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@Mason_Wheeler I have that cake pan!
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@PotatoEngineer Cool! Where'd you find it?
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@Mason_Wheeler It was a birthday present.
After some quick research... turns out it came from ThinkGeek. Which is now out of business, or got transformed into another FunkoPop vending machine, or something, and no longer sells the weird stuff.
Edit: damn, it's not even on Etsy, the last bastion of niche geeky things.
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@PotatoEngineer ...well that sucks.
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@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread:
ThinkGeek. Which is now out of business, or got transformed into another FunkoPop vending machine, or something, and no longer sells the weird stuff.
Has been for years, unfortunately. IIRC, it was bought by some other webshop and sometime after, transformed into just another a branch of that.
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@Gurth said in D&D thread:
bought by some other webshop and sometime after, transformed into just another a branch of that.
Hence, "FunkoPop vending machine." It seems like that brand has an absurdly large share of the shelf space in geek stores these days.
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The sad thing is, if there's so much shelf space devoted to it, that means there are many people buying those stupid, overpriced things.
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@Zerosquare I find them cute in small doses. I am, apparently, not the majority, who presumably find them cute in overwhelmingly huge doses.
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I don't own a single one because I have yet to see one I would want to own. And I'm not above owning all sorts of stupid shit across the various media I like.
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Funko: So generic any of them can look like any character.
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@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread:
Hence, "FunkoPop vending machine." It seems like that brand has an absurdly large share of the shelf space in geek stores these days.
Oh, “FunkoPop” is an actual name of something? I thought you just meant it as a spoof-name way of saying ThinkGeek lost its originality.
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@Gurth They're a chibi-style rigid doll, and they've been made for every imaginable IP.
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@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread:
@Gurth They're a chibi-style rigid doll, and they've been made for every imaginable IP.
And quite a bunch of non-intellectual property too.
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@izzion Are you accusing them of not being very intellectual?
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@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread:
rigid doll
And that's the thing I don't get. They don't do anything! How can they be this ridiculously popular when they don't do anything at all? They don't even have the bare-minimum articulated joints that stuff like Barbie dolls have had for decades.
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@dkf said in D&D thread:
@izzion Are you accusing them of not being very intellectual?
For example, I've seen a Weird Al Yankovic Funko Pop doll. Not a doll of some character Weird Al played; it's of Weird Al himself, which is not an IP.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
And that's the thing I don't get. They don't do anything! How can they be this ridiculously popular when they don't do anything at all? They don't even have the bare-minimum articulated joints that stuff like Barbie dolls have had for decades.
Don't look at me! I've never played with dolls. Not when there were giant construction vehicles about instead...
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
They don't even have the bare-minimum articulated joints that stuff like Barbie dolls have had for decades.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
of Weird Al himself, which is not an IP.
That depends on whether he makes a living from his appearance. Well, and on your jurisdiction, I suppose ;) But here in the Netherlands at least, if somebody uses a picture of you on something they sell, they are basically free to do so unless a reasonable part of your income derives from your appearance, or from things you sell/allow to be sold/etc. with your likeness on it.
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@Gurth we need a warthog version, kneeling of course.
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But who would bother making it in the first place?
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/886675693/warthog-kneeling-sculpture-bronze
Or if you'd like to paint it yourself (but, of course, )
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1540350113/warthog-kneeling-unpainted-animal-den
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread:
rigid doll
And that's the thing I don't get. They don't do anything! How can they be this ridiculously popular when they don't do anything at all? They don't even have the bare-minimum articulated joints that stuff like Barbie dolls have had for decades.
They seem to be aimed at the adult/collector/I-need-a-thing-that-identifies-my-fandom market, rather than the toy market. Their purpose is to be looked at, not played with. I'm sure the lack of joints was a deliberate nonfeature, to make it so they are ready to be displayed on a shelf.
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@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread:
ready to be displayed on a shelf.
Some collectors don't even remove them from their boxes.
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@Gurth "Quantum and Woody: The Goat inaction figure". It's like a product designed by someone who just decided to maximise the surprise on encountering each word...
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@HardwareGeek said in D&D thread:
@PotatoEngineer said in D&D thread:
ready to be displayed on a shelf.
Some collectors don't even remove them from their boxes.
My rule of thumb is "if it's marketed as 'collectible', it isn't." I didn't collect comics in the 90s, but I was adjacent to a few people who did. And I remember Beanie Babies.
Anyone keeping the thing in its box thinks these things are collectible. They are sold in far too much volume to actually be collectible.
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@dkf said in D&D thread:
@Gurth "Quantum and Woody: The Goat inaction figure". It's like a product designed by someone who just decided to maximise the surprise on encountering each word...
It’s from a superhero comic, and AFAIK (neither superheroes nor comics are my thing) the inaction figure of the Goat was meant as a joke about the great range of superhero action figures that came out around the time this one did too.
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@Mason_Wheeler random not-funny related thought:
In the French translation of LotR, Shadowfax is called "Gripoil" i.e. literally "grey fur." Which is a reasonably translation but also an awful one as it sounds about as majestic and powerful as, I don't know, calling a big three-headed dog "Fluffy."
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Got gifted this for Christmas:
Sadly there seems to have been some delivery issues (it's a kickstarter, which probably explains some) and I did not get the actual physical thing, which will arrive... one day? I guess?
The gifter sent me the PDFs so at least I can start, but it feels like I'm lacking what truly makes this unusual and amusing (i.e. the physical aspect of turning pages one per day!). Also I haven't actually started yet for various reasons (made even stronger by the PDF thing as that meant I couldn't really start on holidays with just my phone), so I can't give any feedback.
The rules set looks like some bog-standard stereotypical RPG but obviously that's not where I expect the thing to be original. Graphically it looks cute. Apparently I'm going to start the first few days playing a squirrel:
Hopefully I'll enjoy it enough to keep talking about it during the year, but right now I'm a bit disappointed at not having the actual thing to look at. It doesn't feel the same browsing a PDF.
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@remi said in D&D thread:
it sounds about as majestic and powerful as, I don't know, calling a big three-headed dog "Fluffy."
That would be more Pratchett than Tolkein.
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@dkf The Greek word from which we get "Cerberus" literally means "spotted." It was Jim Butcher who pointed out that Hades was a socially awkward guy who named his dog Spot.
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@dkf said in D&D thread:
@remi said in D&D thread:
it sounds about as majestic and powerful as, I don't know, calling a big three-headed dog "Fluffy."
That would be more
PratchettJ K Rowling thanTolkeinTolkien./
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@Arantor inb4: : Read another book!
(and also, of course, )
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@Mason_Wheeler said in D&D thread:
@dkf The Greek word from which we get "Cerberus" literally means "spotted." It was Jim Butcher who pointed out that Hades was a socially awkward guy who named his dog Spot.
Sadly (because this would really be amusing!), this etymology seems to be disputed.
ETA: see also this much longer article about it. I don't know (enough) Greek or other ancient language to judge its correctness, but it's at least
interesting to reada good way to avoid actually working.
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@remi said in D&D thread:
In the French translation of LotR, Shadowfax is called "Gripoil" i.e. literally "grey fur."
Whereas the original English name always made me think it was plugged into the telephone line.
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Week 2, I am now a tree huggin' raccoon.
My introductory quest is to go into the castle's garden and pick some herbs to cure a fungal infection on the Big Sacred Tree. Slightly underwhelming, even with the standard set by the squirrel of last week ("explore some underground tunnels and kill a few bugs").
I'm joking, so far I like the idea and at the speed of roughly 1 round per day of course it can't have gone far by now.
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@Mason_Wheeler the DM rolls, blinks, tells you that the party can proceed… and then only yells it’s a trap once you’re right in the middle of it and clearly didn’t spot it not matter how the perception roll went.
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Random idea: a RPG that features a "" alignment.
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@Zerosquare That's called the "lone wolf" character. Refuses to get involved in the group's stuff because it doesn't involve their character's backstory, and then is upset that nothing interesting is happening with their character. More amusing when the entire party is made up of lone wolves.
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Not quite the same thing. A -aligned character is one who would rather stay home (or at the tavern) rather than go on an adventure, since the latter requires doing stuff.
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I heard a great story about a guy who created a tavern keeper for an adventure. The character was reluctant to go on the adventure, so of course the rest of the party tried to persuade him.
Unfortunately, the player bought into the characterization way too hard, and refused to go on the adventure at all. So the rest of the party just left the tavern keeper behind. IIRC, the player made a character for the tavern keeper's daughter, or something, and actually played. The rest of the party were flabbergasted that a player made a character that was completely opposed to participating in the adventure.
(I faintly recall this from the Fear The Boot RPG podcast.)
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@PotatoEngineer that's a common bad case--the too-reluctant adventurer. And yeah, it doesn't work well.
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It sounds like a somewhat unusual version of the more general behaviour, of the player who sticks so tightly to the character’s convictions that it would be considered fundamentalist IRL. The kind who refuses to do anything that goes against what the character is supposed to believe in, no matter how trivial or how useful it would be to get the character or the group out of trouble.