Posts made by Arkandel

@Admiral I always keep at least my character descriptions around. I recycle the shit out of those.

Double post but I had a general question for the class.

After watching yet another amazing trailer by World of Wacraft I keep wondering why they don't make full feature versions of these things.

Like... live action costs so much. Green screens, stunts, costume designers, high profile actors and then the special effects on top of it. Why not do something like the Safe Haven cinematic instead?

Maybe it's because of how much longer it'd take but surely once they have the models down it'd be greatly expedited. And then you can do whatever the hell you want with them - the 'actors' would never grow old (unless you wanted them to) and you just need the right voice talent for them which is far, far cheaper as well.

I would watch the shit out of such a thing. Even relatively cool fantasy animation movies (Castlevania comes to mind) isn't up to these cinematics' standards.

@Seraphim73 Since we're on a Game of Thrones thread here's a general wish: May the casting directors for all these new high-end shows luck out as much as GoT's did in finding the perfect actors for each role.

Because GoT knocked it out of the fucking park.

Salesforce pushed an updated that gave everyone view all and modify all permissions, then they disabled all permissions for all profiles with the exception of system admin.

This is not good, guys. Not good.

For the life of me I can't recall if we've ever discussed this but if not it's probably worth talking about.

How do you feel about recycling characters wholesale from one MUSH into another? I don't just mean reusing a general character concept ("I liked my Grey's Anatomy-inspired Mage so I'll do it again for this next game") but more or less the same PC, perhaps with the same name, possibly even including parts of their history and on-grid development as part of their past venturing into the new game.

Obviously stats would need to be different based on XP availability, House Rules or even choices made to account for their new circumstances ("Bob was already burned out defending the Invictus so he's a Carthian now").

What are the pros and cons of that approach? How would you - as potential staff, or faction-mates - welcome (or not) such PCs?

Does it make it easier or harder if there are multiple characters using that approach (say, a pack coming in together)?

@Lisse24 said in Game of Thrones:

I'm really, really doubtful that the LoTR project is going to do well, but then, that's just because I'm a bit over LoTR.

BURN THE HERETIC

... Also a Warhammer property might be fun, come to think of it.

@faraday I guess the difference is based on whether you want to be persistent identities between sessions.

Does Evscaperoom need that?

@Griatch Nearly all multiplayer games, and I'm not talking about MU*, use usernames and passwords for authentication. That's a weird issue for that one person to have.

@Ganymede The way I see it is this: Unless Toronto's offense can make Brook Lopez unplayable, they are in for a rough ride.

Lopez + Giannis is a fucking problem for anyone trying to get in the paint, and then on the offensive end Lopez stretches the floor. These two have crazy synergy.

On the other hand Brook is older and not that quick on his feet. He can't chase players on the perimeter or handle switches to guards. This needs to be exploited to the point of making him a liability.

@Lotherio said in Game of Thrones:

Double ... For what its worth, I'm feeling over the abundance of comic genre and zombie genre and supernatural genre stuff on TV, if this heralds in a few more fantasy series in the end. Then I'm grateful they got in the dragon stuff and some of the magic and the general populace has taken to it in droves, could get a few more things out there I'd like to see in TV series format.

What worries me is this kind of stuff costs a lot of money and sooner or later there will be a bust. Probably sooner.

If you produce the next Vampire Diaries drama and it doesn't go well it's not a big deal because the fake fangs and colored contacts prosthetics aren't a big deal. Sink million dollars per episode into a Wheel of Time adaptation that doesn't work and suddenly the producers' narrative will shift wildly into 'oh, the public is tired of fantasy, let's go back to cop show procedurals'.

@Ganymede See, I think it's ironic in a way. The best chance Toronto has (assuming they lose the next game) is dragging the series into a 7-game grind in order to use their gritty, far more experienced players. Guys like Gasol, Green, Lowry and the rest are very seasoned.

But on the other hand they just came from a 7-game series, and it shows they are tired. Plus their bench is just not contributing, and Nurse has put so many more minutes on his stars than the Bucks have.

@Lisse24 said in Game of Thrones:

@Rinel said in Game of Thrones:

Like hell. They're bored and they want to move on. I don't judge them for that. What I judge them for is not giving the series over to people who still give a shit.

I do. Knowing when to pass a project off into other hands is an essential leadership skill. Okay, so they're bored/burned out/whatever. Then give the end of the season to someone who's as passionate about wrapping it up well as they were during the first season.

You know what though? I don't want to speak for anyone else but if they had passed it on to another group who'd treat it as the cash cow it could very, very easily be turned into and run the series into the ground... there would be complaints about that, too.

There comes a point people need to make a call because you can't please everyone. The producers here made theirs, and sure enough they did not please everyone.

@Warma-Sheen said in Game of Thrones:

That's not a good defense for rushing an end, though. The producers were honest about being given several more seasons if they wanted it. They didn't. If you know you don't have the core of what made the show good in the first place, why rush through to an end if you really care? And didn't they skip a whole year before the final season?

Sure, but that doesn't impact how a different series ran by D&D will turn out. They were spectacular for the first, say, six seasons and parts of season 7 were still pretty brilliant. Even this season they are showing flashes of brilliance (IMHO, of course) in terms of dialogue and, of course, the production values they've instilled - you can spend a ton of money and not get anywhere near the level of the episodes' amazing photography and extraordinary soundtrack, for example.

I also wish they had ran it for at least one more season. But if they give me years of superb Star Wars and then they don't deliver at that same level near the end... so be it. I can more than live with it, I can look forward to it.

@Testament Yeah, if Middleton and all were missing so many open shots and Lowry had one of his rare 30-point games and they still lost, it doesn't look great.

I think wear and tear is a big deal here, too. Rust is a thing, and it definitely showed, but so is rest. The Raptors won't get any less tired and by the 4th quarter you could see what it's like to come off a 7 game series.

@Lotherio Let's not be too judgy guys. I can see how producers might be burned out after working on the same project for eight years. They probably rushed some things to wrap up this massive beast with so many characters and plotlines, but to their defense they also always expected Martin to have written the books by now, too.

We don't know what the SW project will look like. I wouldn't be cynical about it.

@mietze Remember when Stratholme was a 15-man raid?

I remember wiping as a 15 man group there, hahah.

First of all... poor Zion. New Orleans is such a shithole, especially for basketball. They had a generational talent like AD for all those years and they barely bothered to go watch him play.

But also this all reminds me why teams like the Lakers matter so much and it has nothing to do with recent or current success. With a specific few franchises - the Lakers ebing easily front-runners among them - the narrative can change fast no matter their issues, simply because people give a shit about them.

Let me put it this way. If the Nuggets had the Lakers' problems right now no one would care. They wouldn't be in any news circles, they'd barely have any bloggers chronicling their woes... they'd be irrelevant. On the flip side if it was LA instead of Portland in the WCF it would be all over the news, it'd be all we see, their players would be getting interviewed all the time.

That's why they are such an appealing team. People care, simple as that. Lakers can build legacies - and they know it.

@Insomnia And buffing every person individually. And carrying mats for it. Oooh, and rogue poisons.

@Autumn said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

and in all honesty I wish more games would adopt it, but it's an attitude that benefits from a very, very clear explication of what staff wants and doesn't want.

I've no horses whatsoever in this race but it sounds like staff was pretty clear about what they wanted. It's just the player in question didn't like the answer.

@bored said in WoW Classic:

@TiredEwok Tbh I'm not sure that expectation will hold up for a lot of the early content? The difficultly of a lot of old wow content was in learning basic techniques and coordination. No one knew anything and it was tons of guesswork and fiddling around in an era before good wikis.

Pretty much. I remember people putting up crazy theorycrafting about shaman tanks, warriors tanking in DPS gear, you name it.

But even if it's nostalgia driving people as long as they have fun, who cares?