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[Rolan7]

We were going to name our cat Loki but found out the was a girl cat and named her Luci  (hard c) instead. A mix of Loki and Lucy, pronounced loo-key. I guess straight Loki could fly as a name, there were a lot of cool female giant names though too.

In World of Darkness, what happens if a contested roll is a tie? Specifically regarding grapple. We've been going by "highest modifier" like in 3.5 but can't find a real rule.

[GiglameshDespair]

Opposed Checks

An opposed check is a check whose success or failure is determined by comparing the check result to another character’s check result. In an opposed check, the higher result succeeds, while the lower result fails. In case of a tie, the higher skill modifier wins. If these scores are the same, roll again to break the tie.

[Rolan7]

Thanks but we're aware of that, we used it in 3.5e.  But we're playing World of Darkness now, specifically first edition Vampire: the Requiem.

[GiglameshDespair]

Huh. You said world of darkness, I... somehow read that as 3.5e.
Well.

Well, generally I would say the defensive side wins.

[Egan_BW]

I say they both just fail and tangle together. Exactly how erotically depends how high they roll.

[My Name is Immaterial]

ie., F.A.T.A.L.

[sprinkled chariot]

Why do you feel happy after running or fast walking?
This is just spending energy without getting any food/ something else, what will improve my survival chances. Why will brain reward me for burning his strategical fat reserves?

Can you advice some books for basics of philosophy/ understanding mythology?

Why idea of passionarity( ability to absorb energy from outside world, and passionary is person with big ammount of said passionarity) as main historical force is so popular?
Whenever you listen/ read some journalist  or politologist speaking about history, he will mention it.
Basicly it is explaining all successes of ethnos as passionaric boom and all its failures as decline of passionarity and getting  beaten by some guys around, who got their passionarity increased.
Gumilev also has some strange ideas on passionarity, like passionaric boom is caused by SPACE RAYS.
His theories pretty much got nuked by historical science, and yet they live.

[TD1]

Why am I seeing Putnam avatars?

[Avis-Mergulus]

Spoiler: Gumilev (click to show/hide)

I always thought that passionarity was pretty much just a Soviet/post-Soviet concept. I've only got a lazy answer for you, and it's like this: it's still popular because it gives you a really stretchable talking point while making you seem like you know what you're on about. Let's say you're a nationalist pundit who wants to go on about the decline of the West and some "spiritual Russian nation" crap without sounding like a total neonazi kool-aid drinking hick. Wham, Gumilev! On the other hand, let's say you're an opposition pundit who wants to blab about how everything is always so much better in some vague amalgamated West without seeming like a shallow, self-loathing comprador who nevertheless thinks he's better than everybody else by virtue of his supposed enlightenment. Gumilev to the rescue! Handy.
It's funny how two good poets banging can result in one slightly deranged historian.

I have a question of my own:
So I have recently come into possession of a a computer in a rather dubious state of repair. Everything seems alright inside at first glance, but if you try to power it on, it audibly shorts out and nothing happens. Can this be taken to mean that the PSU needs to be replaced, at least? I know additional diagnostics would be useful, but I got it for free and by accident and and I don't really want to bother much if that can be avoided.

[DeKaFu]

Eh...In retrospect, I guess it was a stupid question to ask. Wadjet and Coatl amount to "Green One" and "Serpent" in their respective languages so it only makes sense that "Winged Snake" in English is "Winged Snake". I'll stick to Wyrm as it's the closest thing that sounds remotely exotic.

Bit late, but also found this guy, which is described as a "winged snake" half the time, though most of the pictures seem to give it chicken legs.

[Rolan7]

Why am I seeing Putnam avatars?

Because avatar fads

[Putnam]

speaking of which rolan that's going to bother me forever unless you switch it to this, or at least something based on that

[Rolan7]

You dare malign my arcane mastery of using the fill tool 8 times??
Well might you, senior wizard!  I bow to your superior ability.
Please decline to burninate

For posterity, I was using: http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff410/tratan3/PutnamRocks_zpsjw8kiw6m.png

[Putnam]

i used this color rotator thing in GIMP

[Egan_BW]

Putnam is a more skilled wizard than most.