One suggestion is that if you're going for full World of Darkness to never allow relaxed, ambiguously friendly settings.
No family friendly restaurants and the only Chuck-E-Cheese is an old, half burned down husk of a family fun place.
Then again, my own personal interpretation of the WoD is kind of Frank Miller's Sin City meets Dark City where there are no truly safe places, and every place you visit has a film on it.
Personally I'd like to see more of that.
@Thenomain said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
So while this is something I did learn a very, very long time ago, it's still something I should have learned sooner than I did:
People will derail online conversational threads.
People who complain about a thread being derailed will still do it in other threads.Not complaining, here, just sayin'.
I 100% disagree that this happens
And it's BULLSHIT that Sense8 got cancelled.
@Auspice said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Tinuviel said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Auspice True, I don't deal with kindergarteners.
Not since the restraining orders, no.
Damn, the last time I saw such a sick burn it was...
+1 for Tron, Farscape, and Matrix
@Thenomain said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
7th Sea.
Also, 7th Sea.
Did I mention 7th Sea?
Hah. I saw John Wick at a gaming con a few weeks ago, bur couldnt get a ticket to play in a 7th Sea game run by him. Him and I have plenty of shared friends, and I've considered picking his brain once or twice.
Oh my god you have no idea how many 7thSea/HotB/L5R fans there are here in my town simply due to how often people I know have played his settings by his GM hand.
@Admiral Holy fuck Sabaton are AMAZING live aren't they? I made a promise to myself to catch them every time they come to town and and 2/3 on that promise so far.
Once with Nightwish and Delain, a second time with Trivium, when they had to politely and graciously ask the crowd to stop chanting SA-BA-TON in between songs so that they could finish their set with enough time for Trivium to get all of theirs in.
I just saw something I can't unsee...but it's applicable to the thread:
When you have a lollipop, you're just snacking on your own flavored saliva.
I havent watched wrestling since I was maybe...18? So...uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh a lot longer than I'd prefer to detail, but this clip of highlights is from one episode. Its fun and fresh, and lacks that weirdo WWF taint.
yes. I said taint.
@Tempest It allowed Force Sensitive, but no Jedi class.
@Tempest nah, d20 Saga, Fires of Hope
Any fans out there? I recently discovered this show on Netflix and am a total nerd for it now.
Johnny Mundo 4 the Win
@Chet There was recently a smaller scale;tighter focus Star Wars game in the vein of Rogue One that fell through, but I think the reasons why would be better discussed in terms of how to keep plot proactive in a tighter setting
@Chet Personally, I think it's probably more that I don't believe in vigilante justice and spent the years of 5 thru 38 wishing I could forego my mundane job for joining an intergalactic order of peacekeepers for the betterment of all sentient creatures.
Alas, I didn't develop telekinesis and haven't been busted by a floating ring, yet.
All jokes aside, I am one to introspect and meditate often, checking myself, as it were, and am more or less one of those spiritual types. So, I'm a fan of stuff like the Jedi/Lanterns in theory.
@Aria I love Volbeat, too.
It's a shame they ended their leg of their tour with Metallica a few weeks ago, because I'm going to see Metallica and A7X next week
Wait, its not a humblebrag, yet.
Eh, this'll be my fifth time seeing Metallica
Now it's a humblebrag.
In all fairness, I believe that I see what @Chet is poking at.
There is, on some psychological level, probably a number of theories that are probably quite interesting surrounding the love of superheroes.
What emotional or psychological elements might lead someone to attracting to Batman instead of Captain America, or the Incredible Hulk instead of Squirrel Girl? What psych/emotional elements attract or cause aversion to Dr. Doom more or less so from Magneto?
Is there something in our psychology that pits people in the Xavier camp of mutant rights versus Magneto's camp, and would a preference for either's method in a fan sense tell us anything about the fan themselves?
Whenever I hear studies about these things, I tend to approach them as interesting rather than some kind of metaphysical fact, because the approach the author of the study tends to lend heavily towards predispositions the author had to begin with. These studies tend to read to me like yet another example of a stance the author already had, kind of like how the same UFO EXPERT writes the same book 4 times...only each expounds slightly further than the previous one.
In a MU sense, though, I think it's a slippery slope to assume the psychology of the player based on their hero and villain selection. There are more factors towards why someone chooses a particular FC, including: what was left at the time, cool factor, fanboy/fangirl love, emotional resonance with character, someone asked them to pick WASP...
But could there be a reason why I am more attracted to the Green Lantern Corps than the Punisher? I'm sure there's an interesting topic there.
The guy thing is true.
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Pro Tip: Your lips don't change color if you're into penis bleaching
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(joking, by the way. I'd never admit to that)
