Best posts made by Ganymede

@ominous said in Random funny:

@n0q said in New Superhero Game Looking for Staff/Feedback:

In the absence of source material to function as an appeal to authority, PCs are somewhat free to do whatever is most efficient for them.

On that note, I don't know how you advance in M&M, but remember to incentivize the behavior you want to see, and disincentive that which you don't.

E.g., if you want your PCs to accept failure, then set up a system where they will advance faster if they do. The drive to succeed will always be there, but the acceptance of failure should be incentivized so that it isn't always a bad thing.

@solstice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

And because the only med that even halfway works is a benzo, I'm trapped on something that doesn't let me drink or smoke the devil's lettuce, which makes the parties I do have the spoons to get to a bit of a bummer, as I'm by default the sober person in the room.

You've probably heard this a million times already, but being sober doesn't mean you're a bummer.

By any measure of how you play, you're fun enough just the way you are.

@arkandel

It's hard to say this, but thankfully Ohio is more progressive in this respect; that promise from the predecessor would have been unenforceable.

I'm playing one of those new Sanctified. Come play with Shelbeast and I!

Except I'm the one with pie.

@faraday

I totally agree with you.

One of my kids has a serious neurological challenge. We have strategies for dealing with it. Those strategies have been fairly effective.

But I also know when and how she's being a jerk.

@evilcabbage said in Armageddon MUD:

i don't want to get into a heated debate about how quotation marks can be used for emphasis with you, but it is one possible way to use them, yes.

I'm not familiar with how AAVE works, but I'm very certain that proper English does not include using quotation marks to emphasize particular words.

As it goes on this board, it makes little sense to do so when there are buttons that allow you to bold or italicize words for emphasis, and where you have demonstrated that you know how to use them.

@tinuviel said in RL Anger:

And should be run by professionals. Not Dave that got a good deal on 'fireworks' from the next county over.

I nearly ran over two kids and two adults setting off fireworks in the middle of my fucking suburban street, with about two dozen onlookers staring at me as if I was the asshole.

Look, dipshits, I will run you and your fucking children over in my black Lexus if you stand or sit in the middle of the street after the sun goes down.

@magee101 said in Shadows Over Reno (Threeboot?):

Too bad it isnt 1e. Not that I dont want to learn 2e just havent been able to find any bootleg copies and poor af

If you really want to learn 2E, let me know.

@ominous

Watermelon is fucking gross.

And most people don’t season or prepare their chicken well before frying, so it ends up tasting bland and too oily.

@auspice

Woman, that was in real life, Ms. InstantPot.

Sue me for liking to sauté, bake, and roast things.

@greenflashlight said in RL things I love:

Yeah, I'm honestly a little grumpy she's only being punished for twelve hours when people are going to die from what she says, but whatever.

Frankly and darkly, if you listen to her then maybe you deserve what you get.

@sunnyj said in Shadows of Paradise: help wanted!:

If you set a high bar, people leave, because most players are, quite frankly, lazy af.

You realize this means that only you and I would be left on a game, and that, to me, makes me ooze with anticipation.

@roz said in RL things I love:

The original link was PROBABLY best for the Politics section.

@sonder said in Miami, Blood in the Water:

I really struggled with the idea of saying anything but we’re a community and if I’m wrong about what happened, I’ll apologize but I feel like this sort of stuff maybe needs to be said.

It does. It really does need to be said.

@testament said in Good TV:

I think a lot of people's gripes was the fact that the trailers gave the expectation that there'd be a lot more He-Man when the first half the season is based more around Teela.

I think these complaints are stupid too. That's not why I was disappointed.

After watching the first half-season a second time, I think my peeve arises in the development of its ideas. I find Teela's character arc difficult to believe given her choice revolves around a single-albeit-important event. There's a lot of unspoken, unwritten background information that a casual fan like myself did not quite grasp. And there's a whole lot going on that could have been better developed. The half-season could have easily have been a full season of material.

This is similar to what I found in the War for Cybertron series. And it is the opposite of what I concluded for the failed Thundercats reboot. So, yes, I definitely wanted more because there was so much more there to be done.

Also, they could have done a full reboot, as they did with their other successful Filmation series.

On a whole other note, Netflix continues its development of 80s nostalgia, but I am happy that they have the original author on board (as Sapkowski was for The Witcher) and let James Wan do the producing.

@rdc

I have a large number of Bloodlines already written up, that you are welcome to use.

A thought, though: make sure your lines are tied to your theme and setting. They feel more useful and important that way. Finding a Banda Cantu or Rakshasa in New Orleans may be a little odd.

@silverfox said in Good TV:

She-ra reboot? @Ganymede what is this.

To recap shit I have been saying for months, Netflix rebooted She-Ra. This is a complete reboot, right down to the art. The newer Master of the Universe show is more of a sequel to the original series. The new Voltron: Legendary Defender is also a reboot, rather than a sequel, but the art studio, story-writing, and just about everything about it is different from the new She-Ra series.

The hate that the new Master of the Universe series is getting is different than the hate that She-Ra got, but it pretty much comes form the same source: veiled misogynistic criticism from people who can't wrap their heads around anything new. It's sad and on the level of MAGA bullshit. I may not have particularly liked it, but my criticism is aimed at the pacing and story development; when you put it up against the storytelling of The Legend of Korra, for example, there's no comparison.

As an example of the hate, I have a friend who says all of the right things, claims to be woke and progressive, but "just can't get into" She-Ra "because of the art." Here's what She-Ra's creator, the legendary J. Michael Straczynski, had to say about that. Adora looks young in the beginning of the series because she is young. Glimmer goes from an awkward chonk to a curvy woman because she grows up. And this is the fucking point of it all and why the show is brilliant because of all the little details that you get to pick up on when you go back and look at it again.

Sometimes, you're even lucky enough between the tears to watch the story come so beautifully full-circle.

Anyhow, Master of the Universe, I have concluded, is worth the watch. These reboots and sequels are worth it.

@sunnyj said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:

Players should be able and ready to tell those stories by themselves on a MU, or not app a Promethean.

Players should be able and ready to do the same with any World of Darkness splat.