Zagorath

Zagorath, 4 days ago

It’s quite simple. This person is committing the etymological fallacy. A word’s meaning today does not have to be exactly equivalent to its meaning in the past, or to the words it evolved out of.

But even in Plato’s depiction of love I don’t think they’ve quite got it right. “that includes romantic/physical love” seems to be conflating romantic love with carnal attraction, which is pretty strongly not what Plato was about.

Zagorath, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Never buy early access on the hope that the game will get better. Buy it if it’s at least good enough to justify its current price tag right now.

Zagorath, 4 days ago

But then for some reason, another company went back and restarted publishing the old lines

I think it was the same company. White Wolf published World of Darkness games using its Storyteller system from 1991 until 2004. They then made the move to Chronicles of Darkness (a retroactive title the only came about in 2015, until then they were also called World of Darkness officially, known to fans as “new World of Darkness”) in 2004. CoD changed some of the lore around and drastically cut back on how detailed and complex the metanarrative was.

CoD used their new “Storytelling” system, and did not perform very well commercially. Probably some fans didn’t like it much, but mainly they decided to stop selling in stores so there was no discoverability. During the CoD era, White Wolf still published some WoD material, such as the 20th anniversary editions.

The most important detail here though comes in 2015–2018. Up until this point White Wolf has been bought and sold a couple of times, most recently by CCP. In 2015 they are bought by Paradox Interactive. In 2018 they release VtM 5th edition. In response to allegations of some very problematic material in V5, Paradox dissolves White Wolf and brings WoD production into Paradox Interactive.

I think that only Vampire, Hunter, and Werewolf are currently supported in the latest edition of Storyteller, but I may have missed something.

It’s true that Onyx Path as a separate licensee has published books for White Wolf/CCP/Paradox. But they’ve done 20th Anniversary, CoD, and V5 stuff. The actual decision to go back to WoD was White Wolf/Paradox’s.

Zagorath, 4 days ago

The way it’s phrased in the quotes, this seems more like a reference to their ridiculous conspiracy theory that he won in 2020 and is thus technically the president today, rather than an assertion that he’ll run in 2028 even if he wins this year.

Zagorath, 4 days ago

You do realise this is being posted to make fun of Zac and Chris, and not the people in the park, right?

Zagorath, 5 days ago

The Jungle Book, also known as The Jungle Book

Thanks.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

the speeds that ebikes can hit now

They’re legally capped at 25 km/h, even if the technology exists to make them faster than that. It’s a big speed boost up hill, but makes no difference down hill and it’s roughly equal (or even a negative for strong cyclists) on the flat.

I don’t think speed is really the right thing to look at when talking about the advantage of ebikes. Instead, it’s the ability to travel with less physical effort, especially when going on hilly routes or carrying larger loads.

(And as a minor side note, I really wish we used the 20 mph speed cap used in places that still use mediaeval measurements. 32 km/h is still a very safe speed, but would be noticeably faster.)

Zagorath, 5 days ago

Personally I think 45 km/h is an excessive and potentially unsafe speed.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

Yeah with a 25 km/h limit, I would probably be looking into how to disable the limiter. If the limit was 32 km/h that would be much less likely.

But it’s only hypothetical for me, as I’ve never owned an ebike.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

Off topic, but does this show get good? I love her standup, but after watching 2 or 3 episodes of this show I found it painfully unfunny, and not at all like the late-night show that it was billed as.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

I’m not sure that a pathologist or dentist are the kinds of doctors they’re gonna need.

Well, maybe the dentist.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

I can’t help but be reminded of Why Cars Rarely Crash into Buildings in the Netherlands.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

I dunno about “higher level” maths, but there is one bit where you’re asked to solve a simple year 8–level algebra equation (which is still a much higher level than any other RPG I’ve ever played asks you to do). It’s also in one of the more explicitly NSFW parts of the system.

Specifically, you have to solve for y: (BT – 80)^2^ = –4y + 120, where BT is a number arrived at in an earlier step, using (CM / CV/A ) × 100. I will not be defining what CM and CV/A are in this forum in order to keep the comments SFW.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

Part of me agrees, but another part of me says…there are far too many rules in this about sex…including illicit forms thereof…for me to want to play this with anyone I know IRL.

And also no part of me wants to spend the multiple hours this would probably take to roll up a character. I Googled looking for digital character generators, and they supposedly used to exist, but the official FATAL website no longer exists.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

Oh don’t worry. There are a lot of tables in this system.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

Yes to circumference, but no to damage. Ripping is a possibility the book discusses, but this formula is for quite the opposite.

Zagorath, 6 days ago

Well, that’s not exactly surprising…

Zagorath, 7 days ago

Haha yeah, when I was young I played a fair amount of Age games, but never playing them in their normal intended fashion. A lot of using the cheats, playing the campaigns on easy mode, and some custom scenarios that largely don’t use actual economy management that’s at the core of the game.

Only got into the more competitive side of the game after the DE release in 2019.

Zagorath, 5 days ago

Sometimes it means “I did a thing in the past and don’t recognise the ways in which it has changed over time to become worse today than it was in my day”.

Zagorath, 7 days ago

I’m willing to entertain the idea that he may not have intended to whistleblow in order to reveal war crimes.

But if that’s the case, why couldn’t the government have relied upon a fair trial to establish his guilt? Even if he is guilty, he is owed due process, and being restricted from presenting necessary evidence is a violation of that due process.

Zagorath, 6 days ago

Interestingly, I’ve just noticed that this is happening on non-LW communities. Here’s one LW comment that just appeared in my inbox today in an aussie.zone community, and here’s another one that appeared today (the one from @Alexstarfire, specifically). In that second thread you can see some comments from LW users which I saw and even replied to on the same day, alongside the one that didn’t show up for 8 days.

Makes it very perplexing.

Zagorath, 6 days ago

Interestingly, I’ve noticed that in some cases a single thread will have some comments which do show up, and others which don’t, from LW users. In this thread you can see some comments from LW users which I saw and even replied to on the same day, alongside one that didn’t show up for 8 days.

Makes it very perplexing.