Posts made by Ganymede

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

Take me out for pho and drinks, Gany

Babe, you know where I live. Swing by, I'll put the kids in bed, and we'll drink and pho-k all night long.

@Sunny said in RL things I love:

I have to eat my Pho before I can play with my laptop.

Edited to add: omg it is so tasty.

Pho is one of my favorite things now. There's a place near where I live called 'Wat Da Pho'. I go there twice a week.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

As a warning, tho, BGG is a 'fun' place to find a festering cesspool of the sort of guys who think gaming should be for men and only for men.

Unsurprisingly, I heard that their speed-dating meetings are a veritable sausage party.

Look out, ladies!

@Rucket said in The Hockey Thread:

I don't hate the Flyers. I just hate Philly. And Dallas. New York to a lesser extent. Sorry, but this is how it has to be in the NFC East. It just ends up bleeding into other sports.

Look, stop projecting your loathing for your own team and just recognize that Dan Snyder will never put together a Super Bowl team ever, all right?

@Arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

Uhm, the Rockets?

Congratulations, you have James Harden and Chris Paul. And who else?

You have Eric Gordon, but he's a SG, like Harden. You think Brown, Jackson, or Taylor are going to help take minutes from an aging Paul?

At SF, you have ... who? PJ Tucker? 7.7 PPG career average, 32 years old. Trevor Ariza? 10.5 PPG, also 32.

At PF, you have Ryan Anderson. 13.2 PPG, 29.

At C, you either have the zombie of Nene, or a couple of unseasoned early-20-somethings.

So, you're probably going to be fielding a trio of guards if you want to have a shot at a win, and I'm going to take Curry, Thompson, and Green to take you down every damn time.

@Arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

The Kyrie/IT trade

Cleveland will somehow come out as the bandits, if Thomas proves he's healthy. Irving wanted out, he got out, and he gave the Cavs a king's ransom to do it.

Ainge fucked up.

Paul George to OKC

Pointless. Westbrook had an MVP year with no one around him, but that's because there was no one around him. He's the reincarnation of Iverson.

Jimmy Butler to the Wolves

Still a team that is young and full of problems.

Lonzo and Lavar

The Balls can suck themselves. Lonzo's the second coming of Manziel, mark my words.

Chris Paul to the Rockets.

It just means there's no one to truly challenge the Warriors in the West.

Do you think anyone's taking out the Warriors this year? Do you think anyone can, barring injuries?

Cleveland still has the best shot because LBJ is LBJ.

@Admiral said in Descent Reboot:

Isn't that basically 'the apocalypse' from oWoD mixed with Fallout?

It might be. I didn't read the "Apocalypse" part of the End Times supplement. Fallout, yes. The rest of it was just an idea I had in the shower.

@Taika said in Descent Reboot:

Still plan on using the thor shot barrage. No one ever went digging into the big 'Why' of how it all happened, so there's still a big plot lying around in the corners of my mind.

You know, back when I was creative, I had an idea for a post-apoc WoD game where the atomic bombs ripped open the barriers, causing ghosts and spirits to flood into the world. Because of this, technological advancement ground to a halt, as people focused on survival more than innovation. The time was the year 1999, right before 2000, but the technology level was more like the 1950's.

So, it was kind of like Fallout: World of Darkness, but without the power suits and nuclear stuff.

@Lithium said in Descent Reboot:

I am curious as to how it is post apocalyptic, what was the apocalypse, how does it affect the world, and in what ways? Are vampires and other supernaturals openly known or is there still a Masquerade?

If I recall, there was some sort of spiritual explosion that ripped apart the barriers between the Twilight, the Shadow, and reality. So, ghosts and spirits abound. Fighting, degeneration, all of that. End of civilization.

I don't think the "masquerade" policies were being enforced any more. There's no reason when there are ghosts and goblins everywhere.

@Ghost said in The Hockey Thread:

It's just a mess and I hope Domi and their new squad can get some decent work done, * * *.

Uh. There's more than Domi. I mean, I like Max Domi as much as I liked Tie Domi (aka Me Idiot), but the Yotes are a lot better than that.

They have Ekman-Larsson, Goligoski, Hjalmarsson, Demers, Chychrun, and Schenn, not to mention Clendening and Connauton to fall back on. That's a pretty solid D-group.

You've got Strome, Domi, Cousins (now), and Derek Stepan down the center. Martinook, Dvorak, and Duclair are solid LWs, and Etem is a solid, young RW. And Antti Raatta looked good backing up King Henrik.

Don't give up hope on them.

I mean, they aren't the Flyers.

@Cupcake said in RL things I love:

I live in a house with other women and a 16 year old boy, and whenever somebody needs to do something like move furniture or open a jar, the call out is: "Let's get down to business to defeat the Huns!"

Someone pointed this out to me, and I love it:

Let's
Get down to
Business
To defeat the Huns.

@Ghost said in Random Bitching:

Terrible? No. I think he's altogether a better hockey player than Crosby, but Crosby doesn't have a problem with playoff slump and has led the Pens to cups. Was Ovie worth the $124m? His regulation stats are great and he's put butts in the seat, though his regulation stats are on a downward trend, as well.

Justin Williams gets paid extra money because he performs well in the playoffs. Why shouldn't Ovechkin get mo' money if he can play well in the regular season? If you don't play well in the regular season, no one gives a shit about your playoff abilities.

Ovechkin averages well over a point per game in the regular season (1,035 pts., 921 GMs). He has won countless awards. In the playoffs, his stats are different, but are still damned good (90 pts., 97 GMs). Backstrom is in the same general boat: about a point per game in the regular season, but only a slight drop in the playoffs.

Last season, Braden Holtby couldn't save them. The year before, yes, the scoring was suspect. But in previous years, the defense was permitting too many shots (over 400 in 2 series is awful).

Frankly, the Capitals simply aren't good enough. That's it. Crosby and Malkin look like the saviors, but it's really about Murray, Sheary, Rust, and all of the other lesser-known players that made the Penguins champs again (I mean, do you know Nick Bonino is?). Who does anyone know on the Capitals beyond Ovechkin and Backstrom?

In the end, I'm just a Coyotes fan who has been pulling their hair out at the decisions the GM/franchise are making, a lot of bad politics and drama, so I've adopted the Flyers as my Eastern conference team.

I can get behind this just fine. It's okay to love two teams in two different conferences. But the Flyers suck, they've always sucked, and they will continue to suck until their front office realizes: (1) their defense is terrible now; (2) their goaltenders blow; and (3) beyond Giroux's line, you can field a team of girl scouts with better success.

You know, the team I can watch while my Coyotes trade useful players like Dubnyk away.

Dubnyk was a back-up on Edmonton, and was a back-up to Mike Smith when he was with AZ, putting up a 9-5-2 record. That's not bad, but he posted an awful 2.72 GAA and pedestrian .916 save percentage.

Then he was traded to the Wild for a third-round pick, and became a star there. He is making $4.33M a season now, but still has a GAA around 2.30.

Meanwhile, AZ turned that pick into Brendan Warren, who ended up being traded with a fifth round 2018 draft pick to the Flyers for Nick Cousins and Merrick Madsen. As you should know, Cousins was one of the Flyers' centers last year, who put up 16 points in 60 games; not bad for a 24-year old. Madsen, meanwhile, put up a GAA of 2.11 and save percentage of .923 in 36 games with Harvard last year, and is only 22.

So, your mileage may vary. AZ has been in re-build mode for a couple of years. Now, they look like a threat for the playoffs, but the Western Conference is deep and painful.

@Jennkryst said in Descent Reboot:

It is post-apocalyptic. One might wonder if you are going to have proper covenants, or if they vanished along with mortal society, with new replacements? Sorta like the conspiracies that you could use in lieu of covenants, from Danse Macabre?

Some of the conspiracies would be neat. Harbingers fit better as their own little bloodline.

@ShelBeast said in Descent Reboot:

I just figured Mystery Cults would be a neat way to throw a bone to those who want them, without having to break systems or HR the crap out of things. Honestly, the less HR'ing we have to do, the better.

But the work has already been done for you, mostly. As I said, some of us have been trying to translate the Bloodlines to 2E.

Some of the Bloodlines would be great for the Descent, like the Dragolescu. If I recall, the Descent had the spirit world bleeding into the real world, which was a totally awesome idea (and one of the reasons why I made a Werewolf there).

If you want help on this end, hit me up. I'm in.

(I used to play 'Wolf' there.)

@faraday said in The Hockey Thread:

I'll just leave this here for @Auspice

I think there's an "I" missing in there.

@ShelBeast said in Descent Reboot:

One thought is to have Bloodlines be represented by the Mystery Cult Initiation merit, though. Let people pitch them in that light, using those rules.

I'm sorry, but Bloodlines aren't Mystery Cults, and were never calculated to be.

There is plenty of online conversion that has already occurred. Blackwall (sp?) and I went through all of the available Bloodlines, winnowed them down to workable ones, and then pitched a bunch for RfK 2.0. I worked on some with skew, and some made it to Reno.

Bloodlines were an important thematic element for Vampire 1E PCs, for the most part. You should give serious thought to presenting them on the Descent, because it will help you stand out from other games (aside from setting).

@Thenomain said in Eliminating social stats:

Hey, at least you'd be doing it in an FS3 way. @faraday can't fault you for that, can she?

Can she?!

Yes.

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

I don't care if you got approved with some retarded shit on your sheet. Staff shouldn't be afraid to go 'no, you can not drop a truck on Jane while sitting in your apartment'. And players should grow the fuck up and realize that's a pretty reasonable stance.

More accurately, staff shouldn't be afraid to backpedal when something's broken.

@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.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

My company sometimes gives us $25 gift certificates to the company 'zazzle' store.

that's our 'special bonus'