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@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Coin

Watch the new She-Ra.

That’s how you stay true to the original while flipping everything on its head.

I saw the new She-Ra when it dropped.

@ILuvGrumpyCat said in Horror MUX - Discussion:

@Coin WHO!?

I already told you this.

Look, he had layers of secrets, okay?

Like, in order of less to more secret: he was a Sin-Eater, he was a Cultist, he killed his adopted parents in a house fire, he was a Juggalo.

Devlin had layers, okay?

OKAY?

@Jennkryst said in Classic World of Darkness:

@Coin said in Classic World of Darkness:

I will tell you the same thing I tell everyone who says something like this:

I will help, if you want it.

Cooooode. We needs it.

We need the conversion finished first before I feel comfortable needling @Thenomain until he's willing to do it. >.>

@Arkandel said in Classic World of Darkness:

@Coin said in Classic World of Darkness:

I will tell you the same thing I tell everyone who says something like this:

I will help, if you want it.

Have you done Geist yet!

I actually started to, but then they announced they're actually making a CofD edition of Geist, so I am probably not going to put in the effort.

I have also poked at possible 2e system conversions for Changing Breeds (but I would make them more like the Fera of oWoD).

@Kanye-Qwest said in Marvel: 1963:

@Coin Pity upvote since you spent all that time researching.

I'll take it.

@Ifrit said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Roz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yeah, I think this is pure business. "People aren't gonna wanna watch a movie about a pandemic during the midst of COVID-19, so let's do something else, because what we are doing is making a movie to sell and make money."

This is actually one of my biggest problems with this idea of 'cancel culture'. Really, as far as I can tell, it's just capitalism in operation. If I don't like an author, I don't buy their books. If enough people do that, they become unprofitable. If a movie's themes don't interest me, or I have moral issues with some part of it, I don't go and see it. If a studio thinks that a certain theme won't make enough money, they just won't make the film.

No one's getting cancelled, they're just not making money.

Yes, inasmuch as we use the word "canceled" in its most literal and traditional sense. But when it comes to the cultural phenomenon that is cancel culture, the word "cancel" obviously takes on the connotation and definition of "banding together to stop supporting someone, be it with attention, money, or any other currency we control".

I mean, that's just how language works.

@Pyrephox said in CoD Contagion Chronicle:

Has anyone started looking at this? Planning to Kickstart it? Maybe for a CoD MU*?

I haven't put money down on it, yet, but I love the idea, and the Sworn/False factions look like they'd work great for a MU* where multiple spheres would like a reason to interact without being forced to be super-friends-forever.

Also, weird fucking reality warping and the God-Machine are my jams.

I know @tragedyjones backed it.

@Lithium said in Marvel: 1963:

@Coin said in Marvel: 1963:

@Lithium said in Marvel: 1963:

It's a lot to overcome. I'd love to see the Marvel world brought to life in a game, the 60's is interesting also, but I'd prefer it if the FC's weren't available for play and people created their own characters and stories. If there was ever a universe that had room for OC's, it's Marvel's.

I'm not sure why Marvel has more room than DC or other universes.

In any case, I think the niche theme will probably help the people who do play focus on characterization and how to interpret characters.

But I am also a really big fan of alterante realities and stuff, so maybe that's just my jam.

There's a /huge/ difference in power between FC's and what is available for OC's in the DC universe. Superman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman, they are huge power wise and there is no chance for an OC to be the same power level as them. Even the rest of the Justice League has nothing to really step up with except for possible Captain Atom and a few others... which are just more FC's. Not even gonna touch Batman here.

Marvel's got some pretty powerful beings, but they're not on Earth most the time, so the big bads aren't always flying around and doing things every day. The most iconic for Marvel are people like Captain America (or used to be), The X-Men, Fantastic Four, and spider-man who are powerful but not unapproachable by OC's.

So in the DC universe OC's are generally even /worse/ off than Marvel when it comes to having OC's be relevant. The power gap is less a thing for Marvel OC's on most games (Strong people in Marvel toss around 100 tons, not counting a few outliers. Strong people in DC toss around hundreds of thousands of tons).

That's what I mean.

I was going to make a list of the first ten ridiculously powered Marvel characters I could think of, but I reconsidered because essentially you´re saying you think Marvel has better possibilities for OCs because DC's heroes are too strong and OCs don't reach those levels.

My response to that is: so what? That has absolutely no bearing on whether or not the possibility for OCs exists. Not to mention that given that the vast majority of superhero / comic book games are consent-only, the power disparity is essentially window dressing. Your character is as effective as needed to tell a good story--you know, like in the comics, i.e. the reason why Batman is ever considered capable of taking on Superman, for example.

It really just kind of feels like you're saying "why bother if I can't make my OC as strong as Superman or Wonder Woman", which I personally think is an absolutely backwards way of approaching this discussion.

I'm not saying you mean to say that, but that's what it reads like.

@insomniac7809 said in Good TV:

...also oh my god the fucking diaper babies in the Amazon reviews giving it a 1-star for doing half the show in weekly releases instead of a bingable dump.

While I wouldn't review bomb it, I was very annoyed by this decision, myself.

I'd honestly play the hell out of it. You might have to hyper detail the combat system (and perhaps even automate it) though since that would be the point.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Marvel: 1963:

@Coin Uh, your face is silly, but you don't see me bringing THAT up.

And sure. I could also sit in my room and draw comics tailored around a character named Squirrel Girl that make her undefeatable. The point of playing on a game is often to experience story spun out by someone else, in a more personal and interactive way than reading a book, right?

It's definitely not impossible to find that tailored for whoever on a game, sure. But is it likely there will be plenty of times where Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, or Green Lantern show up and save the day during that storytelling? Yup.

This argument has the same problem @Lithium's does: I'm just saying it's possible. I never said it was super common or anything like that. But, shocker, our hobby requires digging through some coal to find a diamond--be it WoD, CofD, Star Wars, Superheroes, or Haven.

I mean, you might be digging forever in Haven, but I would never take away your hope.

I might laugh a little.

But I wouldn't take away your hope.

Tatiana Maslany will be She-Hulk.

@Arkandel said in What's your nerd origin story?:

@Killer-Klown I like this take because it makes us sound less like basement-dwelling antisocial nerds and more like brave pioneers who endured social ostracism for noble reasons.

so you like lies.

okay.

<.<

@somasatori said:

Combine this:

Supernatural Mafia (supers, illegal crime, and the cops may be TFV)

With this:

Modern Changelings in Hong Kong (with the Directional Courts only)

...and you'd have an awesome crime war game with opposing Freeholds being different Triad organizations.

Fuck. Yes.

Never mind that this is the 21st century and we have things like, you know, camera angles and milk cartons.

If it worked for Robert Downey Jr. for ten fucking years...

Just saying.

I'm taking note of all of this. Due to the complexity, it's unlikely it'll all be ready and coded by the time we open, but hopefully we can get something started that can easily leads to this eventually (and sooner rather than later).

@Pondscum said in Kushiel's Debut:

I think all we really need is to close ALL GAMES and make one giant melting pot game so we lords and ladies lovers can go smack the fuck out of those WoD and Westeros bitches.

It's all fun and games until people from Shang show up.

@Wizz said in Good TV:

Man.

The Boys season finale, what a ride.

I really enjoyed it, but

***Plot Hole Ahoy***

click to show

How the hell did Maeve get from Vought Tower to the cabin in Rochester right behind Stormfront? It's been established that Maeve can't fly and she's not like, super fast either? She literally just teleports the 340-odd miles to save everyone's asses with no explanation.

It takes them a long time to set all that stuff up.

***Plot Hole Ahoy***

@Arkandel said:

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

Geist and Demon can fight it out for which of its meta-settings are more obnoxious because when they're included on a multi-genre game, you can't seem to ignore them.

I dunno if I missed it in all the image spam, but did you ever explain what @Misadventure asked? How does Geist intrude on the meta-settings?

One of the (many) things about Geist I like is that it's very easy to add onto any other spheres since it has very little metaplot of its own in terms of cosmology and world-building. Basically it says "there's an Underworld, somewhere, where dead people usually go unless they don't" and that's almost about it.

Hell, you could probably gut the Underworld out of the game entirely and it'd still function with some patching.

While accurate, this is super simplistic. I really wish people gave Geist more credit. I also wish Geist was better written and its Key/Manifestation/Mementos system weren't so fucking redundant. It looks interesting on the surface, but when you get into it, it's a mess.

@BigDaddyAmin said in [Interest Check] Original vampire-based supernatural MU*:

Goddamn, another vampire game? Sigh...

Come on, guys.

God damn, another complaint from someone whose biggest contribution to this forum has been a thread dedicated to bitching nostalgically about Firan... Come on, guys.

Seriously, people like to play what they like to play. If you don't, don't play it. Make what you like and if it is good, people will go play. Or at least make a fucking thread stating exactly what you would like to play and asking for interested parties in running it...

... anything but another post complaining people don't share your views on being tired of the same games.

@GreenFlashlight said in Good TV:

@Misadventure said in Good TV:

@GreenFlashlight Not specifically, but when you can manage planet wide communications with any handheld device, is localized wifi worth mentioning other than as a downgrade.

I suppose I'm just thinking of all the times someone had to walk from the bridge to engineering or wherever with a data padd instead of just, I dunno, emailing Geordi's work account with the specs for whatever damn thing they needed to make the deflector dish do this episode.

You can easily attribute that to at least minimal security concerns regarding how information is transferred.

Really, given the technology in their communicators alone, all basic data transfer is probably wireless in Star Trek, enough that it doesn't bear mentioning.