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@too-old-for-this said in Good or New Movies Review:

@alamias Army of the Dead was disappointing, imho.

Army of the Dead was too long, but all right; it was a little disappointing, yes.

Army of Thieves on the other hand is much better.

@Arkandel said:

@Coin said:

If your status quo for establishing a relationship is buying someone a beer, and you routinely use "buy X a beer to establish a relationship", then it's a bad Aspiration, IMO. I don't care, particularly, if it's viable or not, if you are going to abuse it. So once? Sure. Once every long while? If you can tell me why you think it's relevant again. Once a week? Nope.

I heard (but I've no first-hand experience - obviously) that on Eldritch it got pretty common for some people to use Breaking Points constantly about their characters. As in, everything was one, they suffered blows to their delicate egos all the time and grew in power from these tribulations.

That's the weakness (or one of them) of the Beats system, which I otherwise do like... it can be milked for easy XP by bullshitting players and accommodating staff. On its own it's not the end of the world or anything but it can set a very quick power gap between those who're willing to go the extra mile that way and those who don't.

I don't recall this happening much at all. Any examples?

And anyway, Breaking Points are 1) an issue because apparently they are impossible for people to actually understand. I have never been more frustrated than trying to explain over and over what a Breaking Point even was. Half the time people hadn't even read the book. 2) Breaking Points are supposed to be about their characters. If "everything" is a Breaking Point, you're gonna end up broken. I actively discouraged and talked people down from genuinely fuciking stupid shit like "seeing children suffer". You can't watch a fucking news program without seeing children suffer. Please be more specific. One guy had "witnessing women being mistreated". I wanted to shake him. He was going to psychologicall fall apart after a short walk anywhere in the world. Surprise, the patriarchy exists. 3) Breaking Points are not Aspirations. Aspirations give you beats just for completing them; Breaking Points give you beats depending on the resolution of your roll to resist it. So if you're gaining a Beat but losing a dot of Integrity, I don't really care if you abuse it. Eventually you're going to be a quivering heap in the corner.

@caryatid The little we played was always worth it and fun, and while it's sad there won't be more of it, I wish you the best.

@Pyrephox said:

@Coin said:

@Tez said:

if players do something and you think it's stupid, think about how to make it awesome),

This can backfire if the same person always does really stupid shit and you always swing it around to being awesome, because other players will resent actually making good decisions when the ST is willing to make stupid shit awesome.

As an ST, I'd much rather have someone who's willing to do SOMETHING, even if it's non-optimal, than the players who are so busy trying to find the best action that they paralyze themselves, and then complain when other players go ahead and move forward with the plot. Incentivize action!

Sure, but there are people in between the two extremes of STUPID ACTION and SMART INACTION.

... yikes.

The only concern that is actually legitimate, in a way, if you don't like something about a gameline, is "why are they spending resources making this tripe when they could be furthering better games", but that is, in itself, highly subjective.

Otherwise, if a gamerunner has real concerns, they can just not allow the game, you know?

@lotherio said in Good TV:

@arkandel I concur, as their first on screen time it could have been better, but more opportunity in her series.

I think they'll flash back to it in Ahsoka.

@Wizz said:

Also you can drive a motorcycle through the window of the 28th floor of a skycraper and activate your jetpack at the last minute to rocket-propel an uppercut right into the neck of a gun toting mutant pterodactyl who kidnapped your hot reporter girlfriend that doesn't care if your anatomy doesn't exactly match hers, species-wise.

FTFY.

What I liked best is what I found lacking in Joker.

While Joker was a movie based on a comic book that was trying with wild desperation to divorce itself from its comic book roots and be seen as "respectable", The Batman leans into certain aspects of the comic books, the most impactful of which is Batman's narration during the film which can with I suspect zero editing be put word for word in tiny little narration boxes on a comic book and they would fit in perfectly, their language the flowery, sometimes cliched prose of comic book narration we've all grown accustomed to.

That, and the fucking score.

Holy fuck the score.

@somasatori said:

@Coin said:

I'd suggest a place with as many topographical variations as possible; especially if you're allowing wildly different animals who are from different types of geography.

Portland and/or Oregon in general (Eugene would also work). You've got mountains an hour away, ocean an hour and a half away in the opposite direction. If you go further east, you hit desert. Oregon has the widest biome range in the continental United States.

The area is close enough to Washington that you could still reuse parts of your old descs from Darkwater. Of course, you'd probably end up with werebears in skinny jeans drinking PBR and talking about how they liked loci back before they sold out, when they had integrity. And then they'd all go to a Decemberists show. So, good with the bad.

LULZ, Hipster Werebears may be just what this hobby needs. Also, don't be silly; only the werewhales and werecranes would go to Decemberist shows!

@Arkandel said:

Holy shit. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/06/29/harping-on-the-hypocrisy-and-lies-of-twitters-most-notorious-anti-abuse-activist-randi-harper-part-1/

Which part are you "holy shitting"? The fact that Randi Harper is horrible? (Knew that.) The part where the comments on this article are about as classy as Youtube comments? (Expected that.) Or the fact that I can't find a single link to parts 2 and 3, even though this was published in June?

Just for everyone's information, we've already decided on how many alts people can have on the game and for the nonce it's 2 alts per player, period. I say this as it seems to be relevant to people's opinions on the matter.

I think I like this Lex based solely on the fact that it is pissing off so many Superman nerds that it's funny. Like, I could find reasons to dislike Jesse Eisenberg as Lex, but I'm having more fun finding reasons why his interpretation is perfectly fine, heh.

Wonder Woman dropping in like "what's up? I just saved your asses. NBD." is awesome.

A lot of the time when I've attempted to--or seen someone else attempt to--drop some plot into a scene, what I see afterwards (or in pages, if I'm not the one doing it) is: "we were just fine having our scene, why did they have to come in and derail us with their stupid plot shit?"

And I'm like--sigh, because you can probably have that scene whenever and I can run this right now? Or, alternatively, because that's how life is.

On the other hand, some people drop some really fucking lame shit, and that's pretty subjective.

It's a crapshoot, is what I'm saying.

@Thenomain said:

@Coin

Since when did any lives matter?

I'm a Humanitarian, man. Well, sort of.

As a part of the human species, I think human life is important.

As a part of the human species, I also think humans are pretty much the absolute worse, and am not under any delusion that the world wouldn't be 1000% better off without us.

Like I said, in my opinion, they both have their place; it's the propagation of one and extinction of the other that's the issue.

@Cirno said:

I hate Deadpool because he is basically 4chan: the Superhero.

"I'm Deadpool and I am SO RANDOM~! XD LOOK AT ME, I AM WACKY AND RANDOM! SOOOOO RANDOM! [throws sporks at people]"

I love Deadpool, because often this sort of behavior is presented in a way that makes me laugh. Sometimes the content of something isn't what makes it amusing or entertaining, but the presentation of it.

It's a lot of silly nit-picking over vocabulary used.

@Groth said:

• I always turn off automatic Windows updates because I want to decide when my computer reboots.
• I updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 recently.
• I often use open unsaved notepad files to store random notes for use later.
• I spent the idle hours of the day organising information into one of these notepad files and went to sleep. When I woke up I was greeted by a blank desktop and Windows cheerfully notifying me that it updated itself and rebooted my computer without asking me.
• Few times I've ever felt such a sudden urge to strangle a fellow programmer as that morning.

I do the same thing with the notepads. I've learned to start saving them to desktop anyway because of power outages, though.

What I would really like is a "background NPC" code that was available across games and that we could upload short descriptions of NPCs into. And then, if you want to fill your pub with interesting NPCs, you can type, like, +npc/load 5 and it'll load 5 superficially fleshed out NPCs that PCs can see and access the bios of to use in their scene. It would also warn people entering a room that this room has NPCs who might be paying attention to what they're talking about.

You could even systematize it further with types of places the NPC is likely to be at. For example:

Bob the Biker is a biker. He's in his late fifties, has a white bears and a blue bandanna. He treats his Harley better than he does his wife. He has a secret love of knitting and will only start a fight if he's had a couple of drinks. He's likely to be at BARS.

So if you do: npc/load 5/bars you'll get 5 NPCs, all of which might be found at BARS, among which is likely to be Bob.