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[Orange Wizard]

Rome gave us city planning and Biggus Dickus.

[Eric Blank]

What about latin as a common language between those exposed to/formerly a part of the empire?

[Loud Whispers]

Yeah, but besides the rule of law, water sanitation, culture, education, public safety, roads, and civil engineering, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Banterus

Bam, bas, bat, banter, bantis, bant

I somehow managed to post this wrong thread

Rome gave us city planning and Biggus Dickus.

Is city planning a euphemism for deleting people

[Sonlirain]

Is city planning a euphemism for deleting people

No it's an euphemism for bombing Poland and leveling Warsaw so good that hydrants were the tallest buildings for quite a while.
All just to make space for the largest Kaufland in europe 50 years down the line.

Those wacky nazis.
Oh wait we're talking about romans right?

Umm...

[hops]

Things I learned from Bay12: Romulus founded the Nazi Party.

[Akura]

Ugh, after a day of binge-playing Resident Evil 5, I find myself with a nasty sinus infection. It's bad enough that I couldn't sleep. Also, it seems a day of binge-playing Resident Evil 5 has also transformed me into a bit of a RE fanboi, and that's a worse disease I'll need to cure myself of.


Goddamnit, I have to go to work in a few hours.

[Rolan7]

I had a nice nap from 1AM to 2AM at which point I woke up to persistent Skype beeping.  Turns out my tabletop group was discussing my assertion that human blood is kosher, for my Jewish vampire in VtR.

We ended up talking about that for 90 minutes, with several references, and found a fascinating set of audio lectures that our GM is determined to listen to.
we kinda didn't answer the actual question but i think i argued it well enough to pass?

So then around 4AM I spent some experience points on a brilliant, *always* a great idea, gosh I wonder why it's taking me so long to save up for Obfuscate 4

And now we're reading the free Dudes Of Legend expansion book.  Which is basically White Wolf going full tsundere on april 1 and taking the piss out of their game and their fans.  And look, I know these are professional writers who can effect an affectation... or uh, whatever...  but I'm actually convinced they wrote this drunk.  It's very well written, actually!  But the rambling meter of it is just extremely familiar to me.  The outrageous sense of "humor" too.

If they weren't constantly claiming to be drunk, I'd be entirely convinced they were.

Spoiler: Screwit, this is from the free version (click to show/hide)

No, no, I get it. You think we’re joking.
I hear you: “Meh-ha-hee-ha, oh, trenchcoats and strippers, it’s an
April Fool’s Day thing from those wacky White Wolf guys again. They’re
probably drunk on mezcal, or high on the dust ground from the bones of
a long-lost subterranean humanoid race.”
Drunk? Yes. High on the bone dust of a fallen hobbit species? Duh.
But we’re not fucking around. You put that out of your head. You
put it out of your head, or we’ll kick it out. With boots. With fat, clunky
steel-toe construction boots.
Yeah, keep on giggling.
See, you think whatever you want, but strippers? Awesome. Lesbian
strippers? Double-awesome. Lesbian strippers whipping off their trenchcoats
only to reveal a katana tucked delicately in a garter or g-string?
That is a face full of awesome. Your face will be dripping with awesome.
The sauce of awesome will give you a nasal enema.
Oh, don’t you turn your nose down at me. Or is it, look down your
nose and turn up your nose? It has to be, right? It can’t be look up your
nose, because that’s disgusting. Especially after that whole “nasal enema”
thing. Wait. Where were we? What’s happening? Why am I wearing this
rabbit costume with the ass cut out?
All right. Shake it off. Shake it off. Get back in the game. Refocus.
Laser precision. Forget about what Mommy said. Forget her. You don’t
need her anymore.
Ah. Yes. That’s right. Here we go.
Don’t you condescend to me, man. You’re trapped in your little uppity
world where vampires are merely conveyances for personal horror,
where Frankensteins are just lumbering vehicles for existential dread.
You’re locked in a little box of morality and meaning, and somewhere
along the way you forgot how to have fun. That’s right. I’m talking to you,
emo-boy. With your Flock of Seagulls haircut and your poofy shirt. Why
so serious? You’ve got to get shut of that shit, son. Or lady. Or ladyboy.
Or whatever gender conglomeration you happen to be. We’re screaming
it so the cheap seats can hear. We’re delivering a gospel—gospel means
“good news,” remember—of raw unbridled bad-ass motherfucking awesome
to your soul.
We’re going to teach you how to have fun again.
Gone with the gloomy-gus mope-mask, people.
It’s time to rock out with your cock out.
Or, for the ladies, time to jam out with your clam out.
Or, for the gender ambiguous, it’s time to... drop curtain... on your... uhh,
uncertain? It’s time to do the serious funk out with your, ummm, mysterious
junk out? Hrm. I’m just not feeling that one. I tried. I really tried.
Shut up.

"It's time to drop curtain on your uncertain" is definitely something I'm going to find opportunity to quote.  And soon.  Er, maybe I just did?
Anyway I am really tripping on sleepiness right now, so I should probably go back to sleep.  Just...  Wow though.  I never needed alcohol, the trip was within my circadian rhythm all along.

Spoiler: Edit: The section on Desert Eagles (click to show/hide)

You might be asking yourself, “Why the hell does
a stupid eagle have Composure? Or Manipulation?
Does that mean that the eagle can manage to not look
like an asshole in a social situation? Or that he might,
on a good dice roll, be able to sell me a used car? Yes.
It means both of those things. Now lie back and
think of England.

[Loud Whispers]

Animal blood is not kosher and human blood is not exactly kosher (or it is), unless (or never) the blood is lost in some other substance and is lost in some other food. Therefore a Jewish vampire would not be able to drink human blood without violating the Halachah, or without arguing that since blood and milk from humans is kosher but meat is not, that the fact that specific exception is drawn to them overrules all things coming from forbidden beings being a thing. Depending on how to play this on the interpretation that it is kosher or that it is only kosher if lost in food, a kosher vampire would either be pretty much the same as a normal vampire only they would feed exclusively on people (no Cullen vegan bullshit) or the other way to have an unambiguously kosher Vampire would presumably to have it eat human black pudding or some other kind of blood sausage. Or it could be a bad kosher vampire D:<
Admittedly I do find something rather endearing about such a character. Also of note is that any meat in the black pudding would have to be cow beef as human flesh is not kosher.

[IcyTea31]

Lesbian strippers whipping off their trenchcoats
only to reveal a katana tucked delicately in a garter or g-string?

Is that a reference to that quest in VtM: Bloodlines where a peep show dancer turns out to be a vampire hunter and pulls a katana out of her lingerie?

[Loud Whispers]

VtM was a leg game

Leg as in legendary, not leg as in limb

[Yoink]

Ledge?

[BlackFlyme]

My leg seems to cramp often. Nothing like waking up feeling like your calf is trying to rip itself right off your leg.

[itisnotlogical]

I am continuously amazed by how deeply people read in to vaporwave. It's like a parody of the entire concept of literary analysis.

[Yoink]

What do you mean?
A bunch of my friends have been infected with the vapourwave virus. I don't think they exactly read deeply into it, I think it's just an amusing thing that was started off by one friend, who was already into comically tacky retro stuff, and has now become a habit for them and a bit of a running joke.

[Shadowlord]

Vaporwave sounds like it should be the name of a music genre.