Posts made by Vorpal

@Thenomain Unless Amanda Waller has Tobin's Spirit Guide at her fingertips and a degree in advanced demonology, conjuring and binding, I don't think she has quite the same level of preparation as Egon Spengler...

@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

@SG said in Good or New Movies Review:

I didn't even care about the Joker, he seemed shoehorned in ...

Can't really have Harley without Mr. J.

... who was that bionic commando dude they tacked on at the end? Did he even get a line?

That was Slipknot, played by Adam Beach. I guess he would have served more of a purpose than demonstrating Col. Flag's ruthlessness. Of course, Slipknot, like Boomerang, is utterly useless in the larger scheme of the DCEU, so his death is just fine with me.

Honestly this movie puzzled the shit out of me. This is the team that's allegedly going to take Superman down or a similar threat, if they go rogue.

But the only person who sort of somewhat has powers is El Diablo.

In the original comic book, the Squad wasn't created to take down Superman-level threats but to take on jobs that Superman and Batman and their like wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Hiring well-trained miscreants, psychotics and the like makes sense in that context, but not in the context the movie is creating for the Squad's raison d'etre. As it stands, it makes Amandda Waller look like a grade-A idiot because she basically looked at Harley Quinn with her mallet and went "Oh yeah, she could totally take down Superman with that shit, sign her up."

Then again, Amanda Waller as a particularly idiotic and incompetent government bureaucrat is the one narrative that makes sense in this movie, considering the only reason the Squad is deployed in this mission is because they're there to rescue Amanda Waller from a mess she created, and from which she somehow managed to not get evacuated, despite the fact that the rest of the city managed it.

I mean. Who the fuck keeps an ancient and demonically possessed artifact in their fucking closet?

@tangent said in Open Dates of New Games?:

@kk Marvel: 1963 is pretty much as good as open, even though we're still technically in beta.

Tangent is trying to upgrade me out of Early Access.

-ducks-

I chose team Instinct so that I could wear yellow in honor of the garb of the original Pokemon trainer, April O'Neil, who was able to find and train four Wartortles to protect her along with their Raticade mentor.

Or I chose yellow 'cause I like yellow. Maybe.

And the word of the day is imbulbitate

There, fixed it

Found a cool word that basically means "shitting one's pants in public".

Friend doesn't believe that the word Is A Thing because the only google hit was The Urban Dictionary.

I produce the 1626 edition of The English Dictionarie: Or, an Interpreter of Hard English Words, The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. By H. C. Gent, which shows the word Was A Thing.

I realize I do research for fun.

What am I doing with my life?

All I can say is that I am very grateful for all of the extra hours of sleep I've gotten since I stopped going to church altogether.

I won't even do the singer thing and do the church job thing unless they pay me very well.

@ThatGuyThere I usually answer that crap with "If you can tell me what color my soul is, you get to tell me what state it's in."

I don't tell them I don't believe in any of that stuff, but it usually does get them to shut up.

@Coin I guess Sondheim said it best: Careful the things you say, children will listen. Unfortunately they tend to listen to the things people don't want them to.

@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:

Young man killed after being lured to the location. (No, this isn't the one on Snopes which was false.)

Okay... I don't want to sound calloused... but what the hell? I grew up in Ecuador. When I was a teenager in Ecuador, you DID NOT go out into the street at night by yourself, or even with just a plus one, after a certain time because you were going to end up mugged, dead, or both and worse. If this app had been around when I was a teenager, we would have never gone out at night into the streets to play it... or we would have gone in a gaggle of five PLUS people.

Guatemala is just as dangerous at night as Ecuador is. Did this mother not teach her child about the nature of where he lives? You don't go wandering down random streets at night- stick to public and crowded places, and bring a group with you. That's what tourists do.

This patient basically has been horrible to everyone, and she tried to berate me for not calling her back to keep her up to date on the state of her account... um. No, bitch, it's YOUR account. I have you and hundreds of other patients calling every day. Your account is your responsibility. If I were responsible for babysitting every account on file, I wouldn't even have time to do my actual duties.

Thank goodness my boss came down and put the fear of the spaghetti monster in her.

@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:

Wanted man walks himself right into a police station chasing after Pokemon.

Pikachu, bounty hunter.

@Arkandel to be fair, they did the same thing when Pat Benatar showed up a couple of years ago, and she's a relatively rare Pokemon.

@Auspice said in There's Nothing to Do Here:

But in the cases I've seen where Staff is running 1-2 +events every week... and people still complain there's 'nothing to do'? That is entirely and completely on those players.

Pretty much. I am a very big proponent of Granny Weatherwax's Making Your Own Entertainment.

Players do need to take the initiative and be willing to create their own content- but what most players get to do is micro-plot. Plot staff often tends to pick up the other end of the deal by working on the macro-plot, the over-arching threads that can make really cool stuff happen by incorporating some of the things going on into a Big Thing.

When plot staff stop being active, things tend to stagnate pretty quickly. Speaking as someone who is playing less and less on his once-favorite MU*, the lack of a good plot staffers can make a place feel more and more like splashing around with your bath-tub toys. You make a splash and then it stops, and that's where it ends.

I'm perfectly fine using logic, but sometimes the level of stupidity is so high that a "Oh, fuck it" is perfectly merited.

Women being emitted? Well, they're NPCs. The PCs all must be male, because the creator of the game wants to keep a gay male-centered theme. In some MUs, high-ranking characters can be emitted but not played, and in one Superhero MU villains can't be played, they may only be emitted, because the creators wanted to center the experience around the heroes, not heroes and villains.

That's not pussyfooting. It's called being focused on a theme.

@Ganymede said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

@Vorpal

Let's call a spade a spade, then.

Yes, let's.

I may have been wrong to read into this that the game was calculated to be homosexual-friendly. Maybe you don't read it like that.

From the brochure: "gay, bi, and queer male characters". I think that is pretty damned explicit as to whom the clientele is. It’s right there, crystal clear, in black and white, evident to even the most cursory of readings. Even Walt Disney got it, and he's been dead for fifty years.

The first question I had was: why no women? To which the response appears to be: we don't want to. And then, the second question would be: knowing that other games have treated established homosexual, bisexual, and queer women poorly, why not celebrate women? To which, the apparently response is: OHMYGOD HOW DARE YOU HATE ON US.

Because, if I may be so blunt, the entitlement level is too damned high. “Why not this?” “Because we don’t want to.” “BUT WHYYYYYY? THESE OTHER PLACES HAVEN’T DONE IT SO YOU TOTALLY SHOULD DO IT”

Oh my fucking god. Shut up.

Maybe I am being condescending. There are reams and reams of comic book critique focused on the gay, lesbian, bi, and queer portrayals in comics. You're no doubt aware of that. I have no doubt that @Hushicho is aware of that. And I can find no reasonable explanation as to why female PCs of any stripe aren't allowed on this game.

Because. They. Don’t. Fucking. Want. To.

Do you own the server?
No.
Do you own the game?
No.
You don’t get to tell them what theme they get to put on.

Yes, Ganymede, you are being extremely condescending, because if we’re talking about sexuality and, dare we say it, fetishes, the answer “because that is what I like and what I want to do” is, indeed, a perfectly reasonable explanation. It’s not a reasonable explanation to you because you and some others seem to want this game to be some sort of Social Crusade to right the wrongs of past representation-
It’s a sex game.
No, seriously. It mostly is. It’s a fetish superhero game featuring male superheroes who are not straight. It’s for people who like that sort of thing, just like places like hardheroes dot com. They want to be surrounded by men. Men in tights. Who like other men, and who like the fact that other men like them.

It's as specific a niche as you can find.
They're also very nice people, from what I recall and from what everybody who has been there says.

You are basically descending like self-righteous harpies demanding that a group of people change their sexy pretend fun-times just so that your desire for representation be justified. This is as entitled and as full of crazy as you going to someone who likes the opposite gender to yours and vociferously demand why the fuck are they not masturbating to you?
It’s right up there with that brand of crazy.

But I'm not hating on the game. I don't hate it. Criticism is not hate. So, let's stop throwing about pointless hyperbole in an effort to get a rise.

This isn’t criticism. This is self-righteous entitlement. You’re berating the game for something it isn’t, and something it was never meant to be. You are Don Quixote tilting a lance of outrage at a windmill ,

@Ganymede said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

I don't think anything I have stated has been passive-aggressive. I don't think it's passive-aggressive to point out that a game can be more-inclusive. I don't think it's passive-aggressive to say that a game can do more.

I am sorry, but it is one hell of a passive-aggressive move to tell someone that their game can do more than the actual scope they have chosen for their game. That’s like walking into a “Save Tibet” fundraiser and going “Hmm, nice fundraiser you’ve got here, but what are you doing for the Guatemalan children?” It’s utterly and thoroughly classless- it’s the the worst kind of 'I know what's best for everybody so you had better listen to me' level of entitlement.

If someone wants to open a game that focuses exclusively on lesbian superheroes , they're well within their rights to tell you to go feff yourself if you pull something like that. Let’s not hide behind the pusillanimous "Oh! I applaud it, I do, old chap, but it could do so much more!" which is so thoroughly condescending. The game is dedicated exclusively to playing gay male superheroes and their mis/adventures. As far as performing the function the game was intended for, there is no humanly possible way it could do more outside of the game being set in a 24 hour Groundhog Day loop of Fire Island with the Young Avengers fighting RuPaul’s evil stepbrother, EvilLynn.

Let's break this and call a spade a spade here. By saying "This game could do more" you are using code for "This game could do more of what I want it to do more of whether or not it is part of the stated mission and theme of the game." There. It doesn’t look so pretty and polite when it’s stripped of the false pretense and revealed for the condescension that it is. This is a case of “How dare you not cater to my preferred group” disguised as “Oh, jolly good for you!”

@Ganymede said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

@surreality said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

You don't have to fight every social battle, but you ought not be offended when others point out that you have intentionally declined to do so, and that such act cements what is perceived to be another form of discrimination.

Whoa, whoa, whoa there. Have we reached the level of sheer insanity here, where indulging in something one likes (MEN) and where others can indulge in it is now considered declining to fight a social battle? Are we really taking the attitude here that, in the name of inclusion and tolerance, niche interests and groups are gauche because they exclude people (that is: everyone who isn't part of the interest the group was meant to focus on)

I'm all for portraying real segments of the population in a story... but they don't all have to be in there, at once, in the same story/MU*. I'm sorry, but if we have devolved to the point where we're going to insinuate "well, by opening a gay male centric MU* you're discriminating against everybody else and really you should be thankful that someone else has pointed out your social obscurantism at you" then we really need a sense of perspective. Especially when we're saying "You don't have to fight every battle" while also coupling it with "You shouldn't be offended when someone guilt-trips you about not fighting every battle."

No. To hell with that passive-aggressive guilt-tripping. What the hell are we, nuns?

So, I love this: NASA sent Jupiter's jealous wife to check up on him. And there's a song about it.