The Gaming Den

Kaelik wrote:Can't imagine why.

Some of those that work forces...
Are the same that storm Congress.

Prak wrote:Hm, I'd want to avoid using anything appropriative like chakras, but it's definitely a good concept overall.

Maybe use "anima" instead?

I just watched the season finale of The Good Place . I don't think a comedy has made me cry that emotionally that hard. The show was amazing, and it's kinda what the world needs... A story about people trying to be better, and who end up imperfectly good. I love it. Isn't that the show where they t...

It can help to design the 'natural world' and 'big monsters', think about how magic works for them, then apply it to player characters I think part of where D&D magic shits on the setting is the disconnect between PC's and the World, and then the casters retroactively getting everything that go...

I'm working on a thing. Fantasy heartbreaker. Setting is a Masters of the Universe/Thundarr the Barbarian type world of adventure, magic and super science. Gamma World 7E (stripped down D&D4) forms the base of the system with a few updates. There are 10 levels of character progression, and three...

Watched Ready or Not and it was great.

Pretty sure the movie is a metaphor for classism.

Fort Hood massacre; 2009.

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:

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The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:Oh, go get lost in a forest of cocks.

Fun fact: 50% of TGD arguments end up unintentionally homoerotic.

Unintentionally? We follow the proud debate tradition of the Greeks, where the loser gets assfucked until he displays humility.

But what if I'm a power bottom o0?

I've been listening to Behind the Bastards which is kind of a mixed bag. It's entertaining but also kind of depressing because so many of these people never face lasting consequences for the things they've done. Also some of his cohosts are obnoxious, he's got a rotating set of them, some are defin...

angelfromanotherpin wrote:Bubblegum Crisis (or one of the spinoffs, it's been a while).

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (1998)

I was on another forum when the old Dilbert comics got brought up. I linked to MRA Dilbert (the blog where they take Dilbert comics and replace the text with direct quotes from Scott Adams' own shitty blog). I found this gem. Holy fuck it didn't age well! https://66.media.tumblr.com/d29e41dc488b943...

You kinda picked up the wrong game if you want to play "unambiguously good guys". Elder scrolls always was a lot more in the neutral and evil side. Crafting magic bling demands capturing and sacrificing the souls of other beings and a bunch of artifacts are locked behind doing quests for ...

So I just picked up EScrolls: Skyrim on PS4 (Yeah - I'm like waayyyy behind the times on vidja games). All in all its been a pretty fun experience and I really enjoy the exploration aspect. That said, I gravitate toward making chaotic good decisions in crpgs and it seems like many of the factions in...

Barry Season 1 was good. Season 2 is a bit much of the actors being bad at acting, which is just cringe-y. But Episode 5 was different. Almost the entire episode was fight scenes, and Barry came out slightly better at the end because he made the choice to be a better person. Now there's nobody curr...

Kaelik wrote:Spoiler for all of the episodes:

I agree with Bran that it is good to be the king, and it's cool when you manipulate all the dummies around you so that you can seize power.

Maybe that's why Ice Pence had such a murder boner for him. Maybe the white twerkers were the real heroes all along.

Time travel as a plot device always bothers me. I didn't really see a need for the 5 year time skip, other than explaining how Ant-man's van got moved and giving Tony Stark a daughter. Thanos is a big dumb idiot if he thinks the universe is too small for all the people, and that eliminating half of ...

Finally saw Sorry To Bother You. It's a disturbing surrealistic journey through a nightmarish near future dystopia that is very funny. It's like if Repo Man and Office Space had a baby, but it offers a deeper and less nihilistic critique of society. It's the best movie I've seen all year, and I'm s...

erik wrote:Things that come to mind are: Sorry To Bother You. Spiderman: Enter the Spiderverse. Guardians of the Galaxy (only fairly recent, but I couldn't think of a more recent 3rd).

I loved Sorry to Bother You. It was like if Bamboozled had a baby with Repo Man.

Kicking around another RPG idea, kinda looking at a Storyteller hack, but I'm back on the western/1800s America ideal, which means that the game wants a detailed positioning minigame for when everyone whips out their pistols. But... I have no fucking clue how to accomplish that, and my main design ...

I feel like there's a strong right-wing troglodyte undercurrent to a lot of sci-fi/fantasy out there. I haven't really gone out of my way to investigate writers ideological leanings, but some make it patently obvious. I'm reminded of "The Iron Dream" by Norman Spinard. The book presents an...

Thaluikhain wrote:It took having sex with 20 ghosts to find the right one?

Jesus fuck...I haven't even had sex with 20 people, let alone ghosts. She must have some serious game...or a fantastic imagination.

Still only 4 episodes in to S2 (borderline living at work atm) but the VA for Godbrand is the voice of the Swedish merc Mattias Nilsson from the Mercenaries games. I was having trouble placing his voice when he first started talking. Peter Stormare. Very prolific actor in both live action and voice...

Castlevania s2 on Netflix was really good for the most part. I was skeptical because season 1 wasn't that great and ended right when it felt like the narrative was starting, but season 2 is much improved (dialog is less terrible, they explore the characters a bit more, art style looks cleaner, etc)...

I got kicked out of a game because the GM took an authoritative tone with me during pre-campaign planning so I called him a dick. Which caused one of the players to send me messages for the next 5 hours telling me how childish I was. I ended up telling him I had to go make some soup and turned off ...

Good in what sense? I meant more in the narrative sense than anything else; creating internal consistency in a world of magic and fantasy. Someone in a D&D facebook group was looking for advice on running a murder mystery themed adventure, and another poster quoted Arthur Conan Doyle: "Onc...