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@GangOfDolls said in Game of Thrones:

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So basically it was just good old fashioned entitlement?

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@Arkandel said in Game of Thrones:

No spoilers needed to say this: Bran can freakin' warg into a dragon at will. Or a person.

It's not clear but the guy is the most powerful person in Westeros and it's not even close.

LOL the worst part is he doesn't even have any limits to it. Like, literally, the only limits would be time and space and he broke those too.

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@Taika said in City of Shadows:

+- Some conditions award beats.

Most Conditions give Beats. Save for Tilts, in fact, I can't remember any that don't when they are Resolved. You only don't really get Beats if the Condition fades over time.

(I'm not saying that's how you want it, just how the rules go, iirc. You might change that for the game. Up to you.)

@Sparks said in Good or New Movies Review:

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ETA: If it helps my favorite cross-over is Alfre Woodard, she's one up on Josh, Michael and Chris Evans (1st Storm/Capt America - I guess his ass is hot afterall?), she played two roles in the same movie verse (mother of boy killed in Sokovia and my favorite portrayal as Mariah Dillard on Luke Cage)

I'm still semi-amused by Brandon Routh playing both Clark Kent/Superman (Superman Returns) and Ray Palmer/Atom (Legends of Tomorrow) in adaptations of DC stuff. If only because it set up the throwaway joke of Ray meeting Kara Danvers/Supergirl and remarking that she reminded him of his cousin.

And now Zachary Levi is playing Shazam!/Captain Marvel, who has worked and found himself looking up to... Superman, who was played by Brandon Routh, who played... Daniel Shaw, who was looked up to by Chuck.

Ugh, I love 6 degrees.

@Ghost said in Space Games and Travel Time? Why? Why Not?:

@Coin said in Space Games and Travel Time? Why? Why Not?:

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@SG said in Space Games and Travel Time? Why? Why Not?:

why not have space adventure games in localized areas where moving from one spot to the other in a RL day isn't some sort of immersion breaking feat?

I personally find "this sector only" to heavily hinder the space sci-fi genre. It's also very hard to justify only remaining in one sector when you're flying around in ships with hyperdrives.

I mean. I manage to play in a small town setting and my character drives around in a car and has access to airplanes. I mean, okay? lol.

Right. Let me be clearer since it appears you wanted to get an "lol" in.

From Star Trek to Buck Rogers to Farscape to Star Wars, the Sci-fi "Space Opera" genre largely dwells in large, galaxy-spanning drama where weird planets, weird cultures, and weird space phenomena are a part of the storytelling. A lot of the genre involves finding weird, new places, and flying a spaceship there to kick ass or seduce a space princess.

There are a few exceptions that have been successful that focus on one solar system. The Expanse is a good example of that.

My point was this. Given that the genre (and in most cases, the setting) involve traveling to and from different star systems, I feel that limiting play to a particular star system somewhat limits the player by slaving them to one setting. Also, these genres also tend to include spaceships capable of traveling from one end of the galaxy to the next, so having a ship that can do that but reasons limiting them to only being in one sector can be limiting to the writer, as well.

Space is about BIG.

Not necessarily.

Space can be about small. Alien. Event Horizon. Any movie or book set mostly inside a ship. "But that ship travels," I hear you say. Yes, but the action transpires in the ship.

In any case, I disagree with your objection to limitations in a setting mostly because as a writer I find I'm most prolific when I have limitations set.

@Ghost said in Space Games and Travel Time? Why? Why Not?:

@SG said in Space Games and Travel Time? Why? Why Not?:

why not have space adventure games in localized areas where moving from one spot to the other in a RL day isn't some sort of immersion breaking feat?

I personally find "this sector only" to heavily hinder the space sci-fi genre. It's also very hard to justify only remaining in one sector when you're flying around in ships with hyperdrives.

I mean. I manage to play in a small town setting and my character drives around in a car and has access to airplanes. I mean, okay? lol.

@surreality said in Game of Thrones:

In fairness, there are five (lonnnng) episodes to go. We still may get the payoff under discussion. (Kept as vague as possible.)

This thread: the art of vaguebooking.

Uh. Three. It's a six-episode season.

@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

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I think Clint dying would have cheapened the whole thing.

He had a family. He became Ronin because of the dark place he'd gone to in losing his wife and kids. The movie was this path of redemption for him. He was willing to sacrifice himself, but Natasha wasn't going to let him because she loves his family as much as she loves him and because she's a good leader. That moment was showcasing the kind of leader she'd become. If she'd let him sacrifice himself, it would've made her a shitty friend, a shitty friend of his family, and a bad leader.

Should Marvel have given us a Black Widow movie a long time ago? Yes. Of course they should have. But to think 'Natasha should have lived because we didn't get a Black Widow movie' is the same sort of thing that leads to OOC behaviors influencing IC.

Clint and Wanda talking at the end gives me hope that she'll step up into that mentor/leader role now.

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@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:

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See, that didn't bother me because they did show howThor was really feeling at times(the scene with him and the Hulk in New Asgard for instance). I've known people who handled PTSD related situations in exactly the same way; they put on a mask of a fun-loving snarkster and buried themselves in drink. It's also a comic book movie, a separation from reality, and it led to some funny scene and, IMO, added character depth to Thor. Obviously these are just my opinions, however.

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Lol, I liked it fine. It a neat visual and didn't take anything from the movie.

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@Rinel said in Game of Thrones:

@Coin

Bad. It's bad. The plot is completely off the rails, the only constant to character action is their reliable inconsistency, the choices being made make no sense, dialogue is uniformly terrible, and the entire thing has been slouching toward the finale borne entirely on the capital of goodwill it accrued when the showrunners were adhering remotely closely to the source material.

Martin is a sleazy hack who is way too interested in minors having sex, but he's a sleazy hack who is way too interested in minors having sex and who has at least one creative bone in his body. The show was at its height when the showrunners served as much needed editors for Martin's tendency to ramble and be creepy. Now it's nothing but dick jokes from Tyrion and utter silence from Varys, because the writers aren't good enough to write characters who are geniuses.

Oh my god, your level of investment in something you don't like makes me snicker. I hope you find joy in something.

@Sparks said in Game of Thrones:

That's the question we were all asking ourselves.

@Rinel said in Game of Thrones:

lol this show is so bad

@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:

Endgame was really good. Long though. Really long. To the point where, for me, it impacted the enjoyment of the movie a little bit. Even so I don't regret having seen it. They did an amazing job with it.

Uhm.

It flew by for me. Like, I'll probably notice the length of the movie a lot more then second time, but I did not feel its length was an issue the first time around (which I did with Lord of the Rings, years and years ago).

Endgame.

Damn.

@Sparks said in Good or New Movies Review:

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@Aria I was not bored. I came out thoroughly entertained. But lord, it wasn't good, to quote Bloom County.

So, basically the BPRD/Hellboy equivalent of Netflix's The Order, which is a series that is so terribad it results in an underflow on the 'quality' field and wraps around into being somewhat enjoyable again?

You take that back. The Order is worth it just for the Argentina joke.

I spit my mate all over the table.

@Thenomain said in City of Shadows:

@Taika

Yes.

I estimate that it would also take me 2-3 times longer, too, so for now I'm going to make it straightforward "set anything" and let the chargen on each game line and their staffers worry more about it. A unifying system would be a long-term project.

(edit: Not to say that I won't do it sooner rather than later. I didn't even know Vampire and Werewolf had Touchstones, and I coded them. Maybe it's something I missed between 1st and 2nd Editions. I'm slightly befuddled that nobody using these installs said anything to me. Or less befuddled if they did and I don't remember.)

Oh, we talked about it. At length. It was decided at the time that +notes was a more expedient solution.

Not sure which trope you mean, @Sparks, but none of the ones present, I think, were used in a way that makes me cringe. Everything was so cohesive, augh.

Holy fuck shit that The Magicians season finale. Damn.

@Arkandel said in Game of Thrones:

Is that why Bron hasn't sired any kids yet?