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[Dsell]

I'm 3 weeks behind on Survivor and I know that the dedicated Survivor thread must be just full of land mines right now (the finale's on right now).

[Archetype]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.6596v1.pdf

Vi Hart is awesome as always.

I watched a whole bunch of her videos yesterday for the first time  and became a huge fan. What a weird coincidence!

[ConMan]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.6596v1.pdf

Vi Hart is awesome as always.

I watched a whole bunch of her videos yesterday for the first time  and became a huge fan. What a weird coincidence!

I finally got around to watching all the videos on her main channel that I hadn't seen before. Now I'm going through her secondary channel, and yes, I'm watching the microwave videos. Very slowly.

[eHalcyon]

I was helping my mom set up her first smart phone.  When I went into the Play Store to update things, I saw recommendations for apps based on apps I had +1'd.  Except, I had never seen these apps before.  What are you doing, Google?

[GeoLib]

I was helping my mom set up her first smart phone.  When I went into the Play Store to update things, I saw recommendations for apps based on apps I had +1'd.  Except, I had never seen these apps before.  What are you doing, Google?

They're apps you will +1 in the future

[WalrusMcFishSr]

I was helping my mom set up her first smart phone.  When I went into the Play Store to update things, I saw recommendations for apps based on apps I had +1'd.  Except, I had never seen these apps before.  What are you doing, Google?

They're apps you will +1 in the future

For some bizarre reason, I initially read this sentence as "Their apps you will +1 in the future", using some sort of irregular Yoda syntax where 'you' is the object, so meaning, "Their apps will +1 you in the future".

This raised all sorts of questions, like, who are "They"? What sort of twisted dystopian future is this where apps are +1ing people? Is this Google's vision for the future of humanity??? Although, what happens if you get a lot of +1s, that would be cool right, it would probably improve your credit rating.

Yeah I should go to bed...

[eHalcyon]

This raised all sorts of questions, like, who are "They"?

The Soviet Russians.

what happens if you get a lot of +1s, that would be cool right, it would probably improve your credit rating.

Down with the Fives!

[GeoLib]

Down with the Fives!

Exactly what I thought of too.

[SirPeebles]

There was a mass shooting last night where I called home for seven years.  I'm still rather shaken.  I have a lot of friends there, but I think I've mostly accounted for all of them.  Gun violence, misogyny, the stigmatization of mental and emotional illness.  It's all so overwhelming.

[Dsell]

Playing D&D for the first time tomorrow. Gonna be a druid, about to choose a race. Any suggestions for me?

[AndrewisFTTW]

Playing D&D for the first time tomorrow. Gonna be a druid, about to choose a race. Any suggestions for me?

Make sure your Pizza Hut button works. You're gonna need it.

[AndrewisFTTW]

Oh I saw D&D and read "WoW" for some reason. Whatever. Pizza Hut!

[SirPeebles]

Playing D&D for the first time tomorrow. Gonna be a druid, about to choose a race. Any suggestions for me?

3.5 or 4e?

[LastFootnote]

Playing D&D for the first time tomorrow. Gonna be a druid, about to choose a race. Any suggestions for me?

You should play whatever race you think sounds coolest! Maybe not one that penalizes Wisdom, but that's about it. (I'm assuming that Wisdom is still a druid's primary stat in 4th Edition. It definitely is in 3rd Edition and Pathfinder.)

EDIT: Perhaps more importantly, you need to choose an animal companion. Or have you done that already?

[Dsell]

4e. Looking at wilden?

[SirPeebles]

D&D has so many options that it is very easy to fall into the trap of min/max-ing everything.  While some people genuinely enjoy that, I would definitely recommend setting some boundaries for yourself.  Design a personality for your character and a few exaggerated quirks which are easy to focus a build around.  For example, I had a tiefling mage who was obsessed with fire, to the point of having little concern for, well, friendly fire.  The big boomy fire spell wasn't always the best choice for my build, but it matched the personality.  It was fun and provided a natural way of restricting the otherwise overwhelming number of gameplay/build options for a new player.

[Dsell]

Update: I am a wilden druid wearing leather and wielding a sling. I can talk to fish and summon thousands of tiny forest spirits to lay out bed rolls and cook us a hot meal. Oh yeah.

[GeoLib]

Update: I am a wilden druid wearing leather and wielding a sling. I can talk to fish and summon thousands of tiny forest spirits to lay out bed rolls and cook us a hot meal. Oh yeah.

That sounds exploitative :-P

[SirPeebles]

I hope the forest spirits are all scyther.

[Dsell]

Update: I am a wilden druid wearing leather and wielding a sling. I can talk to fish and summon thousands of tiny forest spirits to lay out bed rolls and cook us a hot meal. Oh yeah.

That sounds exploitative :-P

I prefer to think of it as a mutually beneficial situation. I'm basically a tree that transforms into animals, so I'm pretty much one with nature.

I'm also extremely wise and extremely unintelligent.

[SirPeebles]

[Axxle]

Playing D&D for the first time tomorrow. Gonna be a druid, about to choose a race. Any suggestions for me?

Goliath is fun (I assume 4e?)

[eHalcyon]

Update: I am a wilden druid wearing leather and wielding a sling. I can talk to fish and summon thousands of tiny forest spirits to lay out bed rolls and cook us a hot meal. Oh yeah.

Summon bigger fish.

[Titandrake]

On a whim, I did a search, and no one here has talked about the glories of Frog Fractions yet.

http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions

(For people who do play, my one request is that you spoiler your comments. It's better that way.)

[Dsell]

That game is great. And I thought I knew about fractions!