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[Warpiglet-7]

I sometimes read these threads where the same 2 people argue back and forth and wonder "what's the point? If you haven't at least gotten to the point where you can understand the two of you just have different opinions and will not convince each other that your viewpoint is the only way to see it, why keep butting heads over and over?"

But then I remember that every other year or so, I decide this is going to be the year I finally finish Castlevania for NES without cheats or save states. I can get to Dracula pretty consistently and just can't get the job done and not for lack of trying. So I guess I do understand the concept of butting your head against something that just isn't going to happen despite deep down knowing the outcome and yet continuing to go back for more.

Hit in the head with a bunch of boomerangs!

That is all I recall of my all time favorite nes game…

Good luck!

 

[Mad_Jack]

Based on a little unverified googling, it's a 45" screen (rear projection, apparently) weighing 359 lbs.

Seems about accurate - One of my first real jobs in high school was working at the Sears warehouse moving those kinds of things around, and by 1989 or so, they hadn't really gotten any lighter: your average wooden-cabinet tv set weighed anywhere between 200-300 lbs. depending on the size...

Many years ago I was out eating when, in the middle of drinking some Mr. Pibbs, I got a hiccup. This proceeded to pull the fluid up into my nasal passages (and then promptly eject it). I've characterized it that for several moments I could probably have been successfully murdered by a small child with a rock, I was so thoroughly disabled.

Allow me to one-up your Mr. Pibb incident with "The Tequila Incident"*...

*

Spoiler: Spoilered for the feint of heart

I went to kill a bottle of expensive mescal and knocked it back, intending to swallow the worm... Instead, I choked on said mighty beast and, in addition to flooding my sinuses with high-powered alcohol, snarfed the worm out my right nostril.
It was... un-pretty. Enough so that to this day I still shiver thinking about it. I think I'd rather have been tear-gassed.

 

[Umbran]

That would give me more posts before the mods shut the thread down, but still doesn't address my biggest issue: is 2024 5e a new edition or not?

The secret is to know that this doesn't actually matter. What mattes is the content, now whether we choose to call it an edition or not.

I can't consistently remember if I should call it 5.5e or 5e24 and that just creates arguments.

Since it doesn't really matter, I advise avoiding the question - calling it "the 2024 rules" or something similar makes it clear what books you mean, without entering into the edition debate.

 

[RealAlHazred]

is 2024 5e a new edition or not? I can't consistently remember if I should call it 5.5e or 5e24 and that just creates arguments. If I could consistently remember what to call it, the threads probably wouldn't derail as much.

1. No.
B. 5E update

 

[TiQuinn]

That would give me more posts before the mods shut the thread down, but still doesn't address my biggest issue: is 2024 5e a new edition or not? I can't consistently remember if I should call it 5.5e or 5e24 and that just creates arguments. If I could consistently remember what to call it, the threads probably wouldn't derail as much.

From what I've seen here and elsewhere, the naming convention thing has had no material difference. I've seen it called 2024, 5.5, 5e24 interchangeably in the same threads, and as long as everyone gets that it's not referring to the 2014 rules, then it's fine. YMMV.

 

[Scribe]

1. No.
B. 5E update

 

[Ruin Explorer]

1. No.
B. 5E update

Come on man, literally no-one calls it that lol and it kind of sounds like one of the many 5E spin-off RPGs. You're literally just going to confuse people. Calling it 5E24 or or the like at least won't confuse people.

You're trying to make "fetch" happen...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I have outside of my phone, and laptops, no 'smart' devices, no wifi, and just do not see the value in getting them. Having those in house devices listening all the time? Horror show.

I don't think most of them have microphones. They do know where you live, the hours you use the device and what you watch in detail, though, which is still plenty useful to data brokers.

 

[Scribe]

I don't think most of them have microphones. They do know where you live, the hours you use the device and what you watch in detail, though, which is still plenty useful to data brokers.

Yeah I meant more the "Alexa turn on my lights." type things.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Come on man, literally no-one calls it that lol and it kind of sounds like one of the many 5E spin-off RPGs. You're literally just going to confuse people. Calling it 5E24 or or the like at least won't confuse people.

You're trying to make "fetch" happen...

Listen, if you want to quibble about these things...

There have been twelve editions of D&D: Original Dungeons & Dragons (OD&D), the Holmes variant (or Blue Book edition), the Moldvay rules (often referred to as B/X), the Metzner set (BECMI), the Rules Cyclopedia, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D 1e), Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition (AD&D 2e), Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition (D&D 3e), Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 (D&D 3.5), Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition (D&D 4e), and Dungeons & Dragons 5e (D&D).

So, my answers change to:

A) 12th edition.
2.) Yes

EDIT: What I'm saying is, what "edition" something is is subject to interpretation. Most people would consider any substantial change to the rules to be a new edition, but what counts as "substantial" varies from person to person. So, editions are arbitrary designations, and pure marketing/merchandising. Whatever WotC wants to call it is going to be fine. Because if I'm being really pedantic, every set of house rules could be counted a new "unofficial/bootleg edition" for all intensive porpoises...