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by nockermensch
Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:03 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 162401

Rio de Janeiro is shutting down schools and events. I'll work from home for the time being.

What will happen to all the people who can't work from home? They still need to eat and such.
by nockermensch
Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:37 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 162401

-Indirect apocalypse. The plague doesn't kill humanity or even inflict enough fatalities to directly end civilization, but it causes enough economic damage and political instability to cause a 30s-grade depression and a massive surge of war across the globe as devastated economies scramble for reso...
by nockermensch
Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:15 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Coronavirus thread
Replies: 588
Views: 162401

Well, this is it, right? A global catastrophe that humanity could easily deal with if the planet was already united under some form of collectivism but that will decimate us because Capitalism always has the worst reactions. Right now, it seems inevitable that a worldwide economic depression will hi...
by nockermensch
Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:58 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Multi-classing in level-based games
Replies: 34
Views: 7262

There are two kinds of multiclass character concepts . The first concept is the character that acts as if they belong to two different classes, all the time. I think the archetypical example here is the fighter/mage, that wants to kick ass with both weapons AND spells. For this concept in a 3E like ...
by nockermensch
Fri Jan 03, 2020 1:26 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Why is anyone here?
Replies: 79
Views: 10658

If I had to pick a low point for 3E sillyness, "20th level commoners" would be it.
by nockermensch
Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:40 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: D&D Question about Good Gods
Replies: 26
Views: 3597

Explanation of the christian subtext clashing with polytheism Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh that makes sense. Thank you for explaining that to me, it's certainly making a lot of things click in my head.[/i] To wit: These things sound offensive to you because humanity came with better morality systems durin...
by nockermensch
Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:52 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Dumbest Official Take on Alignment?
Replies: 43
Views: 7256

I'm beating a dead horse here, but 4E alignment is notable for how they managed to make something that: 1) uses D&D terms of art wrong ; 2) alienates a lot of existing players (people who like elves or Dr. Doom type villains) 3) is still stupid and harmful to the game, anyway If you don't rememb...
by nockermensch
Fri Dec 27, 2019 2:16 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Why is anyone here?
Replies: 79
Views: 10658

I came for the tomes and stayed for the Communism insightful reviews of games. I also cut my Internet teeth at USENET decades ago and still don't feel confortable being on a forum where people can't tell others to fuck off when they're wrong.
by nockermensch
Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:44 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
Replies: 156
Views: 27035

theRPGsite is less of a shithole, but is full of right-wing politics, which is aggravating, because I don't want politics in my gaming discussion. The Den is less of a shithole, but is full of left-wing politics, which is aggravating, because I don't want politics in my gaming discussion. Sorry, yo...
by nockermensch
Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:03 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
Replies: 156
Views: 27035

Not that it matters, because Frank shows us a hint of his true face, when he admits that he's not sorry for lying . He's only sorry that he got caught. In conclusion, I'm sorry we got caught. :roll: I'm not sure if this is a failed attempt at a I know you are but what am I? or if Sac is THIS dumb.
by nockermensch
Sun Sep 15, 2019 5:23 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Very high skill checks
Replies: 58
Views: 9852

Also for all we know Youmu can fly by swording just like she can do sword danmaku. While we can stay here discussing Touhou all week, it's not the thread theme and the quoted bit is the key: By the end of the day Youmu behaves as a magic user, just as any character in the series*. But like a youxia...
by nockermensch
Sat Sep 14, 2019 7:28 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Very high skill checks
Replies: 58
Views: 9852

If you make a fighty dude able to participate reasonably in level appropriate adventures no one gives a shit about anything else. Really that's the whole ball game. The real issue is that 'fight' has a lot less conceptual space and therefore problem solving applicability than 'uses magic'. We've ha...
by nockermensch
Fri Aug 02, 2019 1:01 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 150319

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/244038710599876618/474749218704195585/unknown.png https://s15.postimg.cc/5d958pitn/Assurance_PF2.png WTF?! Placing these side by side shows only failure and lack of planning. So you spend a feat to barely succeed at low difficulty tasks? EDIT: Well, to be fair...
by nockermensch
Sat Jul 20, 2019 2:26 am
Forum: About the Gaming Den
Topic: newUser();
Replies: 12
Views: 8997

Usamimi wrote:
Shadeseraph wrote:
Usamimi wrote:if (community_prejudice = 0)
Test your code before commiting or you may make a big mistake

:P

Anyways, hiya!
Can community_prejudice be negative?
Since you used a C/js-like syntax, the expectation is that the equivalence operator would be ==.
by nockermensch
Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:50 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
Replies: 3796
Views: 937639

In Brazilian news today, or a couple days ago at least, the current Minister of Justice, who was previously the Judge overseeing the case against the previous President, actually conspired with prosecution to bring the case that he then sat on, imprisoning Lula, and resulting in the change of govt....
by nockermensch
Wed May 01, 2019 2:34 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
Replies: 3789
Views: 494830

The Legend of Galactic Heroes novels lost me quite early, when the beginning of the first book showed how one of the character was a master tactician by having him simply follow the basic principles of war against supposedly seasoned veterans who acted the worst way possible. But I kept reading any...
by nockermensch
Sat Apr 27, 2019 5:19 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: NSFW News That Makes You Laugh/Cry/Hurl/etc.
Replies: 525
Views: 138281

Shrapnel wrote:So this is from Pornhub yes but they are the most hottest videos I've ever seen.

https://www.pornhub.com/model/ryancreamer

No, seriously, these may be the best porn videos I've ever seen.
I'm a dude, and I'm so wet rn
by nockermensch
Tue Apr 23, 2019 5:53 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Death
Replies: 53
Views: 19586

Maj, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Death sucks and nobody is ever actually prepared for it. I hope the best for you and your son and if you ever need something a brazilian dude can help with, let me know.
by nockermensch
Fri Feb 01, 2019 5:37 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: dungeons, reasons for existence
Replies: 24
Views: 2678

There's also the Underdark: If subterranean energy sources are plenty enough to keep large underground ecosystems, then you can have subterranean civilizations and sometimes "the dungeons" are just the cities/roads of people who happen to live deep underground.
by nockermensch
Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:15 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
Replies: 3789
Views: 494830

This is usually one of the major points I bring up in favor of anime - usually a series is commissioned for a certain number of episodes and they resolve their plot point within that number of episodes. It's funny that you mention this because Bleach lost me when it refused to end at the end of the...
by nockermensch
Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:51 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Setting jam: lasers vs air power
Replies: 43
Views: 6881

Dune style forcefields which are susceptible to slow massive crushing force and immune to fast bullets and bad targets for lasers would make giant robos an acceptable choice. Dune shields vs lasers is one of the weak points of the series: If shields react to lasers like that, then the proper in-wor...
by nockermensch
Sat Jan 05, 2019 9:59 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
Replies: 149
Views: 36101

Noncasters and fullcasters aren't anywhere near balanced against each other either, but plenty of people consider the stronger fullcasters to be the right point of balance. Something that everybody does seem to consider too cheesy are the discounts for needing a certain skill and class/alignment to...
by nockermensch
Fri Jan 04, 2019 1:19 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: ADOM RPG
Replies: 70
Views: 12863

TheCreatorOfADOM wrote:Feedback welcome!
Polearms are OP because you can wield a shortspear with a shield and get the massive DV progression of a weapon category clearly intended for two-handed weapons AND the shield's DV without downsides.

Oh wait, you were asking about the P&P version.
by nockermensch
Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:23 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
Replies: 152
Views: 23473

In the last adventure, Arachnoman's blogger girlfriend Sarah Sanderson is apparently able to jump from San Francisco to Tokyo because the entire Pacific Ocean is only one square across? That seems like the kind of thing that might come up. As Andrei's example shows, in jt's system normal people get...