@Thenomain said:
@Coin said:
Alas, we can't have everything:
sources tell me sepp blatter is not among the fifa officials who are being arrested
That's all right. Chances are he's the one that sold all the other assholes out as a way to secure his own safety. His time will come. (Or not. Pessimism strikes me.)
@HelloRaptor said:
@Coin said:
@Thenomain said:
@Derp said:
@Eerie is pretty much pure awesome. Anyone who disagrees is just, you know. A commie or something.
He's talking about you, @Coin.
Bunch of imperialists. The whole lot of you.
Well, yeah. It wouldn't be much of an Empire if words like 'bunch' and 'whole lot' didn't apply.
I was going dissect and counterargue this, but then I remembered you're a buttfaced troll whose bridge is avoidable.
BUTTFACE.
@Thenomain said:
@Derp said:
@Eerie is pretty much pure awesome. Anyone who disagrees is just, you know. A commie or something.
He's talking about you, @Coin.
Bunch of imperialists. The whole lot of you.
@HelloRaptor said:
@TNP said:
Since it seems a fair number of people playing on Eldritch read these boards, it's simplest to put here that I decided to drop Joseph as he's simply not working after several scenes. I've done this long enough to know when to go back to the drawing board and make a new alt.
/facepalms
@HelloRaptor said:
@Coin said:
@Templari said:
@ThatOneDude When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
"Eh. Jack's okay." -- Snake P.
"Those guys need a haircut more than you do." -Col. O'Neil
"Actually, I'm O'Neill. With two L's. That's the other guy, with one L. He has no sense of humor."
@TNP said:
I've been doing this a long, long time and gone through more characters that don't work than those that ever have. I've yet to figure out why one does when five or ten don't.
@Arkandel said:
Has he been in any actual plots? Interesting ones, relevant to the character's nature in any way?
Not yet. And while it might help, the question itself highlights the problem: his nature isn't there. There's no personality, no likes or dislikes, nothing beyond some words on paper that satisfies the demands of CG. It's the difference between having an owner's manual and riding in the car.
It's just really annoying. In the past, I just toss the character and try again till one works in that setting, with those other players, on that particular game. Maybe I should avoid games with sphere caps or at least spheres with caps. Granted, it's a more unique situation when the game is just starting so perhaps the timing is just off for me.
Let me get settled into the game now that it's fully open and I'll see what we can do to help you out. I don't want anyone to feel like they can't get into their character, but the game is new and the first week or two are gonna be a little rough for everyone. Poke me on the game. I'm going to be running some sphere stuff soon that I hope will give peopel reasons to interact and chances to find their characters's voices.
@Templari said:
@ThatOneDude When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
"Eh. Jack's okay." -- Snake P.
@Bargle said:
@Coin said:
@Bargle said:
Step the fuck up and...do what exactly? Nothing she did in that moment could do anything but make it worse for her.
This I agree with.
Unnecessary? Yes, absolutely. There were many things they could have done to avoid it if they wanted to, but clearly they didn't.
Gratuitous? No, not really. It serves a narrative purpose, presumably...we just have yet to see what it will be. And it was done about as tastefully/non-graphically as such a scene can be. Gratuitous would have been the camera lingering on the act and not the reaction to the act.
I disagree. None of what it established hasn't already been established. And no, they didn't do it as tastfully/non-graphically as such a scene can be, are you kidding me?
I don't really want to get into spoilers, but nnnnnoooooopppppeeeee.
Considering virtually none of it is seen on-screen, yeah, it really was. If you're expecting a complete cut-away and just leaving it "implied" then you may not be watching the show you think you are.
I am watching the show I think I am; I simply stating that despite that, I expected more class. What I expect and what I get is clearly different; that doesn't mean the show gets a pass.
@Luna said:
I'm a map I'm a map I'm a maaaaaap!
I'M A MAP, I'M A MAP, SUCK MY BEEEEEEACH, I'M A MAP.
@Bargle said:
Step the fuck up and...do what exactly? Nothing she did in that moment could do anything but make it worse for her.
This I agree with.
Unnecessary? Yes, absolutely. There were many things they could have done to avoid it if they wanted to, but clearly they didn't.
Gratuitous? No, not really. It serves a narrative purpose, presumably...we just have yet to see what it will be. And it was done about as tastefully/non-graphically as such a scene can be. Gratuitous would have been the camera lingering on the act and not the reaction to the act.
I disagree. None of what it established hasn't already been established. And no, they didn't do it as tastfully/non-graphically as such a scene can be, are you kidding me?
I don't really want to get into spoilers, but nnnnnoooooopppppeeeee.
They could have done so many other things; even making it less graphic or lingering less would have been better; but the fact that they went there at all was unncessary. It established nothing we didn't already know.
@il-volpe said:
So WTF, did people just stop watching the series this season?
I suspect that a lot of people who were still watching have decided not to watch anymore after the latest episode. Talk about unnecessary, gratuitous bullshit.
@Arkandel Lolz, yes. The Brits are a lot less obsessed with mainstream attractiveness.
Hollywood has really ruined our perceptions of what age really looks like and what we expect it to, too, in my experience.
@HelloRaptor said:
@Coin said:
@HelloRaptor said:
I'm more than a little weirded out by the fact you seem to think that softcore pics of a sexual PC are ok if the player is going to engage in TS, but not if they aren't.
Srsly.
It just reads like "How dare you get my hopes up and then not follow through on my expectations!"
And also a little like, "having a sexualized PB entitles me to approach you for sexual roleplay".
Unfortunate implications abound.
