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drrockso20 posted:The New Day would make an excellent Power Rangers team
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Mar 19, 2018 03:56
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Is Hyper Force worth the time? I basically put it on the “watch later” pile then immediately forgot it existed. Also, the system is homebrew, right? no chance of getting my hands on a sourcebook?
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Mar 19, 2018 04:01
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To answer your first part: No not really. It's neat to see some old favorites show up and hang out, but you're watching people you mostly don't care about play an interactive fiction that doesn't involve the viewer at all. For most people, the only incentive to watch is guest stars and occasionally good quips from Paulie aka Bulk, but that's "nothing is on and I'm bored" material, not must see TV. To answer your second part: It was just announced a home game is going into production.
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Mar 19, 2018 04:09
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Honestly, if the GM was better, I feel like it would hang together as a show better, but for a streamed TTRPG to work, the GM has to A) be a good improviser, B) be a good performer and C) basically be a moderator for her players. In what I've watched of HyperForce, their GM isn't really good at ANY of that. Plus the system seems entirely gimmick-laden to encourage fan interaction- it's basically the whole reason the channel it's hosted on exists. The dude behind it used to work for Geek & Sundry and was very, very into the Twitch gimmicks, like letting people in the chat spend bits or donations to affect the games being played, which... I get it, it seems like a natural use of the platform, and a way to 'drive engagement' but in practice, it's basically taking a kind of interactive fiction that thrives off the people at the table controlling it, and fucks with that, either by giving the internet way too much influence over the story, or by forcing dumb houserules and mechanics that make adhering to any rules of the system basically pointless. Why bother rolling dice at all when you've been given 200 re-rolls by the chatroom?
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Mar 19, 2018 04:59
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LividLiquid posted:But why would we have three black rangers and no others? They can be the Patrangers, while The Shield can be the Lupinrangers Or maybe they can be the Hurricangers and The Usos can be the Gouraigers
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Mar 19, 2018 05:37
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Gaz-L posted:Honestly, if the GM was better, I feel like it would hang together as a show better, but for a streamed TTRPG to work, the GM has to A) be a good improviser, B) be a good performer and C) basically be a moderator for her players. In what I've watched of HyperForce, their GM isn't really good at ANY of that. Plus the system seems entirely gimmick-laden to encourage fan interaction- it's basically the whole reason the channel it's hosted on exists. The dude behind it used to work for Geek & Sundry and was very, very into the Twitch gimmicks, like letting people in the chat spend bits or donations to affect the games being played, which... I get it, it seems like a natural use of the platform, and a way to 'drive engagement' but in practice, it's basically taking a kind of interactive fiction that thrives off the people at the table controlling it, and fucks with that, either by giving the internet way too much influence over the story, or by forcing dumb houserules and mechanics that make adhering to any rules of the system basically pointless. Why bother rolling dice at all when you've been given 200 re-rolls by the chatroom? All of Rooster Teeth's D&D campaigns are great too, but that's because they've all got really outstanding dungeon masters and the players are all pretty good at comedic timing, even if they're not great at playing the game itself. From what I watched of Hyperforce the game is a little too serious, the players and DM are unexperienced, and there's very few people there with the natural type charisma or back-and-forth with one another to make it fun to watch
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Mar 19, 2018 08:25
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I was never able to get into Hyperforce for all the reasons mentioned above, but at least there are other shows on HyperRPG that benefit from an "anything goes" audience interaction format. D&D plus muppets equals comedy gold. I'd also recommend checking out the RollPlay shows if you are looking for non-audience interaction. I'm eagerly awaiting their new Stars Without Number series.
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Mar 19, 2018 16:00
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 Today on Power Rangers, the writers have no loving idea how computers work. Also I'm sorry, credits are wrong and I lost the project file, can't be bothered to remake the video and fix it
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Mar 19, 2018 18:29
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I think if someone made a fighting game where the combat mechanic was answering trivia questions today it would be a huge indie hit. Also this the episode where Rocky becomes the best character John Wick of Dogs fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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Mar 19, 2018 18:33
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I just want to break down the sequence of events: Jennifer formats the hard drive, shows an example of how the program should function on the computer (how?!), then says something about the microchips not responding and runs home to do some tests. With no copy of the program in her possession.
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Mar 19, 2018 18:55
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Also apparently her program is good enough to control an entire robot with clearly some degree of AI. Somehow. That said there's a much worse example of computers later on, and I genuinely thought you were talking about that one. I didn't even remember this episode.
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Mar 19, 2018 19:00
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Lizard Wizard posted:I just want to break down the sequence of events: Jennifer formats the hard drive, shows an example of how the program should function on the computer (how?!), then says something about the microchips not responding and runs home to do some tests. With no copy of the program in her possession. Obviously her home computer has the trunk of the program and the lab computer was just a checked out branch
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Mar 19, 2018 19:03
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Blaze Dragon posted:Also apparently her program is good enough to control an entire robot with clearly some degree of AI. Somehow. Corrupting objects: it just works.
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Mar 19, 2018 19:26
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I never really watched Zeo so I have no attachment to the themesong, but that gitar solo at the end is metal as f. I love the computer interface.
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Mar 20, 2018 11:03
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 Today on Power Rangers, the Machine Empire is horrifying, actually.
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Mar 21, 2018 18:38
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Looks like the Drakkon figure prototype will be shown off at some con this weekend. I’m sure I’ll never find one for a reasonable cost since it’s a con exclusive. Do any of you play the mobile game, Legacy Wars? I’m not sure why I like it a lot but I do.
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Mar 21, 2018 18:44
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I don't remember this episode at all but that was loving insane
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Mar 21, 2018 18:49
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I'm not sure what kind of program gives a goddamn baby to teenagers to take care of. It sounds like a really bad idea, monsters or not. Also clowns are evil and I'm glad that particular clown is dead.
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Mar 21, 2018 18:59
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Tommy's like: well I guess since we're married we have to do it now. Ha ha wouldn't that be hilarious? If we did it? Could you like even believe it? Haha we should do it, as a joke
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Mar 21, 2018 19:09
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Boo hoo, Tommy, you get to temporarily be in a relationship with noted smoking hottie Katherine for a weekend. My heart positively bleeds for you.
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Mar 21, 2018 19:15
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MisterBibs posted:Boo hoo, Tommy, you get to temporarily be in a relationship with noted smoking hottie Katherine for a weekend. My heart positively bleeds for you. No, just Tommy. The monster wasn't really involved in that arrangement.
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Mar 21, 2018 19:28
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Rubiks Pubes posted:
I do and have put more money into it than I should have. It’s very pay to win but the combat is enjoyable.
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Mar 21, 2018 19:56
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Lizard Wizard posted:No, just Tommy. The monster wasn't really involved in that arrangement. I have no idea what you're saying.
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Mar 21, 2018 22:29
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MisterBibs posted:I have no idea what you're saying. ________ the Clown
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Mar 21, 2018 23:08
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Lizard Wizard posted:________ the Clown Normally you shouldn't explain jokes but I had no idea what you meant to say before that explanation and even there I had to read the original post a couple of times to get it. With all of that though, it was funny. You should be a clown.
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Mar 21, 2018 23:25
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Blaze Dragon posted:Normally you shouldn't explain jokes but I had no idea what you meant to say before that explanation and even there I had to read the original post a couple of times to get it. I'm still going to pretend that he was talking about this:  watch Rize you mother fuckers
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Mar 21, 2018 23:43
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Lizard Wizard posted:
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Mar 22, 2018 00:14
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Zedd posted:I just realized they used a generic asian baby that didn't even look like the Japanese footage one. Genuinely, no one would have ever known in the 90s. Old CRT TVs hide SO much poo poo from you I'm just glad they used an Asian baby at ALL.
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Mar 22, 2018 00:19
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Saban uses only the finest Asian babies.
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Mar 22, 2018 00:22
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Related, there's a few times when footage match got weirdly accurate. Two In Space episodes come to mind: Cassie wearing some unflattering shirt-and-overalls ensemble, and Ashley's grandma wearing some crazy neon poo poo. Both have their origins in the Sentai, and if I remember my Morphing Grid podcast right, the Cassie one was one scene that could've been cut out of the episode.
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Mar 22, 2018 00:35
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Don't forget the casting for Eric in Time Force
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Mar 22, 2018 01:30
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DoctorWhat posted:Don't forget the casting for Eric in Time Force Yeah, his actor looked almost identical to the one who played Naoto (Timefire/Quantum Ranger) in the Sentai. In fact, I think they might have used some footage from the Japanese actor during his first morph.
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Mar 22, 2018 01:51
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Larryb posted:Yeah, his actor looked almost identical to the one who played Naoto (Timefire/Quantum Ranger) in the Sentai. In fact, I think they might have used some footage from the Japanese actor during his first morph. They absolutely did. It's completely unnoticeable unless you freezeframe it.
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Mar 22, 2018 04:45
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIzhXFnhURQ
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Mar 22, 2018 21:37
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I'll take a full on live action mini series about this please just like this
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Mar 22, 2018 21:44
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I feel like that One Punch Man “OK” gif when watching that. They made it look like Not Just A Bunch Of Cosplay by trying too hard with the cinematography, and it’s weird to cap off decades of clips of budget sets and Sentai footage with 80 seconds of a Joss Whedon movie. Im more interested in Zedd’s staff being over in the corner, since nobody knew if Zedd even exists in Drakkon’s world.
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Mar 22, 2018 22:23
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I'm just thinking about how great it'd be to see a whole thing with those production values Just fully embrace the cheese, exposed clasps and all. Have the loving awful Dragon Shield show up, swap Tommy's Green Ranger helmet back and forth from the silver stripe to the normal one Go all in on the kitsch
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Mar 22, 2018 22:25
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"My mission is TO BRING YOU BACK!" god I love Time Force
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Mar 22, 2018 22:34
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Burkion posted:I'll take a full on live action mini series about this please just like this I noticed the suitlegs on him were either loose, or filled out by his legs, and it occurred to me that changing the Drakkon design to be less MMPR Spandex suit and more like a mandarin collar suit or something might be fun. Maybe too Bleach/animeish though. The goon that posted a thought about him becoming Zedd by mainlining Super Zeo Timeforce crystals or whatever would be a cute end to this.
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Mar 22, 2018 23:15
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DoctorWhat posted:"My mission is TO BRING YOU BACK!" Looked like Space, Time Force, SPD and RPM were getting the bulk of the focus in the clips, and the solicits for the event seem to bear out that they're probably going to be the most prominent guests
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Mar 22, 2018 23:51
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