Comments on: Annotated 26-20

By: TachyonCode

TachyonCode — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:18:46 +0000

The thing this page made evident to me, oddly enough, is that “you shame us all” can either be a statement of humility or a call for it, depending on whether it’s phrased in past or present tense, and whether the intonation is pejorative or deferential.

English is weird.

By: Lurklen

Lurklen — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 17:01:48 +0000

True, adventurers hate their villains getting away un-murdered.

By: someone

someone — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 15:53:09 +0000

Takes a scorpion to know a scorpion!

Also Blair was wrong: adventurers have no chivalry; they’ll do everything they can to make sure the villain of the day will not be recurring.

By: JM

JM — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 22:10:48 +0000

I always think this is a combination of excellence in your field and ego, both. It’s a delicate balance. In social engineering, it requires you to be confident and ‘act like you belong’, just like deception like this, but on the other hand, it’s quite easy to buy into the deception you’ve been selling, because that just makes the act better… however, it also compromises your ability to ACT nonchalant.

By: Weatherbeard

Weatherbeard — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 21:22:41 +0000

Only Frigg could vomit with such authority as to weaken (or beat, I don’t remember this bit) a poison that was injected rather than ingested.