I know you're venting. This is not meant to belittle how you feel.
Have you thought about taking your business elsewhere? Because I over-drafted hard with my bank and was not charged because they know I have money, but the timing was poor.
Smart banks know that waiving overdraft fees will keep and attract clients.
Needed: Iron Master Irraka with contacts in local government and organized crime. Required: Fame (Undefeated Karaoke Champion)
So ... you need me.
This is a development topic opened to discuss Ares and how it was put together.
This is a topic started to announce to people things that I inadvertently broke while doing something else.
While adjusting whether users can view the histories of posts, I broke the Hog Pit. Kind of. Those of you who opted-out of it may see it back on your list. Sorry about that. I'm not sure what I did, but I have been looking online for solutions. The Community Pages are not helpful.
Anyhow, it may be a simple fix. If you go into the Forum, you can set it from "Watching" to "Ignoring." That should turn off notifications of new posts and stuff, but you may still access the place.
I will confer with Arkandel about flipping it back to where it was before. I apologize for the inconvenience.
It's rare to find it outside of very serious humanist, philosophical or religious adherents.
Or Etheria.
It doesn't seem likely, as they have their own Lucifer cast and everything. I haven't gotten around to watching the Lucifer show, but from the outside it often seemed like its connection to the original source material was fairly tenuous, whereas the Sandman show looks like it's planned to be a fairly faithful adaptation. It doesn't really seem like a setup ripe for crossover.
I know, but I like hoping for things, even if they are highly unlikely.
It’s not about getting or making deals and picking the right people; it is about showing people how to mutually benefit from a deal, and pushing them to a compromise.
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Yup. Also, I bang out briefs like no one else. I read quick; I write quick.
@kestrel said in RL friends:
So basically, how much evidence is there of your hobby in how you connect with the real world?
You know, and I've said this before, I really enjoy political games. I love the various Vampire iterations. I love L5R. And I love the politics in Arx.
Someone said to me once that, as a player, I'm good at figuring at figuring out how everyone can benefit from a deal. That I'm clever like that.
It plays into how I practice. I settle many of my cases. I have brought enemies together as allies to make money in real estate deals.
What I do in RL and why I am good at it has everything to do with this hobby. I am a fast writer; I think well on my feet (because this hobby is essentially an improv exercise); and I communicate well via e-mail and in letters.
I tell law students constantly: the practice of law is applied Dungeons & Dragons. And those who know? Now they know.
Act I, Scene iii
(At a dinner party)
Host: Okay, okay! So, we're going to play a game! We'll all pick random questions out of this hat and ask them of everyone else in turn. (Everyone picks out their question) Okay, so you start, Guest 1.
Guest 1: If you could have dinner with three people, who would they be and why?
Guest 2: Oh, definitely <three historical figures>.
Host: Oh, those are good! Umm. I'd pick <three other historical figures>.
My PC: My two cousins and my one cousin's daughter, so I can see them one last time.
Pause.
Guest 1: I gotta run. (departs)
Guest 2: Okay, my turn. If you could witness one event in history, what would it be any why?
Host: Oh, that's a good one! Well, definitely <this event>.
My PC: My recently-departed family perished in a fire. I would want to witness how they were killed and who did it. (Beat.) I'm sorry, everyone, but they died horribly and I'm thinking of the unspeakably horrible things I am going to do to who killed them.
Pause.
My PC: Um, so, my question. (Beat.) If you could make up your own holiday, what would it be and -- (Pause.) -- how would you celebrate it? (Smile.)
FIN.
@too-old-for-this said in Good TV:
Frodo, in large part, is literally just the Ringbearer. Things are done to and around him.
I don't find Legolas dynamic at all; rather he, like Gimli, are caricatures and tropes. Rather, like the other hobbits, Frodo undergoes a profound change from the start to the finish, and, to me, that's more interesting to read in the books and watch on the screen.
And that is also by calculation. I agree that Tolkien uses Frodo as the vehicle to carry the story forward. But I didn't find him static and he wasn't a husk to me.
Elves are boring as fuck, but pretty to look at. By calculation, of course.
@too-old-for-this said in Good TV:
I'm sorry, but Frodo is largely a walking husk throughout the movie. He's very much not dynamic or quoted. I won't say he's uninteresting, I don't know that there's an uninteresting character in Tolkien.
I found Frodo a lot more interesting than Legolas.
That's not the only way to do it, but, yes, it is a way to do it.
I mean, The Last of Us is game storytelling at its finest. Many superhero stories don't have blank, uninteresting characters. And animated series, I think, have to have compelling main characters to survive.
I'm just not sure I can agree with you that blockbusters don't have quotable main characters.
He travels from place to place killing monsters, which allows for a flexible narrative introducing all kinds of funner characters and scenarios along the way. I don't think he's interesting and I don't think he's meant to be.
He's basically Wolverine, except in a fantasy setting.
But, yes, Sapkowski knows what sells. What sells, like with the Twilight series, is a wholly boring protagonist surrounded by interesting people and circumstances. It allows for reader-immersion and fantasy-fulfillment.
The games are good because they are beautiful and the soundtrack is fantastic.
