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Subtle humor is subtle.
Whether or not it was super-effective depends on if you were leaning more towards "subtle" or "humor".
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@Arkandel
I would recommend Young Justice but I'm also apparently a horrible judge of shows (see @Coin , I love you too). It's different from what you'd expect out of a Teen Titans-esque concept. I enjoyed it for what it was -- a separate, new take on the teen sidekicks of superheroes. It establishes them as their own thing, a reason for the JL to not be involved heavily, and does change some source material -- but it's good. It's worth watching to see if it clicks for you.@Coin
I assume you weren't... whelmed... by Young Justice? flee!On Castlevania, I agree that it feels like a big prologue... which is kinda what it is. It's adapted the first like, quarter of the Castlevania 3 video game and embellished it a lot. It's not a finished product at all. It needs a full 13 to really flow, I think. It did a good introduction and setup (and it uses Symphony of the Night as the backstory for Dracula there, which I like). Still, it was pretty good, and a second cour is already greenlit.
@Thenomain
It got to the point pretty quickly. Humans piss of Dracula. Dracula wrecks their shit. Cue Belmont (now, once you get to Cue Belmont, things get slow...) -
@Bobotron The animation quality was pretty damn good, so I can see them wanting to give it a trial run of sorts before pouring in the cash for a longer season. Animation isn't cheap. Nothing is, ultimately, but animation of any quality is on the expensive side by default.
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality
Yup. Season 2 is greenlit. So we'll see. It didn't take them long to get the 4 episodes done (like 8 months from announcement to done), so I have hope. -
@Arkandel
I would recommend Young Justice but I'm also apparently a horrible judge of shows (see @Coin , I love you too). It's different from what you'd expect out of a Teen Titans-esque concept. I enjoyed it for what it was -- a separate, new take on the teen sidekicks of superheroes. It establishes them as their own thing, a reason for the JL to not be involved heavily, and does change some source material -- but it's good. It's worth watching to see if it clicks for you.@Coin
I assume you weren't... whelmed... by Young Justice? flee!I said Young Justice was absolutely the shit. Young Justice is awesome.
But then, it's Greg Weisman, who is awesome.
On Castlevania, I agree that it feels like a big prologue... which is kinda what it is. It's adapted the first like, quarter of the Castlevania 3 video game and embellished it a lot. It's not a finished product at all. It needs a full 13 to really flow, I think. It did a good introduction and setup (and it uses Symphony of the Night as the backstory for Dracula there, which I like). Still, it was pretty good, and a second cour is already greenlit.
Yeah. But I'm annoyed by this thing they do where they produce an unfinished first bit to test the waters and thennnnnn come around to the rest. Like, take a fucking chance on your own product. Have some damn pride.
@Thenomain
It got to the point pretty quickly. Humans piss of Dracula. Dracula wrecks their shit. Cue Belmont (now, once you get to Cue Belmont, things get slow...)Wrapping up the Castlevania stuff: it's a video game. Like, I watched it, and every five minutes or so, I would spot something that was literally just--like--if I had a joystick in my hand I'm not sure I wouldn't have started mashing buttons out of instinct. The fights are video game-y, the part where Belmont is walking around asking people about stuff is super video game-y. I mean I know it's based on video games but come on people.
I mean, I liked it, don't get me wrong. But everyone's raving way too hard. It was good.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the various installments of 'The Arya and The Hound Show'. It is one of my favorite examples of the 'best of enemies' dynamic in recent memory, and the show doesn't exactly lack for examples of that one.
And seriously, anybody who thinks PK is the only answer or best option at all times to resolve a thing should probably watch those scenes, possibly on repeat loop, maybe for a few weeks.
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality In my humble opinion most cases of PKing - and there are few of them - are driven by OOC bruised feelings.
Otherwise it really comes down to "let's go out of my way to either remove this a major driver of my character's IC growth from play, or failing that, terminate my own character". It just makes little sense; on any given show you treasure a good antagonist; if Littlefinger was eliminated in episode #3 wtf would we be watching in episode #5?
But yeah, in MU it just degrades into OOC pissing contests.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel Dunno if I agree with that. The typical argument I hear for it has nothing to do with OOC grudges, and is essentially the "drop back, nuke the site from orbit, only way to be sure," approach. This is typically because the PKer in question isn't especially interested in that avenue of character growth and considers the other character to be an interference with the story they want to be telling instead.
Not everyone considers conflict an interesting storyline, a fun challenge, a compelling obstacle to overcome, or a an opportunity for interesting character growth. (Being fair, not every conflict is any of that, though this is quite rare.)
I think that's dumb, and you think it's dumb, and probably a majority of posters here think it's dumb, but I think it's a mistake to expect that this is a universal perspective on games. On the more generous end of the spectrum, there are far too many folks with tunnel vision re: the story they want to be telling for this to be immediately evident to them; on the less generous one, you have folks who do not care about what experience anyone else is having or wants because they are so focused on their story being told entirely their way.
Oh fucking well.
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My experience with PKing is usually more setting based. Is my character an amoral type who shoots NPCs willy nilly? Is the target of the PK someone my character knows, like at all? If it's just some random being an asshole, you best believe I'll treat them like an NPC and not sweat it.
I've only really had it come up once in a Star Wars game where my character was a murderer for hire with the Sith, and some tool started getting aggro with them in a bar when they were trying to relax.
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@surreality said in Good TV:
I think that's dumb, and you think it's dumb, and probably a majority of posters here think it's dumb, but I think it's a mistake to expect that this is a universal perspective on games.
It's more than just a matter of playing styles, though. If you are trying to play a good Lancea Sanctum antagonist - an uptight, sanctimonious but perfectly thematic person, say - and I go make your life OOC unpleasant because how dare you until you stop playing her, or even more so remove her from play with my bag o'dice the first opportunity I get then I don't just disagree with how you are playing; I'm removing that character from the game.
It's one thing to avoid someone whose style isn't compatible with my own, and another thing to actively do something about it.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Stranger Things Season 2, October 27th.
Fuck yeah!
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/stranger-things-premiere-date-october-27-netflix-1202491839/
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@Arkandel In some ways we're saying the same thing -- my theoretical Lance is an unwanted antagonist for you, so she's removed because you don't want to tell that story and have no interest in it, and you in this instance would give none fucks about anything but telling your story without me interfering in it.
In others, I dunno. I haven't seen a lot of instances of 'how dare that character exist on the same grid I'm on!' outside of Shang, where people would just... well, huff and leave the square or write snarky metaposes about it.
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Every person I have ever arranged to PK has quit before the event. We didn't even get to the "see, i am serious, i will try to end you, let's negotiate instead" phase).
ETA: I lie. There was a crazed new vampire who would not listen even when confronted with many others, and so was staked, and mysteriously self ignited while staked, encased in cement and buried in mud under a pond, and then quit. But that was really out of the blue, some vampire is showing off the powers in public right now stuff.
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@Coin
Ooops. WHen you said 'the absolutely shit' I misread that as 'is absolutley shit'. My bad. So you were totally whelmed then.
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@Coin
Ooops. WHen you said 'the absolutely shit' I misread that as 'is absolutley shit'. My bad. So you were totally whelmed then.LEARN TO READ OMG.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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YOUNG JUSTICE IS THE BEST.
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@Coin
This gif is at myself:
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Young Justice and Justice League are leaving Netflix on Aug 1. Just to raise the alert, since there are so many fans of those shows (including me!) on here.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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