@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.
We should take advantage of this opportunity to talk about how cool Aleksei is.
Pretty cool, right?
@surreality said in How did you discover your last three MU* ?:
That short-lived teens game: Ad thread here.
STF. You should have stuck around longer. Then there would have been four active characters.
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
"What is a friend but an enemy with a smile?"
HR Giger
@coin said in Good or New Movies Review:
Maximum Carnage or The Clone Saga as movies could work, and tell interesting and evocative Spider-Man stories. saying they wouldn't work is like saying "man, Civil War was a MESS, it would never work as a movie". Except it did. Because they distilled it, changed it, and made it work.
They distilled it down by removing everything that wasn't the title or a single scene where heroes fought.
Unfortunately by keeping the title of Maximum Carnage you'd probably still have to have Carnage in there.
At some point in the last two decades did we decide that Maximum Carnage wasn't one of the worst crossover events in the history of comics?
You people are making me feel very confused.
@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.
A Star Wars game set primarily on one planet/system in the Outer Rim so the game mostly plays out as the Old West, but with blasters and lightsabers.
@sunny said in What Is Missing For You?:
Buffy.
I do have this old grid just sittin' around collecting dust.
Updated to reflect the tragic death of Stranger than Fiction.
Also, as a bonus, a snippet of conversation about my MU history.
Me: I probably played on two dozen WoD games until I quit on 2001 to play Everquest.
Friend: Wow.
Me: No, Everquest.
Getting to make that joke may be the highlight of my week.
Out of respect for the staff and potential new players on StF, I have moved this post to the Hogpit thread.
@three-eyed-crow said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:
@quinn said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:
A couple people said their MO is to open a game for like 6 months, get bored, and open another one. I think Lantern Hill was one? I've definitely never played on one of their other games, so someone else will have to confirm.
This shit honestly baffles me. Just...run a private game if this is what you want to do. There's nothing wrong with that, you'll take zero flack for it, it's a far more appropriate way to do some types of campaigns. Why open a public game when you don't actually want to run one?
If there isn't an audience for your coolness, does it really happen?
I asked you to RP so many times!
Well. Twice. Once per character.
I once put in a request to run a PRP since their ad here, the ad that drove me to play there, said they were PRP friendly and wanted players to assist building the game.
What a fuckin lie that was.
To the day that the game ended my request sat in the jobs queue untouched. But they DID eventually post that you needed familiarity with the theme to run PRPs. And how did you get familiarity with the theme? By being in the abundant plots that never got run.
If there was a no tattoos rule I broke it thoroughly. Not only did Tommy have a half dozen tattoos, I once actually had a scene revolving around him getting a really awful one and having to be talked out of it. And Tommy wasn't shy about showing them, either, since he was a completely obnoxious dipshit.
I'll post something long in the main thread next time I'm at an actual computer since most of it picks up on complaints I'd already posted.
Needless to say it ending the way it did doesn't surprise me and none of the stories I've heard about the staff's previous games have surprised me.
In the end I'm just angry because saving this game would have been easy and they just didn't give a shit.
That was me!
I was also Tommy. A fact that blows the minds of everyone I tell.
Boy do I have some opinions about how StF played out.
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.
Chicken and noodles, a ridiculously easy Kansas Amish country classic.
Shred at least a pound of chicken (your classic poor-ass Kansan might use a whole chicken from a can, but that's next level gross, I like a rotisserie) and set aside. Fill a pot with water, half a stick (at least) of butter and five tablespoons of chicken bouillon. Boil and add some Amish-style egg noodles. Tradition says thinner is better, but I like medium flat. Make your own or buy 'em in a store. Who cares? When the noodles are done add in the chicken, a can of cream of chicken soup and either a cup of sautéed onions or a tablespoon of dried onions. Simmer while you make the second part of the meal, the mashed potatoes you're going to serve this on.
And for a low carb version just eat the rotisserie chicken whole with your bare hands. If you're wearing clothes while doing it, well aren't you a fancy lad.
@thenomain said in Good TV:
The Good Place is still that good. I like any show that doesn’t back down from a challenging plot, even if that plot isn’t trying to push boundaries or rip from the headlines.
Depends on what you mean by 'push boundaries'. The Good Place is probably the most educational show on broadcast TV.