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WCDT Strips 3281 to 3285 (8-12 August 2016)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Welu on 12 Aug 2016, 14:55 ---Remember this is intended to be a welcoming forum for many types of people who feel the world around them doesn't have any desire to listen to or understand them based on things about themselves that are out of their control. This forum tries to be more sensitive than the average community. What you might call political correctness, we tend to call basic respect.
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Administrator Comment I endorse what Welu has said and want to amplify that it's part of the goal of inclusiveness and is a core value here. "Basic respect" is one way to describe what we insist on, as is "Decent human being". Mutual listening is a vital ingredient.
Anyway it's part of old and traditional decorum to be ready to say "Oh, so sorry, I didn't know it was like that" when you discover you have inadvertently given offense.
Oenone:
--- Quote from: brasca on 12 Aug 2016, 15:25 ---
--- Quote from: Welu on 12 Aug 2016, 14:55 ---A person wishing to not have their mental health reduced and basically mocked is not lashing out or scolding. Consider that if a person has reached the point of talking about it, they've probably been quiet about it a lot more often. So by the time they talked about it, they might be blunt to be clear, which I would say has not happened here in the relevant posts. Asking to have feelings considered is not the same as being immediately raging and attacking someone, which is how you're making it sound.
Remember this is intended to be a welcoming forum for many types of people who feel the world around them doesn't have any desire to listen to or understand them based on things about themselves that are out of their control. This forum tries to be more sensitive than the average community. What you might call political correctness, we tend to call basic respect.
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Well it's just a suggestion. I've seen too many discussions devolve into name calling and mutual loathing because everyone assumes the other person is ignorant and thin skinned. There are people with actual OCD and there are also people who are very self conscious and don't handle criticism very well. Should their neurosis be so easily dismissed? For the sake of peace it's best to handle these matters in a civil matter.
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Seriously? There's a difference between feeling awkward when someone asks you not to do something and having a psychiatric disorder... For example, the former is not a neurosis.
Tova:
--- Quote from: mad hands murphy on 12 Aug 2016, 08:55 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 11 Aug 2016, 05:32 ---
--- Quote from: JimC on 11 Aug 2016, 04:06 ---Taking pleasure in small, essentially pointless activities, is surely a life enhancing exercise.
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Thank you for changing my perpsective. That is a very nice way of looking at it.
Your next challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to defend their habit of delightfully describing this habit as "so OCD." :roll:
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By getting over it, and realizing you know and understand exactly what they mean by OCD so getting torqued that it isn't the exactly precise definition is actually just embarassing for you.
Also - recognizing that they're out running six miles a day while you're sitting on the internet complaining about their trivial word choices.
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There's already plenty of response to this, so rather than repeat it, I will just add the following. We are friends. They are aware that I am critical of that term, but that is fine - just because we're friends, doesn't mean we agree on absolutely everything. I personally am not a sufferer, so my criticism always been mild, as it was on this forum. But I am very sympathetic to those who are negatively affected by it. You may think it's fine, but that doesn't make it definitively so.
To address your final cheap shot. I'm happy they're out there running. It's a very positive activity. That's why I'm out there running too. With some of them, usually.
I let them run their loops at the end on their own, though. To each their own. :-D
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 12 Aug 2016, 15:06 ---I wasn't even aware that Barns could fart!
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If a Gazebo can then why not a Barn?
(click to show/hide)The Dread Gazebo
Gargantuan Construct
Hit Dice: 24d10 (132 hp)
Initiative: +0
Speed: 0 ft
Armour Class: 6 (-4 Size, +8 Natural)
Attacks: 1 Bite +24 (melee)
Damage: Bite 3d12+15
Face: 30 ft x 30 ft/10 ft
Special Attacks: Leap attack, Improved Grab, Swallow whole
Special Qualities: Construct, Hardness, Alignmentless
Saving Throws: Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +7
Attributes: Str 30, Dex 10, Con -, Int 4, Wis 12, Cha 14
Climate/Terrain: Any Land
Organisation: Solitary or neighbourhood (2-24)
Challenge Rating: 8
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Neutral Evil (Usually)
Advancement Range: 25-48 HD (Gargantuan), 49-72 HD (Colossal)
Construct: Immune to mind-influencing effects, poison, disease, and similar effects. Not subject to critical hits, subdual damage, ability damage, energy drain, or death from massive damage.
Alignmentless (Ex): The Dread Gazebo cannot be detected nor affected by alignment-specific effects and spells, even though it is of evil alignment.
Hardness (Ex): The Dread Gazebo retains the hardness of the wood it was constructed of. This grants it a hardness of 5, which reduces all damage dealt to the Dread Gazebo by 5 points, no matter the source.
Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, the Dread Gazebo must hit with its bite attack. If it gets a hold, it automatically deals bite damage and can attempt to swallow the foe.
Leap Attack (Ex): The Dread Gazebo can leap up to 90 feet in a single jump to catch opponents unaware. It can attack with its bite attack the same round that it leaps.
Swallow Whole (Ex): The Dread Gazebo can swallow a grabbed opponent of Large or smaller size by making a successful grapple check. Once inside, the opponent takes full bite damage each round as the Gazebo crushes it. A swallowed creature can climb out of the Gazebo with a successful grapple check. The Gazebo can hold two Large, four Small, eight Tiny, sixteen Diminutive, or thirty-two Fine or smaller opponents.Please note that there has been no documented evidence of jogging gazebos.
Perfectly Reasonable:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 11 Aug 2016, 23:20 ---... or playing hockey with brooms and expired baked goods.
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Muffin puck!
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