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[LordSlowpoke]

i am in the possession of a cat

this kills the mosquitos

* LordSlowpoke equips cat

[Eric Blank]

Hmmm... My cats seem to be unable to kill mosquitoes effectively. Everything else chitinous, sure. Maybe they're broken.

[Gunner-Chan]

I've been dicking around setting up a dosbox frontend to make playing stuff a little simpler...

Wow my collection looks more skewed than I remember. Though admittedly I'm not done yet.

[itisnotlogical]

I crashed Unity. Happens once or twice a session while editing very large and complex scenes with trees, terrain, particles, realtime lights, etc... except the scene I was editing only had some cubes and a directional light. And rotating that light somehow managed to crash Unity so hard that it didn't even bring up the post-crash bug report submission form.

[Emma]

Huh, Unity never actually crashes for me apart from when I try to run a while block.

[Neonivek]

I always find it odd when in "stone soup" settings where someone can just casually destroy the earth.

Why aren't there like... just as powerful beings that can prevent earth's destruction? Why do people leave it so open?

[Graknorke]

Well, I just now got the meaning of the "stone soup" settings. I didn't understand it until having to think about it just now.

[Putnam]

why would you say you understand without explaining

[Sergarr]

Hmmm... My cats seem to be unable to kill mosquitoes effectively. Everything else chitinous, sure. Maybe they're broken.

Our cat does well against those giant mosquitoes that occasionally fly in. Others - no dice. Too lazy.

[Graknorke]

why would you say you understand without explaining

I thought everyone else did and I was just a bit thick.

The "Stone Soup" is a reference to the fable where a traveller visits a town and, after being refused food, puts a rock in a big pot of water, claiming to make a soup, then says to one of the townspeople that it would be even better with some extra ingredients. So the townspeople bring over onions and potatoes and whathaveyou and end up making a very good soup that has a rock in it. And then everyone shares and it's pretty great.
TL;DR: Tricking people into sharing with each other because they're selfish idiots.

It's relevant to the forum game because ultimately it's the players who provide the setting, rather than the GM.

[Sergarr]

why would you say you understand without explaining

I thought everyone else did and I was just a bit thick.

The "Stone Soup" is a reference to the fable where a traveller visits a town and, after being refused food, puts a rock in a big pot of water, claiming to make a soup, then says to one of the townspeople that it would be even better with some extra ingredients. So the townspeople bring over onions and potatoes and whathaveyou and end up making a very good soup that has a rock in it. And then everyone shares and it's pretty great.
TL;DR: Tricking people into sharing with each other because they're selfish idiots.

It's relevant to the forum game because ultimately it's the players who provide the setting, rather than the GM.

Huh, I remember there being a very similar "fable" around here. Difference being that it was a soldier instead of traveller, and an axe instead of rock. There is a "Soup from an axe" reference, too.

[Orange Wizard]

I vaguely remember reading a story about a witch and a girl making a soup with a rock in it. No idea what the point was. I think the girl died from eating the rock, though. Maybe the moral was supposed to be "don't eat rocks"?

[Frumple]

Nah, if there was a witch in it the moral was "Burn the witch." Or otherwise kill, anyway. That's always the moral of witch stories, that the witch must die and you must kill it. Otherwise rocksoup murders and crazy junk like that.

[Graknorke]

What about the Oscar Wilde one where the guy cuts off his shadow? The witches in that were actually pretty cool. Apart from where the guy they eventually invited to their party BECAUSE HE WANTED A FAVOUR starts praying to Jesus and makes them all freak out because they're allergic or whatever.

[NJW2000]

Even if its someone else's grotto, you gotta be careful who you invite to parties