Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 9:36 pm

angelfromanotherpin wrote:The store just got in a new game called Choson. The blurb on the back can be abbreviated as 'there was just a change of dynasty, and now these guys called "Watchers" are showing up.' What I want to know is, why the hell would someone make that the game blurb? It communicates nothing about what the game or gameplay is going to be about or like.

Sounds like a Buffy ripoff.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:14 pm

or highlander.
or the marvel guys.
or some voyeurs.

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:53 pm

Or Fringe
Or marvel universe

I suspect it is a fringe inspired idea but hopefully there's more to it than that blurb.

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:39 am

More the use of "Chosen" and "Watchers".

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:24 am

So I want to make a Cave Johnson's Flaming Lemonade, but presumably for safety reasons involving "drunk people with flammable liquids", the local bottleshop doesn't stock everclear - indeed, the only flammable alcohol they have is a $100 bourbon.

What do people here suggest for cheap, flammable grain alcohol? It doesn't need to be good, seeing as the point is to burn it all off.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 5:29 am

Bacardi 151 is made purely to set on fire.

Neeeek · Post by **Neeeek** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 2:28 pm

Prak wrote:Bacardi 151 is made purely to set on fire.

False. If you want to get really drunk while curling under blankets, a shot or so of 151 in heavily sugared mint tea is fucking amazing.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:01 pm

I don't like Bacardi 101. It makes things that are terrible idea seem like good ideas. Like when my friend dared me to drink the ranch dressing left over from out cheesy bacon fries. The customary late-night barfs all tasted like ranch dressing. Every puke like 4 times and every time it tasted like cool ranch? Yeah, not a fun night.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:08 pm

Not for you, but probably for everybody else a good laugh ^^

Alcohol:"Go on, i know you can dance!"

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:22 pm

I do the drunk dancing thing. My friends told me I was gay. I told them I didn't feel gay dancing with their wives and girlfriends...

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 9:25 pm

Bacardi 101 is the worst class.
Bacardi 151 is a good sipping drink and has powered more than one drunk review.

-Username17

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 2:13 am

So, been considering b&w photographs to replace certain amounts of art for a game project. Probably will end up being people in vaguely period military clothing in the woods or decrepit buildings in vaguely action-y poses, most likely. Or just the odd snap shot, with some tweaks maybe.

Any idea how much this sort of thing might cost per photo?

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 2:56 am

There is basically no ceiling to what you can spend on photography. Ideally you should find an art student friend (or friend-of-a-friend) who will have decent gear and skillz and who will work for high-fives and pizza. Hiring an actual pro will cost at least hundreds of dollars.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 3:18 am

So, there are many bottle shops in this low-density suburban town. Worth noting. Probably says something about how shit the place is: you need to be drunk here.

Anyway, not a one of them stocks Everclear or any kind of Bacardi stronger than Oakheart. Either to stop drunks from playing with fire (you can't stop drunks from playing with fire. Fire was first discovered by drunk people [Citation needed]), or as part of a government regulation against alcohol of a certain strength (in a failed attempt to reign in alcoholism/binge drinking).

So my options are looking to be:
$100 Bourbon (ha, fuck no)
$50+ Absinthe (pricey even by alcohol standards*, and the flavour would completely overtake the whole thing)
Cooking alcohol? Pretty sure that's innately flammable. Would it all burn off, or would it end up spoiling the taste/making it toxic?
Witchcraft
The lady in the café suggests Sambuca, but a few drinks used to be flammable until they lowered the potency, so I might have to check on google when I get home

*We have a high tax on alcohol to dissuade alcoholism. Not sure how successful it is. Honestly, a better way to reduce alcoholism would be to make this a less shit country. New federal elections could do that.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 3:33 am

Sambuca also tastes like liccorice, so I dunno if that if something you like.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 3:35 am

Cooking alcohol? Pretty sure that's innately flammable. Would it all burn off, or would it end up spoiling the taste/making it toxic?

I'm not sure what you think this is. Possibly you meant cleaning alcohol, the king that comes in the little plastic bottles and smells terrible - that's because they put a denaturant in there to convince people not to drink it. It's technically no more toxic than anything else 100 proof, but it tastes like shit.

If you have the patience, you could always homebrew.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:05 am

yeah, home brewing is what i'd suggest at this point. Or trying to concentrate alcohol in something lower proof through a handful of methods that are just slightly better than the placebo effect.

I believe* you can concentrate the alcohol in, say, vodka, but putting it in the freezer and separating the stuff that does freeze from the stuff that doesn't, given that alcohol "doesn't freeze"**

*Disclaimer- I'm not googling shit right now.
**I'm sure it does, just not in anything you'd have lying around in a kitchen.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:49 am

Take a look in the Schnapps section of your local liquor store. A lot of those are around 100 proof and pretty flammable. They are generally around mid-range in price, and they may do odd things to the flavoring, but they may be an easier option than concentrating vodka at home.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:10 am

And going through the backlog of this thread which built up while I was offline:

fectin wrote:Try this post, down at "Yomi Layers".
http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/7-spies-of-the-mind

edit: now with link!

Well, if you want to quote Sirlin on weighted RPS, he has better more recent links:

http://sirlingames.squarespace.com/arti ... games.html

http://www.sirlin.net/articles/solvability

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:13 am

Prak wrote:yeah, home brewing is what i'd suggest at this point. Or trying to concentrate alcohol in something lower proof through a handful of methods that are just slightly better than the placebo effect.

I believe* you can concentrate the alcohol in, say, vodka, but putting it in the freezer and separating the stuff that does freeze from the stuff that doesn't, given that alcohol "doesn't freeze"**

*Disclaimer- I'm not googling shit right now.
**I'm sure it does, just not in anything you'd have lying around in a kitchen.

I know if you do that to Cider, you get Applejack, which is a type of booze that the hillbillies stopped drinking because it made too many go blind. It seems that frost distillation also concentrated the formaldehyde in stuff while heat distillation causes it to evaporate. I am not sure what the formaldehyde content in regular booze is...

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:29 am

Pfft, people are always saying things make you blind, but we never listen.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:03 pm

Home brewing is great.
Home distillation is actually kind of dangerous, and will give you a foul-tasting result. Also, it's illegal in many places (no idea if Australia is one of those places), and the equipment to do it is expensive.

Can't you just order off the interwub? https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/D ... -rum-750ml

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:16 pm

Australia seems like the kind of place that wouldn't make home distilling illegal because it's run by the kind of people whose pappies did it.

...then again, my actual grandfather home brewed/distilled, and I would like to home brew and distill absinthe, so maybe I shouldn't be too quick to characterize home distillers as hicks...

But, yeah, I don't know how much formaldehyde is in booze, but there's methane and such, so you have to be careful if you're going to try.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:20 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol

and legality:
http://homedistiller.org/intro/legal
(no, it is not legal)

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:24 pm

Right, that.

Of course the benefit of freezer distilling is that so long as cops aren't in the habit of coming in to open your freezer it's hard to catch...