Beoric
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That is tremendously imprecise. So if you ask for eis in your Coke, you might get a chilled drink, or you might get an ice cream float?
Also, it's called "field hockey". Because you play it on a field.
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Also, it's called "field hockey". Because you play it on a field.
Pseudoephedrine
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The circle of life: We eat them, they eat us in turn. Much like bears, really. Coincidentally, two of my favourite game meats, even over deer.
The1True
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My buddy from Köln came back from urlaub in Namibia and I asked him how it was. He said "Great! But full of bloody Germans :\ "
Same deal with my brother who went hiking in Greenland with his buddy from Leipzig. Most deserted place on Earth and the dude kept complaining about all the other Germans on the trail
Also German metal!
...and women (my wife made me add that...) The language ist zu schwer.
The1True
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My dad ran into a black bear on his back-40 last Fall. Time to get a dog/shotgun.
Beoric
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Well, the noise might help.
The1True
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Family groups?
Because they're woefully underpowered? I had to go back and soup Old Whitey the bearbear from Irradiated Paradox way WAY up during the playtest.
Pseudoephedrine
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Black bears more or less do so in real life. In north-central Ontario they'll show up to town dumps en masse to eat the garbage. So long as food's abundant, they seem quite sociable with one another.
PrinceofNothing
High Executarch
Curtailing speech requires either moral authority or the ability to exact punishments for noncompliance. Our would be betters have long since forsaken one and are rapidly running out of the other.
Dutch and Russians are the worst things on the Ibiza random encounter table I think, arguably followed by the English. German people are always very polite and soft spoken.
For clarity's sake I should probably state I have an aunt who is South African, and I consider the way our media (Dutch) has ignored their current plight is absolutely indefensible.
You can ask for 'een cola met ijs' and because of the ratio of people ordering coke with ice cubes vs the ice cream float (I don't think it is a thing here, or anywhere). In the <1/100 times you actually mean for them to chuck a ball of ice cream into your coca cola in barbarous fashion I think the qualifier 'een cola met een bol ijs erin' should suffice, as the spherical shape again precludes the ice cubes normally used for the hydration of said carbonated beverage. Indeed, the combination is so unlikely you have developed a seperate nomenclature just to describe the occurence, like a rare astrological phenomenon or perhaps some sort of mythological creature.
Madness!
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Beoric
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Showing up at a large human-created food supply like a dump is not how these entries are presented or how I suspect they are normally used. Six black bears at a dump or six grizzlies at a river during spawning season is a planned encounter; 1-3 black bears or 1-6 brown bears is a random wilderness encounter, and IMO encountering anything more than 1 bear (other than cubs, which are generally noncombatants) should be pretty unusual.
Even where bears are found together, they aren't exactly social. It's not like they will attack as a group; if you encroach on salmon feeding grounds, I think you might get in trouble with one bear if you threaten its fishing spot, but it's not like they are going to mob you.
Unlike other animal entries, there are no stats for females or cubs, so it clearly wasn't intended for the sort of situation where a sow appears with 1-2 cubs. So the setting implied by the MM and Schedule C suggests that grizzlies are roaming the land in packs.
Beoric
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My first job was working in an ice cream parlour, I have made quite a few floats in my day. The best are with vanilla ice cream and orange pop (that's orange soda for the Americans), which taste like a creamiscle. The better the ice cream, the better the float (substituting gums for real cream changes the consistency).
Also, "ice cream" distinguishes it from "ice milk", not to mention snow cones (sometimes called "ices"), popsicles, sorbet, frozen yogurt and gelato.
PrinceofNothing
High Executarch
What edition was this? Holmes? Moldvay? I only play RC and Labyrinth Lord.
IJS, waterijs (water-ice), ijsmelk, ijsyoghurt, je moeder.
Beoric
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So no distinction between ice cream and ice milk?
The Heretic
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WTF is "ice milk"?
The Heretic
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The Woke had good intentions but they fell into the same trap the fundamentalists did. Oh wait, isn't this a banned political post? Doh!
I propose a truce. Let's join together to make fun of the Woke!
In the US, Texans take the place of the loud, belligerent, and ignorant American stereotype. Texans are the wooooooorst.
squeen
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After Los Angleans.
The Heretic
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After Los Angleans.
*ahem* Angelanos, I do believe. And that's a different sort of vapid.