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Also, if you want to see why I think a Demon: The Fallen post-apoc game would just be awesome, you should start watching Dominion. IT IS SO COOL...except for all the Chosen One bullshit, haha.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

Now to be fair, a lot of those areas were also less explored, and if they'd gotten rid of one or two of them and not almost all of them I would've said "okay."

Instead they stripped all the diversity out of a setting known for it so they could have a kingdom of orcs who ain't so bad, and Dragonborn.

Sarcastic response: Oh man, it's almost like some plebes would actually like to play in Skyrim and WoW.

Actual response: I only kind of think that's cool. :neckbeard:

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

Suggestions for game worlds are also appreciated, but I'll ki-bosh a couple: [...]
Ravenloft, because I play too much WoD anyway.

Wait is it too late to say I would play it ironically

Exactly.

@tragedyjones said:

@Coin said:

@tragedyjones said:

Has anyone else been watching Mr. Robot? Currently airing on USA, it is a modern cyberpunk hacker-drama. I am actually really impressed with it thus far.

It's so Demon.

Don't you fucking dare make me want to play Demon, asshole. It may inspire a firebrand hacker Carthian Mekhet.

I just finished Episode 3, and holy shit do I love this show. If you look at it the right way, it's also very oMage.

@Coin said:

It isn't that fucking hard, and if you say it up front, it saves you from people bitching saves you from looking like a malicious dick about it later.

FIx't.

If I app on a game knowing that if I get hit by a car and am comatose for two weeks, I will probably come back to a dead character, then if that happens, I will know. It would be awesome if they made an exception and worked it out for me. But forewarned is forearmed.

Again, most reasonable people will decide whether or not a policy of death is something they're OK with and make sure they take the appropriate actions to prevent it if, as @Coin says, they're forewarned and forearmed. You'll never stop people from bitching about such a policy, but at least there's something you can point to so the rest of us can justifiably go, "Ahh, OK, welp. Should've posted a vacation notice then" and not just sound bitter and unsympathetic, as seems to be the case right now.

I relate to it differently, in that I went through an enormous paradigm shift in my late teens-early twenties. I was basically Nomi's mom prior to that, culturally speaking, because of some deeply held religious beliefs. Although I never personally inflicted that level of pain on another person, it's only because I never had the opportunity. I still have a lot of family like her, though, and they have had it in the time since, and the hospitalization stuff definitely brings their hate and the hate I used to feel to mind in a way that is deeply uncomfortable, but powerfully compelling. I hope that anyone with even a shred of human decency would be powerfully affected by Nomi's scenes, regardless of orientation or experience, so this shit is stark, but totally necessary and definitely good TV in my opinion.

@Bobotron
Hers are definitely the hardest segments to watch during the first part of the season. The 4 Non Blondes scene in particular...it is really, really difficult to make you feel that many feels at once. It's still sticking with me like a month later.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

American society still has a frontier philosophy about food. Eat all you can and eat it fast, because you need to get back to work and you might not get to eat again until tomorrow.

Ugh, this was pushed to comical levels in my family. I had a sister who was "never hungry," but ate off of everyone else's plate because family dinner was mandatory, so the other siblings and I quickly learned to bolt down our food like we were in the ghastly trenches of the Great War and expecting a shelling at any moment. To this day, friends and coworkers tease me about it because I basically just lift the plate and smash it into my face.

@spasticgoat said:

My, the weather is looking glorious today.

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Shhhhh, we're supposed to use code language after this, @Arkandel.

The eagle flies at midnight.

@Coin said:

@Ganymede said:

@Coin said:

@Thisnameistaken
Bury them.

In litigation.

And if that doesn't work, in dirt.

Daaaaaaaaaamn, shit gets DARK in the anger thread. But seriously if you need to roll on them let us know.

@Ganymede said:

@Misadventure said:

Look up how much each income bracket/population chunk pays into the federal tax system. It gives some interesting insight into the idea that everyone is paying, and the rich are definitely paying a lot more, though perhaps not a true fair share. Though determining a fair share is difficult.

It may very well be that the poor pay less because they earn less than their exemption, and actually receive income from our tax system in the form of a tax refund.

Tax refunds are silly.

Once upon a time they let me not choose between bread and rent, and later after I qualified a larger one meant I could stay in touch with my son and not have him suddenly whisked off to Germany, so...debatable. On the other hand, I'm probably a little too close to the topic, so...grain of salt in regards to my thoughts on it, haha.

Hm, I feel like setting it actually in Night Vale kind of limits the theme -- I've also seen other Night Vale-centric RPs become contests to just mimic the style of the podcast, which seems like it would get stale after a while. But I'd still play there.

I'd say it's magical realism with a heavy splash of surrealism, with those dream-like transitions, absurd juxtapositions, and non-sequiturs. BUT HELLS YEAH

Jecht @ FFMUX (a few times, in the murky past)

Just full disclosure, I played probably one of the weirder incarnations of the character, featuring the ability to briefly turn back into his final form, the ability to shoot lasers out of his eyes when angry, and a collaborative shipping of Jecht and Beatrice from FFIX, all for reasons that made sense at the time (I was a teenager).

Never got to be SIN though.

Anybody from that crew still around?

@Misadventure said:

Likewise, you cannot claim conversations that were shared with more than just you.

Just to be fair and point out, one page back you did tag ThatGuyThere and not Tempest. It's kind of an unspoken behavior lately that we tag, if not directly quote.

@mietze said:

If the idea that you need to notify staff if you are going to be gone longer than 2 weeks barring an emergency if you want to be sure you will keep your PC horrifies you, then probably a game with that policy isn't one that's worth the stress of knowing that you will need to be willing to do that if you do decide you need to walk when you're undecided.

How many more times does it need to be said?

4.3. Characters will be designated inactive after two weeks of inactivity.

That is the policy in its fucking entirety.

There's no explanation of what the designation of "inactive" entails. None. And, right above it with its own header:

3. Character death happens, but never without warning or alternatives.

That is why people are lashing out.

It's waaaay less ANGER and more just "what," but: I have no idea who I'm supposed to be trying to date right now in my life.

I'm a couple years shy of thirty, I have a kid, and I'm just now really taking off in a career I like. I've got a lot of independent education but no papers to show for it. I'm well-traveled but not yet very financially secure. It's like I'm a little too behind in some ways and a little too ahead in others, too serious for the early-twenties crowd and not serious enough for ladies my age or older (though for some reason I'm totally cougar bait apparently?). I'm completely baffled and frustrated by it. It almost feels like I've got to meet someone with a very similar skeewompus life experience to relate to, which is insanely difficult because I'm not even 100% sure how I got here.

Maybe it's just that I need to give myself a few years to level out, or just keep striking out until something finally fits, but it's disheartening. Life is so goddamn weird.

@Shebakoby said:

@surreality It's not an original creation; it's a theme based on a comic book (that also has cartoon media in its history).

...Is this one of those My Little Pony games? Please, please tell me it is.

@Coin said:

@Roz said:

Finally finished Sense8 tonight. There was something so heart-wrenching about -- I don't know how to say it, the optimism of it? Not naivite, but the overwhelming sense of all these different, disparate people, all broken in their own places, reaching out to help each other. I AM VERY OVERWHELMED WITH FEELINGS.

You pansy, he said, knowing he'll probably tear up or some shit when he watches it.

Sense8 is goddamn amazing. I sprayed tears all over the place like a cracked fire hydrant.