Thanks for the reassurances, everyone. The reason that I fronted the $3,000 is that we're both on the lease and I needed us to not, you know, get evicted and to have a judgment on my record. I don't think I would have lent that kind of money to someone otherwise. Like, I can imagine maybe very specific situations with very specific people, but definitely not this person.
My roommate owes me about $3,000 and I know someone said I was really nice and decent and a good person for fronting that money when they needed it, and I fully do not expect to get it back, but goddamn I just got furious when they asked me how much I'd sell one of my old laptops for, as theirs looks likely to die. I don't know if it makes me an asshole but I basically told them I would honestly have just given them one if they didn't owe me so much money, which is true. Like, part of me wonders if this is me being petty or something, but god it just feels like "I owe you a ton of money but can you do me this favor?"
@Godot said in Mass Effect MU*?:
@Roz said in Mass Effect MU*?:
Sorry we closed Alpha & Omega
I respect that decision. If there is a certain story central to the game, closing after it's over is for the best.
Well, we actually made the decision because the game was running out of steam, but we closed with some big, epic plots, so it probably looked like we were closing at the end of our story. We wanted to give it a nice ending!
@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Roz said in Good or New Movies Review:
I think Guardians is a fun movie but not actually a great adaptation of several of the characters in it. I don't go around telling people it's awful because of that, but I do tend to rate it lower on my list of Marvel movies than a lot of folks for whom it's one of their top ones.
To be clear: I didn't say that Guardians of the Galaxy was awful; I said that I liked Suicide Squad better.
Funnily, despite you bringing up Guardians first, I wasn't actually commenting on your mention of it. I was using it as a reference for a movie I think didn't get the real core of the characters right, because it's the one that always comes to mind for me. And I wasn't meaning my bit about "I don't go around telling people it's awful" to be about you either, I was just rating where my personal level of annoyance with the movie. (Some things I do go around telling people it's awful...)
In hindsight, I can see where my words may have been confusing. But you certainly don't have to defend the points you're defending to me; I promise I wasn't poking at them!
@ThatGuyThere Groot and Rocket were very canon-accurate. Peter Quill, as you said, wasn't, and Gamora was also somewhat of a total character flip. In the movie they turned her into a sort of moral core of the team, whereas she's far more ruthless in the comics and has plenty of struggles with balancing that with her own sense of morality. And Drax bears little to no resemblance to his comics counterpart.
I'd say that it's not that it was hard to fuck up the characters, but that most people are just unfamiliar with the characters and so didn't notice the fuck-ups. There's a big difference there.
@Bobotron I kind of disagree, mostly because the run of Guardians of the Galaxy comics that it was based was not actually super widely-read. It definitely wasn't a commonly-read property by plenty of comics fans. It's not an Iron Man or Spider-Man or Captain America where your average comics fan has picked up at least one of those books at some point. Most of what they were pulling from was a 25-issue run in the late 2010s. It's a ridiculously smaller amount of source material than your average comics film.
And I also disagree because, as I said, I think that it really fundamentally misunderstood the core of several of its main casts. Like, made them totally different characters. The end result may have been a great, fun film, but for me it's not my favorite. I mean, for me specifically these comics were also especially important to me for my connection with my late brother over them, etc. etc.
I do think there's a pretty big difference between comparing every detail of a movie to comics canon, which can indeed be annoying and misses the point of an adaptation of original material, and feeling like an adaptation missed the sort of core essence of a character. Then it becomes, "Well, that's not really the same character, and the movie kind of misunderstood the very basics of them." There's an idea that certain aspects will remain consistent across adaptations.
I think Guardians is a fun movie but not actually a great adaptation of several of the characters in it. I don't go around telling people it's awful because of that, but I do tend to rate it lower on my list of Marvel movies than a lot of folks for whom it's one of their top ones. I don't really think I need to "lighten the fuck up" over that, because it's not like I'm actually making that huge a deal over it. And I don't think it's so terrible that there may be comics fans who really don't like how they portrayed Amanda Waller, who has a lot of fans due to her intense awesomeness. People want characters they love to at least be recognizable in some core manner.
I just binged Crazy Ex-Girlfriend over the past week -- for the second time. (The first was a month or two ago.) It's is frustratingly charming.
Yeah, the critics sure hated the Nolan Batman movies and Deadpool.
I'm hoping that she ends up better than she's been in the trailers, especially because Harley was originally created and written so smartly in Batman: TAS.
I wouldn't go so far to say that Harley was ever written smartly, but she's one of the more interesting creations out of B:TAS. And, yes, B:TAS made Batman better.
I'd say that she was a good look at a woman in the midst of an abusive relationship who eventually found her way out of it.
Ugh. I'm hoping that she ends up better than she's been in the trailers, especially because Harley was originally created and written so smartly in Batman: TAS. She's gotten really twisted into unfortunately fanservice over the years. (And the number of people who legitimately idolize her relationship with Joker...)
@Thenomain No, Admiral was saying they watched the trailer with OMFG's Hello overlaid and it was an improvement.
@Ganymede said in Fanbase entitlement:
@Roz said in Fanbase entitlement:
Oh no not the dirty act of people being interested in the potential romance of two characters! HOW AWFUL!!!
People are apparently really pissed about what they did with Batgirl in The Killing Joke, and they've every right to be, from what I've heard.
It sure sounds like they made a gross thing even grosser. CONGRATS, MOVIE MAKERS.
Oh no not the dirty act of people being interested in the potential romance of two characters! HOW AWFUL!!!
I totally understand Destiel and see it rather blatantly in the show -- or at least back when I watched it, I stopped a season or two ago -- but I honestly never saw Sterek in Teen Wolf. I really enjoyed the show when I watched it, but I've always been a little baffled at that ship's popularity. And I'm someone who enjoys slash and noncanon ships plenty!
(And the Supernatural team totally does queerbait their fans.)
@Tat has done this on XF (feeding into @faraday's +cookie system) because she fell in love with the +comp system on the now-defunct Second Pass. Where it was, indeed, just a way to leave nice notes for other players and let them see them after the fact.
Tat can talk more specifically about it if she ever wanders back, but basically every character gets a Comp object and all the comps for a player are stored there. Of course, I know there are limits for how many attributes a single object can hold, so I guess some day we may run into that.
Here's one example of fan entitlement that I actually somewhat subscribe to: I really do think we deserve a freaking cleaned up, remastered version of the original Star Wars films without the Special Edition additions. I think the fans who blew up the films into the cultural juggernaut it is today really do deserve to be able to buy and watch the films they fell in love with. I find George Lucas's later insistence that he'd never release the originals again, that the Special Edition was what he wanted all along, to weirdly be more entitled. YMMV on that though.
@Coin said in Fanbase entitlement:
@Cupcake said in Fanbase entitlement:
I immediately thought of the fanbase of Teen Wolf when I saw this thread. Romantic relationships are a core element of the show that the fandom latches onto, particularly the "Sterek" and "Stydia" types. Sterek shippers tend to adamantly insist the chemistry between the two characters in question is and has always been there and often get angry about it not being pushed into overt presentation and actual canon; Stydia types go into a flurry of "this is our year!" prior to every season. (Final season coming in Nov: THIS IS OUR YEAR!)
Scydia or bust.
RIP Allydia. 
I've had players get mortally insulted at the idea that staff is not in the business of making every player happy. Some players have difficulty wrapping their heads around the idea that sometimes what a player wants is actually detrimental to the game as a whole. (Yet these players will generally have no issue identifying when a different player is doing something against the rules or something that messes up their RP.)
I strongly ascribe to the philosophy that it's not staff's job to make every player on their game happy, because that is, in fact, and impossible job. Better to focus on the more achievable goal of making the game as welcoming, fair-handed, and thematically cohesive as you can.