TG May Chat Thread: Amine Appreciation Station

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Are the pearl clutching edgelords not good enough?

I'm a Catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon madam.

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# ¿ May 7, 2024 10:58

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Covok posted:

Perhaps it's out of context as I have never seen the film, but that scene feels really...wrong. It's just a secret agent killing a bunch of civilians in some pretty gorey methods. It feels like the secret agent isn't in control, nor does anyone else, of his actions especially considering his shock. Am I on point?

Yes.
slight spoiler the church is a westboro baptist style hategroup. the agent is trying to investigate the main villain's connection to this group, which it turns out is only as a test for his super weapon - a noise that turns everyone who hears it into a raging monster with no inhibitions.

# ¿ May 7, 2015 22:04

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Don't speak with me please.

Don't Speak

# ¿ May 7, 2015 22:13

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Fuego Fish posted:

"with gook subs"

Classy.

Huh?
Where does it say that?

E: oh, the uploader description. Ugh.

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# ¿ May 7, 2015 22:27

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FactsAreUseless posted:

Serious question: Why aren't there more Junji Ito comic with Dickbutt edited in? He's got so many great reaction shots.

# ¿ May 8, 2015 02:18

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Please stop.

Who wants to live forever?

# ¿ May 8, 2015 05:40

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Ettin posted:

Not me, if I have to listen to you two dorks shitpost at each other.

I'm just trying to keep the mood light, he's just being weird (er than usual) for some reason. :iiam:

# ¿ May 8, 2015 06:06

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I'll take the GEP gun, for a silent takedown.

# ¿ May 8, 2015 19:27

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FactsAreUseless posted:

The Deus Ex Non-Sequitur Post Meme

Denton bros, best bros.

# ¿ May 8, 2015 19:33

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Rockopolis posted:

That sounds like an amazing system for a Spec Ops: the Line RPG.
"None of this would have happened if you'd just stopped. But you kept pulling pieces. And for what?"

This is a legit great idea.

# ¿ May 11, 2015 16:22

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Captain Foo posted:

see: bitcoin

And rpgsite

# ¿ May 13, 2015 18:22

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Zurui posted:

To divert the discussion away from...whatever is going on up there, I just want to say that Bucnasti has the best possible take on the subject. They wrote an RPG about fighting the Man which is progressive as hell. In the seventies the Man was racism and you don't need to represent all of the poo poo that went down any more than you need to emulate the black plague and the plight of the peasantry in Pendragon.

This. Gau just gonna Gau.

# ¿ May 16, 2015 04:47

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

im a chucklefuck idiot

# ¿ May 18, 2015 17:19

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FactsAreUseless posted:

Breaking the FAUth wall.

Booosh!

# ¿ May 19, 2015 17:11

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gradenko_2000 posted:

Isn't that the entire raison d'etre of science-fiction?

Yep

# ¿ May 19, 2015 19:18

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Serf posted:

Pretty much. The best SF/F is usually social commentary with a different coat of paint. Sometimes this is a conscious choice and other times the metaphor only becomes apparent to readers. When the latter happens it is generally negative and pretty fun to watch.

Yes

# ¿ May 19, 2015 19:31

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Hmmm how the hell did any publisher survive before the advent of pulp novels and mass literature.

Effectronica posted:

Genres are a trash concept anyways, so while "genre fiction" may be misleading in one sense, it's very accurate in another.

Dehumanize yourself and face to genre

# ¿ May 19, 2015 20:45

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

Não obrigado.

寒

# ¿ May 19, 2015 21:58

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Covok posted:

That's just...ugh.

Wow...

That's really bad...

Why?...

Grog for the Grog god!

# ¿ May 21, 2015 07:04

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GrizzlyCow posted:

How . . . how is it non-coercive if the women cannot choose to leave? They are being forced to have sex with people against their will. That's rape.

Everything about this is bad.

You haven't even seen the part where girl girl is totes ok but ewww no gay stuff.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 07:16

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GrizzlyCow posted:

I like the aggressive passive-aggressive shitposting. Gives the thread a lot of character.

Such is Chat Thread.

quote:

Yo, Plutonis, you never said why you dislike the FATE/FAE and PbtA systems. You always so dismissive when people recommend 'em. What's up with that?

Some folks don't like pbta. Haters gonna hate.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 19:51

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Fungah! posted:

yeah but everyone else does it isn't a very good excuse for shjitting out a bad game

What would you consider to be a good game?

# ¿ May 21, 2015 20:06

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Fungah! posted:

i already said apoc world. basically my main criteria are a game knowing what it wants to be and having good mechanics that support that, so like ars magica (there's a ton of system complexity, but the setting's loving impeccable and the game bends over backwards to make mechanics that support it), 4e (it's a bloated mess but it's still the game that does team-based fantasy adventuring best), what i've read about pendragon looks real good. i don't know, there's a bunch of them

Cool. I don't disagree on any particular point. I just actually like DW though, like 4e is cool and fun, but DW just scratches that itch.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 20:24

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Countblanc posted:

D&D is trash

# ¿ May 21, 2015 20:51

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Fungah! posted:

my problem with dw is that it sells itself as one thing (semi-storygaming team-based fantasy adventure) and the mechanics go against that almost completely.

the reason i like apoc world is that it was designed to be a semi-collaborative storygame where the players aren't necessarily working with or against each other in a world where any choice can go rear end-up in a big way. the players each have their own agenda that doesn't necessarily include keeping the other characters happy or alive, so stuff like aid/interfere and specific moves being able to affect other PCs make sense, the game's built around PCs not getting along all the time. also the system works really well with asynchronous play, which is great when the pcs are a group of individuals instead of a team. combat's insanely lethal because the world's insanely lethal and one mistake can kill you, and the basic moves keep that going. the game's built around only using dice a few a session, usually only when something important's on the line, which means that the difference between a hit and a miss is a big deal. i've got a bunch of problems with the system (the playbooks can be restrictive ebcause the game was built to be a post-apoc melange instead of its own unique thing, which makes it harder to put your own spin on things, Hx is really bad and needs a total rework, combat doesn't feel as tight as it could be, probably some other stuff i'm forgetting offhand) but the system is good overall

the reason i saw dw is lovely cargo cult design's that it took this stuyff that works well in a high-lethality every-man-for-themselves setting and transplanted it over to a setting supposedly based around team-based play and added a bunch of lovely stuff to it. they keep the asynch play and stuff like aid/interfere even though the game's supposed to be a team-based game, which makes it harder to coordinate actions in combat and is a pretty bad tonal inconsistency (am i working with these guys or an independent player? the theme says one thing and the mechanics say something totally else). the thing that really kills it for me's combat, though. bringing over hp totals and damage dice from D&D means that you're goingt o need a bunch of hits to actually kill something, which is loving moronic when you're using AW's combat system. the reason AW's combat works is because you're never going to need more than 2-3 shots to kill pretty much anything and most npcs go down in one or two shots, which means you're going to need at most two or three dice rolls, each of which can gently caress you up pretty badly. dw's combat moves are a) not that bad when you fail the dice roll, which takes a way a lot of the tension and b) not interesting at all when you succeed because you just roll another die and then boom you're done. combat in DW usually ends up just turning into a dumb slugfest where the pcs just stand around in a circle and beat the poo poo out of whatever the monster is until the dice roll enough numbers. this wouldn't be a problem, you could just ignore the combat and do more talky stuff, only combat's suppoesed to be one of the core elements of the setting. you go into monster lairs and beat the poo poo out of them, that's what your supposed to be doing.

there's a bunch of other small poo poo too, like i hate that advancement's tied to bonds beacause that puts a lot of emphasis on forced roleplaying which leads to lovely inorganic moments and bad resolution to character arcs because people want to hit level 2 and get their new sword move or whatever. the base classes also are really lovely and boring and generally teake the least interesting advances from AW classes and throw them all onto a single class, but that's the big thing. the game's supposed to be a blend of high-lethality storygaming and d&d and they took all the worst, shittiest stuff from both of those and just slammed them together into an incoherent mess

Have you ever actually played Dungeon World, or just read it?

# ¿ May 21, 2015 21:41

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

You got a good hang on being a passive-aggressive bitch, you can grow a lot on this road.

Help him obi wan kenobi your his only hope.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 21:52

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Winson_Paine posted:

You are really not prepared for a world where someone could dislike DW as a reasonable conclusion, are you?

Sure I am, but about half the stuff he said he hated wasn't actually in the game or how the game works, so it kinda begged the question.

E: like, agree generally with his conclusion, but the specifics were kinda wonky there.

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# ¿ May 21, 2015 22:04

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fosborb posted:

had almost nothing in common with the average dungeon delve.

Feature, not a bug.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 22:10

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gradenko_2000 posted:

On Dungeon World: I've never played it, but doesn't 6-10 + CON HP result in lethal combat? That's just 2-3 hits away from getting knocked down, except maybe for the Fighter and the Paladin who you'd expect to able to take more than a few, on top of it being up to the GM to control lethality by how hard the moves are and how often "deals damage" is used as a move.

Yep.

# ¿ May 22, 2015 07:08

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TheLovablePlutonis posted:

I wanna read Illuminatus! because it also has a tongue in cheek yet highly researched view of wack rear end conspiracy theory but can't find it in libraries qq

Built fnord tough

# ¿ May 23, 2015 19:07

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Ratpick posted:

I like Monsterhearts mainly because it's such a well-designed game: it's laser-focused on emulating a particular genre and does it really well. Even though the genre is one I don't enjoy, I still really appreciate the game for its mechanics.

This.
And its being so well designed is primarily why I'm trying a game of it, even though I avoided it til now because it's not really my kind of thing.

# ¿ May 24, 2015 19:20

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I'm at work, people are adopting dogs, not too busy.

A good day so far.

# ¿ May 24, 2015 22:03

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Ningyou posted:

ANYway. Puppy adoptions! Puppies are pretty great. Even grogs can't ruin puppies.

You'd think that, but this is neither the forum nor thread to elaborate.

Yes, there is essentially animal grog.

# ¿ May 25, 2015 00:51

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Doodmons posted:

If you want a sandbox PBtA game in a roughly similar genre to Monster of the Week, I can strongly recommend Urban Shadows. It's Apocalypse World if Apoc World was set in 'HBO does Supernatural' instead of 'HBO does Post-Apocalypse'. Same assumption of sandbox play, player-NPC-player relationship triangles, there not really being a "party" or even any necessity for everyone to be in the same place. It's really loving good.

Seconding this.
I have an older version of the rules, its good.
Apparently the latest version is even better.

# ¿ May 25, 2015 19:18

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BrainParasite posted:

Del the Funky Homosapien.

Yes

# ¿ May 27, 2015 17:34

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NinjaDebugger posted:

More interesting if it requires adding a new geas every so often to maintain the effect, and the puzzle becomes finding out what the conditions are and then finding a way to trap the lich into fulfilling them, Cu Chulainn style.

This idea just keeps getting better.

# ¿ May 28, 2015 21:40

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MadScientistWorking posted:

The problem I have with this and I realized it is that I actually like the high budget 80's television because it was absurd in the good ways. Stuff like Knight Rider from a technical standpoint was surprisingly not bad and pretty good for the time period. The plot on the other hand was batshit crazy to the point where I couldn't tell if they had made an action comedy or were trying to play it straight.

MadScientistWorking posted:

How was the A-Team because I was thinking of going back looking at the tv series? The only shows I watched during my 80's binge was Knight Rider and McGuyver.

Original A-Team owns.

# ¿ May 29, 2015 19:05

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