The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Deset Gled]

Q. How many arguing EnWorld commenters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Spoiler

None. People arguing on EnWorld will never see the light.

Five.

Spoiler: Five.

One to provide a detailed list of all possible light bulbs that have ever existed, and their history.

One to explain that the light bulb is an imperfect simulation of the sun.

One to tell everyone about other light sources that are better at accomplishing the specific purpose this bulb was used for.

One to determine the exact alignment of the bulb.

One to proclaim that alignment doesn't actually matter and should be ignored.

These five all sit in the room and use their point of view to argue that it is impossible for the bulb to be changed, until Morrus shuts the door. Meanwhile, the rest of us sit in the next room over with the lights on, playing D&D.

 

[Ryujin]

Have you read them yet?

I just started the big 7-act Orrorsh adventure for my group, I am in the GM seat for a bit. I'm really not a fan of how they did Orrorsh but I did some house rules for corruption. Apparently in some groups players tempt fate all the time, but my group (myself included) are a hard NOPE when it comes to anything involving a corruption test.

We don't meet that often, unfortunately, so it looks like I won't be playing again for a while.

I've barely delved into them, but Orrorsh has always been my least favourite Cosm. I'm not a fan of basically making characters to die and have lost every character that I ever took in there, in the old game.

 

[CleverNickName]

Five.

Spoiler: Five.

One to provide a detailed list of all possible light bulbs that have ever existed, and their history.

One to explain that the light bulb is an imperfect simulation of the sun.

One to tell everyone about other light sources that are better at accomplishing the specific purpose this bulb was used for.

One to determine the exact alignment of the bulb.

One to proclaim that alignment doesn't actually matter and should be ignored.

These five all sit in the room and use their point of view to argue that it is impossible for the bulb to be changed, until Morrus shuts the door. Meanwhile, the rest of us sit in the next room over with the lights on, playing D&D.

You missed one: the person who whines about the new LED light bulbs and insists that everyone switch back to incandescent.

He brought his own bulb, too...it's a "retro" LED bulb that he has carefully reshaped and tinted so that it looks like a weird, wonky incandescent bulb.

 

[payn]

You missed one: the person who whines about the new LED light bulbs and insists that everyone switch back to incandescent. He brought his own bulb, too...it's a "retro" LED bulb that he has carefully reshaped and tinted so that it looks like a weird, wonky incandescent bulb.

I thought these folks moved onto stopping progressing beyond gas stoves? Or are they wanting to go back to gas lamps???

 

[Gradine]

You missed one: the person who whines about the new LED light bulbs and insists that everyone switch back to incandescent.

He brought his own bulb, too...it's a "retro" LED bulb that he has carefully reshaped and tinted so that it looks like a weird, wonky incandescent bulb.

Much ink has been spilled as to when the turning point of American politics was that made everything so dramatically partisan, and how the answer is probably unknowable. It isn't. I was there, I saw it happening in real time. And it was the exact moment when certain corners of the political opinion world lost their collective minds over the shift from incandescent to LED light bulbs. Keep your hands off of my light bulbs! they would shout*.

I remember being absolutely perplexed. Oh, to return to those simpler, more naïve times.

*To give you an idea of the scale of rhetoric being used at the time, I imagine that were such drama to unfold today LED light bulbs would be known as "woke" light bulbs.

 

[J.Quondam]

You missed one: the person who whines about the new LED light bulbs and insists that everyone switch back to incandescent.

He brought his own bulb, too...it's a "retro" LED bulb that he has carefully reshaped and tinted so that it looks like a weird, wonky incandescent bulb.

There's also the crusty one who constantly insists that "they're comin' to take mah incandescent lightbubs!!" despite you pointing out that he's using an incandescent lightbulb right now, he can still get incandescent lightbubs in stores, and he's free to keep using incandecsent lightbulbs if that's what he wants because, in fact, no one is actually coming to confiscate his precious incandescent lightbulbs.

 

[trappedslider]

Five.

Spoiler: Five.

One to provide a detailed list of all possible light bulbs that have ever existed, and their history.

One to explain that the light bulb is an imperfect simulation of the sun.

One to tell everyone about other light sources that are better at accomplishing the specific purpose this bulb was used for.

One to determine the exact alignment of the bulb.

One to proclaim that alignment doesn't actually matter and should be ignored.

These five all sit in the room and use their point of view to argue that it is impossible for the bulb to be changed, until Morrus shuts the door. Meanwhile, the rest of us sit in the next room over with the lights on, playing D&D.

you left out @Henadic Theologian making a rumor thread with no link to anything.

 

[Cadence]

RE: Lightbulbs.

I've done this with the incadescent bulbs. I'm not sure what happens with the new ones. I used much less water, a plastic dish, and left in the rotating tray so you can see when it hits the hotspots.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Listen, the corruption goes all the way to incandescent bulbs! Maybe even before!*

* Inconceivable!

 

[niklinna]

I've barely delved into them, but Orrorsh has always been my least favourite Cosm. I'm not a fan of basically making characters to die and have lost every character that I ever took in there, in the old game.

It's not quite that bad in T:E (although soaking is less effective there), but in spite of the rulebooks going on and on about how corruption is always a choice, the adventures (and Ulisses folks in their youtube videos) love to force corruption tests on players. It's a darn shame, 'cause I love some good horror, but Orrorsh...is just beat-downs. They've got all the tropes, but none of the essence. Such a heartbreaker.

That said, Tharkold is my least favorite cosm by far.