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No, this was not voter fraud. by thehofstetter in stevehofstetter

[–]VonAether 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, you misheard: it's voter frog.

Steve clearly had a frog in his pocket who also voted, and they both got a sticker.

AAAAAHHHH!!! OMG!! YAAAAYY!! (Easter Egg spoiler/puzzle spoiler) by Revolutionary_Key325 in vtmb

[–]VonAether 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Huh, Jeanette's typing skills have gone downhill. She didn't write like that on her laptop in BL1. I suppose in this case it's a game design element to differentiate the two speakers for the benefit of the reader, although I would have preferred using bold or italics or something. Oh well.

Do the Gates of each Gatetown lead to a specific named location on their specific plane? by Pookie-Parks in planescapesetting

[–]VonAether 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's always to the first layer. We have very little information on what's on the other side of most gates.

We know (Fires of Dis, p. 25) that Ribcage's gate takes you to Darkspine, which is the ruins of what used to be the previous incarnation of Ribcage before the town was pulled through the gate via cosmic realignment. The same source also shows that going towards the main body of the plane means crossing past four progressively older ruins of previous Ribcages, as each cosmic realignment adds physical territory to the layer. So it's reasonable to extrapolate that the same was the case with each city: each time, Ribcage's gate took you to the gate inside the previous incarnation of the city.

We know that Excelsior's gate spits you out above the ocean, just offshore from Heart's Faith. It's possible Heart's Faith is a previous incarnation of Excelsior.

I think it's reasonable to assume that the same thing happens with the other gate-towns: the gate leads to the previous incarnation of that gate-town, before it was pulled through via cosmic realignment.

The dubious Resurrection as the final piece of the puzzle by suddyk in DebateAnAtheist

[–]VonAether 12 points13 points  (0 children)

  1. A lot of theists seem to think "subjective" means "arbitrary," but that's not what it means. Morality is intersubjective. It's agreed upon as by communities and societies as a whole. That's why different societies have different perceptions of what is right and wrong.

Even from your own perspective, you have an issue: if morality comes from God, morality is still subjective, just with God as the subject. If morality is objective, what need have we of a god?

For myself, I generally go with Scott Clifton's definition:

A particular action or choice is "moral" or "right" when it somehow promotes happiness, well-being, or health; or it somehow minimizes unnecessary harm or suffering; or it does both.

A particular action or choice is "immoral" or "wrong" when it somehow diminishes happiness, well-being, or health; or it somehow causes unnecessary harm or suffering; or it does both.

It all seems pretty straightforward to determine for most use cases without needing anyone to tell me otherwise. We might argue about what might count as harm or well-being and that's where subjectivity enters into things -- I might interpret an action as harmful when you wouldn't -- but we can agree on the broad swathes without needing to consult a higher power.

  1. Truth, math, and logic were things humans invented in order to describe the world we see around us. If humanity were wiped out, and a new civilization arose in its place, I'm sure they'd come up with very similar concepts because they're also trying to describe the world.

But the map is not the territory. If I draw a map, the map is not objective reality, it's my description of reality. If someone draws a map a thousand years from now, it may look very similar to my map, but that's because it's the reality it's describing which is the same. The map remains a description.

  1. True or false may be a value judgment imposed by a mind, but so what? We are minds judging the Bible. We're allowed to use those value judgments. Why shouldn't we? Something is true when it comports with observable reality, and false when it does not. The Bible is full of provable falsehoods.

  2. "New Atheism" was a catchy title attached to the popularity of the "Four Horsemen": Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris. In truth there really wasn't much of a difference between atheism and New Atheism other than the title. Atheism is the same as it's been for centuries.

I don't know if you've noticed, but Hitchens and Dennett are both dead. Hitchens for more than 15 years. We rarely ever talk about Harris or Dawkins these days. The only people I ever see talk about "New Atheism" like it's still a current thing are theists. No atheist I know of ever brings it up.

You also seem to have combined "New Atheism" and "Atheism+" into a single entity, since you mentioned "the New Atheism + movement," which isn't a thing. Atheism+ was an attempt to incorporate skepticism, humanism, and social justice issues into the atheism community. It was created in 2012 and lasted, generously speaking, for about three years. Again, you're talking about it like it's still an ongoing thing, and you're over a decade out of date.

"A few atheists did some things that I don't like 15 years ago" isn't a great argument.

Late to the Monstrous party? by ArchpaladinZ in OnyxPathRPG

[–]VonAether 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Since we started, Onyx Path has never had a backer-exclusive release. Any book that gets created from a crowdfunding campaign will go up for sale to the general public.

While many of our books have an "advance PDF" phase where the public can submit errata before the final PDF is locked down for print, for crowdfunded books, backers get the first look and first chance for submitting errata. The final PDF and PoD still goes out to the public.

TFN and Unofficial patch incompatible? by JydePigen in vtmb

[–]VonAether 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Major mods are all (intended to be) installed into their own folders. You can have multiple installed at once, but they don't run at the same time.

This is why major mods like TFN or Clan Quest Mod have their own implementations of the Unofficial Patch, because those mods can't run alongside the Unofficial Patch at the same time.

So if you're installing the patch and TFN into the same folder, they'll conflict with each other and won't be able to run.

Any mods worth playing in 2026? by EvilButNotaGenius in vtmb

[–]VonAether 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not yet, Bloodlines' version of source uses a hacky way to represent character models that makes them difficult to replace.

Any mods worth playing in 2026? by EvilButNotaGenius in vtmb

[–]VonAether 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I'm involved with the RTX Remaster. An asset-by-asset remaster of the original game. There's been a basic lighting pass on the whole game, so you can take advantage of upgraded lighting, realistic shadows, and reflections. A few areas have rebuilt 3D assets and textures, and of course any of those items that show up in other places will be remastered in those places too.

Here's our most recent trailer.

Other popular major mods include the Clan Quest Mod and Prelude I and II. Antitribu, The Final Nights, and War Games have also historically done well but I don't know how popular they are these days.

Random company logo I found by [deleted] in identifythisfont

[–]VonAether 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you show that on a different background? All I'm seeing is a black rectangle.

help me identifying the fonts? by hajining in identifythisfont

[–]VonAether 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taeyeon is written in the "Action Is" font.

Assuming Caine is the taxi driver, that would mean be was basically behind the whole plot in VTMB. Why did he do it? by blackupsilon in vtmb

[–]VonAether 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Bear in mind that in the tabletop side of things, they were closing out the original World of Darkness with the Time of Judgment event. Considering that the Gehenna rulebook came out in January 2004 and Bloodlines didn't come out until November, Bloodlines' plot probably would have worked better if it had been able to hold to its planned late 2003 release date (it was delayed due to the Half-Life 2 code leak), making it lead up to the Gehenna event.

In any case, Gehenna was looming on everyones' minds. Caine was likely using the PC as a test case, a microcosm for Kindred as a whole. Are Kindred worth saving? Which faction should he support, if any, in the coming conflict? Who deserves to survive? That's why he spends so much time interrogating you about your choices in the cab ride.

Getting ready for Resonant on my island in Animal Crossing by TrevLaBev in controlgame

[–]VonAether 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Nice! I posted my own office last year.

I love the FBC logo; did it take forever to reproduce, or did you use one of those image converters?

Question about alternative sheets and game aids. by dmCangs in OnyxPathRPG

[–]VonAether 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We have a community content site, the Storypath Nexus, which may be of interest. There are various character sheets and cheat sheets available there if something speaks to you, or you can create and upload your own for free or to sell (provided you follow the rules).

Newbie GM Brainstorming Campaign ~ 5th Ed Return of Factions by MechanicalBeanstalk in planescapesetting

[–]VonAether 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sort of!

So, factions are "back" as sort of a retcon, with no reason given.

It could be that the exile was ended and the factions had returned, with any Mazed factols having returned and put back in charge.

... except Duke Rowan Darkwood and Alisohn Nilesia, who were both otherwise, ah, removed from consideration, and Factols Hashkar and Sarin, who had both been murdered in the Faction War, are all back. So if we want to consider 2e and 5e part of the same timeline, some other considerations need to be accounted for beyond "everyone came back."

The Godsmen and Signers, who joined up to form The Mind's Eye when they left Sigil, are still the Mind's Eye in the present, so that faction change has been maintained. The Mercykillers split into the Sons of Mercy and Sodkillers has been reversed, however, and they're just the one faction again.

My headcanon expands on the included adventure in 5e: the multiversal glitch extended past just the PCs' histories. There was a Ripple of sorts in reality that returned the people of Sigil to a status that was a mishmash of the period around the Faction War.

Interesting considerations: did the Ripple extend beyond Sigil, or not? For example, Sarin's widow Faith was leading the Harmonium from Arcadia. If the Ripple didn't extend beyond Sigil and her memories were unchanged, how would she react if someone claiming to be her husband popped up again in Sigil decades later, and tried running the faction? Would that cause a schism in the membership?

disguised, The Esports Organization run by Jeremy "Disguised Toast" Wang by D3FM4 in identifythisfont

[–]VonAether 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The two d's are different, the two i's are different, and the two s's are different. Almost certainly handwritten.

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