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Heh, that kind of situation can be really rough on the GM. But at the same time if they use it well it can lead to some of the greatest moments in roleplaying games (Frustrating as it may be at the time.)

The quote says he didn't found the 5 scholars. It says nothing about whether he interacted with them. I wouldn't cross off Hoid as a possible source of some of their knowledge just yet.

Hrm, my favourite tends to vary a fair bit depending on my mood. Let it go is a candidate of course, but much as I love that song it's got too harsh an emotional impact in some ways (and is really hard to sing well ). At this precise moment in time I'll say: "All I once held dear" Favourite musical?

It was my Mum's birthday, and my brother and sister made her a Catan cake. I love my family

Excellent, one final boundary (that is almost certainly 8100) is all that remains

Oh wow, that's a blast from the past. I remember how cool they were back then My memory is a bit patchy, but I definitely got some of the Toa Mata, might have got them all but I can't remember for certain. I definitely had Lewa (my first I think), Onua and Kopaka. I *think* my brother and I got all of the Bohrok as well though I could be wrong. (We also had a couple of the small ones but not many. A bohrok va and one of the original happy meal little guys I think and or one of the Kabaya) At the time I found it very cool that their limbs moved when you turned the dial, and the way the Bohrok moved when you pushed their button, particularly how they would throw their krana if you left the canopy unclipped =D And the combining, the combining was cool. I never really got into the lore of it, but I did have lots of fun playing with them I think we still have them somewhere actually, might try to find them sometime. (I did have to look up the names, it's been too long for me to remember them all.)

We joke about having a telepathic connection quite a bit (or we have in the past anyway) but really it's nothing that mystical. Twins tend to spend a very large amount of time together when growing up, particularly as we were home-schooled for some time. Naturally that means that we know and understand eachother pretty well and have a lot of shared experiences to draw on as well as a similar way of thinking. So we can often guess what the other is thinking from limited information, we've been known to finish eachothers sentences (less as we got older and diverged more) and we do very well together in cranium, pictionary and other similar games. (You sometimes get times where one of us has drawn something that, to both of us clearly leads to the right answer, but makes little sense to others ) But actually sensing eachothers pain? Nah. I mean, I expect we have a higher degree of empathy for eachother and if something is different, strange or wrong we're more likely to notice from subtle signs, but there's nothing magic or psychic about it. Having a twin is awesome, I'd highly recommend it if it were something you could choose.

Yep. Postage wasn't any extra either but you had to order at least 6. I figure they probably won't do it that way for a full game though.

From facebook there will be a kickstarter for the Mistborn board game this "fall".

That's probably part of it (Objective C is an excellent, well, terrible example of the same thing, it's terrible). Prolog is also difficult to learn because it's a logic programming language which is actually very different from a procedural language in terms of syntax and how it is used. Just so you know (if you don't already), you aren't actually saying "Programmers are wierd" you are in fact making programmers weird. In programming the '=' sign is actually an assignment operator, '==' means that two things are equivalent. (Funny either way.) This mostly fits my experience but not totally. I think ignoring is always a bad plan, if it's a single comment and that's the end of it that might be ok. But if it happens more than once then ignoring it is a bad idea. I tried it once (the time I mentioned above actually) and technically speaking it worked, but it took a long time and I'm still affected by that time so...yeah, bad plan. The other guy he was bullying with me tried a more aggressive response and ended up being bullied for longer, they did end up as friends though. On the other hand while simply laughing along as they bully you is a bad plan, if you can show them that you don't fear them when they first try bullying you by taking their jibe and making it better it can turn them off without any need to attack them directly. In one instance when I was in year 7 someone in a higher grade tried to bully me about my height (I was really small back then) in front of a couple of his friends. It was a couple of jibes and a shove if I recall right, spaced out over a few minutes. I went up to him shortly afterwoulds and took his jibe and used it to make a better joke about my height, also in front of his friends. No idea who he was now, he never bothered me again. I didn't directly attack him in any way, but I made it very clear that: A. I wasn't afraid of him (i was somewhat of course, but he didn't know that) B. Bullying me about my height was never going to work C. I was quite willing to stand up for myself D. Perhaps most importantly, I did it in front of his friends, and made them laugh at my comment In one sense I did attack him indirectly by showing him up in front of his friends, but that's the ideal way to go about it in my mind. Most bully's power comes from those around them and if you can break that power you can deal with the Bully. Obviously that won't work in every situation. Anyway, how I personally would go about dealing with bullying now would be the following: 1) Attempt to turn them away with humour (skipping this step if the bullying was anything more than a few insults/jibes) 2) Tell them to storm off and try to make it abundantly clear I will not put up with it 3) Bring it to a higher authority I wouldn't waste much time in-between those steps though. If one fails I'd be moving immediately onto the next. That said, I have no intention of ever not doing something I want to/hiding something because of fear that someone will bully/attack me because of it.

Oh, I should have guessed. Yeah learning Prolog was an....experience I know exactly what you mean though, ';' should be the end of a statement, not '.'

When you're going round the twist I haven't seen all of the eps, but I have seen it. I (and at least some of my friends) tend to use it exclusively to refer to things that are stereotypically Australian or at least that fit with the Australian "image". Queensland police making sassy posts on Social Media? Straya. Rain of spiders? Straya. Kangaroo's fighting in urban streets? Straya. You get the picture

"They are able who believe they can." or "A just hand is a precious ointment." ....oh, sorry. Were we supposed to be making one up?

Basically: -People like to feel that they are valuable/important -One way of doing this is to "demonstrate" how they are "better" than someone else -The "reason" for the abuse doesn't really matter to them, but anything different or seemingly out of the ordinary can be used, bonus points if it relates to something stereotypically associated with someone from the opposite gender -A lot of the people who do this have moderate-serious self-confidence issues -Some people join in just to fit with the crowd -Neither is an acceptable excuse for that kind of behaviour It's possible I'm a tad cynical on this point. Being bullied by someone in a class and watching the rest of the class either try to ignore it or laugh along so as to be included will do that to you. One guy wasn't, but that's cos he was a target too. Edit: To be clear, this was years ago now. That said there are (obviously) plenty of people who don't do that though

Quick callout to watch Voidus's rep. He's reaching toward the boundary between Stormfather and Dragon.

Because it's "childish" and "girly" so why would any grown man like it? *sigh* Sure it's a "kid's" show, sure it's about ponies and unicorns and the magic of friendship. That doesn't mean guys can't like it. Personally from what I've heard and the little I've seen of it it's not really something I'd like that much, but I certainly don't have anything against it or people who watch it.

For anyone who may have been wondering, Alex has confirmed that the aluminium dice will be available in the future in some manner. http://www.crafty-games.com/forum/index.php?topic=8044.msg157531#msg157531

I've heard sod, but I think only online. I don't think I've heard an Aussie say it. As the others said, bloody is an expression of frustration and isn't considered particularly bad. It really depends on the specific social context of course. Some people I've hung out with wouldn't bat an eyelid at it's general use to provide a bit of emphasis or to indicate something is a pain in the neck. Others would have more of a problem with it but still not too much. In my experience it's most commonly used as an adjective to describe an authority or an item that isn't working like it should.

Excellent only two boundaries remain uncertain.

That is a valid exception That is interesting, I like that meaning much better. Thanks. I think the best way to describe it is under control, it doesn't stop me from doing things I want to anymore, it just makes some things a lot scarier and a lot harder.

Internet hugs are fine I can try to do that, the biggest issue is that if I even suspect that they might not understand/might be hurt by it I'll feel far worse about it than the situation warrants. :/ still, can try. Of course, why didn't I see that solution. @Twi, I know exactly what you mean about missing social cues and misinterpreting body language etc, I struggle in the same way. What I have found though is that most of the time it doesn't prevent friendships from forming, I suspect that you (and I) get the social cues correct more often than we think we do and most people actually don't care most of the time when we mess up. Beyond that most people, or at least the people worth spending time with, will generally assume you didn't mean to be insulting or hurtful even if they do happen to find what you said or did to be insulting or hurtful. I'm guessing from what you said that you (like me) tend to obsess a bit over mistakes that you made in conversations and how they could have been taken badly and keep wondering if they hold it against you, when the vast majority of the time they don't remember and wouldn't care if they did. All this probably means is that you care a lot, and that's not a bad feature by any stretch of the imagination. I apologise if I'm misinterpreting Basically, go for it and don't let fear of failing prevent you from trying. I wouldn't say it'll be easy, but it's worth the effort

This is nothing compared to what some other people here are dealing with but it's been on my mind recently and I want to talk about it. Hugs. Conceptually they sound so great, even the word "hug" or "cuddle" sounds warm and fuzzy but it's very rare that I can actually really enjoy a hug. I'm not exactly what you'd call a massive fan of physical contact, high-fives, fistbumps, handshakes etc are fine, but when it comes to closer contact like hugs my social anxiety, fear of other people and discomfit (normally) overpowers any enjoyment I might otherwise get from a hug. I'm fairly certain I know why I feel this way, but I don't think I need to go into that for this post. Anyway, what triggered this line of thought lately was when I realised that I am less likely to accept a hug from one of my closest friends than from someone I don't know nearly as well. Which seemed a bit weird and contradictory at first. I do prefer hugs from close friends to people I don't know as well. The difference is that it's a lot easier to reject a hug from a close friend. They won't be hurt if I push them away or refuse a hug, they know it's got nothing to do with them. But pushing away someone who doesn't know or understand that is a lot harder to do without hurting them. It's much easier to accept 2-3 seconds of anxiety/discomfit than to try to reject the hug and explain why without hurting their feelings and being incredibly awkward. And if I do think that I may have hurt someone's feelings I feel bad about it for days afterwards.

There's not a lot that I'd have to say that hasn't already been said here. I'm physically male, and I identify as a male. I don't have any deep reasoning for feeling specifically male, as far as I am concerned that is simply what I am *shrug*. Like most people here I don't fit well with the male stereotype, simply saying I'm a geek should give you a good enough idea. I do believe men and women are different, but that doesn't make either gender better and it doesn't mean activities/professions/hobbies/whatevers are really for one or the other. I have a twin sister and growing up we did a lot of the same activities and played with a lot of the same games and toys. And yeah, she was more interested in some of the traditionally "feminine" toys than I was and I don't think that was just a social effect. I personally suspect that girls are more commonly inclined towards some things, and guys to others but it's a relatively minor thing and experience, personality & society have a much much greater impact than any inherit gender bias. (I expect some people disagree with me on the base inclinations, but that's fine ) But more importantly I am of the mind that society should not discriminate between them, labeling some activities as masculine or feminine or disparaging in any way anyone who doesn't fit what they personally think is masculine or feminine. There are plenty of things that I find strange or difficult to understand, but that doesn't mean I think less of someone who is or does those things. "Man up" is a phrase that I really dislike as I think it kinda exemplifies some of the worst parts of the stereotypes and it can really hurt people. As a specific example that relates to me: I feel like one of the less talked about aspects of these stereotypes is posture. As a man I'm "expected" if anything to stand/sit/lounge in a strong, perhaps dominant, manner. Curling up in a chair or couch (at least in company) is seen as showing more vulnerability & weakness and being more "feminine". It also happens to be how I feel comfortable sitting. I think, well, actually I'm pretty certain, that part of the reason that I tend to curl up like that is that (as a general statement) I don't enjoy physical contact with other people and I have social anxiety/fear of others. So in that sense in my case it is demonstrating vulnerability to some extent. But regardless of that this should not be considered representative of a particular gender. (On a similar, more well-tread note, by those stereotypes as a "man" I'm "supposed" to just suck it up or "man up" and I know from first-hand experience that simply bottling up my fear, anxiety, etc doesn't work. Oh sure I can do it, but it's not worth the long-term harm it causes.)

And/or more properties/uses/interactions of existing metals which we already know is the case. Still, it could mean more than that.

Multiple times Hmm, I think I use/hear a greater proportion of the ones in that vid, though there are a ton of common ones that aren't in there.