What's on your mind?

[chooseChaos]

8 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> Germany won the match against Scotland, 4:1. I am glad for my Prince and my German friends.

 

Meanwhile in Germany: 😇

[Guest]

> I love the sound of semi-automatic photo cameras taking the shots right one after another.

[Alessia Wellington]

2 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said:

I love the sound of semi-automatic photo cameras taking the shots right one after another.

 

I love the sound of semi-automatic rifles shooting one round after another.

[Guest]

Just now, Alessia Wellington said:

 

I love the sound of semi-automatic rifles shooting one round after another.

> Then here you go

[Darkpig]

1 hour ago, Evaloves4 said:

> Then here you go

 

 

It is a real fight then!

[Grey Cloud]

The BBC's pitiful English.

 

"Hamburg police shoot man with axe ahead of Euros match"

 

So have the Hamburg police shot a man by using an axe or have they shot a man because he had an axe ahead of the match? Would they have still shot him if he had waited until after the match?

[Grey Cloud]

On 6/15/2024 at 11:32 AM, Darkpig said:

It is a real fight then

Handbags at ten paces.

[Guest]

> This goofing my Ivy and I also had when we were younger.

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Edited June 17, 2024 by Evaloves4

[chooseChaos]

6 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> This goofing my Ivy and I also had when we were younger.

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The good old photo booths ... 😀

 

Simple knitted** as I am, I can take pleasure in little things, like this one:

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Me every time I see it =
 

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*Fine it's a lie, in truth I am of course crocheted 😁😇

 

Edited June 17, 2024 by chooseChaos

[chooseChaos]

On 6/15/2024 at 10:23 AM, Alessia Wellington said:

 

I love the sound of semi-automatic rifles shooting one round after another.

A little sensory test: 😁😇
What about the taste of blood? check!
What about the smell of napalm?

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Would you like to see your reflection in the mirror? .

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.. Who does broken mirror shards actually bring bad luck to, the person who hits the mirror or the person who gets it over the head? 🪞

And what does a vampire like to feel apart from arteries?

[Alessia Wellington]

34 minutes ago, chooseChaos said:

Who does broken mirror shards actually bring bad luck to, the person who hits the mirror or the person who gets it over the head?

 

No idea. You can easily kill someone with a mirror.

[Darkpig]

7 hours ago, chooseChaos said:

Would you like to see your reflection in the mirror?

What happens if the reflection is all you see?👻

[FauxFurry]

Upon playing through Shadowrun: Dragonfall as well as watching the animated adaptation of Sandland has revived in me a curiosity as to the motivation behind the reluctance to introduce firearms into fantasy fare.

 

Is it the result of magical thinking about guns as some weapon of mass destruction which would trivialize all other means of warfare in the setting (one would think that the aforementioned urban Cyberpunk fantasy series as well as the likes of Dragonball would have put that concern to rest), perhaps worries expressed by those who do not know of the evolution of ranged weapons at all, mayhap entangled in some fallacious notion that they emerged from some pitch of fell eldritch magicks fully formed?

 

Then again, it could be for similar reason that real world lords and members of various warrior classes from across the globe viewed early guns with a mixture of trepidation and contempt, that being that it grants similar battlefield effectiveness to a peasant who has only had a few weeks of training compared to a warrior with a bow or crossbow who was conditioned to make proficient use of their weapon of specialty (they spent so much time training with them that they could hardly be called a weapon of choice) since they were first able to hold the weapons in their hands. It might make sense for the likes of Merlin being frustrated that Sir Percival could do everything that he could do. It might turn out like Rusty Venture versus Doctor Orpheus.

 

[Darkpig]

44 minutes ago, FauxFurry said:

Upon playing through Shadowrun: Dragonfall as well as watching the animated adaptation of Sandland has revived in me a curiosity as to the motivation behind the reluctance to introduce firearms into fantasy fare.

 

Is it the result of magical thinking about guns as some weapon of mass destruction which would trivialize all other means of warfare in the setting (one would think that the aforementioned urban Cyberpunk fantasy series as well as the likes of Dragonball would have put that concern to rest), perhaps worries expressed by those who do not know of the evolution of ranged weapons at all, mayhap entangled in some fallacious notion that they emerged from some pitch of fell eldritch magicks fully formed?

 

Then again, it could be for similar reason that real world lords and members of various warrior classes from across the globe viewed early guns with a mixture of trepidation and contempt, that being that it grants similar battlefield effectiveness to a peasant who has only had a few weeks of training compared to a warrior with a bow or crossbow who was conditioned to make proficient use of their weapon of specialty (they spent so much time training with them that they could hardly be called a weapon of choice) since they were first able to hold the weapons in their hands. It might make sense for the likes of Merlin being frustrated that Sir Percival could do everything that he could do. It might turn out like Rusty Venture versus Doctor Orpheus.

 

This post kind of reminds me of this video:

 

Actually the whole debate is a matter of taste. If your game doesn't allow for guns and you want guns play a different game. If you're making a game whether for your friends or for strangers just flavor guns differently to make it fit into the setting better. Instead of an Ak-47 it could be a cat that coughs up flaming fur balls. Hell it could be a cursed weapon that does 10 points of slashing damage after you fire it.  Jokes aside modern inventions would likely be seen as magic to more primitive societies and in a fictional setting it very well could be.

 

Point is that trying to separate science fiction and fantasy is pointless.

 

Although in terms of argument I do suppose modern warfare has become more of an IT department job which is much different (and to some people boring) than sword fights in the Middle Ages.

[FauxFurry]

2 hours ago, Darkpig said:

 

This post kind of reminds me of this video:

 

Actually the whole debate is a matter of taste. If your game doesn't allow for guns and you want guns play a different game. If you're making a game whether for your friends or for strangers just flavor guns differently to make it fit into the setting better. Instead of an Ak-47 it could be a cat that coughs up flaming fur balls. Hell it could be a cursed weapon that does 10 points of slashing damage after you fire it.  Jokes aside modern inventions would likely be seen as magic to more primitive societies and in a fictional setting it very well could be.

 

Point is that trying to separate science fiction and fantasy is pointless.

 

Although in terms of argument I do suppose modern warfare has become more of an IT department job which is much different (and to some people boring) than sword fights in the Middle Ages.

That issues that the video covers could have been summed up as:

1. Inflexible fallacious assumptions about what fits into 'Fantasy' as a genre. Hephaestus' creations such as Talos and the Mechanical Maidens should have put those to rest as they were part of Greek mythology and thus part of what is now known as Fantasy since before their great great grandfathers were born.

2.A lack of imagination as to what to do with anything more advanced than what the average farmer had access to in a fantasy setting.

Just try to picture an adventurer attempting to sneak in their technical tools or non-magical weapons into a zone sealed off by wards (the magical equivalent of a Gun-Free Zone thus more effective than the real thing).

 

[FauxFurry]

Then there is the 'Dangerous Rare (yet still relatively low tech) Artifact of Doom' approach that can be internalized and integrated into a fantasy setting as far as their use of gun powder based weaponry goes which others out there have gone over in the past though simply dealing with it as another part of the setting that may or may not outperform other weaponry or spells if there would not be spells that exist which prevent the entrance of shells of a certain caliber or stop any combustion within a warded space or wide range killing curses that put everything but nuclear weapons to shame in the same space as guns.

 

[Darkpig]

1 hour ago, FauxFurry said:

That issues that the video covers could have been summed up as:

1. Inflexible fallacious assumptions about what fits into 'Fantasy' as a genre. Hephaestus' creations such as Talos and the Mechanical Maidens should have put those to rest as they were part of Greek mythology and thus part of what is now known as Fantasy since before their great great grandfathers were born.

2.A lack of imagination as to what to do with anything more advanced than what the average farmer had access to in a fantasy setting.

Just try to picture an adventurer attempting to sneak in their technical tools or non-magical weapons into a zone sealed off by wards (the magical equivalent of a Gun-Free Zone thus more effective than the real thing).

1. Pretty much. So long as we're replacing electricity with magical god juice. And you can also get them high apparently?

 

2. A spy on the inside has disabled the ward. The heist is back on!😎

[Darkpig]

I remember playing a session of D&D and our Paladin kept calling out intimidation. Suffice to say our targets either ran away or told lies. In the end we got no helpful information. Why do people think that tactic always works?

[Alessia Wellington]

21 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

Why do people think that tactic always works?

 

Cause tea is too expensive?

[Darkpig]

34 minutes ago, Alessia Wellington said:

Cause tea is too expensive?

Quality tea is not for everyone.

[Alessia Wellington]

48 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

Quality tea is not for everyone.

 

Indeed. Especially Yorkshire Gold.

[porkybork]

6 hours ago, Darkpig said:

I remember playing a session of D&D and our Paladin kept calling out intimidation. Suffice to say our targets either ran away or told lies. In the end we got no helpful information. Why do people think that tactic always works?

#justpaladinthings

[Guest]

> In an hour and a half Croatia will be playing its second soccer match for the Europan championship. Our house will be overcrowded again. But we will be on our beach enjoying the sun and the sea.

[Guest]

> Thank heavens I was never raped and never conceived a child out of rape, but seeing some movies in which raped women conceived a child from the rape and how they hate their rapists but incredibly loved their child looked unnatural and unreal to me. I mean, if I hate my rapist I surely wouldn't love and accept his child. I would even abort it or give it to adoption. And I do not get the meaning of such messages; are they saying that the child conceived in rape is more loved and accepted than the child conceived by accident during the sex of the couple that loves each other? Madness.

[porkybork]

8 minutes ago, Evaloves4 said:

> Thank heavens I was never raped and never conceived a child out of rape, but seeing some movies in which raped women conceived a child from the rape and how they hate their rapists but incredibly loved their child looked unnatural and unreal to me. I mean, if I hate my rapist I surely wouldn't love and accept his child. I would even abort it or give it to adoption. And I do not get the meaning of such messages; are they saying that the child conceived in rape is more loved and accepted than the child conceived by accident during the sex of the couple that loves each other? Madness.

I think it's more along the lines of, "this child still deserves to be loved and cared for despite them being born from something abhorrent." That said, yeah, there is a disgusting trend among some writers where they'll make a repugnant character that impregnates a woman he raped, but then the baby is treated like some kind of silver lining because the mother has a loving child because of her rape. I understand that the world isn't all black and white, but Jesus Fucking Christ, stuff like this is a few steps too close to rape apologia.