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  *No Particular Order*
  In my Life - The Beatles

  In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel (but the acoustic version by Jeffrey Gains)

  As Time Goes By- Sung by Dooley Wilson for the movie Casablanca

14 hours ago, Cygnia said:

Well, the character IS Chaotic Neutral -- and currently invisible.

 

GM is gonna probably have me merge with another game with players that Actually Do Stuff.

    Good for you, best of luck on the new game.

   Cutting thru all the debate from the people who know the numbers much better than I do, it seemed that your main point was “Would you find it easy to change?” not “Is this a better way of doing this?” 
   The answer is...The longer anyone has been doing something successfully the harder it’s going to be to change.

If you take two players one of whom is playing their first game and the second is a gamer of twenty years or so it’s only natural that the new guy will take to your variation faster and easier.  It’s human nature.  The folks on this board are definitely in the twenty years or more camp.  And older people (myself included) have a harder time with change.  This may lead you to a skewed result in your poll.  Sorry, just my opinion.   You’ll notice I never commented on whether it was a good rule change or not...and I’m not gonna.

2 hours ago, death tribble said:

When I first saw it I thought 'Oh no, Dwight is dead'

  When I’m in the grocery store and I go down that aisle, I smile and under my breath I say “TRASH BAGS! GIMME TRASH BAGS!”  Its an obscure A-Team reference, but it makes me laugh.

I never had Church’s and I don’t need the grief of going into Chik-Fil-A.

33 minutes ago, SCUBA Hero said:

Also, I have been known to be motivated by a "SCUBA Snack"...

   “Rooby-doooby-doooooooo!”

42 minutes ago, Cygnia said:

I guess what frustrates me more is, not the IC aspect of it, but rather the complete and utter NOPE! of being asked to contribute to any sort of brainstorming in an OOC fashion.  Some folks can't or don't feel comfortable discussing things or plans In Character, but will chat up a storm in OOC threads and trade ideas there.

 

But to respond to a genuine request of "Hey, we should all figure out which way to go/what questions to ask the Oracle/how do we approach John Q. Nobleguy beforehand" with both IC/OOC "Not gonna do anything lol" is headdesk-inducing.

 

Anyway, I broached my concerns with the GM and he's also frustrated with lack of responses from other players, so there is that.  Yay?

      Time to bail out.  Tell the GM thanks a lot and if he wants to try again with another group you would be honored to be invited, but it is not up to you to spend your free time and peace of mind trying to get these two nimrods to play nice.
   Find a group that’s not so much of a hassle.  These are not your real world friends around the table who you might be willing to go out of your way to accommodate.  These are strangers, and there is no guarantee they will ever decide to change their way of doing things. 

Q;  Do you know what they call it when you’re underwater oxygen is carried by a talking Great Dane?
 

 A;  A Scooby Tank.

2 hours ago, archer said:

 

My uncle when he was a young man had his wedding ring catch on a ladder as he was slipping and falling off of it.

 

Nearly jerked the digit out from the middle of his hand. It permanently increased the length of that finger close to half an inch, plus gave him a loss of function and dexterity with it.

 

Maybe they could have done a better job fixing it these days but it looked freaky as hell. And looked painful even decades later.

     So....Let’s see. The last digression about this is....Neckties are alright if your careful, and high heels and wedding rings are bad.

31 minutes ago, L. Marcus said:

My memory wants that to be not so much black and white as beige.

   It was in Sepia tone.  That’s a fancy a$$ word for beige.

In 1978 Apollo astronaut, Neil Armstrong lost the tip of his finger from having his wedding ring catch on something.  He packed it in ice and it was reattached.

58 minutes ago, Christougher said:

 

Necktie.  Why do we willingly tie our own nooses?

   I knew some guy was gonna bring up neckties. Women every year take a misstep and break their ankles or injure their knees. And that’s not even considering trying to walk in high heels across ice or snow.

    It takes a major idiot to injure himself badly by catching a tie in something bad enough to rate a hospital visit and I think we might be better off dropping that person from the gene pool anyway.  Besides you can always go with a tie clip to make yourself safe.
  Also if you find a necktie that uncomfortable to wear you can either loosen it or for the sake of appearances get one of those elastic things that stretch between the button and the hole, and no one knows any the wiser.

1 hour ago, mattingly said:

     A serious question. (Something new from me.)  Do you just balance the whole thing on top of the Rollo wheels or do you use a half of a pretzel stick as an axel between the front and back wheels?  And what do you do for the headlights?   I’ve got a Grandnephew who’s crazy for trucks and I’d like to try and make this for him.

23 minutes ago, HeroGM said:

 

From the lowest people say "I'm doing this" up to the fastest; that way the fastest can judge what the slowest are doing.

 

Dex 10: I'm pulling my pulsor pistol and firing at the strongest character.

 

Dex 20: I'm going to do a move and try a disarm of the dex10 guy.

 

Then everyone from highest to lowest actually makes thier rolls.

    That’s not the way things happen in the real world.  
   Let’s say Usain Bolt (High Dex)  you (Med Dex) and 98 year old Mel Brooks (Low Dex) are in the bank together when armed robbers burst in.  Do you think that Bolt’s actions will be happening at the same time as you or Mel? Or will his actions be over before poor old Mel can do anything, let alone work out a co-ordinated attack plan that will mesh with his.

   Your way is going to give players the temptation to try and make a plan on the fly that they shouldn’t be able to do.

  Some people just aren’t comfortable leading a group.  Especially if it’s a group of strangers like an on-line game. So I can’t really blame the player who admits that right off the bat.  I might take issue with the one who doesn’t post at all. Maybe they’re just wanting to go from combat to combat, and not actually roleplay.  
   Either way its not good that you’re getting stuck this way, ruining your experience.  Talk to the GM, maybe he can do something you can’t by talking directly to them. Possibly he may know one or both of these players and can give you some advice on dealing with them.  
   Remember this isn’t your job, if you’re not having fun then go someplace else where you will. 

    I’m not certain what you mean.  But if it helps, we were lucky to play our games on a college campus in the classrooms.  So the first thing before the game started, some one would put up a Dex chart listing all the P.C.’s from fastest to slowest with all the phases marked out in a grid for all to see. Not just the GM.
    I hope this might help your game. Good luck.

12 hours ago, Old Man said:

Any show with a laugh track can go. 

   Every TV comedy, from I Love Lucy thru M*A*S*H, All in the Family, both The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart up until very recently had laugh tracks.   That’s as arbitrary as someone I knew who said he wouldn’t bother watching any movie that was in black & white.  He didn’t mean just modern ones shot that way, he meant “old movies” as well.

28 minutes ago, Logan.1179 said:

     Which one of the Celestials is that?

It’s all well and good for all the guys on this site to comment on this. But there is the fact that no piece of modern men’s business attire is as painful to wear, useless and dangerous as an article of clothing, and sole reason for it’s existence is as fetish fuel for members of the opposite sex as the modern high heel shoe.

I’ll take a bullet to the head for the win.

2 hours ago, Pariah said:

The characters in Seinfeld are sociopaths at best.

 

Every episode is of Frasier is exactly the same: Frazier (or Niles or Martin or Daphne) lies about something and then spends the rest of the episode trying to cover it up, ultimately failing in embarrassing fashion.

 

Friends was probably okay for the first three or four seasons, but ultimately all of the characters ended up becoming caricatures of themselves. Especially Joey.

 

The Office is weird. I like Steve Carell and everything I've seen him in except for The Office. And I'm generally okay with the characters in The Office, except for Steve Carell's character. In any case, I don't go out of my way to watch it. I'll leave it on in the background if there's not a game of some sort on TV at the same time.

 

As I said, I would trade them all for Wings. Heck, I don't even need the whole cast. I'd  trade them all for Crystal Bernard. I'm not normally a fan of short blondes, but for her I'll make an exception.

    I agree with you on many points.  

   The reason I hate Seinfeld is that every episode I’d based on one of two linked concepts.  One of the “gang” wants to get an edge or benefit they don’t deserve and spent the episode trying to snake their way into getting it.  Or they think someone else has an edge or benefit they don’t and they burn with such envy that they spend the episode trying to stop them.

   I hate The Office because the characters we the audience are supposed to be pulling for suck.  Pam is a doormat. Plain and simple, a lot of people are, both men and women.  But this doesn’t make them a hero or someone I want to watch and feel frustrated about every week.  She knuckles under to her shrew of a mother and her oaf of a boyfriend. 
   More reprehensible is the “hero” of the piece...Jim.  This man is a coward.  Unable to to move himself out of a job he hates that he knows will lead him nowhere.  Unable to tell the woman he pines for that he cares for her, even knowing that she cares for him too and is in dire need of rescue from her life. But most of all I hate his behavior in regards to Dwight.   Dwight is an idiot.  A blustering man-child and borderline sociopath. But at least Dwight comes at you straight on. If he doesn’t like you, he lets you know it.  Jim on the other hand can never seem to come out and confront Dwight about his nonsense.  His little tricks and pranks are those of a schoolboy unable to be direct with anybody.

  About your stance on tiny blondes however......I give you Sarah Michelle Geller, Kristen Bell and Anna Faris.

     I hate The Office and Seinfeld both with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns.
 I can tolerate Friends but I like Frasier quite a bit.

7 hours ago, Logan.1179 said:

My Wife texted me a selfie in a new dress and asked, "Does this make my butt look big?"

 

I texted back "Noo!" My phone autocorrected the response to "Moo!"

Please send help.

Don’t bother running dude, you’ll just die tired.

If anyone’s interested I posted a synopsis on the poll thread.

8 hours ago, Logan.1179 said:

A cello player was found dead earlier this week. Police suspect he was murdered.

They think the crime was orchestrated, but could not rule out a random act of violins.

   Was he killed using a bow?