@zombiegenesis said in Horror MUX:
@coin said in Horror MUX:
Maybe it's time a CofD/WoD game played out like that, too.
I always wanted to play at(or maybe run) a Vampire: Requiem 2E game where the Strix were a serious threat.
I mean, I closed Eldritch for a lot of reasons, many personal, some not so much, but one of the main ideas was that each "season" would focus on a sphere, and when it came the vampire's turn, the Strix were gonna come out full force.
Sadness.
Some day.
@surreality said in Horror MUX:
@skew said in Horror MUX:
heavy choices
^ This. This is really the core of the horror aspect: having to make almost impossible decisions.
Confronting that sort of thing is what sets the game apart in a lot of ways. It isn't the angsty, endlessly bleak hand-wringing of WoD; it's: "You have to make a life or death decision, right now, and if it goes wrong, it's going to go very wrong," in many cases.
Maybe it's time a CofD/WoD game played out like that, too.
@skew said in Unnecessary Messenger System - +txt code:
@auspice do we really think tums beats ums?
Uuummmmm idk I'll think about it.
just do it, we're all gonna call it that anyway
You can give a producer (and writers. and directors.) $50 mil and expect them to do talking scenes and do them well because that is their job.
Sure, and yet I doubt a producer is going to front $50 mil for a TV show and see talking scenes they could have shot for a tenth of that. It's just now how things are done, even these days with Netflix and Amazon being extra generous with their budgets.
It's not that hard, man. All those talky scenes are very much the same kind of talky shit they do on Westworld, where they pair the talking and the monologues with actual breathtaking scenes. It's not easy, but it's not some insurmountable obstacle.
@auspice said in Um...What?:
@kanye-qwest said in Um...What?:
@thenomain what world do you live in??
Isn't he in Ohio?
I hear they're about twenty years behind everyone else and Sneaker collecting did begin to rise in the mid-80s...
Honey, I hate to tell you this but the eighties were thirty years ago. >.>
@wildbaboons said in Good TV:
Wheel of Time? Gimme. That's cinematic as hell.
That is probably the one I am most excited about... but also the most pessimistic. I'm sure it will be better than the FXX thing, but I'm not counting by much
I think it will come down to the budget and buy-in from the talent involved. It's not even just about money, as you can pay for decent directors, casting directors and even actors but sometimes you get Game of Thrones... and sometimes you get Chronicles of Shannara.
But the comparison doesn't really work, now does it?
Game of Thrones at its cheapest costs about $9 mil for an episode; Shannara at its most expensive costs about $4 mil for the same.
The first is on HBO. The latter started on MTV.
It's not really a comparison you can make.
Honestly, the LotR one is one of the ones I just sort of went "meh" at. I am less interested in it than I am in some of the stuff I don't even know the source material for.
Just as a reminder, Netflix is still developing The Witcher.
I am aware!
@coin I'm not sure where they can go with a billion dollar Lord of the Rings show based on a young Aragorn's adventures. It's guaranteed to at least piss off the loyalists since it'd need to be 99% new material, just for starters.
Also if they can't actually do anything to alter the course of the books, so say... Strider can't meet Frodo, expose Saruman or any of that stuff, then they might as well set it on any other time period (Beren and Luthien? Fourth Age stuff?) or even just ditch the LotR angle and use original material. And I say this as a huge Middle Earth fan.
Honestly, the LotR one is one of the ones I just sort of went "meh" at. I am less interested in it than I am in some of the stuff I don't even know the source material for.
I just started reading The Fifth Season though and Jemisin is fucking awesome.
Double post!
Some of these look neat. Maybe that Conan show will be fun, I do like the concept.
https://tv.avclub.com/game-of-game-of-thrones-thrones-43-big-upcoming-fantas-1828746565
Lots of these look neat.
I'm salivating at the possibility of a Culture show.
@haven said in Dead Celebrities 2018:
Burt Reynolds routinely beat up Loni Anderson.
He can eat a dick. In Hell.
I'm not down with the eating of dicks being used as punishment but fuck Burt Reynolds, the guy was a jackass.
@arkandel said in Potential Buffy Game:
@ixokai said in Potential Buffy Game:
@arkandel said in Potential Buffy Game:
@faraday Not that I never debated whether something is legit or not. Only what I think would be distinct and different than approaches we've seen before. I also clearly marked everything with an IMHO tag.
In other words the argument is that a Buffy MU* isn't carefully designed it will end up virtually indistinguishable from a WoD MU*. In my eyes that's a failure, but it doesn't make it illegitimate.
In no ways was I think anyone arguing this at all. Your 'in other words' conclusion is IMHO so completely unfounded its hard to refute beyond saying 'pffffftftftftft---' I've played Buffy games. There's no conceivable way to confuse one with a WOD MU*. Not for half a second.
You'd have to work your ass off and write a lot of theme completely disregarding Buffy history/story/tone/theme to end up with a game which made someone go: Oh this is just another WOD game, IMHO.
Jeez, you guys are playing rough today. I'm stepping out and taking my opinions with me!
It's Buffy.
@ixokai said in Potential Buffy Game:
@arkandel said in Potential Buffy Game:
@faraday Not that I never debated whether something is legit or not. Only what I think would be distinct and different than approaches we've seen before. I also clearly marked everything with an IMHO tag.
In other words the argument is that a Buffy MU* isn't carefully designed it will end up virtually indistinguishable from a WoD MU*. In my eyes that's a failure, but it doesn't make it illegitimate.
In no ways was I think anyone arguing this at all. Your 'in other words' conclusion is IMHO so completely unfounded its hard to refute beyond saying 'pffffftftftftft---' I've played Buffy games. There's no conceivable way to confuse one with a WOD MU*. Not for half a second.
You'd have to work your ass off and write a lot of theme completely disregarding Buffy history/story/tone/theme to end up with a game which made someone go: Oh this is just another WOD game, IMHO.
For example, on Devilshire, I remember that it was almost tradition at one point that the ST give a little "intro" to any one-shot scene--something horrifying happening to some victim--long before the scene starts.
Like--the ST might describe mannekins being brought into the school late at night for the CPR classes the next day, and the delivery guy gets mauled by the CPR dolls... because that's wghat the scene is about and that's how Buffy and Angel episodes started a lot.
You hardly ever see that in WoD MUs, if at all.
@arkandel said in Potential Buffy Game:
@coin But I did watch Angel. Those are two very different shows, and they'd lead to (or should) different kinds of MU* altogether.
To me - and obviously YMMV - when we discuss a Buffy game we mean a Buffy one, and if not we need to make that clear.
The thing is, it's clear to pretty much everyone. so far I think you're the only one who's watched both shows and who thinks there needs to be a distinction.
I could be wrong, I guess? But while I do think they are different shows, I think their core is the same, which is why they can co-exist in a MU.
@arkandel said in Potential Buffy Game:
@ixokai said in Potential Buffy Game:
Oy, personally, nothing would kill my interest more quickly then turning it from a Buffy game into a generic urban fantasy game.
That's the thing though. What makes Buffy Buffy is a very specific blend of themes without which it is just a generic urban fantasy game. It needs the drama, the camp elements, and IMHO the teenage factor else what separates it from being a Hunter MU* is precious little.
In fact unless the game is carefully designed to specifically cater those tropes it would feel very generic.
Again, you really need to watch Angel because when people talk about a "Buffy MU" they are talking about a "BuffyVERSE MU" (usually, some people may differ) and some of those elements you feel are crucial, aren't, when you can add other elements to compensate.
@ixokai said in Potential Buffy Game:
Beacon Hills
Unisystem would lend itself really well to Teen Wolf, although honestly, that show's lore is such a fucking weird mess that making a system out of it would take some bullshit amount of work.
@tragedyjones said in New +txt/+email/etc code for TinyMUX:
Agree with on bottom for newest texts.
No one asked you, SIR.
@skew said in New +txt/+email/etc code for TinyMUX:
@Roz and @Coin arguing if top or bottom is better.
I'm not mature enough for this kind of thing.
We're not arguing. We're consensually exchanging opinions.
BOTTOM.
I don't actually care which but bottom makes more sense to me because the screen scrolls with down automatically.
This looks like it does most if not all the things I complained and harried you and @Thenomain for like two years ago. 
Only games we both played on were Devilshire (Jack Moore, Sidney Neville, Seth Devlin) and Kushiel's Debut (Voltaire... Marquis d'Something I Can't Remember).
@bad-at-lurking said in Potential Buffy Game:
The Hellmouth could have migrated. Or been yoinked by some really unwise cabal of Daytonian witches (it's always witches) for some reason.
That would also make for a great plot point.
"The Hellmouth moved here."
"Um, that's not possible. The ancient texts are quite explicit."
"Tell it that. I'll be up here, cowering behind the shelves."
"The Hellmouth moved here."
"No it didn't."
"Yes it did."
"The texts are quite explicit when they cover the transitory possibilities of the Hellmouth."
"You tell the Hellmouth it didn't move."
"It did not move, the fluctuations of the Hellmouth's energies are quite different from those of the old Hellmouth."
"Old... old Hellmouth?"
"Yes. As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle famously penned in Sherlock Holmes, once you rule out the impossible, whatever's left, however improbable, must be the truth. Paraphrased, of course."
"... what?"
"It didn't move. It's a new one."
