@greenflashlight said in Returning to MU*ing, looking for recommendations:
@pyrephox Huh. I figured it's because whatever pisses a person off about this or that WoD game won't be solved by making a new one, since whoever did the thing on the other game would come over to yours.
I feel you described the motivation for 80% of all WoD MU* as well as the outcome. 
It makes me unreasonably content to have the means to exercise again in my garage.
It's not about being strong; I don't play sports during the pandemic. It's not about looking good; I barely go out during the pandemic. It's not even about being healthy, or not entirely.
I've realized I need the incentive to look after myself properly though and without goals and structure I cannot do this. Or, rather, I haven't; in the last year and a half I've taken terrible care of myself. I ate badly, dressed the bare minimum needed to sit in front of a web camera for meetings every morning, and I didn't have a reason to care.
For whatever reason having some iron to lift up and put down again works for me. It gives me a reason to look after the rest of my life. And it makes me feel good about it in ways I didn't realize I was missing until they came back.
@wizz Sorry to derail the thread a bit but am I completely wrong in thinking WoD used to not work well for Ares due to its internal combat system limitations?
Has this been addressed or are folks using workarounds?
@moth said in Random funny:
It's even better with John Cena's theme music.
He has his own theme?
(Screw you, Gany!)
@sunny said in Random funny:
@arkandel said in Random funny:
@ortallus said in Random funny:
( the John Cena post )
... I don't get it.
John Cena likes to put his hand up in front of his face like the LARP gesture for obfuscate, coupling it with, "You can't see me."
The joke is he's invisible in the picture.
TIL! Thanks.
My dogs are already experiencing separation anxiety even when I go out to grocery shop. A year ago they were human-less for 8 hours in a row most days in the week and it didn't seem like a big deal.
I suspect my slippers will pay the price for this eventually.
@sunny said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Heading into the office in person for the first time since COVID stuff began, today. Whooo anxiety.
I think as a society our collective returns to the office will be a bag full of mixed feelings.
I won't lie, I'm not looking forward to the commute. What a waste of time.
It was. My only gripe is that the special effects for their powers and the fight choreography is not on par for contemporary superhero shows. But it was otherwise really good. Even the aging make-up effects weren't (too) jarring.
I didn't think they cared at all about the choreography. Like, very little attention was paid to it -- there was generic punching, smashing people through walls, flying into targets etc... but the action itself even for the big moment scenes was reserved. Possibly budget-related?
The strength of the show though is in the mystery of who these people are, where they came from and how they came to be who they are. To be honest the second generation anti-heroes were rather unsympathetic though; I didn't find myself invested enough in their fates.
Jupiter's Legacy was very good! I binge watched the crap out of it.
@silverfox said in Good TV:
I'm watching Taskmaster and damn is it funny.
You must mean the British TV show? For a second I thought this was something to do with the Marvel MCU and was like "Wait wtf?!"
I lowkey love that villain.
I live in a bubble during Covid-19. My work circumstances haven't been negatively affected (in fact they've been improved in some ways) during the pandemic, yet at the same time I became much more cut off from others who do not share that good fortune. I no longer hang out with offline-only friends or chat with strangers nearly as often, so it's hard sometimes to appreciate the damage that has been done.
And there's been damage. People have lost their jobs and their networks - former coworkers, bosses - have scattered; businesses they could have counted on to find another job after the lockdowns are over are no longer there. Folks are facing grim futures with evictions looming over their heads, mortgages that will need to be picked up again and professional growth that has stalled.
The uncertainty of what the post-Covid19 world looks like (if there's such a thing, assuming some kind of herd immunity and no dangerous new variants) probably means entire lines of work are in jeopardy. It's chilling to think about. This could have been me; who'd have known the travel, dining or entertainment industry would be - could be - in such dire straits all of a sudden?
@runescryer said in Good TV:
@coin The Alex Ross portrait of Barak Obama as Superman was so iconic, DC created a Black Superman in 2009; Kalel, aka Calvin Ellis, Superman of Earth 23. Also, President of the United States.
Wtf, they broke the alliterative naming convention? Why not Calvin Collins or something? 
I swear I never click on random web page ads. I just don't.
But the other day there was a sale for Marvel Unlimited. It was like $50 for a year with a free week before I had to pay, so even though I hadn't read comics in ages I was bored enough to try it. Reading comics on my phone? That didn't seem like fun.
... I've been consuming entire series of New Avengers and Avengers. Damn best money I've spent in a while and it hasn't even been ten days yet. The Incursion series was so damn good! And there's a whole shitload of content there left.
The best part is the app itself. Instead of just lazily displaying one page at a time (and good luck reading that on a small screen) the interface is actually amazing - it auto-focuses on different parts each time I flip forward, making it really good to read. It'd probably be much better on a tablet but mine is ancient and slow as hell.
@coin That AND THE GLASSES THING which I'll never get over. I'm getting help.
@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Ugh. It's gonna be a long year.
Spend that time building up your Little Black Book, to enact terrible vengeance later when you're a big time lawyer!
@greenflashlight said in Good TV:
I often wonder if racists ever know what they're implying when they argue that the most moral man on Earth can't be black.
I can't say, but Superman falls within the Starfire clause; he's a freakin' alien. Humans on his earth should be happy he doesn't have tentacles for fingers and bug eyes, let alone the pigmentation of his skin.
