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  1. Posted

    58 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Oh, no, they can turn it on, and have.  I've been told about 2 weeks on the inspection.

    Yeah, OK, at least you have water while they fart around.

  2. Posted

    55 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    The general theory on that sort of low goal is so that the creator can claim something like “funded in 6 hours” or something like that in their ads. 

    That makes sense and displays a lack of scruples. Hard pass.

     

    57 minutes ago, mlooney said:

     And no, Goodman Games isn't a hobby of some one.

    I didn't say it was. I'm sure they have independent contractors, much much like yourself and your Tactics efforts. You are not getting paid for working on that, are you?

  3. Posted

    17 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Their funding goal was 10,000. 

    That seems way too low. Someone did it as a hobby, and then decided to publish it? Making it a pdf would not be a big task if all the rest of the work was done. But then you've got to wonder, "Why are they charging so much?"

  4. Posted

    On 6/3/2025 at 1:15 PM, mlooney said:

    As I said, I was an air defender.  Quite aware of why guns went out of fashion.  Of course, the US kept the “Vulcan” 20 mm Gatling cannon system around until 94.  Variants of it are still in use in several countries.

    I understand that the Phalanx ship defense system is now being used to defend land based sites from similar threats. That should work well against drones. Might need a tweak to the 'ignore' filter to pick up slow targets. 

  5. Posted

    12 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Weird Al regularly credits Sherman as inspirational.  You can see a Sherman album in the cover art ofer Al's first album. 

    I think Sherman's overuse of the laugh track feels like heavy handed manipulation when compared with the way other comedians and novelty artists went in later decades. 

    I wonder if that was Sherman's choice, or his publisher's. 

    Weird Al has genius level skills. He doesn't just do a song; he does a video that echos the original video and is full of it's own content. He copies styles very well. His acceptance among the people he spoofs speaks volumes. 

  7. Posted

    Unless it's changed upward in several decades since I saw the factoid, marriage in some states is legal as low as thirteen with parental permission. Anyone who marries someone that young is getting the punishment they deserve.

    Re: appearance, she can change it, right? 

  8. Posted

    56 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    My Son The Nut. 

    Along with Wrong Way Old King Louis, Letter From Camp, & One Hippopotami. 

    Side note, "Hippopotami" popped up as a suggestion on my spell checker. 

    I had that same album, the only Allen Sherman album I purchased. Letter From Camp was aired on our local radio, prompted the purchase.

    "When Ben Casey meets Kildare, that's called a paradox"

    Automation, Hail to Thee, Fat Person, oh, hell, here's the list. Ah, yes; Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue, and I See Bones.

    He was good, but he was no Weird Al.

  9. Posted

    6 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Their funding goal was a quarter million bucks, so that is like 4 worker-years of labor at most, if publishing costs are minimal. Say a team of a dozen people working for three months.

    I suppose that's possible, they were converting a previous work, not starting a new one whole cloth. 

  10. Posted

    6 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Hmm, what ranks in between a Knight and a Baron?

    Anyway, what I was trying to get at is the idea that Rich is high up enough to never need to work a day in his life or to demonstrate any real practical skills, but not high enough to join the movers and shakers of the kingdom.

    That seems to be a possibility. Then he'd be more like the modern Rich, not really a contributor, but not really taken seriously. 

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  11. Posted

    5 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Goodman Games is, more or less, a heavy weight (well welter weight compared to WotC) in the table-top RPG market.  The thing is fully funned in less than a day and has 1,457 backers totaling over a quarter million dollars.  It's not a case of low interest.

    I've heard of them, but they are also not Mongoose level, I take it. Funded in less than a day with 1,457 backers is good; what does it cost to produce? How big is their staff? Lots of art? That costs, even in a pdf. 

    D&D would not be what it is today if they sold 1457 copies. 

  12. Posted

    5 hours ago, mlooney said:

    That really depends on the country and era.  In France, where this is taking place (well, he's basing it on a French story) most knighthoods were not hereditary as such.  Yeah, younger sons tended to get knighted, but that was more for their fathers.  Hereditary knights held very small fiefs.   And knights being minor noble also depends on country and era, but in general, no, I mean it's a step up from being riffraffs, but you're not, generally, ruling nobility.  Knighthood, apart from for younger sons, and even then, to a large degree, tended to be earned through service.

    I think 'tended to be earned through service' is a key, you could blow a good thing if you were not effective. However, a fiefdom of any size implies serf labor.

    My main data point is an epic story about Poland, called, amazingly enough, 'Poland'. The framing story takes place during the Cold War, a conflict of wills between the workers and a former party functionary who is no longer firmly in control. The main story flows through previous centuries, where the worker's family were serfs of the functionary's knighted ancestors. (The workers prevail in the framing story.)

    It is fiction, but it is written by James Michener, who is known for his veracity (he was also a historian).

  14. Posted

    3 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    This is reminding me of Alan Sherman's "Here's to the Crabgrass". 

    You must have had the album. That was not widely played on the radio.

  15. Posted

    51 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Called the rental agent. Tomorrow morning, the contractor should get in contact with me.  Less than thrilled by this, but I can schedule my life for a while.

    Wow, only two days late! And they might show up a day or two later! 

  16. Posted

    6 hours ago, mlooney said:

    That being said, I suspect Rich, if that is him in fact, is a hereditary knight with some money, not actual nobility,

    You are probably more well versed in this than I am, but I was under the impression that a knight was a minor noble, you pretty much had to be born into it.

    We'll be able to tell if he can't walk forward more than two steps without taking a misstep to either side.

  17. Posted

    2 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    And Edward retains his title of nicest jerk in Moperville. 

    For a leading figure in paranormal diplomacy, no one seems .more capable of saying and doing the right things the wrong way. 

    I don't see him as a jerk. He's dealt with immortals before, and from what we've seen, even the benign ones are detached from human reality toward their own agenda. Hope is the remnant of an immortal with a particularly chaotic reputation; that could well be a factor. He manned up pretty quickly when faced with the bigger picture.

  18. Posted

    5 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Goodman Games is redoing City State of the Invincible Overlord for Dungeon Crawl Classic and 5e on Backer's Kit.  I'm currently DMing a City State of the Invincible Overlord based game.

    They want $130 for the PDF version.

    Fuck that.  I'll keep doing 5e conversion of 3.5 stuff as needed.

    I suppose low interest --> low sales --> low revenue --> publisher want to eat --> high price, but I tend to agree, not me, I'll do without and look elsewhere.

  19. Posted

    50 minutes ago, Amiable Dorsai said:

    Where's Lavender?!?

    Seriously, Edward, bringing another person into your household is the sort of thing you discuss with your fiancé before you issue the invitation.

    Special circumstances I admit.

    That said, hooray!

    This may be evidence that she has not yet moved in, so perhaps they are not yet married?

     

    Dad mode kicking in, Edward is watching out for Hope. Nice.

  20. Posted

    10 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    That depends on the baron. Some who inherited their titles were noteworthy for a near-complete lack of both accomplishments and screw-ups.

    That is entirely fair.

     

    6 hours ago, ijuin said:

    I more-or-less meant that he is high up enough to present himself as actual nobility with a full estate and such, but not influential enough to gain a following among other nobles—he is far more prone to be in the orbit of a high-profile person than the reverse.

    I get that. Baron, in terms of nobility rank, is near the top of the food chain and might be read as minor kingship. Baronies tend toward large, and a few have at times been independent. Fictitious Genovia in The Princess Diaries is a barony.

  22. Posted

    The most likely interpretation is that he is oblivious and out of touch, has spent his reasonably long life tuning other out, and mirror's Dumpster's callousness. I don't imagine that the suffering of others is on his radar, which means his interest in FEMA has to do with cutting costs, a.k.a 'waste', just like air traffic controllers are an expensive role we can eliminate from the FAA . . .

    All compounded, of course, that hurricanes tend to be intense in the Caribbean, where Puerto Rico sits, full of brown people, and "They are American? Really?" 

  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Oh, great.  Rich is in the AU as well.  This can only end badly.

    I did not recognize him, if indeed it is him, but, eh, it could be. 

     

    His outfit looks too modern for the setting, it seemed like maybe 1700s at the latest, the outfit looks like 1800s, or later. 

     

    He acts like he might know Tedd.