Posts made by Wizz

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT. * spit take sound effect *

That's more or less the gimmick the show is named for, so...no, not really. But the metaplot is cool enough and puts the "monster of the week" segments in enough of a context to make it bearable and even awesome sometimes.

EDIT: Actually just to be extra clear, I stopped watching by the end of the 3rd season (out of four), so change my answer to "not really...maybe???"

@Coin said:

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

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@tragedyjones said:

Just watched the latest Mr. Robot. It might be the best show of the summer.

The level of mindfuckery last night was truly fucking great. It blew their Down the Rabbit Hole episode out of the water. I hadn't been that impressed with it, but last night I was like WTF.

I'm really enjoying it. The guy who plays Elliot is awesome. I'm at the point where I won't even be disappointed by the inevitable "Fight Club" reveal, though I'm still hoping they do something different. Somehow.

After this latest episode, I think we can definitely see something similar, but different, popping up. Which is great.

I've loved Mr. Robot all the way through and I want every single person to watch it, but as a disclaimer I am a total and utter sucker for dystopian modern-cyberpunk bullshit. The season finale was almost a little too frustratingly vague re: the Fight Club twist, but I am definitely looking forward to Season 2.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Cobaltasaurus
Thanks for the clarification on The Strain. I don't necessarily agree, but the objections make waaaaaaaay more sense than 'boring'.

However:

@Coin
Fringe.

@Cobaltasaurus
Nah.

HelloRaptor can't even

Fringe is so amazing up until the third season and then just drops so hard it makes me want to punch holes in the universe. There's literally a little scene dedicated to promoting a new stupid fucking Samsung (or whatever) tablet in the third season. I...just...SO...ANGRY

A man most well-known for hosting a television show on which the catchphrase is "You're Fired" is concerned about the state of unemployment in the nation. And he's suing a television network for $500,000, which is more money than most people could reasonably expect to see in their entire lifetimes. The best part is all the muscles in his face look like they're perpetually sphinctering shut to prevent any more bullshit from squirting out.

Twilight vampires? Pass.

@Misadventure
Personally I wouldn't drop the Divine realm -- I'd think there could be a lot of story to mine from the "coming of the White God" -- I'd just want the same system of checks and balances to be applied to it as the other realms have. Hell, it could even keep its bonus against Infernal stuff, I just think it's stupid to make it automatically diminish ALL the other realms by default.

My only real irk with Ars Magica is how it set up this awesome system of realms and influences and then basically said, "Beeteedubs, Jesus wins against anything." If I were going to play on an Ars Magica MU, I would be a huge grump if that wasn't houseruled right out the window. Buuuuut that's pretty subjective.

Otherwise HOLY SHIT YES PLEASE

Yeah, I guess I'm just not seeing the appeal either aside from "basic familiarity." I feel like I've already flogged this dead horse but there are other systems that match the simplicity of WoD and are a better fit for the kinds of things you actually do on the game.

@Misadventure said:

Here I thought splatbooks were the subgenre books; factions, guilds, tribes, clans, orders, kiths, etc.

Well, that's technically the answer. Tribe/clan/tradition/etcbooks were referred to on newsgroups as "* books," since an asterisk represents a variable -- same reason we use "MU *" as shorthand for MUSH/MUX/MUD -- and since an asterisk kind of looks like something gone splat...

It was the 90's.

WHY HAPPENING

Someone I used to be close with -- and almost had something romantic with -- just revealed publicly on Fbook that she found out her piece of shit boyfriend cheated on her, again. This was a dude who stole money from our very small group of friends and regularly invited other pieces of shit over to our "parties" (seriously, like five of us) without permission, and we had been pretty sure at the time that they stole from us as well. I haven't seen or talked to her in a couple of months now because of some unrelated bullshit between her and a mutual friend I met her through. I wish I could reach out to her, but I can't be sure what my own motivations are for doing so and I feel like she's probably being swamped anyway by a core of desperate dudes who have followed her relationship a little too closely since I first met her. I don't want to be one of them.

I wish I knew what to do about feeling angry and confused, but ultimately more I just wish I could help.

@Misadventure said:

Chances are that the cloaca isn't so much yours as the other end of the worm. You're just a meat shield

sheath. haAHAHAHAH GROSS

@Coin said:

@Wizz said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@Cobaltasaurus

Eyeballs are a squick factor for me. I cannot deal with eyeball mutilation.

The Strain is made almost entirely of squick factor, and eyeballs do figure, so... yeah. You do not want. >_>

I it though.

It's so bad, but I keep watching. I even made a Requiem Devotion for vampires who want DAT TUNG.

You shut your mouth, there is nothing bad about The Strain.

I'm about halfway through Season 1 and it is FANTASTIC. I missed scary vampires.

That's the thing though: they aren't really scary. The show fails to be actually scary.

It depends on what you mean by "scary," I guess. No, they're not "fling your stupid popcorn in the air" scary like 99% of the time or whatever, but I find them really disturbing, so far, in that I'm really squicked by body horror. I find the idea of them and especially the idea of becoming one of them frightening.

EDIT: Like, if you don't find the idea of your genitalia falling off and all your business down there fusing into a cloaca and a gigantic bloodsucking worm taking up residence in your throat horrifying, I don't know wtf is wrong with you man.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@Cobaltasaurus

Eyeballs are a squick factor for me. I cannot deal with eyeball mutilation.

The Strain is made almost entirely of squick factor, and eyeballs do figure, so... yeah. You do not want. >_>

I it though.

It's so bad, but I keep watching. I even made a Requiem Devotion for vampires who want DAT TUNG.

You shut your mouth, there is nothing bad about The Strain.

I'm about halfway through Season 1 and it is FANTASTIC. I missed scary vampires.

I'd volunteer for storytelling duty. Not sure how much time I can promise because work is nuts lately, but I've been hankerin' to try.

@TNP said:

That would certainly work, yes. It could also be fun. But I think public knowledge of the various supers would work just fine for WoD too. I'm a fan of the Anita Blake universe as well as that of Mercy Thompson and the public knowing of the existence of supers - and the inevitable bias against them from many directions - lends a whole new level of complications and possible RP.

It's just not my cuppa, but more power to you!

EDIT: I think you could still have the bias angle with a partial veil -- people get drawn into the secret world and then are like "Nope nope nope nope" whether it's deserved or not -- but that only seems to be part of the equation for you. Eh! ¯_(ツ)_/¯

@Coin said:

I highly suggest not breaching the veil for Demon. Secrecy is basically their raison d'etat and basically everyone knowing would ... fuck them up. Unless you're going to change really core, central themes of the game.

@Derp said:

@The-Tree-of-Woe

This, and also what @coin said. You just... you can't do no veil of any kind. You're going to completely break your games. Mage has paradox, Demon has ... everything.

@TNP said:

As for supernaturals being out, I love the Anita Blake universe and they're out. My favorite game was an AB game. As for how it would affect WoD supers, it doesn't have to. There would still be no need to know who a demon is just that they exist. And as for believing in magic, how many people today truly don't believe in evolution or other scientific theories?

What I think would be really cool and still work for WoD is not a completely-ripped-away, giant-squid-monster-buying-corn-dogs-on-the-street Veil, but something a little more like you'd find in the Buffyverse or the Dresden Files; a "Line of Sight" Veil, if you will. :neckbeard:

Normal everyday people either don't know or find it in their best interest to ignore or explain away the supernatural. The supernatural is completely (or like 99%) unveiled to itself, because that's how people fucking play it anyway, haha.

Governmental institutions know just enough to hurt themselves and always want to know more, crime families/syndicates/whatever know just as much as they need to know to mostly avoid doing the same, but get burned often.

@Derp

[it's] going to attract a very tiny subset of players, and I wonder if it'd even be enough to sustain your game in the first place.

But, ultimately, it's your game. You can do with it as you please. Just, you know... expect it to only cater to a relative few.

I still see nothing wrong with this. And for the record, open sheets = VERY YES in my opinion.

@Coin said:

@Wizz said:

@Coin
It's not a good benchmark for anything, it's SyFy. But it's still a lot of fun so far, again if you can ignore Big White Aryan Jesus.

I don't know. SyFy has been upping its game: Dark Matter, Killjoys, and Defiance are all pretty good (in that order, if you ask me).

...Yeah, redacted, this show's writers have already begun drooling on themselves by the third episode. I was starting to skip whole segments of the show because of Blonde Sketchy-Ass Jesus' character arc. BUT GODDAMN MAN THE POTENTIAL :metal:

@Coin
It's not a good benchmark for anything, it's SyFy. But it's still a lot of fun so far, again if you can ignore Big White Aryan Jesus.