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Werewolf Gifts were miles more organized and consistent than Sin-Eater Manifestations.

@Arkandel said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness:

I'm pretty sure I liked Geist's system!

Your horrible taste is well documented.

It was a mess. Manifestations were a mess. Keys were a mess. Mementos were a mess. The rules for making Krewes were a mess. But the utter redundancy and discrepancy in functionality of Manifestations/Keys was the worst bit. Just horrible.

I'm pretty sure I'm still entitled to my own preference of hyperbole levels.

@surreality said in Pokemon Go:

@Coin Oh, I'm sure. Depending on how much the current project works I might go that route when it's time.

It's just so not time.

...yet.

Just need to downgrade the Firearms rules, change Computer for Navigation, Drive for Ride, and then take a look at Merits and see what fits and what doesn't and what can be altered.

Could even have supernaturals. Oooh. Pirate CofD.

@surreality said in Pokemon Go:

@Coin Don't you make me get the itch to make that pirate game I still really wanna make, I'm already up to my eyeballs in templates. <so much glinty-squinty side-eye, which is so piratey... GODDAMMIT>

Man, I could whip up a set of pirate rules for CofD in about a day. Not even exaggerating. >.>

I mean, I wouldn't. But I could.

Maybe they'll fix the absolutely horrible systems for Geist and make it work with the above average theme.

@Jennkryst said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:

I forget, is Mummy happening on this or no?

Nothing is happening on this. It has been tabled for the time being.

This past week and a half I binge-watched Continuum from start to finish.

Extremely smart show. A lot of fun. Good pacing, good dialogue, good plot. Light on the special effects for a time-travel show, but better for it. Very satisfying ending without being sappy or depressing in either extreme. Hit a well-achieved balance in the end. Above average casting, too.

@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go:

I think I've mentioned this before here but in case I haven't - I'm so spoiled by just 'finding' things online it doesn't even occur to me not to any more.

So while ago I was looking for the .apk file (basically an Android app in installable form) for Plex, a media player I use almost literally every day. I must have been searching for the latest version for half an hour before it occurred to me... what the hell am I doing? It's $4. $4, one-time fee including all future upgrades - what am I doing?

Betimes it just be the principle o' th' thing, matey.

@RnMissionRun said in RL things I love:

@Coin Followup to that.

Hopefully some cool Judge pops up and is like, "You got pwnd. Deal with it." >.>

@WTFE said in RL things I love:

This made me literally LOL.

That is some righteous legal pwnage, if I read and interpreted it correctly.

@Misadventure said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness:

Okay, I bought it. It had better be worth it.

Or what!

I'm taking bets on what the post said.

2:1 on "and everyone was horrible".

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Coin Gunning for the Buddha. I mean, that's gotta be a thing. It just has to.

Nemesis and Shark Walk are still iconic songs of my... like... late twenties. I'm 32.

Ilikeoldmusicshutthefuckup.

When you find out the new website you started using two days ago to prompt your morning writing, that you've been enjoying, is only free for a month.

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Coin If this does not show up in the background next season, I am going to be disappointed.

Very disappointed.

Not available in my country, I guess.

But if it's Shriekback, it's good. That's just law.

@Insomnia said in Fanbase entitlement:

Yeah, fandoms are crazy.

[rubs his face]

Holy shit.

This is the sort of thing that makes me glad I tripped and happened to fall into a sane fandom (for now). Not that I really participate, but I do get a lot of it on my Twitter feed, and Wynonna Earp fans are a delight.

@lordbelh said in Good TV:

So, Preacher went from mediocre to pretty decent, I thought. I'd give it a B, with room for improvement.

It was always kind of decently batshit crazy.

The whole video conference thing... lulz, but kind of eh at the same time? So. Yeah.

Hopefully now that they're out of the "prologue" bit, they can get down to brass tacks, as they say.

I said it made a difference in experience but not investment. I did not say fandom and roleplaying were the same thing, just that we shouldn't assume one requires more investment than another.

Also, lulz at "reassess your priorities" regarding fandom. Because fandom is somehow less of a priority pitfall than pretending to be a vampire on a text-based game? Come on, man.

You all know my stance on entitlement and what players deserve. I have stated it time and time again all over these forums.

But at this point, this conversation is just a bunch of people either agreeing or disagreeing on what the term entitlement means. It's circular. Like, I get Ashen-Sugar's point, but at the same time, "I am entitled to fair wage for my hard work" doesn't seem like it goes against what he's saying, so in the end, we're never going to get anywhere unless we all agree on which definition and how we define the term...

... and getting us all to agree on anything is like pulling teeth, so. XD

@lordbelh said in Fanbase entitlement:

@Coin said in Fanbase entitlement:

I disagree entirely. I spend more dedicated time watching TV or reading than I do RPing at this point. Also, my choosing to invest in something does not, actually, entitle me to anything regarding that thing, regardless of how much I choose to invest.

On a Mu, players are participants, not passive consumers. That makes the difference. The stories set in the game are written by the players by and large.

It makes a difference in experience, but it doesn't really make a difference in investment. You can't arbitrarily decide that people deserve to be more entitled in one medium or another just because of that, especially not in today's world where fandom is such a huge, huge, huge part of people's lives, to the point where being a fan of a TV show or book series is a hobby unto itself.

I've seen fans of shows on twitter or Facebook put in more hours and being way more invested in their shows and fandom than most of the MUers I know are in whatever game they're playing.