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Female athletes forced to pay for the privilege to wear something other than what a man tells them to.

@thebigd said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

No one is going to want to RP out the boring, every day bits unless there's a point.

I dunno. For something no one wants to RP, I'm surprised how many scenes seem to be strangers making awkward chit-chat in line at the coffee shop or whatever.

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

But low grade nausea/pain just really sucks when you do not know when its going to end.

I feel you. I can handle pain, but nothing turns me into a whimpering baby faster than nausea.

@aria inserts obligatory smartypants trivia that alpha males aren't even a thing, that the scientist who said they are a thing retracted it when he realized his research had been done on wolves in captivity, so he tried it again on wild wolves and it just doesn't work that way

@cobalt Aw, her just barking, not talking. I can't wait for her to try to say words.

I think either system would take a lot of house ruling to work in a MUSH, but I generally prefer second edition, if it's down to a vote.

@de-villefort said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Why do you think people hate Superman but like Batman?
Superman makes everything boring.

If you say so. I feel like Batman is much more boring because if Superman is consistently portrayed as being able to beat any problem, how much more boring is the """regular""" human who can consistently beat Superman?

That cone is a traitor. It promised me happiness and instead offered me only lies. I'm not mad at it, just disappointed.

@arkandel Good advice.

@silverfox Dis hoomin is our favrit pillow

I give MVP to Richard E. Grant because just imagine being seventy years old and wearing that costume with a giant fan blowing in your face and no one to play off of on an empty sound stage, having to use nothing but body language to try to evoke the act of conjuration his character pulled off. I am slightly disappointed they didn't manage to work Bill Nighy into the plot somewhere but he's probably got a contract to do some MCU role later down the line, like voicing the Living Tribunal or some damn thing.

Also, ***SFW but TMI***

Today I learned a popular euphemism for a particularly traumatic, triggery experience a lot of women have. I'm glad I learned it. It will make me better in conversations about it.

The superhero game systems I'm aware of are so gritty as to be unpleasant to play in. I hope the Sentinels game is more accessible.

In other news:

LUMITY

@runescryer I wrote a whole thing about my prime example, but this thread is supposed to be about good TV, so I deleted it. Let's just say I'm with you.

@derp The complaints I've heard include the lack of continuity between episodes after the show drops the Kazon/Seska plot, a mostly boring crew whose members never get to significantly grow or evolve due to the episodic nature of the series yet still somehow manage to occasionally be inconsistent, Neelix being a straight up predator, doing little to nothing with the premise of being cut off from Starfleet, overusing the Borg until the Borg cease to present a credible threat to anyone, a pretty hateful representation of B'Elanna Torres, and the naked* pandering in Seven of Nine's costume design.

I agree with all of those complaints to one degree or another, but despite that, I find most of the show watchable. Just not the Neelix episodes, mostly.

*rimshot

@coin It felt a bit dishonest of me to go there since I actually kinda like Voyager and Star Trek V; but I know most people are deeply contemptuous of them.

@coin said in Good TV:

@greenflashlight said in Good TV:

@lotherio said in Good TV:

Without TOS there would be no Star Trek.

But without Dracula, there would be no Twilight. Just saying.

Dracula's more TNG to The Vampyre's TOS. Also I don't get the point. Are you insinuating that the new Star Trek properties are to TOS what Twilight is to Dracula?

I'm saying that if a sequel's quality reflect on the original material, then that goes both ways. If you prefer, pretend I said that without TOS, there would be no Voyager, or no Star Trek V.

@lotherio said in Good TV:

Without TOS there would be no Star Trek.

But without Dracula, there would be no Twilight. Just saying.