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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Sex education in the UK - an update
« on: Today at 01:02:25 AM »
Certainly eastern Europe has examples of similar positions on eg gender theory: Hungary's government has been very aggressive on this, it's appeared in Slovak rhetoric, in Russia too, and in Georgia.
I wonder if specifically sex ed in schools might be an Anglosphere/west issue because I'm not sure how many other countries were teaching it to afart with or, of those that do, had it holding those cultural connotations. It would be a really interesting thing to have a good international survey of.
I wonder if specifically sex ed in schools might be an Anglosphere/west issue because I'm not sure how many other countries were teaching it to afart with or, of those that do, had it holding those cultural connotations. It would be a really interesting thing to have a good international survey of.
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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Sex education in the UK - an update
« on: May 15, 2024, 05:24:16 PM »
Yeah, it's very damaging extreme conservative politics. The idea of "protecting the children" is just used as a bludgeon to damage young people's ability to navigate the world beyond the limited bubble of conservative imaginations - and yes, making it more likely they'll get bad information and advice making them much more vulnerable. It's quite scary really.
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: May pub - 30th or 31st?
« on: May 15, 2024, 11:25:33 AM »
Well, I think Jafeth's mild preference is as much of a vote as anyone has cast, so we'll probably go with the 30th 
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Exilian Media / Re: MUSIC: Jubal Sings Stuff!
« on: May 14, 2024, 08:50:53 AM »
Not sure how pleased I am with this one (or more accurately I'm rather dissatisfied with how it came out), but anyway here's a cover of Coral Crown from Hades II.
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General Gaming - The Arcade / Re: Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori
« on: May 14, 2024, 07:53:33 AM »
Ooh, yes, that does look very interesting! I will have to wishlist it, I'm always interested to see more non European medieval games, there aren't nearly enough such things. May have to see if I can contact the devs too...
Also, the software doesn't actually automatically embed YouTube links: it still treats them as links unless you use the BBCode YouTube tag to mark them for embedding.
Also, the software doesn't actually automatically embed YouTube links: it still treats them as links unless you use the BBCode YouTube tag to mark them for embedding.
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Exilian Bards' Club / Hades/Hades II Song Chords
« on: May 13, 2024, 05:33:54 PM »
Coral Crown (Hades II Siren Song)
Come o sailors, hear my music
Em
Echoing through sea and cold
Em G D
Bring your hull into my harbour
Em
Join the teeming wrecks below
Em G D
Down, down
Em Am
King of bones with the coral crown,
Em D
Drown, drown
Em Am
Save your breath, for tonight you’re going to drown!
Em D Em
Gods and witches cannot tame me
Curses are my endless muse
All who hear me, prince or pauper,
This shall be their final cruise
Down, down
King of bones with the coral crown,
Drown, drown
Save your breath, for tonight you’re going to drown!
Come to me my tasty morsels
Always room for more…
More…
More…!
Make yourself at home my darling
Take a dip and stay a while,
Down, down
King of bones with the coral crown,
Drown, drown
Save your breath, for tonight you’re going to drown!
Come o sailors, hear my music
Em
Echoing through sea and cold
Em G D
Bring your hull into my harbour
Em
Join the teeming wrecks below
Em G D
Down, down
Em Am
King of bones with the coral crown,
Em D
Drown, drown
Em Am
Save your breath, for tonight you’re going to drown!
Em D Em
Gods and witches cannot tame me
Curses are my endless muse
All who hear me, prince or pauper,
This shall be their final cruise
Down, down
King of bones with the coral crown,
Drown, drown
Save your breath, for tonight you’re going to drown!
Come to me my tasty morsels
Always room for more…
More…
More…!
Make yourself at home my darling
Take a dip and stay a while,
Down, down
King of bones with the coral crown,
Drown, drown
Save your breath, for tonight you’re going to drown!
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Hetairos / Test 11 May
« on: May 12, 2024, 01:21:04 AM »
Had a short test today, of the The World Above scenario. We didn't get that far before my unfortunate test partner had his character eaten by a gryphon, but it was an interesting test all the same. I think I may need to make the chaos in the scenario somewhat greater, a double one (which is what triggers caverns collapsing) isn't a high roll, but that said it's a game where tunnelling is hard so a full tunnel collapse is a big deal. Maybe I need a lesser but more frequent option as well as the current "full collapse".
Also not really sure what to do about the typical-for-the-game scenario where someone at the end of their move just walks into a monster lair or lava flow and gets disembowelled or deep-fried respectively on the spot. In some ways that sort of randomness is a bit of a joy of the game, but if it happens early and nobody can help the player character it can be a bit rough. I think maybe just better and clearer rules for player death might be worth having. Also it's partly that I often play this game with two players rather than the four or five I originally wrote it for, which means in "normal" circumstances another PC is more likely to be in reach to help a player. Maybe I should balance for four characters more heavily and make it such that in two player games the players get a hoplite companion or similar?
Also not really sure what to do about the typical-for-the-game scenario where someone at the end of their move just walks into a monster lair or lava flow and gets disembowelled or deep-fried respectively on the spot. In some ways that sort of randomness is a bit of a joy of the game, but if it happens early and nobody can help the player character it can be a bit rough. I think maybe just better and clearer rules for player death might be worth having. Also it's partly that I often play this game with two players rather than the four or five I originally wrote it for, which means in "normal" circumstances another PC is more likely to be in reach to help a player. Maybe I should balance for four characters more heavily and make it such that in two player games the players get a hoplite companion or similar?
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General Gaming - The Arcade / Re: What digital games are you playing?
« on: May 11, 2024, 12:38:42 PM »
I've been starting makign some runs at Hades II: I think I'm about twenty runs into the game now, so I've got as far as the third boss going down and the first going up (which I promise makes sense in-game). In terms of an initial review, it's pretty much exactly the game you'd expect from "Hades II", at least if one has played Hades and has the expectations from that. HII I think expects you to have played Hades and has a slightly higher overall difficulty, a bigger world and more complexity, but I've not found it too overwhelming. If you liked Hades for style, plot, characterisation, etc then you'll probably like Hades II. Will write up more on it when I've got further through I expect.
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General Chatter - The Boozer / May pub - 30th or 31st?
« on: May 11, 2024, 11:51:57 AM »
Any preferences? We're due a Thursday which would make the 30th the right option I think, but I'd be willing to switch to the 31st if people would prefer.