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[Xantalos]

Something about how people were using invisitext or something.

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: all menstrual period are design program and graduated for more than. 200. years. i am the super agent. (click to show/hide)

Liberator 1 detected: Mobilize strike team to silence these slanderous truths.

[Orange Wizard]

ALL HURRICANE ALL TORNADO
ALL LIGHTNING AND ALL
SNOW ARE CREATED WITH
GASSES ALL FLORIDA FROST
ARE CREATED WITH GASSES
GLOBAL WARMING IS CREATED
WITH GASSES

Is this actually the most sane/least insane thing written on that truck?

At least it makes more sense than all of the people saying there's no such thing as global warming. And with a bit of a... generous... interpretation, it's completely accurate.

[Reelya]

In Everquest, Kobolds were these big (slightly larger than human) dog-like things that kept slaves, dug huge mines, and barked a lot.

That sounds more like a gnoll.

Why do games keep using kobolds and gnolls interchangeably? DX

they changed all the definitions. Gnolls were originally described in Original D&D editions as a cross between a Gnome and a Troll. Only later they retconned them as hyena people . And Kobolds were the original dog people. The changes were in the AD&D editions, but the vast majority of people played the boxed set editions (non-AD&D versions) until the early 90's when 2nd Edition AD&D became the #1 system (even then a lot of people ignored the changes to kobolds and kept them as dog people because it was what people grew up with). I couldn't even buy 1st Edition AD&D anywhere that I grew up, all stores were selling Basic. So the majority of fans up until the early 90's view kobolds as dog people and gnolls as a small troll. Everquest is clearly influenced by the main boxed set D&D.

Since Gygax didn't invent any of these creatures and pretty much changed his mind several times about what each one looks like (with concurrent editions of D&D contradicting each other), there's not reason for people to "stick" to any specific Current-Gygax definition like Mr. Gygax is some sort of sage and we have to go with whichever is his most recent pronouncement of what each monster looks like.

[Mech#4]

I view Gnolls and Kobolds as they are in "Baldur's Gate". Hyena beasts and horned dog/rat things. Well, of course different depending on what the setting says but that's the default that comes to my mind.

[MonkeyHead]

Just discovered a photograph that shows that my Grandfather played a part in liberating a concentration camp where a massacre was ongoing in the last weeks of WW2. I know that he saw some shit in that conflict, but nothing quite as messed up as that. Lest we forget, right?

[Graknorke]

ALL HURRICANE ALL TORNADO
ALL LIGHTNING AND ALL
SNOW ARE CREATED WITH
GASSES ALL FLORIDA FROST
ARE CREATED WITH GASSES
GLOBAL WARMING IS CREATED
WITH GASSES

Is this actually the most sane/least insane thing written on that truck?

At least it makes more sense than all of the people saying there's no such thing as global warming. And with a bit of a... generous... interpretation, it's completely accurate.

There's no generous interpretation needed. It's literally true.

[Yoink]

Just discovered a photograph that shows that my Grandfather played a part in liberating a concentration camp where a massacre was ongoing in the last weeks of WW2. I know that he saw some shit in that conflict, but nothing quite as messed up as that. Lest we forget, right?

o_o Wow... did he ever talk about his experiences in the war? At least the more sanitary ones? I could certainly understand why he would clam up about that sort of thing. I'm pretty sure my grandfather experienced some traumatising things during the war(s), not that I have any detailed photos/stories to investigate, sadly. I don't really know that side of the family, given that they live almost on the other side of the world.

[mastahcheese]

What the fuck just happened in Rage Thread?

Dry humping and neon lights.
That's all you need to know.

[MonkeyHead]

Just discovered a photograph that shows that my Grandfather played a part in liberating a concentration camp where a massacre was ongoing in the last weeks of WW2. I know that he saw some shit in that conflict, but nothing quite as messed up as that. Lest we forget, right?

o_o Wow... did he ever talk about his experiences in the war? At least the more sanitary ones? I could certainly understand why he would clam up about that sort of thing. I'm pretty sure my grandfather experienced some traumatising things during the war(s), not that I have any detailed photos/stories to investigate, sadly. I don't really know that side of the family, given that they live almost on the other side of the world.

He did not like to talk about things much, and he died many years ago some time before I was 10. He did talk with my dad about some things which we have discussed over the years, including his involvement in D-Day (he led a team who operated a Bofors Gun, and was driving the truck pulling the gun on a trailer. The trailer hit what he thinks was a buried 2000 lb bomb, wiping most of his squad and the gun, so he drove the truck up and down the beach offering cover and recovering the wounded), and operation Market Garden (when cut off behind enemy lines somewhere in the Netherlands, he passed himself off as a Dutch shopkeeper, telling a handful of German soldiers who asked him where the soldiers they were looking for were hiding that they were "Niet in de winkel - proberen in de kelder" / "not in the shop, try in the cellar". He then apparently dropped a few grenades in after them before barricading the door and running outta there, making it back to Allied lines by morning). I already knew he was some kind of "made from granite" hard man, but finding this out today hit me quite hard.

His wife, my Gran, was a font of crazy war stories. She was a nurse assigned to work in wards and hospitals where wounded PoW's were treated. She was seconded to one of the MI's, and was charged with getting as much valuable intel from the captured enemy as possible. She used this to her advantage of course, wrapping poor wounded men around her fingers.

[Akura]

My stepdad was complaining earlier about how he could smell the weed smoke from his room all the way in the kitchen and wondering aloud how anyone could smoke that indoors. Guess who was smoking that weed? No really, guess.

Then he went on some kind of Christian superiority spiel, which he always does before or after going to church.

and operation Market Garden (when cut off behind enemy lines somewhere in the Netherlands, he passed himself off as a Dutch shopkeeper, telling a handful of German soldiers who asked him where the soldiers they were looking for were hiding that they were "Niet in de winkel - proberen in de kelder" / "not in the shop, try in the cellar". He then apparently dropped a few grenades in after them before barricading the door and running outta there, making it back to Allied lines by morning).

Wow, that actually sounded pretty badass.

What the fuck just happened in Rage Thread?

Dry humping and neon lights.
That's all you need to know.

And it shall NOT be brought to this thread.

[TamerVirus]

I wonder... What would happen if someone made a new rage thread just to spite the lock?

[Tawa]

don't tempt f8 m8

[Loud Whispers]

Civil war.

[Aseaheru]

Its locked?