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Post by Kainguru on Mar 18, 2018 13:11:51 GMT -8
Wow, America really likes its sugar. They sound a bit too sweet for my taste Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 18, 2018 8:50:53 GMT -8
Ummm what are “peeps”? Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 18, 2018 5:01:00 GMT -8
Probably just a misuse/different interpretation* of the word ‘agency’ to justify, politely, that he doesn’t like that sort of game. Like people calling that asparagus filth a vegetable when they try a force me to ‘just try it, you might like it’ - when it’s actually Satan’s snot .... in look, taste and smell. Aaron * that doesn’t mean he’s wrong in his use of the word just that he may use it within a different context/term of reference. ie: a proscribed ending *could* justifiably be understood as removing agency, whether you think that or not is irrelevant as, if that’s how he understand the term agency, then his use fits that context (with the caveat that it would be very brave person indeed that would argue that this interpretation of agency is incorrect given the definition of ‘agency’ lacks a universally agreed, approved and codified application vis-a-vis RPG’s)
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 8, 2018 0:40:49 GMT -8
Well, you can still watch the cut scenes online. Oh, wow - yes!!! Of course!!!! Smart thinking batman ... I honestly didn’t think of that. Cheers Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 7, 2018 15:55:57 GMT -8
I refused to buy Battlefront 2 because EA = giant douche nozzles Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 7, 2018 7:53:10 GMT -8
Absolutely, the man can craft a story and he’s mastered the art of creating a saga - each iteration of his Star Wars projects bleeds seemlessly into the next and he’s able to link in all the other stuff as well without any those ‘how does that work moments’. Ahsoka is such a lynch pin as well, ‘not a jedi, but more Jedi than most’ I really want to see more Ashoka and her take on The Force, after all she’s survived Anakin, Obi wan, Kanan and Yoda He’s also confirmed that, at this moment, Ezra and Thrawn are both still alive after the battle of Endor. The last scene with Ahsoka and Sabina has also been confirmed as 11 years after the Battle of Yavin. So straight in the New Republic Era post the Battle of Jakku - given the new project is called ‘Resistance’ we might see a similar thread to Rebels: the early founding of The Resistence after the discovery of the First Order. This makes me speculate that Ahsoka and Sabine might encounter the First Order, during its formation in the Unknown Regions, while seeking out Ezra. Thrawn may also lend his tactical genius to the fledgling First Order - that or they encounter the Chiss themselves. Could Ezra have inflicted the wounds on Snoke? Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 7, 2018 2:28:12 GMT -8
I know, right. Ezra lives!!! Hera and Rex survived the battle of Endor!!! (And by default survived the battle in Rogue One). I really, really, really hope they do live action series with Ashoka and Sabine’s search for Ezra. They could bring back Thrawn with that as well - in the uncharted areas of the galaxy. Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 4, 2018 0:27:11 GMT -8
You haven’t seen my hand writing. Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 3, 2018 5:35:35 GMT -8
My big fear is that now that DnDBeyond is "done", WotC will now come after OrcPub and shut them down. They have. But they’ve failed - OrcPub supports the SRD and everything else has to be entered as homebrewed personal content. The thing is you can export your homebrewed files for sharing: and that’s exactly what has happened. Orcpub survives as an open sourced crowd created endeavour - it can do what Beyond can do at a fraction of the cost because it belongs to community thus you get out of it what you put in as a large effort shouldered by many. Seeing the Orcpub model still succeed only further discredits the rationale of WoTC’s/Beyond’s pricing model. Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 3, 2018 0:51:39 GMT -8
If the core books were included in the Beyond subscription I could buy into that. But they’re not, their rationale is smoke and mirrors, it’s still a subscription to access the service to then have the privilege of paying twice for content I already own. It’s like paying for pay TV and having no channels until you pay again for each channel including the likes of, in the UK, the BBC (which is funded by a public license fee that everyone with a TV capable of receiving the BBC has to pay* ie: a public broadcaster). Plus they have advertising which funds the subscription free model. Aaron * yeah yeah I aware there are certain caveats that let one circumvent the license fee, but they are extreme fringe cases (and the license itself has changed to keep up with many of these loop holes ie iPlayer now requires an active tv license to access)
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 2, 2018 2:27:31 GMT -8
Now comes the point in any good debate where we have to drill down into our definitions and make clear delineations as the general topic is broken down into it's constituent parts; with each of those parts being considered separately and in isolation from each other. So far we have: 1) Gender discrimination inherent in a setting eg: a Patriarchal/Matriarchal milieu 2) Gender discrimination inherent in PC choices eg: Class restrictions 3) Gender discrimination in game mechanics eg: Ability/Attribute restrictions They may interact in a 'case by case' basis but each is a very different consideration and one should not be conflated with other. Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 27, 2018 2:24:13 GMT -8
Jesus H shitting Xmas, how much to use features from books I already own in hard copy? ? Plus you can’t homebrew classes so no plugging in those useful UA options. Fucking WoTC - spends a fortune on something that’s basically broken by degrees, given the Orcpub tools did all the things Beyond doesn’t - it then adds insult to injury by hitting Orcpub with a legal injunction to block exactly those features Beyond doesn’t have. I understand trademark ownership but, at least, build those features into the official product before hamstringing the other one I just want to be able to use the mystic class so I can convert one of my 2e players wild talent PC. The campaign narrative would break if psionics didn’t exist as events from before wouldn’t have been possible in creating the current ‘now’ without them. Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 26, 2018 9:15:10 GMT -8
Joan of Arc, Boudicca, et al - ‘nuff said. Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 26, 2018 5:28:21 GMT -8
I still remain surprised that anyone ever used those rules, when they existed, to start with. What tappy is referring to is the typical error of correlations. Correlations do not causations make. Even if there then appears to be a casual link they don’t prove the direction of effect ie: A because B or B because A? All we can say is when A changes so does B, which means A might cause B or B might cause A OR (and this the important one) A and B might be responding to an unknown factor we haven’t measured or identified yet. That’s correlation. A good example is in the Rhesus Monkey postnatal depression experiments - hormonal changes were observed in situation of postnatal depression which could be induced by changing environmental conditions (this breaking the assumed direction of a causal link that was believed to exist prior to these experiments ie: postnatal depression hormonal changes were as likely a response to circumstances as they were a cause of the depression). Aaron
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 24, 2018 4:07:59 GMT -8
The OSR forum covers all the older 'other' games as well - it's not ODnD/ADnD specific Aaron
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