Posts made by Thenomain

@Sparks said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:

It's not even maliciously done, but OOC knowledge will make even tiny IC hints seem much more obvious than they really are

Because there are players who play against the GM, sometimes not even maliciously. If the GM has a mystery, the players, not the characters, are trying to figure it out. So many D&D modules are built around this conceit.

I’ve played games where the GM is (are) working so closely with the players that this drama goes away and everyone wants to find out what the characters do. I love this kind of storyteller. (On my list: @Ganymede , Troy, and yes, even Ernst’s player once.)

@Tinuviel said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:

And lord help you if your NPC says something that is incorrect because the character themselves doesn't know the truth...

We need a way to gently break it to people that NPCs are sometimes parts of the living world and not cartoon characters or plot dispensers.

The NPCs in Haunted Memories’ Changeling sphere may not have been nuanced, but when they stabbed you in the back you weren’t surprised.

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Thenomain said in Good TV:

On the other hand, rediscovering the same things over and over gives the world a certain freshness to it.

Okay, gramps. Did you take your meds today?

Who are you? Get off my lawn!

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

@Thenomain said in [Good TV](/post/205113:

So you're a Top. Gotcha.

Was there ever any doubt?

Look, I just couldn’t remember Ciri from Triss.

On the other hand, rediscovering the same things over and over gives the world a certain freshness to it.

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

Sorry. I went with Triss.
But my favorite character on Letterkenny is Wayne, so --

So you're a Top. Gotcha.

@Auspice

It's a live comedy sketch that like many live comedy sketches goes on way too long and has no punchline, but its pure honesty makes it one I quite like.

@Auspice

Holy crap, I recognized every single thing in this post.

All hail the glow cloud.

@Roz

Corrected.

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Dammit.

@Roz said in Good TV:

@Thenomain said in Good TV:

I think we need to start a Yennifer Fan Club on this board.

Only if you start spelling her name right!

Look, you lot are lucky I remember which one she is without googling!

@Sparks said in Good TV:

The one thing they got wrong in the games for her personality is that Yen and Ciri should be as close as Geralt and Ciri, and that relationship didn't come through as well as it could have.

It came across to me as older sister lightly bitter at Geralt's involvement. There is a scene in the game in...let's say where they are searching a wizard's lab and Ciri is not happy about said wizard and you make a...choice about what to do with her attitude, and Yen disapproves greatly if you side with Ciri. But at the end of the scene you see that Yennefer is trying to do the right thing for the right reason but that's not because she doesn't have to try.

In the same game. Triss whined non-stop. Way to kill my redhead fetish, Triss.

So yes, in summary, Yen is best. If this is the Yen from the books, then I guess I'll have to read those too.

@Roz said in Good TV:

There was no moment of competition for me when it came to the Yen/Geralt pairing.

I think we need to start a Yennifer Fan Club on this board.

@Roz

This is absolutely why I went with the Geralt/Yen combo in Witcher 3. Not only did she not take his nonsense while supporting his goals, but she was shown to be a character with depth and nuance. All the characters were, in their own way, but the writing for Yennifer impressed me more than I was expecting. In the end they were equals.

If that's the Yen from the books then good on them. And if not, I'm still interested to see what they do.

@Roz said in Good TV:

@Thenomain said in Good TV:

@Roz said in Good TV:

@Wretched There's even more! There's a second Yen and Ciri image, too.

I am going to very briefly complain about media transitions: Yennifer looks way too young.

Doesn't she keep herself looking early 20s in the books?

Books? Video games? Media? Then maybe the complaint is she looks in her 30s in the games. Who cares if the show is any good?

@Roz said in Good TV:

@Wretched There's even more! There's a second Yen and Ciri image, too.

I am going to very briefly complain about media transitions: Yennifer looks way too young.

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

(I can probably keep replying just with blobmoji all day.)

You do not disappoint!

So is it me, or does Steam feel like it's kind of trying to ignore this year's Steam Sale because of it's many little problems--the confusion that lead to de-wishlisting a bunch of stuff, the Corgi Runaway Winners (though I joined it before I knew because, y'know, corgis!)

@Too-Old-For-This said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain Chrono Trigger is the one you can buy on Steam.

And then be guilt-free when you download the DS ROM and emulator, because dear god even the updated Chrono Trigger on Steam had audio so choppy that it was giving me an honest to goodness headache.

@Ghost

How about a link to a HowTo, then? A lot of game runners don’t know where to start and mucking around in iptables could be dangerous.

Updated game engines.

@faraday , @Ashen-Shugar , @Griatch , whomever is in charge of Penn these days, you lot don’t get thanked enough.

Thanks.

@Too-Old-For-This said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain I can't get into it because its not Chrono Cross.

Fuck, which one was I talking about?

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Okay, everything I just said about not pausing? Apply that to Chrono Trigger.

I want to pause this game so bad.

@silverfox said in Random funny:

@Tinuviel

I'm going on my 10th year! I know!

And that's why they call you Silver Fox.

Maybe also because you're foxy. Yeah, let's say that too.

I want to like Chrono Trigger.

I do like Chrono Trigger.

I just can't get into playing it because of it's quasi-real-time combat shenanigans.