Posts made by Thenomain

I need to know what @paris decided on. Must know.

@coin said in YA Fantasy Recommendations:

@groth said in YA Fantasy Recommendations:
it's basically Ready Player One for vampire/classical sci-fi/historical lit. but without the exposition being introduced like a brick to your face, thanks, RPO, Jesus.

I watched a review of the movie that talked a lot about the book.

“Ready Player One is less like a book and more like a speed-run of a book.”

I hadn’t laughed so hard in a while.

I saw a trailer for Battle Angel and I wondered if they were deliberately trying to throw one character into the uncanny valley so hard that she broke into a hundred pieces and would have to crawl out into an uncaring world.

What I’m saying is that sometimes the giant faceless floating powers are right to discard something.

What I’m saying is that Ready Player One is not a template for good digital effects and I hope this doesn’t become a trend. (At least in RPO the disturbing people models were in a pure digital landscape.)

@aria

GOOD FRIEND OF MINE (not really, but I hung out with him via friends a few times) Tony DiTerlizzi does very good young books. I don’t know how his YA is.

He does/did Spiderwick, of course, but I’ve wanted to check out his WonderLa books too.

@silverfox

“You’re Miss Independence, or at least you try, but your first story’s you running off with a guy.”

Five Second Review:

Aquaman

Good story, great effects, writing mediocre at best, abysmal continuity. Closest thing to a comic book I've seen in movie form. Loved it.

@mietze said in The Board Game Thread:

Super excited to start a family game of Legacy Betrayal

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod! Emmah, her roommate, and I are on Chapter 3 of 13.

Unlike Pandemic Legacy, there doesn't seem to be a way to "lose" the entire Legacy. And remember: @EmmahSue is always a witch.

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@arkandel said in The Board Game Thread:

I've been thinking about Gloomhaven.

Is it as good as the reviews claim? Is it worth the price tag?

I think I have to accept that I don't care for minis games. Do note that it's possible to play this game for years and not complete it.

It's not as downright depressing as Kingdom Death: Monster, and it's less about playing heavy metal band covers. (Note: You would be the scantily clad women in KD:M, even if you're playing a guy. The world is the giant bad-ass monster. Not you. Never you.)

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@auspice said in The Board Game Thread:

I really feel Gloomhaven falls into the category of 'you need someone else to teach you' or maybe just watch a lot of videos?

Pandemic Legacy and Betrayal Legacy both have their FAQ: "What if we discover we're playing the game wrong." The answer: "Don't sweat it."

Gloomhaven isn't that complex for rules. Its complexity is in how in the characters play. Each character is wildly unique and has their own advantages, and even then the randomness of the card draw could be the difference between succeeding the scenario by the skin of your teeth vs. failing it frustratingly near the end.

You can re-try any scenario as many times as you want, even after you succeed at it.

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Things I like about Gloomhaven:

• It's weird.
• The game mechanics are interesting, different, and creative. No dice!
• And unforgiving as hell. The system pushes you to make the smartest moves possible.
• Scenarios can be played fairly blind.
• The monster AI is very straight-forward.
• Your character doesn't get killed, just knocked out of the rest of the scenario.
• Co-op.

Things I don't care for in Gloomhaven:

• Once your character is knocked out you get to sit and socialize.
• Minis movement and combat.
• Can be pretty screwed by your card-hand draw.
• XP earning system--accomplish a secret goal--is extremely random.
• (Thankfully you can lose the scenario and still gain your xp, but there are times where you can either win the scenario or gain xp but probably not both. I had one that was "kill fewer than x creatures.")

Emmah knows people who adore this game. My gaming group owns it but now that I've played a round on TTS I know without sinking money into it that I can take it or leave it.

New to Me: Keyforge.

Random, chaotic, not all that deep but more surprising than most games.

Played against @EmmahSue with a deck that was, frankly, a complete dick.

@ganymede

Laverne and Shirley, obviously.

@bobotron

It's apparently my not being able to notice that BESM <> BASH. Big Ass, Small Hands: The Presidential RPG. Perfect for people on a power-trip.

The meat of my post was "run what you love". Exposing my inattention was just a bonus.

@zombiegenesis said in Discussion - RPG System For OC Hero Game:

Supers Revised Edition: This is my TT groups current favorite superhero RPG.

Then go with this.

If you go with something you're not passionate about, making the game will be much, much harder.

I voted Big Eyes Small Mouth Ultimate in hopes that someone will read this comment and let me borrow their copy.

@admiral said in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (VtM 5E):

Not to mention their hiring practices.

Yeah, people forget that the best part of any game is the designer. The company will focus on a certain style and direction, and they can ruin anything by not being stringent with managing it (as White Wolf, Onyx Path, and whatever game studio made the E.T. video game can attest), but like comics you follow authors (and artists) as much as source material.

This is all a preface to say: I liked Tales from the Loop, and Fragged Empire, and I thought that Achtung! Cthulhu was well-received. I kickstarted "Space: 1889" but as an homage to the original, not because it was any good. It's okay.

Looking at you, Gareth Skarka.

Story time? Story time.

I saw the first trailer for "MIB International" and went through the five stages of grief.

Ultimately I landed on acceptance: The Fast and the Furious meets Goofy Aliens? Yeah, okay, that can work. I'm not holding any hope for it being any good, as the trailer can't decide if it wants to be "FatF" or "MiB 1", but it clearly wants people to think it's FatF but they can't get the characterization down.

That is, it's less charming than any of the FatF trailers, which is a crying shame because if MiB should have anything it's charm.

Its inexpertise is okay by me. This never got to be a beloved franchise, so if they go gonzo on it then this is one of the twenty directions it could go in. I liked the "delightful surprises around every corner" of the original, but it was so 80s that it would never fly today.

tl;dr: Will not watch. Do not feel betrayed.

Update:

The person who I didn't know and denied was my brother.

He asked if I got his Discord invite like a week after I told him my full handle.

The previous advice goes double for family.

Hey, this is my policy and I think it's probably just good practice in general:

If you want to friend me on Discord (or anywhere, really), include a note on how you know me or I'm going to deny it.

If you have and I denied/ignored it, contact me somewhere else.

I don't mind staying in contact with people, but I want to manage my contacts with notes how I know them!

Hopefully this helps everyone trying to stay in contact with anyone else.

@tinuviel said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:

@griatch said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:

text game

Not all MU* are games.

Not all games are games.

@ganymede

You know, if we ever get to RP again, I know the team-up I want to do.

@ganymede said in What drew you to MU*?:

Sex isn't always great, but it's still sex.

Sure, rub it in.

(take pictures when you do)

@paris

The Intuos is the new low end. (Bamboo is more the note taking level at this point.)

The basic Intuos is pressure sensitive. The wired tablet should be $80, the Bluetooth tablet $100.

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Edit:

Huion is a very cheap Wacom knockoff that is relatively well received. Will recommend.

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