That reminds me that with all the changes to the rules, TSR never looked at the characteristics. You'd think with examples like Dexter IRL they'd eventually add Luck as part of character creation. Of course, Dexter had a shipload of D20s with 20 printed on every facet.
@@timothyneiswander3151 Its all about marketing ... "prime 'gator spotting location" for the adventurous sound much better than reptile and insect infested hellhole
It's because Sam O'Nella covered Dexter that this channel does too. TIFO has a tendency to release videos on subject covered by other creators, sometimes with more in-depth analysis of the sources behind the stories.
That would absolutely require a sort of Victor Borge (1909 - 2000) "phonetic punctuation" treatment of the cache of punctuation symbols provided as an addendum to Dexter’s book.
At a convention I work, there's an event where people try to read "The Eye of Argon" aloud without making mistakes or laughing. The Eye of Argon is bad. Really bad. Horribly bad. A Pickle for the Knowing Ones makes it look like fine literature. I need to make a reading of this a convention event now. Or at least an online convention-style event.
@@furlizard Well, it doesn’t fit. The story doesn’t sound like him having some typical short episodes of mania. It’s a misconception that people suffering from untreated bipolar disorder have constantly impaired cognition. That is only the case in intensive manic episodes which usually last shorter and maybe if a very bad depressive episode hits it’s worst part. Sounds like this guy’s whole life was an episode of weirdness.
I read a more in depth bio of Lord Dexter, and it said that he got his loony ideas from businessmen who resented this young upstart and set out to ruin him. It backfired spectacularly. The coal strike in Newcastle was perfectly timed. They could never guess that bed warmers would be the perfect thing for making rum. Lady Karma was having a field day with them, and they kept going back for more.
It has to do with the use of lead enamel paint. Unlike the easy to dissolve and peel latex paints that have been common for most of our lives, the lead paint that they had back then could not be easily dissolved once cured, at least with the solvents they had available to them at the time. Once cured, the easiest way to remove the paint would be to blister it with heat which makes chipping and scraping easier. Using solvents could work, but it would be a tediously long and labour intensive process, even by the standards of the time. Using heat to remove paint is still a viable practice today, though a much safer and easier to control heat gun is used.
I can't imagine the surprise of the crew heading for Siberia when they ran into Dexter hawking mittens in the carribean. Its like when the video game knows that you've forgotten to pick up a useful item before a boss fight so it places an extremely odd looking and attention grabbing NPC at the last save point before the fight and the items are so out of place you can't imagine he's there by accident.
I had a boss like him once. He was wealthy, incompetent and thought he was brilliant. However, his wealth came from the fact he was incredibly lucky. He took the craziest risks and time and again they paid off. He'd do things that were outright illegal. We would warn him that he was going to put the entire company out of business and get himself arrested and it just didn't happen - he'd get away with it.
Did you mean that you were apprehensive that the way Simon usually treats vowels had begun to have a more universal effect, loosening the tight rein that he normally keeps on his disdainful attitude toward the language?
I hope somebody makes a movie or series about his life. This dude is an absolute legend. He has to be the luckiest person to have ever walked the face of Earth
That "bad spelling" is a pretty interesting look at how people from that era may have pronounced and conceptualized certain words and phrases. The fact that he spells children as "shildren" makes me wonder if some people would always pronounce "ch" in the way one would when pronouncing a word like "champagne".
Actually on one of this guy's channels he did a video of how far back in time we could go and still understand the English language. It touched on this
It was actually pretty genius. The book criticized the Catholic Church and priests at the time, and by making the book seem like an illiterate fever dream and purposefully misspelling the word 'priests', he was able to get away with it without oppression by the church
@@LorchVHS He liked the french. French words, Chivalry, Champagne, etc... have the Ch sound as sh. Lord Dexter here probably just wanted to sound very french, and therefore made every Ch sound in the french style.
Let it be known a 2nd grade drop out in the 1700s was more successful then most people who currently hold a college degree call it luck call it Gods blessing this statement remains true
@@SMPKarma Never understood the point of that term I feel like its communist cope for being essentially irrelevant nowadays. All most "communists" do is attach themselves to larger more relevant social justice movements that have nothing in common with them aside from being socially progressive. Nah if you ask me were more like at the tail end of mid stage capitalism. You don't want to see actual late stage capitalism.
I got distracted when you started to talk about the book. Legitimately thought they filmed you having a stroke. Absolutely brilliant piece of American literature don’t know how we were never taught it in school or college.
Rarely do I actually laugh out loud at a video. I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my chair as Simon read an excerpt from the book. Thank you for making my day! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 😂😂😂😂
This man MUST be the cause of 2020, using up all the luck in the universe. There is just nothing left, we were just getting by after his death, and now we´ve run dry.
Lord Timothy Dexter was born in Malden Ma, (where i live and grew up), there's a nursing home here called "The Dexter house and one of the streets is called "Dexter St" (lots of old Victorians worth big bucks) he died in Newbeuryport Ma and i drive by his house to get to my Doctor's office (again the house is in a very exclusive part of town, lots of old homes from the 1700's worth big bucks) the guy might have been crazy but he sure knew the value of real estate
Great Video, still a local legend in Newburyport MA, and his house still stands today! No fire completely burned it down (though a big one did some damage in the 80s I believe).
Simon! You simply MUST do a video of the entire 44 page book. I guarantee it will become a cult classic played at institutions of higher learning and countless parties in Colorado, California, Washington State, and wherever recreational self-medications are available. I TRIPPLE DOG DARE you! (Which, as you must surely know, is such a dare never to be ignored, disregarded, or wussed out of.)
