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bakustra's rpg thread over on teo is kind of reassuring in the sense that it affirms there are people out there with way worse ideas than me

Nietzslime wrote:is it weird that i am far more judgemental of people on the internet than people in real life

like i was just reading a post by mr friendly guy and naturally it was stupid and worthless and i abhor him

so like do i self-select for more interesting people in real life or can i just empathize with beings that aren't solely reams of dumb text to me

the latter, i think

like, there's a guy on my floor who's constantly loud, obnoxious, and essentially a caricature of a hyperventilating obsessive nerd, and i frankly dislike the man

but i smile politely, whereas if he acted similarly on the internet, i would treat him with a bit more open contempt, i think

the internet makes you malefic

i have a hard time being mean to people with a smiling picture

like "RETHUGLIKKKANS ARE TEH EVOL"



"i don't entirely agree with president bush's political opinions but i'm sure he's a good guy"

i mean look at him

By the way, it's odd if speaking one other language is a one dot merit that caps out at three. By WoD rules on how merits work, the linguist Harold Williams by my count must either have 104xp or 2756xp (if Language is a linear merit like other merits instead of a series of separate one dot merits). That's a lot of XP, considering the Prince of New Orleans in nWoD has like 600xp or so. This guy apparently could've max all of his stats and skills and ruled over the world as a god king if he weren't such a language nerd.

also i don't know if anyone pointed this out later in the thread, but they fixed language rules in the wod errata so that it's one dot per language, each as a separate merit, no ridiculous levels or anything

Zod wrote:

By the way, it's odd if speaking one other language is a one dot merit that caps out at three. By WoD rules on how merits work, the linguist Harold Williams by my count must either have 104xp or 2756xp (if Language is a linear merit like other merits instead of a series of separate one dot merits). That's a lot of XP, considering the Prince of New Orleans in nWoD has like 600xp or so. This guy apparently could've max all of his stats and skills and ruled over the world as a god king if he weren't such a language nerd.

also i don't know if anyone pointed this out later in the thread, but they fixed language rules in the wod errata so that it's one dot per language, each as a separate merit, no ridiculous levels or anything

thanks. I might post that later.

zab is greatest of champions.

adr wrote:i have a hard time being mean to people with a smiling picture

like "RETHUGLIKKKANS ARE TEH EVOL"



"i don't entirely agree with president bush's political opinions but i'm sure he's a good guy"

i mean look at him

Looks like he accidentally pooped in his monkey diapers.

B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:i love that shep barged in and demanded "better evil options" edit: in the rpg thread

think i'm going to half-troll

goddamnit

i just found that post

i dunno if anyone's checked in on the dragon thread in a while

but it's evolving

Just remember hes about five years behind e rest of us

And can talk for hours about remaking xcom sgain

Nietzslime wrote:i dunno if anyone's checked in on the dragon thread in a while

but it's evolving

watching them treat d&d rules as physics is tempting me to post peasant railguns or other stupid-ass shit in there to troll them

but the dopes wouldn't get it and gormless wouldn't get it, but in different ways that wouldn't change shit- gormless would yell at me, the dopes would incorporate it into their idiotic ideas

adr wrote:i have a hard time being mean to people with a smiling picture

Pretty sure smiling was the intent here

timmy wrote:<snip horror image>

Pretty sure smiling was the intent here

Author intent means little, I'm not a mind reader I can just judge on what I'm given.

I'm going to Godwin the everliving Hell out of this.

My friend's dad looks kinda like Hitler. Smaller nose, shorter hair, no mustache, but the eyes and the smile are there.

let's run this shit into the ground

(one of these is not like the others)

Alright you win, who's the last guy? Is it Yoko?

timmy wrote:Alright you win, who's the last guy? Is it Yoko?

KOJIIIMMAAAAAAA!

Look at those smiling faces, clearly not a harmful bone in their bodies.

gotta love how in Shroomy's AOTC thread everyone attributes these vast inferences and motivations to Count Christopher Lee even when he has less impact on the plot than Jar Jar

they all look human to me

in the eternal words of solid snake

it's no good

i can't do it

Zod wrote:well the rub is the city could have just billed them after the fact

I think that got brought up last time, and it turned out that while the city could bill them, they could never collect if the people refused to pay. And they city itself can't exactly enforce a tax on the county residents, so that could present a bit of a problem.

uraniun235 wrote:That said, I actually could imagine city police refusing to respond to non-violent crimes outside of their jurisdiction, especially if the complainants were dumbass freeloading country hicks. That doesn't mean I think it's good, but I think it's entirely plausible for that scenario to occur in the US.

I think there may be jurisdictional issues with that, actually. Where they could make the arrest, but the case would be tossed anyway. Unless there's a pre-existing mutual aid agreement between the two agencies. Which is probably its own issue, but a bit more complicated than "you didn't pay up, freeloaders" would be.

But I'm not sure that 'police fees' would happen in practice. IIRC, if you've got a city or county with no law enforcement of its own, the State Police/Highway Patrol (whatever your state calls them) automatically assume general policing duties for that area. So there's no (official) gap, though of course how many troopers they assign to your area could be an issue... But on paper, you're still covered.

But again, that's IIRC and as with pretty much anything involving US lawe enforcement, can easily vary from state-to-state.

How is Chocula not everyone's goddamn hero?

"I'm not saying gays are immoral, unnatural rape machines with no self control. I'm just saying that if a category looks at another man, that straight guy needs to beat the shit outta that dag before the gay has a chance to rape him. Now stop strawmanning and address my points!"

because he's hilarious thats why