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Dragonball Z Abridged is fucking brilliant, especially once you get past the first 6-7 episodes and they start to drop the dumber stuf and become truly fucking epicly hilarious.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

[...] tagged and radio collared, so he could be tracked and shot (banned, I am not advocating real-world ninja assassination) on-site [...]

/... puts the shuriken away.

You just want to suck the joy out of everything.

@misadventure said in DC : Gods and Monsters MUX:

Wonder Woman and Vandal Savage can be bitter divorcees who still love one another deeply.

I'd play the fuck out of this relationship.

I'm super flexible.

I find that I tend to accommodate myself to my partner's times, but this can have deleterious consequences. For example, if you take between 10-15 minutes to pose, then I'm going to take around 10 minutes to pose. Because while I'm waiting for you to pose, I'm going to do something else (watch something fullscreen, read a comic book, check out a blog, whatever) and I'm not going to just stop every minute to check and see if you've posed. I'm going to let the scene finish, or finish the issue, or the article, or whatever.

If you like big flowing paragraphs, you're shit out of luck with me for the most part. Oh, sure, if you're posing flowery long stuff, you'll get it out of me more often than not--but by and large, my poses are anywhere between a single line and 6-7 lines. I don't get longer than that unless there's a real need. Usually I stick around somewhere between 3-4. This isn't on purpose. It's just how it comes out. The only time I really concentrate on how I want them to seem is when the writing style is meant to convey something about the character--I played a character who was based on Hemingway recently (again, shocker right?) and his poses tended to have very little exposition and they had short, to-the-point sentences. He liked to talk, but he didn't talk overmuch. This was because that's how I wanted him to come off. In contrast, I played a character who didn't talk at all, and refused to use sign language or lettered communication--he was one of my most popular on The Reach. Everyone who bothered to mention it told me they loved playing with him. I had Interdisciplinary Specialty: Body Language, and I posed the hell out of it--but it was still just 3-4 lines a pose. He got his point across. I know at least one person found him frustrating, but they just didn't play with me much. No skin off my nose.

I really like it when dialogue takes the front seat, in contrast to some other people here. Some of my favorite scenes have been pretty much just dialogue--I even have had some partners with whom I could drop to just dialogue, without any dialogue tags even. Just the speech--back and forth--bam bam bam bam--rapid-fire comments, entire conversations that happened almost in real time. It's only possible in 1-on-1, of course, but still!

I hate pose order. I understand the need for it; I still hate it.

I also know some people fistshake at me because I pose too fast ( @Sunny, @Gingerlily). #sorrynotsorry.

If I am having a lazy Saturday or Sunday devoted to RP, I can do the same scene for hours and hours. I once had a scene on a comic book MU between Superboy (me) and Nico Minoru that lasted eight hours and by the end we were both like--you know we should probably stop because we need to eat and maybe do other stuff today. Not because the scene couldn't continue. But in general--in general--I largely prefer my scenes to last around 2-3 hours; and if they can be shorter? Great. I see scenes as scenes, not as long drawn out interactions. Start the scene with something significant, end the scene when something significant concludes. I hate (and this happens a lot, and that's okay, but I still hate it) when scenes sort of peter out. I love scenes that start almost in media res and end before they conclude.

Devlin and Phineas start a scene on a plane--they jump out of it! WHEEE! They land in a field of ostriches. Oh shit! They run around for two hours of RL time, having fun-finally they escape the ostriches. But they need to get back home! Oh, look, there's an expensive car on the road with no driver and Phin says, "I just found our ride." End scene.

Maybe we pick up with them already half-way home, speeding down the highway in their stolen car. Maybe we just assume that happened and tell the story to someone else later on. But the scene was the ostrich field. Not the car ride. Two separate scenes. If more people were able to cut scenes this way, I would be so much happier.

In direct contrast, in plot scenes--omfg, storyteller, move it along. A "plot event" does not need to only comprise itself of a single scene that happens in a single place. Fade in! Introduction! Crossfade! Next scene! Crossfade again! Next scene! Crossfade to climax! Fade out! Storyteller goes to bed, and the players play out their epilogue or whatever. Keep it movin', yo.

Anyway, rant.

As for time management: man, fuck continuity. Fucking television shows don't give a shit and millions of people watch and enjoy them. Don't give me this "but I don't know if my character can do this because this and that" crap. Either keep it nebulous, or make sure you know what the fuck your character is doing all the time. Argh. So many scenes that petered out into nothing because half the people RP a lot all over the place and the other half don't--so some have a lot of conflict and others don't. /tableflip.

Also, you wanna make me happy? Like, really happy? Storytell. Not events, not PRPs--just storytell. Introduce complications. Make it weird. Have something happen. Man, I will help you out. There is this misconception that all great scenes have one ST. No, many scenes have more than one. I will sit at my chair and roleplay with you all fucking day if you storytell with me. If you collaborate and make the setting come alive with me, and I see this so little that I barely do it anymore, either. A bar fight should not be an event, guys. A bar fight should be a random backdrop in an otherwise random scene. Karaoke night should not be a scheduled +event; karaoke night should be every Tuesday, from 7EST to 11EST, come rain or fucking shine, for anyone who wants to show up, which sometimes means two people and sometimes it means thirty.

God, karaoke. The first public MU I ever played in was Devilshire, a Buffy MUX. Shoshana Swann had a place called The Penalty Box and they had karaoke night there every Tuesday, like fucking clockwork. One of my alts worked there. Sometimes I participated. Sometimes I didn't. But I knew that if I showed up in that build on a Tuesday night, the roleplay would have a backdrop of karaoke. I just knew it. And it was fucking awesome. It didn't have to happen every Tuesday. Shoshana wasn't even there half the time--sometimes it was just players, none of which had alts working at the business, who still did karaoke RP on Tuesdays, because that was the activity there on that day. And sometimes Tuesdays had a lot of people and we used places code; and sometimes it was just four of us and we injected some plot--vampires loved karaoke night and we loved staking them while someone sang Voltaire's Vampire Club into the mic off-key. Whatever. It's Buffy.

Anyway. Yeah. I went completely off-topic, I think. Sorry.

<.<

(notsorry)

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Coin I am still hoping for another Jessica Jones. I suspect that's even less likely than more Iron Fist, though.

Pretty sure Jessica Jones was already flagged for renewal a while ago.

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Coin I also don't love we saw Stone for like five seconds back in DD season 1, then never again.

SPOILERS

So if the Chaste are actually all dead (assuming we take Stick's word for that) then I guess they introduced the guy real quick then killed him off screen, which is just awesome.

SPOILERS

Man, I don't even remember Stone.

But basically I think they dropped the ball with the Hand becuase the Hand is SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING and they could do SO MUCH MORE with it.

At least Gao survived.

Weaver's character was ... underwhelming because for all they all said they feared/respected her, she never put forth enough actual power. I would have liked to see her kicking a little ass, myself.

The unlikelihood that we will get an iron Fist 2 means that he'll probably crop up in other shows (Luke Cage and Daredevil, probably) and in the next Defenders. Which means we can probably expect Joy Meachum and Davos in the next Defenders show.

The fact two of the Hand's 5 actors aren't too young (as much as it saddens me to think about it, Weaver is now what, in her 50s or 60s, and Gao's actress is probably up there unless a lot of it was makeup) means they could only do so much when it came to them being part of fighting choreography. They could have at least given Alexandra some more telekinisis or something though.

Speaking of which... Daredevil season 1's choreography was just goddamn incredible for TV. I still remember those amazing long fighting sequences (minutes long) was just revolutionary for TV... but now they've gone back to much simpler quickly edited cuts where sometimes I can barely tell wtf is going on.

That's a shame for most shows but for Iron Fist... if I can't expect amazing fighting from a martial arts superhero then they better deliver in some other superb way, which... yeah, they didn't.

Yeah, but that's what body doubles are for.

@Darinelle

I bet you slept with him. You totally slept with him, didn't you?

One thing you might want to consider, @Demiurge, is that instead of having everyone be "Someone", have them have temporary names (maybe based on animals, like google docs). So if I log on, duringt hat session, I am "Blue Eagle". Everything I say, Blue Eagle says.

I understand that confusion is part of the "thing" for the channel, but it just... yeah. I think I could get annoyed by it super quick.

Gandhi was a piece of shit, though, whose relationship between what he preached and what he practiced was dichotomous at best and hypocritical at worst.

I mean, I understand what he's trying to say and don't think he's wrong (per se, superficially speaking, though I have long and involved opinions on the harms of religion as a whole unto society which I don't regularly go on rants about because why bother) but I find it ironic that he'd be the one saying that sort of thing.

Just as a tangent, I guess.

I...

am actually going to add my name to this.

I would also be willing to NPC people for a game every once in a while.

Also, @EmmahSue is glorious at the RPs.

@cobaltasaurus said in Miami, Blood in the Water:

@sonder said in Miami, Blood in the Water:

Darc began coding for us before he made his own game. One day, Darc was gone and suddenly had San Francisco up which had references about The Reach’s news files. When I asked him how he got all of this stuff, he said that he was building a CG for Miami and was just testing it there. At that time I had not seen the other references to The Reach and have since been approached about Darc taking our flatfile with the shell access he had.

He won’t be on Miami staffing.

Hooooboy, I am torn between "I fucking KNEW IT" and anger. I brought up the fact that the code base looked familiar, and that he HAD some of my code and Chime's code for sure. (That +where is really fucking easy to pick up). And people were "no, no, darc's coded all of this himself!".

"No, this is Reach code. This is my code. This is Chime's code."

"No, Darc's coded all this himself, he said so!"

No fucking wonder he was so fucking insistent on not accepting any code help from me. I would have known without a shred of doubt that shit was our old code.

Let me be clear:

I don't care who uses my code. I have old code that I'll flat out give you. Pretty sure @Thenomain doesn't care who uses his code either.

But fucking stealing an entire flat file is a serious fucking scumbag move.

There's a huge difference between "I am using someone's code; I didn't ask because they have publicly said it's up for grabs but I am being clear this is someone else's code" and "I am using someone else's code and passing it off as mine".

Scumbag is light.

@Templari said:

@ThatOneDude When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

"Eh. Jack's okay." -- Snake P.

@arkandel said in Active Modern Day Games?:

@sunny said in Active Modern Day Games?:

@zombiegenesis

Please Buffy? Please? This is me making big eyes.

I'd love Buffy too but I have so many questions about how it'd be done, MUSH-wise.

I don't know how the others were done, but basically Devilshire was a small town with way too much magic in it and two Slayers designated to patrol it (legit it was just two slots for slayers).

In this era of "omg you can't limit slots whaaaaa" I don't know how people would do it other than, you know, maybe just no one gets to be a slayer.

Honestly, the only thing I would contest is that the policy needs to be more clearly stated so as to serve as a concrete warning.

If you idle out and you are [class of character subject to this rule], then staff holds the right to kill the character in whatever way they see fit to further or disinhibit the story of the game.

It isn't that fucking hard, and if you say it up front, it saves you from people bitching about it later.

I'm thinking we need a new thread for Celebrities Dead (To Us), considering how this year has actually gone.

@VulgarKitten said:

Miss your face

Not the rest of you, though. Just your face...

@Ganymede said:

@Sundown said:

I only let the game know through skype friends and the grapevine, in bursts of "I'm ok! I have RL! I will return!" I just had to say, fuck it, RL takes priority here.

Actually, @Coin and @Derp, this follows what I said numerous times previously. All you have to do is tell someone you aren't going to be around due to RL circumstances. That's it.

This really isn't hard to do.

RfK's policy is draconian almost by necessity. Staking or sudden departure does not cure a ghoul or thrall of their addiction to their regnant's vitae; in fact, in character, those PCs ought to be chasing after said vampire, desperate for their blood and affection. That's the problem with Vampire games.

There are likely many ghoul players that are happy with the "finality of disappearance" policy, whatever that is. I agree that the policy could be better defined.

I don't care if it follows, though, because it doesn't touch on the issue of the policy being badly written, which is my one and only complaint. I don't care how draconian it is, just be fucking clear about it. If you have to sit here and explain that 'if you just let someone know it doesn't count', it's not clear.

@karmageddon said in Um...What?:

@aria said in Um...What?:

@packrat said in Um...What?:

I am guessing that the guy equivalent is going on a date then finding that the woman you are with talks about nothing but how she wants babies and how she keeps getting fired from her various attempts at having a job, with bonus racism.

She did have some pretty good cooking tips though?

I am immediately picturing the scene from "I Just Had Sex" where they sing 'I think she might've been a racist' and it cuts to an image of her Klan hood in her bedroom. >.<

Someone I knew told me about an experience he had, which may or may not be true, but it's kinda wtf.

Short version: He met some hawt blue-eyed blonde chick who invited him back to her place. She showed him her grandfather's EXTENSIVE collection of Nazi paraphernalia then immediately wanted to screw because she was turned on by the prospect of fucking a Jew, which the guy who recounted the tale is.

He GTFO of there.

But not before he tapped that because she was hawt and WHY NOT?

Bonus lulz: He said she was a high-ranking executive at Pepsi Co.

The End

ETA: Why you be causing me problems, verb tenses?

My brother didn't realize he was fucking a Nazi until he saw the Swastika tatoo on her boob.

I highly suggest not breaching the veil for Demon. Secrecy is basically their raison d'etat and basically everyone knowing would ... fuck them up. Unless you're going to change really core, central themes of the game.

I would actually suggest, if you are going to "unveil" them, that you use the Translation Guide and use Descent rules for Demon: The Fallen.

Two cents, for you.

@Derp said:

Most of them are more than happy to talk to the pubic.

if they have long conversation with it, they might even decide to act as your attorney. Wink wink, nudge nudge.