Posts made by Auspice

@apu said in Cheap or Free Games!:

What I'm jonesing for is a good free (or cheap if that's all I can get) roguelike game, either for an older iPad (4gen) or via Steam. I have a few but they're a bit on the meh side.

I was gonna suggest Spelunky, but it's not as broad on platforms as I thought it was.

It's so difficult to not post food gifs right now.
You are really, really trying my self-control.

And if your only interest in playing is to be Genderbent Version of Character:

play Batgirl. Female Batman type.
play Jesse Quick. Female Flash type.
play Aquagirl or Aqualad!
play Prank, who was an acolyte of Trickster (Flash villain, but a Joker-esque sort) who predates Harley. Prank has had male and female versions, so you could potentially make a case to be trans*!

DC has a male/female version of preeeeeeetty much errthing. These are all just off the top of my head (and available chars) and I don't even know DC all that well.

Unless Staff gets rid of canon (currently, if a player is actively played and departs, their +canon persists; the slate is not wiped clean, they are not reset, their history persists)... I hope not.

I do not want to see someone who does not understand what it is to be trans* playing a transgender Superman (for example) poorly (or worse: as a caricature or grossly) just so they get the opportunity to play Superman.

@wildbaboons this song went perfectly to that gif!

"In addition to training mode you can also try Spell Practice, where you and a friend race to get a spell right, Dumbledore’s Army mode, described as a magical take on Rock, Paper, Scissors, and the most competitive sounding game, Wizard Tag, where you try to out duel your foe by draining their wand’s “power” by casting spells on them. So basically a playable form of Harry Potter laser tag, a sentence that makes us tear up."

This is turning into a very happy thread. This pleases me immensely!

I'm glad to hear Gotham by Gaslight is enjoyable. It looked fun! And then a lot of (fan, not just RT / reviewer) reviews were panning it, so I got really hesitant.

@mr-johnson said in DC : Gods and Monsters MUX:

Oh my comment was supposed to just be a lighthearted jab not a 'tantrum' as some people put it. I love this game, guess that didn't come across clearly in my joking around. Personally I just blame it being posted after a very long day at work and as such not being my A material.

I'll attest that Johnson here is one of the more active folks on the game and a great antagonist! Y'all should join and play with him. He was just being snarky.

So as I listen to the Eurovision 2018 songs
(so Denmark, what's with the pacifist viking?!), I'm reminded of GIFs that sync with pretty much every song.

There's your classic dancing spiderman:

Anyone got others?

@ghost said in DC : Gods and Monsters MUX:

Bear in mind that taking some of the references from the TV versions of FCs doesn't change the fact that they're FCs.

Old DC? New 52? Rebirth? They're all comics with FCs, but there have been some drastic differences between each iteration.

Marvel has a lot of the same going on. Earth 616, Earth ####, and technically any Sam Jackson Nick Fury isn't 616 Fury but Ultimates Fury.

So, even if a few references from a TV show are taken (which I honestly suggest people do sometimes because it promotes source knowledge with a wider range of audiences, breeds familiarity, etc) they are still FCs.

And with the sheer number of Superman comics over the last 70 years, you have every imaginable iteration of Clark at this point. The aspect of Smallville used (because he used a few bits and parts from various places) made sense for the game's timeline. There may be a comic reference somewhere that works in the same exact way, but as I've said earlier in the thread: this isn't a MU* where you need to be a comic expert.

I will fully own up to using some CW influence in my take on Killer Frost, but. I feel like I have good reason.

A) She only really began showing in the comics beyond as a C-String villain that was barely extant last year.
B) It's hard being a villain like that and still RPable other than as a flavor-of-the-week thing for the heroes to fight. By using from the CW show for the 'split personality' aspect, I'm able to have an RPable side to her (and lure some heroic types into the moral quandary down the road of 'oh no, I have to fight my friend?!).

Some of us do consider TV versions to be canon or worthwhile versions to pull ideas from. I still used the comic primarily for her background, but the comic version of her was also two-dimensional 'it was all because men spurned her boo-hoo!!!!' and come on. Super lame. I wanted to do away with that part at least.