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Pretty partial to the scene in the matrix where they spawn in all the racks of guns, and more generally the whole climax with Neo just pulling out new guns every time his magazines run dry.
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In ages past I made a very similar wallpaper you can get printed if you want:
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that if one wants to argue hard, it's best to start with some politeness where possible.
Wow, you're a real fucking peice of work - you're going to complain about people being impolite while running interference for a genocide? I'm not even talking about the post, I'm talking about your comments in this thread - equating Israeli society falling with the genocide of the individuals who make it up? Really? They can just fuck off back to europe where they belong, while they are actually genociding palestinians in an attempt to destroy the country entirely. Accusing others of wanting to do what your side IS ACTIVELY DOING, right now, as we speak, is exactly why you don't get civil replies; there's no reason to be civil to genocide supporters. You've done nothing to deserve civility. You're just complete fucking scum.
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The genericness makes it easy to grasp, which can be good for people who don't or haven't engaged much with fantasy. It also means the setting doesn't matter much to people's stories, allowing them to put whatever they really want in it. It's just a whatever world for them to plonk adventures down in.
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Isn't this a Tracy plot in 30 Rock?
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Hold up.
Owltillery piece.
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I should be allowed a big gun. Possibly some kind of artillery piece.
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I've found the YouTube algorithm pretty good for finding new stuff (done pretty well at recommending post-punk stuff to me recently), but also radio stations. Most of the good ones are online, but BBC 6music has some really good shows for discovering both new bands and older stuff you never ran into. Iggy Pop goes for particularly deep cuts of niche genres, so tends to be interesting even if you're never going to listen to any of it again.
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Robin named his daughter Zelda, after the Legend of Zelda. Fucking poser, didn't even realise the main character is called link
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I met some Slovenians recently that found black pepper too spicy for their tastes. Like I'm used to Brits who can only handle the tiniest hint of spice, but that's taking the fucking piss.
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Spent a day on a friend's canal boat, not done a full trip: short answer is you better like the people you're with. They're not as cramped as they seem from the outside, but they're certainly not roomy, and power is limited to what you can generate, so you're not gonna be using lots of gadgets or watching TV.
On the other hand, if you're with people you get on well with, lounging around on top of a canal boat with some beers and/or joints, chatting shit while it floats along, can be wonderfully relaxing.
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Actually I was doing the exact opposite of sex - playing D&D.
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Garlic thrives in Britain, so it's been pretty common in our cooking for the last 1000 years. It's the stuff we import that we don't use.
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Yeah, it's named after the luminiferous aether, the invisible medium light waves were theorised to move in. Turns out photons just do that instead.
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I don't know if any but the most pathologically dedicated groups have played all the APs, and most DMs can't be bothered converting stuff, so there's definitely a lot of groups out there still going through older adventures with no plans to move on.
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Ok, why aren't the papers already full of those stories then? Old people die all the time. If the stories are guaranteed regardless of the governments actions, why are you bothered about the optics at all? They're going to be the same no matter what.
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Trump is assassinated but it's too late to take him off the ballots, so wins the sympathy vote
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Are you honestly proposing that an increase in cold related deaths beyond expected levels during a cold snap is more likely to be explained by thousands of OAP's just happening to forget to turn the heating on, rather than them not being able to afford it?
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This is such a beautifully engineer response to legal requirements.
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built to be technically UK-legal
U wot
That's right, Klezmer, the traditional Ashkenazi wedding music. They also cite Serious Sam as inspiration.
He's too old for it to be a reference but like... That's his actual name. Jan Six. I don't know how to process this.
Dr. Rachael Louise “Raygun” Gunn is a lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia, who has extensively studied and participated in the Sydney breaking (more commonly known as break dancing) scene. Her work has primarily focused on studying social dynamics in the breaking scene from feminist and queer perspectives: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=LLebtn8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra. Gunn has also demonstrated outstanding ability in the breaking scene, having won numerous competitions across Oceania and garnering wide respect from other Australian breakers. Gunn has also been widely reported as having a background in Jazz, Tap dancing, and Ballroom dancing. I put it to you that Rachael Gunn is intimately familiar with breaking, to a much higher degree than most breakers, having both personal and academic experience with the scene. Her academic work breaking down elements of the scene indicate a detailed understanding of the moves, speech, social and cultural contexts, modes of dress, relationship with gender, and numerous other individual aspects. She also has a detailed understanding of her relationship to the scene, having written a paper titled *The ethics of living a double life: rethinking ownership, authenticity, and identity in hip hop culture*, and spoken in interviews of being white and middle class in a scene that grew from socially impressed minorities. So how could someone with the demonstrated knowledge and ability of Raygun not score a single point at all, having reached the Olympics as the highest scoring competitive b-girl in Oceania? Indeed, Martin Gillian, head breaking judge at the Olympics, praised her performance, and she's received extensive support from the breaking community in defence of her routine, so a score of zero seems impossibly unlikely. The inclusion of breaking at the Olympic games was a controversial topic ahead of its debut, primarily due to concerns over the corporatization and dilution of breaking culture inclusion would bring, and was widely criticised by the breaking community. One person who studied the divide in opinions was Dr Rachael L Gunn, who in 2023 published *The Australian breaking scene and the Olympic Games: The possibilities and politics of sportification*, which criticised the IOC and WDSF’s implementation and homogenisation of the scene. From the conclusion of the paper: >[...] the concerns are centred on the impact upon culture, and a potential loss of agency and self-determination. Isolated from neighbouring countries, and consisting of distinct, localized scenes guided by individual agents, top-down decision-making led by the WDSF already impacts the social organization, identities and hierarchies of respect within the Australian breaking scene. >While sport and the Olympics are framed as ‘great equalizers’, the exclusivity of Australia’s sporting institutions along gendered, class and racialized lines means that breaking’s sportification may in fact impact the accessibility of breaking. While the ABA aims to ensure that Australian breakers retain self-determination and agency through this Olympic process, there are many obstacles that come with the introduction of concepts like governance, transparency and accountability. Making global what is essentially a localized practice invariably requires standardization, homogeneity, professionalism and risks further moving breaking away from its African American and Latin cultural traditions and histories. I put it to you that Raygun's olympic performance was in fact carefully calculated to show off breaking without meeting a single olympic criteria, as a protest against the inclusion of the sport, choosing to show breaking off as an artistic medium rather than athletic one. Using movements that were specifically contextual to Australia's presence in an international space, her performance was a criticism of the IOCs attempt to represent breaking as a gymnastic sport rather than artistic expression, and directly intended to sabotage the inclusion of breaking - and expected resulting gentrification of the scene - in the Olympics. Currently it has been confirmed that the 2028 Olympic Games will not feature breaking, and there are currently no plans to include it in the 2032 Games. Raygun wins.
Please commit to your words and actions. Commit to the fucking turn you were going to make right in front of me, before stamping on the brakes at the last second. Commit to a fight after challenging me on not risking my life around your shitty driving. Do I "want to fucking go"? *You have no idea how much I want to fucking go.* I have to cycle around idiots like you all day, if you step out of your armoured wankmobile **i am going to sink my teeth into your flesh and not let go**. I will bite your flabby fucking tits off. I will beat you with my fists and helmet and entire fucking bike until a kind samaritan pulls over to drag me away from your limp body. Anyway, if I ever mysteriously stop posting you should be able to dox me by googling "cyclist eats driver UK".
They're the same species, just different colours
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I originally found this single among my dad's collection as a 12 year old, just learning how to use his record player and having no idea what the switch labelled 33-45 was for. I still think the slow version is better - 0.75 speed on the player will get you close enough. Anyway a couple of years ago I found out [DJ Fresh had done the same thing on purpose](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG9ZWUitFik) around the same time, and somehow I never knew.
[Previous Thread](https://hexbear.net/post/2608163) It's taken a few weeks to start moving peices (that is, the party finally stopped picking fights with librarians long enough to measure time in hours rather than rounds), but since their second night of resting after the murders they have been the targets of *Nightmare* spells, twisting their dreams. Unfortunately that's just been a soft chorus of clucking as they keep succeeding on the will saves, but it did prompt a round of worried discussion between the characters about whether chickens have souls. After a new round of preparations they ventured back into the Gauntlight and started picking fights with librarians again. Also they tried to contradict a ghost administrator and got ghost slapped into purgatory for a moment, but eventually they got back en-route towards the first chicken ghost encounter: the smashed remnants of Krrrterra, who was obliterated with a landslide. Impressively, their first instinct was to go for diplomacy, apologising for killing it, and asking what they could do to help it move on to the afterlife. With a speak with animals spell and a critical success on a diplomacy check, I couldn't just have the chicken fly into a panic and cause a fight, so engaged in dialogue. There were four issues here though: One, while ghosts are normally animated by unfinished business and can only be permanently put to rest by making right the injustices that created them, these ghosts are mostly reanimated by the giant spooky lighthouse that shoots beams of ghosts, so the primary answer is to destroy the 20th level artifact (they are currently level 4). Two, even without the lighthouse, they're motivated by revenge against their killers, so the secondary answer is for the party to be killed by the chicken ghosts. Three, ghosts are often unaware or in denial about their own deaths, nevermind what is needed to put them to rest. And four, chickens are not particularly capable of higher level thought, so the only thing their questioning actually established is that it wanted to eat some worms. So they hit it with positive energy damage until it dissipated. It wasn't a difficult fight, a single PL-1 enemy, because even as a ghost a chicken isn't much of a threat (on its own), but it did teach them some embarrassing lessons about weapons attacks and incorporeal creatures while minorly inconveniencing them, as planned. The ghost chickens have been established as a fun callback, and soon a running joke. Once they start coming back (and in greater numbers), we'll have some good horror cooking and can really start the emotional rollercoaster, but I have to be sparse with details until future updates, as the Goblin Sorcerer's player is reading and I don't want to spoil too much for him. ______________________________________ **New Art** It's bad. You wanna see some cool ghost chicken tokens, go back to the first post. First up, we have Krrrrterra, who was hit with a landslide:  get it? because she was... squashed. It doesn't get better. Hyppokoko, bludgeoned and drowned by a blast of tsunami:  the file name is wetghost.png. like seriously i got no idea And finally, and most [CW: meat]ly, Brrrkit, who was incinerated by a beam of pure heat:  I'm sorry. ______________________________________ **Mechanics** Applying the ghost template to a basic bird statblock didn't get me close to an appropriate challenge for the party, so I altered a [ghost commoner](https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=216) statblock in different ways for all chickens. Krrrterra had the [weak template](https://2e.aonprd.com/MonsterTemplates.aspx?ID=23) applied, the Kinetic Assault ghost ability added, and a handful of minor additions and changes: 
Why can't it be something fun like swapping surnames and then creating a portmaneau or blended name for the kids.
# oky ghost chickens and it's so fucking stupid. So they found the Dooms of Tomorrow in B29 and after some experimentation determined that the Annihilation Beams were specifically triggered by creatures passing by rather than having a physical trigger that could be interacted with. Their first plan to disarm the hazards ended with the inventor's construct companion getting Annihilation Beam'd into lots of tiny little pieces, so they decided to buy some chickens and lob them in. They were hit with beams of pure tsunami, inferno, earthquake, monster, and undead. First two were pretty easy, I went with falling debris for the third, big godzilla hand for the fourth, and void energy for the last. Gonna be real with you, the description is "From Monster" and I just don't know how that works as a beam. The thing is, quite apart from the ethical issue of throwing a defenseless animal into something called an *annihilation beam*, the *whole campaign* **explicitly** revolves around a spooky lighthouse that makes undead. I've been more subtley referencing it through various random encounters, but the first big event of the story is the lighthouse shooting a giant beam of light that creates undead where it lands. And there are a bunch of haunts and undead inside. Like there's basically a sign over the entrance saying "Undead made here". So now the chickens' ghosts need revenge on their murderers. Honestly, no idea where I'm gonna go with this, but I've made tokens for an undead ghost chicken and a kaiju ghost chicken, so I'll give them some nightmares next time they go to sleep and see where that takes us. 
The rogue went down at the end of a running chain of 4 encounters the party charged through, right as they decided they had bitten off more than they could chew and turned tail to run. Just walked off and left him with the remaining mini boss. If it weren't for the mini boss's tactics of getting other people to do things that require him to leave his throne, the PC would have been killed on the spot. As it was he regained consciousness about 10 minutes later, and slowly and carefully crept away with the aid of some great stealth rolls while the morlock tried to work out how to get a second casting of telekinetic manoeuvre. And then the next morning he decided to be the bait in a plan to lure a drake out of its lair, got stuck trying to scrabble up an embankment out of the way, and was obliterated in a flurry of teeth and tail lashes. It was brutal, even with PF2e's generous dying rules he turned from alive to dead in only 4 seconds as the first strike knocked him unconscious and the next two burnt through his dying condition. Luckily the player already had a backup ready so when the party turned tail and ran again I was able to maintain a natural flow of roleplay to reach a point where I could introduce the replacement, but it was sudden and shocking for all of us. For the players it was shocking because in a single turn the drake turned him from slightly damaged to chunky salsa, and for me because its not actually a difficult fight - I mean, a drake is still a dragon, so it is more dangerous than raw stats make it look, but if they'd put the tank front and centre instead he'd have easily withstood the initial barrage and they would have steamrolled it. They're going to be so mad when they realise it's only as tough as the minotaur skeleton they took down instead in order to get some xp and level up before taking it on again.
Art AI that generates hundreds of pieces of art from Stable Diffusion using the same parameters, then analyses the similarities to generate the training images it's drawing from.
* Obstruction * Boiler #4 * Lightly Used 2008 Honda Accord * Rémoulade * Yorkie * Lock Do with them what you will.
We're like to extend our most sincere apologies for today's downtime, explain the issue, and talk about what we'll be doing going forward. Late last night or early this morning, an owl entered the server room and, unsurprisingly, pissed on everything. We had to drag them out of a corner where they'd started building a nest out of CAT5 cables. After checking with all our keyholders, we determined that they had not tricked someone into lending them the keys this time, and nobody had left a window open. We have not found their entry point yet, but we suspect we are getting closer (we've found a large pile of shit near one of the vents). We managed to dry one server off and get the website running again, but unfortunately we only have 1 hair dryer and will need a few more days to dry the rest of the servers and get the site fully operational. Going forward, our plan is: * Cover outside AC vents and similar in chicken wire * assess and reinforce weak points in the building's structure * tape old CDs to the building to reflect the sun and scare them away * attack roosting spikes to the server racks * stop keeping open, uncovered cans of beans at our desks We are also looking into hiring a falconer as a more active deterrent. Thank you for your patience in such a difficult time.
PC and monster weaknesses are very easy to look up and apply, but finding out what the actual people at the table will fall for is a lot harder, so what have you noticed your players always get pulled in by?
YOU'RE NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT CRITICAL OF GENDER YOU LYING FUCKS
A real thick and meaty schlong. A magnum monster mammajamma. A humungous ping-a-ling.
they're not even that big. I genuinely don't know why conservatives arre making such a fuss, I know loads of blue haired pronouns with bigger hungamungas. I've known plenty of women who had to get breast reduction surgery because their honking dongbongeroos were breaking their backs. Conservatives are appropriating humungous hungolomghnonoloughongous from women with even bigger bonkhonagahoogs.
Campaign or one shot premises, world building, systems or mechanics, whatever ttrpg related stuff you've come up with but not filled out yet.
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