tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post2772257965419506058..comments2024-01-26T06:20:22.847-08:00Comments on I Rolled A Zero: SUETHULU: Blinding Cael with SCIENCE!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-88283982036316251512017-06-18T21:58:42.410-07:002017-06-18T21:58:42.410-07:00That bit about grants fits surprisingly well with ...That bit about grants fits surprisingly well with his worldviews on money and general seeming-accidental anti-intellectualism.GreatWyrmGoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287675831732114473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-75755745639028477162017-04-14T09:32:49.030-07:002017-04-14T09:32:49.030-07:00I was going to say something, but it might offend ...I was going to say something, but it might offend people affected by genetic disorders like Down Syndrome. They deserve more respect than Marty and I apologize for thinking it.Arbiter 117https://www.blogger.com/profile/16692696334454108109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-77756681501847000022017-04-14T09:31:05.610-07:002017-04-14T09:31:05.610-07:00Even Sci Fi gives us technobabble to give us an ex...Even Sci Fi gives us technobabble to give us an explanation. This is voidobabble: the lack of explaining anything and everything is an explanation.Arbiter 117https://www.blogger.com/profile/16692696334454108109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-84213653902169155622017-04-14T09:28:26.353-07:002017-04-14T09:28:26.353-07:00There are a million impractical/improbable ways th...There are a million impractical/improbable ways that you could explain infinite energy and I would suspend my disbelief. "It runs on a giant turbine in space that is pushed by the matter being sucked into a black hole", or "we just stuck a straw in A Star and started siphoning its energy. That's why the engines are nicknamed Sunny D cells!" Sure, it's dumb, but it's a reason.Arbiter 117https://www.blogger.com/profile/16692696334454108109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-36401651340208102702017-04-14T09:24:00.832-07:002017-04-14T09:24:00.832-07:00If genes worked like that, our DNA would be rampan...If genes worked like that, our DNA would be rampantly bloated and we would die from "gene overdose". We would be the malignant tumors growing on the skin of cancer.Some of our genes are copied hourly if not more frequently, but who needs a zillion copies of the digestive enzyme genes? Arbiter 117https://www.blogger.com/profile/16692696334454108109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-12291632849113607812016-10-17T05:40:42.740-07:002016-10-17T05:40:42.740-07:00"Genes are like muscles; the more you use the..."Genes are like muscles; the more you use them, the more you end up with, and the more are passed on to your offspring, like with giraffe necks."<br /><br />Marty must exercise his chromosomes a lot then.Ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06017611861983342306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-18046794327283711472016-02-26T13:19:16.296-08:002016-02-26T13:19:16.296-08:00"See, Marty calibrated the SUE System Int by ..."See, Marty calibrated the SUE System Int by assigning himself (meaning GM!Marty, not vampire Marty) a score of 18, the highest possible, and scaling everything else relative to himself -- but keeping the average at 10, because "10 is always the average". By Marty's logic, because HE didn't know -- off the top of his head, no less-- how to do what Cael wanted to do, neither could Cael with a lower Int score."<br /><br />What a nice compliment he paid you. If Cael's stat meant he couldn't conceive of a thing because Marty could not, then clearly GM Marty was indicating that you were smarter than him.<br /><br />"Because of course Intelligence is a number line of known facts, not any kind of abstraction of processing capacity."<br /><br />...and there's the proof, per his own worldview.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-17796013024652317252015-10-19T11:37:18.232-07:002015-10-19T11:37:18.232-07:00Well, a game in which genes do work like that migh...Well, a game in which genes do work like that might be interesting. But I have no idea about the implications of it. (hence the might).Soyweiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530201773972687532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-36272938057677046442015-10-07T13:19:36.561-07:002015-10-07T13:19:36.561-07:00Okay. I really think you should keep an eye on thi...Okay. I really think you should keep an eye on this guy. If he gets anywhere near literally any position of power or governmental importance we might get a name to replace Hitler with as worst human being to ever exist. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01472697517111989600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-25802717047603716152015-08-02T01:19:27.473-07:002015-08-02T01:19:27.473-07:00omf, i think i figured it out, why marty is such a...omf, i think i figured it out, why marty is such an impossible horrid GM............ dude, he's threaten by you intelligence, SO HARDCORE, the only way he can one up u, is to confine you to a world of he's making. and OMF how insecure do u even have to be to care this strongly about that. this discovery brings me far too much happiness Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-50412895545460798142015-07-25T11:33:16.529-07:002015-07-25T11:33:16.529-07:00MARTY, THAT'S NOT HOW GENES WORK OR HOW RESEAR...MARTY, THAT'S NOT HOW GENES WORK OR HOW RESEARCH WORKS!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-62821440070949475852015-03-08T05:13:52.308-07:002015-03-08T05:13:52.308-07:00>. Now, this was unfortunate, because I was fee...>. Now, this was unfortunate, because I was feeling inventive, and when he ran out of compounds to ban he had to ban crucial parts of my workaround apparatus. To this end, he had to ban optically active metamaterials, BSCCO, NMR, gene guns, CO2 lasers, nickel column chromatography, horseradish peroxidase, nitinol, etorphine, 3-methylfentanyl, miniprep kits, dolphins, artificial neural networks, flux compression generators, PEM fuel cells, atomic clocks, yellowcake uranium, Farnsworth-Hirsch fusors, deuterium gas, single-walled carbon nanotubes, basic oxygen steelmaking, graphene, pulse jet motors, diamond anvil cells, and pentazenium itself.<br />>. The dolphins were only indirectly involved, and for the record they wouldn't have been hurt.<br />>He wouldn't let me use proper electrodes, so I had to use katanas<br /><br />I cannot stop laughing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-48263996240991038892015-01-28T18:29:49.708-08:002015-01-28T18:29:49.708-08:00...
Why? Why on earth would he ban dolphins?...<br /><br />Why? Why on earth would he ban dolphins?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-65460115555659169742013-09-08T20:15:10.091-07:002013-09-08T20:15:10.091-07:00I feel that saying the whole 'higher dimension...I feel that saying the whole 'higher dimensions' thing could easily be worked out by this: "When I say it uses higher dimensions, I don't mean math dimensions. I mean where Yog-Sothoth lives."<br /><br />See, I have this compulsion to try and rationalize in universe all the stuff, because no one could possibly be thiiiiiis dumb, and when I rationalize it, it seems reasonable, but... did he really not have any reasonable rationalizations for all this stuff?Halnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-53925148588809798822013-09-08T07:14:15.868-07:002013-09-08T07:14:15.868-07:00We finished in late May of 2013; there's a rea...We finished in late May of 2013; there's a reason I'm relying so much on my notes.ZeRollerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10820203621132179240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-15371305692760326222013-09-08T06:58:42.428-07:002013-09-08T06:58:42.428-07:00How long ago was it you played this? I'm just ...How long ago was it you played this? I'm just wondering in the hopes you're exaggerating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-22274967553654097262013-09-08T06:23:52.265-07:002013-09-08T06:23:52.265-07:00The game world seems to run on a reverse Schroding...The game world seems to run on a reverse Schrodinger's Law: something exist until it is observed by the players. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09784165270368728885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-12985323429160012502013-09-08T06:13:45.212-07:002013-09-08T06:13:45.212-07:00See? I would have been ecstatic with that. But no,...See? I would have been ecstatic with that. But no, we have to claim it's impossible due to real-world science, which kind of limits how I can respond.ZeRollerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10820203621132179240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-28028543546832970672013-09-08T02:18:28.439-07:002013-09-08T02:18:28.439-07:00Now, I can actually see why a GM might not allow a...Now, I can actually see why a GM might not allow a player to use real-life science in game if the GM does not know what the player is talking about. Personally I would just abstract it into a "I make an explosive" and then making a skill check sort of thing, as the game should be about the characters skill, not the players. Of course, I don't understand why Marty would not simply ask you to stop.<br /><br />That being said, there is no excuse for thinking that Genes work like that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09784165270368728885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175768020594264444.post-36022409012203614012013-09-07T15:41:53.067-07:002013-09-07T15:41:53.067-07:00Dolphins.Dolphins.Malronenoreply@blogger.com