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@auspice tell your mom I said what's up.

@ganymede said in Good Music:

@faceless

Equally unnecessary: Ludacris freestyles Anna Dewdney's beloved children's book.

I wish I could upvote that more. Because that's amazing.

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

@auspice

It's so angry!

My name is T-Dog, bitch!!!

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

DMX - Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer

@admiral said in Good TV:

That disturbs me to this day.

You're right in your description of the scene. I'll take it a step further, because I've watched that movie... a lot. That's my mutant power. I can watch a movie over and over and over and over. End of Watch? Watched that one roughly 50 times before I finally decided to give it a break.

So! Taking your description a step further!

The slow, inch-by-inch shaking descent of the knife. Coupled with the 'shhh, sshhh'. And the beads of sweat dripping off the German's chin onto Mellish.

Goddammit, I wasn't going to join in on this conversation because I wasn't really certain how to identify one face from another in terms of the topic at hand. I was browsing Imgur though and came across a couple images from a (recent, I'm assuming?) Vanity Fair spread. A few of the images stood out to me, so I felt they deserved to go here.

Bill Murray? I think it depends upon the period, but I could see him having period piece face, particularly as he's aged. The linked image for example just makes me think of some 18th century composer.

Michael Fuckin' Keaton? Both categories, I think. I think young Keaton, Modern. Aged Keaton, Period Piece.

Emilia Clarke? For my eyes and brain, her Face is dependent on how they do her makeup. By default though, if we're not factoring in makeup? Modern Face.

Amy Adams? Period Piece Face.

Now my brain's real Period Piece Face vs. Modern Face challenge?

Jon Hamm. Period Piece, Modern. My brain doesn't care. It just wants to be stuck in the wilderness with him for a few days, relying on one another to survive. There'll be an exchange of body heat. No, no, we won't be fuckin'. But we'll definitely be cuddling - for survival, you see. I'll even forego my usual placement and accept the little spoon position, if that's what he'd prefer.

ETA: The mentioned Imgur post for your lookin' needs. Some of the images are just fantastic.

@surreality Yeah, that would probably make me just stop replying. A peeve of mine? Don't show up at my doorstep without notifying me well ahead of time. I want a day notice, preferably. My mother's shadow once fell across my door. I looked through the little peephole. Stared at her. Turned around. Walked away. I made sure to clear my throat just loud enough so that I knew she'd hear from the outside and know that I was home. She called me then: "I'm at your door", "I know", "So let me in", "No, get some manners". She went home that day without paying me a visit.

By the way were you able to get any of the floss boxes? I figured it's important that you be reminded that we need them.

We really need a RL Mildly Disgruntled thread. The majority of what I post in this thread isn't really anger so much as eye-twitching annoyance... anyway!

I really wish people wouldn't make me suffer the annoyance of their attempting to add me as their Facebook friend, based purely on the fact that we have the same name. We don't know each other. They have the same first and last name as myself, that's it.

Then to top it all off, he has the same sort of style as many convicts I've encountered over the years. Hell, his profile picture even looks like he's in some khaki scrubs which offenders around here are requisitioned. Which I really hope he's not, because that'd be some serious institutionalization that needs to be addressed.

Anyway, bruh, strap on your Jerusalem Cruisers and keep on stepping.

Mrs. Faceless went in to visit HR at her previous employer, to resolve some issue with her 401k. If you're playing the home game, it was mentioned by her former management that she would walk around the office like she was "Mrs.Faceless Fucking McFacelessface".

So she went to the office and was promptly swarmed by roughly 15 people wanting to see her, elaborate how much they've missed her, how things have ground to a halt in some areas because she's not there to answer questions, and other stuff.

Rando: "I really miss you, I wish you hadn't been let go."
Mrs. Faceless: "I've missed you all too, but it's okay! I had a couple interviews lined up within an hour of being let go."
Rando: "Well, that was quick!"
Mrs. Faceless: "I have a couple offers from..."
Rando: "It's been ten days..."
Mrs. Faceless: "Yeah, well, I'm Mrs.Faceless Fucking McFacelessface. That's what I do."

This amuses me primarily because I know it will get back to her former management and when they receive the news this morning that Mrs. Faceless' unemployment will go through because, per the State's investigation, there was no wrong-doing on the part of Mrs. Faceless? They're going to be sad. It'll just be made all the better when the gossip of what exactly she said during her visit, gets back to them.

I love that smart ass. Her sarcasm is majestic and fucking beautiful.

2 Chainz - 4 AM
If it wasn't for the struggle, then I wouldn't be me

Post Malone ft. 21 Savage - Rockstar

Jidenna - Long Live the Chief
Now they say Jidenna why you dressin' so classy? I don't want my best-dressed day in a casket

SonReal - Can I Get A Witness?

Rae Sremmurd - Perplexing Pegasus

@sparks said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:

Oh, man, if we're bringing MMOs into things

I don't see why not! The topic's about discussing favored characters you've enjoyed playing. So MMOs are fair game too, I'd say!

I don't really do MMO roleplaying. I just find it often clunky and the immersion just feels off to me. In my head though? Oh, yes, I'll definitely come up with a story in my head, while playing a game. See: Avantyr the Paladin of the Silver Hand in WoW that has been deleted and given a redux every other expansion. Or Darth Murdros(mur-der-ous, get it?!?!) in SWTOR.

@scar said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:

Wasn’t going to post about her but I’d be remiss if I didn’t give Lark credit where it’s due.

Best Lark. I miss her. Probably one of the few that could make my character put on his own brave face, all the while mentally screaming: "Why won't she stop staring at me?! What did I do?!?"

ETA: And I still tell people about the scene on the Sovereign's Bridge, because that scene was legit. It really made me and my character look at Lark in a new light, afterward. I miss that cloak though.

@sparks said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:

If we're talking just past characters...

Orianne, my young idealistic mutant over on X-Factor NYC. She started out so naively idealistic about the world, and her entire arc was basically an ongoing struggle between that idealism and the realism the world tried to grind into her. With every plot twist and character development, something chipped away a little more at her belief that people could get along. And yet she kept trying so hard to maintain her cheery demeanor.

I love reading about those sort of characters. Not only those who try to persevere against a changing world, but also those who are shaped in unexpected ways by the world around him. I have a current character that I'm playing that has been going through that sort of change of late. His has been, I think a more positive growth, but it's still a change from what he began as. He's letting go of old prejudices or, in some cases, expanding them as he comes to realize that the justly deserved(from his point of view, anyway) prejudices include others who had otherwise obfuscated their involvement.

So yes, seeing the game's world shape the character? Whether that's the world itself, new information being revealed as part of plots, or other characters within it sort of nudging your own character a degree or two from the line you expect? So often it makes the process feel all the more rewarding.

@skew said in skew's Playlist:

Come winter, he'll need bootie

Don't we all.

@seraphim73 said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:

Volkare Previn was a Zabrak Sith Trooper.

Man, I miss Volkare a lot. He and Pirge, together. So much fun.

Pistol Dude + Punchy Dude. Sith Troopers 4 Lyfe.

***Stranger Things***

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@three-eyed-crow said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:

I had a lot of characters I really enjoyed on TGG, though a lot of them had their lives cut short (which was part of the fun!). My favorite was probably my Sikh combat engineer, Singh, who I only played for like 3 months and who died a bloody, meaningless death in the trenches of WW1. As you do.

I really feel like that was around the same time that I played Mason! Sikh+Singh+combat engineer sounds really familiar!

@sg said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:

Thatcher on Lost Generation was also fun. Snipping wire under the germans' noses was kind of terrifying. Eating the apple at someone's funeral was also fun. Thatch was an asshole.

I played on TGG briefly. I can't recall much about the character because it was many years ago and only briefly played, so all I remember is a name: Mason.

I remember a gas attack came in and instead of just hanging out in our trench, preparing to defend, we charged the German trenches. I, in a moment of treating it like I was playing Superman and also just playing it like a video game, rushed ahead( @Seraphim73 would probably say this isn't surprising, since I ran ahead on a Star Wars game and it prompted a harried fight). So Mason drops into the trench and is suddenly going: "Oh, there are like at least two krauts here"! He wasn't wrong. There were at least two, because there was like 5-7. Thus he begins fighting as defensively as I could make him, returning fire ineffectively, until the others could arrive. They did take less incoming fire, so I considered it worth the danger.

I do miss TGG, sometimes. There were moments that it got the adrenaline pumping!

@auspice said in Characters You Enjoyed Playing:

Now I knew my dice for that roll would be back, but it's what Thorne would do. So I rolled it. I didn't just fail. I drama failed. So Thorne tried to curb stomp this thing while shouting "NO MEANS NO" and fell through the fucking floor into a whole swarm of cockroaches.

Best moment ever.

And rolling with the dramatic failure is what made it seem all the more rewarding! It's when they're seen as a punishment, rather than an opportunity, that I think a lot of times people fail to capitalize on. You must have played her before(most likely) or after my brief step into Hunter and TFV. Did you ever play with Sledge(Richard Sledge - because Dick Sledge needed to be a name used at some point) on that character?

Gordon. Gordon. I don't miss playing Gordon. I do miss delving into the head of Gordon. Gordon was my first step into Mage the Awakening. He was a paranoid dude. He grew up in a family of mages, with some supposed prophecy that he was going to Awaken someday and be this great mage - he went into his teens, twenties, and late into his 30s without that happening. He felt like a failure. He did ultimately Awaken, but that didn't eliminate his feeling of being inadequate or just altogether unworthy.

That didn't mean he wasn't a valuable asset to the Awakened, he was still a Proximus. He was raised knowing that if things went south with a mage... it couldn't get to that point. He had to strike first and hard. As a result colored his views on how to handle people, situations, and more; don't play defense, play offense and play hard.

He had a B.F.F. sort in the form of another character who was essentially a millionaire playboy who was chronically irresponsible and kind of a terrible person who made terrible choices(in the eyes of Gordon, at least). Playboy made Gordon go with him to some Alice In Wonderland-themed party once. The playboy dressed up as some character. Gordon? Gordon was the caterpillar. Complete with hookah. Which he just sort of dragged around behind him without enthusiasm, as he waddled around in this massive caterpillar outfit - fun fact, he had a shotgun stuffed away in the aft section of the costume, dragging around behind himself. He was not happy to be there because El Gordo was just not an overly happy person.

Playboy's cousin came to work with Gordon once. She could light shit on fire with her mind. When Gordon first met him he basically told her, straight out the gates: "Don't worry. I have no interest in fucking you". I'm fairly sure she gave him the 'good, you wouldn't have had the chance anyway' sort of response, while also being mildly offended. Gordon dgaf. She later caught a chair in his office on fire, during a separate incident. He advised her if she did that again, he'd turn her into a pile of ashes. Despite how confrontational that relationship seemed, the player and I got along famously. 10/10 will always roleplay with again.

At the end of The Reach, Gordon had something like...1,050 XP? And he was a Mage. I, as a player, knew that I could very, very, very, very, very, very easily make things not-fun for other players. Knowing that, I pushed him to Gnosis 7 eventually. I did this because at that point... the plain ol' mortal world just isn't as interesting. There aren't mysteries to be discovered or uncovered there, at least not on the surface. I did this because as shown in one scene among a mixed-bag of other splats, I didn't want to show them up. So while everyone was trying to deduce some family secret, trying to uncover this centuries old tale with their powers and stuff... Gordon wasn't. He was too busy thinking about manipulating time, stopping it, and tying that to when he unholstered his sidearm. And, at one point, discovering a baseball glove that he hadn't seen for two decades - he was SO excited by that. It was only when everyone else's rolls failed, they couldn't make progress, and a challenge presented itself did Gordon(like the eye of Sauron) turn around like 'Ooooh, a mystery...'. I was happy that I, in my opinion, had the maturity to let other people try to drive the Cool Thing forward and only stepped in to throw my own sheet at it, when others failed.

He had a lot under the hood that was never explored or probed by others; I've honestly forgotten so much about him because he had so much about him in terms of backstory. He took things very seriously, usually. One of the moments that always stands out the most to me with that character is when I wrote a little short story on The Reach, featuring Gordon. Gordon seemed so confident and competent, in most cases. The introduction of that little feature on TR was an opportunity for me to show that Gordon wasn't as put-together as he so often seemed. I wrote it out and it was just Gordon, sitting in Lay-Z Boy, a bottle of whiskey next to him(and not good whiskey, I'm talking 'in a plastic bottle', whiskey), watching Fox News(because of course Gordon did, even if I curl my lip at it), a gun(because the dude was always armed), and a big cupcake on a tv tray in front of himself. He grabbed his gun, stared at it for a moment, and had his own little Lethal Weapon-Martin Riggs moment where he thought about eating a bullet - it'd make things a lot easier on him or at least that was his thinking. Ultimately, of course, he put the gun down. Sighed a bit. Picked up his cupcake, started unpeeling it, and then wished himself happy birthday. I posted that up and got a couple pages about it almost immediately, one of them really stood out to me: Person pages, "I really wish I could give Gordon a hug". That, to me, felt like I had written that segment well. I was proud of that writing.

Gordon was a complex character to me and I often credit that fact to just how much I had put into his story that I knew, or suspected, no one would ever see or even attempt to delve into. Even today, a few short years later, I can't properly put my finger on what I really got out of the character or what I'd hoped to get out of him. I can just say that I put a lot into him and that in the end, I did feel satisfied with him. Even if I wouldn't play him again, because overall I think his character was complete, despite his never really having a proper ending.