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C'mon chummers we're going on a Shadow[chat]

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    @Athenor Super Tuesday p. 69

    this bit rocks btw

  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    Vampire Weekend formed in 2006, they're more diagnostic of gen Z than anything else

  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    VishNub wrote: »
    We are making Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce which is literally just a can of San Marzanos, a onion cut in half (then removed after cooking), butter, and salt.

    I am skeptical, but I definitely respect the commitment to simplicity and am prepared to be pleasantly surprised.

    Edit: c1m6o2v5g0o7.jpeg


    I feel you're kinda understating the rather large amount of butter in that sauce. It works really well but leaves me feeling like it shouldn't be a staple because it can't be that healthy for you.

    Nod. Get treat. PSN: Quippish
  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    local elections are underdone in games

    the default fantasy government is like, a king?? palace intrigue? and, okay, but have you seen the kind of hectic shit that goes on in free democratic elections. it's basically made for a bunch of adventurers to fuck with

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    Atomika wrote: »
    I don’t really want to talk about politics right now but I’d love to whine about politics
    If I were Amy I would simply make a new primary thread

    I keep running into our reading articles about these alleged Democrat boomers who are like, “Lol socialism. We can’t win without appealing to the Center-Right.”

    And I all I see is red

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Athenor Super Tuesday p. 69

    this bit rocks btw

    Damnit, I just said NO ALT HISTORY POLITICS IN CHAT!

    ... Ah well. Did you know that Dunkelzahn actually was fairly close in the vote to win? FASA really did tally up votes to see which candidate would become President.

    Anyways, I have some bonus swag for this too.

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    And the backs of these books are just as entertaining as the fronts in many cases.

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    I apologize that the photos aren't that great. I'm trying really hard not to break the spines on these books, because they are old and the binding is known to be crappy. So I'm trying my best to provide as much readable space as possible.

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    He/Him | "A boat is always safest in the harbor, but that’s not why we build boats." | "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." - Suletta Mercury, G-Witch
  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    He/Him | "A boat is always safest in the harbor, but that’s not why we build boats." | "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." - Suletta Mercury, G-Witch
  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    I just noticed the price of that book was $15 new (I didn't pay that much for it).

    Sigh. Simpler times.

    He/Him | "A boat is always safest in the harbor, but that’s not why we build boats." | "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." - Suletta Mercury, G-Witch
  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    ngl i was hoping for something along the lines of "go into this troll neighbourhood and canvas votes for the We Hate Trolls Party"

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    I think today is the day when the reality of the cancer diagnosis broke through the shock for DateGrrl

    She’s been really upset all day and looking at Google images searches for people with mandibular cancer and it’s not pretty

  • ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    I think today is the day when the reality of the cancer diagnosis broke through the shock for DateGrrl

    She’s been really upset all day and looking at Google images searches for people with mandibular cancer and it’s not pretty

    <3

    fuck gendered marketing
  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    ngl i was hoping for something along the lines of "go into this troll neighbourhood and canvas votes for the We Hate Trolls Party"

    Those are in some of the earlier adventures. You happened to pick a later page.
    Atomika wrote: »
    I think today is the day when the reality of the cancer diagnosis broke through the shock for DateGrrl

    She’s been really upset all day and looking at Google images searches for people with mandibular cancer and it’s not pretty

    Oh shit, Atomica. :( It's treatable, I hope?

    He/Him | "A boat is always safest in the harbor, but that’s not why we build boats." | "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." - Suletta Mercury, G-Witch
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    https://youtu.be/PhiWc99KrLg

    Happy Valentine's day [chat].

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    ngl i was hoping for something along the lines of "go into this troll neighbourhood and canvas votes for the We Hate Trolls Party"

    Those are in some of the earlier adventures. You happened to pick a later page.
    Atomika wrote: »
    I think today is the day when the reality of the cancer diagnosis broke through the shock for DateGrrl

    She’s been really upset all day and looking at Google images searches for people with mandibular cancer and it’s not pretty

    Oh shit, Atomica. :( It's treatable, I hope?

    Right now we have no idea. We’re supposed to see the oncologist in two weeks and have a biopsy. Lots of sitting around and waiting.

    The good news is that the area has never been painful or distended, which bodes well.

  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    VishNub wrote: »
    We are making Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce which is literally just a can of San Marzanos, a onion cut in half (then removed after cooking), butter, and salt.

    I am skeptical, but I definitely respect the commitment to simplicity and am prepared to be pleasantly surprised.

    Edit: img

    I feel you're kinda understating the rather large amount of butter in that sauce. It works really well but leaves me feeling like it shouldn't be a staple because it can't be that healthy for you.
    spool32 wrote: »
    VishNub wrote: »
    We are making Marcella Hazan’s tomato sauce which is literally just a can of San Marzanos, a onion cut in half (then removed after cooking), butter, and salt.

    I am skeptical, but I definitely respect the commitment to simplicity and am prepared to be pleasantly surprised.

    Edit: img

    what you'll get there is an onion flavor without any of the sweetness that actually chopping up and browning the onion would get you.

    So, first of all, it’s really good. It succeeds perfectly at what it’s trying to do. I agree the butter does a lot of work to round it off.

    I think the point is to minimize the onion. It’s definitely there, but less the focus. It doesn’t actually need any more sweetness, oddly.

    But: It’s not what I would want for like a centerpiece or main dish, it’s kind of too simple for that. But I think it would work great to accompany a deeper or more complex protein without overwhelming it like sometimes happens with tomato sauces.

    @DevoutlyApathetic @spool32

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    @A Kobold's Kobold


    Check out last page, you probably would appreciate it. Forgot to tag you originally, but needed to verify you were the right person to batsignal and the forum search around here is horrendous.

    He/Him | "A boat is always safest in the harbor, but that’s not why we build boats." | "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." - Suletta Mercury, G-Witch
  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    Dare I say, the Sonic movie was pretty good.

    It has a surprise at the end.

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    I think someone else has made basically this exact post in chat before, but I wish more action media didn't use that trope of being able to whack someone in the head and knock them out for hours without giving them massive brain damage. Because it's unrealistic, obviously, but I also think there's some cool stuff you could do tonally or thematically with it. Having to confront that you can't really do consequence-free violence, that if you escalate things to that point outside of narrow circumstances where you can like, pin down and handcuff someone, you are going to kill people. Gets the characters to try more kinds of approaches to the conflicts to avoid things getting to that point, and gives it more gravitas if it gets there regardless.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    @LoserForHireX I got an S on Ziggs in ARAM. He is very fun in ARAM.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Coinage wrote: »
    I've delivered DoorDash to this guy 4 times, I'm pretty sure I've never delivered to anyone else even twice. It must be destiny

    You do the doordash delivery thing? Is it true they don't give you the tips if people tip digitally?
    Nah we get the tips. What is fuzzy about it is that there are two parts of the pay: doordash's pay and the tip. When someone declines the order DoorDash raises their pay so the next person is more likely to accept it. So if you tip $10 and you live a mile away, the first person to see it is going to accept it. If you tip $1 it'll probably get rejected until DoorDash raises their pay enough to compensate. This kind of system needs to exist for them to be able to guarantee someone takes the order eventually, when as independent contractors they cannot punish drivers for refusing orders. I have a 20% acceptance rate because so many of the orders are bad. So in a sense you're subsidizing DoorDash when you tip in the app, but you also want someone bring your food in a reasonable amount of time

    So tip less but order early. Gotcha.

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    I think someone else has made basically this exact post in chat before, but I wish more action media didn't use that trope of being able to whack someone in the head and knock them out for hours without giving them massive brain damage. Because it's unrealistic, obviously, but I also think there's some cool stuff you could do tonally or thematically with it. Having to confront that you can't really do consequence-free violence, that if you escalate things to that point outside of narrow circumstances where you can like, pin down and handcuff someone, you are going to kill people. Gets the characters to try more kinds of approaches to the conflicts to avoid things getting to that point, and gives it more gravitas if it gets there regardless.

    The narrative use of it is against the protagonist like 90% of the time though so you can't really confront different approaches to conflicts with it much. It's mostly just a way for our protagonist to be put out of commission temporarily.

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Bakunin wrote:
    What are the principal grievances of the peasants, the main causes of their sullen and deep hatred of the city? They are:
    1. The peasants feel that they are despised by the city workers.
    2. The peasants imagine, not without many and good reasons, and many historical examples to support their view, that the cities want to exploit them and force them to accept a political system that they abhor.
    3. In addition, the peasants think that the city workers favor the collectivization of property and fear that the socialists will confiscate their lands, which they love above all else.

    What should the city workers do to overcome the distrust and animosity of the peasants? They must first of all abandon their contemptuous attitude. This is absolutely necessary for the salvation of the Revolution and for the workers themselves, for the peasants' hatred constitutes an immense danger. If it were not for this distrust and hatred, the Revolution would have succeeded long ago, for it is the animosity between the city and the land which in all countries sustains the reaction and is its main base of support. City workers must overcome their antipeasant prejudices not only in the interests of the Revolution, or for strategic reasons, but as an act of elementary justice. There is no justification for these prejudices. The peasants are not parasites; they too are hard workers, except that they toil under different conditions. The city workers who are exploited by the bourgeois masters should realize that the peasants, who are also exploited, are their brothers...

    Bear this in mind. The peasant hates all governments and obeys the laws only because it is prudent to do so. He pays his taxes regularly and tolerates the conscription of his sons into the army only because he sees no alternative. And he is averse to change, because he thinks that new governments, regardless of their forms and programs, will be no better than their predecessors, and because he wants to avoid the risks and expenses involved in what may very well be a useless or even more harmful change.

    Does any of this sound familiar to anyone else?

    There's even a large section where Bakunin explains that the peasants love the Emperor because they are ignorant and have been mislead into believing that the Emperor is the enemy of the bourgeois landowners, because they fundamentally hate the rich and see the Emperor as protecting the peasants from the rich. Also, that they are ignorant because they are under the sway of the priests, who use religion and dogma in order to control the peasants and push the will of the Emperor on them.

  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Bakunin rules

  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I am so full of fried chicken and rose

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    cB557 wrote: »
    I think someone else has made basically this exact post in chat before, but I wish more action media didn't use that trope of being able to whack someone in the head and knock them out for hours without giving them massive brain damage. Because it's unrealistic, obviously, but I also think there's some cool stuff you could do tonally or thematically with it. Having to confront that you can't really do consequence-free violence, that if you escalate things to that point outside of narrow circumstances where you can like, pin down and handcuff someone, you are going to kill people. Gets the characters to try more kinds of approaches to the conflicts to avoid things getting to that point, and gives it more gravitas if it gets there regardless.

    The narrative use of it is against the protagonist like 90% of the time though so you can't really confront different approaches to conflicts with it much. It's mostly just a way for our protagonist to be put out of commission temporarily.
    It's super common in video games with choices between lethal and non-lethal takedowns. Playing the new Metro expansion is part of what made this come to mind. Though, there's also stuff like Person of Interest's kneecappings, which isn't the exact same trope but it sorta coming from the same place.

  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    I ordered food at 7:57 and it never arrived and the restaurant is closed so now I’ve gone out to eat.

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Six come grab a beer at Mekelburgs with me

  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Six come grab a beer at Mekelburgs with me

    Waiting for a pizza at Ogliastro at the moment

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    Yeah as a person who frequently does the non-lethal option in games, it's often a very silly "You hit 90 people on the head with concrete blocks so hard they didn't wake up for an hour but um they're... fine..."

    That or the old "Huh. Every single one of the guards at this outpost has disappeared one-by-one over the last 20 minutes. Oh well, I searched around for about 30 seconds, better get back to my pre-scheduled patrol route!"

    Take a moment to donate what you can to Critical Resistance and Black Lives Matter.
  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    Come have some ive got shishito peppers too

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    I think someone else has made basically this exact post in chat before, but I wish more action media didn't use that trope of being able to whack someone in the head and knock them out for hours without giving them massive brain damage. Because it's unrealistic, obviously, but I also think there's some cool stuff you could do tonally or thematically with it. Having to confront that you can't really do consequence-free violence, that if you escalate things to that point outside of narrow circumstances where you can like, pin down and handcuff someone, you are going to kill people. Gets the characters to try more kinds of approaches to the conflicts to avoid things getting to that point, and gives it more gravitas if it gets there regardless.

    That was always weird, that everyone knows the exact amount of force to apply to a skull with the butt of a rifle to knock someone unconscious without causing lasting damage

    A single blow like that could kill someone pretty easily

  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    The chocolate soufflés from fresh direct were good and easy to cook

  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    Chocolate soufflé is so good

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Six wrote: »
    Come have some ive got shishito peppers too

    There is no room for food at this point or I would! let’s just commit to a neighborhood day with @Shazkar Shadowstorm in the near future

  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
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    I wonder if this is true

  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    Six wrote: »
    Chocolate soufflé is so good

    They are not too hard to make but I made dinner so I’m glad I didn’t have to

  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    a stealth game that could devolve into the entire enemy organization steering all of its resources into finding you would be great

    you sneaking through a vent above a board room

    a powerpoint presentation going on, live streamed, giving a high level overview of the organization's pivot strategy, realigning each team to a new goal, introducing a consultant on agile patrol patterns

    pop open a laptop in some disused corner of the compound, people complaining via email about unrealistic scopes of work

    the true ending is to launch a misinformation campaign to discredit the board and have them replaced with your patsies

  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    The fuck are they planning to do with those pineapples?

  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    cB557 wrote: »
    The fuck are they planning to do with those pineapples?

    the next level of the grapefruit technique

  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    I assume they're making a joke about how pineapple makes your cum tastes good but it's not like they've even tasted their cum to confirm whether it's true so who are they fooling

    nobody

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