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WCDT: 2031-2035 (10-14 October 2011)
zmeiat_joro:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Oct 2011, 18:12 ---Dale is likable enough outside of WoW to be initiated into the Secret Menu at Coffee of Doom, an honor Dora didn't bestow on her brother (Faye told him) or her boyfriend. Either his taunting of Marigirl is harmless, or else he's one of those people you read about in the newspaper will all his acquaintances saying "He seemed like such a nice guy!".
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In my experience, people who most people treat as likeable are about as likely to be complete assholes as they are to be actually really nice people (not that these are the only options). It's usually completely obvious to me, but most people seem to be utterly oblivious.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: purple.platypus on 15 Oct 2011, 01:17 ---
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 14 Oct 2011, 05:32 ---Correcting someone with a slap is abusive.
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But see, that's the bit you're ostensibly trying to argue for. That sort of thing is a lot better received if you don't do it in language that already presupposes the point you're trying to prove.
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We are trying to let this line of discussion die.
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rje:
--- Quote from: JonathanXS on 14 Oct 2011, 23:06 ---
--- Quote from: Daniel Patrick Moynihan on 14 Oct 2011, 18:04 ---
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 14 Oct 2011, 17:16 ---Yep. I don't get the joke either, but I know enough to know it is another WoW reference.
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It's a D&D reference. In 4th Edition (which is what Jeph plays afaik), when you are afflicted by something (on fire, cursed with wracking pain, hobbled by a movement reduction effect) you roll to see if you 'make a save' and end the effect. Marigold's shirt says she's a geek but if she rolls well enough that will end.
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Registered for this.
It would make no sense for Mari to have to save against being a geek, that would imply that she is not naturally one and has to keep up a ruse ( which would be a check on her... ...whatever it is in 4.0. I'm a 3.5 player. Forgive me. )
What I understand it is as is that Mari needed to constantly roll Will saves against peer pressure in order to continue the stereotypical "anti-social geek" lifestyle. She has been continuously failing recently which is either because of low rolls or because of an increasing DC ( the number your save roll needs to beat to "pass" the save ); as she becomes closer to her friends, it becomes harder to say 'no' to them. Because of these failed will saves she becomes farther from the stereotype, and her stereotypical geek personality "ends".
In the end it is a save to end, or rather a series of saves to end, but it is not as simple as implied.
But, you know, that doesn't look good on a shirt, right?
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...I still don't get it. ._.
Carl-E:
Don't worry, one rule of comedy states that any cultural reference will automatically be lost on half the audience.
Half of those left won't really care.
And if you're lucky, about 10% of the rest will think it's funny...
Nathanyel:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 15 Oct 2011, 17:25 ---Don't worry, one rule of comedy states that any cultural reference will automatically be lost on half the audience.
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Catchphrase!
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