|
spectralent posted:I particularly love the one at the top complaining about people with DEGREES!!! Behold, BsCgeddon hath come. Not only that, but people with degrees telling a business how they can make more money! By increasing the customer base! With people who are NOT THE POSTER'S DEMOGRAPHIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grog tears are tasty and all, but there's just this special sort of flavor to the ones that reveal their social anxiety over not being the exclusive key demographic for the capitalist enterprise.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 20:52 |
|
|
# ? May 26, 2024 11:05 |
|
MonsieurChoc posted:He also turned out to be a rapist. That was Matt McFarland, in both cases. And I'm pretty sure you knew that already, so I don't know why you idiots keep doing poo poo like this, and then get pissy at me for bringing up assholes like Aatrek ad nauseum for cheap points.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 21:15 |
|
What in the.... The Spawn guy is a rapist? Cripes.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 21:22 |
|
You’re thinking of Todd McFarlane. ...unless that was a bad joke.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 21:27 |
|
The 40K universe is full of satire still and there is a lot of it. They post this every week: https://regimental-standard.com Which is basically in-universe propaganda showing the drudgery of the average soldier. 30K novels often highlight how different and removed the Space Marines are from those they’re trying to protect, and how limiting their rampant and unquestioning xenophobia and following of the Emperor’s decree can be. 40K novels often show the effect of dogmatic adherence. Yes, Space Marines are pushed as these amazing warriors, but there’s a lot of different stories and fiction and tidbits, and it’s not all uniform in tone.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 22:12 |
|
Desiden posted:Not only that, but people with degrees telling a business how they can make more money! By increasing the customer base! With people who are NOT THE POSTER'S DEMOGRAPHIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always love the twenty-direction input combo of "companies should be free to do whatever they want without SJW shill cuck tyranny" and "companies should not be free to change in any way because all companies should remain as I remember them from when I was twelve", personally.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 22:12 |
|
Yeah, it's pretty much 100% this.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 22:27 |
|
I, for one, am able to cope by claiming the people I hate are rapists.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 22:39 |
|
spectralent posted:I always love the twenty-direction input combo of "companies should be free to do whatever they want without SJW shill cuck tyranny" and "companies should not be free to change in any way because all companies should remain as I remember them from when I was twelve", personally. That comes from the fact that they're so diluted they think everyone, including the company, are only doing this because they're being forced by gunpoint to agree with this thing and that everyone actually agrees with them. They actually believe that the entire world is being controlled by "SJW" and people are only acting this way because they're being forced to and that, sans this control, they would all act like them. They think this because of right-wing media in America and Britain and in a few countries actually actively promote this idea. You see this for example with Fox News which claims that their version of the news is real and everyone else is spinning it, which is the opposite of the truth because they're the ones who are actually spinning it. So they can think both those thoughts because they believe that they are liberating people from coercion, when actually they're trying to coerce people to believe regressive views.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 22:57 |
|
Covok posted:they're so diluted Oh great, grog homeopathy.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 23:44 |
|
Covok posted:You see this for example with Fox News which claims that their version of the news is real and everyone else is spinning it, which is the opposite of the truth because they're the ones who are actually spinning it. Everyone, everywhere is spinning it and Hideo Kojima was right about everything in Metal Gear Solid 2.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 23:49 |
|
Subjunctive posted:Oh great, grog homeopathy. That's an amazing typo.
|
# ? May 23, 2018 23:56 |
|
spectralent posted:That's not been anything like Warhammer 40k for decades. It's still there in places - I've recently been reading one of the Caiaphas Cain novels. Of course that might be about the only place it's left that's still being published. quote:Also orcs are "soccer" hooligans; their influence is the 80s british football holigan scene which was rather... intense. Unless you mean blood bowl I guess. Orcs are football hooligans - I'm a Brit. Football is soccer unless another version is specified.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 00:30 |
|
neonchameleon posted:Orcs are football hooligans - I'm a Brit. Football is soccer unless another version is specified. Yes, the caps lock is important.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 01:33 |
|
Yawgmoth posted:The correct spelling of american football is FOOTBAW!!
|
# ? May 24, 2018 01:37 |
|
Bedlamdan posted:Everyone, everywhere is spinning it and Hideo Kojima was right about everything in Metal Gear Solid 2. one nice thing about our terrible present is how reevaluation of mgs2 has redeemed it in a lot of people's eyes when for the longest time it was just 'that really confusing one where you didn't get to play as snake'
|
# ? May 24, 2018 02:20 |
|
Okay are there any interesting magical school style RPGs out there other than Breakfast Cult?
|
# ? May 24, 2018 02:57 |
|
Witch Girl Adventures
|
# ? May 24, 2018 03:00 |
|
S.J. posted:Okay are there any interesting magical school style RPGs out there other than Breakfast Cult? Pigsmoke, though it's about playing magical school -faculty-, not students.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 03:09 |
|
unseenlibrarian posted:Pigsmoke, though it's about playing magical school -faculty-, not students. That's cool too! Thanks.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 03:13 |
|
S.J. posted:Okay are there any interesting magical school style RPGs out there other than Breakfast Cult? I heard it also teaches you Korean.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 04:23 |
|
It's possible to turn Monsters and Other Childish Things into a game set at a magical school
|
# ? May 24, 2018 04:41 |
Since we're on RPGchat, are there any RPGs (or supplements) that have a strong Dying Earth sort of vibe? I kinda just recently got into Dying Earth stuff and I think it would be a fun setting to play. I'm considering putting together a setting with my regular group in any case.
|
|
# ? May 24, 2018 04:45 |
|
MockingQuantum posted:Since we're on RPGchat, are there any RPGs (or supplements) that have a strong Dying Earth sort of vibe? I kinda just recently got into Dying Earth stuff and I think it would be a fun setting to play. I'm considering putting together a setting with my regular group in any case. The Dying Earth RPG, maybe?
|
# ? May 24, 2018 04:52 |
|
MockingQuantum posted:Since we're on RPGchat, are there any RPGs (or supplements) that have a strong Dying Earth sort of vibe? I kinda just recently got into Dying Earth stuff and I think it would be a fun setting to play. I'm considering putting together a setting with my regular group in any case. Gamma World.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 04:54 |
|
Yawgmoth posted:The correct spelling of american football is FOOTBAW!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n1KPQmdddY
|
# ? May 24, 2018 05:12 |
Kai Tave posted:The Dying Earth RPG, maybe? Whoops, forgot to say, we looked at the quickstart for that and the group wasn't really crazy about the system or terminology, eyes started to glaze when we hit the term "efficacious blandishment," that sort of thing is cute and characterful but was common enough that it kind of got wearisome as we were digging through the rules. I get why it's there though, it does kind of capture the feeling of the stories pretty well, I'm just not crazy when RPG systems draw too much attention to their own set of terminology.I couldn't tell you why but none of the stuff we've tried from Pelgrane has really caught on with my group, too. I do think in general the group may have a different idea of what they want that isn't strictly-speaking "dying earth" style fantasy, I think only a couple of us have read any of the Jack Vance stuff. I guess "far future science fantasy" might be a better descriptor, like something between Dying Earth and Dune. Magic meets broken down technology meets after-the-end entropy weirdness. I'm not even sure myself what the hell it should be, thus my being inclined to just roll my own setting for an existing ruleset. Tuxedo Catfish posted:Gamma World. I'd be so down for this. Not necessarily the flavor we're looking for but goddamn if it isn't fun to roll for random mutations.
|
|
# ? May 24, 2018 05:15 |
|
MockingQuantum posted:Since we're on RPGchat, are there any RPGs (or supplements) that have a strong Dying Earth sort of vibe? I kinda just recently got into Dying Earth stuff and I think it would be a fun setting to play. I'm considering putting together a setting with my regular group in any case. Into the Odd and its excellent support blog at http://soogagames.blogspot.co.nz/ nails this feel in a way that actually feels playable for me. Dying Earth the RPG ... didn't. Further afield I have also played in Apocalypse World oneshots that have this vibe too. Fantasy as far-future wreckage of lost civilisation is a perfectly reasonable apocalypse.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 05:29 |
|
MockingQuantum posted:Since we're on RPGchat, are there any RPGs (or supplements) that have a strong Dying Earth sort of vibe? I kinda just recently got into Dying Earth stuff and I think it would be a fun setting to play. I'm considering putting together a setting with my regular group in any case. Other than the actual Dying Earth RPG, there's Chronicles of the Future Earth for BRP. An official Dying Earth supplement for DCC (Dungeon Crawl Classics) is presumably somewhere in the works.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 05:35 |
|
MockingQuantum posted:I'd be so down for this. Not necessarily the flavor we're looking for but goddamn if it isn't fun to roll for random mutations. I'll second Gamma World, the one based on D&D 4E is actually really quick to dive into and it's easy to go all in on the weirdness. Numenera is on paper the sort of thing you're looking for but in practice it's an extremely dull and unambitious game that basically retreads D&D because that's all Monte Cook knows how to make and it doesn't do anything interesting with the premise. If you're willing to go more on the sci-fi end of things Fragged Empire is a post-post-apocalypse science fiction setting where everyone is a member of one of several genetically engineered servitor races created by a previous generation of genetically engineered races to fight wars for them. The people who created you are dead. The people who created them are dead (humans). Now it's up to you to actually try and create something like a culture for yourself now that you're free to be your own people. There's also Legacy: Life Among the Ruins which is a PbtA generational game about playing scions of various factions in a sci-fi post apocalypse setting that's weird enough to have aliens and kaiju and such, if that sounds like your jam.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 05:50 |
|
Bedlamdan posted:I, for one, am able to cope by claiming the people I hate are rapists.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 06:50 |
|
You act like this is something apparently abnormal here.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 07:07 |
|
neonchameleon posted:It's still there in places - I've recently been reading one of the Caiaphas Cain novels. Of course that might be about the only place it's left that's still being published. Okay then I'm confused why you specified American football when they're really obviously british football hooligans (right down to having a section of them that're skinhead style fascists the rest of them think are wankers)?
|
# ? May 24, 2018 08:02 |
|
spectralent posted:Okay then I'm confused why you specified American football when they're really obviously british football hooligans (right down to having a section of them that're skinhead style fascists the rest of them think are wankers)? Because Bloodbowl isn't football, it's American football.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 08:44 |
|
Lemon-Lime posted:Because Bloodbowl isn't football, it's American football. Couldn't it be rugby?
|
# ? May 24, 2018 11:32 |
|
LatwPIAT posted:Couldn't it be rugby? No.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 12:15 |
|
Blood Bowl is very specifically a parody of the British view of American football.
|
# ? May 24, 2018 14:30 |
|
LatwPIAT posted:Couldn't it be rugby?
|
# ? May 24, 2018 14:58 |
|
Halloween Jack posted:Not with 11 men, no ruck, no scrum, and forward passing, no. So you’re saying there’s a chance...
|
# ? May 24, 2018 15:33 |
|
|
# ? May 26, 2024 11:05 |
|
I so don't want to see GW try to write mechanics for adjudicating a scrum Considering the World Rugby Board doesn't exactly do a bang up job
|
# ? May 24, 2018 15:54 |