Quote from: Bren;829995While I agree your first guess is wrong, so is this guess. What we have in Cryptofblood is a chatterbot designed as a senior class project by a group of avowedly Christian undergraduates at Cornell to pass a Turing test.

• Crypto as in cryptology is a clue that Cryptofbloods' name and words are not to be taken at their plain text meaning. The real meaning or nature of Cryptofblood have been concealed.

• Since cryptography is all done with computers now this is a clue to Cryptofbloods' true nature -- a machine -- not a man.

• If we assign numbers to the letters in the name, "Crypt of blood" using the usual simple encryption of A=1, B=2, etc. we get the following.

c-r-y-p-t-o-f-b-l-o-o-d
3-18-25-16-20-15-6-2-12-15-15-4

• If we, as in typical numerology, sum those numbers we get 151, which when again summed is 7 the mystical number associated with man, e.g. the seven chakras, the seven openings in a human head, etc.

• If we then decrypt 151 back to letters we get AEA, the name of the city in Colchis that was the home of Golden Fleece. Clearly cryptofblood is a clue that hides the object of a great quest, i.e. a program that can pass the Turing Test.

• If instead we look at the numerology of each word in crypt of blood we get 82-21-48 which when again summed gives us 10-3-12. This corresponds to JCL, clearly an acronym for Jesus Christ Lives. Which, like the Christ's Blood vernacular reference that Premier mentioned, clearly shows us that the Turing Test Program Cryptofblood was created by a group of Christian students.

• Also if we take the numbers by word 10-3-12 and resum them we get 25 which corresponds to the letter Y. Which is the first letter in Yahweh and in Yesus, both alternate words for god the father or god the son. Further evidence for the encryption of Christian symbology in this program.

• If instead we resum 25 that gives us lucky number 7. Undoubtably their were 7 undergraduates in the team that built Cryptofblood.

By now all the rational members on this forum have been convinced by the overwhelming weight of evidence and you crazy people can never be convinced by the facts so l don't think I need to provide additional proof - although let me assure you there is much more evidence present, we haven't even looked at a textual analysis nor a comparison to Biblical verses, still even without all that I think we can all see where this is leading....

Mind Blown!

At the end of the day the facts are that
Cook caved in to the SJWs or whatever the hell they really were.
Cook then found a darn interesting NA writer to do the replacement entry for this pathetic storm in a teacup.

It was not the right course. But it was probably the best they could do under the circumstances.

We will see where this goes from here.

Quote from: Necrozius;829990I've been looking, because I've been working on a campaign setting that includes peoples inspired by Pacific Islander cultures (but in a fantasy archipelago world). It's been difficult because a lot of the "real" language, myths and even names have been lost thanks to aggressive colonialism.

It's been awhile since I last checked, but the number of people who still fluently speak actual Haida is pretty small. (source: http://www.haidalanguage.org/).

Anyhow, if anyone has found anything good for Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Maori or any others, lemme know!

Since OHT has a very good point...

I don't know what's been written for the Strange so far as recursions other than the main three are concerned, but I believe MCGs put out a Worlds book that might have something in it.  If not, I believe the lisence that Cook attached allows for us to write and publish our own stuff for it, which I would totally do if I wasn't such a shit writer.

Dearest Cryptofblood, I hope Premier is wrong about you being a masterful metatroll, but if so kudos on your performance art. Sockpuppets are truly the second best puppets. But if Bren is correct that you're a designed chatterbot, that would be kinda cool as I will always have far more respect for random lines of code than an actual SJW.

But please keep babbling your Cultural Appropriation idiocy because Free Speech is extremely important. While I think your words are chock full of dumb, I absolutely support your right to mumble dick your way through your SJW life and elucidate us all on the truth only you can know.

Sadly, nobody seems to want to talk about the coolness on this dude Anthony's blog and this thread has crapped out.

Hail Mary ...

Quote from: Spinachcat;829883Let's talk more about the Cannibal Bird!!!

Anyone have a favorite post by this author?

I've skimmed through the blog, dipping my toe here and there. It's not a huge blog with only six posts, but most of them are very meaty and show an amazing creativity. I'd love to see more, but each of those posts must take awhile to pull together.

Children of the Sea has caught my interest, with its Sea Born, which I could see using as either PCs or NPCs. Just for kicks, I rolled up some Blessings of the Sea for a hypothetical character: 3, 3:3, 6:12, 6:17. This gives me three Blessings, 1) Three cephalopod arms (I'm going to say two arms, one leg) with a +3 bonus to grappling, 2) "Your power ebbs and flows like the tide. During a full moon, you are considered 2 caster levels higher for all spells. During a new moon, you are 2 caster levels lower.", and 3) "Blood foams in air. Any attack dealing you 6 or more damage sprays a cloud of bloody mist in a 10 foot radius, obscuring sight for a round." Fuckin' A!

If I had to pick one favourite, though, it'd be We Are Eaten Forever, with its cannibal birds, its The Dance of the Cannibal Wind warrior society, its Wechuge ("Old Iron-Teeth is grandfather to wolves. The possessed shove bits of iron or other metals into their mouth and under their fingernails where they root in place as grotesque armament." Wow!), and its 16' tall Windigos.

I could see using everything here as-is in my AS&SH campaign. I could see including much of it, with modifications, in my Glorantha campaign.

I think it'd be cool if Anthony, given the fresh exposure he'll get from this MCG gig, were to pull together an entire old-school supplement full of things like this. Given the amount of work involved, I'll just leave it at "it'd be cool" and not push more than that.

Quote from: Spinachcat;829883Also, anyone used Pacific Northwest Native myths in their games?

Not yet, but I will. The material on this blog is so directly useful, which I suppose is the highest praise you can give gaming material.

Remember when gaming was about getting together and having fun?

I do.

I miss those days.

As for the Am I ever going to use anything remotely Native America (that's North, Central or South), nope.  It's a freakin' minefield, where bullies rule the playground.  Don't want any of that, thanks.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;830207Remember when gaming was about getting together and having fun?

I do.

I miss those days.

As for the Am I ever going to use anything remotely Native America (that's North, Central or South), nope.  It's a freakin' minefield, where bullies rule the playground.  Don't want any of that, thanks.

And when enough take this route then the industry will be guilty of Erasure.

Quote from: Nexus;830221And when enough take this route then the industry will be guilty of Erasure.

In the end, it will be damned if you do and damned if you don't ...

But as OHT had pointed out, the author spoken of in the OP has posted in the thread, so I have some questions for him if he don't mind it and is at liberty to speak of it.

Can he introduced himself ? (I assume that Anthony is a him)

How MCG had contacted him ?

Has he any thought to share on this controversy ?

Could he speak about his plans for the Thunder Plains ?

Quote from: Nexus;830221And when enough take this route then the industry will be guilty of Erasure.

From what I gather, an author can get a pass if they have proof that they put in effort to do research interviews with real people and if they are ready and willing to apologize profusely if they got anything wrong. Overall, I guess that it's a very good thing to keep cool in the face of very angry criticism and ad hominem attacks.

I wish I had a place for Pacific Northwest stuff now. Sadly it doesn't fit too well with 1624 France.

Maybe when we go back to Call of Cthulhu.

Quote from: Nexus;830221And when enough take this route then the industry will be guilty of Erasure.

When we have no other viable options but to give in to the demands. Erasure is the only option left. If you keep presenting your faction as unreasoning fanatics then eventually its going to become practice to exclude that faction because its too much trouble.

Which drives me totally up the wall.

Semi-recent example was a TV series that was announced one of the characters was going to be hearing impaired. SJWs bitched incessantly that it wasnt a real handicapped person playing the role and the network finally just made the character normal. So instead of having a presence on screen. They bitched us out of existence. Gee. Thanks alot.

This happens fairly often.

Quote from: Omega;830269SJWs bitched incessantly that it wasnt a real handicapped person playing the role

I'd like to call them morons, but that might insult morons.

Finding something inspirational for GMs that's concretely useful seems so rare to me, like kicking a gold nugget in the dust. Anthony's blog is a big enough gold nugget that it'll break your toe.  Very, very cool.

And as it was pointed out elsewhere, this clearly is a limited resource, so I'm just going to have to collapse the mine on the rest of you so that you can't take it from me.

Quote from: Bren;830239I wish I had a place for Pacific Northwest stuff now. Sadly it doesn't fit too well with 1624 France.

Maybe when we go back to Call of Cthulhu.

My thoughts exactly. I've read through his blog and I really love Anthony's ideas on some rule options which I can reskin to my OD&D needs, but the mythic bits from the PNW will definitely be ported over to CoC where the juxtaposition with modern day would be great fun.

Too bad the Pacific Northwest Natives won't have any culture left after Bren and I use it all up running our CoC games....the rest of you must now mourn yet another culture up in smoke.

Quote from: Omega;830269When we have no other viable options but to give in to the demands. Erasure is the only option left.

Exactly,  its a game that can't won.