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@too-old-for-this said in Good TV:

@greenflashlight So, sadly, this is never really portrayed in any of the shows. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Smallville, even the animated Superman... their posture, tone of voice, body language, even the way they walk... never changes between Clark Kent & Superman. At most you will see Clark Kent acting slightly more bewildered than Superman. So really, they've done a terrible job of portraying Clark Kent across every show, movie, and cartoon since 1978. Christopher Reeves is the ONLY true Superman specifically because he's the ONLY one to showcase the difference between Clark and Superman. If you ever watch Batman: TAS or Superman: TAS or even Justice League... anytime you see Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent in the same room, Clark damn near alpha-challenges Bruce every time. Like they full-on mangrip handshake and glare at one another, often with Clark scowling as if he's two seconds away from laser-gazing Bruce right out of existence. Its... pretty ridiculous. Which is why there is now the constant 'how tf do people not SEE that this is just Superman in glasses and a cheap suit?!'.

Brandon Routh did it excellently in Superman Returns, but mostly because he was literally doing Christopher Reeves as Clark Kent/Superman.

Double post.

Even Churchill spoke about the burden of command.

Just because someone is willing to do something doesn't mean it doesn't affect them. Yes, if they are under your leadership and your action or inaction leads to their harm, you take a hit. This is such a standard (and powerful) trope in fiction (to the point where too much burden of command leads good leaders to become extremist villains--easily a representation of having lost Clarity), and Changeling has always been about fiction and narrative overlaying itself on top of reality.

@Miss-Demeanor said:

@Coin Not hard at all. Because people want the themes and setups of owod with the more streamlined and easier mechanics of nwod. How is that hard to grasp? What they put out doesn't cover what people want. So yeah, they buy it... then immediately start bitching about how its not exactly what they wanted.

Do you even consumer, bro?

Except there's been translation guides for years now that allow them to play the best part of both systems (and for those things that don't have them, it's painfully simple to do if you're at all motivated).

I like nWoD. I like the differences. It's not a matter of grasping their logic; it's a matter of trying not to roll my eyes at the constant bitching when their solution would effectively take away something other people do like.

@ganymede said in Real life versus online behaviors:

@coin said in Real life versus online behaviors:

I don't care if you're a fucking saint in every social interaction offline--if you're a dick online that means you wanna be a dick and think it's funny. The degree to which that's a problem varies widely.

Whether a person is considered a "dick" online is a conclusion often made from too few interactions, and subject to a wealth of biases.

None of us are saints here, for example, but I would not say all of us are dicks online or offline.

I'd like to be as non-judgmental as I can about folks. It's the least I can do. In return, I try to be positive and avoid connecting when I'm in a pissy mood. I'm not perfect in my interactions with folks, but I think very few people would call me a dick, even if I've flown off the handle a couple of times.

That's why I said the degree to which that's a problem varies widely. You can be a massive dick and a horrible person, or just kinna dickish in general but otherwise tolerable.

@insomniac7809 said in Real life versus online behaviors:

@coin said in Real life versus online behaviors:

The internet is where moderation and limitations come to die. You wanna see what someone's willing to do, say, and support? Go online.

I don't care if you're a fucking saint in every social interaction offline--if you're a dick online that means you wanna be a dick and think it's funny. The degree to which that's a problem varies widely.

"The person who's a sweetheart to their date and an asshole to the waiter is an asshole."

Firm belief, yo. Especially having been a waiter--and all sorts of other service industry-related jobs.

@derp said in Good TV:

@solstice said in Good TV:

accuse of me of feeding

I'm old.

What's this mean?

@ominous said in Good TV:

@derp

I am assuming it's a type of cheating, like stream sniping.

Feeding is when you die a lot, thereby giving gold/experience to the enemy team (i.e. 'feeding' them). It happens a lot in lower ranks because people don't know where to stand, what to do, how fucked they are if they go in without vision, and thus they die a lot, and people are pretty horrible about it.

I have found that I am turned off when my RP starts feeling like a job and/or a responsibility. There are limits, of course. If I am part of an on-going plot, or I have an IC position that needs to be at least somewhat active, that's not a big deal. But when people start demanding my time consistently and I start to feel like if I don't log on I am somehow going to be docked pay (--I'm looking at you, experience systems and idle freezing!) it starts to bother me. I didn't use to be that way, but I am now. I also don't RP at all at the moment.

On a more personal note--while the above can be very personal if a specific person is trying to monopolize my time--certain things turn me off: OOC arrogance, gossip circles, whisper campaigns, etc. I'm perfectly willing to admit I have participated in some of this stuff before, caught up in some moment with a group or another--but I avoid the shit out of the stuff now.

Second person posing is a no-no. I differ with @BlondeBot in that I don't mind short-posing and actually short-pose quite a bit (although probably a lot less than anyone imagines when I say that). Overly long, flowery poses better be damn fucking good (and by this I mean in a subjective "to Coin" sense, so good luck figuring that out, I guess, I'm a headache to RP with, I suspect) or I will tune out half-way through and probably miss the meat of your pose, so like, keep me engaged or make it snappy. I don't wanna have to read the pose five times to decipher what your saccade of cerulean orbs of sprinkled rainbow twilight means.

I like story, so someone like @Auspice is cool--even though I've yet to RP with her for some hilarious reason. I like collaboration, too, and I especially like consistency and not feeling like I have to keep everything together all the time or people just fade out. This is why I eventually desisted from creating IC groups: it always felt like I was the only one trying to keep that shit going.

And, I mean, if the TS is super fucking hot, that's a plus, I guess. >.>

@Derp said:

@Coin said:

@Derp said:

@Coin

I'm so jealous, you bastard.

Sooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.

You're so mean.

@Misadventure said:

How often do people RP out "bad relationships" that aren't rape, and are exposed to other players? How often do people RP through breakups and reunions, affairs and so on, ON PURPOSE for the point of RPing stuff. I've only ever seen IC relationships be great until the OOC relationship changed, then it just ends. Sometimes with OOC recriminations, rarely (but not never) with IC recriminations.

I've tried in the past to varying degrees of failure and success. It's hit or miss but one thing is clear: you have to be EXPLICIT with your RP partners that this is what you are going for.

Don't spring it on someone. It ends badly every time.

@Derp said:

I finally got to see it. I have to agree. It was bloody awesome. I was so worried they were gonna bomb it, but they really pulled through.

Although, goddamn, Carrie got old.

Well. Dude. It's been thirty-two years since Return of the Jedi. I mean, yeah. She got old. That's what people do over the course of thirty-plus years. Heh.

@thenomain said in Changeling the Lost: 2nd Edition:

Here's another example: In Buffy (and later Angel), Angel is a mean-ass vampire who regains his soul and becomes all mopey and remorseful. Spike is a mean-ass vampire who regains his soul and then shrugs about it gets on with life.

Gonna have to agree with @Derp and @ixokai here, bruv.

On top of that, a few things:

One. Angel getting his soul back was specifically a curse, while Spike getting his soul back was specifically a quest.

These are two very different things in fiction, especially fantasy and urban fantasy fiction, and the different ways in which they processed their individual "ensoulment" make sense to me.

Two. Related to the curse/quest bit, if Angel experienced a moment of true happiness, he reverted to Angelus. If Spike experienced a moment of true happiness, he was just really happy. It's easier to process your past evil deeds, I would imagine, if you are allowed to feel good about your future, rather than having a Sword of Damocles that informs you if you ever feel honestly happy, you're gonna be a monster again, whether you like it or not. That would make anyone a broody fucking emo pain.

Three. By the time Spike shows up in Angel, Angel is also quite different, less emo, more chipper, willing to give at least a life of mediocre contentment a try with his werewolf girlfriend (Nina).

In short, you chose the wrong analogy because some of us are super into Buffy and Angel and how dare you, sir.

@Derp said:

@Coin said:

@lordbelh said:

@Coin said:

Coworkers who are touchy-feely. don't fucking stroke my back or shoulders when you come over to ask something. It's fucking creepy as shit.

This.

and the knowledge that if you say anything it will be taken as aggressive and ill-tempered.

I can see this. Some people go overboard with it. But also -- don't you live in a country where being touchy-feely is kind of part of the culture?

No. I live in a country where we greet each other sometimes with a faux kiss on the cheek. That doesn't entitle people to come ov er and put their hands on my shoulders and rub them while talking to me.

And since it's this one fucking person that does it, it's very much not a "this is just how it is here", which would still not be an excuse to fucking touch me.

@thenomain said in MU Things I Love:

To follow-up @surreality: The moment when you see people realize how much you can say with very little.

I love this one, to the surprise of no one.

The paradoxical beauty of shit like GamerGate is you don't need to even interact with the victims; you just need to read the screeds by the assholes who are a part of it. I didn't read a single tweet, Facebook post, or article by any of the people who were harrassed or threatened or even mentioned by GamerGate advocates. I only read shit they posted or screenshots and other examples of things they said or did...

... and I came away with the impression that they are a bunch of horrifying, terrible people.

Go figure.

I read them. Often not until I need to and definitely not linearly, but I read them. If I skip anything, it's usually just the fiction.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

I liked X-Men: Apocalypse. It wasn't great by any means but it worked in many ways and actually cared about fan service as well as telling its own story. The new (new new) X-Men roster is fun and there's chemistry between the actors; I'd actually like to watch a team made of the new Jean, Scott, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, etc.

My one peeve which isn't spoiler-y if you've watched any trailer at all - there's a lot of emphasis on Mystique being a leader/revered hero type. On its own I don't mind that but it's because she's being played by Jennifer Lawrence whose star value skyrocketed since the contract was signed, and it turned a perfectly good spy/infiltrator/mysterious character into a front-line person which wasn't ideal.

The interesting thing about Mystique is that, thanks to her powers, she can be both.

She can be in the public eye, and she can be a nobody spy/infiltrator... because you won't recognize her if she doesn't want you to.

I hit 35 because I turn 35 in a month. -_-

@Miss-Demeanor said in Dead Celebrity Thread:

Shit.. now who's gonna play Chekov?

Hopefully, no one. This is one of those moments where you retire the character, at least from that continuity.

"Where's Chekov?"

"Oh, he decided to be a novelist and took a desk job."

"Kay."

I'm sad. Kid was great.

@Goldfish said in Horror MUX - Discussion:

@Coin DEVLIN????

That blew my wig back first thing in the morning. Devlin, man.

HAHAHAHA.

Yeah, man. Yeah.

Devlin.

I mean, he knew it was wrong, okay? It was a secret he kept from his own family, and he was runnin' around sacrificin' people and shit with them because all the St. Johns were Silthite Cultists, lololololololol.