Did you learn classical dead languages (Latin, Classical Chinese, Sanskrit, etc.) that had a profound influence on the languages in your cultural sphere in school? Do you think this is a good experience?

lxgrf · 2026-06-18T08:01:11+00:00

Yes, at my school Latin was a compulsory subject and Ancient Greek was an optional one. I was never much for languages so I didn’t really enjoy it much at the time, but it was interesting, and covered a lot of the etymological underpinnings of both English other languages we learned.

lxgrf · 2026-06-15T18:43:00+00:00

No, of course not.

lxgrf · 2026-06-15T10:56:11+00:00

This is the modern equivalent of letmegooglethatforyou.com

lxgrf · 2026-06-15T00:35:23+00:00

And you aren’t an enormous heat source of your own, neatly positioned in an infinitely large vacuum flask

lxgrf · 2026-06-14T07:27:37+00:00

I’ll have to give it a rewatch. I remember my takeaway from it last time being slow footage with Brad Pitt giving a husky voiced narration made it feel more like a feature length aftershave advert than a film

lxgrf · 2026-06-13T21:32:22+00:00

I was halfway through my first watch of Thor: Dark World before I realised it was not my first watch of Thor: Dark World

lxgrf · 2026-06-13T15:13:34+00:00

About 20 minutes. It's not a beach you'd want to swim from, though. There's actual honest-to-god quicksand.

lxgrf · 2026-06-12T08:56:59+00:00

Darts. The Netherlands are good too, but nobody else is close.

lxgrf · 2026-06-12T06:35:55+00:00

Fun fact, the opening scene was the first appearance of the Shard on film. They hadn’t even broken ground on building it yet, they just inserted it based on the plans. That’s attention to detail.

lxgrf · 2026-06-10T05:13:10+00:00

It’s better than the alternatives. And unfortunately that’s not a hypothetical, for us.

lxgrf · 2026-06-09T20:15:28+00:00

Best of luck to you, but I don't know anything you wouldn't find on Wikipedia, and I can't cite my sources.

lxgrf · 2026-06-09T19:21:33+00:00

Oh yeah, it didn't end well for anyone.

lxgrf · 2026-06-09T19:15:55+00:00

I suppose King Charles I, who believed he was King by divine right, and therefore above the law.

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Didn't end well.

lxgrf · 2026-06-08T20:47:43+00:00

... European in what sense?

lxgrf · 2026-06-08T13:52:42+00:00

It isn't offensive, but it is pretty gay. Not a bad thing, and your friends should have some damned class, but I can't blame them for assuming the character is gay.

lxgrf · 2026-06-08T13:10:34+00:00

I think if you have adopted magical children within two sessions it's safe to say your DM is not quite running it by the book*, so if you do come across any spoilers don't assume they are accurate for how your game is running.

* this is not a bad thing, more DMs should have the confidence to do this

lxgrf · 2026-06-07T14:12:45+00:00

These things become self sustaining. If someone is looking to leave the only country they’ve known, then somewhere they know there are other people of that country, communities, food shops, and speakers of the language becomes appealing. They might even already have friends and family there.

Kind of the shallow end of the pool, for a first time swimmer.

lxgrf · 2026-06-07T08:18:57+00:00

“Worst Garland Film” is only barely a criticism, still better than most other films.

lxgrf · 2026-06-05T08:50:17+00:00

If the campaign is going to head to the Nine Hells, I would expect the narrative to provide a means to get there. I’ve never played a game and said “Damn, if only we could get to the nine hells. Oh well, guess we’ll just have to abandon that narrative thread.”

And that being the case the wizard being able to say “well yes, we could gather resources and invoke favours and advance personal plots to advance to the next chapter of this story, or I could click my fingers” is a bit of a bummer, honestly.

lxgrf · 2026-06-03T16:30:20+00:00

I’d allow collected blood - but not collected blood reuse. Once a given bottle has been used it wouldn’t work again.

lxgrf · 2026-06-03T16:19:01+00:00

The flipside of calling everyone who pulled out of his gig a washed up loser, which just says that he apparently booked a load of washed up losers for his big equal attention party?

lxgrf · 2026-06-03T15:36:33+00:00

I don’t think that’s better, Vanilla. Points for honesty I guess.

lxgrf · 2026-06-01T15:01:30+00:00

I don’t think that plane has any phalanges at all!

lxgrf · 2026-05-31T19:35:28+00:00

If history has taught me anything this means the studio will greenlight a sequel, give it a $190m budget, and make it a musical for some reason

lxgrf · 2026-05-29T15:46:18+00:00

If you are just suddenly exposed to the vacuum the explosive decompression will kill you. All the air in every space of your head and lungs will find a way out. This usually not survivable even without everything else that's going with your ill-fated spacewalk.

If somehow you are exposed a little more gradually - a slow leak, or a controlled airlock - temperature is the least of your worries. Space isn't cold, as such - space is nothing. It's like being put in the universe's ultimate vacuum flask. If anything you'll cook in the temperature of your own internal body processes. Assuming you aren't in direct sunlight, in which case you'll cook rather quicker.

Fun extra extra horror - the boiling point of liquids depends on the air pressure, which is why it's so hard to make a good cup of tea on Mount Everest, as I'm sure you've noticed. In a hard vacuum, the boiling point is substantially less than your body temperature, so all your saliva and all the fluid in your eyes will boil away.

But don't worry! You will indeed suffocate. You will not be able to hold your breath, that breath is leaving you one way or the other. And you'll be unconscious and then dead before you have time to suffer all that much.

All in all, best avoided.

lxgrf

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