@Arkandel said:
@Coin said:
@Arkandel said:
Renown.
You know, when people wanted me to listen to Radiohead, I didn't.
When people wanted me to read Harry Potter, I didn´t.
When people wanted me to watch Lost, I didn't.
Stop making this end badly for you, my friend.
What kind of monster hasn't read Harry Potter?
And now you know what you're dealing with. 
Another Good TV to watch, though I haven't finished it, is Amazon's 'Them'. Very good though some have described it as 'racist torture porn', but its not surprising considering the setting and the theme. Plus, in my opinion it is very much warranted that they show these things. If you want a horror series, I recommend it. Here's hoping it ends strongly too.
@cadi I watched a good portion of Them and couldn't get through it; maybe it was the timing of the show's premiere but it just felt to me like it was trying really hard to be Lovecraft Country.
It started production before Lovecraft Country but was in development hell for too long.
@cupcake Admittedly I haven't seen Lovecraft County.
It's very, very good. And different enough in plotline from the book that either will surprise you a little if you enjoy one and then the other.
@Arkandel said in PC vs Player Assumptions:
@Coin I think you were crying. Or facepalming. Or facepalming while crying.
Granted I have driven folks to the bottle before with my inability to read the actual words in other people's posts in large scenes as opposed to what I assumed they had typed.
Thank god our hobby isn't reliant on reading comprehension.
@Arkandel said in DC Rebirth:
@Tempest Oh, okay. I have near-zero experience with superhero MU*.
In general the roster builds as people request characters and then idle out before apping or drop soon after (or long after). Usually comic book games don't delete charbits, they just blank them.
I would really like a comic book game that didn't blank charsheets and didn't require you to write your entire character's app "in your own words" including powers, abilities, whatnot.
What a fucking waste of time.
P.S. I got super excited when I thought this was going to be a game set in the actual Flashpoint reality, with a warring Atlantis and Themyscira, etc...
Ah well.
Bo Burnham's Inside absolutely demolished me. Gloomy comedy with a healthy dose of all the shit we've been feeling in quarantine. Hit me really hard, as I have a lot of the same issues he's coping with. Well worth the watch, but don't expect it to be light or always particularly fun. (Trigger warning for depression, anxiety, suicidal musings.)
It's quite fucking great, though.
the fucking socko bit is amazing and brutal
@Ganymede said:
@Coin said:
Setting it, sure; but we're not setting anything, we're liberally discussing "what ifs".
That's right, you are. But even politicians have a goal when they start discussing and proposing policies, even if that goal is "let's fuck up people we don't like!"
But I'm not a politician. My goal was "chat about what I would like if I did X, without necessarily diving deeply into it". Do you feel better now? 
I can be wise for one thing and an obstinate dick for another. If the two were mutually exclusive you would routinely explode/implode from the sheer paradox of your existence, you wise, obstinate asshole. 
@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Coin said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Bobotron said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
... I need more sleep, I read that s 'Coin is a Unicron'. WUT?
I am that, too. I am many things.
If Coin is an anything-corn, can he be a Dildocorn?
...cause that suits the threesome plans nicely.
Sup, bb.
It's not, but people will grumble because, "my character is a career criminal, it's not fair that I have to BUY LARCENY". No, really.
Like, I had a character who had been in jail for a long time, and I made him without Larceny. As soon as I had any XP to spare, I took a dot. Even if he's just the bruiser, a dot of Larceny makes sure you at least don't take a PENALTY.
@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Coin said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
And fuck instant grits.
And fuck polenta.
And an extra fuck you to anyone who tries to conflate cream of wheat and grits.
Man, I pity your taste buds if you hate polenta because that means no one's made it right for you.
I've tried making it for myself and it was super 'meh' and the name is really close to placenta so it falls solidly into 'NOPE' territory.
You did it wrong. I can guarantee. >.>
@Olsson said:
@Tempest said:
I really like the idea of custom stuff, but it's hard to find a balance with it of allowing people to make fun/cool things that don't confer giant mechanical benefits.
Usually you need to write out what power it is you want, and then figure out how to shoot yourself in the foot enough to have it go past Staff/ST without too much complaint.
As a staffer, I don't necessarily look for "shooting yourself in the foot". But I do look for, for example, Attribute+Skill combinations that seem hinky and that, when I look at the person's sheet, are the two stats they have at 5, whereas more logical/easily explained combinations would net them a significantly smaller benefit.
That said, when I give feedback, if I think the power needs a drawback, I will just say, "I think this needs a drawback, how about [examples]?"
@RDC said:
I think if you've got someone staffing who doesn't stop doing something when you ask them to and continues on because their fun trumps other people's fun, you remove that person from staff.
I'm not surprised you think only staffers can continue being assholes who don't listen when they're told something they're doing isn't cool or conducive to a collaborative, friendly experience.
But you're wrong. Just FYI.
And before you say 'I didn't say that', I'll elucidate for you: that's how it reads to me.
@HelloRaptor said:
@RDC
If it's not worth making a rule against, it's not worth discouraging, in my opinion.
...it's been a while since I read anything just really, really stupid, so I've been waiting for the dam to burst. Thanks for leaping on the grenade, RDC, you're a real mensch.
Some people just really think about other people's needs, you know?
@Ghost said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Coin said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
And fuck instant grits.
And fuck polenta.
And an extra fuck you to anyone who tries to conflate cream of wheat and grits.
Man, I pity your taste buds if you hate polenta because that means no one's made it right for you.
I've tried making it for myself and it was super 'meh' and the name is really close to placenta so it falls solidly into 'NOPE' territory.
Since you ruined polenta for me (because I will now always see placenta instead of polenta), I will ruin something for you.
Imagine The Offspring as always being sung by Weird Al Yankovic, because Dexter Holland's voice isn't so different.
I know you wanted to ruin it for @Auspice but I just checked in the mirror and I don't look like I care.
@HelloRaptor said:
As a staffer, I don't necessarily look for "shooting yourself in the foot". But I do look for, for example, Attribute+Skill combinations that seem hinky and that, when I look at the person's sheet, are the two stats they have at 5, whereas more logical/easily explained combinations would net them a significantly smaller benefit.
This might be more palatable to folks if white wolf/onyx path didn't so frequently abandon anything resembling logic when it came to coming up with many of the dice pools they do.
I don't really see that as a reason not to be discerning myself, and can't possibly give a single fuck less than I do if people's reason for shitty design is "it's shitty in the books, too". That is a horrible excuse.
@Ganymede said in Marvel: 1963:
@Coin said in Marvel: 1963:
For example, in the Marvel universe, mutants suffer a lot of persecution (let's ignore the fact that Average Joe and Jane seem to have a special radar and are always able to tell when someone is a mutant, and thus worthy of persectuion, and when they aren't, and thus worthy of trust because superheroes). Meanwhile, in DC, most metahumans (many of which are essentially 'DC's mutants' since it's basically just 'born with these powers randomly') are not.
The Kingdom Come series portrays an interesting setting where metahumans are, actually, sort of persecuted. By other metahumans. I'm a huge fan of it.
Yeah, well, Kingdom Come is Mark Waid and... well... I don't idolize anyone, but that dude is fucking great. I love KC.
I figure that metahumans are treated with suspicion and wariness, regardless. People probably don't fuck with them because Superman appeared, and everyone was, like, wtf how do u persecute that dood???
Smear campaigns. Honestly, though, he's god-level superpowered white dude.
I think the only comic book superhero that isn'tl literally a cosmic god with more privilege is Superman in the Elseworlds story Speeding Bullets where he's a god-level superpowered white dude adopted by rich old moneyed white people.
Yeah, his parents died. Super sad.
(Keep in mind I feel Speeding Bullets is one of the best Elseworlds, along with Kingdom Come, but daaaaaaaaaaamn.)
I come from mostly Italian, Spanish, and Catalonian stock.
I still remember my grandmother telling me stories about her grandmother (or mom? I don't remember) throwing pots of boiling oil on Spaniard soldiers from her second storey balcony...
I'm fairly pasty, skin-wise, but I have weird ancestry. I live in a highly Europized hispanic country but I also lived in a very hispanic neighborhood while in the states. I tan really well if I'm patient and use the right sunblock, though. Like, I can easily go several shades darker and it looks so great in contrast with my blue eyes. Just doesn't stick, obvs.
@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:
Folks, although the debate is still fine, please be careful lest it goes into that old cycle of judgment and victim-blaming that I'd rather it didn't.
So I shouldn't judge you and blame you for how I mistreat you? Because, ngl, that's my kink, Ark. You're so limiting, I swear, can't even nemesis at you anymore. God damn.
One thing I recomended to someone recently is the Conflicting Interests System for any type of political faction play.
For example. You have factions 1, 2, and 3.
You also have interests A, B, C, D, E, F, any of which can succeed or fail.
You give each of these factions interests they want to succeed, and interests they want to fail:
Faction 1 wants A, B, and C to succeed, but they want D and E to fail.
Faction 2 wants A, D, and E to succeed, but they want B and F to fail.
Faction 3 wants B, F, and D to succeed, but they want A and C to fail.
And then you, the person running the game, decide when each of these interests are important. Maybe A has to do with passing a law about the restriction of magic--Faction 3 is heavy on the magic use and the other two Factions band together to overwhelm them, but Faction 2 needs to be careful, because very soon, Interest E (certain gentrification platforms) will come into effect and Faction 1 is very against it, so they might want to curry Faction 3's favor...
... and so on and so on. Might get a little complicated, but only if you spread a little too far. The key is making sure every issue is represented (and reviled) equally, and that every Faction has a stance (even if the stance is 'neutrality') regarding every issue.
I'm not sure I'm allowed to be frustrated by this, but:
I'm having a facebook conversation with a friend who is "on the spectrum" - he's a Shakespeare focused academic. I'd asked him if he was watching "Will", and he said he had not, but he was curious. I noted that has a very similar sensibility to "A Knight's Tale" and suddenly he started bragging about reading Chaucer. I guess he was bridging the conversation in a way that made sense to him, but felt like a complete derail to me. Am I an unreasonable bitch? In this situation, I mean. (Shut up, @Coin, @Ghost.)
You sure he's bragging and not just gushing about Chaucer?
I can actually absolutely understand how mentioning A Knight's Tale might lead me to gush about Chaucer. Because yes. Every single time.
I'd consider it less a derail and more an inevitable consequence of you bringing up A Knight's Tale.
You should know better.
Shame on you.
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