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 Part of her boob is showing, it's my constitutional right as an American citizen to touch them!
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Len posted:I want to believe they can understand the basic principle of "don't be creepy" You poor, deluded soul.
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Jan 26, 2015 04:36
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"The Open-Source Boob Project" should have been nerdom's 9/11.
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Jan 26, 2015 04:37
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moths posted:"The Open-Source Boob Project" should have been nerdom's 9/11. Oh god I forgot that was a thing. 
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Jan 26, 2015 04:44
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Len posted:Oh god I forgot that was a thing. Dare I ask?
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Jan 26, 2015 04:45
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Error 404 posted:Dare I ask? http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Source_Boob_Project Nerds decided there should be a system for letting you touch boobs at conventions. http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1087686.html Len fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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Jan 26, 2015 04:46
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Len posted:http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Source_Boob_Project Ewwwwwww whyyyyyyyy?! 
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Jan 26, 2015 04:59
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Len posted:Let me just remind everyone that this is an event that had to be held at Gencon. I'm still unsure how this needed to be a mediated discussion. Evil Mastermind posted:Yeah, it's been around for a few years now, but some (terrible) people see it as infringing on their rights or "then why are they dressed like that?" or NOT ALL MEN.
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Jan 26, 2015 05:09
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Len posted:Let me just remind everyone that this is an event that had to be held at Gencon. Honestly I think they're the best people to do this. I'm sure they're deeply familiar with the sort of harassment the panel is meant to deal with, and any nude model will tell you that their work is not universal consent. The photos they sell are disseminated by their choice, and just because nude pictures of them are out there doesn't mean it's suddenly open season on their bodies. It's like if someone took a creepy picture of a nude model in the bathroom, it suddenly doesn't become okay because "everyone's seen it already"
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Jan 26, 2015 05:15
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I just committed the original OSBP post to G.TXT and I need to go boil my typing fingers now.
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Jan 26, 2015 05:21
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Len posted:http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Source_Boob_Project I find myself doubting the veracity of this man's story. quote:By the end of the evening, women were coming up to us. "My breasts," they asked shyly, having heard about the project. "Are they... are they good enough to be touched?" And lo, we showed them how beautiful their bodies were without turning it into something tawdry. I mean, I don't know why, but it's just as though there's something faintly unbelievable about hordes of women charging up to a bunch of unshaven nerds and begging to have their breasts groped.
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Jan 26, 2015 05:31
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Ha ha ha, I completely forgot about this, and the fact that that douchebag's nickname was "the ferret".
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Jan 26, 2015 05:37
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PurpleXVI posted:I mean, I don't know why, but it's just as though there's something faintly unbelievable about hordes of women charging up to a bunch of unshaven nerds and begging to have their breasts groped.  I actually had no problem believing that the first part of his story happened, as I have heard that quote almost verbatim more than once. But to say that the women who say things like that are outliers is an understatement--and needless to say, this is still contextual, and like "I am comfortable enough with you that this would not faze me" not "OH! MY SEXUAL LIBERATION HAS FINALLY OCCURRED!" which is the straight-up sinister tone I get from that dude's quotes. Vjhsvhkjvaljkar
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Jan 26, 2015 06:29
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PurpleXVI posted:I find myself doubting the veracity of this man's story. As torn from the pages of fanfiction.net. DalaranJ posted:Ha ha ha, I completely forgot about this, and the fact that that douchebag's nickname was "the ferret". The Pauly Shore of Gaming.
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Jan 26, 2015 06:33
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General Ironicus posted:To be fair, they don't have a woman working in a gaming company. I'm sure they have at least one woman, since the tweet came from one. I got it wrong, then; mea culpa Lightning Lord posted:Honestly I think they're the best people to do this. I'm sure they're deeply familiar with the sort of harassment the panel is meant to deal with, and any nude model will tell you that their work is not universal consent. The photos they sell are disseminated by their choice, and just because nude pictures of them are out there doesn't mean it's suddenly open season on their bodies. It's like if someone took a creepy picture of a nude model in the bathroom, it suddenly doesn't become okay because "everyone's seen it already" Yeah pretty much. For a lot of people - not just nerds! - the idea of "other people don't belong to you" is something they need to be taught.
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gradenko_2000 posted:A campaign set in the Fantasy Weimar Republic where you try to stop putschs and kick Freikorps rear end and get enough trade going to improve the economy and improve the general peace and order of things enough so that President Hindendwarf doesn't have to resort to appointing Adelf Hitler sounds like a good idea and an inversion of the "everything sucks and is grimdark" trope. We had a 5E D&D one shot that was pretty much fantasy Weimar Republic. There are notes about the setting in the comments: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2014/11/genre/fantasy/5e-dungeons-and-dragons-the-dissidents-of-darland/
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PurpleXVI posted:
A dated reference, but this is literally: "Dear Penthouse Forums, I never thought it would happen to me..." Meaning it is likely complete fabrication.
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Jan 26, 2015 10:03
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Helical Nightmares posted:A dated reference, but this is literally:
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It's still okay to discuss non-cringe inducing RPG related stuff in this thread, right?  Seeing the news of the kickstarter for a reprint of the GrimTooth's Traps books got me nostalgic enough to dig mine out of the box they were in. Re-reading them promptly made me remember why they were in storage - way, way too over the top and 4th wall breaking for my usual tastes. Since I only rarely run funhouse dungeons anyway, no big loss. I do think I'll use a few of them in a Superhero game sometime though, since deathtraps are a genre staple and I've always wanted to use Arcade as a villain in a Marvel game. Also it turns out a new co-worker is also a horror movie buff and I was explaining why I didn't like the Saw movies; the sadism, but also that I can't take the logistics or the "poetic justice" of the traps seriously. Mentally I made a connection to the sort of bizarre, out of context, hard to believe traps you'd see in some older modules. I think I'm going to run with this and have "the dungeon was built by a masked gnome serial killer" as the in-universe excuse the next time I want to throw an overly baroque deathtrap at them. That aside, has anybody read Lethal Legacies from Goodman Games? They've got it on sale right now and it looks like it has a more toned down approach than Grimtooth's - I like Indiana Jones style traps and got some good ideas from the 3E Book of Challenges and was hoping for something similar.
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There's actually one super sexually liberal woman who goes around making all these stories that literally have always been spread around as if they're real things people do, like Johnny Appleseed, Jenny Wankyseed I guess.
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Len posted:http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Source_Boob_Project Let's, uh, rewind back to Blue Rose chat for a second. The reason people say they hate the "magic deer" is apparently because it's an objectively Good power that guides the setting (I suspect the actual reason is "it's girly and girls are gross"). But there are some pretty nuanced ways to treat an objective good that don't devolve into something like DnD alignment i.e The One Ring has a neat mechanic for moral degradation if otherwise-decent characters succumb to greed or blood-lust. Basically I'm asking about systems where there's a solid mechanism for "compromising on your ideals", because that seems like the best way to approach characters that are heroic as a rule. Bendigeidfran fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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Jan 26, 2015 20:40
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Bendigeidfran posted:
I think the Madness Meters from Unknown Armies would adapt very nicely, just replace 'these four axes of stress/terror/messedupedness' with your core virtues, and every time you transgress on those virtues, you take a hardened/failed notch for that virtue -- I could see something like a 'failed' notch for a virtue being stepping away from it, so failing to uphold 'defend the weak' means you're just a little more callous about it, and 'hardened' representing a lip-service to that virtue or an internal twisting of it, so you think you're still big on defending the weak, you just redefine it.
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Bendigeidfran posted:
I did something like that in Ęternal Legends: you write down your character's beliefs, and you get a pool of Conviction that you can use to do improbable stunts as long as you're acting in accordance with your beliefs. Contradict those beliefs, you get a point of Degeneration, which you can spend on similar stunts around the belief you've contravened. If you contravene all your beliefs, you fall to the Dark. Your total magic pool is equal to Conviction + Degeneration. So going against what you believe in brings you closer to falling, but gives you a rush of power that you might need to turbo-charge your shotgun of dragonlslaying.
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Back to creep talk for a second, individual women who are ok with dudes of their own choosing fondling them at an anime con afterparty if it's the sort of environment where that can happen or whatever is way different than some dude handing out "please harass me" badges at a convention en masse and that really should be all the explanation anyone needs for why this so called "open source project" was just the worst idea.
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Bendigeidfran posted:
The Smallville RPG kind of does what you're looking for. It has two main stats, your values (Justice, Love, stuff like that) and your relationships. They're all rated on a scale to d4 to d12 and have a statement about how your character feels about it, so you end up with "Love is a waste of time d4" and "Damien is far too irresponsible d8". Now, if you're rolling for something and what you're doing doesn't line up with one of your statements, you have two choices. Either you just don't use that stat, or you challenge your statement. For example, say you have "Power must be used responsibly d10" and you're trying to mind control someone into being good. That clearly isn't a responsible use of your powers but you really want that d10, so you challenge your statement on Power. This lets you add three d10s to your dice pool for this roll instead of just one, but it also lowers your Power to d8 for the rest of the session because you just challenged a big part of your world-view and you need to think about that. Once the game session is over, you have a choice to make. Either you raise the stat you challenged back up to it's original value but rewrite your statement about it (so now your have "I must make sure others use their Power responsibly d10") or you keep it at it's lowered state and raise a different stat up because if you really cared that much about using power responsibly you wouldn't have mind-controlled that guy in the first place. It's not exactly what you want, since it's made to model soap opera character development and not a hero's slow side to villainy, but it can do that.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:There's actually one super sexually liberal woman who goes around making all these stories that literally have always been spread around as if they're real things people do, like Johnny Appleseed, Jenny Wankyseed I guess. Is she the same woman who gave John Wick that lap dance and made him promise to be true to his now ex-wife or however that story goes?
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Jan 27, 2015 00:11
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God dammit grogs.txt can be an entertaining and interesting thread. Why do people keep loving it up?
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Lack of a grog tax turns it into 5% grog, 15% people agreeing that the grog is lovely, 80% chat thread for terrible people.
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You'd think that terrible people would notice that the thread exists for exposing their terribleness and mocking them and would consequently stay away. I guess this ia part of the reason why they're terrible.
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I didn't lock that thread but it seems like a great idea, so g.txt is closed for now.
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Jan 27, 2015 10:34
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So who's dropped $1000 on Pathfinder Online so far?
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Jan 27, 2015 11:27
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Cassa posted:So who's dropped $1000 on Pathfinder Online so far? That's chump change! I'm all in on $5,000 for a tavern!
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Cassa posted:So who's dropped $1000 on Pathfinder Online so far? Those $5,000 taverns must be in high demand to make a comeback from the KS. Ettin fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Jan 27, 2015 11:54
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Cassa posted:So who's dropped $1000 on Pathfinder Online so far? Wait, this is a joke, right? Somebody tell me this is a joke.
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Jan 27, 2015 12:11
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There are people in the year 2015 that drop more than that at a time on MUDs so I can believe they'll do it for PFO.
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Jan 27, 2015 12:15
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I don't even begrudge anyone with the means to drop that kind of cash. But it's not enough to actually cover meaningfully unique assets being created, as hinted at by the product description. It would look like less of a wasteful consumerist splurge if you paid more to get something really super cool.
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Jan 27, 2015 12:28
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I'd actually forgotten all about PFO. Are they still trying to release this year?
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Jan 27, 2015 15:29
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Supposedly people are already playing and if you're willing to spend 100 bucks you too can buy into early-early access and have more XP than anyone else will ever have because that's not a terrible idea for an open world PVP game.
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Everything about PFO just makes me think Goblinworks/Paizo looked at Star Citizen and went, "Well, they got away with it..."
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