I know the reviews so far aren't great, but I honestly enjoyed Inhumans (decided to give the IMAX showing of the first two episodes a go 'cause I needed to get out of the house this week). Ken Leung as Karnak is amazing and Anson Mount's facial expressions are absolutely stellar.
@Pandora said in TS - Danger zone:
@Ghost said in TS - Danger zone:
@Pandora said in TS - Danger zone:
ETA: @Ghost It's okay if sometimes you don't have anything useful to say; not-chiming-in has never in and of itself killed anyone.
Nanneh
Nanneh
Boo
BooIt's na na na na boo boo, pleb.
Everyone harps on Medusa's hair, but frankly, we have survived worse special effects in the past, and we will survive worse special effects in the future, and the consistent and constant focus on this has made it so that I don't even CARE.
Pretty much this. Plus, we all know how fucking hard it is to animate hair to begin with, so FUCKING DEAL PEOPLE.
Medusa herself is pretty damn bad-ass. I was hoping to see more of Crystal's abilities, peeeersonally. 
ETA: I mean, Pixar/Disney, the best SFX houses on the planet, have only just pulled off animating hair (see: Moana) in a way that got true praise. So cut ABC a break.
Agreed with @Tinuviel.
There's a reason I have people I trust to rp relationships with. I know (a) the RP will be good and (b) things like OOC boundaries will be trusted.
@Kanye-Qwest said in RL Anger:
@Thenomain said in RL Anger:
Companies that interview you and then fill the position internally.
Assholes, I wore heels for that.
Did they tell you when they hired? So many companies I apply for don't even offer that.
Mind you, I only have to wear ties.
Ties & Jackets > Bras & Heels. I don't know how women handle it.
By not being little bitches, mostly.
@Ganymede said in TS - Danger zone:
I'm not sure where Salty is going
on my dinner.
@Ghost
re: Kushiel games, the two I've played I played characters that weren't really into the sex for IC reasons. I got just about zero RP as a result. And on one game, Staff outright told me it was my own fault for not being TS-able. So yeah, you made the right call IMO.
I am wishing you all death through the power of the internet.
If you wish to cause the death of others, please press Number Two.
@Ganymede said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:
Vast deviations from canon are not only acceptable, but encouraged. To-wit: (1) Mr. Freeze's reincarnation under Dini and Timm; (2) the invention of Harley Quinn; (3) Gotham's Oswald Cobblepot; etc.
2 is invalid. It's a new character.
1 & 3 however, in many ways, the core of the character remained very much the same. In Gotham we were witnessing (I only saw the first two seasons, but even so) the characters in their nascent. And I very much saw Cobblepot coming together as we see him later on in comics and the like. A man trying to build an empire (an empire he has in comics). Dini & Timm's Freeze still has a lot of similar motivations and personality.
In the books I own re: comic writing (specifically for Marvel & DC) and in what I studied in school: that's what's important. It's not the canon (how many reboots and lines and all are there anyway?), it's the structure and motivations. This is why people on comic games balk when someone comes in and goes 'I really just want the name'
esp. when there are versions/types of the character that would fit it.
'I wanna be a female Spider-man.'
'so like Spiderwoman?'
'No.'
'What about Spidergwen?'
'No.'
'I just wanna be a female Spider-woman named Sue who grew up in the Bronx and she has four brothers and- <absolutely nothing remotely in common with Spider-man at all other than using the name.>'
What's even the point? Unless the game is FC-only, why not make it an OC? The whole deal with Spider-Man (if we're talking Peter) is that he is a man surrounded by loss, but constantly maintains hope in spite of it. That he is one of the best quippers. That he juggles way too much in life and usually fails, losing the person he loves because of it (if you want him to be gay in this scenario? cool! go for it). If we're talking Miles, he's a guy who inherited the mask and he's trying to balance family and school and taking on the mantle from this legend and it is more weight than a teenager should honestly deal with and it can be a really great coming of age story (tho should prob be altered cuz playing teenagers is hand-wiggle).
Aaaaaaaaanyway. This is part of the rant I stopped myself from because this isn't TS/Relationship related.
@Alamias said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:
@Auspice said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:
@Arkandel said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:
Is it okay to create couples out of characters who are canonically with other people? Can (adult) Peter Parker date Captain Marvel?
KIND OF A MANHO
Is it weird that I play someone who is supposed to be kind of a manho (Luke Cage), but I don't flirt or do much of anything in that regard because I feel weird OOCly that if I RP those elements of him I am afraid I will be labeled as just trolling for TS?
Is it doubly weird that this is coming from the guy that played Kaleb (If you know, you know) where I didn't care if that is how I might have been labeled?
This is, tho!
I think you can RP being a manho without being a manho. NPCs are great for that!
@Arkandel said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:
How do you know if it's for story and not kinks?
see the previous reference re: Nightcrawler and the tail.
sometimes it's reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally obvious.
Pro tip:
If you're on an online dating app/site, don't tell the chick that actually stuck through your 'I'm feeling suicidal' episode (out of legitimate concern) that 'women are fucking bitches who won't talk to me.'
@Coin said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:
@Auspice said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:
@Ganymede said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:
I mean, my version of Magma on ESH was a hard deviation
To be fair, also: Marvel characters outside the big core 'X-Men' group are easier to 'Year Zero' and just make up your own shit altogether.
In the X-Men: Evolution cartoon, they gender-bent Magma by making her Lance and plunking her in the Brotherhood. Similar character, slightly different powerset, but arguably (IMO I guess) that's exactly where he came from. The 'We need a buddy comedy situ for Pyro....... earth powers would work.... heeeeeeeeeeeey'
Avalanche (and his companionship with Blob and Pyro) is an actual character from the comics, not some replacement for Magma. In fact, in the comics, Pyro and Avalanche are a trio with the Blob, they were in Freedom Force together.
Like, sorry to get all comic book fact-nerdy on you, but uh.
Well, then!
Usually I have these facts together!
I can't remember all the Marvel chars. There's vastly too many.
Pro tip:
If you're on an online dating app/site, don't tell the chick that actually stuck through your 'I'm feeling suicidal' episode (out of legitimate concern) that 'women are fucking bitches who won't talk to me.'
Correct response:
Yeah, don't do that. If they actually kill themselves you could be charged with criminal solicitation or manslaughter. There are Supreme Court cases about this. Don't do it.
I didn't. I couldn't have it on my conscience even if all I did was walk away. I talked to him. For hours. I even offered to hang out with him sometime.
I began suggesting things for him to do. We began talking because he's also an aspiring screenwriter. So I was like 'Well, I'm gonna volunteer with the Austin Film Festival, maybe you should too.'
Stuff like that.
And then he went into the 'all women are fucking bitches who won't talk to me' spiel and that's when I walked. Because motherfucker I just wasted six hours of my life talking to you and you're gonna pull that?
I'd given him, btw, one of my throwaway email addresses because I was gonna help him go over some of his writing to help him decide what stuff is good for submission to publications, give feedback, etc... And yes, he's already emailed it throwing tantrums and having fits at me for being 'just like all the rest.'
I think I'd rather be a lonely, crazy cat lady than deal with people like him (or the other common type I get on dating sites: the 'you're bi so you'll be a third for our threesome fantasy right?').
I have this friend.
She's goth and hot and I adore her...
...until playoffs and then I remember she's a Penguins fan and I hate her for a while.
@Thenomain said in Punishments in MU*:
@faraday said in Punishments in MU*:
I am genuinely not clear where you're going with this.
Okay.
(For the audience: Faraday and I don't get each other about 95% of the time.)
Looking at what you and @faraday have said and in the context of MUing, I think it's like this:
Now, some people can get banned, shrug, and move on. To them, that earn/lose probably is about even.
Some can't (loss of community, of story, etc. can be hard). Some really can't (as evidenced by some of the thinly-veiled 'review' posts we've seen here before that crop up immediately after someone is banned). To them, that earn/lose has a much bigger gap.
Who wants to come play with a kitten so I can get some work done?
@HelloProject said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:
I'm perfectly fine being like "Hey let me slam them yams".
Someone has suggested to me:
So, the hours would be 4a-1pm.
And my worry has been: I ain't gonna find an Uber(/Lyft/Fasten) at 3:30a. Just not gonna happen.
But mebbe I could find one at like, 1am. The office is open 24/7. They have shit like a gym, music room (the office used to be EA Sports and instead of dismantling the recording studio, they set it up for employees to use), etc...
So I could just go in super early, work out, hang out, etc., for a few hours.
A lot of this is why @Paradox and I review every app. I know it can add a day or two (depending on how busy we are) of wait time, but it means he and I are on the same page every time.
9 times out of 10, we already are. And we only both review on the first pass so we can align on expectations. Once we've given initial feedback, we trust the other to follow through on it.
But I know I can be a bit too nitpicky and he knows he can be a bit too laid back (but then, we're the reverse on certain things). So doing it this way means we balance each other out.
