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Sheerly for the sake of Black Summer. Netflix has been pushing this on me for a while and I finally gave in, and for some reason sank an entire day into bingeing its brief two seasons. It's...boy.

Did you find The Walking Dead just way too cheerily optimistic and upbeat? Black Summer is your grimmest darkest. Thought TWD's cast was too bloated? No worries, Black Summer slaughters a cast member approximately every 5.8 minutes.

Every instance of even the briefest moment of human kindness is immediately punished. Every time more than three people group up it falls apart. Humans are wretched, vicious, horrid animals and there's no goal that the protagonists make that doesn't fail spectacularly.

Sometimes I am in the mood for some bleak and nihilistic media, but the finale had me slack-jawed and legitimately concerned for the writers' mental wellbeing.

This is an ugly show, y'all.

@zombiegenesis said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

I think you'd have a hard time getting people to "play it straight" and take the theme seriously.

It's a property from the 80's explicitly designed for children, it's inherently a little silly. Trying to get people to play it "seriously" is the wrong angle, imo. Just because people are having fun with it doesn't at all mean you couldn't also tell stories with real weight or gravitas.

@ganymede

I guess to clarify, like is there anything that would be considered unreasonable in a contract like that that wouldn't be immediately obvious?

I'm probably just worrying over nothing, but I've never done anything like this and that usually sets the brain weasles loose, haha.

A question for our resident lawyers?

I'm going to be signing my very first NDA for participation with a documentary project in the works, and I know very little about NDAs. Is there anything I should be on the lookout for? Like, I basically trust these people, and I support what they are doing, but I haven't known them for very long and the subject matter is going to be very personal. I've got a bit of anxiety about it.

@runescryer

I think splitting a grid brings its own set of problems (mainly and most obviously the activity levels I mentioned), but if you're going to do it, it is absolutely more fun to make the split thematic like that. Make each city its own character.

@paradox said in OC Superhero Discussion:

a city of the teen young ones and then across the bay or state or what not with the older heroes.
The older heroes are dealing with the major geo political threats and global issues. The teens in training are working to battle city and street crime. Two clear groups. There can be rp cross over (mentors etc) but the big dogs stay in their yard and the pups stay in theirs for the conflicts.

I think you could do that without splitting the grid; take a Young Justice-style approach to resolve the issue in a way that is narratively satisfying for example -- there's a team for young teens to graduate into that targets specific problems a larger legion can't afford to focus on for various reasons (logistical, sociopolitical, etc), so that it's less about "boy is it obnoxious to be flexed on, here's an artificial playpen where adults can't come" and more "your efforts are just as vital as ours, we need you here disrupting Bad Guy Inc's supply lines while we're there in space punching down their satellites and death bot swarms" (or whatever.)

That way you aren't stranding anyone with restrictions on where they can or can't play and creating bottlenecks for more organic RP if, say, the playerbase suffers a temporary decline in interest on one tier of play or the other.

I think the biggest struggle is indeed hitting that sweet spot that pleases the most people possible.

Just to put it out there, I personally don't find a setting that focuses exclusively on teen heroes all that compelling. I think a more universal system would be better, just because you could still have that hero training academy and make that play available for the people who want it, and a larger world for them to exist in.

I have not had as good and consistent laughter throughout a movie as I did while watching Werewolves Within in quite a while. It's absurd and quirky, and the two leads were fantastic. If you enjoy horror comedy, check it out!

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@wretched said in Good TV:

@derp Lower Decks is best Star Trek

Orville is best Star Trek.

@lotherio said in Good TV:

Without TOS there would be no Star Trek.

@greenflashlight said in Good TV:

If you prefer, pretend I said that without TOS, there would be no Voyager, or no Star Trek V.

Boy, as much as I loved individual moments of it, this was the weakest episode of Loki and that's a real shame for the penultimate one. I think the biggest problem with it is Marvel has really struggled with this miniseries format they've arbitrarily locked themselves into and it's hurt more than helped the stories they've been trying to tell -- I really felt this hard with Wandavision too. There's no room for anything to breath and they can't explore all these fun concepts and characters, it's just a vehicle to rush rush rush to the finale.

***=Most especially frustrating to me***

They really should have doubled the episode count for this series, IMO, or even turned it into a regular show. We all woulda loved it but, oh well.

I am still looking forward to the finale tho, this has been really enjoyable overall.

***=Also, my hunch***

@ominous

Is it? It's definitely creepy to try and coerce someone who is clearly inebriated into a sexual encounter, but I'd never heard it was uncalled for now just to flirt with someone at a bar.

@arkandel

The difficulty of meeting anyone new through work or family is definitely a factor. I'm just doing temp gigs like Doordash so there isn't a social aspect, and my family is all fairly heavily religious and (mostly) conservative, so having like my sisters set me up with a friend of theirs or whatever was never really a thing.

My own circle of male friends were actually pretty emotionally available and open, relatively? But the pandemic has definitely put a strain there that we still haven't overcome, and we never really tried to set each other up anyway.

So yeah, the traditional ways of finding a date are really limited for me right now and online dating has seemed like the only avenue.

I would absolutely watch another season or two of Loki. I think it was the AV Club that called him the Daffy Duck of the MCU in this show and that is just everything I want or need in my pseudomythological anachronistic sci fi time travel shenanigans.

@greenflashlight

Yeah, I might have accidentally made that a bit confusing by including anti-vaxxers/Blue Lives Matter assholes as the other set, but I didn't intend any conflation there.

Married but ethically nonmonogamous peeps and really outdoorsy types, live your best life and I wish you the best, it just isn't my thing and it's disappointing that I can't seem to find anyone more compatible, especially when I have to shell out a bit of cash for some of these services.

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

If you're looking for someone, maybe you should just try the traditional method?

I've thought about it, there's a local bar that honestly isn't awful judging by the few times I went with friends. But I have literally never tried to strike up a conversation or flirt or whatever in that setting, so deliberately going out to do that is kind of intimidating especially with all the pandemic stuff going on. I dunno, haha, maybe I'll work up the courage eventually.

@arkandel

Sums it up nicely. It's mostly a cultural thing in the states around the Rockies from what I gather. You aggressively pursue outdoor hobbies every waking hour that you're not at work and...pretty much nothing else. Day drink, I guess.