@tinuviel
I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't disagree with your friends. You can and should. But how you go about stating that you disagree with them matters and will directly affect how they respond to you, and that should concern you if you are trying to communicate something serious.
@tinuviel
I'm not saying you did, I am saying it was rude of you to begin that way and you might have had an easier time making your case -- that trigger warnings should be mandatory for content like this, which I am 100% on board with -- if both of your tones had stayed a little more respectful from the beginning. Just my personal take on this, since not all parties seem to be OK with how this went down.
@tinuviel
Maybe? I didn't read it that way, especially since it's a pretty divisive show. But I think we can agree it was not rude.
Just for future reference, my two cents:
@surreality said in RL Anger:
@auspice My post was simply 'we'll just have to disagree about the terrible'. Totally peaceable. And I was told I was in the wrong for having a different opinion than him.
I wanted to reinforce this point by pointing out this interaction:
@surreality My concern is that you stated, initially, that the show was awesome and that anyone who disagrees (me) can go fuck themselves.
She told you to go fuck yourself when you responded to her observation that you were going to disagree on the issue with "Yeah we will, because you're wrong."
Not a super cool way to begin this discussion, dude. It immediately puts someone on the defensive and comes off really dismissive, if anyone is wondering why this became so heated very quickly it probably is because you came in swinging.
Not that I think an immediate "fuck you" was the right response either. Maybe a little more tact from all comers would have been more appropriate for a sensitive topic.
I have wanted so badly not to break my post count of 666...but goddamn it, some things are worth it: I'd totally come outta MU* retirement for Mummy, it sounds like such a blast!
@runescryer said in Interest check: pure OC superhero game:
A fun time was not had by all.
That is what has always been just incredibly bizarre to me about this hobby, because that scene and the fallout actually sound like an enormous amount of fun. If the Deadpool player in that scenario honestly threw up their hands and started stomping their feet at how other characters reacted to Deapool throwing grenades at innocents and executing criminals, that sounds less like a thematic conflict and more like a..."wow, what an immature tool" conflict.
Like, they're not playing in Deadpool: The MUSH, it's their responsibility to be cognizant of that fact.
I was just thinking in a similar vein (no pun intended)! The cities themselves could be patchy, with neighborhoods that are full-on Spookyville and others that are super mundane. ("Oh Jesus Kevin, lock the doors and drive faster, we're passing through Hell's Kitchen and I just saw Beelzebub.")
@surreality said in Interest Gauge: City of Mist Game:
"If there's one thing about Santa Carla I never could stomach, it's all the damn vampires."
This reminds me of a throw-away line from Buffy, where this band is loading up after playing a set at the Bronze: "Man, I hate playing vampire towns."
@surreality said in Interest Gauge: City of Mist Game:
As it is, there are characters like John Constantine and Doctor Strange in comics that have a much more mystical/supernatural bent. A society in which these types are 'out of the coffin' could be pretty damn creative and fun, I'd think.
I've waffled a lot over the years as to whether or not I enjoy "out of the coffin" urban fantasy/horror settings, but I've come to realize it really is the tone and themes that are the deciding factor. This really would also be a lot of fun and require probably the least justification, since by default the veil in the setting is literal and could just have mysteriously...burned away or whatever, leaving everyone exposed...
..............in a big city
IN THE 1980'S :0 :0 :0
@krmbm said in What is your turning point?:
"I just met you, but now I am going to pour out my entire back-story in our first conversation together. Now your turn to do the same!"
wait is this not how you meet new people IRL 
@ghost said in What is your turning point?:
Once, someone tried to talk me into making a very specific character, only for me to find out that character concept was an actual character on another game whose player she'd had a falling out with, but still wanted to continue that story.
I had a somewhat similar experience that was super disappointing because the app process started out so great, the character was basically writing himself and I just coincidentally found these two people who wanted to do like a group app. I instantly had tons of chemistry with one of the players and we were joking and riffing and bouncing ideas like years-old chums, but the other was just so weird and stand-offish over the fact that I wouldn't use this one specific played-by and description and personality for the character because -- turns out -- they almost literally could not imagine characters in a scene together if their played-bys had never been on-screen together, in movies or shows or whatever. They pestered me about it so much I basically made up an excuse and left.
Basically any game I ever played for an extended period of time back in the day, I found on OGR. I weirdly enough found myself sort of repeating the behavior later with the Reach and then Fallcoast since they were so enormous, I'd just log a guest bit in, check their ad bb, then log out.
This morning my kid asked if we could put the LEGO Batman and The Tick cartoon series into our PS4 so it could "make" a LEGO Tick movie, and I was blown away by how awesome it would be if it worked like that. Can you even imagine???
Personally, I'd go with the original Avengers and a disc from the Friends TV series, just to see them desperately scrambling to survive the Chitauri invasion.
Picture it: a bleeding Rachel cradling Ross's body on a burning, rubble-strewn street as aliens zip by overhead, screaming to the sky "NO ONE TOLD US LIFE WAS GOING TO BE THIS WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"
How about you, READY GO
@admiral said in Good or New Movies Review:
Your argument makes sense, but the Marvel-verse (in all its many properties) paints the UN as a limp, bureaucratic nightmare that consistently trips over itself and makes things worse.
I honestly don't think the UN is portrayed before Civil War in the movieverse (which is what we're discussing, the Civil War arc in the comics is a completely different story IMHO)?
I could be wrong. But Cap's distrust comes from his experience with SHIELD, which is...apples and oranges and not fair.
By the time they voted to send the Avengers into a situation there'd be monkeys flying out of asses already
Yeah, bureaucracy can be a hassle. Then again, Cap decides his best friend's "freedom" is more important than the lives of dozens if not hundreds of other people, purely because he's his best friend. His judgment is suspect.
(Seriously, I could write a paper on this, haha.)
@admiral
Stark's argument for UN oversight had nothing to do with profit. The Avengers are a wildcard that cannot contain their own mistakes and collateral damage, both Avengers movies (and even the intro to Civil War) basically go out of their way to prove that.
Cap's counter-argument was basically "WHO ARE THESE EGGHEADS TO TELL US WHAT TO DO," which is so 'Murica it hurts.
