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@Jennkryst
That got a LOL at work, thank you very much. XD

@Jennkryst

That's why Abstergo has abducted multiple people and searched their memories, right. But why link them and risk corrupting the data? All of those simulations are solipsistic, ie there's only one "user" at a time, and even then "synchronization" is a huge issue in the game. Even though Abstergo might have multiple machines running, those individual test subjects wouldn't be experiencing the same thing if they chose to do something "out of synch" - it's not a shared simulation, the other users would just see the sequence of events in the memory from their ancestor's POV unaltered.

@ShelBeast said in Interest Check: Assassin's Creed (CofD/2nd Ed) Game?:

Then I had another idea about it. Instead, there could be multiple timelines. Each player would log into the game with a sort of "OOC" account, and in the actual game, chose their alts. The timelines offered would act as "spheres", and you could have one alt per sphere. The OOC area would be, essentially, an Abstergo Entertainment office, and the login PCs of the playerbits would be Abstergo employees from an "IC" standpoint. So, even your OOC chatter would be a sort of metagame IC situation. From the OOC/Abstergo office, you would go into the Animus room, which is where you would select which alt you want to play and that would launch you into the grid for said alt.
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That's just it... the stage of history is the setting in AC. While the Assassins and Templars do take center stage in the game, they're also surrounded by equally larger than life figures, embroiled in epic plots and even more historic conflicts.

You could play in any number of factions. You could play an alt that's part of the redcoat army during the American Revolution. Maybe a member of the Horde of Genghis Khan during the invasion of China. You can just be a craftsman who happens to make strange tools for stranger clients. Literally, the number of different aspects to play are only limited by the page of history you're playing in, but that's often super diverse.

That's not the setting in the AC series, or how the Animus works though. It's not a time travel device or the Matrix or whatever, those times and places and characters are only simulations of memories. They don't "exist" or play out when the memory isn't being accessed, and it's only a simulation of that one person's genetic memories from their POV, other people don't just "log in" and muck about in them. Abstergo built the Animus specifically to run through very specific sequences of events that would give them clues as to how to find progenitor tech in the real world, that's it.

You could stretch the source a little and have it so Abstergo has multiple Animus machines running simultaneously with a lot of different subjects, and that those simulation sessions aren't just solipsistic but an actual Matrix-style recreation of a certain time that was shared by all those subjects, but...why?

@Coin said in Good TV:

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

"My name is Barry Allen, and I'm the fastest man alive!"

No, man, you're not. Every goddamn season there's a villain notably faster than you. Stop lying.

Well, I mean, maybe it's a story framing device and he's saying it in the future, telling you how he took down the competition.

Does he straight up murder them so he can continue to be the fastest man alive? Is that like his whole thing?
Because if so I have been missing out

@Tempest said in Turn Off Gifs?:

@Thenomain said in Turn Off Gifs?:

@Tempest said in Turn Off Gifs?:

I don't think I ever claimed to be trolling.

And yet...

Most of the gifs on the forum get posted in the Hog Pit. Stay out of it if your feelings are so delicate they can't survive a few reaction gifs.

I do. And yet...

I'm not following you.

Perhaps if you had used a gif to express your ideas, I could understand.

I never got a chance to play any of the MU*s.
But one setting idea I think we batted around here at least once was a mirror world during the search for the Dragon. You have a sort of secret war going on between the White Tower and the Black Ajah/Darkfriends and False Dragons can pop up here and there, with the ultimate goal of fulfilling enough of the prophesies to legitimize them as the Dragon Reborn (if you die or get gentled, obvs you are not the guy).

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

Did anyone mention the Dresden Files RPG or even Dresden Files, yet?

I have been pining for 1920’s/30's Dresdenverse in either NY,
Chicago or LA for a long, long time now. You get the fun Dresdenverse without having to explain away or tiptoe around the big supernatural shakedowns happening during the timeline of the books, and just a super interesting place and time.

I actually have a half-baked doc on some drive or another where I started following the Fate city creation guide for 1920's LA.

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Wizz Where would you put them? He doesn't need to go for the cities, just visit graveyards and such. Can you imagine how many somewhat fresh corpses there still are after the War of Five Kings?

Well, like we saw in the battle between Danaerys and the Lannister forces, the ballista was mounted on a wagon, meaning they could be mobile. It might be a bit of a desperation move, but with stakes that high it'd probably make sense to send forces with ballistae to the biggest battlegrounds, or keep a few patrolling to catch him between points A and B, at least forcing him to stay on the move. All the Night King might gain is a few isolated pockets of undead at a time without White Walkers to guide them or raise more, and it would only take one dragonglass missile scoring a hit anywhere to snuff out the dragon. Seems like the risk he would be taking vs. just staying with his massive ever-growing horde and the other Walkers would be pretty extreme.

ETA: I mean the dragon is enormous and he could probably take other Walkers with him and drop them off at key points and then each Walker could potentially grow their pockets of undead until eventually they all merge back up and Westeros is proper fucked, but then you've only got one target in each swarm that you need to eliminate given that we've seen the wights collapse after the Walker that animated them is destroyed.

It's not a terrible idea at all @Arkandel and I think if the scenario were to "really" play out rather than be written to be as dramatic and entertaining as possible it'd be something the Night King would be foolish not to consider, but IMHO swarm tactics just seem to make more sense for the undead than guerilla warfare given their weaknesses.

@Sunny said in High Fantasy:

@WTFE

Thank you. It was as entertaining (ah ha ha ha) as I thought it would be to read. So very pretentious.

From I Hate Fun:

It’s shit. It’s all shit. It doesn’t enrich my life in any way, but it does turn my brain off, quickly, conveniently, easily, cheaply. No effort. What it all does is separate myself from living life and reduces it to passing time. It distracts me and detaches me from the only thing I have – life - and therefore it is no good. Instead of doing, and being, all too often I am seeking sensory stimulation. Artificial feelings, stimulated most effectively through passively consuming things that other people have done.

The very idea of wanting to be entertained is an exercise in self-nullification.

Well, I mean I think a lot of creative people feel that way to some degree at one point or anoth-

I can’t socialize. I won’t. It’s embarrassing enough to know that I waste substantial periods of my life seeking and accepting entertainment, being mentally comatose instead of being active and involved in my own life. How am I supposed to be exposed to other people behaving this way and have a shred of respect for them? I want to just shake them. “We are real people, we are together! We don’t have to be alone, dead in mind, vacant in spirit! We should do, we should create! Support each other in our times of weakness and make our mark in the world, for we are Human!”

-Oooooooooook nevermind, what a dork.

pretty soon a hobby that was custom-made for the studious and imaginative and thorough now belongs to an entirely different caste, while those of us that the hobby was created for are left on the fringes, told that we’re just not compatible with today’s gaming, and sometimes, even today’s life in general.

Fuck that. Fuck that. This hobby is ours. These other types can come and play and we’ll welcome them with open arms and show them the way if they ask, but to dictate fast-food mentality in my imaginative tools… that means war.

"GET THESE GADDAMN FILTHY FUCKING CASUALS OUTTA HERE!!!!!!"

Jesus Christ, this guy. I kind of wish I had time to read this entire thing but on the other hand I am already throwing up in my mouth a little bit.

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

Is it just me theorycrafting or should the Night King not even bother much with fighting the North at the moment? He has a flying mount, so what's keeping him from travelling all over Westeros at the sites of all these battles and every graveyard he can find to resurrect everyone who's ever died, creating a bunch of fresh armies to wage total war across the entire continent?

Several of those ballistae using dragonglass-tipped missiles, probably.

I mean that is like the first modification I'd make once I knew about the dragon wight.

YOUR HONOR PLEASE STRIKE MY PREVIOUS COMMENT FROM THE RECORD WITH APOLOGIES

Let the record show all parties committed an honest and genuine effort not to just post like a hundred GIFs in this thread.

@Arkandel

Yyyyeah, I had mixed feelings about it. On one hand it felt like major plot rush, same as everything else this season...but on the other hand, it was like, damn. It really nailed home how hard and cold and...Stark (ba-dum PSH) the children have become, and while I'm not sure that we will I kind of hope that we see some kind of fallout for it in Season 8, like the show will acknowledge how rushed and unjust the trial was via Jon, even if Littlefinger was a piece of shit and seeing him get his was super satisfying.

1920's vampire game makes me think of American Vampire and I'd be all over that like white on rice, like I don't even typically like vampire

@Misadventure
Man I instinctively hate that just looking at it.

@Arkandel
I MEAN IF WINTER WAS REALLY COMING WHY IS IT SO HOT AMIRITE

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Faceless What I miss is political subtlety. Don't get me wrong, I really loved the season so far because they get to play with all those toys Martin has given one by one - and I could really not care less about nitpicking of the "how fast do ravens fly??" variety - but it's more about wide brush strokes and big battles than backroom dealing, clever betrayals and outmaneuvering.

In that environment though some of ASoIaF's greatest characters like Varys or Littlefinger really don't have much to do. Even Tywin would have found it tricky to thrive without focusing on him more as a military than a political figure.

I think this is largely because the series is running into endgame territory. All the backroom stuff was a slow build to this, a bunch of assholes refusing to believe winter was coming, now winter's come. Probably my favorite shot of the finale was Jaime seeing a snowflake hit his glove and looking up to see the stormclouds over King's Landing, followed closely by the Wall coming down. It's so heavy and inevitable and final, and puts all the human struggle and pettiness into stark, ugly relief.

I've actually seen people try to do this before more than once in other RP mediums and it always went south, sometimes very very badly. I took part in one myself on a PbP forum when I was a teenager and the creator just up and ghosted on all of us after we'd been playing for a few months, turned site access off for everyone involved and then the site itself disappeared. I never saw anything come of it that I recognized, but still.

(Also, I'm not sure if I dreamed this or some shit but I feel like I heard about something very, very similar happening in either IRC or even a MU* before several years back -- some admin deleting everything and then actually releasing a novel with the names/places changed, but I may be wrong.)

I'd say especially in MU*-world you would be fighting an uphill battle for credibility with your playerbase the entire time and would have to have a legal contract with every possible angle set in stone written well in advance, and that's not even touching how creative differences will -- not if, will -- come into play. I'm honestly not sure that would be worth whatever the end result would be.

@Three-Eyed-Crow

100% agree. I actually find a lot in the books cringe-worthy and gross (in the way GRRM did not intend) and I kinda gave up on the series before the show came along, Cersei being one of the reasons. Dude just did not know how to write her headspace and her chapters were always a struggle to get through, for sure. I was always like, "come on, this is not a person." I honestly think it comes back to how difficult it can be for men to write women.

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.