Quote from: Bill;755660I have seen players that can't (or more fairly stated; hate to) make decisions without knowing the percentage chance they will succeed.

I don't relate to that at all. I mean, I might get annoyed if I keep failing at something, but I can choose an action for my character without knowing the odds.

I am not trying to be overly critical; I have mental quirks as well.

Now, to be fair, there are two different issues here.

One is knowing the exact percentage chance. And you're right, it's not really reasonable to demand to always know that.

But there's also the matter of knowing the ballpark, and that's a matter of common sense: in real life, when you try to do something, you usually have a pretty good idea whether your chances are good, bad, or if it could go either way. I'm not even an athlete, but I can look at a mark on the ground in front of me and make a reasonable guess as to whether I can jump that far. I have a pretty good idea if I can hit the hoop with a basketball from a given distance. I can usually look at two stationary cars and tell if I can park between them without a bump.
And that sort of ability to guess chances is reasonable to expect in-game, too. If I can do all the above, then an expeienced adventurer should have no problem looking at a cliff and make an informed guess on whether he can climb it safely, whether it could go either way, or whether he'll almost certainly fall.

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Isn't that more of a Cunt Nebula?
Or a nebulous cunt?
(Aw, Hell. It is all just a product of smoke and mirrors anyways....)

Quote from: CRKrueger;755720Pussy

See, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want us to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!

Quote from: Black Vulmea;755713Ouch.


Money quote.


Impregnating someone while playing a sport could be kinda impressive, though.


Dude, it's Kiero, the guy who used to spend half of every post at Big Purple pointing out, 'I'm not like you guys.'

Have you seen the movie Shoot 'em Up? Clive Owens has sex while killing goons.

Quote from: Doughdee222;756073Have you seen the movie Shoot 'em Up? Clive Owens has sex while killing goons.

Funniest scene in the whole movie.

Quote from: Doughdee222;756073Have you seen the movie Shoot 'em Up? Clive Owens has sex while killing goons.

Added to Netflix queue.

Quote from: Doughdee222;756073Have you seen the movie Shoot 'em Up? Clive Owens has sex while killing goons.

That is a great movie. Plus it has Paul Giamatti as a hen-pecked hit man.

Quote from: Premier;756051Now, to be fair, there are two different issues here.

One is knowing the exact percentage chance. And you're right, it's not really reasonable to demand to always know that.

But there's also the matter of knowing the ballpark, and that's a matter of common sense: in real life, when you try to do something, you usually have a pretty good idea whether your chances are good, bad, or if it could go either way. I'm not even an athlete, but I can look at a mark on the ground in front of me and make a reasonable guess as to whether I can jump that far. I have a pretty good idea if I can hit the hoop with a basketball from a given distance. I can usually look at two stationary cars and tell if I can park between them without a bump.
And that sort of ability to guess chances is reasonable to expect in-game, too. If I can do all the above, then an expeienced adventurer should have no problem looking at a cliff and make an informed guess on whether he can climb it safely, whether it could go either way, or whether he'll almost certainly fall.

I would add that in most cases, a gm should be able to advise a player, if the player is in need, of a ballpark estimate of success. Such as, "Your sword master is pretty sure that the enemy soldiers are poorly trained just by the way they hold their swords."

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;756096That is a great movie. Plus it has Paul Giamatti as a hen-pecked hit man.

Don't you hate being nagged when you are hard at work putting food on the table?

Quote from: Bill;756105I would add that in most cases, a gm should be able to advise a player, if the player is in need, of a ballpark estimate of success. Such as, "Your sword master is pretty sure that the enemy soldiers are poorly trained just by the way they hold their swords."

Nah.  That's just surrendering to the concept of player entitlement.

Quote from: Bill;756106Don't you hate being nagged when you are hard at work putting food on the table?

"You're a psychopath."

"No, no! Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for money. It's a job." (blinks) "That didn't come out right."

Quote from: jeff37923;756054Isn't that more of a Cunt Nebula?
Or a nebulous cunt?

It's a portal to the Cuntverse! Looks like something out of a trippy Alejandro Jodorowsky comic.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;756096That is a great movie. Plus it has Paul Giamatti as a hen-pecked hit man.

I hated that movie with a passion, for trying to hard at being over-the-top. But Paul's performance almost saves it. Fantastic actor.

Quote from: ggroy;755616More generally.

Just as bad or even worse, are the individuals who do the same thing by other means, such as bragging about:

- how much booze they can consume
- the movies they watch
- the tv shows they watch
- the type of music they listen to
- the sports events they watch
- what kind of car they own
- the zip code they live in
- how hot their gf/wife is

etc ...

I'm fine with people bragging about their hot wife, (a) that's very healthy and (b) acquiring and keeping a hot wife is an actual achievement.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;755633Playing a sport and impregnating someone doesn't make you manly.  Certainly not to the level where everything else "pales in comparison."  If you think it does, you have a lot to learn.

What's your definition of manliness, then?

Quote from: The Butcher;756123It's a portal to the Cuntverse! Looks like something out of a trippy Alejandro Jodorowsky comic.



I hated that movie with a passion, for trying to hard at being over-the-top. But Paul's performance almost saves it. Fantastic actor.

Cuntverse...it's a good start.