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Cat Mattress posted:Doppler-Kruning effect: an incoming object seems smarter than it really is; an outgoing one seems dumber.
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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Feb 4, 2017 02:02
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Cat Mattress posted:Doppler-Kruning effect: an incoming object seems smarter than it really is; an outgoing one seems dumber. 
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Feb 4, 2017 09:43
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Feb 8, 2017 20:25
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You made me actually check the URL first.  e: Elan's the best when he's at about this amount of ditzy vs competence.
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Feb 8, 2017 20:40
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That one actually made me laugh out loud, and it's been a while since that's happened.
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Feb 8, 2017 20:42
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I like that Elan's wearing his outfit from the very first strip, in this flashback.  The comic has had a lot of costume changes, but it was cool to see that red sash again!
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Feb 8, 2017 22:15
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Glad to see Andi's learned exactly nothing from this experience.
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Feb 8, 2017 22:29
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PMush Perfect posted:Glad to see Andi's learned exactly nothing from this experience. Encounter isn't over yet!
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Feb 8, 2017 23:06
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She just hasn't gotten enough XP to level up yet, she'll be fine once she raises the right skills.
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Feb 8, 2017 23:12
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https://twitter.com/RichBurlew/status/829418183161479172
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Feb 8, 2017 23:27
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Rich is the best.
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Feb 8, 2017 23:30
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Rich 
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Feb 8, 2017 23:34
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I would have guessed mint, most likely wintergreen specifically.
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Feb 8, 2017 23:38
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for once in it's life, twitter is right
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Feb 9, 2017 01:37
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gitp forums: WHY IS THIS CHARACTER IN A PARTY OF POORLY ALLOCATED CHARACTERS NOT OPTIMALLY ALLOCATED
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Feb 9, 2017 01:39
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AriadneThread posted:for once in it's life, twitter is right clouds actually just taste like fog 
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Feb 9, 2017 02:51
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Shugojin posted:gitp forums: WHY IS THIS CHARACTER IN A PARTY OF POORLY ALLOCATED CHARACTERS NOT OPTIMALLY ALLOCATED It's been ten gods damned years, and they still don't loving understand this.
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Feb 9, 2017 03:38
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Shugojin posted:gitp forums: WHY IS THIS CHARACTER IN A PARTY OF POORLY ALLOCATED CHARACTERS NOT OPTIMALLY ALLOCATED The joke is that, unlike everyone else in OOTS, Elan is fairly well optimized.
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Feb 9, 2017 03:41
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Cuchulain posted:The joke is that, unlike everyone else in OOTS, Elan is fairly well optimized. No, no it is not.
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Feb 9, 2017 03:43
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Not this joke, this joke is that he's an airhead. I meant the core joke about Elan.
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Feb 9, 2017 03:50
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He's not an airhead he's just got his head in the clouds.
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Feb 9, 2017 05:47
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Of course he does. How else you going to figure out how they taste?
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Feb 9, 2017 06:09
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I understand how Roy and V and Belkar are poorly optimized, but how are Durkon and Haley? Not sarcastic I legit don't know
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Feb 9, 2017 20:40
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Durkon's far too interested in melee combat and Haley is playing a rogue.
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Feb 9, 2017 20:56
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Being dead is a trap feat. He should've been alive instead.
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Feb 9, 2017 21:02
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Calaveron posted:I understand how Roy and V and Belkar are poorly optimized, but how are Durkon and Haley? Not sarcastic I legit don't know Haley takes things that she likes rather than things that will benefit her. (i.e: turning down boots of speed because they're lime green.)
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Feb 9, 2017 21:05
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Belkar took Wisdom as his dump stat and thus can't cast spells.
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Feb 9, 2017 21:10
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Durkon is a cleric who doesn't have enough ranks in knowledge (religion) to figure out when another cleric serves a sworn enemy of his god
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Feb 9, 2017 21:12
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Shugojin posted:Durkon is a cleric who doesn't have enough ranks in knowledge (religion) to figure out when another cleric serves a sworn enemy of his god And that was something that went from "crappy build" to "tragic flaw and cause of death" over the course of the story.
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Feb 9, 2017 21:18
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Rand Brittain posted:Belkar took Wisdom as his dump stat and thus can't cast spells. Plus no tracking or animal companion until very recently yeah And Roy has the perfect stat spread to be a pretty great wizard And V had the objectively best magic school as his forbidden magic school right
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Feb 9, 2017 21:20
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Calaveron posted:
Roy is an unfair case because he reads to me like his stats are 14+ across the board. He could pull off any class.
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Feb 9, 2017 21:26
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Calaveron posted:
Look, it's not V's fault that the laws of the universe had been rewritten since V chose a forbidden school.
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Feb 9, 2017 21:38
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ikanreed posted:Roy is an unfair case because he reads to me like his stats are 14+ across the board. He could pull off any class. Roy is kind of a meta-joke about fighters in D&D 3.0/3.5. Given his stat spread, he could be great at any number of classes, prestige or otherwise, but he's simply putting level after level into fighter, well past the point where fighters can be expected to have plateaued. He's also burned a lot of feats on greatsword specialization, which bit him in the rear end when he had to run around with a club for a few hundred strips. So Roy is pursuing a decidedly substandard leveling path, Durkon misallocated his skill points (and has a Dexterity penalty), Haley is virtually useless unless she can sneak attack (and doesn't carry a backup weapon), Elan decided to be a backup spellcaster for utility but hasn't taken any of the typical matching feats or skills, and Belkar is a halfling melee fighter with a Wisdom penalty who typically has to be reminded about his own class features. V is a more interesting case, because the transition in #001 from 3.0 to 3.5 mucked up their character build. I think V even complains about it in one strip or another, that their excluded schools changed at some point after character creation, which is why they don't know teleport any longer. Even considering that, evocation specialization has always been one of the most munchkin-friendly wizard builds in D&D; you're giving up vast amounts of flexibility and adaptability in exchange for simple, raw firepower. You're basically begging the DM to come up with a series of scenarios that you can't win simply by blowing everything in front of you to hell.
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Feb 9, 2017 21:50
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Not sure if Durkon is badly built per se, or just
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Feb 9, 2017 22:01
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There's that line from his Celestial Caseworker that says Roy could make a decent cleric, too. He just really doesn't want much to do with magic or something.
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Feb 9, 2017 22:45
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Wanderer posted:V is a more interesting case, because the transition in #001 from 3.0 to 3.5 mucked up their character build. I think V even complains about it in one strip or another, that their excluded schools changed at some point after character creation, which is why they don't know teleport any longer. Even considering that, evocation specialization has always been one of the most munchkin-friendly wizard builds in D&D; you're giving up vast amounts of flexibility and adaptability in exchange for simple, raw firepower. You're basically begging the DM to come up with a series of scenarios that you can't win simply by blowing everything in front of you to hell.
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Feb 9, 2017 22:47
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But seriously I don't understand how the gitp forums are so unable to realize that if everybody in it was an optimized build and acted appropriately, it would be really goddamn boring 
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Feb 9, 2017 22:48
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People are little too invested into the mechanics that are only vaguely involved in the story and not enough into the whole narrative. Sure, a key part of OOTS is the Dungeons and Dragons parody, but there's a lot more story to it than that now.
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Shugojin posted:But seriously I don't understand how the gitp forums are so unable to realize that if everybody in it was an optimized build and acted appropriately, it would be really goddamn boring Not necessarily. You just have to build encounters that require that level of optimization to prevail, or hit 'em where they ain't the way Rich already does to get around V. If the players are all optimized characters, you send optimized monsters after them.
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