Posts made by GreenFlashlight

I want to make this turkey roulade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZIm0-PuUw

@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

but that would be ignoring TLJ and Finn/Rose

Breakups happen, especially as people discover new feelings about their orientation.

@Groth said in Good or New Movies Review:

If the second movie isn't doing any of the setup work for the third movie, you're not making a trilogy, you're just making three movies that follow each-other chronologically.

I think you and I understand the word 'setup' to mean different things, because everything I described wanting to happen (except for that last bit) was a continuation of things that happen in the Last Jedi. To me, that means they were set up.

@Groth said in Good or New Movies Review:

What is there even in TLJ to springboard off?

Explore what it means that the Force has awakened to a degree that random children are absentmindedly telekinetic to a degree the One True Bloodline is no longer the only important thing in the galaxy.

Deal with all the Space Neo-Nazis who are still out there and have much larger numbers than the Resistance. Maybe strike them while they're disorganized and possibly even fractured by the death of Darth Smeagol.

Speaking of the Resistance, rebuild it. Be the spark that starts a flame, and all that.

Build a Jedi Order stronger and wiser than the one that came before, that breaks the cycle of failure to at least find its own, new ways to fail.

Show what happens when Rey tries to learn how to be a Jedi from books.

Tackle the issue of Space Neo-Nazis being enabled by weapons dealers who profit off an apparently perpetual state of war in the starry region.

Explore what Kylo Ren is capable of now that he's moved beyond cosplaying his grandfather and has been eternally denied his revenge against his betrayer in the most humiliating way possible.

have Finn and Poe kiss you cowards I would watch two hours of them holding hands and picking movies to watch and laughing at each other's bad jokes while one washes dishes and the other dries them yes I know no movie actually set that up but make it happen

@Derp said in Good or New Movies Review:

RoS was awesome. I have no idea what else you wanted from it.

I want it to be exactly like my childhood but also better than my childhood despite not changing anything or asking me to change or think about my relationship to the franchise. And it should have a surfer Rastafarian dog who's totally in my face.

@Wizz said in Happy Holidays erryone :

Is that a fake cat, or a taxidermied one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5MTIIou56Y

Now I need this game to open so I can play a news reporter in a galaxy far, far away.

@reimesu said in Good or New Movies Review:

I am REALLY tired of hipster douchebags droning on and thinking it's a critical review, when all it is, truly, is yet another douchebag thinking he's an edgelord.

Shhhh. Let people like things.

but how will people know how smart i am unless i tell them how dumb they are for liking a thing i dont like

@bored said in D&D Stew:

I figure you're aware of this, but they've put out a variety of approaches to 5e psionics via UA.

Yeah, and they're okay. I got nothing against them. They just don't thrill me the way the goofy "you must learn to meditate until you can sense the psionic energy infusing your body, then meditate more until you learn to movie it" fluff and the bizarre activation failure chance powers had back in second edition. It was bonkers, but in a cheerfully naive way I couldn't help appreciating.

I want to play D&D.

I want psionicists to come back, with all the weird seventies bastardized mysticism that was in second edition.

Fifth edition is the best edition.

@Ganymede said in The Dark Side of online Role-Playing:

No one has any damn business telling a parent about what is appropriate or not regarding their child-rearing choices without a request for input. Mind your fucking business.

We all may have opinions on what is acceptable and what is not, but keep it to yourself if someone isn’t looking for your thoughts. And I don’t recall buttercup asking for them.

Tell me if I'm being too literal here, but: we have CPS for a reason.

@reimesu said in Good or New Movies Review:

No one's mentioned this yet, but Knives Out was a fantastic amount of fun for anyone who's ever vaguely liked Agatha Christie type mysteries. The cast is phenomenal, the acting is brilliant, and several of the cast seem to be having the "I'm getting PAID for this? This job is the BEST!" kind of time in their roles.

I am trying to imagine anyone but Daniel Craig making Blanc's dialogue work. I don't think anyone could. It's so amazing. This movie is so amazing.

@Roz said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

Rene Auberjonois

that suuuuuuuuuucks

@Pandora I mean it has been my experience that telling staff my boundaries have been violated is more likely to result in nothing* being done than something, which makes me wonder how effective red cards would be.

*or worse than nothing, but I don't want to get into that again right now

@Pandora My only thought is that these measures can only be successful to the degree that staff can be trusted to enforce them without bias. I can't tell if that's a separate issue from your proposal, but I don't think it is, because the idea has to be enacted within the culture we operate in.

@neksinnad said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

As BB's player, I use his animal forms, ICly, mostly to punctuate conversation.

Sorry, I didn't think of how my post could sound accusatory. I only mention Beast Boy in the context of how I can't figure out what the no animal rule is meant to accomplish, since any goal I can conjure for it could be defeated by Beast Boy.

@Carex said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@Andraian said in Empire State Heroes Mush:
Given a large number of players over time, it was inevitable that some game somewhere got someone who wanted to play Krypto the super-dog and go around playing out bestiality scenes or something like that.

I remember hearing stories back in the day about a group of X-men walking in on Wolvesbane doing it doggy-style with Havok in the X-Jet hanger.

It's not unreasonable for staff to limit the characters who would draw that kind of focus.

This may be and probably will be one of those things I just never get, but it seems to me if you want to ban bestiality, then you ban bestiality. Banning some of the characters who could engage in bestiality but not all the characters who could engage in bestiality strikes me not just as needlessly devious toward achieving that one goal (assuming it is the goal), but also ineffectual.

@neksinnad said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@GreenFlashlight I think this goes back a few games. There was a really annoying player who picked up a ton of furry characters, mostly pure animals -- wanted to play Dexstarr and 'Hope Corgi'. Suddenly there was a ban on animals.

It seems to me the answer is to ban that person rather than concepts, particularly when concepts that can get around the letter of the law while still violating the spirit are permissible (is anything stopping Beast Boy from never leaving animal form?), but oh well.

The no animals thing is another rule I do not understand the purpose of, but I've made peace with not understanding the purpose of most of their rules.

@Tinuviel said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

The person you were paging had already taken action against the harasser, so it was quite evident that they were not okay but were also quite capable of handling things themselves.

That makes sense.

@Sunny said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

Can somebody explain to me why it's problematic behavior to go:

p X=You ok?

I cannot explain why it is problematic, only that I have done it before and was told the question was extremely unwelcome. For context, this happened when someone was being OOCly harassed with sexual language and the person I was paging had just told the harasser to stop, then left the channel where he was being harassed. I did not ask why he was upset at being asked, as I did not feel it was my place to demand an explanation from someone already aggrieved.

So, to answer the original scenario, my general advice would be: approach the character being targeted by suspected creepy behavior. The character, not the player. Think of an excuse for your character to approach theirs and invite them into some kind of play. This avoids creating a conflict the player is almost certainly trying to avoid and gives them a graceful way out of whatever situation the other player put them in. If the character takes the invitation, then it might be worth your time to offer a gentle page of "hey, maybe I'm nuts, but I'm getting a hunch something's off, are you okay?" Or it might not. Read the context clues and do what your conscience demands.