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@magee101 said in Crescent Moon Mux / New Orleans CoD Mux:

That's the problem with cultures, technically correct and actually correct can be vastly different.

Do go on being unable to concede a minor, inconsequential point, it's super endearing.

@magee101 said in Crescent Moon Mux / New Orleans CoD Mux:

might be technically correct, but for us here in the hobby, CofD is 2nd Edition NWoD and is represented that way on these forums.
ETA: Basically, just because someone has retroactively rebranded something to make things "simplier" does not mean that the vast majority of their customers agree or follow their new branding system ten years after the fact.

Way to move the goalposts there, magee.

@sunnyj said in oWoD - Is there such thing as a good one?:

Does anyone in this hobby nowdays have the time, maturity and energy to provide a 'focused, story-driven experiences' to a game of 50+ players,

Ehh, I don't think I want to play with 50 people anymore. I like having a small group, that the stories both large and small can sort of revolve around. The trouble is, I don't know anybody, haha.

@bobotron

There's still a few scenes that give me chills when I think about them, that are sort of unique to the video game experience.

But the two things I think I appreciated most about the game were:

1. The mood. Walking Downtown and looking up at those looming, dark buildings was one of my favorite things. Everything felt run down, like the end of the world really was just around the corner.

2. The story. It was so tight, and while there was always something interesting going on to distract you, ultimately things were building up to that awesome end. I think what largely lost my appetite for most MU*s is the move to large, empty sandboxes that just run for fucking ever.

I think I would honestly enjoy playing a MU* that runs like, the last few years before Gehenna or whatever, and play through how things fall apart.

I'm pretty torn. I really, really like different lines from both - Forsaken resonates way more with me than Apocalypse - but jeez is Masquerade cooler than Requiem, like whoa.

Now if only someone could capture the feeling of playing Bloodlines...

So I passed on Pacific Rim: Uprising when it released, but I gave it a shot tonight and...wow. Really surprisingly fun and I honestly thought it was a better film than the original, which I wasn't expecting considering the very lukewarm critic reviews. The cast was so much better and more engaging and for once I was a little thrilled by the franchise teaser at the end.

@coin said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

@wizz said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

@admiral said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

RE: Changeling - From what I heard, they axed the head writer and filled it with a bunch of alt-right edgelord stuff.
At least, that's what David Hill said.

Sauce?

I'd assume David Hill, who is active and vocal on FB.

I just spent a very interesting hour on my life catching up on all this OPP drama I had no idea existed but explains a heck of a lot, at least in the sense that it's sometimes easy to forget these games are produced by people in a very small industry and that people are messy and gross, which can cause bigger disruptions than you'd expect. Huh.

ETA: "Bigger disruptions than you'd expect" is probably a pretty dumb way to say what I meant. Harassment, trans/homophobia, sexism, racism, etc. are not OK and do genuine harm. I guess I mean to say, because it's easy to sometimes forget the faces behind the books, I wanted to ascribe the delays to these fantastical get-away hobby books to technical difficulties and not real-life shittiness and that it's the latter is disappointing.

@admiral said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

RE: Changeling - From what I heard, they axed the head writer and filled it with a bunch of alt-right edgelord stuff.
At least, that's what David Hill said.

Sauce?

@zombiegenesis said in Random Idea - Multi-Themed MUX:

The actual idea was to prevent competition and encourage cooperation and working together. Not saying it would have worked by that was my thinking behind it.

If you offer this resource as an open space where anyone can come and play the games they want to play like a million virtual tables, that's ideally what it should be. Telling someone "oh no, you HAVE to go play at this table" is a little antithetical and going to cause some discomfort, especially if a potential player doesn't really like the setting or especially the gamerunners or other players there, which is a thing that happens.

@admiral said in Video Dump:

I understand why people go Furry/Otherkin. Escapism. Hell, most of the time I feel the same way. I'd love to be delusional enough to actually run with it but I am afflicted by a rather crashing sanity.

I knew an "Otherkin" back in high school, though the term wasn't one she would have been familiar with or used had she known it, and she was so out there about what she thought and believed that it was at least as harmful to our group of friends as the Final Fantasy House stuff, though probably a little less since thankfully none of us ever lived with her.

I was very blunt with her at the time and refused to humor her fantasies, which eventually cost me her friendship, and when I look back with what I know now about her that I didn't know then - she was going through some absolutely insane levels of abuse from a family member and her boyfriend at the time, as a mutual friend told me not too long ago - I regret it. I still don't know how I was supposed to handle it, exactly, but I wish I had had at least more tact.

@tinuviel
Yeah, it has a ton of implications that aren't necessarily terrifying.

Although I also think it's only a matter of time until someone combines this research with BrainGate technology and then basically ROBOCOP

Researchers at Yale University have restored circulation to the brains of decapitated pigs, and kept the organs alive for several hours.

The Yale system, called BrainEx, involves connecting a brain to a closed loop of tubes and reservoirs that circulate a red perfusion fluid, which is able to carry oxygen to the brain stem, the cerebellar artery, and areas deep in the center of the brain.
[...]
“There are going to be a lot of weird questions even if it isn’t a brain in a box,” said an advisor to the NIH who didn’t wish to speak on the record. “I think a lot of people are going to start going to slaughterhouses to get heads and figure it out.”

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@coin
I really, really enjoyed S1. S2 has been kind of a mixed bag for me, there have been moments that utterly surpassed the first season and then entire subplots that just felt like filler...but dude I can not even imagine better casting for Amahl, that guy is perfect.

Legion makes me want to play an astral-focused Mastigos so bad ;_______;

@tinuviel

Sorry, I just went back a page and saw her response to your discussion with me, which didn't show for me because this platform is super cool and hides responses sometimes, especially if people are posting in rapid succession.

I'mma bow out man, sorry for dragging this out longer than need be.

@tinuviel
Hahaha, thanks surreality. XD

@tinuviel

Yeah it does. And please correct me if I'm wrong, @surreality, but you pissed her off by coming off as dismissive of her opinion. In my experience with her here, that's not how you get her on your side.