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@Roz said in Good or New Movies Review:

Hopefully that works and I don't embarrass myself.

Literally my mantra every time I post here.

@arkandel
No, I get you. I think the wording in the rules is a little confusing like @faraday is saying, but in my opinion you really have to try to ask a question about a setting or theme that is just super negative right off the bat, and keeping it sort of "Call and Response" format would really limit the ability to go too off the rails.

Best of luck to you.

@ominous

Is it? It's definitely creepy to try and coerce someone who is clearly inebriated into a sexual encounter, but I'd never heard it was uncalled for now just to flirt with someone at a bar.

@bobotron said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

@dariryu

Re: ALL THE FINAL FANTASIES MUSH.

This was tried a few years ago by the M3-circuit. It lasted about 4 months about 8 months and before the game actually shut down, had fairly collapsed under the sheer insanity of its own players and setting.

ETA: I forgot they actually closed-closed due to RPGWorks closing, but the faction implosion and player issues were a big deal with a lot of characters dropping.

There was also Final Fantasy MUX, which was full consent, ALL THE FFS, and which ran for like... ten years or some shit. I played there a few times, with years passing in between, and it was a lot of fun. There's nothing inherently wrong with either the setting or consent-based gaming.

@Coin said:

It isn't that fucking hard, and if you say it up front, it saves you from people bitching saves you from looking like a malicious dick about it later.

FIx't.

If I app on a game knowing that if I get hit by a car and am comatose for two weeks, I will probably come back to a dead character, then if that happens, I will know. It would be awesome if they made an exception and worked it out for me. But forewarned is forearmed.

Again, most reasonable people will decide whether or not a policy of death is something they're OK with and make sure they take the appropriate actions to prevent it if, as @Coin says, they're forewarned and forearmed. You'll never stop people from bitching about such a policy, but at least there's something you can point to so the rest of us can justifiably go, "Ahh, OK, welp. Should've posted a vacation notice then" and not just sound bitter and unsympathetic, as seems to be the case right now.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@wretched said in Good TV:

@derp Lower Decks is best Star Trek

Orville is best Star Trek.

@lotherio said in Good TV:

Without TOS there would be no Star Trek.

@greenflashlight said in Good TV:

If you prefer, pretend I said that without TOS, there would be no Voyager, or no Star Trek V.

@auspice said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

So while it may draw Mage players, I think it'd turn away people who want to just delve into the setting. I don't want to go for that 'how much can I break this system to be THE MOST POWERFUL' that draws so many Mage players.

I still think you can basically discourage that attitude with the system itself, really boil it down to something that isn't so huge and intimidating and insane to use but still lets you do cool things without BREAKING THE WORLD so to speak. I dunno, maybe I'll come back with a new thread if I can actually give you guys a proof of concept and I'm not just talking out of my ass, haha.

@Arkandel

It's not rocket science. He's got two, you pick one, easy peasy lemon squeezy.

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE

Sheerly for the sake of Black Summer. Netflix has been pushing this on me for a while and I finally gave in, and for some reason sank an entire day into bingeing its brief two seasons. It's...boy.

Did you find The Walking Dead just way too cheerily optimistic and upbeat? Black Summer is your grimmest darkest. Thought TWD's cast was too bloated? No worries, Black Summer slaughters a cast member approximately every 5.8 minutes.

Every instance of even the briefest moment of human kindness is immediately punished. Every time more than three people group up it falls apart. Humans are wretched, vicious, horrid animals and there's no goal that the protagonists make that doesn't fail spectacularly.

Sometimes I am in the mood for some bleak and nihilistic media, but the finale had me slack-jawed and legitimately concerned for the writers' mental wellbeing.

This is an ugly show, y'all.

I just want to float this out there but @Arkandel I think you're more afraid of backlash against active moderation than you need to be, and it's this hesitation that is frustrating people. I'll actually echo @TNP here, either moderate or don't.

In addition to deciding who does what on the Mod Super Awesome Team, please present us with a clear and extensive community guideline, hell open it up to feedback first if you really want, but set expectations in stone.

@tragedyjones
Not necessarily that nobody wants to do one, but...there are still a few more-or-less valid options if they do. I have had yet to see a strictly-Hunter game, and I think one ramped up to 11 would be awesome fun.

@Warma-Sheen said in Pick Your Poison: A Chronicle of Darkness Interest Check:

Rather than carefree downtime scenes with a character that appears to be nearly invincible, there's a very different feel from a character that might not be alive the next day who has lost more than a few friends doing what they do. Or there should at least be a continuity of character. Maybe they are carefree because they might not be alive the next day. But regardless this Hunter idea should be a different feel than typical WoD games.

Yesssss. I think what has lead to stagnation in the hobby is that a lot of these feel like the same game: Get in early, build a character sheet and gather XP until nothing can touch you, and then sit and act like a rabid asshole if someone even suggests coming into your corner of the playpen uninvited. The setting is just window dressing at that point for a glorified chat room. We've talked a lot about game culture here and I think if someone were to deliberately, forcefully detach from the whole Make A Pretty Princess Sock Puppet, Collect Shinies metagame and actively encourage a completely different play style, you'd see different results.

@derp

To each their own GARBAGE TELEVISION I guess

Eta: I kid I kid it is not garbage. On a technical level it was actually really good and that kept me watching. Just too bleak for me overall.

@thenomain said in Magic, The Earth Way:

The Egyptians had magic. The Turks had magic. The Greeks had magic. Even if these things weren't actually real, these are magics that make sense for Earth, and make sense depending on the religions and regions of the time.

So aren't you kind of answering your own question?
Those are all valid answers but they're...also the inspiration for Vancian/Faerun/WoW magic. I guess I still don't really get what it is you're looking for either.

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Eeeh. That sounds super unfun. "You hunt X but you know nothing about X". Hunters should know things. I mean isn't that the point of a lot of Monster Hunting things/Serial Killer Dramas? "Those who hunt monsters should be careful least monsters they become"?

I'd agree with Ark and say that's exactly what he's talking about; acting with conviction on something that turns out to be untrue and people get hurt in the process? OH GOD TURNS OUT YER THE MONSTER AFTER ALL

Not being handed the answers just because it's assumed you already know them, and being forced to not just deduce the answers but deduce them like your character would sounds WAAAAAY fun. The occult is about mystery, after all...where's the mystery if I can look it up on page 302?

@wretched said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@wizz If it helps, my wife and i got engaged like 5 months into our relationship, and married the same year. I moved in with her like...3 weeks after meeting her? This year will be our 15th anniversary.

I'm totally aware that there are relationships that work out like that (happy upcoming anniversary BTW!) but like...frankly that's just a pretty dramatic roll of the dice as to whether it will, if you have that little experience with someone. ‍️

And given how young my sis is, how completely skewed her values and priorities have been re: previous relationships thanks to a lot of trauma and culty religious stuff, and how little she and we actually know this dude (aside from an episode where he lost his mind at her and was very verbally abusive in a way that just seemed absolutely bonkers)...I am stressed out about it and have very little faith things will go well.

We'll see.

I personally think what would benefit everyone here, myself included, is to stop treating forum posts like a race. Go back two-three pages and look at the response times, people are firing off with a mounting sense of panic within minutes of each other and then the mods are trying to stomp down harder and harder to slow it down and everyone should...just...stop.

Like, this is a forum. There is literally no reason to post your first response to something you see, give yourself a minute to breath.

@Derp said:

Could be a fun game though!

PbP games will prove you so, so horribly wrong.

Well, that is that, my trusty laptop is officially dead. Thought it was maybe the battery, so I replaced it and tried all the fixes I could find when it wouldn't power on, but no luck. Something vital is most likely fried.

I am so frustrated but at the same time so resigned to it that I just sat there for like five minutes after closing everything back up.

Can't afford a new laptop right now, so I just straight up don't have a computer. Thus, can't take the coding courses I was hoping to take, can't study, etc etc etc.

It's just one more shitty thing this year on a pile of them so I can't even work up the energy to be truly upset about it.

thenomain said in Interest Gauge: City of Mist RPG, small MU*/OTT, 80's Supernatural Big City:

@wizz

So non-stop monster-squishing?

Angel (the series) had elements of "oh no but it is I, I are monster no!!!" in bucketloads!

There will be some punching and/or kicking at appropriate times though yeah

@misadventure said in Interest Gauge: City of Mist RPG, small MU*/OTT, 80's Supernatural Big City:

@wizz So a setting that seems normal, but if you are in the know it is fairly easy to find some weird stuff going on, strange people, and if you drive down the wrong alleyway you may stumble onto something really bad once upon a time in the west?

Maybe more dangerous than that, y'know kind of Guns 'n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" instead of just Creepy Smalltown, Ohio.

Like the city is just straight-up a pretty strange place, and dangerous, but it's just a mundane and mortal sort of strange and dangerous on the surface. (Like super strange though, c'mon it is the 80's.) It's not difficult to find the weird if you're a Rift (person who has some balance or imbalance of Mortal and Super in them in a nutshell) and more often the weird just manages to find you. It doesn't matter if you're turning down an alley or driving down Main Street; the minute the Mist starts rising from the ground, you know shit's about to get real spoopy.