Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[overgeeked]

“I don’t like it therefore you’re not allowed to like it.”

Go away. Let people like things.

 

[trappedslider]

“I don’t like it therefore you’re not allowed to like it.”

Go away. Let people like things.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Yes, but there's complicating factors. It's relative velocity, so if two characters are running at each other, you combine their speeds. And when you convert real-world things into game terms, you have to be comfortable doing some formulas; that's true of every game, though -- you can't just take a car that's got a top speed of 95 miles per hour and use "95" as the car's Movement Rate in D&D, for instance.

Oh yes! Combined speeds for sure. I love a little mutually assured destruction.

(When angles come into it I just rough it out. Near enough is good enough for super heroic work.)

Hero requires addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division. There are no more complicated formulas than that. What amused me was the guy who said Hero math was more complicated than Villains & Vigilantes. V&V has a formula for calculating your character's carrying capacity, which is used to determine how much damage you do when you hit something, which as [ "Strength / 10" cubed plus "Endurance / 10" ] times "the character's body weight / 2". That seemed way more mathy to me than anything you do in Hero.

Well... that's some calculating right there. I mean, I guess you only do it once during character creation...

Or maybe someone else hates it for a different reason that I never even thought about! I need my hatred to be complete!

After watching Batman v. Superman back when, and coming out hating it and hating that I'd wasted over 2 hours of my life on that garbage, I went and watched about 5 hours of youtube videos by people breaking down everything wrong with the movie. Sometimes one does need some completion for their hatred. It can be very cathartic.

 

[dragoner]

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

 

[RealAlHazred]

Well... that's some calculating right there. I mean, I guess you only do it once during character creation...

You have to recalculate if anything changes your weight, Strength, or Endurance. Which does happen with some powers...

 

[Gradine]

“I don’t like it therefore you’re not allowed to like it.”

Go away. Let people like things.

 

[Autumnal]

 

[DrunkonDuty]

You have to recalls of anything changes your weight, Strength, or Endurance. Which does happen with some powers...

I shouldn't be so down on it, Hero requires that sort of thing sometimes too. I'm thinking VPP's rather than something simple like growth or shrinking. But damn, that's still a lot of calcs.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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Hey, just because the pot calls the kettle black, it doesn’t mean that the kettle is, in fact, not black.

I used to play a lot of volleyball, and got pretty good at it. Shockingly good, considering my self-evident general rotundity and lack of height. The last place I played regularly, there was this young guy who was very high-energy, but had no real skill to speak of. But man, could he talk smack.

Thing is, as bad as he was, he never told a lie. If he said you were serving badly, you absolutely were. If he said that another player was dominating you, there was no questioning it. And this while he was careening all over the court, trying and failing to make plays, occasionally being the volleyball version of Scott Sterling.*

And the thing is, it wasn’t annoying! We all thought it was hilarious, and most people encouraged him to continue.




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[DrunkonDuty]

Scott Sterling is standing a little too short.