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2024-05-16, 04:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1302 - The Discussion Thread
Thank you for a deep laugh. (^_^)b
As someone with treatment-resistant MDD that's finally in remission (who's going to share this joke with fellow nerdy TRD'ers being treated for it), I would note that it can be a wildly-unrealistic timeline to try to turn over and get out of bed.
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2024-05-17, 10:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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I can get out of bed, hit snooze on my alarm, and return to bed in six seconds.
But somehow the first part by itself takes much longer than the rest.The thing is the Azurites don't use a single color; they use a single hue. The use light blue, dark blue, black, white, glossy blue, off-white with a bluish tint. They sky's the limit, as long as it's blue.
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2024-05-17, 11:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-18, 08:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-19, 07:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1302 - The Discussion Thread
I also rooted for the underdog* Sauron when the good guys rudely kicked him out of Dol Guldur just as he was trying to pull himself together after a very long slumber
*underwolf?ungelic is us
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2024-05-19, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Nah, the whole third age is Sauron trolling the middle earth with his minions while he himself was sitting on his ass, probably watching them while eating popcorn with a four fingered hand.
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2024-05-19, 09:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1302 - The Discussion Thread
You guys missed the real hero of the story. He fed false info to the dark lord for years, ganked his doods just when they got the lewt drop they had been farming for, and set up a sacrificial distraction attack exactly timed, (perfectly timed,) to pull his forces off the actual line of attack.
Did anyone thank him or give him a fair share of the lewt? Nope. They forced him to respawn, ransacked his base, and drank his brews. And then, to make things worse, when he was pwning noobs for low-level gear, they ganked him.
Saruman rage-quit and never got back into the game. I hear he's farming speed-runs in Call of Duty now, and has unfriended his old guild.
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2024-05-19, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1302 - The Discussion Thread
I like "underwolf."
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2024-05-20, 06:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1302 - The Discussion Thread
Ah, the things you learn from random bored Googling. Apparently Sesame Street did a parody of "House of Cards" which featured Frank Underwolf trying to get into the three little pigs' White Brick House.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movi...-parody-98443/
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2024-05-20, 11:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1302 - The Discussion Thread
The parody is amusing; I enjoy all of the Sesame Street parodies of adult media. That article in Rolling Stone... needs a competent editor. Two homophone errors: "Underwolf sets his sites on the White Brick House" and "Beau Willimon did not seem phased by the online chatter." And "overtakes" is not the right word.
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2024-05-20, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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But the truth is Sauron has never been much of a threat. It's nothing but propaganda by men and elves that Sauron as the aggressor in the second age. Mordor was at peace for 1,500 years before Ar-Pharzon landed with the largest army of Numorians ever assembled.
And what the Numorians did is regarded by every expert to be a genocide. They invaded a peaceful, sovereign nation and basically destroyed it.
Also, I'm going to suggest an umulut for ünderwolf; pronounced with a phoney Bavarian accent.The thing is the Azurites don't use a single color; they use a single hue. The use light blue, dark blue, black, white, glossy blue, off-white with a bluish tint. They sky's the limit, as long as it's blue.
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2024-05-20, 12:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1302 - The Discussion Thread
"Thursdays. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."-Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide
"I had a normal day once. It was a Thursday." -Will Bailey, The West Wing
Roy will be Xykon's Final Boss
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2024-05-20, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-20, 02:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thank you for noticing, and for saying something which let me know it wasn't just me. The first one actually gave me an eyebrow raise. (0_o)
Very silly thought: I wonder if Flu-Know-Who preferentially hits certain types of brain cells (thus goofing up specific circuits after the initial inflicting of brain fog and accelerating the process of aging [both documented])? I've noticed my own brain has been oddly susceptible sometimes to weird homophone errors, like typing fours when intending to type force. I quickly catch them, but it still really weirds me out.
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2024-05-20, 02:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1302 - The Discussion Thread
Late to the party, but can we infer anything from Calder's lack of reaction to the mention of Xykon? Or does Calder at least know who Xykon is?
The part about "greater glory" suggests he knows Xykon is stronger, but it could also mean that Calder thinks Xykon is a bigger "loot pile" and nothing more.
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2024-05-20, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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After skimming the wiki a bit I think it's 1,500 not covered by the author.
I expect Tolkien's intention was that it was 1,500 years of oppression, war with insignificant neighbors, and low grade civil strife endemic to feudal societies.
But if we interpret is as an unreliable narrator (as the webcomic does), then we have 1,500 years without anything bad to say, by someone who loves saying bad things about Sauron/Mordor.
Probably doesn't know who Xykon is. Calder was suspended for a long time, and Xykon was pretty low profile before Azure city.
Back in order of the scribble times, Xykon might have been much weaker, to.Last edited by Quizatzhaderac; 2024-05-20 at 02:34 PM.
The thing is the Azurites don't use a single color; they use a single hue. The use light blue, dark blue, black, white, glossy blue, off-white with a bluish tint. They sky's the limit, as long as it's blue.
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2024-05-20, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Numoria is a peaceful nation which has never invaded anyone, and this Are Pharzon guy never even went to high school there.
During those missing 1500 years, Sauron was peacefully engaged in teaching history, economics, and leadership in Numenor, while occasionally partnering with elves to teach them jewelry crafting.
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2024-05-20, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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1. Númenor.
2. Unterwolf in case you were wondering how to compound a German noun.
Auf Englisch the word wolf sounds like volf. It means the same thing:
3. Sauron has a long and well earned reputation as a liar, going back to the First Age. Suggest you not fall for his propaganda.
Spoiler: About Unter and how to move that to English1. {dative} (= unterhalb von) under; (= drunter) underneath, below; (Unterordnung ausdrückend) under; (= zwischen, innerhalb) among(st); (= weniger, geringer als) under, below
2. {accusative} under
bis unter das Dach voll mit … full to bursting with …
unter Verbrecher geraten to fall in with criminals
For Quizatz: if you believe that, I've got some prime real estate to sell you in the Everglades.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2024-05-20 at 06:15 PM.
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Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2024-05-20, 06:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1302 - The Discussion Thread
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2024-05-20, 10:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-20, 11:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2024-05-21, 01:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-21, 04:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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If any human being can actually read your band's name on the cd cover, then you're not metal enough, apparently.
Calder was trapped at least 60 years ago. At that time, Xykon was just some random 50 years old human sorcerer trying to figure out what his big bid for power would be. A mid-to-high level murderous creep, sure, but not a global threat, and probably not on anyone's radar.
Xykon would become a lich and a real threat 30 years after Calder was put in stasis. And even then, as pointed out by Quizatzhaderac, he was "just a lich", not really famous until he destroyed Azure City.Last edited by Kardwill; 2024-05-21 at 04:55 AM.
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2024-05-21, 06:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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I wouldn't be surprised if Xykon and Calder turned out to be old coffee buddies.
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2024-05-21, 06:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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I don't think I've seen dragons treating coffee seriously outside the Enchanted Forest Chronicles.
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2024-05-21, 07:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2024-05-21, 08:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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How dare you besmirch Spinal Tap?
Now you're getting into subgenres. And if we do that then NWOBHM is the best, and they have quite legible album covers.
Truth.
Eh, those zoologists minds are probably addled by being addicted to a mediocre beverage.
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2024-05-21, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-21, 10:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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The thing is the Azurites don't use a single color; they use a single hue. The use light blue, dark blue, black, white, glossy blue, off-white with a bluish tint. They sky's the limit, as long as it's blue.