Posts made by reimesu

@Ghost said in The Case Against Real PBs:

Question.
Would it affect your life at all if someone you didn't know admitted to masturbating to pictures of you? What if they told you not only did they do kink-stuff using your likeness, but simulated a "relationship" with another person who was also gratified by your image?

You are now describing every person who's ever been involuntarily put in someone's spank bank. Which has nothing to do with gaming and everything to do with people finding each other attractive. It's a human condition, not some weird gaming thing.

@Misadventure
@Ghost said in The Case Against Real PBs:

IT IS A -WRITING- HOBBY

Ghost said it. It was a headline.

Actually, I have an inability to imagine faces from text. Which is why I like PBs. It's not a failure of imagination, it's that it's not how my imagination works.

Anyone who wants to think it's creepy can, but it's not going to change the fact that three screens of florid, purple prose will not form a face in my head. It's just the way it is.

Nor am I ashamed of liking to picture actors in a MU role, because it's not the actor doing the actions. It's the character. That's much the same as...oh, any acting role an actor takes. Does anyone honestly think the ACTOR is really James Bond, or Frodo, or the Black Widow, or whomever? No. Most people can separate fantasy from reality. Those who can't shouldn't be in the hobby anyway.

@Ghost I really love Allison, too. Allison and Noel together are the next bast team to Mel and Sue for show perfection.

And @Ganymede, Nimona was truly, truly amazing. Painful and healing at the same time. Metal.

When I need to renew my faith in humanity, I watch "Somebody Feed Phil." (Netflix.)

The Great British Bake-Off is comfort watching and the latest season has some truly lovely hosts.

I'm really enjoying the Disney+ version of Percy Jackson.

Well...shit.
Andre Braugher from Brooklyn 99. He was 61.

@Ghost It's been Old Gods of Appalachia for me. (Cypher System.) Been rolling around and getting comfortable in it. My group tried City of Mists, but for a system that's supposed to be cinematic, it is unnecessarily complicated.

I've only got about 25 years under my belt, but the last few mushes I've been on were so outside of what I'm interested in playing that I'm giving up for a while. Tabletop is doing me just fine and I'm ok with it: it leaves time for me to do everything else I want to do. And since I know everyone, there's a lot fewer personality clashes.

@hobos Actually, we're not saying we're better. Well, I'm not. I'm saying I don't dread peeking in to see what's going on anymore. That's not a comparison statement or a values statement.

I don't dread checking the place and seeing how mean people are going to get today. It's a relief.

@Macha That's actually a bit of a relief. She was a powerhouse but at least she HAS to retire, even if it's literally postmortem retirement.

Jimmy Buffett, 76.

@Macha Aw, hell.

Robbie Robertson of The Band.

If anyone remembers the woman who played Catriona Dunlin on The Reach, pour one out for her. She passed on Monday after a ten year battle with cancer.

Her memory is a blessing.

And now, Jerry Springer. I didn't think he COULD die.

Maybe someone will throw another chair at Geraldo Rivera's nose at the funeral.

Harry Belafonte.

Excuse me while I go watch a particular episode of the Muppets.

@Macha I'd cuss because I LOVED Mad Magazine, but 102? Damn!

@Ghost I had to catch up on The Mandalorian before I let myself read this.

That is...really uplifting. I did not hate Jar Jar Binks, personally, although my favorite headcanon is that he was a Sith using a form of Drunken Monkey Kung Fu. It puts a whole new twist on everything he does. But man, no one hates like a Star Wars fan.

In the tabletop vein...I was 19, and playing a superhero character that had a VERY small level of fame as a rising singer.

GM brings in this Juggernaut ripoff character and I think, what the hell. My char flies up, and I have the GM roll to see if he recognizes me. There's like a 6% chance that he does.

He does. Not only does he, but he's a fan. (It was a very good roll...for me.)

I kinda derailed the entire evening's combat in one roll, it's the only time in my life I ever did. And it was fun watching the GM's brain absolutely shut down in shock.

My other fun story was a different GM: it was GURPS and I claimed my char had area knowledge. He was like, "How does she know the area?" I thought about it and said, "She knows where all the malls are." (This was back in 1991. Malls were still a thing.) He disbelieved.

I told him to start naming landmarks in the area. He would. I'd tell him how to get there because of what mall it was near and how to get to that mall and then, by extension, to said landmark. I'd only been driving for about six months or so, but my mom had loooooved to go to shop, so it was a thing I could do: navigate that entire area via mall. Before I even learned how to drive.

Thanks, Mom!