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[Yoink]

Umm... it kinda is.
It's the overall aesthetic as well as a fairly nebulous style of music. Think rickroll with more annoying sound effects.    

[Reelya]

Uhh, I don't think I can vaporwave. As an old-school punk, I've done my share of terrible music, I like things that sound good now.

Have one of the all-time Australian greats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbh8hXpQqY

[Rolan7]

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.

Right I was basically taking that technically that human blood is kosher, and ignoring the intent (because, I'm playing a vampire).
We didn't actually consider the animal blood thing, thanks!  That's definitely nonkosher, and might come up since I'm trying to be niceish to humans for now.

At one point the GM argued that only humans who ate kosher (and possibly avoided dairy) would be kosher themselves, so I would need to feed off other Jews to be safe.  I successfully argued against that, though...  The rule seems intended for animals I raise myself, not "wild" ones.  More importantly, preying exclusively on Jews would be strongly against the 10 commandments (I'd be stealing from and possibly murdering other Jews, big no-no).

Though now I'm beginning to cultivate an unsuspecting herd in our condo building, and will be subtly manipulating them to be kosher as possible.  We are effected by intoxicants in blood, so I think taking this initiative shows the greatest respect for Jewish law (through the lens of being, you know, a fricken vampire).

Also one of our party members is a fishmalk who is sometimes possessed by a millenia-old personality named Lilith...  Yeah...

She claims that the Abrahamic origin story is nonsense but what the hell does she know, she's crazy.  Or at best an evil temptress...  Definitely crazy though.  (In this setting, New World of Darkness, she's probably right.  Cain and all are no longer canon.  Only Baba Yaga survived the reboot, heehee)

If it seems weird that a vampire would care about any of this, it's because he's trying desperately to hold on to his humanity.  He's been complicit in a lot of savage shit already, and observing his faith (particularly inconveniently) seems like a natural way to retain self-control.

[Zangi]

I might one day survive long enough to be entrenched in 'old values' that are counter to the new-fangled values of the next few generations down the line.

@Newer Kairosoft games.  Holy crap, they've gone heavy on the pay to play model.  Previous games, you just pay one time and get to binge on as much as you like.
High Seas Saga:

Spoiler: /tldr salty 'Let me just buy the single player game' (click to show/hide)

1. Premium currencty: medals, you use it to recruit crew members, the better the crew member, the higher the medal cost.  It can also be used to buy the typical fast-track stuff.  You really only get trickles of the medal through normal play.  And 4 for logging in daily. 

1a. You won't even be able to fill your crew capacity just recruiting trash/low grade crew members on what you start with and what trickles in the first few days. Well, you wouldn't want just any old trash and the main recruiting system is RNG.

2. Introduction of a Stamina system.  SomeMany low level dungeon runs takes more then half your stamina to even attempt.  They'll ask you to throw in a medal if you want to continue with full health...

3. There are ads, you have to pay a monthly subscription to remove the ads.  This also unlocks landscape view. Admittedly, the ads are non-cancer.  So I suspect they really want you to pay monthly for the landscape view, bonus points if you forget that you have the monthly subscription long after you are done playing.

4. There is a gold pass monthly subscription, which gives you extra medals for logging in daily and other typical fast track stuff associated with pay to play games.

5. Content is fleshed out to be grindy, to encourage purchase of gold pass/medals and long continued playtimes.

6. There is multiplayer, but its only limited to online battles(I havn't figured out how to get to that promised land yet) and a very limited friend list.

6a. The friend list stuff, well there are 'campaigns' where you have to kill X number of monsters and friends share kills.  (Cause you probably can't complete any of them yourself.)

6b. The friend code input is limited to 9 digits.  I have a 10 digit friend code.

7. You can whale for a paltry sum of medals, if you want to.

8. This is mostly single player, with tacked on online components which ultimately are a further part of the grind.

8a. Oh, I think you also need to be connected online to play this pay to play single player game.  Havn't bothered to test it... since I'm connected anyways.

9. They've got a newer warplane game that is chock full of even more RNG and grind, but the online components are a bit more integrated.  I've already dropped it.

[Furtuka]

http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=209563

welp

[Cthulufaic]

http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=209563

welp

but then they couldn't call it eurovision since more than europeans can see it

right?

[SOLDIER First]

Er, apparently "4" is no longer a person.

[ManMan]

But was he a person in the first place?

[scrdest]

But was he a person in the first place?

He is not a number, he is a free man!

[Egan_BW]

"4" was the new account of Nunzillor, who has now unpersoned themselves twice, for mysterious and somewhat nebulous reasons.

[TheBiggerFish]

I'm worried about Nunzillor...

[Orange Wizard]

Meh. People choose to leave for whatever reason. Spending eight hours a day on Bay12 isn't terribly healthy so you can sort of understand why some people would favour the amputation approach.

[Aklyon]

"4" was the new account of Nunzillor, who has now unpersoned themselves twice, for mysterious and somewhat nebulous reasons.

This makes as much sense as neonivek saying he can't do something with the b12 discord because his secret account is not his secret account. Or something.

[Truean]

Your job description is 4 dense pages, maybe a little of 5 legitimately. Only one page resumes accepted.

Figures.

[MaximumZero]

I have a resume that I notate as "abridged." Maybe that'll help?