[M&M2e] New Generation Legacy OOC

[Victim]

No, my characters never talk to PCs. It would be unnatural.

And usually ineffective. Even talking into the mouse doesn't work.

 

[Samnell]

And usually ineffective. Even talking into the mouse doesn't work.

You just weren't talking dirty enough.

 

[Hammerhead]

And usually ineffective. Even talking into the mouse doesn't work.

Don't you mean the microphone?

 

[KaintheSeeker]

D'oh!

Apparently my adding the NEW story thread didn't take..(and I've been UBER busy and hadn't noticed)

Now I'm like SIX pages behind. :O

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Super busy myself, sorry for not posting much the last week. I'll probably be able to put something up tonight, at least I cornered myself with some NPCs

 

[Victim]

I never really considered India part of the middle east.

 

[Samnell]

I never really considered India part of the middle east.

That's a new one to this former Geography Bee champ too.

The regional boundaries tend to be a bit porous, of course. Especially when relative directions like East and West are used. (North and South, referring to the poles, are generally seen as more or less objective. But the Earth does not conveniently end for us at any point on the horizontal, so East and West are relative to the speaker's position all the time. Japan is in the Far East from a European perspective, but it's really more like in the Far West from an American viewpoint. We just inherited the European terms. In India, the Near West is a term used to refer to what we call the Near, or Middle, East. For that matter, sitting in the US it makes more sense to refer to Europe as the Near East, but again we inherited the European toponyms.)

I'm a dork. Also if you think all of that is picky to the point of silliness, you should see the semantic contortions that historians and archaeologists use to try to avoid religious and political disputes over the area presently occupied by the countries of Israel, Syria, and their neighbors.

 

[Hammerhead]

I'm with Victim and Samnell.

One question though...geography bee?

 

[Victim]

Isn't India on a subcontinent that basically makes it a region unto itself?

 

[Samnell]

One question though...geography bee?

Why yes, Geography Bee.

I nearly made it to Washington and met Alex Trebek when I was in eighth grade, but a couple moments of confusion over a strangely-formatted bar graph were the end of that.