Posts made by Vorpal

This is a pity- I think that an OC-driven game would be a good solution for the Queen Beeing and the clique-gatekeeping that you see on an IP-based game, at least in the superhero sphere.

Any interest? Dear lord, yes! I love the witches, and I'd especially love playing another apprentice way over her head but too earnest to realize it.

@meg ... now his recent penchant for idly flipping through canoe catalogs makes sense.

Bless you, @meg , it's a fantastic idea! If you don't have any Grand Lake locals on staff, you can always shoot my husband questions of trivia or history of the place that may not be easily found.

Okay, this is kind of creepy. I've been to Grand Lake for holidays. My husband grew up in the area. I know that place, and know that Miss Miyauchi's hamburgers are the best in the world...

You guys had better have Miss Miyauchi's hamburgers in there.

@tinuviel I guess physics work differently in the Utopian Paralell.

Ah, the recurring flaw of typing way too quickly and being way too eager to hit return.

In one scene back in CoMUX, I was playing America Chavez and in the middle of a scene, she was lying in wait to ambush someone with Kate Bishop. The pose ended with something along the lines of "Peeing around the corner, America gestures for Kate to come closer." Kate, understandably, stated she had no intention of coming any closer.

The other one was in a scene with Booster Gold, where my character wanted to say something to him in secret so he wanted to get his attention. What should have read as 'quietly nudges Booster' became 'quietly nudes Booster' - that one was almost as embarrassing as the time I examined a clock on the wall in a pose, and accidentally omitted an 'l'.

He was one of my favorite people. He always made you feel welcome and tried his best to see how he could include you in whatever insanity was going on. We only started chatting last year but in that time I came to really like him.

He was awesome, warm, witty and he never stopped giving me guff for liking Sondheim. I wish I had been able to spend more time with him. I wish I had known him sooner.

Life got busy, I had a move, etc- long story shot, I was absent for quite a bit because real life. I got my bearings and managed to log back in to... yeah.

I met some cool people on '63, and Theorem was one of the best. I always felt bad that I couldn't spend as much time as I wanted to in-game, and with him. He was an absolute joy to RP with and he always made everybody feel welcome and included- I enjoyed chatting and hanging around with him just as much as I enjoyed being in-character. I'm sort of at a loss for words.

@ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

I do hope though there's room for something falling in the range between light-hearted and edgelord-dark. I really liked Thor but I'd like a more serious take for the next JLA movie (assuming there is one, of course).

When Wonder Woman is considered the most light-hearted of the series, there's a serious edgelord-dark weight on the entire franchise.

Pretty much. The worst thing is that Snyder's concept of 'serious' is in line with what the New 52 concept of 'serious' was- which basically can be summed up as a thirteen year old writing stories full of violence, hopelessness and brooding and saying "Oh wow I am so mature!" - the soundtrack to Snyder's approach could easily be Batman's'Darkness, No Parents' song from the Lego Movie.

@sg said in Good or New Movies Review:

@bobotron said in Good or New Movies Review:

@vorpal

Wasn't there something about him having a moustache during filming and them having to edit it out digitally?

AHAHAHA, I want this to be true so bad. You just don't read about this kind of delusional star power anymore.

At the time of the reshoots he was filming a movie for Paramount and Paramount wouldn't allow him to shave his moustache.

The result is, of course, 50 Shades of what the fuck is going on on your face? But hey, at least Superman is back to being a beacon of hope instead of a walking advertisement for antidepressants. That's a plus.

Now we just need to hope that they line a good director for the sequel so it's not a mishmash of two different visions trying to push each other off a cliff. Maybe they should just give it to Patty. Patty knows what she's doing.

@autumn said in Good or New Movies Review:

MCU Thor reminds me of the things I loved about Christopher Reeve's Superman. And I'm glad someone does, because the DCCU broody miseryguts Superman doesn't work for me, like, at all.

JL is worse, though, because Superman also now has Uncanny Valley Face Lips. It really is rather disconcerting looking at a man and getting the impression that his face is this close to violating Eucledian space. But not quite.

@ganymede Snyder is no longer attached to the DCEU as I understand it. JL was his last movie for them. So... here's hoping.

But hey, Wonder Woman didn't suck. It was actually pretty great. And I get to bask in the smug glow of the fact that DC has gone from "Nobody will want to watch a Wonder Woman movie!" to "Wonder Woman is the only thing that's working around here!"

Now let's hope WB is smart enough to let Patty do her stuff in fucking peace, because she's shown she knows what she's doing, and we'll hopefully keep getting more awesome Wonder Woman movies.

And the Amazons will probably go back to wearing their better costumes instead of those leather bikinis seriously Snyder/Whedon what the fu- aaaand breathing.....

@sunnyj said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

@Vorpal This is no Appeal to Tradition fallacy. This is 'I grew up with Iceman, and I want to interact with Iceman and be his best buddy for a few months'. OC Players cannot fight nostalgia with an OC and expect to win just on the merits of thinking they are awesome. I get they think their ideas are awesome, but sometimes other players just don't see it. Expecting everyone to be "OMG YES AN OC I NEVER MET BEFORE" to be the reaction, or else they are assholes, is just not fair, or reasonable, to say nothing of belittling just how much the love for some of these characters colors people's very desire to even play on Hero MUs. OCs sometimes have more difficult entry costs, and that is inherent to the nature of those games. Find the players like @Ganymede, who are plenty, and work from there! There are a lot of different people playing these games.

To be honest, I never start a game or an OC with the assumption that people are going to fall head-over-heels for my character. Nobody knows who the hell Y is, except me, and it really is up to me to prove whether or not the character is worthwhile for someone to make an acquaintance of. That's something I've always accepted and I don't really get put off by people's reticence in engaging with an OC. I do, however, find absolute loathing as a de-facto stance towards all OCs to be a sign of... well. The wheel may be turning, but the hamster inside the water bottle and turning purple.

@lithium said in POLL: Super Hero MU Gut Check:

So the idea that an FC is somehow /superior/ to an OC is just silly really.

To my mind, at least, it seems to be a sort of re-packaging of the Appeal to Tradition fallacy, where canon is tradition (because it was written, because it has been around for a while, etc) and therefore anyone who belongs to canon is inherently superior to everyone who is non-canon. Even if we're talking about Jimmy Olsen as Elastic Lad.

It reminds me of the RP stagnation that happened in a Final Fantasy VII game I briefly helped GM (and then promptly left for the reasons that I am about to explain.) The setting took place seven years before the events of the game, and the head GMs were so fixated on canon that they had basically set up a rigid timeline. As such, AVALANCHE (in this case, the AVALANCHE that you see in Before Crisis) could never have any victories that were significant, SHINRA could never suffer damaging losses, nothing could substantially deviate from canon, the Status Quo of Midgar could never change.

Which basically meant that people were stuck playing characters who had no consequence in the game because they were not FCs, and they just had to sit around and twiddle their fingers and wait for Cloud to come and save us all. Any significant actions in the game could only be performed by people who played approved FC.

That joke of a game perfectly epitomizes the extreme worship of canon and FCs and takes it to its total logical conclusion. When you make a game where other people will play, it is understood that a setting is a place from which to start, and that things may play out differently. If you're setting your game before the events of Final Fantasy VII, you have to be open to the possibility that Cloud will not be the spiky-haired savior (because the player/s playing cloud could end up totally wrecking the character, or he could die being an idiot). That maybe the world will get destroyed (because everyone was an idiot), or that a whole different band of scruffy heroes will save the world (because some people managed to not be idiots).

@Ganymede Thanks!

So, after my mother died, I took basically half a year off from my career. No auditions, and I sang basically at the concerts I had previously signed up for and where I had a contractual obligation.

I started off April by getting new recordings to send out for pre-screening (many opera companies nowadays will ask you for pre-screening video recordings before they'll give you a live audition)- particularly for two roles I really wanted to sing: one for Handel's opera Xerxes, for the role of King Xerxes (no golden speedo, no), and Mozart's Magic Flute for the role of Prince Tamino. Tamino, I've done before and can do in my sleep. Xerxes is one of my dream baroque roles.

Well, I heard nothing for months, so I assumed I had been passed over. Today I get a double-whammy in my email: I got Xerxes. They apparently wrote down my e-mail incorrectly and have been trying to get in touch with me for a month. But I got the role!
I just have, like, a month to memorize it. Yay >_> but yay!

And I also got an audition date for next Friday. So yay, I'm actually making my comeback.

@Misadventure said in Forum Factions:

@Vorpal THAT wasn't even long winded.

Tell us again about Saint Olafs, where you wore an onion on your belt, which was the style at the time?

I see someone else got a hold of the Adventures of Baron Munchausen gamebook!

Wait, I'm not in the long-winded faction?

Note to self: Start telling "Back in St. Olaf..." stories.

@Arkandel Then I probably will skip it and wait for the other Non-Snyder movies.

Though... I don't know. Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman made 15 minutes watchable out of Dawn of Justice. Maybe she'll make this bearable, too.