Posts made by Coin

I used to look for a scene around 10-11 PM on Friday and then promptly fall asleep 4-10 poses in. Just ask @ILuvGrumpyCat, who had so much patience with me, holy shit.

@thenomain said in Unlikeable, incompetent, and inactive: Can these characters work in an MU?:

@goldfish said in Unlikeable, incompetent, and inactive: Can these characters work in an MU?:

So I'm sitting here, wondering to myself: Can I make an unlikeable character?

Yes. @Coin does this all the time without even trying.

Yeah, but that's because I have honed this skill through years and years of methodical study and practice.

You're a natural, though.

@scorn

That is a fucking boss-ass pumpkin.

@misadventure said in How old are MU* players?:

@coin Were you afraid when trains were invented?

Trains were raised on my legend.

I hit 35 because I turn 35 in a month. -_-

@scorn said in Reno is closing! ....Or is it?:

When we reopen in early January, the doors will be flung open onto a new city: Portland, Oregon. Contrary to rumors that are apparently already making the rounds (to the eye-rolling of those actually in the know), we will still be offering Vampire, Werewolf and Mortal/+. The only sphere we are dropping, at least for the time being, is Hunter. Because Hunter is still 1e. When that changes, it will likely be brought back. Maybe others, down the road. We'll see!

There most likely will not be a Second edition of Hunter. I highly doubt it. It's a splat that doesn't particularly need a second edition. Mortal Remains updates HUnter-specific things to GMC/Second Edition and everything else that's Hunter-related can be found in the CofD corebook and Hurt Locker.

I read them. Often not until I need to and definitely not linearly, but I read them. If I skip anything, it's usually just the fiction.

The problem with discussing rolls and stuff beforehand (and it's not a problem I have, but that I have run into a lot) is that people will telly ou they don't like to "script" scenes. They prefer to "see where it goes".

I mean, I get it, but eh.

@zombiegenesis said in Mixed Superhero Game Ideas:

@coin That was pretty much my setup for my The Strange knock-off. I was calling it Shards of Reality. Something happened(no one knows what) in the Prime Reality that created "fictional bleed" which resulted in endless shards that represent pretty much any reality you can think of. Players could either play a character from the Prime Reality(probably a member of PRIME, people who travel from Shard to Sharl stopping Bad Things from happening) or a denizen of a Shard(say Wolverine in a Marvel universe where all the heroes were infected by vampirism). Players could do what they want with their shard or adventure to other shards. Characters could even be different people in different shards(Jon Smith in the Prime Shard becomes Batman in Shard 23 or Namor in Shard 37 or a nameless Stormtrooper in Shard 14 or whatever).

It's an idea I'd actually been thinking about for years, a one-stop shop for RP, but The Strange had a really decent take on the fictional bleed so I stole a lot of that to further refine the idea. Of the game that will probably never happen.

Yeah. I've had the above idea since before I read The Strange, it just coalesced entirely when I did.

My idea for a comic book game inspired by The Strange is the opposite:

Remember Amalgam? Remember Exiles?

The Stage: The Multiverse.
The Headquarters: The Panopticon.
The Players: Original and amalgamated characters.
The Catch: Only a limited (e.g. 3) versions of the same character (amalgamated or otherwise) can be on the game at any one time. (So there are three Wolverines--one is similar to the usual Wolverine, another is Dark Claw, another is a version of Logan who grew to old age qwithout ever knowing adamantium, or maybe gamma irradiate, or or or... etc).
The Plots: If you create a character you get a number. That number is your Universe. You get a room, building privileges inside it, and you can make it be, look, whatever you want. Galactus can be a chicken. I don't care. The Panopticon is staff-regulated. characters go on missions to different universes to fix the multiverse through various actions--some are benign, and some are a little more vicious, which is why the Panopticon also recruits, you know, Deadpools, and Carnages, and Punishers.

So you can play in your own world, crossing into the Panopticon occasionally, or you can play in the multiverse, mostly going on player-run missions across the vast expanse of infinite possibilities--and since "universe destroying dangers" can only destroy one universe--if you wanna do that to a universe you created? Fine. Go for it. Only threats to the multiverse and the Panopticon need staff oversight.

And if your character gets frozen (due to inactivity or you just get busy and freeze them)? Someone else can app a similar one--but not yours. Your Wolverine is YOUR Wolverine. You might have to wait for a Wolverine slot to open up, but the stories you told are yours, the relationships are yours, etc.

@bobotron said in Good TV:

@coin

I don't think this is super spoilery, and I can't find a spoiler syntax for the board.

She referenced Batman Beyond with the slang 'schway' and she referenced the Legion of Super Heroes by name dropping Lightning Lad, and referenced Atom II, Ryan Choi.

OOOOH, that's right, schway is from BB. Honestly I internalized that shit so young I didn't even recognize it. XD

@bobotron said in Good TV:

@coin

Right. The fact that her first appearance she had a side braid I was like 'OH GOD SHE's GOING TO BE <CODENAME>!'

I didn't expect the references she made to Batman Beyond and the other big one she made.

Honestly, it was late when I watched it and I didn't catch the references.

@bobotron said in Good TV:

The Flash last night was tooooooooo much.

More references to other DCU characters.
Batman Beyond references.
ARGH! NERD LEVEL WAS OVER 9000!

I totally called out that she would be [codename] and that they would change her origins to [origin].

XD

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

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

If you work in an office and don't silence your phone

I probably hate you at least a little.

There's no way to silence my phone entirely. I can only lower it to a certain volume and it's not low enough god dammit.

I just realized you probably meant cell phone. I always have my cell phone on vibrate. What's a ringtone and why would you ever?

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

If you work in an office and don't silence your phone

I probably hate you at least a little.

There's no way to silence my phone entirely. I can only lower it to a certain volume and it's not low enough god dammit.

@PuppyBreath I'm so sorry, hon.

@goblin said in Tomorrow is the Deadline....:

The fact you have to register to do something that is your full right has me so entirely baffled. Why is it like that? (Honest question, no sarcasm here.)

Isn't citizenship good enough?

Every four year over here, every eligible voter gets sent a voting card. No charge, no registering - we're already registered to be citizens. Then we go vote, bringing our voting card and ID, they compare it to the 'voting ledgers' and notes down that this person voted and which instances they voted for (and then of course there's several checks along the way before the final results are in.)

I MEAN RIGHT?

My country has a national identity document we all carry around. It's a number, and some of our most pertinent information, and our thumb print. Yes, I carry my thumbprint everywhere. My thumbprint is already in every conceivable database necessary in the country, probably, to be honest. And that's okay.

I also don't need to register to vote. In fact, voting is compulsory. I have to have an actual, justifiable reason not to vote or I could be fined, or even face jail time in the right conditions (i.e. I am already in breach of some other law or whatever). In practice, jailtime almost never happens and fines are pretty rare, too, but we also have all elections on Sundays and employers are required to allow their employees time to vote if they work on Sundays. We also have our voting centers designated to us based on our registered address, so I vote about seven blocks away, in the gym of a private school that is co-opted every election for that very reason. Argentine teens have the option to vote starting at age 16 and it becomes compulsory at 18, generating an interest in the political state of our country at an early age (though this is very recent and, unfortunately, too late to have saved us from the current clusterfuck we're suffering from). At 65, voting becomes optional again. If you old, you get to stay home (which is hilarious, because we all want the racist old people to opt-out but they keep getting their maids to drive them over so they can plug in their classist vote). Even immigrants can vote in local elections--just not national ones. So my brother, who's a US Citizen and an Argentine resident cannot vote for presidents or senators, but he can vote for the local governor elections, for example.

@tnp said in Tomorrow is the Deadline....:

@blondebot said in Tomorrow is the Deadline....:

Honestly, trying to set up automatic voter registration in a country of some... 300 million or so people sounds like a logistical nightmare and we're already crazy in debt.

Issue social security number, register person to vote, taking effect 18 years from date of birth. Done.

There is no reason not to do this except for vote disenfranchisement.

@Thenomain, I tend to think generation labels are stupid, personally, because not only are they dependent on when you were born/raised but also where, and it's that second bit that no one seems to care about (because how could you possibly justify calling a 30-year-old a Millennial if they grew up in a village in Perú?). But, aside from that, the "Xennial" thing (which I technically fall into) is because there is a group of people in the "civilized" (re: with access to modern technology and media) world that grew up analog (like your generation) but transitioned into digital (millennials) before they hit full adulthood. I mean, i was using a CD player in 2001, and then I skipped directly to MP3s around 2003, no minidisc in the middle. My brother has never listened to a cassette except as a vintage relic of a past age (you know, the early nineties) whereas I can vividly recall my teenage years always carrying a BIC pen to save battery life on my walkman.

Yes, these differences are contextual, but they're real, so when it comes to the (often annoying and silly) labeling of generations, there is a very real gap in between Generation X and Millennials. Like, I remember when I wasn't a Millennial, but instead Generation Y.

@wizz said in Requiem 2e Bloodlines:

@Coin

That level of local flavor would be awesome. I mean, I'm not typically a Vampire player but it is a little disappointing to browse a wiki and see setting info like, "This is the Hierophant, this is the Maiden, this is the Father, SPOOKY FONT OOOOOOOOOOOOOH rattle chains"

I mean, again I don't play, but just based on public info like that it seems like Covenants are a blank slate in the books with lots of customization options out there, but most games just play them 100% straight.

When @skew, @tragedyjones and I were planning on doing a Las Vegas game, I was doing a lot of work to make the Sangiovanni a local Covenant. I had a lot of fun with it and it fit really well into the setting/theme of the game (Las Vegas? Casinos? Mafia? VAMPIRE Mafia? Yes please. And as a Covenant it meant every clan could get in on that action).