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Ches Neckbeard posted:I'm incredibly confused. Here's a big dumb block of text feel free to ignore it because I just like rambling Basically White Wolf died in the early aughts and became an IP licensing company with like one remaining employee so they could still hold onto their assets and licensed their work out to Onyx Path, a company founded by an ex-White Wolf creative director to keep publishing roleplaying game books.They rebooted the World of Darkness to get it away from some of the busted rules, mind-numbingly convoluted metaplot, and outdated concepts (the dated-even-in-the-90's goth punk Vampire, the racist Native American ecoterrorism of Werewolf, the new age-y bullshit of Mage, whatever the gently caress was going on in Changeling) of the old WoD. At some point the EVE Online guys buy White Wolf for an MMO that never comes out, and in addition to the New World of Darkness OP begins putting out 20th anniversary editions of the old WoD games that have a lot of the more questionable poo poo filed out (except Mage which just continues to be exactly the same). Fast forward to a couple of years ago. Paradox buys White Wolf, announces their plans to turn it into a ~media empire~ by reviving the old World of Darkness games, and puts a swedish LARPer as "storyline director" because they don't give a gently caress. They force OP to rename their World of Darkness to "Chronicles of Darkness" to make it less important than their own work, and immediately start bumblefucking their way into every possible bigot pitfall, like putting out a Vampire text adventure game written by a known serial harasser/transphobe, releasing the aforementioned Vampire the Masquerade demo about evil muslims and making one of the sample characters your players are expected to play as for the demo a pedophile, and actually managing to not release anything on their own despite having several years to do so. Not coincidentally OP has started focusing on games they actually own. Alaois posted:I SAID IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG AND THIS ISN'T THE RIGHT THREAD FOR IT I'M SORRY
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Alaois posted:I SAID IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG AND THIS ISN'T THE RIGHT THREAD FOR IT You were correct and I acknowledged that immediately. So let me divert a little and once again ask everyone to listen to Losing The Sheen, a pre-Sawbones podcast where Justin and Sydnee watch Two and a Half Men during it's transition to Ashton Kutcher. It's full of barely tempered hatred and very funny.
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Blockhouse posted:in conclusion the McElroys should probably not play a World of Darkness game It kinda sounds like nobody should. Except maybe for racist sexist transphobic pedophile werewolves? Not Operator posted:You were correct and I acknowledged that immediately. I really want to check out the finale at some point, but for that I would have to procure the last episode of Talfmen, and like hell am I buying that.
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Also the show is warm dogshit and they could only bear to watch like eight episodes so you can bang it out in an afternoon.
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Not Operator posted:You were correct and I acknowledged that immediately. I had no idea this even existed
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I bring it up every six months or so just in case, y/w.
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Not Operator posted:Also the show is warm dogshit and they could only bear to watch like eight episodes so you can bang it out in an afternoon. One of the max fun pledge episodes is them bringing the podcast back one last time to watch the absolutely bizarre final episode.
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Blockhouse posted:in conclusion the McElroys should probably not play a World of Darkness game Oh, absolutely, definitely not. The only reason I brought it up was because the idea is so horrifyingly, ludicrously wrong.
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Ariong posted:It kinda sounds like nobody should. Except maybe for racist sexist transphobic pedophile werewolves? Please don’t kinkshame.
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Blockhouse posted:like putting out a Vampire text adventure game I just keep getting more confused by all of this and will settle on Eve Online devs are dumb.
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Blockhouse posted:Here's a big dumb block of text feel free to ignore it because I just like rambling And if you want to learn about how lovely Onyx Path is there's this :NSFW: WTF?!? DnD article https://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/burn-down-whitewolf/1/
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:And if you want to learn about how lovely Onyx Path is there's this :NSFW: WTF?!? DnD article https://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/burn-down-whitewolf/1/ Both of the people who worked on that first page thing were fired and one of them is also a sexual harasser (though he was sacked before that came up) the other stuff in that article is from White Wolf also while we're airing out dirty tabletop laundry it's a bummer Travis went with Urban Shadows since that game's creator is also kind of a dipshit Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Feb 17, 2018 |
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:And if you want to learn about how lovely Onyx Path is there's this :NSFW: WTF?!? DnD article https://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/burn-down-whitewolf/1/ Yeah, this is an incredibly poor example as the end product of exalted 3e is nothing like that and everything else is from White Wolf. Onyx Path is a decent company that has had a few stumbles but is overall a lot better then most rpg makers.
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I haven't kept up with WW since Paradox bought them but Demon: The Descent and the Mummy one were extremely fun to read.
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Not Operator posted:You were correct and I acknowledged that immediately. The sequel show Satellite Dish was also good, specifically the Modelland eps
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Blockhouse posted:How many lost McElroy podcasts are there? None yet but I would totally listen to a podcast where all the McElroys are locked in a room and forced to watch LOST.
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Nuebot posted:None yet but I would totally listen to a podcast where all the McElroys are locked in a room and forced to watch LOST. I really don’t need to watch Alaois melt down trying to decide if the proper contrarian take is to say the brothers aren’t bothering to think about it or if no one can
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i would listen to that podcast actually
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Blockhouse posted:How many lost McElroy podcasts are there? Release the Gooshy tapes
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you know what McElroy fandom thing is neat? TAZ/MBMBAM crossover animations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGY3b7ngV10
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The best way to play WoD/CoD is to ignore all of the lore and make up whatever you want. The history, iconic characters and all that is just abysmal. I forget what book it was but it dealt with sending a nuke to an alternate dimension to kill ghosts. That's the level of sophistication most of the time. The system itself is pretty great, if a bit slow. I ran several Vampire campaigns, a long Hunter one and an experimental mixed monster game like Buffy. All were a ton of fun because no one wanted to pretend they were in an Anne Rice novel.
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Inzombiac posted:The history, iconic characters and all that is just abysmal. I forget what book it was but it dealt with sending a nuke to an alternate dimension to kill ghosts. Okay, well, now you’re bringing it back. sexpig by night posted:you know what McElroy fandom thing is neat? TAZ/MBMBAM crossover animations. This is great.
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sexpig by night posted:you know what McElroy fandom thing is neat? TAZ/MBMBAM crossover animations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDmzYTu77XE
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Blockhouse posted:How many lost McElroy podcasts are there? Have you ever been to the deep web
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Inzombiac posted:The best way to play WoD/CoD is to ignore all of the lore and make up whatever you want. That said, good lord the McElroys should go nowhere near it. Count me in on the Paranoia and Fiasco for short term games love club, they would kill it in those games.
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Tears In A Vial posted:Have you ever been to the deep web you mean where griffin got the new wu tang album?
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HEY EVERYONE IT'S ME MASTER KILLER
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sexpig by night posted:you know what McElroy fandom thing is neat? TAZ/MBMBAM crossover animations. Holy poo poo, The cover of wonderwall!
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I don't read this thread so apologies if this has already been posted but I came across someone familiar in Sea of Thieves last night...
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It’s been posted but it’s awesome, as is this moment from Griffin’s twitch stream https://twitter.com/griffinmcelroy/status/958203721984376832
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sir the question was 'is this your handwriting'
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Milwaukee's up. I don't think we'll ever see the Atlanta show.
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Milwaukee live show is up, cursed Atlanta show remains cursed
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credburn posted:I like their news roundup (Trends Like These) but with Courtney Enlow's contribution they're just a series of news bits with random misandry thrown in. I get that a lot of men are awful, but she takes it to a playground kind of mentality. Saying Hitler had some skill in painting is not "a defense of Hitler." It's just a loving fact, or a statistic. Saying Donald Trump has comparatively good grammar on Twitter is not a defense of Trump's character or anything else, it's just an observation of a skill or a trait. Her minutes-long, fallacy-prone rants about how men are awful are painful to listen to because somehow she takes a simple, pretty much self-driving argument (many men in power are awful people) and somehow manages to fill it so full of subjective bullshit, personal anger and frustration and grossly exaggerated interpretations of what other people said or did that it ruins the argument. It's like taking a rapist and then also accusing him of being awful to animals. Like, maybe he is, but stick to the argument if all your evidence is about how awful rapists are and has nothing to do with puppies. I don't know what you're talking about really but if someone was telling me about how good Trump's twitter grammar was I would definitely take it as a strange (and super pathetic) attempt to defend him.
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