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@derp said in Creative/Clean insults?:

@coin said in Creative/Clean insults?:

No one really knows.

But we can make a pretty good guess from spelling and rhymes, and how we know the language evolved. Just like we have a pretty good idea of how Shakespeare sounded (think American trying to fake a Scottish accent).

And Argentine Spanish confuses me. No matter how much I read about that dialect and its quirks, it just sounds like Italian to me.

There's a lot of Italian cadence and rhythm in rioplatense, which is what I normally speak, but Argentine Spanish is almost as varied as American English in its dialects and accents, and listening to a rioplatense is not the same as a cordobés, correntino, mendocino, etc.

God dammit, and to answer the actual question:

My approval of Blood Drive as a setting for a MU is mostly because the idea of playing a character who feeds people to their car as fuel just fucking tickles my macabre fancy, not because I think its actual narrative infrastructure would make it a decent candidate for a MU.

In short: its superficial trappings (blood-fueled cars, orgy-making drugs, rage-inducing addictive candy bars, etc.) would be fine in a MU, but its narrative structure would not.

@Gingerlily said:

My RL peeve/anger is that they've been selling school supplies for like two weeks already. I've only been on summer break for two weeks. I don't want to see the pencils and the crayons yet. I know, sales, get the good bargain first, but NO.

I know some teachers say "The summers off is a myth, we work all year round, conferences, blah, etc" and that is very valid for some, and I did attend a state conference and am working (leisurely) at two online classes for credit, but no. It's a summer off. It is noon and I am in yoga wear but have not decided if I want to do yoga yet. Love me, hate me, think I am the savior of the future or a mooch off of your precious tax dollars, I get it, I've heard it all. But I am on vacation, so Target, put the pencils BACK until August. Nobody wants to see that. Nobody wants a backpack or a schoolbox. LEAVE US BE.

I always like to point out that the "summer vacation" is also just plain fucking necessary. I get it, your office job is tedious and is slowly driving you crazy. But believe me, it has absolutely nothing on dealing with children or adolescence for nine to ten months straight.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Admiral said:

The God Machine is the Weaver. He won and banished the rest of the Triat and rebuilt the World of Darkness without all of the excitement of the old universe.

It's why nWoD is so stale.

A++, would upvote again.

@Coin

Wow, it took four whole posts before someone complained! New record.

You can't give people awesome but terrible junk food for ages, then take it away and replace it with stale but efficient and more or less healthy MRE rations, and not expect the complaints to be ongoing. Even after they're resigned to their fate.

@Thenomain

My God-Machine is the nWoD version of Iteration-X, a machine that infests itself throughout folds of reality that is so extensive that it doesn't always know what other parts are doing, slow to act but complete in its implementation.

I think you mean the nWoD version of The Computer, the fusion of AI and spirit in Autochthonia that ran Iteration-X's shit until they wised up after Revised. >_>

Edit:
@tragedyjones
In my world there is no God-Machine, because all hyperbole aside, I find it to be one of the absolute worst ideas to come out of nWoD outside of Promethean.

TL;DR @HelloRaptor is a hater, news at eleven.

@thenomain said in Good TV:

@coin said in Good TV:

Titans is really great so far.

Raven.

Smiles.

I respect your opinion and all, and I haven't watched it because...er, reasons, but it's starting at negative ten thousand points.

Oh nooooo, Raven smiles.

Good.

Raven never smiling is the most boring extreme you could take that character to. She has smiled in the comics and every other iteration of the Teen Titans ever, at some point or another, and presenting a teenager surrounded by superheroes who doesn't crack a smile once in a while would really just destroy my suspension of disbelief--and I was okay with the Flash and Supergirl slowing down time by moving around the earth very quickly in opposite direction as if that's how anything actually works at all.

Besides, if you haven't seen it, you have no idea why she smiles, so your opinion is invalid.

P.S.:

... and the clincher, so people don't say I'm just using cartoons for kids (which the first one definitely isn't anyway) ...

It would need to be a small game.

Another idea I had was for a comic book MU that did the same thing.

e.g. Start with Year One. Superman. Wonder Woman. Batman. Hal Jordan. Barry Allen. Etc. Start them young; mid twenties.

Play for six months to a year.

Skip ahead three to five years:

e.g. Superman (now with Supergirl). Wonder Woman (now with Wonder Girl). Batman (Dick is Robin), Hal Jordan's been gone a bit from Earth, John Stewart (or Guy Gardner) is the Green Lantern of the sector. Wally West is Kid Flash. End it with something important, Doomsday, Knightfall, etc. (maybe not specifically these, but that sort of thing).

Play for six months to a year.

Skip ahead three to five years: Superman has been cloned (Superboy is running around), Wonder Girl is Cassie Sandsmark now, and Jason Todd is either Robin or has become the Red Hood and Tim Drake is Robin--Teen Titans are an established thing...

You see where I'm going. And that's just DC examples.

e.g. Superman

@derp said in Good or New Movies Review:

I don't like Superman. I never have. He just doesn't do anything for me as a superhero. The newer movies were a bit more ok. They showed his flaws, rather than making him Alien Jesus or whatever.

That said, I am seriously stoked about the possibilities of Brightburn.

This is a superman movie I would definitely watch.

It's still kind of a rip-off of Irredeemable by Mark Waid. If you want evil Superman (and saying it is such is not in any way a spoiler), find that comic book and read it. It's sensational.

@faraday said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

@arkandel said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

No matter the genre people need to have stuff to do outside of plots, or when no Storytellers are throwing things for them to feast on.

Westerns have that same problem.

Depends on how you decide to portray and approach the Native American "problem". If everyone is playing a white settler or someone on their "side" you could easily just have constant battles with injuns.

I mean, I wouldn't do that, but.

I generally agree with you, though, yeah. Games that thrive on plot do so because the setting itself pushes for it. In general, the best games have always been the ones where the plot was thick and managed to weed itself into every conversation at least a little.

That, or that one game that was always my favorite where it was basically just one huge exercise in characterization and I put so much effort in getting the personalities and characterizations of each one of my characters jusssst right that every scene was a joy.

Okay.

Two things.

One. Young Justice: Outsiders dropped its first three episodes and I am still riding that high like an extra on Breaking Bad.

Two: I finished watching You yesterday. Disclaimer: it is a stalker show from the viewpoint of the stalker and it is definitely meant to be (and should be) supremely disturbing at several points. But it is also very well-written, very dynamic, and interestingly (in a good way) framed. I don't particularly recommend it if you have been stalked before (especially if you are a woman who has been stalked by a man) and are sensitive about the subject matter, but I do recommend it for general viewing and especially as a way to understand the (very realistically portrayed) psychology that goes on inside the brain of stalkers.

I mean I ruin nothing by telling you that at one point the protagonist (stalker) literally thinks he is the only feminist the deuteragonist knows, highlighting the irony of his entire method of thought and perspective. It's just... watch it, if you can bear it, because it's really good.

If you charge, have a timetable, stick to it, like any other sidejob.

Volunteering has the advantage that you can decide not to work on it one day and no one will has any right to get huffy.

You can poke me in private for more personal thoughts on the matter, when I've got the time. But everything everyone else said is also true.

@theonceler said in Good TV:

@coin said in Good TV:

Constantine is a full member of the cast this latest season.

You say beautiful things that I love.

And it only took me a decade?

@peasoupling said in Spotlight.:

@faraday said in Spotlight.:

But setting aside the whole "they all got killed" thing, I do think that being one of the few pilots in the rebellion who get to participate in the final epic battle against the Death Star is a "special" thing.

I don't know! Sometimes I think I might prefer playing a janitor with a real chance at meaningfully affecting the cleanliness levels of the Death Star than playing a pilot who is basically just set dressing in a battle they have no real chance of affecting in any meaningful way, other than by exploding prettily against a backdrop of stars.

I am not going to read farther ahead but I want to ask if this reference is on purpose or if you just stumbled right into basically a dig at how someone in maintenance can become the hero of the galaxy because, uh, fucking Finn "Sanitation" FN-2187.

Just sayin'.

@aria said in Good TV:

@coin said in Good TV:

@aria said in Good TV:

@coin Yeah, I give a lot of credit to Penn Badgley for responding to people that liked is portrayal of Joe with basically what amounts to "He killed four people. What else is there to say?" when a lot of actors would probably just enjoy the attention.

Penn was good casting for multiple reasons, first and foremost his usual calm and collected manner of facing inappropriate fans, and second, the whole thematic Gossip Girl connection which had me rollin'.

I think I may be the only person on the planet who didn't watch that show, though I considered it after hearing that. Does it hold up, do you think? I already know THE BIG SURPRISE ENDING that supposedly made no sense.

I mean.

sigh

It's Gossip Girl. It's stupid fun. It's classist stupid fun, even. Some of the characters are so great because of how they bend the archetype they're based on, but it's not eactly high brow television. I watched it, I liked it, it's not a judgment. But it's definitely background viewing at this point.

@Pyrephox Ermagherd, that gives me related ideas.

Like, if you have a TRAVEL TIME resource that you can spend, going places long-distance can cost you more depending on how fast you wanna get there.

Walking is free--but it takes progressively longer (ever tried walking thirty blocks? sixty? five hundred?) whereas a bike might be very cheap, but motorcycles and cars get a little more expensive. You can use public transport--but the time it takes is subject to random traffic or breakdowns--and cabs, etc., can cost more (progressively so).

You would have to make the TIME TRAVEL resource something that was key to the game, but I can see it, especially for games where traveling across places is important (imagine how important it might be in such a setting if the players were competing in a scavenger hunt across cities or even countries--people with access to planes and cars would have xconsiderably more time to actually search, etc.)

Yes, it's a little mini-game-y, but whatever.

@Arkandel said:

Although that's true, losing excess weight is a matter of diet regulation a whole lot more than adding additional exercise.

Life isn't fair. We can eat calories way easier and faster than we can consume their energy.

Depending on the stretch, someone who doesn't gorge themselves every day can keep fit with just a bike ride to and from work. It also has to do with metabolism. The older you get, the less it will work.

I used to have a list (short, about 15-20 items) that I knew about every character I made, including favorite color, favorite type of music, do they do the dishes after eating or do they let them pile up, etc. You can extrapolate a lot from little things, too, so it makes a good cheat sheet when you don't know how your character might react to something--

--just check the sheet and see if something similar (even if much more mundane or menial) is on there and extrapolate to figure out a likely reaction!

@bobotron said in Interest Check: Ancient Greek RP:

Scion?

This.

I wasd talking with @Thenomain the other day about this. A Scion game where the gods are dead, their essence spread out, and you play a Scion who is slowly building themselves as a god--carving out their niche by concentrating their Legend in certain traits (instead of them being innate). You would basically get the same amount of "favored stats" as everyone, instead of it being unfairly balanced towards certain more powerful gods.

Post-Apocalyptic Free-For-All on Godhood, first there gets to be Top Dog (err, God).

Or not, but it would be fun.

@surreality said in Good TV:

Someone, please tell me I am not the only one watching Doom Patrol.

I'm finding it wonderfully absurd, but with a fair measure of soul, too.

(Yes, I have a weakness for the 'team of misfit fuckups' trope, deal with it.)

Doom Patrol is some of the best stuff on TV atm.

I'm excited. The only thing better than a bunch of smaller, varied nWoD 2e games would be a bunch of smaller, varied games of lots of cool systems and settings. A Trinity Continuum game would be amazing (you could even play a little with the timestream by making three different games-within-a-game and letting the past influence the future and what not); a Scion game would be fucking awesome, especially if run by someone who isn't a psychotic cuntweasel (not that I'm bitter); someone's already working on a Buffyverse/Cinematic Unisystem MU, which is great; I would love to see something fun for Exalted now that third edition is finally coming out (supposedly). The Strange deserves its own MU, too.