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e's not the messiah, e's a very naughty boy
Wilford_Brimley posted:
Right now Japanese and Korean gaming sites are livid about the main character, who is an Asian female, not having huge breasts and big circular doe eyes.
babyfinland posted:
what is xe pointing at
swirlsofhistory posted:Wilford_Brimley posted:Right now Japanese and Korean gaming sites are livid about the main character, who is an Asian female, not having huge breasts and big circular doe eyes.
judging by the number of irl American women vs. Japanese/Korean women who feel the need to actually undergo breast agumentation surgery i would say that its probably not the Asians who have the problem here
gyrofry posted:ancient greek babes were p hot
Then why was homosexuality so prevalent?
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:one of my favorite things online is the argument over whether they should give female characters nerfed physical stats in videogames for realism. some dudes are really pissed off about videogame character affirmative action, and the people opposed to it are hilarious too because they have to try to get offended at the very idea that women are not as physically strong as men
lol at the idea that anyone who plays video games has physical strength, agility, wisdom, or charisma
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:is it straight bias that i think women are generally a lot better looking than men, just objectively? it seems like theres a lot less stenchtrolls and 300 pounders among women
come to mississippi. 50th in literacy, #1 in morbidly obese genderparity
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:i feel like if wizards were smart every time a kid got sorted into slytherin they'd go "amazing, you get to go to our offsite campus for gifted wizards!" and then throw them down a well
any wizard who would propose that type of scheme would themselves have been sorted into slytherin. idiot.
ilmdge posted:le_nelson_mandela_face posted:i feel like if wizards were smart every time a kid got sorted into slytherin they'd go "amazing, you get to go to our offsite campus for gifted wizards!" and then throw them down a well
any wizard who would propose that type of scheme would themselves have been sorted into slytherin. idiot.
check your privilege
EmanuelaOrlandi posted:i've met quite a few gypsies and some of them were ok. some were creepy and most were just old people.
It's fairly common, at least among my groups. One character death happened because he was getting pretty low on HP and still had a minotaur on him. DM decided it didn't make sense for the minotaur to switch targets or flee, so went for full Power Attack to lower its attack bonus, hoping for a miss. We all just kinda stared at the natural 20 that resulted. I also tend to worry that I've overpowered the party whenever I throw much of anything at them. I suppose it's a mark of decent DMing.
Anyway, are we talking about neckbeards casting spells? Because I have a story of a neckbeard casting a spell.
I've mentioned Matt before. Matt was the one who always played the brooding, trenchcoated Richter Sterling. Matt was the one who tried to bring the SDF-1 into every game (Yes, every game, no matter the system or genre. Watching him do verbal gymnastics on the topic was always mildly entertaining). Matt was the one who, before I even got the second sentence of setting description out (coincidentally the one describing the watchful guards), interrupted with "I start pickpocketing!"
Matt was also the one "responsible" for "resetting" a friend's mind and letting a "new personality" take over. This is that story.
A disclaimer: I was raised by psychic hippies, steeped in mysticism all my life. So if someone says they can cast spells, I'm skeptical, but not going to call bullshit immediately. Strip away the mysticism, and every "spell" is just positive thinking and creative interpretation of events. Someone may need the framework of the spell in order to think positively and creatively enough to be the change they want. It's more like religion than anyone involved in the comparison cares to admit. So keep in mind that I at least half bought into this nonsense at the time.
At any rate, I was over at Matt's house with our mutual friend Randy. I think it was Matt's birthday, and either everyone else had left or we were the only ones who showed up (We only qualified as Matt's friends because he had latched, lamprey-like, onto us and would not leave us alone). We had played a little RIFTS earlier in the day (Matt, Randy, and I were really the only group in my school that played tabletop games), but mostly the day had seen us passing the controllers around playing fighting games on the Playstation. Due to this, I missed the setup or why Matt was casting a spell, but when I looked up he'd set up a ring of candles with Randy in the center. Matt started going on about how he'd cast spells with runes before, but the spell needed five runes and he only had four left.
So not only did Matt think he had a working knowledge of spellcasting, he also thought he was a Vancian caster. At the time I only took issue with the second part, although not vocally. I only informed him of the existence of the null or blank rune, which he agreed would be perfect for his spell. He continued his setup, which I don't recall accurately, and when he finished casting, Randy went away wasn't there stopped responding.
That sounds silly, and I'm still having trouble believing I bought into it even partially. But Randy, to get a little geekier for a moment, was like a videogame NPC with no AI loaded. He was in neutral. He still breathed, blinked, maintained balance, but he stayed silent and didn't respond much otherwise. We ran through some impromptu tests, verifying that Randy had reflexes and instinct and his martial arts training. I may have freaked out a little at this point, but that stopped when Matt grabbed a sword and threatened to commit suicide to get Randy's mind back.
I talked Matt down and, it being very late and not knowing anything else to do, I hitchhiked home with Randy, still silent and mostly unresponsive.
Since nothing happens in a vacuum, this is also the story of how Randy got us to take him seriously when he changed his name to Sephiroth.