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@flahgenstow said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:

I understand pirates didn't bath but I like to bath.

Yar! Der wuz plenty o' bathin! BATHIN IN BLUD!! Only a scurvey ridden land lubber be worried bout smellin like rosewaters.

@roz said in RL things I love:

@auspice FOR THE RECORD, what you currently make is not the business of anyone but you and your employer. What you're looking to make is already the acceptable answer for that.

(I'm glad your mishearing worked out in your favor.)

I'd argue coworkers should know what their coworkers make, especially in fields where pay is negotiated.

So, what I'm gathering from this, is I have to wait to get married before I open my scifi mush?

@surreality said in Questionably viable character types and tropes (tangent from staff ethics convo):

'Lone wolf/solitary crackpot/always goes it on their own' character tropes.

Whenever I meet snipers, I usually just say, that must be nice, I'll call you when I'm doing anything outside and we have hours of notice so you can belly crawl to your position and not move ages, then, when things go sideways and the firefight is on the OTHER side of the building, you can complain OOC to us that you have nothing to do. FFS, grab a SMG smartgun and get in the game!

@Arkandel That's a pretty decent commute, I'd probably opt for at least a few gears in that case. Pretty much any road bike would be ideal for your needs. A lot of the bike nuts that I know don't like hybrids, but try them out at your bike store and see what you like. I really notice the difference between my road bike and my cyclocross weight wise.

Another couple things that just popped into my mind:

make sure the bike you're looking at can take a pannier rack. This will be extra important if you don't have showers at work Wearing a backpack for a 40 minute bike ride gives some serious swack.

make sure you get a bike that's sized for your body. I'm a bit taller than most, and my old mountain bike gave me some serious back pain because it was too small. Most dedicated bike shops will know more about this than general shops like Canadian Tire or United Cycle.

@Cupcake Yeah, I'm having lots of fun on Faraday's lately.

Salvae on Battlestar Unification was a lot of fun, but people stopped playing on the grid. It's silly, but I just couldn't get into the teleporting into people's temp room scenes that were already in progress, even if they were marked pub.

Igrel on Tenebrae. A witch with a grump cat familiar. My schedule didn't jive with the other players on that game, and there was this pressure to grind xp rather than explore the setting and rp casually. I think people also dismissed material components on that game, when I tried to incorporate them into poses when casting spells, people treated me like I was from mars.

Blackheart on Denver. Mullets, Mirror Shades, Magic, Motorcycles and Machineguns. How is that not fun?

Thatcher on Lost Generation was also fun. Snipping wire under the germans' noses was kind of terrifying. Eating the apple at someone's funeral was also fun. Thatch was an asshole.

Man, their stat system was awful. I've played some obscure games with strange things going on and have been able to understand most, but Dahan's system is just a mess.

If they're working with penn, they'd be much better off adapting FS3 or something.

@lotherio Edmonton had a good run last year, now it's time for another decade of 'rebuilding.'

I did enjoy it, that was the only thing that bugged me. When I re watch it, there better be a Thanos-copter somewhere in the background near his retirement home, I will be shocked if they didn't easter egg that.

@faraday said in System dealbreakers:

I adore Shadowrun tabletop. Even if it were fully coded, I would absolutely dread playing that system on a MU.

Mushing shadowruns is kind of painful, yes. I like Denver, but the system takes forever to work through. I mostly blame the initiative mechanic which can have people posing four times a round while other players are waiting an hour for their turn. I wonder if a simplified version like what they use in Dragonfall or Hong Kong would work well on a mush?

@bobotron said in ROGUE: It is coming...:

My thoughts?

• FOCUS ON ONE GROUP. All PCs must be Resistance + allies, or all PCs must be First Order + allies. Do not do this FORTY BILLION PLANETS AND FIFTYSIX FACTIONS stuff. Engineer your game to provide easy RP for your players, also making it easy for them to FIND RP, and easy stuff for your staff to run.

Yes. This.

Focus upon one sector at maximum. There's no need to have a million planets built, if people want to go out of sector, they can RP room it. Even in a sector, you could potentially have dozens of planets, but it would be within the realm of possiblity of going from one side to the other for a scene without getting too hand-wavy about.

Boba Estereo Soy Yo

@BigDaddyAmin

As a fan of power fantasy movies, I agree she was pretty Mary Sue, but to be fair, I think most of the complaints are exaggerated.

Luke was was a total noob to combat, and was able to block blaster bolts while blindfolded from the drone after about 30 seconds of training, I think lightsabre use is pretty intuitive for those strong in the force, especially for people from rough parts of town.

Being a whizkid mechanic seems to be standard issue for SW main characters. This is easiest for me to give a pass since her job is mechanical in nature.

I do agree that she was waaaay too good of a pilot for someone who spent her life digging around old ships and from what we can tell has never flown before. This is the one that puts her into Mary Sue territory for me. That and her escape from the torture chair. I really enjoyed that scene, but it was pure MS.

I try to get hard copy when I can, (GURPS is finally reprinting stuff--no more $300 supplements on Amazon!!).

I try to get my hard copies from the local game store, but if it isn't there, I'll get it from the publisher's site or amazon.

PDFs are okay in a pinch, but I do get screen fatigue looking at them, and flipping > scrolling, no matter what ctrl-f has to say about things. I'm sad that most printing services in my area are more expensive than buying a hardbound copy off the bat, and drive through rpgs print on demand shipping to canada is fucking insane.

I would love for this to be set in the Lords of the Expanse setting, just post Return of the Jedi. The Empire is fractured and many factions vie for power as the rebels try to consolidate the New Republic.

The great houses of the Expanse try to get their tendrils into every pie, while romantic youths fight ultimately pointless(but high prestige) duels with lightsabres found in secret armouries that were hidden from the Empire.

Labrum tear is almost healed. I can't wait to start doing stuff again, like remembering to stretch and warm up more before squats.

I don't even like deadpool, but this movie was a lot of fun! Almost fun enough to make me unashamed to say I like (movie) deadpool!

I think the incentive would be a hassle free cg. XCOM has a tradition of giving me crappy soldiers, so if someone showed up with all their points in flower arranging, they'd be about as good a shot as my current sniper.