threads with the topic 'does anyone else hate <insert whatever might come to mind> ?
Or, should I ask, "Is it evil to start a thread with a topic of 'Does anyone else HATE $whatever?'"?
I personally hate potatoes. Its utterly rediculous that this colonial food (originally in the americas) often pops up in Mideval fantasy. All the time I see characters in taverns ordering stews that contain potatoes and it totally breaks my immersion in the game.
I personally hate potatoes. Its utterly rediculous that this colonial food (originally in the americas) often pops up in Mideval fantasy. All the time I see characters in taverns ordering stews that contain potatoes and it totally breaks my immersion in the game.
LOL!
Epic!
Ultradan
I personally hate potatoes. Its utterly rediculous that this colonial food (originally in the americas) often pops up in Mideval fantasy. All the time I see characters in taverns ordering stews that contain potatoes and it totally breaks my immersion in the game.
Generic Medieval Fantasy Land has all the flora and fauna native to earth as indigenous, except when it specifically isn't. Potatoes were new world foods on Earth - from the Eurasian point of view - they aren't necessarily in Golarion, or Tethus, or Greyhawk, etc. Or perhaps it's a type of starchy tuber that is simply called a potato, without technically being a member of the Solanum genus.
NOOO!... I'll never hate ellipses, they are my friend for effect when typing... (>^_^)>...<(^_^<)
I personally hate potatoes. Its utterly rediculous that this colonial food (originally in the americas) often pops up in Mideval fantasy. All the time I see characters in taverns ordering stews that contain potatoes and it totally breaks my immersion in the game.Generic Medieval Fantasy Land has all the flora and fauna native to earth as indigenous, except when it specifically isn't. Potatoes were new world foods on Earth - from the Eurasian point of view - they aren't necessarily in Golarion, or Tethus, or Greyhawk, etc. Or perhaps it's a type of starchy tuber that is simply called a potato, without technically being a member of the Solanum genus.
Because any tuber is better than a turnip. Even if that tuber is a nightshade.
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Because any tuber is better than a turnip.
Harold Shea: "Say, don't you guys have any vegetables?"
Thor: "Hai! We shall call you 'Turnip Harald'!"--L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, "The Mathematics of Magic."
Seriously, though. I love turnips.
I don't know if it's "hate", but I do resent one thing about creating my very own original and novel fantasy world - and that's being forced by symbolic inertia* to fill that world with 'turnips', 'potatoes', 'oak trees', and 'horses.'
* (By symbolic inertia, I mean the phenomenon that if you were to create an entire setting totally full of original concepts - such as a full range of root vegetables of your own invention - the amount of time needed to describe these vegetables, and memorize their names, and the vocabulary lessons needed to add any significant number of such new concepts to your players' memory banks, is so horribly inefficient that one essentially cannot run a campaign world without falling back on Earth analogues such as "turnips," et. al. In other words, the fact that (most) D&D worlds have horses isn't because we're all horse fans - it's because the symbol "horse" is readily available and takes less time than it does to explain "chocobo" to somebody who's never heard of that concept... Is there an actual psychological/writing term I should be using? Because 'symbolic inertia' is just a term I made up... and you can see how long it took to explain it to you. Because of symbolic inertia.)
D: I bet your character's speak modern English too [/sarcasm]
In honesty, I totally agree with you. What's important is that you point out the things that are distinctive and different in your world. If there's some strange fruit that's central to your world that has special effects it's okay to give it a special name; if it's just a random fruit that grows on trees that can be cooked into baked foods, it's okay to call it an apple. I'd rather someone not use the word "horse" to describe a chocobo, and then go on about it's feathers; that's just confusing; if instead one used "emus", it'd be much clearer.
I HATE HATE. ~thinks~ Or is it that I just dislike HATE. Maybe distain HATE?
I HATE HATE. ~thinks~ Or is it that I just dislike HATE. Maybe distain HATE?
What the f~*$ is up with all these typos and misspellings and s&@% all over this f#@%ing thread. I have seen at least three.
Your pretty upset. Is their a problem?I HATE HATE. ~thinks~ Or is it that I just dislike HATE. Maybe distain HATE?What the f~$* is up with all these typos and misspellings and s!*@ all over this f#@&ing thread. I have seen at least three.
Clarely tis ol teh haterade that's got him jused up. :D
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I removed a post that may have been forum drama, but was definitely name calling.
Yeah, I can never remember if I posted in a thread the mods have to clean up, and if I posted something objectionable.
I have this problem, too. I generally try to be nice and not fight, but I have my moods where I want to f#~$ with anybody who even remotely disagrees with me, and then the mods have to come and clean up the s%*+ storm. This is more on other sites than Paizo, but I get the feeling the mods have their eyes on me.
Yeah, I can never remember if I posted in a thread the mods have to clean up, and if I posted something objectionable.I have this problem, too. I generally try to be nice and not fight, but I have my moods where I want to f@$# with anybody who even remotely disagrees with me, and then the mods have to come and clean up the s!@@ storm. This is more on other sites than Paizo, but I get the feeling the mods have their eyes on me.
That's why I write fiction. When I get sufficiently angry I can rip apart a fictional character of whatever design is annoying me at the moment and lovingly describe his gory humiliation and death. Or I buy a roast chicken and actually do the deed with my teeth and claws. Good times.
Then you come back to the forum, no longer (as) angry. That way you can be lawful about what you start and what you finish.
DOES ANYONE ELSE HATE....
The idiotic threads people create to start drama when there is no need for any? Yes. Yes I do.