Posts made by Coin

Daybreak is pretty wonderful.

Van Helsing is in its fourth season and the first three are pretty brutal and neat.

@Ifrit said in RL Anger:

@Auspice No one's told me anything about anyone's sex life. I hope I can continue this streak unbroken.

S A M E .

@Rinel said in Great TV:

So. Watchmen. Am I supposed to be cheering for the fascist police state because it's taking out white supremacists?

I'm going to assume that the point is "just because a fascist police state is taking out white supremacists doesn't meant that fascist police states are okay." But now I am just sitting here watching weird satirical liberal revenge porn.

I feel very confused.

Same.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I just learned that the Colombian national sport involves throwing metal disks at gunpower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKzt0XbWQk

........I'm just waiting for this to make its way to the US. I want it now.

"Whenever you explode them, you just yell and drink."
Perfect.

Man, wait until you find out my country's official national sport.

where's the explosions tho

you don't need explosions when you're tossing live ducks around. >.>

but you don't use a duck anymore.

My sister lives waaaaay the fuck in the South and lemme tell you, you probably shouldn't believe everything you read on wikipedia.

I mean, not that I support it, buuuuuut.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

@Coin said in RL things I love:

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I just learned that the Colombian national sport involves throwing metal disks at gunpower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKzt0XbWQk

........I'm just waiting for this to make its way to the US. I want it now.

"Whenever you explode them, you just yell and drink."
Perfect.

Man, wait until you find out my country's official national sport.

where's the explosions tho

you don't need explosions when you're tossing live ducks around. >.>

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

I just learned that the Colombian national sport involves throwing metal disks at gunpower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKzt0XbWQk

........I'm just waiting for this to make its way to the US. I want it now.

"Whenever you explode them, you just yell and drink."
Perfect.

Man, wait until you find out my country's official national sport.

@Cupcake said in CoD Ancient Rome game...:

Changeling in a period rich with mythology and ritual.

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

it would be especially interesting if Changelings in Rome had Courts and Freeholds that really related to Roman mythology; there's a lot to work with there. Creating your own Kiths would be amazing so that they could really resemble the huge sources of inspiration in Roman mythology.

P.S. consider Geist when 2e finally comes out because lares and ancestor cults, just sayin'.

@The-Sands said in Good TV:

@Coin To be more accurate, I think; the characters appear to you to be mangled versions of the Archie characters.

For some reason during the past 5-10 years Archie comics has been fairly successful with a line of comics deconstructing the Archie characters and putting them into much more serious situations, including things like Archie getting married, getting divorced, and dying. I don't really get it because I haven't read them (I'm simply not that interested in a 6 issue limited series of Archie trying to do his Federal taxes). I just know that they're out there. I think the characters from the Riverdale show probably owe more to those more recent lines than to the historical comedic line.

The Sabrina series on Netflix is much the same, drawing from a line of horror comics that Archie Comics produces that features Sabrina, rather than being based on the older style Sabrina comics.

They also still print lines of comics done in the older humorous style (as a side note, I don't read those, either. I just know about the existence of the 'parallel lines' from keeping up on my geek news).

Oh, probably, but the newer Archie comics are far less iconic (especially to non-comic book intense people) than The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina which was much more readily received (and pushed a hell of a lot more boundaries than newer Archie stuff in an era where pushing boundaries is a good thing for sales).

Either way, it doesn't so much matter where the mangling is perceived or "real"; the show is its own canon, IMO, (and same with any adaptation of anything).

It's still surreal as fucking hell, man.

I finally caught up on Riverdale and just...

... so, it's not that it's bad, it's that you have to suspend your disbelief with a forklift. I mean, I get that a lot of people got annoyed because they basically took Archie characters and mangled them, but since I don't care about that so much, I finally decided to let the absolute surreal nutjobbery of this show take me and if you can manage that? It's a nice ride. It might be best for binging, for me, though.

Now for the meat of the post:

Raising Dion is phenomenal and you should all definitely watch it.

w o w

I've used Jack so many times. It's just such a simple, solid name.

I also tend to notice people using names I've used in the past before a lot, even if I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Like, I will laser-focus on someone using Devlin immediately because I played a Devlin for so long.

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

"House" is a play on "Holmes" being a homophone of "homes."

god dammit

Wow that uh, you uh, that took you a while, huh?

Love you, buddy.

@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 PC vs Player Assumptions:

I fondly remember @Coin's reaction when I misread his set at one point and thought combat was about to start, leading to me shifting out of the blue into full Garou murderform in the middle of the street at some random time while people were still just getting out of their cars and shit.

My reaction IC or OOC? Also, I don't remember either. Remind an old man of the hilarity, please.

@Taika said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Ours is mostly automated in similar vein to how equip code is. You pitch it, it gets a skim, and an approve/deny/discuss. When you fulfill the asp, it pops up a request and you can approve, deny, discuss, and upon approval of the job, it doles out a beat automatically.

I would SERIOUSLY suggest automatic approval if staff takes more than X days (3 is my preference) to process a fulfilled aspiration.

At worst you're giving someone a beat they may not merit; that's far preferable to making people wait because staff is human.

@Lisse24 said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Coin I've been playing with the idea of a peer-confirmed process. So you complete an asp, it publishes to the room, people then confirm that it happened or not.

This would:
a) Take staff mostly out of the equation and make it more automatic
b) Increasing overall use of the system by reminding those players that tend to forget about asps that they exist and they should be fulfilling them
c) Feeding player creativity and empowerment by exposing them to a wide variety of potential asps that would serve as inspiration.

Could this be abused? Sure. Anything could be abused, but I think we design for the game and players we want and then deal quickly and harshly with those who try to game the system.

I like it.

@Jennkryst said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Lisse24 said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Ganymede said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@RDC said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Unpopular opinion: Generic CofD 2e game where the defining feature is that staff just kind of stay out of your way and let you play the game without metaplot or too much staff-lead politics and stuff. >.>

It's a fair opinion to have, but I have not seen this work in practice for longer than a few months.

I think in order for this to work, you still need to encourage play. In most recent WoD/CoD games this has been through metaplot, which is top-down. I think if you want a game that is bottom-up, it can still work and would perhaps work even better, but only if replace the time you'd spend planning an elaborate metaplot instead focusing on systems that encourage interaction and RP. I think you'd really have to heavily think about design and how/why characters would interact and how do you push them towards that. And I don't think that relieves the staff from having to put in plot seeds, they'd still need to give story reasons for players to interact, they just might be smaller, more personal stories.

So fun story, I think about Reno? I dunno.

For the like... two weeks I was active there, I was HELLA active there. I don't really recall if there was meta plot at the time...

What they did have were the Aspirations. Like full on 'get XPz for doing the thing' along with the quick squirt of happy brain juice that goes along with that.

Which I admit I maaaay have over-used/abused.
Literally every scene involved fulfilling a short-term aspiration, or work towards fulfilling a long-term aspiration.

Then again... if you're not working towards these things, why have them at all? They are designed to be a roadmap for what sort of RP path you would like to follow. So if you have staff that reacts to these aspirations, plot-wise, and weaves them into a meta-plot, instead of writing their own and hoping the players engage it... that might be a thing?

The key here is to make Aspirations 1) quickly approved; 2) easy to fuilfill; 3) quick to be processed.

Honestly, if the process can be mosrtly automated it would be great. I actually though about doing that once upona time. Like: pitching an Aspiration and getting it approved for play were automated and then, once you fulfilled it and put in for your XP, staff had X days (I think it was 3 for me) to approve or deny (some people will try to game the system) or it would be automatically approved and the system would just give you your XP.

So staff can basically just scan Asps and pluck out anything fishy without having to go through each one.

@Ganymede said in Any Fate free WOD games left?:

@Caryatid

To be fair, I didn't entirely create the Alucinor at Reno. I think that was more skew's doing or Derp's doing.

I did make the bloodline for a different game that, to my knowledge, never opened.

But, yes, try Echoes.

Might've been @tragedyjones and I.

@Arkandel said in Help my addiction:

I have a problem.

My problem is a certain kind of book is crack cocaine to me; once I find one I just feast on it, quite often starting then finishing it in the same day. So now I need my fix and hopefully you people will point me to an author/dealer to keep it going.

Don't judge me, but the material at hand involves (in semi-random order) a combination of military or arcane training, underdogs and badass moments. I'm talking about books such as the following:

• Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter; a low-class nobody in a caste-based militant Empire gets into a military program and kicks all kinds of ass.

• The Red Rising saga by Brown Pierce; a low-class nobody in an solan system-wide oppressive regime fakes his way into a military program and kicks all kinds of ass.

• The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks; a bastard of the world's most powerful man makes his way into an magical military school and kicks all kinds of ass.

• Red Sister by Mark Lawrence; a piss-poor orphan girl gets in the world's most badass nunnery and kicks all kinds of ass.

• The Raven's Shadow series by Anthony Ryan; a young nobleman is forced into a military school and kicks all kinds of ass.

• Okay, okay, Ender's Game. You know this one, the author turned out to be fucked up... but Ender kicked all kinds of ass. In a military school.

Anyway you can stop judging me now FINE I get it, I said I had a problem. Find me more books to feed my habit, will you?

I chuckled, which isn't easy lately.

@observer3000 said in Good TV:

@Coin For real tho.

I also think they need better choreography for the fight scenes except the hallway/multiple opponent scenes where Blackbird goes up against a bunch of thugs. Those two scenes are fucking baller. The rest of the fight choreo needs work, but now with Arrow ending maybe they'll have the resources for it (although Batwoman might pull from there).