@Aria said in Fantasy Avatar Generator:
I also made Secret Mia, which is WAY CUTE, but argggh. I cannot share because secret.
Yeah. Nik just doesn't strike me as physically interesting enough to make using the thingy. And I couldn't do better for Hamish than Qui Gon Jinn. He's literally who I've had in mind for the character since I first came up with the idea about two years ago. But I did do a Secret Hamish which I can't really share and which had @Quinn loudly laughing at me. 
Guys, I got a Switch for Christmas and lemme say this Breath of the Wild game is pretty okay!
@pyrephox said in General Video Game Thread:
@arkandel Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a huge action JRPG. If you like JRPGs, it's a great example of the kind, and has a lot to do. Tales of Vesperia is also a JRPG, and should be coming out this week.
XBC2's mediocrity combined with its gross fanservice made me weep bitter tears given how much I loved XBC1 and the way you could set a separate wardrobe from the armor so you could ignore the gross fanservice.
@auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
I'm waiting for a good sale price to get Donut Country. I want it! But I just don't have the $20 for it just now.
I paid $10 and was glad I did. The game's short, as said above, but it's a goddam delight. There's a bit in the end that could be my only RL LOL from a video game in years.
Saying this as a huge Disney fanboy and not-insignificant shareholder, Disney's being dickish here. They only got 5%, but they get 100% on every other front. There's no Spider-Man action figure from which Sony gets a dime. That official Miles Morales body pillow Jaded bought at Bronycon? Sony doesn't see a bit. And that merchandising money is tremendous compared to what they get from the movie.
Sony was being bullheaded in refusing to give, though I think that the success of (the fantastic) Into the Spider-Verse and (the pretty shitty, but successful) Venom have given them some big britches. But you can tell how fucked this situation is that when Disney announced there would be no more MCU Spidey Sony was sent reeling. They thought the discussions were still ongoing. But Disney decided to turn the whole thing directly over to the court of public opinion.
All of which is to say...
@The-Sands said in Good or New Movies Review:
Total revenue for Sony last year was about $78.1 Billion (remember, Sony Pictures is only one part of Sony).
Considering how often SPE has been on the verge of being cut loose by Sony Corp, I'm not sure that they would agree with rolling their profits in together like that.
@moth said in Fantasy Avatar Generator:
Used another generator on the same page.
Wait, I didn't know we could do that!
Okay, here's Hamish if he was an anime school boy
And if he was an anime geek boy
And if he was a Pokemon trainer, but also a girl
And if he was a very kawaii sad girl
Yay! The blood dimmed tide is loosed!
@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
I loved playing the end credits.
If Donut Country ever hits $5, folks, either buy it or beg a friend to gift it to you. Then just settle in under a blanket and enjoy.
The Trashopedia by itself is worth $5.
Just have sao make 600 roster characters, call it a Lords & Slayers game and watch the players roll in.
I'll have a delicious LaCroix please.
No.
And there never really was.
There were games where one could have fun, but that's not the same thing.
For instance, a friend of mine and I were once asked to join the mage sphere on a game where, for whatever reason, the sphere had been nearly wiped clean. We were offered anything we wanted, which meant Master mages, to get in there, get active and, per the god 'help clean up some loose threads'. So of course we decided to go in there with a light touch, be respectful, get to know the place and figure out ho- haha, no, we made two mages with Twin Souls, him specializing in Corr/Time/Mind/Spirit and me specializing in Forces/Matter/Life/Prime, and we just went in there and did whatever wanted. Our characters had long, detailed backgrounds, but Jesus, who cares? We were asked to trim up some loose ends, so we trimmed like crazy. Bad Black Spiral Dancer? Telenuked. Inactive Prince? Inactive pile of ash. Oh, and when the article about turning vampires to lawnchairs came out, did we take that as a warning? No. We took that as a challenge. Suddenly everyone became a potential addition to our dining room. And as Kant once said, one loses the capacity for good moral reasoning when rather than seeing other people as an end, one sees them as an end table.
Anyway, the place died because I guess players started to feel like things were unstable and they never knew if they or their friends might die at any moment? I donno. Seems like a bunch of whining to me.
So that was a FUN MU, but it probably wasn't a very good one.
I also really reject the idea that the movie would have been better by including this goddam thing.
Despite the consensus here, any queerbaiting in Frozen 2 is subtle enough that the vast majority of adults seeing it would have no goddam idea what you're talking about.
Without jobs and housing guarantees UBI is just going to offer predatory capitalism further opportunities to exploit people.
I'd like to see a serious health system rework that includes M4A, but I have no expectation that we'll ever see this. The middle and lower classes have been trained to fight against their own interests.
Tomorrow's gonna suuuuuuUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuck.
Are there so many OC-only superhero places set in a modern setting that we need ones set in cyberpunk or noir 30s settings to add flavor? Honest question here, because I really can't think of any, but also I'm hardly paying attention.
Mutants and Masterminds. Metropolitan setting. No built in 'all superpowers come from <a thing>' nonsense which limits character concepts.
Once that's successful and people yearn for more, then open up an old west superheroes game or a superheroes game that takes place during the crusades. Or your really high concept gothic horror superhero game where the concept is that it's a comic book being written by Byron, Shelley, Godwin and Polidori during the summer of 1816. Mutants & Masterminds: Modern Prometheans.
...
afk to make a game
@sincerely said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@theonceler said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
We should take advantage of this opportunity to talk about how cool Aleksei is.
Pretty cool, right?
Do we need to? He already knows everything, he doesn't need to know he's enslaved our hearts and minds as well. God.
Enslaving does seem out of character for him.
A lot of these issues would be resolved by having someone on staff willing to drop non-episode-related scenes on the grid. Just a dumb monster-of-the week, even if the 'monster' is a robbery or a non-combat thing. Or hosting a regular RP event, such as a karaoke night would give everyone a reason to go IC, because you'd know there's RP there regularly. Or by having some real stance on PRPs other than "they are allowed, but no information on actually running them will be forthcoming ever!" Two or three enthusiastic (and hopefully creative) players can help a limping game along, as long as staff stay out of the way.
Titanshade - In a fantasy world with 80s era technology Titanshade was once the energy capital of the empire, fantastically wealthy despite being in the ass end of nowhere, thriving in a frozen waste thanks to the city having been built on the body of a dead god. Unfortunately the oil wells have dried up, along with the jobs that industry created, and times are tough in Titanshade. When an ambassador from a group who hope to revivify Titanshade's fortunes with windmills turns up violently murdered it's up to good cop nobody trusts Detective Carter and the mollenkampi (imagine 90% human, 10% stag beetle) rookie who has been assigned as his partner to solve the case before the city erupts in violence.
The Grand Dark - The war is over and the citizens of Lower Proszawa while away their days partying, drinking, fucking and doing drugs. Whatever it takes to ignore that they live in a police state, that automatons are putting people out of work and that they may very well have lost the last war, but are still gearing up for another. Largo's a morphia-addicted bike courier who route is about to put him into a world of shit.
All Cyberpunk - Do you like questions of identity and/or humanity in the face of high technology? Extreme differences between the haves and have nots? A dark setting where trust and hope are in short supply? Then you might enjoy every cyberpunk novel, movie or tv show.
@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
Anyone else kind of annoyed the Venom movie looks like will have no connections to Spider-man at all?
No, because it looks like a sloppy mess of turds and they can go ahead and keep it well away from the MCU, thanks.
I was really hoping this thread would be about more words for weiners, because I'm honestly stumped.
