Random thought thread!

Scrax · 2011-09-22T11:37:57.000Z

Must…not…slap…crazy bitch…

SuperAdventurer · 2011-09-22T11:39:31.000Z

newbrof:

What if all people would make all their decissions totally random everytime.

Would it make a big difference to society or to the private life? We justify all our decissions, because we are all so smart. But what if all this justification is just that, a justification of random decissions?

Note: Should take some dice with me everytime… edit: are decissions quantifiable? Is it even possible to make a random decission in a non-digital possibility space?

“Should I walk out through the door or the 30th story window? Should I drive with the traffic or drive into it?”

If you include decisions like that, it’s going to make a big difference.

Houngan · 2011-09-22T13:26:33.000Z

Thursday Haiku:

Man at White Castle
Calmly texting, please tell me,
Shirt stains, is that blood?

Fugitive · 2011-09-22T13:33:23.000Z

kerzain:

Got a three page handwritten letter in the mail today. What the fuck is this, 1850?

The last hand-written letter I received was one of those send-$5-to-these-people-and-pass-it-on pyramid schemes. It was so quaint I wanted to pinch its cheeks.

Bill_Dungsroman · 2011-09-22T13:47:46.000Z

kerzain:

Got a three page handwritten letter in the mail today. What the fuck is this, 1850?

Ha ha ha what the hell? Burn it.

BlueJackalope · 2011-09-22T13:55:15.000Z

Scrax:

Beware the Sofaer.

I sometimes start to read those game threads but then it occurs to me that they are too long and I never know what the fuck is going on. But I gather that Aaron or the otherone screwed something up royally?

Is is possible to say what he did wrong that doesn’t involve a wall of text?

robsam · 2011-09-22T14:27:10.000Z

He helped Staff Sergeant run the last one, Aaron handled the story writing and Staff ran the mechanics. For various reasons it got confusing to the players. It was way too complicated with too many abilities, at least as I saw it from the outside. In short, a clusterfuck. I don’t know why anyone would want to run one of those things, people get pissed and complain even when they run smoothly.

Omniscia · 2011-09-22T14:30:48.000Z

kerzain:

Got a three page handwritten letter in the mail today. What the fuck is this, 1850?

Hey, some of us still occasionally send handwritten letters. Well, cards, at least. But I usually keep mine to one page. And only on special occasions.

John_Many_Jars · 2011-09-22T15:52:48.000Z

Vampire games are for squares

BlueJackalope · 2011-09-22T15:54:54.000Z

Omniscia:

Hey, some of us still occasionally send handwritten letters. Well, cards, at least. But I usually keep mine to one page. And only on special occasions.

jason · 2011-09-22T16:07:44.000Z

I get a multi-page hand-written letter from the local Jehovah’s Witnesses each year. It’s mostly about how I’m going to burn in the fires of Hell. If I remember, I’ll scan in the next one and post it.

AaronSofaer · 2011-09-22T18:49:09.000Z

BlueJackalope:

I sometimes start to read those game threads but then it occurs to me that they are too long and I never know what the fuck is going on. But I gather that Aaron or the otherone screwed something up royally?

Is is possible to say what he did wrong that doesn’t involve a wall of text?

The short version:

I ran a good but flawed game. I followed it up with a game that was horribly run, though (I feel) reasonably well written in parts.

Later, I teamed up with SS to run a game, but between my writing being confusing and the mechanics being confusing, as well as other factors which we won’t get into here, it sort of imploded.

While I think I have a better understanding than most about why Qt3 vampire games go wrong, and what the least enjoyable aspects are of them, that hardly means you should seek me out for advice, because I got all that knowledge the stupid way. :)

Scrax · 2011-09-23T14:30:06.000Z

Lesson 1
gōng bào jī dīng
1 宫爆鸡丁
Stir-fried diced chicken with chilli and peanuts
hóng shāo pái gǔ
2 红烧排骨
Pork ribs in Brown Sauce
hǔ pí jiān jiāo
3 虎皮尖椒
Tiger-skin green peppers
sōng rén yù mĭ
4 松仁玉米
Pine nuts with sweet corn
pí dàn dòu fu
5 皮蛋豆腐
Tofu mixed with salted duck eggs
táng cù ǒu piàn
6 糖醋藕片
Sweet and sour lotus root slices

Sarkus · 2011-09-23T15:25:04.000Z

It’s my day off and I went to the store with only one thing that I needed to get for sure. Guess what I didn’t get? Now I have to figure out what I’m taking to work for lunch the next two days.

RichVR · 2011-09-23T18:36:36.000Z

I ordered one of these today. And not for Halloween.

ckessel · 2011-09-23T21:48:22.000Z

I’ve been fiddling with creating a turn based game. I need oodles of thematic names for figures (agents, heroes, etc) for all sorts of kingdom types. Googling “fantasy name generator” brought me to this page. It was an amusing last 15 minutes or so going through the various name generators.

Seventh Sanctum

Seventh Sanctum: Name Generators

Seventh Sanctum's generators for names both general and specific!

kerzain · 2011-09-24T01:51:29.000Z

Oh, this should be popular here: A Magical Pony name generator.

hong · 2011-09-24T02:29:35.000Z

What tends to also work well is just using forum handles. Half of them are based on character names from some game, comic, movie or whatever anyway.

CLWheeljack · 2011-09-24T04:48:53.000Z

RichVR:

I ordered one of these today. And not for Halloween.

Whew. I was worried it would be a gimp mask.

Omniscia · 2011-09-25T05:49:03.000Z

Can you joggers go anywhere besides round and round in circles on the streetcorner? You’re driving my dogs crazy.