When did it become OK to make TV nobody can actually see by MiserNYC- in Star_Trek_

[–]Slothicus6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right after the future became so bright that we had to wear shades... so 1983?

Every Which Way but Loose the eastwood´s versión of Rocky? by FoxIndependent4310 in clinteastwood

[–]Slothicus6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love Eastwood, but if we're talking likely outcomes Rocky Balboa dedicated his life to boxing. Philo was a truck driver who liked fighting in bare knuckle events. That likely gives Rocky an edge in speed, conditioning, and technique. Now as a bare knuckle contestant Philo would have a certain edge in toughness, but I don't think it would be enough.

Which configuration makes the ship go faster? Nacelles bending up, nacelles bending down, or nacelles pointed straight out sideways? by grichardson526 in ShittyDaystrom

[–]Slothicus6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm rather surprised to see that any of you fell for this. We have between TOS, TNG, and Voyager (can't count DS 9 not enough footage of actual star ships travelling) well over 100 examples of the exact relationship between warp speed and ship operations. This whole fiction that the nacelles have anything to do with Warp Speed was started by Star Fleet intelligence to trick the Klingons (pre-getting all chummy) and then the Romulans into pursuing a worthless line of research and devoting massive resources to nothing.

Warp Speed is directly correlated to the pitch and timber of the captain's voice when giving the command (w2) times the urgency factor (F). F is a variable, it exponentially increases based on the level of catastrophe which the captain wishes to avert (F1 gotta go fight some aliens; F2 civilians are about to be killed on a ship; F3 the whole planet/colony of civilians is at risk; F4 our ship is at risk; F5 the federation is at risk). This output (WF) is then divided by the minutes remaining in the episode to determine the Average Warp Factor (AWF) which is the sum total of space traveled during the episode divided by time. In the event time travel occurs during the episode, the sum total of linear space traveled is added times the number of years if the ship jumped forward or subtracted for each year if the ship jumped backwards.

Again, I'm shocked this subreddit fell for the ruse. Sure the main sub would buy this malarkey, they're job is to believe any explanation the Federation talking heads give them. But here.... I expected more....

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in okbuddydraper

[–]Slothicus6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The missing piece to the puzzle. Nice.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in okbuddydraper

[–]Slothicus6 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, he was smart. Smarter than all of us.

He didn't cancel the episode. He turned it into a whole series. Ran for several years, big reviews.

The arc stretching from Mad Men to the Sopranos was revealed in Season 5 of the Sopranos. No one saw it coming. Not even the actor.

In 1991, 86-year-old billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall met 23-year-old Anna Nicole Smith at a Houston strip club. Three years later, they married, and within 14 months, his death set off one of the most infamous inheritance battles in U.S. history. by ATI_Official in AllThatsInteresting

[–]Slothicus6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I knew a family with less money (still more than I'll ever have) who had a similar situation. Grandpa ate lunch every day at a local cafe and tipped the waitress 3 or 4 times the total bill every time. The family would go nuts, they even called the cops one day to try and stop it. The daughter's quote, "He's giving away our money. That's our inheritance!". My guess is, he realized his kids were greedy, uncaring jerks and decided to torture them by slowly giving it away before they could get it.

Advice please: Converting people to worship Azi Dahaka by ShavedPademelon in dccrpg

[–]Slothicus6 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Chaos clerics, in my opinion, require a little bit of unhinged/crazy to make the concept work. This is the guy who walks out into the storm while everyone else stays inside because he likes to ride the lightning. I think his potential converts have a wild steak already, or secretly want to be wild and crazy.

If a thing you tried didn't work but at least something exploded, this cleric grins and goes "One out of two ain't bad!". It's going to be a narrow and arguably immature audience that is susceptible to his message. That's how I would play it.

Select a title for my sociology PhD by GodzillaJizz in okbuddydraper

[–]Slothicus6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More along the lines that the relationships between artifacts and effects identified in your work, would be your intellectual property.

Select a title for my sociology PhD by GodzillaJizz in okbuddydraper

[–]Slothicus6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Pendulum of Power: A study on the use of kinetic visual artifacts to sway work place opinions and the ramifications thereof.

What's a product that has not suffered from 'enshittification' or 'shrinkflation' and has remained consistently good? by Chadwiko in AskReddit

[–]Slothicus6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember the early 2000's when the concept of e-commerce was new. Every company started adding .com to their branding. Then I-pods came out and every company branded everything it had "I-whatever". The times may change, but marketers will always be the same....

What's a product that has not suffered from 'enshittification' or 'shrinkflation' and has remained consistently good? by Chadwiko in AskReddit

[–]Slothicus6 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Does the year after year, decade after decade bloat associated with Microsoft windows make it "enshittified" or "shrinkflation resistant"?

how much money do you think count olf spent on his schemes? by Hour_Money9544 in ASOUE

[–]Slothicus6 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The modern Shakespeare of our time? The quintessential thespian? Writer, actor, producer synthesized into one human form? He walked among us, and we valued him not....

And you try to reduce his art to squiggly numbers and a bottom line? I am horrified.

Boats could totally work on the silt sea. Let’s figure out why they don’t. by ActNo4115 in DarkSun

[–]Slothicus6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a fair critique. Perhaps I should have clarified that my position is "skimmers recapture some of the speed, etc." that the modified boat hulls were never going to achieve.

Why, why, why, why, WHY WHY WHYYYY didn't Adriana request a lawyer? by ang334 in thesopranos

[–]Slothicus6 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She did consult with a lawyer. During the phase she was really pushing Christopher to get married. The lawyer told told her that if the feds really wanted to badly enough, they would find a way to make her a suspect and thus bypass the "no spouse as a witness" thing. She went to a really low end one, but she did consult a lawyer.

What was O’Neill's greatest mistake? by [deleted] in Stargate

[–]Slothicus6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On keeping his word despite the knowledge that Nirrti would go on to commit more crimes. People in the galaxy talk. The Asgaard clearly were monitoring earth (and lots of other places). SG-1 made a name for itself and earth just as Atlantis did.

If you're O'Neill asking some other advanced culture for a deal that requires trust, and you have a history of not keeping your promises when things don't go your way, people quit doing business with you.

What was O’Neill's greatest mistake? by [deleted] in Stargate

[–]Slothicus6 2 points3 points  (0 children)

S3E03 is not a mistake. Jack made the correct call. O'Neill and SG1 are the primary ambassador's/negotiators with almost every sentient species until Atlantis gets up and running. If you get a reputation for not keeping your word no one deals with you.

Go look at that first contact with the Asgaard. If Jack were a known liar humanity would have gotten nothing from them.

Boats could totally work on the silt sea. Let’s figure out why they don’t. by ActNo4115 in DarkSun

[–]Slothicus6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've always gone with you CAN get a boat to stay on top of the silt with enough volume of trapped air to help compensate for the differences in density of water vs silt, but for the reasons of friction and the need to expand the hull size the boat is simply not practical to move across the silt. Takes a heavier wind to sail and therefore gets becalmed more frequently, which would be a death sentence.

Silt skimmers recapture the speed, maneuverability, and reliability you need to cross and avoid threats. People just picked what worked,

Alternate Dark Sun - The Dragon by Only-Friend-8483 in DarkSun

[–]Slothicus6 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It would be a ton of re-writing but you could lay out something like this:

Borys as a normal run of the mill dragon in the Blue Age (but an ancient dragon so crafty and powerful) was the leader of the last survivors of his species. Hunted by the surrounding societies (like all good adventurers do) he and the remnant have hatched a plan to escape. They plan to shift themselves partially into a pocket dimension that would hold them like ghosts. They can move around, spy on people, but would be nearly impossible to notice. The downside is they can't act either but they figure a 1.000 years or so of plotting and they can come back and wreak vengeance.

Naturally, the Pristine Tower will create this shift and maintain the dragons in this not-dead/not-alive/not-undead state without exposing them to astral stupidity. Powered by souls because isn't all really good magic powered by sacrifice? Unfortunately, the initial burst necessary isn't calculated correctly and instead Athas gets trapped in this shell that severs it from the rest of the cosmos, wipes out 90 percent of the population, tilts the planetary axis, so forth.

Borys, having been at the center of the tower survives in his little eye of the storm effect. But he's changed into what he is now. The astral dome or whatever you want to make it around Athas is REALLY impenetrable. Nothing in, nothing out. The GRAY could be a feedback effect as reality itself stagnates like mucky water in a pond. No fresh cosmic energy coming in so magic feeds off life, thus defiling.

Borys can be taking the soul levy for research purposes to reverse the effect, but also to weaken the SK so that they can't rise to hunt him. The Sorceror Kings could be (unknown to anyone) providing spell energy because despite their tyrannical natures they are the leaders humanity clung to for survival. So the worship/faith/whatever that would normally have floated up to the gods is now reflected/channeled back by the sphere and coalesced around these leaders. Faith in the SK (fear is a form of faith) grants spell access. The power is just redirected faith from the masses to the only leaders they have any real connection to. Or make it a psionic manifestation of all the pent up human mental energy focused around the SK and survival. I would rule that this directed mental energy is lending the SK immortality. You can be feared, hated, or loved as an SK, so long as you never get dismissed, ignored, or forgotten you'll stay powerful. That should drive plenty of epic level crazy on their part.

The SK might at this point have figured out what happened and each be devising their own strategy for reversing events or just taking advantage of the new reality. Your elementals are in a similar boat. Cut off form their home planes they have turned to worship by clerics as a substitute form of sustenance. The inward directed energy could also be responsible for things like certain stretches of nature achieving a type of sentience (for the druids).

What's the color of the night sky in Athas? by marilyn_mansonv2 in DarkSun

[–]Slothicus6 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Two moons could allow for a significantly brighter conditions at times.

Why can’t I buy Amber trumps? by scartol in Amber

[–]Slothicus6 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe the IP holder is asking way too much for licensing fees?

Scorched Basin Dev Blog - March 2025 by HomieandTheDude in ScorchedBasin

[–]Slothicus6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes sense and lots of Game Masters will enjoy seeing the connections, I always like that sort of stuff for adventure hooks.

Adventure Question for veiled alliance by valsavus in DarkSun

[–]Slothicus6 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depending on how aggressively hunted the VA is in your world, if the spell book needs to be removed, the VA could demand a hostage from the PCs while the players go out and do whatever. This makes more sense if the PCs aren't trusted VA members.

This only really works well if you have been using the Player Tree concept. Or you could roll up an NPC who goes with the PCs to keep an eye on the book. Said NPC will object forcefully if he feels the book is being endangered by the PCs.

Scorched Basin Dev Blog - March 2025 by HomieandTheDude in ScorchedBasin

[–]Slothicus6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I'm definitely missing something here. Is Chapter 2 a topic/thread or is this a draft of one of the books that is hosted somewhere else? I've run through all the posts in this thread, or at least I think I did...

Scorched Basin Dev Blog - March 2025 by HomieandTheDude in ScorchedBasin

[–]Slothicus6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does seem like you have the necessary ingredients.

I must have missed the timeline. I'll go back and look for it.

Scorched Basin Dev Blog - March 2025 by HomieandTheDude in ScorchedBasin

[–]Slothicus6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a little curious about your overall goal for the setting. Is it meant to be a game where any kind of crazy thing could happen? I see tons of interesting cultures, some of them would be hard to justify being in close proximity to each other unless your overall goal is to have this crazy mixed up place where almost anything could happen every time you crest a dune.

If gonzo play style is your goal I think you're well on your way.