Posts made by Roz

@VulgarKitten said:

@Arkandel Because joy exists everywhere, all the time! It is bigger than you!

You haven't lived in New York, have you.

@Arkandel said:

What I mainly disliked about Civil War is that, although they started out claiming it'd be an evenly told story, it very quickly went to the pro-registration heroes clearly being the bad guys.

Iron Man agrees with you.

@Arkandel said:

@VulgarKitten said:

I would be okay with it. Who doesn't want some humor on their commute?

<raises a hand>

I want people on commute to be silent robots. At eight o'clock on the subway, don't talk. Whatever you do, don't you goddamn laugh. Or giggle, cut that shit out. Just stand/sit there and be taken to your place of daily torment in exchange for money already!

This this this. EVERYONE BE QUIET AND KEEP YOUR PANTS CLOSED.

@VulgarKitten said:

I get uncomfortable with people arguing in public though. It doesn't even have to be violent arguing, it could just be some bickering between friends or whatever. Makes me supremely uncomfortable.

WHAT violent fights breaking out on the subway are my favorite! I love not knowing if I'm about to be injured because I'm stuck in a confined space with them.

@Arkandel said:

(Just in case assume there'll be spoilers here, although they're about the comic book version of Civil War which might have little to do with the actual movie discussed in the thread)

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I wonder then from which point in Spider-man's film or comics continuity they're planning to take things.

For starters after five damn movies in the last thirteen years we don't need the damn origin story told again! How many times does Uncle Ben need to die before they're satisfied the audience knows what happened?

They've at least explicitly stated that they are NOT telling the origin story again. Probably because too many fans would flip out about this exact thing.

Also in the original story the point of Spidey's initial inclusion under Tony's banner was to boost the Registration Act. There he was, an infamous and very well known masked super-hero revealing his identity to the public in order to obey the law and do the right thing. If they have him be just a kid who barely even owns a proper costume yet (as possibly implied by the fact he's using the home-made version?) the impact of that seems pretty lessened. Why would Stark even care about what some upstart kid does?

There's zero reason to think anything's going to be working the same as it did in the comics, really. The only thing Age of Ultron had in common with the comics arc was the presence of Ultron. People keep going crazy over things like OOH RUMORS OF THE TEAM BREAKDOWN and it's like, everyone chill out, we literally don't even know the actual details of what the conflict even is.

That's to say, I don't think it matters about impact of story being lessened, because it's a different story. (Thank God, IMO. Not a big fan of the Civil War comics arc.)

Today I took a Wayback Machine trip to the domain I shared with my friend and the personal site I had from about ages 14-17. It's amazing.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/09/01/the-mojito-man

My coworker met this guy the other day. Mojitos! In Central Park! From a battery-powered blender!

@ThatGuyThere My joke is now sad. That sucks, man, I'm sorry.

@ThatGuyThere Wait, do you like -- watch TV on a TV???

@VulgarKitten Friend of mine in college knew/briefly dated Analeigh Tipton from Cycle 11. I never met her personally, wasn't my friend, but it was still cool that it was friend of a friend status. And she's (according to my friend, who is super judgey) a super total sweetheart, so I was glad she went so far in the competition, although she didn't win. But now she has a legit film career, so. Maybe she did win. And now my friend has been using her as a PB for a few years now. (Not the same friend that dated her, he doesn't RP.)

I used Felicia Porter (Po) as a PB once. Her face is so fantastic, but sadly the character didn't end up clicking.

@VulgarKitten said:

So... America's Next Top Model just started for Season 22. I can't be the only one watching. Who else has the lady/man balls to admit it???

SHIT IT'S STARTED? I'll admit it. I'm all over that shit. I started years ago with the justification that a friend of a friend was competing, but then I was hooked.

@Bobotron Haha I might have also assumed in the wrong direction; I wasn't reading whatever other thread this spawned from, but saw TGT's first response talking about PRPs. If that's what the content was, you're probably right and I'm wrong! I do see how it might be frustrating if players end up being given a super tangible reward for running a plot, but.

@Bobotron It doesn't sound like the question is incentivizing staffing, but rather incentivizing non-staffers to run plots.

I find incentivizing at least at the level of being super supportive of your PrP GMs is important if only for the reason that running PrPs demands time and energy and the general player populace is often not great at expressing gratitude about it. I've been on games where staff was just really unsupportive of PrPs (in one instance, my friend, a long-time GMer and really great plotter broached the staff of a game with some early-stage ideas for a PrP and their first response was along the lines of "but who would ever want to play that?") and it makes it so that even people who enjoy running plots just -- don't. There's a lot to be said for just making sure that people who are interested in running PrPs are given a generally supportive atmosphere in which to do so and to set a good example about it to the game at large. Well-run PrPs are a precious commodity, and they're needed on a lot of the types of games I staff in order to keep things alive. My perspective is also coming from experience on generally non-statted or stat-lite games where concerns like losing out on XP in the time you're GMing aren't an issue.

@Arkandel Divorce? She sounds like an A+ troll. You gotta appreciate talent.

But at least we got a great Honest Trailer about the last two FF disasters! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-8w4Sv50zE&app=desktop

@HelloRaptor said:

@silentsophia said:

Why, it's almost as if people could care about more than one thing at a time...

No, no, you're right. There totally aren't an overwhelming number of people on social media who haven't once commented on #blacklivesmatter or any variations of the same but whose facebook and twitter accounts are on fire with outrage and tears over Cecil the lion's cruel, cruel fate.

People CAN care about more than one thing. But Raptor is like five billion percent right that this is going on and it's bullshit.

I don't even know what SJW means anymore. I can get called it on the right (read, wrong) places on the internet for my mildest liberal views, and then I'm like, man I haven't even started really digging deep into my radical feminism, let me get going first. I'll argue at length with people on the internet -- I have a "people are wrong on the internet" problem -- but no I don't do shit like that.

@Arkandel said:

@Roz said:

@Arkandel What kind of movies do you like generally? Have you watched anime series that you like, or just no anime at all other than those two films? There are certain series/movies that I tend to think of as having broad appeal, but, like anything else, most of it just comes down to taste.

No anime at all other than that. As for what kind of movies... well, good ones. My suspicion is that there are some celebrated classics I haven't watched and I might be missing out on to get me started.

Like, if I was a new comic book reader I'd have liked to be told to take a look at The Dark Knight Returns or The Killing Joke even if I wasn't a Batman fan. Or Watchmen.

Yeah. My first suggestion is one big broad Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli one. Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and others.

For series, Cowboy Bebop is one of my favorite perfect classics, and it's a fairly digestible size.

@Arkandel What kind of movies do you like generally? Have you watched anime series that you like, or just no anime at all other than those two films? There are certain series/movies that I tend to think of as having broad appeal, but, like anything else, most of it just comes down to taste.

@Bobotron Nah, Super's got four aired episodes! Just watched the most recent. (They're easy to find if you Google.)