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  1. magic9mushroom

    Admin Vacation - Reign of Bii

    I don't fully get it myself, but: "Red" in the 20th century was slang for "Communist" or "Soviet". The primary Communist country was the Soviet Union, a.k.a. "Soviet Russia". "Red Mercury" is an infamous substance alleged by con-artists to be useful for making nuclear weapons. Initially, this...
  2. magic9mushroom

    Admin Vacation - Reign of Bii

    The question is whether this is a double-bluff like Squishy once did; appointing Bii admin is not actually that implausible.
  3. magic9mushroom

    "Search titles only" searches tags as well

    I'm not sure it did in XF1, although tags were used much less back then so it's plausible the problem just didn't come up very often. In any case, seems like a problem now, n'est-ce pas? Or am I missing something?
  4. magic9mushroom

    "Search titles only" searches tags as well

    The "search titles only" box in Search currently searches for threads with the given word/phrase in the title or in the tags. I would appreciate it if the "search titles only" box did what it says on the tin instead, as I am not aware of any other way to search only titles and there's a whole...
  5. magic9mushroom

    General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

    No, they do want fanatics (hence the Crimson Veil, which is great at creating loyalty because if you stop believing the Guardians' philosophy, that's just murder). The Black Veil isn't meant to weed out fanatics; it's meant to weed out two groups that don't actually believe the Guardians'...
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    General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

    That's part of it, but there's also the question of what happens if the Guardians' little house of cards gets given a shove. If the Ladder were to find out about the Guardians' obstruction of a Grand Convocation, they'd flip from being the Guardians' only real defenders to wanting all their...
  7. magic9mushroom

    General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

    When I was reading the order books for MtAw 1e, I noticed a pretty-big problem with the Guardians of the Veil. The basic worldview of the Guardians of the Veil is this: 1. The Abyss is widening, specifically because of Paradoxes. 2. Paradoxes are celestial punishment for mages being evil, in...
  8. magic9mushroom

    General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

    Wow, I missed that. *facepalm*
  9. magic9mushroom

    General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

    Thanks for looking. TBH I have nearly the full set of PDFs myself; I did search them myself before asking, though. I mean, I'd definitely rule that most aimed spells wouldn't work on Twilight creatures - Thunderbolt, for instance, creates a lightning bolt from the end of your wand, and while...
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    General World of Darkness Discussion Thread QQ Edition

    In MtAw 1e, was there ever a clarification on possibility/special requirements for casting spells on things in Twilight, while not being in Twilight yourself? It's made fairly clear that you need Spirit 4 to cast attack spells across the Gauntlet (Spirit 2 to scry) and Death 5 to cast into/out...
  11. magic9mushroom

    Potential Rule 8 Question: Regarding the Recent Anti-NSFW Content Bans...

    What @da3monh0st3d is calling "malicious compliance" and "spy[ing] on the users" is the continued use of unnecessary cookies; if they stopped doing this, according to your source, they would not need to seek consent.
  12. magic9mushroom

    The choice of describing it as speeding up you rather than slowing down the entire world is...

    The choice of describing it as speeding up you rather than slowing down the entire world is basically to avoid giving odd connotations of a 9th-level (in 3.5/PF) being more wide-ranging in effect than many epic spells (affecting the entire world is on par with shit like Karsus' Avatar). Also...
  13. magic9mushroom

    To stop something is to cause it to not progress with respect to something else. The time X...

    To stop something is to cause it to not progress with respect to something else. The time X experiences cannot be stopped with respect to the time X experiences, as if 0 seconds pass in 1 second that implies 1=0. To stop the time X experiences with respect to the time Y experiences is equivalent...
  14. magic9mushroom

    Multi-quote button for locked threads

    There are some cases where this applies. There are other cases where the discussion was not relevant to the threadlock (e.g. old discussions in a story thread since locked for necromancy) or where the thread was locked for the discussion being okay but off-topic to that thread/subforum.
  15. magic9mushroom

    Multi-quote button for locked threads

    It would be pretty neat if one could quote a post in a locked thread (for reply in another thread, or in a PM) without having to be a moderator. Obviously, the "Reply" button needs to be locked out for locked threads, but the multiquote button doesn't.
  16. magic9mushroom

    Rule 3 clarification: do any of these count as photorealistic?

    Well, it's an economic argument involving the idea of things being driven from the market, but it's different in significant ways (Gresham's Law relies on legal tender laws, and operates in reverse without them; also, good money driven out by Gresham's Law is hoarded, whereas here we're talking...
  17. magic9mushroom

    Rule 3 clarification: do any of these count as photorealistic?

    If it becomes commonplace, no-one will bother making the real thing anymore, for much the same reason that films use special effects rather than putting their actors in real mortal danger. It is expensive, particularly in risk premium, to film the rape of actual children compared to making...
  18. magic9mushroom

    Rule 3 clarification: do any of these count as photorealistic?

    Or Australia, or Britain, or quite a number of other countries.
  19. magic9mushroom

    "The real question is; does the convention of yandere storytelling even allow for a straight-up...

    "The real question is; does the convention of yandere storytelling even allow for a straight-up happy ending?" I mean, literal Gasai Yuno canonically got one (in Redial). This seems relevant.
  20. magic9mushroom

    Rule 3 clarification: do any of these count as photorealistic?

    You win this round.
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