Best posts made by insomniac7809

@Ghost You mentioned the Offspring, and I was just amused that when we saw them a few years back (they were doing all of Smash), they were on last for the show. Dexter started off addressing the crowd to the effects of "and thanks to all of you for not leaving after the Vandals! I probably wouldn't have stayed to see us after the Vandals!"

Honestly, unless the writers are really confident in their ability to deliver gripping or at least amusingly Eremey-esque dialogue, "CO yells at subordinate" sounds like exactly the sort of scene that would mostly be glazed over in a book or a movie. I realize that directly translating from other media to MU* is even more of a gap than from tabletop, this is a situation that seems less engaging in the MU* format than it would be otherwise.

Like, what are my options on the receiving end? I can mouth off, which could be fun, if I'm willing to Hand Over My Badge And Gun. Or I can make response poses of "yes, sir" and "no, ma'am" until it's over. Fucking enthralling.

So yeah. Fade to black, commentary made in length and volume concerning my behavior, my potential, my future, my decision-making abilities, and my genealogy. Skip to the part where I'm demoted, Suspended From The Case, or sent of with a stern warning and let us all get on with our lives.

I mean, Fade To Black is called that for a reason. You can do that for material that's too sensitive to show "on screen," you can do that when you think the implication is more impactful than the explication, and you can do that because no one wants to watch Jack Bauer doing a crossword puzzle during his morning coffee shits.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

@surreality No one was shaming anyone for caring about Notre Dame but you tilt at those windmills I guess?? Have to fill the day somehow.

Okay, c'mon, you made a post to discourage people from donating to the Notre Dame reconstruction because something else deserved the money more. Don't pretend that's coming out of nowhere.

@Ghost They also sponsored an episode of Critical Role playing the game, which might have been a factor in the decision to make it in the first place.

"Professional RPG design" budget can probably fit comfortably in the loose change of "national fast food chain marketing" budget.

@Auspice Going the other way. JCVD

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@deadculture (It's a joke because I am a William IRL)

Tobias 100% of the time makes me think of the animorph.

@Arkandel Your second one doesn't show for me? And when I try to follow the image link it tells me I need to sign in.

Okay so I did have some issues with the episode. One of which being, frankly, a ninety-minute battle scene starts to drag, and I don't think cutting some of the slo-mo and a few of the "<CHAR> IS MOBBED BY ZOMBIES they're okay now" scenes would have hurt the experience.
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A MU* isn't a messenging service.

If the admins want to see what's going on in the 'world' they adjucate, I don't care either way.

@Ghost said in Game of Thrones:

I wanna see Cersei and Danaerys fight.

And by that I don't mean "dragon vs mountain", I mean Cersei vs Danaerys in a fuck you too, bitch showdown where two characters who are about as martially proficient as Gilly the Wildling choke the fuck out of each other.

@Auspice said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

@insomniac7809 said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

skrulls

maybe we're all skrulls

why would you say that ha ha ha it is to laugh

@bored Especially when they spent so much of Season 2 with the whole "the Stark troops aren't good guys, the Lannister troops aren't bad guys, they're all just guys--kids, mostly--dying because their respective hereditary dictators are having a tiff."

@surreality said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

White Wolf -- back in the oWoD days of OMFGWTF were they thinking?! -- was trying to incorporate everyone and everything in part to 'invite everyone into the game'.
It, uhm. Yeah. It did not go so well, regardless of the intention.

Which was a good one. I have no real doubt about that.

And there have been strides made since, boosted by the fact that it is so much easier to hire authors from different countries, rather than have everything done by a handfull of white boys in Georgia with a library card.

But yeah, I can defend their intentions, but there's no defending what happened.

ETA: Actually... at the risk of shoving my foot entirely down my throat...

I will offer some defense of early WW, just because they tried to break the RPG presumption of "straight white man" that was very much set in 1992. Even something as simple as defaulting to "she" in most of the example text and using women as sample characters and NPCs, something like two years after TSR had published their corebooks with sidebars defending the use of "he" as a universal neutral default. They tried to get a more diverse crowd into their games, and while we don't have census numbers for RPGs, it seems like they were hugely successful in getting women into the hobby.

...and at the same time, yes, their attempts at racial inclusivity were frequently ham-fisted, misguided, and offensive to the races they were depicting.

Ehh.

One of the problems with that is that all it winds up meaning is that when a "risky" movie flops it's because of the risk, and when a "safe" movie flops it's obviously some other reason.

Like, Catwoman was considered a risk, because it was a superhero movie about a POC woman (even if Halle Barry probably works for a gender flip of the "any white male, or Will Smith" criteria that movies were using in ~1998). It flopped, but that might have had more to do with the movie being steaming garbage on toast.

The Mummy remake, meanwhile, shifted to 'safe' by (according to what I've read) emphasizing the role of its bankable white dude lead, in a use of an IP that had paid off big not too long back. It was also (according to what I've heard) steaming garbage on toast, and it also flopped.

@onigiri So, I think this is a bit funny...

One time @Aria and I were driving home from my parents' house, and she needed to read The Rats in the Walls for a class, so I was reading it aloud from the passenger seat while she drove.

It's a really good story, but it kept fucking up the pacing when I gave this big Kiff Croaker sigh every time the cat's name came up.

@Rinel said in Good TV:

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@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Testament One thing I heard (but haven't verified) over the radio this morning was the Russians aren't pleased with how Chernobyl was made. The argument was "imagine if Russia had made a mini series about 9/11 and everyone in it had non-American accents".

I have not seen the show yet, is that fair criticism?

Not really. It's a British production, and they use accents to portray class divisions that wouldn't be accessible if they were speaking with a Russian accent. And why is Russian-accented English any less absurd than British-accented English? You could do Russian/Ukrainian and subtitle it, yes, but then you'd miss out on a lot of the nuance.

Yeah, I haven't seen Chernobyl yet, but I'd rather see English-speaking productions feature English-language accents, rather than make a dramatic actor perform role in decadent Hollywood Rooshan Accentski. Like you say, presumably the characters are diegetically speaking their native language anyway.

Or maybe I'm just inordinately fond of Jason Isaacs portraying Field Marshal Zhukov with a Yorkshire accent in Death of Stalin.

The show has attracted praise and criticism both from Russians. People are unanimous in their praise for how accurately it physically depicts the Soviet Union. The costumes, buildings, &c. are apparently spot on.

I'm told that there's a Russian production in response that will present the meltdown as being the fault of a CIA saboteur.

@Prototart said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Tinuviel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Except this is optional.

technically, so is life

@ZombieGenesis said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I think most people in this hobby are happier just to sit back, mock, and feel generally superior to those around them.

It does seem popular. We should have some sort of form for that.

Mac threw a ball with Chase Utley. I thought @Ghost might appreciate that.

@Ominous That would be fairly interesting.

There is already some stuff you can see on a roster game. "Women over 30," for instance, tend to get picked up roughly every never.

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

To be fair, I don't think anyone is refusing to call these centers what they are. I think they've got their own outlook on it, where the dictionary definition grows a bit fuzzy, and whatever form that takes doesn't match 1:1 with what someone else thinks they are.

I'm not judging anyone, here. I'm just saying that in this era of "extreme no quarter given" often a disagreeing viewpoint get mistaken as a "refusal to admit" something.

I'd say it's less a "refusal to admit" and more a bizarre contortion of language to avoid using a term that matches in every particular but that someone doesn't want to apply in the situation.

@GreenFlashlight said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@insomniac7809 said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Kestrel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

like giving your Jewish character a hunchback and a hooked nose and making them a diabolical banker with gold telekinesis powers,

Ooh! Or a diabolical Israeli banker vampire with designs on undermining foreign nations on this site as part of their game pitch!

(Pepperidge Farm remembers.)

I beg your pardon?

Were you not here for that?

So yeah, it's been a couple years, but one of our recurring trolls put up an advertisement for a Discord V:tR game he wanted to run. One of his sample characters was, uh, what I described above plus also it was his Nosferatu example character.

People pointed out how ridiculously anti-Semitic it was, he doubled down, fights, bannings, a meltdown from a poster who tried to join his game, yadda yadda. It was a thing.

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@Kestrel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

EDIT: sry @insomniac7809 ninja'd u like the sneaky jew i am