lime!

i’ve got nipples greg, could you grease me?

i like how one can is apparently “1 dose”. inject those beans straight into my veins

like one of those italian airplanes from the 1920s!

i think that’s why i gravitated toward them both. i ultimately didn’t gel with gurps due to that crunch, because even though you can pick and choose what parts you want there’s still a lot of stuff that you really can’t remove or the game feels hollow. FAE still feels meaty even though it’s super stripped down.

i was into gurps before i started with fate and i think i gave the wrong impression because they’re not really similar. fate points are not used during character creation, but are an actual physical token that is actively used during sessions. you can collect them by playing into your characters weaknesses, and pay others to play into theirs, including npcs and the world itself. they’re metagaming coins basically.

the central conceit of fate is that characters are very free-form. there are no fixed skills, quirks, or features. instead, your character aspects, the short descriptions of who your character is and can do, are mechanically relevant. if your character concept is a “brash, handsome rogue with a heart of gold”, you will be able to easily talk your way through situations, but you are also impulsive and prone to selfless heroics. if you’re trying to save yourself escaping a sinking ship, the gm can go “actually i don’t think you’re the kind of guy to leave a beautiful lady behind” and toss you a coin and you either have to go back for that npc without thinking of the consequences, or make a counter offer that costs you points. other players can also compel you to do things by paying you points, and you can compel them, or npcs with known aspects.

this tying of the rp to actual game boons, as contrasted to the vague “you sure roled that play, so you got +1” stuff you tend to get in more crunchy systems. this also results in points trading hands constantly, as the players learn about eachothers characters and lean into the failures.

yeah for me it was a struggle to just find threads to pull. i have so many pages of notes that just end because the next step just never came.

yeah the big thing is how fate points tie into the characterisation of the pcs. they anchor role playing decisions in the rules in a way i’ve not seen many systems do.

i always see this “you can control it” thing but nobody talks about how your ability to control the rng is dependent on the rng to unlock. it took 15 hours for me to see a single thing that allowed me to change probabilities, and by that point i had already rolled credits. i didn’t get basement access until day 40. the rng really fucked with me, until i gave up. at that point i had 6 start money, and no extra start steps. i didn’t know that was in the game. it wasn’t that i missed stuff either, i solved every puzzle i got clues for, if the rng allowed it.

it’s not particularly new but i’ve always found it interesting when games mechanize metagaming.

fate’s point economy allows players to actively change the game by putting themselves at an immediate disadvantage. when you play to your character’s weakness, you get a point which you can cash in later to modify a story beat or situation. but you can also pay other players with them to suggest actions for them.

tall ships are a hate crime to dwarves

huh? every data center i’ve been to has hundreds of megawatts of stand-by power generation which is regularly used to take up slack, because data center loads are peaky as hell. when facebook was building their first european datacenter in 2012 they were heavily criticised for their planned local power infrastructure, which was and still is diesel generators. the one being built in my area, which is a colo, has planned for over 700MW of local generation despite being built next to multiple hydro dams.

they captured the “niche wiki” market as wikia, then rebranded and started serving shittons of ads. the vim wiki is unusable these days because it runs like ass and looks like a gamer rgb nightmare

this makes perfect sense now

right, i forgot women don’t have butts

in some books… depending on how for away from his death you read he seems to have some very different opinions

it changes so much depending on which book you read too, the apostles had very different opinions

i’d even go as far as to say that the point of the sacrifice of jesus was to tear up the old testament, so christians have no reason to follow all this old crap.

this is the one that’s usually quoted and i’m not sure it’s actually what people say it is:

numbers 5, verses 11-31, english international standard version (aka the readable version, fuck you KJV):

The Test for Marital Unfaithfulness

¹¹ Then the Lord told Moses, ¹² “Instruct the Israelis what to do if a man’s wife turns astray so that she unfaithfully acts against him, ¹³ a man has sexual relations with her and she conceals it from her husband, keeping it secret although she has defiled herself with there being no witnesses against her, but she was caught anyway. ¹⁴ If an attitude of jealousy overcomes him so that he becomes jealous at his wife when she is defiled, or if an attitude of jealousy overcomes him and he becomes jealous of his wife even though she isn’t defiled, ¹⁵ then that man is to bring his wife to the priest along with an offering for her consisting of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil or set frankincense over it, because it’s to be a jealousy offering, a memorial offering that will serve as a reminder of iniquity. ¹⁶ Then the priest is to bring it and make her stand in the Lord’s presence. ¹⁷ The priest is to put some holy water into an earthen vessel, take some dust from the floor of the tent, and put it into the water. ¹⁸ The priest is to have the woman stand in the Lord’s presence, uncover her head, and put the grain offering as a memorial, a reminder of jealousy, into her hands. The priest is also to have in his hand the contaminated water that carries a curse.

¹⁹ “The priest is to administer this oath to the woman: ‘If indeed another man didn’t have sexual relations with you and you didn’t become unfaithful to your husband, then may you be free from these waters that bring a curse. ²⁰ But if you have become unfaithful to your husband and have become defiled because a man who isn’t your husband has had sexual relations with you…’ ²¹ then the priest is to have the woman commit to an oath by saying to the woman, ‘May the Lord make you a curse and a curse among your people. When the Lord makes your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell ²² and this water that brings a curse enters your abdomen, making it swell and your thigh waste away.’

“Then the woman is to say ‘Amen.’

²³ “Then the priest is to write all of these words in a document and wipe it off with the contaminated water. ²⁴ The woman is to drink the bitter water that brings a curse and the water that brings a curse is to be considered contaminated. ²⁵ The priest is to take the offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, wave the offering in the Lord’s presence, and have her approach the altar. ²⁶ The priest is to take a handful of grain from the memorial and offer a sacrifice on the altar, after which he is to have the woman drink the water. ²⁷ When he has had her drink the water, if she was defiled and had acted unfaithfully toward her husband, then the contaminated water that brings a curse will enter her and infect her, causing her abdomen to swell and her thigh to waste away. Then she is to be a cursed woman among her people. ²⁸ But if the woman isn’t defiled, then she is to be freed and will be able to bear children. ²⁹ This is the law in cases of jealousy when a woman defiles herself while under her husband’s authority: ³⁰ When a man becomes under the control of an attitude of jealousy regarding his wife, he is to present her to the Lord, and the priest is to apply this entire statute to her. ³¹ The husband will be free from guilt, but the wife is to bear the punishment of her iniquity.”

tl;dr: “if you think your wife is fucking around, you can have her drink dirt water. if she’s a slut, her pussy will fall off”

Edit: To be a bit less literal, this passage is most likely not about “sexual relations” but when a woman is pregnant by another man. “water that brings a curse” is probably a euphemism for some kind of poison that kills the baby and makes the woman sterile. the described symptoms match that. the “if she’s innocent she’ll be fine” thing is probably added later, to make it more magical. maybe the actual description of how to make the concoction was removed at the same time.

i like how you’ve managed to include just a single non-procedural language, and it’s the most interesting one by far, and you’re calling it obsolete. says a lot.

rubber dick debugging?