36 minutes ago, Yaccarus said:

The first maritime printing facility is very cost effective because regulations and taxes are lessened on international waters, but these facilities only move at 2 miles per hour.

Shippiing time is less

5 hours ago, Yaccarus said:

The first maritime printing facility is very cost effective because regulations and taxes are lessened on international waters, but these facilities only move at 2 miles per hour.

And you avoid Chinese authority deciding to burn your books.

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15 hours ago, Absol197 said:

Why would they do that when they've got a perfectly good status they can use to be more precise?

Because they aren't interested in using the Upcoming Page to provide precise information.

1 hour ago, Dr Lucky said:

Because they aren't interested in using the Upcoming Page to provide precise information.

Well, I mean... yeah, if you wanna be LOGICAL about it 😛 !

23 hours ago, Yaccarus said:

The first maritime printing facility is very cost effective because regulations and taxes are lessened on international waters, but these facilities only move at 2 miles per hour.

Nautical miles or just regular illogical non-metric miles?

It's a difference of 0.5 kilometers per hour.

3 minutes ago, penpenpen said:

Nautical miles or just regular illogical non-metric miles?

It's a difference of 0.5 kilometers per hour.

The only drawback that I have ever had when using Imperial measurement are the snobby Europeans who complain about it.

21 minutes ago, Yaccarus said:

The only drawback that I have ever had when using Imperial measurement are the snobby Europeans who complain about it.

Hah! That only proves you've never measured anything sufficiently sophisticated , like the laughter of children, the smell after rain or the longing after a loved one who has taken a short but unexpected trip to a country with an unfavorable exchange rate while you are left at home to tend the water lillies in the pond, despite them reminding you of your mother.

I'm sorry if the last example seems a bit convoluted. It's a failing of the english language, I'm afraid. In swedish we just use the word "näckrosdammskötselsväxelkursälsklingsresesaknadslängtan" . I can't recall the french word for it, but I'm pretty sure there's at least three in german to also define your feelings about every person being fundamentally isolated by the fact that they alone can experience their own feelings first hand.

Naturally, such things can only be measured in metric.

15 minutes ago, penpenpen said:

Hah! That only proves you've never measured anything sufficiently sophisticated , like the laughter of children, the smell after rain or the longing after a loved one who has taken a short but unexpected trip to a country with an unfavorable exchange rate while you are left at home to tend the water lillies in the pond, despite them reminding you of your mother.

I'm sorry if the last example seems a bit convoluted. It's a failing of the english language, I'm afraid. In swedish we just use the word "näckrosdammskötselsväxelkursälsklingsresesaknadslängtan" . I can't recall the french word for it, but I'm pretty sure there's at least three in german to also define your feelings about every person being fundamentally isolated by the fact that they alone can experience their own feelings first hand.

Naturally, such things can only be measured in metric.

Oh yeah, you’ve got units to measure feelings? Well we have the Schmidt Pain Index! Do you have a metric unit for measuring pain of an insect sting? And also the Waffle House Index , which is also of US origin. Again, do you folks have a metric unit for measuring how bad a disaster is?

But if you’re so insistent on metric then tell you what: I think RotS will be out in about 8 megaseconds.

32 minutes ago, Yaccarus said:

But if you’re so insistent on metric then tell you what: I think RotS will be out in about 8 megaseconds.

Please no, that's too long!

I mean, we've had worse. Not by much, but still! Please no!

EDIT: … I also am unfortunately an Imperial-system goober…

41 minutes ago, Absol197 said:

Please no, that's too long!

I mean, we've had worse. Not by much, but still! Please no!

EDIT: … I also am unfortunately an Imperial-system goober…

Honestly, 8 megaseconds would be pretty sweet, because that's like 12 days, which would leave me juuuust enough time to reorganize my character before next session... We just ended season 1, and we've got an in-game downtime of several months before next session, and my character just went openly jedi, so it'd be sweet to have the career

Now, if we were talking *gigaseconds*...

5 minutes ago, TheJack said:

Honestly, 8 megaseconds would be pretty sweet, because that's like 12 days, which would leave me juuuust enough time to reorganize my character before next session... We just ended season 1, and we've got an in-game downtime of several months before next session, and my character just went openly jedi, so it'd be sweet to have the career

Now, if we were talking *gigaseconds*...

No, a single megasecond is just over 11.5 days. 8 megaseconds is over 3 months.

10 hours ago, Absol197 said:

No, a single megasecond is just over 11.5 days. 8 megaseconds is over 3 months.

Woops, that'll teach me to comment without doublechecking. You are correct, I forgot to multiply by 8

17 hours ago, Yaccarus said:

Oh yeah, you’ve got units to measure feelings? Well we have the Schmidt Pain Index! Do you have a metric unit for measuring pain of an insect sting? And also the Waffle House Index , which is also of US origin. Again, do you folks have a metric unit for measuring how bad a disaster is?

Ah, but that is the folly itself! Physical pain! Waffles! Disasters! All these things are fleeting, ever mutable and therefore immeasurable due to being ultimately irrelevant. Only the true pain of the soul is eternal, and thus real. But I struggle to communicate this in a language devoid of umlauts and suffering from an underuse of compound words. But do not blame yourself for that! It is our fault! When you started drifting away, we should have not let you, rather clasping you to the continental bosom so that you would not sever the umbilical cord that connected you to the placenta of culture. Like a mother who is overcome with sudden emotion while doing yardwork on a clear tuesday in the spring, because the thought of her children who have now outgrown her and switched their major fram dentistry to anthropology ( "modersklartisdagsträdgårdsvuxenbarnsstudievalskänslor" , naturally), we too look at you with a mix of pride for going your own way, and trepidation for following that way off the side of a cliff. Life is pain. Love is pain. And sometimes love is letting go, even if that lets love willingly fall from the cliff of imperial measurements on to the jagged rocks of broken emotions below. We love. We cry. We live. We suffer.

But if you must know, the measure of the pain of an insect sting generally falls between four and seven centimeters, depending on species.

17 hours ago, Yaccarus said:

But if you’re so insistent on metric then tell you what: I think RotS will be out in about 8 megaseconds.

As if time had meaning, As if time was real. Only pain is real. Only emotion is pain.

...

And waiting for new Star Wars books. That too is pain. Twenty three centimeters and growing. Mutable yet somehow still real. A paradox of agony.

Half-Life 3, George RR Martin's next forest-killer, fusion reactors... They're all right around the corner and also infinitely far away at the same time. Just like FFG's next SWRPG book.

21 minutes ago, Stan Fresh said:

Half-Life 3, George RR Martin's next forest-killer, fusion reactors... They're all right around the corner and also infinitely far away at the same time. Just like FFG's next SWRPG book.

Hey, no need to get all poetic about it.

39 minutes ago, penpenpen said:

Hey, no need to get all poetic about it.

4 hours ago, penpenpen said:

Ah, but that is the folly itself! Physical pain! Waffles! Disasters! All these things are fleeting, ever mutable and therefore immeasurable due to being ultimately irrelevant. Only the true pain of the soul is eternal, and thus real. But I struggle to communicate this in a language devoid of umlauts and suffering from an underuse of compound words. But do not blame yourself for that! It is our fault! When you started drifting away, we should have not let you, rather clasping you to the continental bosom so that you would not sever the umbilical cord that connected you to the placenta of culture. Like a mother who is overcome with sudden emotion while doing yardwork on a clear tuesday in the spring, because the thought of her children who have now outgrown her and switched their major fram dentistry to anthropology ( "modersklartisdagsträdgårdsvuxenbarnsstudievalskänslor" , naturally), we too look at you with a mix of pride for going your own way, and trepidation for following that way off the side of a cliff. Life is pain. Love is pain. And sometimes love is letting go, even if that lets love willingly fall from the cliff of imperial measurements on to the jagged rocks of broken emotions below. We love. We cry. We live. We suffer.

But if you must know, the measure of the pain of an insect sting generally falls between four and seven centimeters, depending on species.

As if time had meaning, As if time was real. Only pain is real. Only emotion is pain.

...

And waiting for new Star Wars books. That too is pain. Twenty three centimeters and growing. Mutable yet somehow still real. A paradox of agony.

A bit hypocritical

53 minutes ago, penpenpen said:

Hey, no need to get all poetic about it.

9 hours ago, Yaccarus said:

A bit hypocritical

Alas, I am overcome. I should have known better than trying to slip that one by a mind as sharp as yours. Truly, this was my Waterloo, my Teutoburger Wald, my Gaugamela!

I will try to take some small comfort in having been a whetstone upon which your edge is honed. The only mercy I ask is to fall upon my sword in your presence.

...

And to the rest of the thread, if I might beg your assistance in a small technical matter. Does anyone know how to switch off the 4th light?

@Stan Fresh

Quoth the Psyber-Raven, "Eversor"

7 minutes ago, penpenpen said:

Alas, I am overcome. I should have known better than trying to slip that one by a mind as sharp as yours. Truly, this was my Waterloo, my Teutoburger Wald, my Gaugamela!

I will try to take some small comfort in having been a whetstone upon which your edge is honed. The only mercy I ask is to fall upon my sword in your presence.

...

And to the rest of the thread, if I might beg your assistance in a small technical matter. Does anyone know how to switch off the 4th light?

@Stan Fresh

Quoth the Psyber-Raven, "Eversor"

"There are four lights!"

24 minutes ago, penpenpen said:

Does anyone     know how to switch off the 4th light? 

Gaffer tape.

Got notice that my preorder would ship soon.

15 minutes ago, Khazadune said:

Got notice that my preorder would ship soon.

People... this is Khaz. He got the notice for Fully Operational when all hope seemed lost... We may be shipping soon!

I got an email too, though the order number seems to reference Allies and Adversaries ? I guess RotS did have something happen to it.

Unless I'm looking at the wrong order here.

Just now, CeilingSquid said:

I got an email too, though the order number seems to reference Allies and Adversaries ? I guess RotS did have something happen to it.

I... what? That is very confusing...