Added everyone I could find (can't find @icanbeyourmuse, @Miss-Demeanor, or @Thenomain for some reason)! I'm Nthnl, from SLC. I would love to hunt some zombies with you jerks in L4D2. I've also got Magicka, which I'm absolutely shit at, and Garry's Mod (it blows my laptop up sometimes, though).
"But how?" you may ask, possibly after only a moment's pause to reflect on the gloriously demented decision to cast Billy Zane as Ishamael, the Betrayer of Hope.
Wait, Billy Zane also gets a producer credit...
...
...
...did Billy Zane cast himself in this pilot
because that is amazing.
@Coin said:
@Wizz, it'd be a great place to just stop worrying about shit, yeah.
Exactly. I want a culture where the emphasis is on making each other laugh or spit-take rather than e-peen measuring contests or building exclusive treehouses. Where players can lose a character and actually feel proud of how it happened rather than angry, because there's a hilarious story to tell.
Also you can drive a motorcycle through the window of the 28th floor of a skycraper and activate your jetpack at the last minute to rocket-propel an uppercut right into the neck of a gun toting mutant pterodactyl.
So the conversation about gonzo weirdness over on Eldritch's ad had me thinking quite a bit about games with a lot of pathos and a little weirdness and I went to possibly the stupidest place with it, a strong desire for the opposite extreme -- a lot of gonzo with a little pathos.
I just convinced my RL friends to try tabletop (for the first time for most of them, first time GMing for me) and we settled on Pal's TMNT & Other Strangeness, which we have collectively zero experience with. It's going to be a hilarious, raging, painful mess, I know.
But the more I read, the more I want to play online. I just want a place that is absolute bananas like 95% of the time. Would anybody else be even remotely interested in this? BEST IDEA EVER GUYS or BEST IDEA EVER GUYS, circle one.
@Ganymede, is Goyer getting a writing credit or is he just producing? Because I'm honestly getting a little burnt out on him, too, haha. He's given us some gems but also some absolute shit. hrrrrrrHACKmanofsteelhrrrrfff
I have serious spider-movie fatigue. But holy crow, I'd watch Andrew Garfield toss quips at Hugh Jackman and Jackman call him an asshole for like 92 hours.
Seriously, I'm liking the direction. It wasn't long ago I didn't feel like coming back to MU*s.
Unreal, in some ways how much time I've put into the hobby versus sticking with games.
Can it be not too soon to imagine that the new wave of games will be Reachkillers?
Knowing that people hate that term aside, haha, I'm really looking forward to starting.
I think we've got a lot to look forward to this year.
The new line-up Onyx is pushing out just keeps looking better and better.
Really though, my main question is this:
At what point did "gonzo" weirdness come into the equation at Eldritch? I'm not saying
Please no, but it seems kind of a strange fit for WoD, where the mood is always a bit dark.
That's not always how I like to play, but it's how the setting fits in my mind.
Otherwise it starts looking like some other IPs getting their own MU* revivals, y'know?
Random point, maybe, but it's been itching at me.
oh my god secret messages are so hard
First good party of the new year. Totally had a moment with a girl I have some feelings for; she serenaded me with a Poison song. 
...OTT for MonsterHearts right now plz thnks
@Coin said:
That said, a lot of what @lordbelh, @Wizz, and @Arkandel have said is true, especially the spilling secrets part. Also take into account that werewolves, at least, are so heavily pack oriented that it could really be a problem.
One of the cool changes to Werewolf is that "pack" is going to be much, much more loosely defined in 2.0-- it won't just literally mean the actual Uratha involved, but also any Wolfbloods, and associated pure mortals in the territory, and even (implied via a few new rites) pets. It's structured kind of like a gang, with some core members and then people "in the know," and then those they protect. Who's to say other bump-in-the-nighters can't at least unofficially be part of a pack?
Edit: As described here.
@Arkandel - Exactly. You don't talk about Fight Club, but you can help each other nurse the wounds. It would add a sort of melancholy air to the whole thing that I'd really like, haha-- "You don't and can't get what I go through, but you totally do because you're going through it too."
A lot of people bitch about cross-sphere always "turning into the Superfriends," but I don't really understand the criticism. Personally I've always kind of wanted to run with a Being Human-esque group, I think it'd be pretty fun.
@Arkandel said:
@silentsophia said:
I'm on board if I get to app
BladeBella.FTFY.
Some motherfuckers always trying to ice-skate uphill. 
Couple thousand as a tax return for one job, and maybe a couple more for the one before it?
AMERICA, FUCK YEEEEAAAAHHH
Out of curiosity, is Rogue Republic invite-only?
I really wouldn't mind playing Demon-to-the-hilt, TBH. 
@Ganymede: I'm with @Coin on this one for the most part. Mortal+/Hunter sounds like an excellent place to start. If you want to bring in Endowments later, I don't personally think that's a terribad idea as long as you're mostly sticking to ones that make sense with the theme (ie, since your zombies as you described them are sci-fi Last Of Us zombies, maybe TFV's arsenal and...I'm not sure what else? I need to re-read Hunter).
EDIT: I think some altered/customized Cheiron Group Thaumatechnology would be pretty bad-ass, especially if you wind up having Resident Evil-style super zeds.
Today and Sunday are the days I get to talk to my little three-year-old. Always good days. 
@icanbeyourmuse said:
@Admiral said:
I would love to see a down and dirty street level Hunter game. Put it in a large, corrupt fictional city with rampant crime that is run by supernaturals from behind the curtains. Vampires control the city council, werewolves have some street gangs, Changelings are in organized crime.
The whole city is going to shit and it's up to the PC Hunters to clear it out, block by block. Start them out with only a tiny little safe haven (A dive bar, obviously) and let them work towards something bigger and better.
You can even keep it at the Compact level until things grow and Conspiracies move in. Night Watch and The Union would fit this kind of chronicle perfectly.
Worst case scenario, the game starts to fizzle and you can open the supernatural spheres up and be another City by Night game.
This sounds like it would be a lot of fun.
I'd also play the hell out of this, and would hope that supernatural spheres don't ever open up there. It would be such a fun change of pace, and really fit into the "niche game" trend. On that note, it would be my dream come true to see a spread of games that each give you a genuinely unique experience and thus, more incentive to log in to different places, spread your time around, and flex your creative wings. ("Thursday's zombie night. Friday's techngnostic-Cold War thriller night. Saturday is GIANT CITY-DESTROYING CATS WITH LASER EYES NIGHT")
@Bobotron said:
@darksabrz
They're worth picking up. This will be my third reread; something about them just makes me want to build a WoD cityscape filled with corrupt homicide dicks, delicious local regional food (as an avid food lover, the way they talk about and describe food in there always makes me hungry), and a few good-and-tough cops with the odds stacked against them.
I loved the first two books and would definitely recommend them. The third one was a hard sell for me, mostly because it feels like Koontz wrote himself into a corner by stacking aforementioned odds too high, and then waved it all away with a doofy and disappointing Dues Ex Machina.
Still, stellar reads.