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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #93285 on: January 06, 2016, 01:37:01 am »


Tabletop, local or online?

The answer varies depending.

Tabletop.
Then the answer is 'don't be a dick'.
Overpowered characters are just as un-fun for players and GM as awful, stupidly-built ones.
Either way it forces them to either scale up or scale down every fight, and if it's a homebrew they're gonna have to go out of their way to get something which'll negate your special thing which makes you awesome.

However, if the thing you're getting is a bunch of useful out-of-combat stuff like lockpicking and whatnot, then hey, why not. It's less about overshadowing and more about having an extra person in case one of you rolls badly.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #93286 on: January 06, 2016, 01:42:43 am »

That & most American (or Australian etc.) chocolate isn't legally chocolate (it's confectionary) in a lot of Europe because the % of cocoa is too low. In a sense it's more sugared vegetable oil then chocolate.
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90%? Bah. 100% is where it's at. Literally eating baking chocolate. No, I'm not kidding.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #93287 on: January 06, 2016, 01:53:44 am »

Firstly, Cocoa butter is sweet sugary king.
Secondly, the last time I got my hands on Belgian chocolate, it basically vaporized in the heat.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #93288 on: January 06, 2016, 02:22:11 am »

That & most American (or Australian etc.) chocolate isn't legally chocolate (it's confectionary) in a lot of Europe because the % of cocoa is too low. In a sense it's more sugared vegetable oil then chocolate.
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90%? Bah. 100% is where it's at. Literally eating baking chocolate. No, I'm not kidding.
IIRC it was so chalky it was dusty, and intensely bitter.  Kinda interesting to nibble small bits though?  Meh, I'm happy with Hershey's "dark".  Or better yet the co-op stuff my family used to get, which I think was 70-80%.

That reminds me...  Fresh ground peanut butter is to die for.  There were these machines which manually dispensed it like ice cream into your container, no salt or sugar, warm from the grinding.  It was amazing.
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« Reply #93289 on: January 06, 2016, 02:23:08 am »

DANG there are a lot of Heidi movies...

and yet I already have my favorite one and which ones I think were lousy.

But I am frankly fascinated because each one REALLY focuses on a different aspect of the story and makes things up.

One focuses on Heidi's relationship with her Grandfather, another focuses on her life in the city, and another has an oddly religious turn that I hope isn't in the real book.

I actually think it is incredibly interesting to take the same piece of fiction, and not one with a billion versions like most fairytales, and see how multiple people made it.

What is kind of funny is most of them try to weasel their way out of the Boring/bad parts of the book in different ways.
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« Reply #93290 on: January 06, 2016, 02:27:59 am »

I've eaten baker's chocolate before, it's not a good taste but it is a fairly interesting one. I can see how people experimented with it enough to create the more edible forms.
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« Reply #93291 on: January 06, 2016, 02:30:09 am »

I've eaten baker's chocolate before, it's not a good taste but it is a fairly interesting one. I can see how people experimented with it enough to create the more edible forms.

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« Reply #93292 on: January 06, 2016, 02:37:42 am »

I also like cooking chocolate, chocolate is meant to taste bitter just like coffee. A bit of sugar in it is good but if it tastes sweet you're just hiding the flavour.
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« Reply #93293 on: January 06, 2016, 02:38:54 am »

I've eaten baker's chocolate before, it's not a good taste but it is a fairly interesting one. I can see how people experimented with it enough to create the more edible forms.

You apparently have the second-longest time logged on to the forums.
Yes, I know.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #93294 on: January 06, 2016, 02:43:06 am »

I've eaten baker's chocolate before, it's not a good taste but it is a fairly interesting one. I can see how people experimented with it enough to create the more edible forms.

You apparently have the second-longest time logged on to the forums.
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And then there's fucking Jifodus.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #93295 on: January 06, 2016, 02:46:26 am »

I've eaten baker's chocolate before, it's not a good taste but it is a fairly interesting one. I can see how people experimented with it enough to create the more edible forms.

You apparently have the second-longest time logged on to the forums.
Yes, I know.
And then there's fucking Jifodus.

Obviously cheating at this game! >:(
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Look, we need to raise a psychopath who will murder God, we have no time to be spending on cooking.

the way your fingertips plant meaningless soliloquies makes me think you are the true evil among us.

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« Reply #93296 on: January 06, 2016, 02:53:05 am »

I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, for the day to come that Jifodus steps out from the shadows and strikes down our hubris.

On that day, we shall know the true name of Pathos.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #93297 on: January 06, 2016, 03:04:18 am »

While I was picking up the mail, a bunch of deer were around the edge of the property. They just stood there, staring at me unblinkingly as I walked to the mailbox and back. While I understand animals well enough to know why they did so, it was pretty haunting to have that feeling of being stared at. By deer.
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« Reply #93298 on: January 06, 2016, 03:12:55 am »

Seriously. Food shouldn't stare. It's not polite.
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« Reply #93299 on: January 06, 2016, 03:36:16 am »

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