In my opinion,
JustWill is the smartest man on SYD and probably one of the smartest men in the world, just ask him. I've suggested several times that he should open a thread and answer member's questions. He never did that because it would cost 20 points but he's very frugal.
I'm opening this thread on his behalf, ask him anything you like with the exception of plumbing and taxidermy. Yep, as you may have guessed, he gets the two of them confused. Please start your question by "mentioning" his name, don't forget to use the "at sign", one of these things @ before and after his screen name. I will start us off....
Later that evening a small group of friends came over for our traditional post-Thanksgiving Dungeons and Dragons night.
I've been playing since the mid 80s--when I was but a lad.
It is a role playing game, but it is so much more than that...
At its core, D&D is about a group of friends gathering to create a shared story together. It isn't a 'winner/loser' type of game. The STORY is the point.
The experience of creating and building a character to actively take part in a D&D campaign is amazing!
I actually feel a bit sad for people who have never participated in a D&D session...
I guess it is like gold panning, not many people understand what is so nice about crawling down into a creek,reading it and then going and diggin out the bull tallow and working it down to find a bunch of lead shot and iron .Then,that bright little gold dot in the bottom of the pan! You are hooked then.
If, however, you ask any member of our D&D group what the characters 'look like'--they can all give vivid and accurate detailed descriptions of them. (Some of us have been playing the same characters for several years now.)
But I guess that is the idea,complicated to the point of clearing the mind of the everyday shit.
To answer your question, no they do not split up. The player's characters (PCs) are the 'main characters' of the story, and work as a group/team (The Party) during the game. That doesn't necessarily mean that they are all the 'good guys'--that's always a matter of perspective--but they ARE the Protagonists of the story.
The 'villains"--the Antagonists--are normally Non Player Characters (NPCs) who are controled by the Dungeon Master (DM), who is the individual leading the story and making the calls regarding rules and dice rolls. The DM creates and controls all of the story characters that aren't PCs,creates the setting, and develops plot and adventure ideas as well.
Sometimes, a part of the story can be completed in one gaming session. The on-going story (Campaign) can go on for years. (Our current campaign is well into its second year--Covid made getting together to play kinda tough).
We play at least once a month--more often if time and scheules permit.
Now we're getting somewhere, there's dice involved. My guess is that there is a gameboard, too. Like the game Monopoly, you land on certain spots and you're required to take a card from the Community Chest, does D&D work that way, too? Is D&D a spectator kind of a game, could I or someone else find watching the players entertaining? Tell me more, please.
Maps are sometimes used to keep track of locations or settings, but most of the game play relies on imagination.
The dice have nothing to do with "movement" of a token like in Monopoly.
It's more fun to play, but it is also fun to watch.
mr_blue is a good guy! I hope that he is doing well
1.Why is the sky Blue?
2.Is Santa real?
3.What dose @JustWill want for Christmas?
1. The sky is Blue because the Earth's atmosphere aacts s a prism when sunlight hits it. Because Blue light rays are shorter and slower, they refract differently than the other colors of the spectrum and cause the sky to appear to be Blue
2. Santa is as real as you wish him to be. Just like Jesus!
3. For Christmas, JustWill would like the psychic ability to make people pee themselves upon command when they say stupid things. Or a pet goat, whichever is easier.
Yuks.
Little scoundrels will shit on a pile of Alfalfa hay to eat a wild onion.And if a doe,the female ,eats onions that RUINS the next 2 batches of milk to!
As for the pee thing--I just igure that if you are going to say stupid shit, you should have to look stupid while you are doing it.
Almost all of the time it is used, there are complaints from the offending student's parents because a teacher had the nerve to inconvenience them by giving a consequence to their asshole kid that required the folks who spawned it to alter their schedule in some way.
I prefer to give out massive writing assignments for bad behavior instead. If the kid doesn't complete them, I can have the pleasure of docking their grade point average. If they do the assignment, I have the pleasure of knowing that I am fucking up their free time.
After learning the tricks of the "trade" from a friend, I learned how to hold 3 pencils just right and write 3 lines at once. Not perfect but it worked a couple times until Mr Burch caught on to it. then instead of 200 sentences it was 500. Um, still took just as long as 200 used to. I know I always liked his 65 Pontiac Wanted 1 for years.
In answer to your question:
If you had feet too small to balance on it would have been because you were either born with a developmental growth issue or you had your toes removed for some reason.
Under normal circumstances, genetics dictates that a person gets the right sized feet to balance their body when walking.
Fun Fact: The length of a person's foot from toe to heel is normally the same as the length of their inner forearm from wrist to elbow!
I am putting you in time-out so that you can think about your rude behavior, missy...
I predict that 2022 on the site will be the year of My Step-Dotter Gots Titties!!
or some such grotesque junk.
In brief, "in regard to"--using the singular form of the word-- is correct because, in this usage, the word regard means "in REFERENCE to".
An easy way to remember this is that preposition "regarding" means the same thing as "in regard to" or "with regard to" (As in: Regarding pudding, I prefer chocolate over strawberry.)
Whereas the word regardSing does not mean anything at all.
The plural form "regards" normallly means GREETING, AKNOWKLEDGEMENT, or RESPECT as in "give my regards to..."
Next time on The Wonderful World of Words With Will, we will discuss why people who write "could of" or "should of" should be killed on sight.
She "mentioned" me again and and when I logged out to see what that vile, old gutter rat had to say, it looks like she "mentioned" you, too. That old biddy is so hateful and she just cannot keep her filthy mouth shut.
After reading my post in this thread, she reposted it in her thread with modifications. She wrote; "Good morning JustWill I need help with something that is related to the English language. Please help. Sometimes I find myself using the phrase, “MOTHER FUCKING HOMO , but in regard to you should it be FUCKING HOMO? I’d like to know and so would Bella! the BITCH."
For someone that would like others to believe that they immerse herself in reading and current events, it is regrettable that she allows herself to say such hateful things. Another thing that saddens me is that members as well as her "friends" turn a blind eye and allow this bad behavior to continue.
As for me,I know you watch me go back and forth with her and it is for good reason.
1, To ignore people who think the way she does, is to fertilize the problem. That is why America is in the shape it is in now. Ignoring the liberal mindset for to long.
2, We can never expect any positive change in the liberal mindset if we do not gently educate them. Don't just blab a couple factoids at them ,explain why the factoids are true.
3, it annoys a liberal to have to constantly be faced with Reality.They tend to live in a alternate reality that every problem is solved with a bit of love and a hug.Wish it were true but it aint.
I really don't give a rat's ass if she's going to refer to me as a "bitch" however for her to continuously refer to members as "MOTHER FUCKING HOMO" is not okay with me. Apparently some members can forgive and forget while some members don't want to get "involved". As far as I'm concerned, both types are complicit. And as Malcolm X said, "If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."
Second, haven't you noticed that the folks who are her "friends" here also tend to be people that no one else on the site has much regard for (see what I did there?
Okay, I'm going to take a deep breath and exhale slowly.
The first two "points" you make are pretty much exactly how we liberals think about conservatives.
Except for the "gently educate" part, because we understand that most of the conservative "right" don't have the mental skills to learn new concepts. They just believe and repeat the nonsense that their leaders tell them to without really putting much thought into it at all.
As to your third point: What truly annoys us is having to constantly face STUPIDITY and sheep-like IGNORANCE. Most conservatives have a very hard time distinguishing fact from belief.
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