Posts made by Thenomain

It stopped being reliable for me in any thread that @Anonymous deleted posts in.

@Roz said:

When has trying to explain the appeal of a character you love to someone who doesn't like the character ever actually accomplished anything? Although I am confused at calling him androgynous, cause he's all strong jaw and prominent nose.

He is the epitome of bishonen. Some women just like the prettyboyman.

I have read one of the Shadowrun novels (I think Never Trust an Elf), but I found it bland and uninspiring. This is a fault of mine that has me find most modern fantasy novels bland and uninspiring. Perhaps as I was the target audience of the original Shadowrun, and we had already played a good deal of Cyberpunk/CP2020, there was little more to get that the intro history and stories didn't create sufficient immersion.

@HelloRaptor

That was a more serious jibe. Trolling is not putting words into your mouth, nor is it insisting something that is different than how it is. Trolling, to me, is eliciting a negative response from the position of innocence.

According to Urban Dictionary, trolling is:

Being a prick on the internet because you can. Typically unleashing one or more cynical or sarcastic remarks on an innocent by-stander, because it's the internet and, hey, you can.

This isn't me.

So yeah, no, I'm not trolling.

@WTFE

Since it was brought up in relation to your not getting it, I don't get GURPS. It pretends to be crunchy but look too closely and you might as well be playing Risus for how much the system itself wings it.

I'll agree that the strength in Savage Worlds are its genre books. Some of its fragments (fleshed out game worlds) are good--Slipstream--and others are downright cringeworthy--Space 1889--but the general genre books allow a better toolkit than I think GURPS ever managed.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Thenomain
Why yes, DA2 was crappy. Also I have forgotten what trolling means, possibly because I have been brainwashed by the common misconception that "making fun of" immediately means "trolling".

I agree. I blame the overly sensitive nature started with Political Correctness and Maury Povich. Once again, I blame the 80s.

Welcome to Soapbox, Daeladras.

@HelloRaptor said:

DA:I > DA:A > DA:O > DA2

Hah! I am vindicated! Even you admit DA2 was a shitty game!

I cannot hear your keyboard banging about relative comparisons not being the same as absolute statements. I only hear "look how crappy DA2 is".

I like my world much better now.

I liked Forgotten Realms, even Thay. I swear, even the babies and dogs of Thay had mustaches so they could twirl them with malevolent intent.

@Alzie said:

Mass Effect Andromeda

Shut up and take my money.

(I may need help, but I'm content with it.)

Great, now I want to play Le Game.

I admit I will shut-up-and-take-my-money for ME4. Especially if they get back on the StarFlight plot with the unstable suns.

I admit that I miss the RPG complexity of DA:O. It made the replays feel fresher than the skill-tree approach of the later games, and discovering that ice storm + fire storm = holy shit? That kind of touch is always welcome. I'll forgive the first Dragon Age games for being unbalanced for that and for their superior storytelling,

@il-volpe

I still think the distinction is silly. The events are surreal, whether or not the audience is a character.

The Sheriff's Secret Police has issued a statement to this station asking to stop drawing attention to clouds, and to forget that they exist.

@il-volpe said:

Welcome to Night Vale is a work of surrealism if you consider yourself, the listener, to be the primary character

"Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you."

I don't buy this. Not the Night Vale quote, but il-volpe's. If that's what the community of people who talk about these things all day want to decide, but Night Vale's primary interaction with its audience is pretty damn surreal.

I don't want to ruin the fun of the show by deconstructing it all that far, tho. At least get to the end of year one, dear listeners. You'll know when it happens.

This system looks similar (either on purpose or through parallel evolution) to Dark Metal's old Fate system. The more you're willing to take, the more you're allowed to dish out.

I can't think of how this is unfair without knowing what things like "50% Share" means, nor what "the most dangerous and most rewarding parts of the game" mean. In short, what @Ide and @Arkandel and @Apu said.

And in a way, what @AmishRakeFight said. Sound in theory; in practice I'd have to see it operating.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

@Thenomain - I'd eat dirt before I played with you anyway.

Um ... okay? Go you? This was a ... strangely attacky non sequitur. I'd ... rather know who you were before I responded in kind.

Thac0 was terrible. This is a trivial fix. The end.

I don't have time for a 2nd Ed game, I just wanted to say this.

@il-volpe said:

It's magical realism, though thus far I've never seen any review or commentary about it where the writer uses the term.

I looked this one up and I have to say that it's kind of a dumb term.

Also, a splash of surrealism? Do not look too deeply into the dog park.

Beware of Librarians.

Night Vale, two words.

About as WoD-like as Buffy.

Edit: I take that back. Far less so. No dogs are allowed in the dog park.

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Link now gives 'Bad Gateway' error. : (

Maybe cosmic drift has unlinked the Stargate network there.