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Out of Character 9.

Posted by NarratorFor group archive 0
Oly
player, 1231 posts
Badly disfigured face
Rank 2 Guild badge
Wed 10 Jun 2020
at 21:23
  • msg #513

Re: Out of Character 9

I use fluid ounces, pints, quarts and gallons normally.
I do cook and that is what all my recipes are in.

Few indeed use metric recipes around here.

The normal objection to using centimeters, liters and kilometers is that you get such large numbers in common measurements.
Inches, feet and Gallons are more convenient quantities (not to translate, just in functional distance/volume) ... no body selling house talks in square yards except for flooring.

I have been to Europe for 5years straight ... worked with the metric systems daily. Filled my car up with 76 liters, drove at 140 KPH and measured stuff in meters etc.  But the US measures are still more useful... Napoleon didn't create a foot measure, mores the pity. If we have to use metric measure, I vote for having car speedometers in Nautical MPH ... a new nautical mile being 2 Km long. Yeah, sort of defeats the purpose ...

Somewhere I had the speed of light in Furlongs per Fortnight, but seem to have lost it... oh well.
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1485 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Wed 10 Jun 2020
at 22:51
  • msg #514

Re: Out of Character 9

Actually, a hectare (hundred ares) isn't a nice SI unit at all.  SI units keep their powers of 10 in multiples of three -- kilo, mega, milli, micro, nano, etc. -- and anyway, it would have to be based on a square meter rather than a 10 m square (who came up with the are, anyway, and what were they thinking?).

So, for SI, area is either square meters, or square kilometers.  Grams are fine, but the naming is screwed up (due to a couple centuries of tradition before scientists and engineers decided metric was almost as screwed up as English traditional and US Customary).  The gram is the one that should have weighed 2.205 lb, and we should be measuring aspirin in micrograms and LSD in nanograms.  But the kilogram was called that even when it first became the standard, based on an exemplar stored in Paris since the 18th century, so we're stuck with it.

Oh, and the US is partially metric for electricity and energy -- we use coulombs, amps, volts, and watts in electronic measurement and design -- but then instead of Joules (one Watt-second), we use kilowatt-hours to sell electricity, and jump over to horsepower and foot-pounds for mechanical power and energy (I guess a 500 horsepower, 429 cubic inch V-8 is more romantic than a 7.1 liter, 670 kW engine under the hood).  Just to confuse things, we also use foot-pounds (or inch-pounds, or inch-ounces) for torque, though SI is just as bad, using Newton-meters for both energy (work) and torque.

And don't even start on units like viscosity -- a centipoise is conveniently sized, but it's also a BUNCH easier to say or write than the SI unit, which I've actually forgotten (we didn't do much with viscosity before I dropped out of college).

Suffice to say, if you want engineering and science not to be nightmares to study and work in, you need to pick one unit system and stick with it, and SI is the easiest one to work in.  Now if only we'd defined the meter so gravity was exactly 10.0 m/s^2 at Earth's surface...
Jareth Mooncalled
player, 2041 posts
Dirty High Elf Sage
HP 9/9 FP 7/10 PF 0/8
Thu 11 Jun 2020
at 04:05
  • msg #515

Re: Out of Character 9

Oly:
I use fluid ounces, pints, quarts and gallons normally.
I do cook and that is what all my recipes are in.

I haven't seen fluid ounces in a restaurant kitchen (in a recipe) in almost 25 years.

I did still see cups, pints, quarts, gallons.  As well as teaspoons, tablespoons, dashes, pinches, smidgens, etc.  You know, proper measurements.  ;)
Oly
player, 1232 posts
Badly disfigured face
Rank 2 Guild badge
Thu 11 Jun 2020
at 18:52
  • msg #516

Re: Out of Character 9

Yes, and Glugs and glurps too ;-) ... and two glugs of rum ...
Ardenas Barehand
player, 1486 posts
Human martial artist with
a few spells on the side.
Thu 11 Jun 2020
at 21:52
  • msg #517

Re: Out of Character 9

I learned years ago to cook without measuring.  I heard it called kira kira, an Indonesian term for "pinch and throw," but for some things, you must measure.  If you want your rice fully cooked, neither crunchy nor soupy, you need the right proportion of rice to water (neither one needs be very precisely measure, but you need exactly twice the volume of water to rice, at least the way I learned to do it).

Likewise, you need the right measure of coffee for your water, even if neither one is in ounces.

That said, the last recipe I used that came in ounces got promptly converted to milliliters and grams, because it was for film developer (and it was old -- Kodak used to call out everything in ounces, fluid and avoirdupois with little notice which was which).

Cooking by pinch and throw is all well and good, until you need to write down a recipe for someone.  You can either write it like an 18th century recipe -- "a goodly amount of rum, into which break an egg or two, according how large are the eggs" -- or have someone stand beside you as you cook and intercept everything that goes into the bowl or pot and measure it.
Narrator
GM, 7857 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Thu 11 Jun 2020
at 22:47
  • msg #518

Re: Out of Character 9

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 517):

For this reason spells learned require three rolls. Cast, teach, interpret with thaumatology.

Been doing OT all week, will be for rest of the month, may be scarcer than usual.
Jareth Mooncalled
player, 2042 posts
Dirty High Elf Sage
HP 9/9 FP 7/10 PF 0/8
Fri 12 Jun 2020
at 04:10
  • msg #519

Re: Out of Character 9

Stumbled across this orchestral version of System of a Down's Chop Suey (a favorite song of mine).  No lyrics, so it lets the music speak for itself and has a very Summer Court vs Winter Court vibe going on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17U9ZqvoTLs
Jareth Mooncalled
player, 2044 posts
Dirty High Elf Sage
HP 9/9 FP 7/10 PF 0/8
Sat 13 Jun 2020
at 15:23
  • msg #520

Re: Out of Character 9

I think I found a young Mario's theme song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIfsFefatg
Chye Isuel
player, 1746 posts
Osu! Ora Chye Iseul!
Dragon descended, Youxia
Sat 13 Jun 2020
at 16:56
  • msg #521

Re: Out of Character 9

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 515):

a dram, is better than a damn!
Clarence Montague
player, 318 posts
Torchbearer
Spiderboy
Sat 13 Jun 2020
at 22:38
  • msg #522

Re: Out of Character 9

Jareth Mooncalled:
I think I found a young Mario's theme song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIfsFefatg


Lol, sounds like it.
Mario Crowfoot
player, 1048 posts
An orphan who grew up
with bow in hand
Sun 14 Jun 2020
at 11:20
  • msg #523

Re: Out of Character 9

Jareth Mooncalled:
I think I found a young Mario's theme song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIfsFefatg


Thank you.  I'll just borrow that link...

"All you bully-rooks with your buskin boots, better run, better run, better outrun my bow."

Though I'll have you know I never knew my father and I made my own first bow, from an old violin bow I found in a garbage heap.  Took me all dry trying to shoot some random stick before I figured out what the fletching was for.
Narrator
GM, 7885 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Sat 20 Jun 2020
at 15:04
  • msg #524

Re: Out of Character 9

Be away over tge weekend. Happy fathers day and ha#ppy summer solsrice!
Narrator
GM, 7886 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Mon 22 Jun 2020
at 17:12
  • msg #525

Re: Out of Character 9

In reply to Narrator (msg # 524):

DrDestructo has bowed out. Burke and Shroud are up for grabs for those looking to hop into the Al Menir thread, and frankly it would be excellent if Shroud was PC run
Oly
player, 1237 posts
Badly disfigured face
Rank 2 Guild badge
Mon 22 Jun 2020
at 20:53
  • msg #526

Re: Out of Character 9

I would, but already have a character there and also have a gracious plenty of characters to run now.
Ryojin
player, 57 posts
Martial artist
Mon 22 Jun 2020
at 22:09
  • msg #527

Re: Out of Character 9

Can I have shroud back?
Narrator
GM, 7893 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Tue 23 Jun 2020
at 00:10
  • msg #528

Re: Out of Character 9

In reply to Ryojin (msg # 527):

Yes!
Narrator
GM, 7894 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Tue 23 Jun 2020
at 19:00
  • msg #529

Re: Out of Character 9

In reply to Narrator (msg # 528):

Also gave you Fisher Poryer Black
Narrator
GM, 7897 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Tue 23 Jun 2020
at 19:51
  • msg #530

Re: Out of Character 9

In reply to Narrator (msg # 529):

Catching up tomorrow
Narrator
GM, 7911 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Sun 28 Jun 2020
at 18:37
  • msg #531

Re: Out of Character 9

In reply to Narrator (msg # 530):

Might be a bit catching up, don't have the head for this, and am working on commissions for the Hungarian.  I want to deliver a good game.
Jareth Mooncalled
player, 2055 posts
Dirty High Elf Sage
HP 9/9 FP 7/10 PF 0/8
Tue 30 Jun 2020
at 22:55
  • msg #532

Re: Out of Character 9

Chye Isuel
player, 1759 posts
Osu! Ora Chye Iseul!
Dragon descended, Youxia
Tue 30 Jun 2020
at 22:58
  • msg #533

Re: Out of Character 9

who could it be now?..
Jareth Mooncalled
player, 2057 posts
Dirty High Elf Sage
HP 9/9 FP 7/10 PF 0/8
Wed 1 Jul 2020
at 00:28
  • msg #534

Re: Out of Character 9

Delving with a dude most Barbaric,
A Knight, Thief, and a Cleric.
We met a dark lady, she made us nervous,
She charmed the Thief and gave me curses.
And she said:
"You have come to our land down under!
Where females rule and males blunder!
Can't you see, can't you see our wonder?
You better run or be torn asunder!"

Fighting alongside the Knight in platemail,
Laying about wildly with a big honkin flail.
I said, "Can you help with this spider?"
He just cried and fell stabbed by a drider.
And he sobbed:
"We came to a land down below,
Where spiders abound and poison does flow,
Why didn't we read the Fiend Folio?
You better just get, better just go!"

Hidin' in a room, labeled 6A,
Low on HP, it's now time to pray.
I said to my god, "What're you tryin' to tell me,
Because my options ain't very pretty?"
And he said, "Oh,
Y'all came to a land down under? (Ooh yeah yeah)
Where females rule and males blunder!
Don't you know, don't you know their Founder? (Ooh yeah yeah)
The whole dungeon is one big meat-grinder!"
This message was last edited by the player at 00:50, Wed 01 July 2020.
Chye Isuel
player, 1760 posts
Osu! Ora Chye Iseul!
Dragon descended, Youxia
Wed 1 Jul 2020
at 00:36
  • msg #535

Re: Out of Character 9

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 534):
bravo!
Narrator
GM, 7921 posts
DM says
roll for initiative!
Wed 1 Jul 2020
at 17:06
  • msg #536

Re: Out of Character 9

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 534):

That is terrific!

Meanwhile in wotc/Hasbro land,  drow and orcs are alignment free,much like here, although the shadow elves look like Elric,  not Jerry Cornelius  in blackface, and OA , one of my primary reference docs for the ridiculously inappropriate adventures in little Sahud. I understand their points though.


If sny among you are offended by my grossly generalized depictions of any of these fictional story elements. Let me know.
Ryojin
player, 60 posts
Martial artist
Wed 1 Jul 2020
at 18:07
  • msg #537

Re: Out of Character 9

I'll wait for Haveron to post his dodge before doing my thing.
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