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If multiverse theory is correct...you already did.
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If multiverse theory is correct...you already did.
If multiverse theory is correct you also are going to do it and are currently doing it.
Of course, if it is correct you have also not done it, are not doing it, and aren't going to do it.
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If the multiverse turns out to be true, I'm going to have to apologize to a lot of dead cats...
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If the multiverse turns out to be true, I'm going to have to apologize to a lot of dead cats...
That's ok. If the multiverse turns out to be true, cats are responsible* for a lot of dead yous.
* Responsible. Cats aren't sorry, cats don't apologize.
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Heh heh heh...
Dang it, Clarke's 2010 isn't a how-to. And these things are supposed to multiplying on Jupiter, not here.
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Dang it, Clarke's 2010 isn't a how-to. And these things are supposed to multiplying on Jupiter, not here.Heh heh heh...
PSSST! Doc!
According to the original 2001 book, they are supposed to be at Saturn...
What made the change? Did the aliens get to him? What could they be holding over the head of Arthur C. Clarke?
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Speaking of this, I'd just like to take a moment to address something that chaps my hide.
"Monolith" refers to a single piece of stone. Mono- means one and -lith means stone.
What people are finding in remote locations are made of shiny metal. Not stone.
They're slabs. Slabs, dammit. Upright slabs.
I've already lost this fight, haven't I?
*slinks back to Quibblecave to fume*
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Dang it, Clarke's 2010 isn't a how-to. And these things are supposed to multiplying on Jupiter, not here.Heh heh heh...PSSST! Doc!
According to the original 2001 book, they are supposed to be at Saturn...
What made the change? Did the aliens get to him? What could they be holding over the head of Arthur C. Clarke?
I believe it was a response to the discovery of possible liquid water on Europa, making it a more viable location for possible extraterrestrial lifeforms.
EDIT: Google says Kubrick asked to move it to Jupiter because he felt he couldn't properly portray Saturn's rings with the tech at the time. The Europa discovery was just a happy coincidence, apparently, that gave Clarke more justification for agreeing to the change.
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I've already lost this fight, haven't I?
Some 3.5-5 millions years ago when the aliens put theirs to uplift apes.
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Speaking of this, I'd just like to take a moment to address something that chaps my hide.
"Monolith" refers to a single piece of stone. Mono- means one and -lith means stone.
What people are finding in remote locations are made of shiny metal. Not stone.
They're slabs. Slabs, dammit. Upright slabs.
I've already lost this fight, haven't I?
*slinks back to Quibblecave to fume*
I'm with you Quibble! TO ARMS!!!
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More accurate terms for what people are finding: beam, pillar, or potentially, depending on intended use, pylon.
I wish it WERE pylon. I've been needing additional ones.
Beams, pillars, and pylons all serve architectural functions. The pictures show the slabs being too thin-to-wide in ratio to really be pillars. And they're not holding anything up, nor does it appear they are meant to. So pillar is right out. Pylons are generally more grandiose, no? I'm standing by slab.
SLAB!
*waves hastily sewn flag of Slabtivists*
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More accurate terms for what people are finding: beam, pillar, or potentially, depending on intended use, pylon.
I wish it WERE pylon. I've been needing additional ones.
Beams, pillars, and pylons all serve architectural functions. The pictures show the slabs being too thin-to-wide in ratio to really be pillars. And they're not holding anything up, nor does it appear they are meant to. So pillar is right out. Pylons are generally more grandiose, no? I'm standing by slab.
SLAB!
*waves hastily sewn flag of Slabtivists*
Maybe if you didn't use Monkey Santa as your campaign coordinator...
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Hey!
Don’t blame me for that yahoo’s failures.
I’m a winner.
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Forget all this monolith and slab stuff! Give me Land of the Lost Pylons now!
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Is Land of the Lost Pylons similar to The Cones of Dunshire?
Edit: Damn, now I'm hungry for calzones.
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Hurmdee hoodee calzooonee resistin is fuuuuteee
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Is Land of the Lost Pylons similar to The Cones of Dunshire?
The Cones of Dunshire? That's what we called yer mother's breasts, Trebek!
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Slab's're for engravin' with th' names o' yer deadfolk. They ain't got no mystic mumbo jumbo to 'em, 'cept keepin' th' dead happy they're bein' remembered so they don't haunt yer arse.
'Less, 'course, y'mean th' artifact slabs ye find in forbidden old vaults guarded by th' legions o' the damned....
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...keepin' th' dead happy they're bein' remembered so they don't haunt yer arse.
But enough about my honeymoon...
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Honestly, in my 35 years of gaming that has NEVER occurred to me!!! It's a fantastic idea!
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Same. My above comment was referring to how engraved memorial slabs in Dwarf Fortress keep the dead dwarf from coming back as a ghost to haunt your fort, but I can definitely see the use and potential in such an effect being transferred over to D&D/PF.
I'm sure the cost of such a spell effect on a headstone would be beyond the means of the average commoner, but I can definitely see the graveyards of big Pharasmin cathedrals and other such places having such effects, probably tied to a hallow spell or similar that covers the entire grounds.
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Sounds like a creative use of consecrate to me. And I like it.
Probably not a unique idea based on the text of that spell, but I think it's a good application regardless.
And considering the cost of spellcasting services even that 2nd level spell is priced well out of reach of the common folk in most campaigns/settings. But in a high magic setting where 0-2 level spells are wielded as commonly as developed nations' citizenry wields smartphones? Yeah, that would be all over the place.
Golarion is not such a high magic setting, though. I think it would be difficult to play in or GM such a setting.
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Golarion is not such a high magic setting, though. I think it would be difficult to play in or GM such a setting.
For those of us who don't set our games in Golarion it wouldn't be much of a problem, though.
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I wasn't talking about a high magic version of Golarion, rather about any high magic setting. If magic is as common as cell phones, how does that affect the society? What changes? What doesn't? Lots of questions, not many answers. You might end up with something that looks a lot like "magic as technology". You might end up with something else. Seems like a lot of work for whoever's designing the world.
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Meh.
I see it like the Flintstones. Guy pulls a cool beer out of a box with a frost elemental in it. Elemental shrugs to camera. “It’s a living.”
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Fantasy NPC: Daromir, The Gift-Gremlin
Neat!
Hmmm, I think I'll have to work out what the CR and stats would be for Small white elephant form into which Daromir could Change Shape (su).
Yes, because it's punny, but also because I think it'd be nifty.
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Ya know how Facebook sometimes shows a list of photos of "people you might know"? That popped up on my page yesterday and there was a beautiful young woman around 21 years old and she looked very, VERY familiar. I clicked on her photo and holy crap she's the daughter of the woman I lived with in college who eventually pushed me over the edge into my first complete emotional/mental breakdown. She looks an INCREDIBLE amount like her mom. Her mom and I have reconciled over the years and are friends (to a degree now) but man, talk about a freak-out. AND she's living here in my home town and knows two of my other friends (and sometimes gaming partners) here in town. I wish I'd had some whiskey by that point because I'd probably have gotten blind drunk out of shock.
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This just confirms my theory that there are only 32 real people in the entire universe. Everyone else is a shadowy reflection of one of those 32--an echo or afterimage, as when one looks too long at someone bathed in bright light and sees their face behind the eyelids...
When the human population was much smaller, those 32 were far more apparent. Hence the Age of Gods and Heroes. As the species thrived and multiplied, the echoes swamped the real sound and for a time the Age of The Individual fooled humankind. Now, the participatory panopticon has revealed to us once more this truth. There are only 32 real people.
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This just confirms my theory that there are only 32 real people in the entire universe. Everyone else is a shadowy reflection of one of those 32--an echo or afterimage, as when one looks too long at someone bathed in bright light and sees their face behind the eyelids...
When the human population was much smaller, those 32 were far more apparent. Hence the Age of Gods and Heroes. As the species thrived and multiplied, the echoes swamped the real sound and for a time the Age of The Individual fooled humankind. Now, the participatory panopticon has revealed to us once more this truth. There are only 32 real people.
That is how my imagination created it. It told me so. And then taunted me with "And there's nothing you can do to stop me! It's too late!"
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It's always too late.
It's never too late for now
Who's that?
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There are only 32 real people.
And now you can find all the people who match with you
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There are only 32 real people.And now you can find all the people who match with you
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
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Several years ago, when my brother was in the Navy, he was on leave in London and saw a guy standing at the bar and thought it was me. He ran up to the guy, gave him a hug, and exclaimed, "Why didn't you say you were coming to England?" He said the guy looked terrified and replied in a thick Liverpudlian accent, "Who the F... are you?" It took several minutes and an ID check for the guy to prove he wasn't me...LOL
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Ah, the old "pretend to be from Liverpool to avoid family" ploy. A classic...
(Except obviously in Liverpool where it doesn’t work so well.)
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"Helllooo? I'm cold and there are wolves after me!"
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Doot doot doot.
I don't think so.
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I’m, like, 90% sure he’s lying to me...
This was much needed tonight...lol
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Fantasy Monster: Snowlin Gremlin
I want it to snow so I can see one.
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Fantasy Monster: Snowlin Gremlin
Great! Now I can get a guide for an arctic expedition to the North Pole in a few weeks...
...for reasons...
>.>
<.<
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I had a dream of a bear scavenging around in my neighborhood and me feeding it things. And then it started sneaking on a fox that ate some trash. I woke up before I could scare the fox away.