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Tau_Cetacean
in Your Proudest Moment February 2016

ahh... ring of wishes... not really a 'proudest moment', but just a little detail I enjoyed too much - had a village with local folklore about a wishing well... anybody who was uncouth enough to loot it would have gotten a few copper pieces (only lo…
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in Your Proudest Moment February 2016 edited February 2016

sitting in on friend's long-running Shadowrun game as an audience member... the team has an assassination job, they infiltrate the building, go to the top floor, ski masks on, break into executive suite, see the target meeting with somebody... and a…
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in Your Proudest Moment February 2016 edited February 2016

tried to run a GURPS Espionage campaign in college... idea was to have a "current events" driven campaign... e.g. I'd take real headlines and write stories from there... e.g. from the Kosovo War: when the Serbs shot down a stealth bomber and bragged…
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in Your Proudest Moment February 2016

mentioning of convention reminded me of this story, not sure it was a proud moment, but definitely memorable: RPG nerds at my college organize a convention after I'd graduated, I come back to a) run a reunion game with my old Shadowrun group, b) …
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in Cognitive Association February 2016

ah man, the soundtrack to Willow is such an earworm for me... !http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53ed083be4b0cc5a9eceb84f/t/5511279fe4b0fda1fcf59c12/1427187634801/Chekov_ceti_eel_pain.jpg!
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in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss February 2016

yep, mentioned 1) at the outset... knew about 2, but didn't mention it... it's an even bigger problem in India... and sociologically speaking, young, unmarried males are responsible for a lot of dysfunction, crime and so forth... though we could …
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in Cognitive Association February 2016

Well they blew the horns And the walls came down They'd all been warned And the walls came down They stood there laughing They're not laughing anymore The walls came down Sanctuary fades, congregation splits Nightly military raids, the cong…
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in Cognitive Association February 2016

Jericho --> Biblical story about how they blew the horns and the walls came down ---> The song "The Walls Came Down" by The Call ---> Soundtrack to "Real Genius" ---> !http://i1.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/real-geniu…
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in Campaign Backup Splitter January 2016

Thanks!
Tau_Cetacean
in Cognitive Association January 2016

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Tau_Cetacean
in Current OP Issues Tracking List January 2016

not Basileus - but having the same problem... Aaron asked me to create a separate private bug report to trouble-shoot this problem on my campaign... and it seems like it's only happening to one of my campaigns... not the others
Tau_Cetacean
in Feature & Improvement Ideas January 2016

1) a more robust download / backup option - right now it just dumps everything into a single .xml file, would be nice to have separate files for each wiki page 2) ability to bulk upload wiki pages (maybe this overlaps with the wiki template liste…
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in Your Proudest Moment January 2016 edited January 2016

counter-example, a case of what the French call L'esprit de l'escalier... different Shadowrun campaign, same good guy johnsons... in this case the party's decker is fucking psychotic... he's in the matrix system for the Renraku Arcology's public …
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in Your Proudest Moment January 2016

same Shadowrun campaign, aforementioned idiotic street samuari... the Johnson is a rogue AI who recruits them in meat-space, pretending to be a real flesh and blood person, but actually a hologram projected from a drone he hires them to go rai…
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in Your Proudest Moment January 2016

early on in a Shadowrun campaign, I had an NPC decker get killed (actually he had faked his death and joined this flying-below-the-radar corporation founded by elite ex-shadowrunners) for most of the campaign, the NPC decker showed up in differen…
Tau_Cetacean
in Your Proudest Moment January 2016

I had a post-Thrawn Star Wars campaign where one character's Jedi Master had turned to the Dark Side... and they had to kill him... and then latter on, they started going down the path to the Dark Side themselves... but hadn't technically crossed ov…
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in Cognitive Association January 2016

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in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss January 2016

I think that's true to a degree - especially with the Mongol invasion dynasty - but the Confucian bureaucracy has a vested interest in writing history to exaggerate the continuity... especially in the case of the per-Confucian dynasties (the oldest …
Tau_Cetacean
in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss January 2016

that seems to be vestige of Communism (I consider modern China to be CINO - communist in name only) than traditional Confucian bureaucracy... not discounting Confucianism as a cultural touchstone that China goes back to as they continue to ditch Com…
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in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss January 2016

well, China will be a thing, my question is whether the People's Republic of China will still be a thing... how and when does the Mao Dynasty fall, and what comes after...
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in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss January 2016

I love the name P3, totally see that as asteroid miner slang double checking with geophysicist friend, not sure if P3 would be meta-stable at low pressures/temperatures (the way diamonds are), or if, say, blowing up a Super-Earth with a P3 lower…
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in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss January 2016

increasing my timeline isn't the issue - it's already supposedly centuries and centuries into the future - but resisting the tendency to cram a bunch of stuff into the next few decades / this century - for sure (this applies to geopolitics as well a…
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in Cognitive Association January 2016

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in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss January 2016

shying away from Unobtainium in the sense of purely fictional material, but carbon-nanotubes for space elevators, or room-temperature superconductors (for magsails) are in the cards... and (geology geek alert) I actually have seen some geophysics pa…
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in Cognitive Association January 2016

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in Obsidian Portal - site update (Jan 2016) January 2016

I third what Keryth987 and twiggy say - having to wait an hour just to edit a simple mistake I've noticed in a page I just edited would drive me insane
Tau_Cetacean
in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss January 2016

I've toyed with Space Elevators, keep seeing articles both for and against (not against building them, but that x, y or z issues means that they can't work) - don't feel qualified to judge who is right... but obviously if I were to abandon hard-nose…
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in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss January 2016

wasn't excluding myself from that "we"
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in Those Things You Aren't Supposed To Discuss January 2016

it's her ... she had to use a deliberately androgynous pen name to be more 'marketable' as an author of sci-fi :-(, wasn't that much of a fan of "Downbelow Station" when read it for book club, but I'll check out "Heavy Time" watching "The Expanse…
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in Cognitive Association January 2016

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