to the world at large are not really the same as Paizo's. And this is not a bad thing about Paizo, but it simply is true that they don't value my own preferences as a gamer. That's fine. The things I've seen from PF2 are just one more step toward that direction.
I will say this as neutral or half-way statements:
- 1) I feel that we were sold PF as a "continuation" of 3.5 (considering the tagline, "3.5 lives THRIVES!" you know), however many fundamental rules changes - both overt and subtle - meant that playing the game in the manner we'd previously engaged with was negated by Pathfinder. This was at least somewhat intentional (both the overt and not-overt), and could generate ill-will by people who expected one thing, but got another. To that end, having a new system from the ground up being the thing you want makes sense.
- 2) I harbor no ill-will for wanting to make cash or for seeing the current version of PF as hitting a wall of creativity; both of those things make sense to me, as a player and consumer. I wish them well in this endeavor, and will withhold final judgement until I see the final product.
Who was the first person to look at a bowl of rice and think "The most efficient way to eat this would be with two sticks."?Someone who had clean sticks and nasty fingers - not that unlikely, really.
:D
(Normal rice is quite sticky and clumpy, and the sticks are used to scoop, not pinch. Thus chopsticks can serve as extended fingers - without the touching food, which can avoid things like burning in soup or getting burned by hot stuff, while separating hot pieces to cool individually. Or they can serve as a makeshift "spoon" to scoop things like sticky, clumpy rice, which, as I understand it, the scooping is one of the more commonly misunderstood elements (it helps that putting the bowl to your mouth and scooping from the bowl into your mouth is considered decent etiquette, at least in China). Or they can function as a make-shift fork by stabbing a thing, though I don't know that that's considered proper etiquette. If you're really desperate, they can be used as a make-shift knife, too, like pretty much any other utensil - that goes about as well as it does for any other utensil that's not a knife: pretty okay in some instances, horrible in others.)
Or...and hear me out...you can say f#@+ you to cultural preferences and use a fork. I know I've quoted him before but it bares repeating because you missed it:
You know they've seen the fork. They're just being stubborn. They aren't baling hay or plowing fields with two pool cues. - Seinfeld paraphrased
... but forks suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. As someone who's grown up with them, I'll use them when necessary, but they're pretty terrible if you can use other options.
(Note: I'm not championing chop sticks, here. I'm championing sporks.)
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Same^ (also that would be the trippiest its a small world episode of hotel life ever.)
I will see to it that enthusiastic cosplayers are sent to the front desk to keep you two...distracted...
Same^ (also that would be the trippiest its a small world episode of hotel life ever.)I will see to it that enthusiastic cosplayers are sent to the front desk to keep you two...distracted...
... yeah, this is still part of that episode.
Why is New York City always getting ruined in comic books?Ooh! OOH!! I know!!! Because it deserves it.
My question is how does anything actually happen in New York the avengers the F4 the x-men mansion all of that is in new York. Surely criminals would think hmm maybe I should hit something up with a little less heat.The real question is why is all this s$&$ in New York? Is Marvel so basic Hollywood that they never heard of LA, Chicago, Houston, Miami, or any other of the over one million population cities, ot which America has over 20?
Lazy writing.
more like lazy/poor fanbases who will not support their local teams. I'm looking at you Champions(LA).
Who was the first person to look at a bowl of rice and think "The most efficient way to eat this would be with two sticks."?Someone who had clean sticks and nasty fingers - not that unlikely, really.
:D
(Normal rice is quite sticky and clumpy, and the sticks are used to scoop, not pinch. Thus chopsticks can serve as extended fingers - without the touching food, which can avoid things like burning in soup or getting burned by hot stuff, while separating hot pieces to cool individually. Or they can serve as a makeshift "spoon" to scoop things like sticky, clumpy rice, which, as I understand it, the scooping is one of the more commonly misunderstood elements (it helps that putting the bowl to your mouth and scooping from the bowl into your mouth is considered decent etiquette, at least in China). Or they can function as a make-shift fork by stabbing a thing, though I don't know that that's considered proper etiquette. If you're really desperate, they can be used as a make-shift knife, too, like pretty much any other utensil - that goes about as well as it does for any other utensil that's not a knife: pretty okay in some instances, horrible in others.)
Or...and hear me out...you can say f&@+ you to cultural preferences and use a fork. I know I've quoted him before but it bares repeating because you missed it:
You know they've seen the fork. They're just being stubborn. They aren't baling hay or plowing fields with two pool cues. - Seinfeld paraphrased
CHOP STICKS FOREVER!
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So I made a dish with couscous last week.
Hermione couldn't remember the word "couscous", so yesterday, when she mentioned it during a casual dinner conversation, she substituted the word "squirrel" instead.
She did it this way:
"So, remember last week, when Mom made--I know this isn't the right word--squirrel for dinner?"
why dont you invite me for dinner more often?!
I would LOVE squirrel for dinner!
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The fact that 2e playtest was happening when I reappeared from my hiautus...well not shocked me but mildly surprised me. I love how James Jacobs spent like 40,000 posts in his page saying "we'll never make a 2e PF" (I followed it for a while back in the day) then changed his tune when they got so desperate for new content they made vampire hunter a base class instead of an archetype or a few archetypes as it should have been.
At some point need for innovation to draw new sales overrides one's actual creativity after millions of class/archetype/race ideas have been churned out. They turned into the very 3.5 sales model they mocked when starting.
The almighty dollar overrides all.
I will say this in their defense:
- 1) they have clarified several times that they were not saying "never" (though, perhaps, in the early days they did), but rather "we have no plans on doing so now or any time in the future" which is, in fact, a different response (and that response had changed, somewhat, prior to the release)
- 2) I don't recall them mocking the 3.5 model? But I could be wrong.
I will say this against the PF2 (both personal and neither strong):
- 1) I don't like several elements of the direction they're taking toward its development in both terminology and design decisions.
- 2) I haven't felt like the kind of customer Paizo has wanted for their products for some time; both my preferences for game system design and rules-building, as well as my preferences for how to present those to the world at large are not really the same as Paizo's. And this is not a bad thing about Paizo, but it simply is true that they don't value my own preferences as a gamer. That's fine. The things I've seen from PF2 are just one more step toward that direction.
I will say this as neutral or half-way statements:
- 1) I feel that we were sold PF as a "continuation" of 3.5 (considering the tagline, "3.5
livesTHRIVES!" you know), however many fundamental rules...
let's not bring edition wars into the thread.
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My question is how does anything actually happen in New York the avengers the F4 the x-men mansion all of that is in new York. Surely criminals would think hmm maybe I should hit something up with a little less heat.The real question is why is all this s%#! in New York? Is Marvel so basic Hollywood that they never heard of LA, Chicago, Houston, Miami, or any other of the over one million population cities, ot which America has over 20?
Lazy writing.
Are there many US cities as distinctive as New York (to non-Americans)?
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Random thoughts - who the heck adds cinnamon into their coffee aka pumpkin spice? And smoked Buffalo sausage is nice =)Every girl in America. And me. And so damn many people. It's a fall thing. And many of us want it to be an all thing.
Its delicious.
I hate pumpkin. Do I get my girl card revoked?
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I hate pumpkin. Do I get my girl card revoked?Random thoughts - who the heck adds cinnamon into their coffee aka pumpkin spice? And smoked Buffalo sausage is nice =)Every girl in America. And me. And so damn many people. It's a fall thing. And many of us want it to be an all thing.
Its delicious.
of course not. That would be silly.
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Are there many US cities as distinctive as New York (to non-Americans)?My question is how does anything actually happen in New York the avengers the F4 the x-men mansion all of that is in new York. Surely criminals would think hmm maybe I should hit something up with a little less heat.The real question is why is all this s%#! in New York? Is Marvel so basic Hollywood that they never heard of LA, Chicago, Houston, Miami, or any other of the over one million population cities, ot which America has over 20?
Lazy writing.
I'm not from England, but even I've heard of other cities besides London. Manchester, for example. I can thank Frasier for that one!
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My question is how does anything actually happen in New York the avengers the F4 the x-men mansion all of that is in new York. Surely criminals would think hmm maybe I should hit something up with a little less heat.The real question is why is all this s@@* in New York? Is Marvel so basic Hollywood that they never heard of LA, Chicago, Houston, Miami, or any other of the over one million population cities, ot which America has over 20?
Lazy writing.
I would happily vote for Miami or Houston getting destroyed next time.
Independence Day had it hit twice, once by aliens and once by American nukes while trying to destroy the aliens.
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Every time. Every single time I try to make campfire coffee (tie a rubber band around the filter on top of the cup and percolate yourself) I make a huge mess when it comes time to take the filter and rubber band off.
I need to get a coffee machine.
To explain the situation of how broke we are after moving to Ohio, I'm sitting in a 5 dollar camping chair. Beyond my mattress on the floor, it's the extent of our furniture.
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The very fact that you have to point out movies that DON'T have New York (or to a lesser extent, LA) shows how pervasive this b%+~@@#! is.
America has a population of 300 mil +/-
New York has a population of just under 9 mil IIRC
LA has a population of just under 4.5 mil IIRC
That is 285,000,000/300,000,000 underrepresented people. More actually. Over 285 million people.
That's more than every minority group in the entire USA being ignored. If you whitewash any form of media people lose their mind (as they rightfully should) but if it's geographic discrimination, well, f#!* those hicks for living in the middle of "nowhere" like Chicago, right?
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The fact that 2e playtest was happening when I reappeared from my hiautus...well not shocked me but mildly surprised me. I love how James Jacobs spent like 40,000 posts in his page saying "we'll never make a 2e PF" (I followed it for a while back in the day) then changed his tune when they got so desperate for new content they made vampire hunter a base class instead of an archetype or a few archetypes as it should have been.
At some point need for innovation to draw new sales overrides one's actual creativity after millions of class/archetype/race ideas have been churned out. They turned into the very 3.5 sales model they mocked when starting.
The almighty dollar overrides all.
Fun fact: publishing role-playing games is a business. It is done to make money.
I'd like to see:
(a) a game where single edition lasts forever while the game is still developed (being sold in times of PODs and digital editions is not enough). The longest lasting edition I can think off of the top of my head is 3rd edition GURPS which went from 1988 to 2004, albeit it got a revision somewhere along the line. AD&D 2nd edition got what, 13 years? Most games don't last 10 years that Pathfinder 1st edition got.
(b) Actual link to the place where Paizo states there will never be 2nd edition. All I ever saw was that they are not planning 2nd edition soon (and it was long ago) and/or, the statement that they won't do 2nd edition for at least 10 years (which is exactly what they did).
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Wasn't Starfinder exactly the route they could've continued to have taken to expand? Other genres? Maybe it's just me, but I like games that are more than swords and sorcery. I mean, ye gods man, fiction is a mighty beast, and fantasy but one of her billion backs.
You're right though. Gotta pay the bills. I'm not saying to do so was wrong. I'm just saying it was amusing.
I really need to stop using hyperbole. Imma get myself in trouble. Always. Damnit. Did it again.
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BTW: it came to me that GURPS 4th edition is 14 years old now... It's so good, though, within its own parameters and expectations, that it would be hard to improve with 5th edition. For now, the SJGames main money maker is (as far as I know) Munchkin, anyway.
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Pumpkin Haters Unite!!
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I don't care for pumpkins one way or another.
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PUMPKIN AND CHOPSTICKS FOREVER!
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I like pumpkin soup. Pumpkin in coffee is just weird to me. I tried running in Phoenix just for science but I found that the dry air made it rather hard for me to breathe(I get sniffles mighty quick) so I didn't get many wheres. I never have problems like that in SG.
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That might be more an issue with the altitude. It's much higher above the sea level than Singapore.
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Hmmm... It's not as high as I thought, however. 331 meters average in Phoenix. The rest of Arizona tends to be much higher.
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Singapore is mostly around 15 meters above sea level, with highest point being 165 meters, apparently...
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"So, your assignment is to write an obituary for Huck."
"But we know he's alive."
"We do? I live in town, and I'm pretty sure he's dead..."
"Ohhhh."
"So, it'll need to be about a page-"
'Oh, God."
"-and include a sketch of Huck."
"OH, GOD."
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Are there many US cities as distinctive as New York (to non-Americans)?My question is how does anything actually happen in New York the avengers the F4 the x-men mansion all of that is in new York. Surely criminals would think hmm maybe I should hit something up with a little less heat.The real question is why is all this s%#! in New York? Is Marvel so basic Hollywood that they never heard of LA, Chicago, Houston, Miami, or any other of the over one million population cities, ot which America has over 20?
Lazy writing.
Los Francisco in California (hot, sea, surfers, movie stars). Seattle (rain). Miami (hot, sea, and swamp). New Orleans (hot, sea, swamp, and French architecture). Chicago (gangsters). Detroit (vast stretches of abandoned buildings). Texas Houston. Las Vegas (gangsters, hot and desert, everpresent neons).
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And also, now I want to come visit Drejk.
Why did I think you lived in Gdansk instead of Krakow?
Krakow and a trip all around Malopolska are on my bucket list.Okay, I'm going to quit spamming the thread and go get ready for work now.
I mentioned in the past my room mates moving to (near) Gdansk.
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Hmmm... It's not as high as I thought, however. 331 meters average in Phoenix. The rest of Arizona tends to be much higher.
Phoenix, if I remember correctly, is sprawled within a valley.
In about 40 minutes I head to the airport to fly out to Virginia to work from that office for 2 days, come back on Thursday. Then Friday night go camping for the weekend in the middle of nowhere. I may not be awake for much of the weekend.
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Hmmm... It's not as high as I thought, however. 331 meters average in Phoenix. The rest of Arizona tends to be much higher.Phoenix, if I remember correctly, is sprawled within a valley.
Correct. They call it the Valley of the Sun, but I prefer to consider it the Desert World of Super Mario Bros 3.
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Correct. They call it the Valley of the Sun, but I prefer to consider it the Desert World of Super Mario Bros 3.Hmmm... It's not as high as I thought, however. 331 meters average in Phoenix. The rest of Arizona tends to be much higher.Phoenix, if I remember correctly, is sprawled within a valley.
please tell me an angry sun chases you.