Everything posted by Amentep
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Movies You've Seen Recently Thread
- What You Did Today
use the shredder on the map. etc. efficient use of resources. am cutting your problems in half. HA! Good Fun! Iirc, the ID map was cloth...not sure that will shred well.- Homosexuality to Heterosexuality
AFAIK, the definition of bisexuality is that one is attracted to both genders; my understanding is a practicioner of serial monogamy would still be 'bisexual' if their partners include men and women but in series. I suppose someone who started with hetero/homosexual relationships exclusively then switched to the opposite exclusively could be argued to have 'found' their sexuality in their lives and self described as their final relationship type. A strong argument, however, could be made they are bisexual and found a preference in one relationship type vs the other. Arguing the 'why' of their 'choice' of partners is irrelevant, though - if any of it could be considered relevant.- Homosexuality to Heterosexuality
Maybe I'm misreading this, but I'd be wary of making a correlation between a heterosexual or homosexual person discovering they were bisexual and proof that heterosexuality or homosexuality could be 'cured'.- game won't start after patch to 1.1.6
I don't think the build is out yet. Mind you I'm new to this stuff, but I don't see any update available yet, SPLOTR- What's on the idiot box?
My memory is that Discovery is set to tell a serial story with this charter as the protagonist. The next series may focus on a different character and so onm- What You Did Today
Moved a giant metal desk that used to be a computer desk but had become a junk container out of my house. Sadly, however, the junk is still there. So that's probably my next few days too. Hope I don't trip and kill myself at night on crap in the floor. "It's so sad...he slipped on the Icewind Dale map and hit his head on his shredder..."- Movies You've Seen Recently Thread
- Character Guide: Lini
Amentep replied to jolyonb's topic in Pathfinder Adventures: Characters Builds & Strategies (Spoiler Warning!)I've found them interesting to read to understand characters I haven't used much yet (Harsk and Lini) or to see some long term thought on the one I have (Merisiel)- Movies You've Seen Recently Thread
And to be fair in the books, Hargrid can and does still do magic (his broken wand is held in his umbrella) he's legally got issues if caught. But the implication of FANTASTIC BEASTS is that the Obscurus is related to kids suppressing their magic and/or being open to creating an Obscurus within themselves due to lack of training. It also lies a heavy implication as to why magical societies find magic schools such a necessity.- RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
So, yeah, it was absolutely meant to be the first in a trilogy of games. Yes it was totally sold on the idea that it was going to be a trilogy. Which makes its transition from heroic pulp sci-fi swashbuckling adventure to horrors-of-war military campaign war story so mystifying. I can't help but wonder if the real difference in the games as we see them was down to the change in lead writer (Drew Karpyshyn to Mac Walters) Honestly while I thought the end of ME3 was a let down on multiple levels, the thing that made the second and especially the third less replayable for me was that tonal shift, not the daftness of the immediate end. I played ME1 (including the Mako stuff) multiple times, 2 and 3...not so much.- What You Did Today
- RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Probably would have helped if I quoted the original post I was replying to in order for there to be context there...but maybe its not needed after all.- Is there a problem using 6 sided dice in pen and paper games?
My thought is that the dice chosen is typically used to represent the chance of success the designers want something to have and the more numbers the more nuance you can have. Lets say you want a check to have a base 60% chance to fail. 60% of 6 is 3.6; so to represent 60% with a 6 sided dice you either have to go with 3/6 (50% chance) or 4/6 (67%) chance. If you went with ten sided dice you could make 6/10 your score and achieve a 60% base fail rate. If you go with a 20 sided dice, you can now start looking at half-percentages on one die (excepting .5). So 65% would be 13. Note some systems used to use direct percentile dice (two ten sided dice, 0 - 9) allowing the player to roll the tens and ones slots on a percentage up to 100% or up from 00% (depending on how you agreed to set your rolls). This of course leads to the obvious problem of arguing over which dice was the 10s slot... Original D&D stats were derived from 3d6 (3 six sided dice, or 1 six sided dice rolled 3 times). So STR, CON, DEX, INT, WIS, CHA ranged from 3-18 ± racial stats with very little means of raising stats. You used to also need a full battery of dice - d4, d6, d8, d12, d20, percentile dice and rarely a 100 sided die. And in the early days use could use chits for non-standard dice roles like 1d3 or 1d5...anyhow d20 system kind of standardized things to d4, d6, d8, d12, d20 and thanks to the open gaming license, a lot of systems revised their core rules to be more d20 friendly as I understand it.- RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
The obvious answer is going to Andromeda means they don't have to detangle the end of the original series.- What You Did Today
We do not talk about the purge. This year?- Nerdgasm: Movies and Shows for Geeks and Nerds
Spider-Man: Homecoming War for the Planet of the Apes- Heals stopped working, entire game super buggy
- Heals stopped working, entire game super buggy
And you are certainly entitled to feel that way. My experience on this forum (and Interplay and Black Isle Studios previously) is that there are points were the Devs have to choose between being responsive to the community and dealing with issues that have been identified (and trying to replicate those that have not). I'm sure they are grateful for the posts by users here, whether they have the time to say it for each post or not. Or even to acknowledge they've logged a bug for the I reports/testing. Your mileage may vary, of course. There is nothing in the forum rules that says you can't complain. We are only asked to not post material that is abusive, defamatory, libelous, harassing, hateful, obscene, profane, vulgar, or illicit; from spamming, from posting discriminatory remarks or from impersonating a real person (and a few other provisions) I believe that leaves plenty of room to register complaints, to be negative over development of the game or speed of fixes.- Heals stopped working, entire game super buggy
You can also PM forum moderators if you're not sure if something should be reported or not. I think some frustration is understandable; it's seen in all forums I've been a part of when bugs have been encountered. As I understand it the PACG ap has ten people on the team and only two that I've seen checking the forums - at least to post. We don't know if anyone has logged issues without posting. With a patch pending the team may be focusing on getting the patch out rather than posting here. I think we can at best just post as much information about bugs we encounter and wait for Obsidian to check the threads and fix the issues.- Movies You've Seen Recently Thread
Batman's original appearance he sported a gun. Which he used. In 1940 issue he used the bat plane to gun down men who'd been turned into giant monsters by Dr. Hugo Strange. However there were already complaining about comics and kids and National Periodicals made a line wide mandate - their heroes didn't kill. This held until at least the 1980s when comics had completed their transition to the direct market and had primarily changed to an adult oriented product. However it should be noted that the 1989 BATMAN film also had Batman killing thugs during the bell tower fight (and fir the record, the people who complained about Superman killing Zod in MAN OF STEEL forgot he killed all the Phantom Zone criminals in one version of his origin - an act that led the character to adopt his no killing stance) As an aside, National's no-kill stance was not the industry's norm and most Golden Age Heroes had some deaths on their hands - even Fawcett's Captain Marvel often seen as one of the most whimsical charcters/series.- The US Election, Part XI
To be fair though, it'd my understanding they're generally speaking not supposed to. School pull all sorts of shenanigans to hide or improve numbers. When I was in HS one of the best performing schools in the area wouldn't provide weak students with their school number, so only the strongest student's scores ended up in the school's naturally high SAT average.- Cannot complete Thassilonian Sins
Amentep replied to Strategy Builder's topic in Pathfinder Adventures: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)Does this thread seem to match your experience? http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/90170-sins-of-the-saviors-thassilonian-sins-scenario-can-not-complete/page-2?hl=movement- What's on the idiot box?
Yeah, LoT is the only one I'm watching regularly, so I'd initially thought your version of things (only watching the show) but with all the other Flashpoint changes I became uncertain if that was the case.- The US Election, Part XI
At least locally, they can transfer disruptive students to special schools to keep them from disrupting classrooms. And they can expel students based on actions in school (fighting, drugs, weapons, etc), but I'm not aware that an average public school with no special programming could turn away students (and in those cases, as I understand it, they could only turn away students from the special program). I could be wrong, of course, but that's my understanding of it. - What You Did Today