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I just don't really see what the Shadowrun setting brings to the table for a superhero game, especially one set in Marvel/DC canon. Shadowrun is cynical, dystopic, and generally speaking pretty low-powered and street level in focus.

Toss supers into the mix and all of that stops making sense. Why would the Justice League/Avengers even allow some of the biggest events of Shadowrun to occur without intervention, like the rise of the dragons and megacorps? Wouldn't Doctor Fate/Doctor Strange be working to stop or reverse goblinization as soon as it started?

Completely handwaving all of that and just splicing the setting together, what place would your typical shadowrunner have in a world where even as a team they are frankly outclassed by even a single lowest tier super? Why would you play as anything else?

The scales and themes are just so mismatched to me that I have a hard time seeing what the appeal is, as opposed to using like a blend of the Legion of Superheroes and Marvel 2099 if you want a far-future high tech setting?

@ThugHeaven said:

@Coin I'm surprised it's not a thing after all these years simply because it's such a blank canvas. You could literally do a sci-fi mu* set in the now all the way to a far flung future.

Dude. I think a Men in Black (like, the movie, not the oWoD group) game would be seriously fun. Incorporate a lot of really gonzo things like time/dimensional travel, and let players invent alien refugees hiding out on earth, with their own factions and shit.

Mostly just so at some point the playerbase and staff can arrange a gigantic rap dance-off.

Or maybe, and this is just a suggestion, everyone should just chill for at least an hour and then come back to this discussion after a nap and a nice bath or something.

I gotta say, I was really impressed with Cersei's twist at the end of the episode. If there is one character on the show who has pretty legitimately stayed true to the general stubborn shittiness of actual human beings and portrayed how someone can absolutely slow-burn their own self destruction over the course of a lifetime, it's her. She's one of the core elements of the show that has stayed consistent and very "Game of Thronesy" the entire time.

@kanye-qwest said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I am not upset. I'm home from the clinic, sipping a mocha, and snerking at this.

...That's...almost worse to me, to be completely honest. If you're deliberately being that hostile and mean about all of this, then you're only proving the people who have been super critical of you here right. (ETA: Which, again, I am not on board with, I usually enjoy seeing you post here, you're hilarious.) I really feel like there really isn't any reason -- in general too, but on this thread and topic in particular in which a lot of people feel really strongly -- to bring the tone of the entire conversation down to that level.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@lithium ***=NSFW content***

click to show

I left the spoiler tag to the default one because it sorta kinda fits.

... Wtf was that MILF bit they pulled with Billy Hargrove and Nancy's mom? That was kinda out of nowhere.

Hey, ***=spoileridoilers***

@surreality said in Regarding administration on MSB:

Those changes took time. They evolved. None were the result of someone stomping a foot and saying, "No one is allowed to say mean things any more because that's not OK!"

OK, boiling down the whole argument to "I don't like it when people are mean" is not what @faraday or I are talking about and it's a little condescending that that is what you and @ixokai are trying to make it about. For my part, I also wasn't trying to apply some weird equivalence of the behavior here and on WORA to the entire, full-stop, MU*ing community and literally everyone in it. (If you haven't encountered it there, wow, great. That's a genuinely a good thing, no sarcasm intended at all.)

I mean, you either see it, or you don't. You either recognize the attitude that exists here as a problem, or you don't. I really don't care to try and convince you if you don't, that's not my goal.

Ultimately I think the purpose this whole conversation serves is to show what percentage of the board feels one way or the other, which to be honest is also a great barometer for "whether or not this iteration of the forum is a good fit for you."

@auspice

Eh, I think it's another sign from the universe that I've put a little too much in this company's basket and I should really focus on building up my education instead, so I can be where I want to be.

Luckily there's a work at home option for me possibly, so I can stop selling my organs to pay for daycare and focus more on my little buddy.

@vulgarkitten said in What is your turning point?:

We were talking about someone getting cockblocked in game and the player made the comment: "Mmmm. Speaking of lack of cock lately."

@Chet said in Y2K:

What if Y2K and the alleged glitch was a cover for the bug where shareware could be outwitted in terms of the trial period before purchase, by changing the clock backwards?

In that case, why not just change the merchandised software implement for shareware clock timing, sold by some nefarious organization as a utility packet?

They'd logically do it for free, and in public.

I have read this like ten times and I still don't understand what you're getting at.

The big scare over Y2k was really about preventing people from pirating Winzip???? Or........?????????

Cover to cover, almost always. I love RPG books.

@Coin said in Good TV:

Grr. Arrg.

I think I do.

Sometimes people get too caught up in it and get possessive about IC game elements that are like...y'know, game elements. They're not real, so I get weirded out whenever I see it and unfortunately I see it a lot whenever I come back to the hobby.

Like, as much as I love telling stories -- and holy crap, I do! -- I could just be doing this on my own and avoid the weirdness, but...ahhhh there's nothing like collaborating!

I'm a few episodes in to the new season of The Expanse and except for a few random moments, I gotta say: these peeps are so good at pacing.

The Old Guard was pretty fun. Super slick action sequences, and the premise was cool, but I really wish they'd done it as a TV series or even a mini-series instead and given these characters and their backstories a lot more room to breath. Considering they were centuries-old immortal mercenaries, there were a lot of awesome tales to tell that we didn't get to see aside from little index card references and that's disappointing! (Admittedly I am a huge geek for flashback scenes, sue me.)

@Grayson said in Derbyshire Estate:

As it was, there was absolutely nothing in the ad (or, apparently, the wiki) that said this wasn't a reflection of the Derbyshire some of us know and, er, know. If we have to explicitly ask to find out that the setting is nothing like our Derbyshire, something's gone wrong.

As per the wiki since the ad went up, directly under the Theme page:

Setting

The main focus of play is set in Derbyshire, fictitious location once on earth that has since been 'moved' into another dimension. Earth exists as it does now, current date and time. The world Derbyshire resides in is known to residents as the misty realm. It is a dimension nestled among a prominence of ley lines, allowing access to Earth as well as a myriad of other dimensions. Walking too far from Derbyshire one can walk into another dimension and become lost if they do not know the Ways.

Y'all are just bored.

I dunno why but this is enough to have me snort-laughing every time I see it.

@silverfox

I think you'll find people who absolutely refuse to talk are a minority in the hobby with a very vocal representation here.