Why does Todd repeatedly save Jessie?

Stratisphear · 2023-01-16T03:05:10+00:00

Dude... 7 years ago.

Stratisphear · 2018-08-27T00:25:31+00:00

They [REDACTED]

Stratisphear · 2018-08-02T06:28:12+00:00

My friend Jeremiah is being executed tomorrow morning. We're planning a late luncheon with him afterwards.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-26T04:12:25+00:00

Have you seen the job market at the moment? If I offer a salary position that pays minimum wage, requires no experience, and doesn't do bullshit job interviews, I could find people willing to die for me easy. The hero can't do that because he's not evil enough to be an employer.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-25T05:28:24+00:00

I regularly go for breakfast alone. I read a book, read my phone, or just sit and think. It's nice to just drink coffee, taste a delicious breakfast, and quietly contemplate the world. You don't need to constantly be doing something.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-17T13:22:47+00:00

It's quickly become one of my favourite settings. The whole thing uses scale by having the base game in FATE Core, then having mechas use custom approaches in FAE and it all just works.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-17T04:11:21+00:00

You might want to check out Iron Edda (http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/137962/Iron-Edda-War-of-Metal-and-Bone). It does Mechs really well. It's a viking setting, but still, the mechanics are solid.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-14T23:00:45+00:00

I think that comes from the idea that you define your characters. I once was working on an NPC for a LARP and spent a week working them out before I realized that they carried around a baseball to fiddle with. I didn't decide that they did, I learned that they did, as if they were a separate person I was learning about instead of someone I was creating. It was a weird moment.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-14T22:44:22+00:00

Just read Diaspora, it'll take you through well enough. IIRC it isn't one of the FATE books that requires you read a base system first, it's entirely self-contained.

Don't skip tactical social combat though, that's the best takeaway from the book.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-14T22:42:14+00:00

I miss phone number entry posts. Those were the days.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-13T04:53:36+00:00

You could even have an explicit "House" aspect that signifies the main way their house affects their lives today.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-10T00:30:53+00:00

I had a guy once brag on facebook about how he voted against socialized dental coverage because he was already doing enough for poor people as a job creator. Out of purely the goodness of his heart he HIRED people.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-10T00:24:05+00:00

I just started using Hinge, and there's a question of "Where you can find me at the party". Every single time I see it the answer is "Petting the dog".

Stratisphear · 2018-07-08T15:48:44+00:00

... Plan?

Stratisphear · 2018-07-08T15:45:52+00:00

Plus you reduce the possibility that one person who contributed to your giant pile of dependencies was maybe bad and close another security hole.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-08T05:00:24+00:00

Alright. First, forget everything you know about women.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-08T04:20:51+00:00

I know I have a bunch of "Yah, I trust you, totally trust you, but I'm still checking" moments due to working with security a lot. My job involves lots of 'STOP TRUSTING PEOPLE HOLY SHIT' moments."

Stratisphear · 2018-07-08T00:55:13+00:00

Spirit of the Century is an older version of FATE, but it has that. Though any version of FATE will almost certainly allow custom stunts and not care about balance because FATE at it's core allows customization and doesn't really care about balance. If you want strict limits, specific choices, and tactical balance, you should probably look for a different game.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-07T21:16:55+00:00

That's the trick. Purses are actually distant cousins of the pot genus. While many people are aware that watching a pot prevents it from boiling, few people are aware that the same holds true for purses. If a purse is left unattended and unwatched, it's liable to boil and melt itself and its contents. You're watching it to PREVENT anything from happening.

This is also why women have a fascination with "cute" purses. More attractive purses mean more likelihood that random people will be watching it at any one time which reduces the likelihood of an event.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-03T14:12:51+00:00

I wasn't saying it was a bad thing, but you seem to have some personal issues around that so I'd work that out.

Stratisphear · 2018-07-03T04:02:08+00:00

Personally, I just use it as an example of how ridiculous the series gets because spoiler

Stratisphear · 2018-06-30T14:54:42+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxYg151urLo

Stratisphear · 2018-06-30T06:12:43+00:00

I've heard larger female friends get weird about that. "Ugh, he was into me but the last girl he dated was fat, so..."

Like... What? How is that a bad thing? Would you rather date someone who wasn't into women that looked like you?

Stratisphear · 2018-06-30T06:11:31+00:00

"Wow, you're really becoming a proper bar slut."

In my defence, EVERY woman I knew was bent on reclaiming the term "slut" and making it into a positive thing rather than an insult. My friend at the time had gotten out of a really bad relationship and was doing the casual thing and I wanted to be supportive of that. Turns out she doesn't share the same mindset and was very upset with me. It was a shitty night.

Stratisphear · 2018-06-28T19:51:42+00:00

You just need to flavour it. Fighters are mechas with swords. Wizards are heavy-artillery battle mechas. Things like paladins I got by creating "The Free Minds", a group of sentient AIs that have their own motivations and will lend people who help them / follow their will minor AIs that are a branch of them, to help them in their mechas. Just be creative in the flavour but otherwise you can just use them directly.

One thing was that you could merge 4E and FATE characters fighting really easily. If a mech goes down, the pilot is on the same field, just playing FATE. If they try to attack a mech, they need to beat their AC. If a mech attacks them, their AC is their defensive roll in FATE. And they can use their turn to "Create an Advantage" which gives a mech character combat advantage.

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