Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

You know I am sometimes guilty of thinking it would be better if something terrible happened, preferably to someone else, because it would clarifying and then people would wake up. But I am not sure that many people ever actually wake up - no matter what happens.

I dont wish any ill on anyone, but I can confirm that if (when?) it comes knocking if we want it or not, it can certainly bring things into focus quickly.

 

[overgeeked]

Bring on the asteroid!

If you're referring to the one that will hit in 2032, the trouble is that asteroid will hit somewhere along the equator and is "only" a city killer, not a planet killer. So, if it hits land, it's going to take out millions of South Americans, Africans, or Southeast Asians. It's not going to end civilization.

 

[Scribe]

It's not going to end civilization.

 

[CleverNickName]

"This thing does not appeal to me personally, therefore it shouldn't exist and I will tell everyone all about how no good, terrible, and rotten it is."

Not sure why this is a thing that's taken hold in fandoms, but I cannot wait for it to die. Preferably in fire so it won't regenerate.

Picard: "Tea. Earl gray, hot. Vegan."

(replicator beeps, tea appears)

Data: "You know Captain, the replicator doesn't add milk by default. You don't have to request it."

Picard: "But then how will everyone know that I'm vegan?"

 

[dragoner]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If you're referring to the one that will hit in 2032, the trouble is that asteroid will hit somewhere along the equator and is "only" a city killer, not a planet killer. So, if it hits land, it's going to take out millions of South Americans, Africans, or Southeast Asians. It's not going to end civilization.

Are we sure it's hitting the global south?

There's no chance that it could, say, take out a chunk of a US state dangling into the Gulf of [REDACTED]?

 

[Ryujin]

Picard: "Tea. Earl gray, hot. Vegan."

(replicator beeps, tea appears)

Data: "You know Captain, the replicator doesn't add milk by default. You don't have to request it."

Picard: "But then how will everyone know that I'm vegan?"

 

[Thomas Shey]

I mean…if you don’t want to deal with horror, stress, fear, dead PCs, and all that…maybe don’t play a horror game that centers all those thing as basic components of play. If you pick up Call of Cthulhu and complain it’s not a four-color superhero game the problem exists between the book and the chair.

Its amazing the amount of people who think they can hammer a given game into the game they actually want to play, then get soggy when it doesn't work. Its even more fun when its a player who doesn't notify the GM that's what they're effectively going to do.

 

[dragoner]

People can be pretty passive-aggressive

 

[Thomas Shey]

Gamers probably have a much better sense of how often that 3.1% chance could come up (I've seen quite a few 2% powers checks, 3% powers checks fail)

This came up some years ago when I had my cancer.

The particular type and size of tumor I had was caught pretty early, and when surgically removed using the methodology involved, was gone for good 90% of the time.

Quite early in my career I ran a lot of RuneQuest, which is a percentile based game. I have a pretty strong intuitive sense of how often you can roll about 90%, and as I put it "No one felt good jumping across the chasm with a 90% skill".

Let's just say when it was time for my CT scan every year for the next five after my surgery, I was never blase about it...