Things that make you LOL

[Kuroimaken]

A picture paints a thousand words...

Wasn't Dokuro-chan a little TOO obvious for that poster?

[AndyJames]

To be honest, I have no idea who that was. I just found the dichotomy of a little girl with a big-arse spiked bat hilarious when coupled with the words "clue" and "bat"

[Kuroimaken]

For reference: the little girl in question is from an anime called Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan (something like "Beat to Death Angel Dokuro-chan"). The anime in question mainly consists of said little girl whacking people repeatedly with that spiked bat for the most inane reasons.

[Sunic_Flames]

That's so stupid it's hilarious.

[Kuroimaken]

That's so stupid it's hilarious.

Watch Excel Saga, then.

[Sunic_Flames]

So the party in my game fights some intermediate and greater demons. They win, but not before Moonlight (unicorn cohort) dies and will need a Res, thereby losing a level. Bender (another cohort) is also behind due to crafting + house rule allowing another willing creature to pay XP crafting costs. In other words, he covered his own equipment.

Uzelli is a PC, who is down about half a level due to heavy crafting.

One of my players responds to a post I made suggesting ways they could recover from being three levels behind.

Bender, Uzelli and Moonlight can go do sidequests to get some extra xp.... titles of the action

Dorothy and Tin Man... back in Oz Again! (Bender and Uzelli gets transported to another Plane. The adventure isn't over until Uzelli levels and is forced to take Plane Shift as her new spell.)
Hottie and Horny and the Fisting Machine (threesome! Bender gets a Battlefist in the adventure)
101 Orcs (Moonlight vs. an advanced Orc horde... because she won't get XP for low level orcs)
Unhorned and Unhallowed (A powerful curse made by a Lich removes Moonlights horn and she's left without most of her powers. For reasons only low XP can explain.. only Bender can help her. Bonus is Moonlight gets a 150% share of xp for going thru the adventure without her horn. Twist? Benders negative weapon is no help against the Lich.)

[Irthos Levethix]

I'd go with Hottie, Horny and the Fisting Machine.  Sounds fun.

[Sunic_Flames]

I'd go with Hottie, Horny and the Fisting Machine.  Sounds fun.

That one made me LOL the most too.

[PhaedrusXY]

Well, either yours or his mandarin sucks, because pig is pronounced "zhu", with emphasis on the z and h, rather than ju, which incidentally, sounds nothing at all like "jew".

My wife is Chinese and has taught me a bit of Mandarin, and it certainly sounds like "Jew" when she says it.

[AndyJames]

Not really. Jew is usually pronounced "Joo" with a lower tone at the end, while pig in Mandarin is has a shorter tone with a higher tone at the end like "Ju".

[CountArioch]

Tonal phonics make my brain fucking hurt.

[PhaedrusXY]

Not really. Jew is usually pronounced "Joo" with a lower tone at the end, while pig in Mandarin is has a shorter tone with a higher tone at the end like "Ju".

I was ignoring the tonal part, because yeah, it makes my head hurt too... It's hard for people whose native language is atonal (me...) to even consciously hear them without practice. I can reproduce the words correctly, including tones, without realizing it sometimes, though. I'm pretty good at remembering music and song lyrics, and imitating them, and if I do the same thing when imitating Mandarin, it usually works to get the tones right.

[AndyJames]

Yeah. Usually when a native English speaker tries to speak Chinese, it makes me laugh or cringe because English is atonal and Chinese is tonal. It usually ends up as a flat, monotone even though his normal English would not be a monotone. You can see them in the old Chinese movies/serials.

Yeah, I know it is bad f me to laugh, but I just can't help it

[Kuroimaken]

Yeah. Usually when a native English speaker tries to speak Chinese, it makes me laugh or cringe because English is atonal and Chinese is tonal. It usually ends up as a flat, monotone even though his normal English would not be a monotone. You can see them in the old Chinese movies/serials.

Try watching an English speaker speaking Portuguese, then. Hilarious.

[Risada]

Try watching an English speaker speaking Portuguese, then. Hilarious.

Or a japanese speaking portuguese. 

[Tshern]

Or anyone speaking Finnish, including us.

[InnaBinder]

Running Tshern's sig line through a couple of different online Finnish-English translators made me both LOL and say 'you're doing it wrong!'

1st try:  Sillä guilt obedience love , it efficacy vammoistamme scoop , soon snuff pesää build.   

2nd try: With it the guilt loves an obedient one, it draws power from our injuries, soon the nest will build of them.  Something seems missing from the translation.....

[Risada]

Running Tshern's sig line through a couple of different online Finnish-English translators made me both LOL and say 'you're doing it wrong!'

1st try:  Sillä guilt obedience love , it efficacy vammoistamme scoop , soon snuff pesää build.   

2nd try: With it the guilt loves an obedient one, it draws power from our injuries, soon the nest will build of them.  Something seems missing from the translation.....

Let me try...

   
Because of guilt on the balls of love, it vammoistamme strength to scoop up, and soon they build nests

WTF?

[Prime32]

Silly sylvans aren't cooler than rakshasas. Vamoose! Amen, that plan is nice - I'm raking in the pesas.

[Kuroimaken]

Or a japanese speaking portuguese.

Risada, were you a student of Isao Ishibashi's, by chance?