Bringing back old ass games is the thing, right? So just bring back Star Wars Sagas, but set during the TFA era. Let everyone play their old characters thirty years older and all the RP needs to revolve around retirement, paying to get kids through space college and colorectal health.
I have a couple of 'interesting books coming out this month' sites I like. So every month I go to them, read their descriptions of the interesting books and then buy whatever strikes my fancy.
I'm still pretty sad that the Barnes and Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy blog died. Joel Cunningham had my number. He does stuff over at Tor.com now, but they didn't bother doing a list this month for anything other than YA novels! Jerks.
Holy shit, nearly all of Teen Titans Go is on Hulu.
Time to call in sick for three days!
@deadculture said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:
Such as, I know a professor who lost his job and got arrested because he posted the picture of a dark beer, and said:
What's his name? I'd like to read the story about this fellow.
You throw a 'cunt' out there, it's armageddon again. And before someone tries to apply critical theory to my argument: please don't. You can't have it both ways. Either do it in the absolute or don't do it at all.
Everyone says they want unmoderated free speech course corrected by social admonishment, but no one ever seems to want what that ends up looking like.
Out of respect for the staff and potential new players on StF, I have moved this post to the Hogpit thread.
Netflix is firing salvos in the coming war against Disney's streaming service by locking up Alex Hirsch.
I. Want. To. See. This. Show. YESTERDAY.
I don't even care what it is. It's going to be amazing. Put it on my fucking TV right now!
Firstimpression-ing NPCs.
Because otherwise how can Sapphire know what you really think of her?
@Roz said in General Video Game Thread:
Spider-Man: Miles Morales demo footage!
@bear_necessities said in General Video Game Thread:
The graphics don't look great but I will be cautiously optimistic. I was not a fan of the fighting system from FF: Dudes with Car, and it looks like they are using that again
Hopefully you don't have to buy a shit ton of DLC for the entire story again..
Looks a bit like the FFVII remake.
@Ghost said in Why We Don't Make New Friends Anymore (Or Creepers Do Creepy Things):
This is the same 16 year old girl who lived with her dad in a "LARP house." Basically a LarpHouse is a crack house (usually minus the drugs) where someone acts as slumlord to 7-10 larpers who pay rent on couches.
This is the most spectacularly fucking bananas thing in this whole goddam thread.
I legitimately do not want to believe that this is real.
@Pandora said in Well, this sums up why I RP:
Nowadays, authors run the risk of getting 'cancelled' for writing anything too far beyond cute bunnies having birthday parties
I must be reading this wrong. Are you suggesting that cancel culture has made it so modern authors are afraid of writing anything 'too far beyond cute bunnies having birthday parties'?
By the time I played there attempting to play anyone with any degree of superpowers was heavily frowned on. RP was dominated by cake making and dress shopping. But, hey, I met my wife there. She asked me to kill her and the rest is history.
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
but I liked it more than TLJ. I'll say that for sure.
Oof.
Considering TLJ rests comfortably in the top three Star Wars movies for me, this isn't much of an endorsement.
I fear that JJ Abrams, a feckless turd whose only true good has been revitalizing the Mission Impossible series, terrified of the neckbeard backlash to TLJ has decided to veer in the opposite direction and as a result crashed the Millennium Falcon directly into craptown.
And I also say that as a person who has terribly fond memories of watching Star Wars on VHS every chance I got. Someone who owns the prequel trilogy and doesn't hate them, though I gotta say, rewatched 'em recently and boy are there long stretches of those movies that are hard to watch. Someone who unabashedly loves this dumb universe. Someone who genuinely liked Solo.
In the end I think this trilogy was done in by the fact that there was no plan for it. JJ Abrams made TFA and was like, okay, someone else can figure out what the deal with Snoke is, who the Knights of Ren are, who Rey's parents are, how much good is left in Kylo Ren, etc. And then it was passed to someone who made a truly, remarkably beautiful film in TLJ, but wasn't particularly interested in any of those questions. And now it's been passed back to someone who just wants to throw as many hacky references to the original as possible. And at no point was anyone concerned about making any kind of unified story.
Which is disappointing. Especially given that Disney knows how to do this, given the success they've seen over in the MCU, where the arc of the Thanos saga was decided shortly after The Avengers.
Maybe they should just give Star Wars to Kevin Fiege.
At least The Mandalorian is still great. And rumor has it that they're talking Doctor Aphra for an upcoming Star Wars Disney+ series. That would be amazing.
@Ghost said in Well, this sums up why I RP:
The quote said that cancel culture had made modern authors afraid to write content that wasn't cute, fuzzy bunnies. That's how I read it.
Okay. That isn't what you said then.
But, I mean, if that is what she meant, then, jeez, I'm sorry to hear you guys haven't read a book since you were nine.
Maybe saying goodnight to the moon wasn't gritty enough for you and maybe when the sun has set not long ago and everybody goes below to take a bath in one big tub you're disappointed that there's not more grim blood splatter, but you will be glad to know that they've actually published a book or two since then that do have some stuff beyond cute bunnies having birthday parties.
I mean, as much as I think the Sanderson quote above is pretty dumb, he's right there indicating that at the very least he (though his quote does indicate that he believes it applies to other authors) writes more than bunnies and birthday parties. Like, it's the point of the quote?
If you'd like a list of some of the books released since Sophie the Giraffe made a car go beep beep and a train go chugga chugga I bet there are some people who'd be happy to suggest one or two.
@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:
Rian Johnson says there was no set plan for the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
"Not really. That’s what’s been really cool about the storytelling process. There is definitely the idea that we know it is a three-movie arc. We know the first film is an introduction, then the middle act is training, meaning challenging the characters. The third is where they all come together and you have to resolve everything.
But I was truly able to write this script without bases to tag, and without a big outline on the wall. That meant I could react to what I felt from The Force Awakens, and what I wanted to see. I could make this movie personal. I could also just take these characters where it felt right and most interesting to take them. I think part of the reason the movie feels like it goes to some unexpected places with the characters is that we had that freedom. If it had all just been planned out and written down beforehand, it might have felt a little more calculated, I suppose."
No, he was really gracious, in just stepping back and giving us a blank slate to work with. The starting point was The Force Awakens script, which is quite a big, expansive, wonderful starting point. In that way, we are drawing directly from his work. But from that point forward it was a blank canvas.
But it was a completely unknown scenario. I had some gut instincts about where the story would have gone. But without getting in the weeds on episode eight, that was a story that Rian wrote and was telling based on seven before we met. So he was taking the thing in another direction. So we also had to respond to Episode VIII. So our movie was not just following what we had started, it was following what we had started and then had been advanced by someone else. So there was that, and, finally, it was resolving nine movies. While there are some threads of larger ideas and some big picture things that had been conceived decades ago and a lot of ideas that Lawrence Kasdan and I had when we were doing Episode VII, the lack of absolute inevitability, the lack of a complete structure for this thing, given the way it was being run was an enormous challenge.
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
Now it could be said that Disney should have learned from Marvel, but saying 'they already did this....' No. Marvel did. Not Disney.
Marvel had the bold idea to do multiple movies leading into The Avengers, but the three phase structure and the overall story of the Thanos saga wasn't a thing until Marvel got bought and Disney gave Feige free rein, and the story itself wasn't fully planned out until after The Avengers.
It's also hard to ignore that pre-Disney Marvel gave us the least interesting movies (and outright two biggest stinkers) in the MCU.
The model for movies within the Lucasfilm wing may be wildly different than in Marvel.
And the point is that it shouldn't be.
Edit: Even if you want to nitpick and say that they weren't under the same umbrella when Marvel started, the fact of the matter is that Marvel was still an example. Hell, two previous trilogies weren't entirely planned out, but they still had a writing team that had an idea of what would happen in the sequels after Star Wars was a hit. I mean, guys, the Fast & Furious movies since 5 have had more of a cohesive story arc between movies than this trilogy.
@A-B said in Spirit Lake - Discussion:
Ominous - afraid I have no idea what you mean. Given your sig, I assumed I wasn't meant to.
I don't really know Ominous, but if I had to guess I'd say they're suggesting you may be basically a red flag factory in the red flag district of Red Flag City, the capital city of the Red Flag region and home of the Red Flag gym where the gym master Redd Flaggerson uses a Red Flag (Psychic, Ghost) to fight.
@lithium said in Quinn's Playlist:
@theonceler Would if you wanted to make it permanent.
How do you figure? Making effects permanent was about successes and having your ST play ball.
The official rote in M20 is Life 5/Matter 5. Matter 5 actually makes no sense unless the lawn chair is made of uranium or something, but they were being cute. Though I suppose some people might argue that to affect a vampire requires at least as much Matter as Life is appropriate for the spell. Per the rules as presented Life 5/Matter 4 does the trick in M2nd, which is the only rule set that matters to discerning people.
Ugh. Nik is fabulous, but he's not this pretty. There was no Alec Baldwin-ish 'handsome but doughy' option.
Lot of problems with this Hamish.
Neither big enough, nor old enough. And what's the deal with no spider or skull jewelry? C'mon!
I have the worst goddam game idea she's busily talking me out of.
After that we can go back to dumb DnD MU ideas. Like Eberron MU, but it uses GURPS. Or Ravenloft, but as a sitcom.
