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I came here to post this, goddamn hive mind is real
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Star Man is in the Sun Chips Place, now.
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Feb 7, 2018 07:26
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Busto finally made it to the Sun chips place. Edit: dammit.
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Feb 7, 2018 13:12
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https://twitter.com/Waffleman_/status/961256903790743553
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Feb 7, 2018 16:14
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Man!! It sucks how much good stuff is now retroactively a bummer now!!
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Feb 7, 2018 16:16
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kidcoelacanth posted:Man!! It sucks how much good stuff is now retroactively a bummer now!! Only if you choose to think of it as such? I'm trying to go through my backlog of Cool Games Inc and I find myself enjoying it in spite of Nick's garbage-human status. It's possible to enjoy media by a problematic creator/collaborator on its own merits, and I never did agree with a catch-all Bury It In Concrete approach to dealing with scandal. That said I can't enjoy a Kevin Spacey movie the same way ever again, and lord have I tried, because there is a personal limit to my ability to separate media from man, so I do get it if your personal limit includes Nick and I don't want this to be taken as disparaging in any way.
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Feb 7, 2018 16:33
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He cooked for Cube, and was found lacking
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Feb 7, 2018 16:33
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I personally don't care about the Nick thing because focusing on one person when there are millions of people just like him seems like a disproportionate amount of energy.
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Feb 7, 2018 16:39
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I can clearly separate my lack of support for Nick from my enjoyment of CGI, Car Boys, and Touch the Skyrim. He was fired and it's Polygon content, he's not making any money from the content.
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Feb 7, 2018 16:46
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I could maybe go back and enjoy CarBoys sometime, but Touch the Skyrim had so many sex mods that I don't think I would ever enjoy hearing Nick joke about them.
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Feb 7, 2018 17:37
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Zutaten posted:.
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creationist believer posted:I could maybe go back and enjoy CarBoys sometime, but Touch the Skyrim had so many sex mods that I don't think I would ever enjoy hearing Nick joke about them. Well I think only Susan Crushbone had the sex mods. Bonedawg would be fine.
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Feb 7, 2018 17:51
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I was glad when touch the Skyrim got away from horny mods, but I did kind of want to know what sex with sagness jambone would look like
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Feb 7, 2018 17:59
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IIRC, TtS 1.0 is entirely free of sex mods. I still have a place in my heart for Car Boys despite Nick, and luckily Let's Go to Hell never really grabbed my interest after PISS got the record in Monkey Ball. I'll probably not watch anything Nick might manage to do in the future, because he needs someone funny to work with to be funny himself, but i'm not going to let his creepy DMs diminish my enjoyment of previous works of people I like that he just happens to be featured in. If I had to stop watching Nick stuff, I'd never be able to watch their Quiplash play where Nick gets repeatedly and consistently owned by everyone, but especially Simone.
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Feb 7, 2018 18:06
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I ate my dad, I'll eat your dad, gently caress you.
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Feb 7, 2018 19:29
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SpacePig posted:IIRC, TtS 1.0 is entirely free of sex mods. I still have a place in my heart for Car Boys despite Nick, and luckily Let's Go to Hell never really grabbed my interest after PISS got the record in Monkey Ball. I'll probably not watch anything Nick might manage to do in the future, because he needs someone funny to work with to be funny himself, but i'm not going to let his creepy DMs diminish my enjoyment of previous works of people I like that he just happens to be featured in. If I had to stop watching Nick stuff, I'd never be able to watch their Quiplash play where Nick gets repeatedly and consistently owned by everyone, but especially Simone. TTS didn’t get horny until 2.0, yeah, but boy did it go all in I think it was all griffin driving it though so you can’t even blame Nick for that
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Feb 7, 2018 19:50
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dropping in to say in the latest awful squad Travis was so intolerable, Russ looked like a superstar. Thank travis for travis and all that good stuff but holy hell, how can he not hear himself sometimes and shut himself up in despair. He came on to the stream admitting he was completely childish and awful and the worst, but was proud to do it anyway. dont @ me
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Feb 7, 2018 20:17
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I don't like this thread's latest story arc
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I just made another try at the Amnesty arc and failed hard. By Episode 2 he promised us the characters would get together, and then he *still* did lengthy two-man scenes. I bailed at 38 minutes. Griffin, please please trust your improv partners and let them all interact and build a story. Your narrating a story and allowing gaps for one person to respond is not nearly as fun for the listeners. Bah.
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Feb 7, 2018 21:32
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Amnesty isn't really grabbing me yeah. I hope they either go with commitment or justin's arc. Yeah that's right I haven't even heard it yet and I'm saying this what up
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Feb 7, 2018 21:37
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Don't count out Travis. TAZ Knights is pretty good except for the episode or less a year release schedule. With any luck, running a new system won't throw him too far off balance for his western.
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Feb 7, 2018 21:41
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I like the idea of a more straight up western but apparently it’s going to have vampires and werewolves and that has me a bit less interested. I guess there has to be some fantastical element to make it more entertaining but that seems like such a default, boring type of twist on the setting.
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Feb 7, 2018 21:45
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Colonel Whitey posted:I like the idea of a more straight up western but apparently it’s going to have vampires and werewolves and that has me a bit less interested. I guess there has to be some fantastical element to make it more entertaining but that seems like such a default, boring type of twist on the setting. Have they said for sure whether Justin will be using the Dresden Files RPG for his, or is that still up in the air? Because I think that has mystical and mythical elements built into it as well. One thing I like at least is that they're all vaguely contemporary settings rather than medieval fantasy or futuristic sci-fi. All of the settings are basically right up my alley, and I'm excited to hear them regardless.
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Feb 7, 2018 21:53
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Griffin just needs to write a goddamn book. I love and cherish him but GODDAMN he doesn't want to let go of the spotlight. I'm personally frusterated because he's acting like I did when I first tried to GM. I thought the most important thing was to illustrate interesting scenes and write THE BEST npcs for my players to interact with. Y'know, instead of giving the players a framework and letting them play jn the sandbox. Then again, I was also 13.
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Feb 7, 2018 21:54
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I like that we're back on this the day after I start going through the backlog of Amnesty because the thread had given me pause about it. Let me give it a chance!
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Feb 7, 2018 22:11
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One of my biggest concerns in trying to put together my first campaign is that I'll hamstring my players too much and make it unfun for them. I don't explicitly hate what Griffin does as a listener, but I can see it being sort of frustrating as a player, and I want to avoid it. I think Clint did that pretty well, and I feel like Justin will probably have a decent time of it, too. Travis' first go was a literal series of hallways with puzzles in them, so I don't know what to expect from him.Waffleman_ posted:I like that we're back on this the day after I start going through the backlog of Amnesty because the thread had given me pause about it. Let me give it a chance! Give it a go for sure, I actually think Duck and Ned are and could continue to be a lot of fun. Just don't expect anything different from Griffin in terms of his GM style.
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Feb 7, 2018 22:16
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Inzombiac posted:Griffin just needs to write a goddamn book. Not emptyquoting.
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Yeah, I'm halfway through episode 2, and it's fine, but....man, I'm getting sick of Griffo's GM style. And I was trying to defend it through the end of Balance. I'm generally of the opinion that as long as your players are having fun, you're at least doing a decent job as a GM, but if you're two sessions in and your characters have not met, and there is no real sense of what the game is ABOUT, there are issues that need to be addressed.
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Feb 7, 2018 22:18
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What Griffin is doing now worked much better at the end of Balance since there was already a story in place and progress needed to be made through it. Now he's doing the same thing, but at the beginning of the thing, and it just doesn't work as well. I like Amnesty. The PCs are good, and the story is OK, but I have to agree that I need a break from Griffin as DM. On the other side of that coin is that I'm anxious to see more of what he can do as a player.
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SpacePig posted:Have they said for sure whether Justin will be using the Dresden Files RPG for his, or is that still up in the air? Because I think that has mystical and mythical elements built into it as well. I don't think it's confirmed Justin's even doing a game. I know the detective is in the new art, but Griffin said in the last episode that there would be "another one or two experimental arcs" before they settle on one. So it sounds like they're giving him the chance to go last to get his stuff together, but they may just go ahead and choose a new campaign if he doesn't.
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Feb 7, 2018 22:30
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Justin is the only McElroy who isn't wearing thin right now
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Feb 7, 2018 22:43
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Justin creates the best player characters. I really want to get more interactions from both Irene/Kardala and Duck. Then again if he's the GM, maybe all the NPCs would be that great.
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Feb 7, 2018 22:46
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I'm sticking with Amnesty mainly for Duck and Ned at this point. Everything Justin and Clint are doing is both funny and grounded in actual character development. I went from mild annoyance to total dislike for Aubrey with the whole carrot thing coupled with "We can't call them abominations!" Ugh. I was okay with the characters not meeting for awhile but reflecting back, not much actually happened over that time, and now we're jumping into a final boss fight that feels unearned. I'll take Griffin's word for it that this is due to the PBtA system, but the whole "make up your own showdown" is pretty silly. Edit: I guess I'll add to the chorus that this seems less like actual role-playing and more Griffin's Telltale game entry. I felt this way going back to the second half of Balance, honestly. Laterite fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Feb 7, 2018 22:47
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Travis and Griffin just seem to be taking things way more seriously than Justin and Clint and it very much shows. Also the characters not meeting is absolutely not due to the PbtA system. In most PbtA systems, you discuss how the characters met before the game even begins.
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Feb 7, 2018 22:50
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I wish Clint were a little bit more confident in his roleplaying, though. I don't know if it's because it's Griffin, or because it's an unfamiliar system, but he's playing Ned kinda lame at times. He has the potential to be so much better, and I hope he finds it if they stick with Amnesty. This is the first time that Travis has actually started to grate on me a bit. I'm not a Travis hater or anything, and it's really hard to describe what's bothering me about him since he's still arguably funny. I guess I just don't think his character is interesting or funny, and he very obviously does. e: Like, Clint accidentally made goddamn Grunkle Stan, one of my favorite cartoon characters of the last decade, and he's playing him like Toby Determined or something.
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Feb 7, 2018 22:54
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General Dog posted:Justin is the only McElroy who isn't wearing thin right now If you genuinely feel this way, I highly recommend taking a break for a while! Burning out on something you like super sucks, and if you come back in a year or so and find out you've grown past it, at least you didn't have to slog through it in the meantime.
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Feb 7, 2018 22:56
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Waffleman_ posted:
Sorry, I didn't word that very well. I understand the character separation was a story choice, but Griffin leading everyone into a corner then saying, "Eh, it's up to you to finish, because PBTA" is weird.
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Feb 7, 2018 22:57
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I suggest, for every episode of TAZ, listen to an episode of Dragon Friends. In DF, the GM is more of a suggestion.
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Laterite posted:Sorry, I didn't word that very well. I understand the character separation was a story choice, but Griffin leading everyone into a corner then saying, "Eh, it's up to you to finish, because PBTA" is weird. this is definitely a "Griffin doesn't actually understand the system he's running" foible
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Part of me still wishes the monster of the week set up was more akin to magical girls or sentai than Buffy but whatchu gonna do? I bet it could be pretty easily adapted to those though.
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