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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's not even like Mickey Mouse is one of their major moneymakers anymore since they haven't done anything really notable with him in years besides the occasional half-decent cartoon short on YouTube. It's his 90th birthday this year and they've had some specials on TV about it, but he's mostly relegated to the preschool age group these days. Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse was big for a while but now it's spun off to Mickey and the Roadster Racers. My kids have watched a bunch of these. There's also a series of short cartoons that really reminds me of the golden age of Ren and Stimpy, animation-wise but they don't like it as much.
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Mors Rattus posted:Yeah, Disney's Pooh looks absolutely nothing like Milne's Pooh, who is very much based on a teddy bear design never really used any more. I think Piglet is the only one that actually resembles the Milne version.  The Disney versions are pretty unique and different than the originals, which you can see at the New York Public Library if you're ever there. Even the live action versions are different than the IRL ones, which is understandable because the originals are pretty generic. 
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Dec 13, 2018 15:31
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I was actually thinking of the Milne illustrations, rather than the physical toys, but it's still true! Except the Piglet thing.
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Dec 13, 2018 15:32
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Mors Rattus posted:I was actually thinking of the Milne illustrations, rather than the physical toys, but it's still true!  Yeah, Piglet is pretty close.
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Dec 13, 2018 15:37
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That Tigger has seen some poo poo.
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This is like finding out that the Episode IV blockade runner model is bigger than the star destroyer one.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:
I need to see that movie. Kinda cool how they made the animals look aged and weathered. Also reminds me of Detective Pikachu all of a sudden.
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Biomute posted:Also, who wouldn't be upset being presented this abomination? I know this was like 4 pages ago and I'm not really interested in bringing him back up, but I just wanted to say that this thing is so ugly some authors have taken measures against it. Here is a photo of Michael Swanwick's office by Kyle Cassidy, if you peek on his award wall to the right, you'll notice the mask he's given it. This has always amused me, so I wanted to share. 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I need to see that movie. Kinda cool how they made the animals look aged and weathered. Also reminds me of Detective Pikachu all of a sudden. I quite enjoyed it, but it's definitely firmly in the "film for nostalgic millennials pretending it's a kids' film" genre, being focused quite squarely on the experiences of a man juggling the responsibilities of being a parent and having a poo poo job. If you're a nostalgic millennial you'll probably like it, bit schmaltzy at the end. Relevant to the thread: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/12/13/gamepedias-parent-company-has-been-aquired-by-fandom Fandom, the folks who run wikia, have bought Curse from Twitch, which will include D&D Beyond. The D&D Beyond tem who've made posts on reddit are (of course) upbeat and positive about the move, but some (me) are concerned that it won't be long before D&D Beyond is loaded up with annoying lovely ads which redirect you to the app store if you try to browse a wikia site on a mobile device. Reveilled fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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Dec 14, 2018 01:27
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The great irony of the Christopher Robin movie is that the actual Christopher Robin would not have much cared for Winnie-the-Pooh coming back into his life - especially when he was at the age the character in the movie is. https://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a43801/real-christopher-robin-hated-winnie-the-pooh/
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Comrade Gorbash posted:The great irony of the Christopher Robin movie is that the actual Christopher Robin would not have much cared for Winnie-the-Pooh coming back into his life - especially when he was at the age the character in the movie is. He sounds like a jackass
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ravenkult posted:He sounds like a jackass Kid got bullied because his dad was too drat unoriginal to think of another name and resented it for a long time, also sounds like he didn't profit from his name being used, seems sort of reasonable to me?
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Darwinism posted:Kid got bullied because his dad was too drat unoriginal to think of another name and resented it for a long time, also sounds like he didn't profit from his name being used, seems sort of reasonable to me? I'm pretty sure bullying was built into being sent away to a boarding school in Britain in the 30s.
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Right, coming out of those schools as an rear end in a top hat was an intended outcome. Made for good colonial officers.
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ravenkult posted:I'm pretty sure bullying was built into being sent away to a boarding school in Britain in the 30s. What exactly is your point here? The fictional version of himself was more successful in his father's eyes than he was, he had a rocky relationship with both parents because of that, but made peace with it in his later years. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:What exactly is your point here? The fictional version of himself was more successful in his father's eyes than he was, he had a rocky relationship with both parents because of that, but made peace with it in his later years. His mom forcing him to dress and wear his hair super androgynously also probably didn’t help. Or her basically disowning him over his marriage, not due to the incestuous part but because she hated her brother.
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Reveilled posted:I quite enjoyed it, but it's definitely firmly in the "film for nostalgic millennials pretending it's a kids' film" genre, being focused quite squarely on the experiences of a man juggling the responsibilities of being a parent and having a poo poo job. If you're a nostalgic millennial you'll probably like it, bit schmaltzy at the end. If it's a typical web app deal (which it may or may not be) the client (Wizards) has say over content and ads and whatnot, not the web agency. As I understand it, Wizards contracted with Curse for development, it's not Curse going to Wizards and licensing D&D for a Curse platform. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)
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Just thought everyone would like a reminder that the TG Industry has been in a state of active war for 30 years now: https://twitter.com/N01H3r3/status/1073931772050767873  God bless all those brave soldiers who have fallen where they fought. 
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Pictured: a young rpgsite poster.
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Mors Rattus posted:Pictured: a young rpgsite poster. Pundit's first published work?
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Check out my upcoming kickstarter for my AD&D clone ROMANTICS and ROLEPLAYERS.
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Slimnoid posted:Check out my upcoming kickstarter for my AD&D clone ROMANTICS and ROLEPLAYERS. You joke, but have there been any games made with the intention of playing like AD&D 2nd edition was supposed to be played according to the text?
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"2E has too much roleplaying, the game should only care about the mechanics and dice rolls." "4E doesn't have enough roleplaying, all it cares about is the mechanics and dice rolls."
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If you dig far enough back into the Usenet archives, someone argues that codifying the rules into 1E threatened to turn the game into Nethack. I wish I'd taken a screenshot.
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Yeah but now positions get weirdly reversed and the SERIOUS ROLEPLAY team starts complaining about not being allowed roleplay if you suggest removing alignment, which was only ever there because the ACTUALLY WARGAMES team needed everyone to be clearly red, blue, or environment/shop.
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And to hell with you Crom if you are going to gamify roleplaying in any manner whatsoever. Role play not Roll play amirite?
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Nuns with Guns posted:Just thought everyone would like a reminder that the TG Industry has been in a state of active war for 30 years now: Man I wish I could RP good enough to talk like this guy. I love where he can't help himself from diving into alliteration. This reads like it was written by Dr. Smith from Lost in Space.
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remusclaw posted:You joke, but have there been any games made with the intention of playing like AD&D 2nd edition was supposed to be played according to the text? I'm not even sure AD&D 2e was that
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Wrestlepig posted:I'm not even sure AD&D 2e was that Living City was late in the 2e cycle and is probably patient zero for the Rules As Written Though The Heavens Fall cult.
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Wrestlepig posted:I'm not even sure AD&D 2e was that It wasn't. Like, Blue Rose makes an attempt at the Mercedes Lackey style novel, but I'm not sure there are any role playing games out there that try to hit that post Tolkien, David Eddings, Terry Brooks sort of feel that 2nd edition kind of goes for in it's how to play advice.
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AlphaDog posted:Yeah but now positions get weirdly reversed and the SERIOUS ROLEPLAY team starts complaining about not being allowed roleplay if you suggest removing alignment, which was only ever there because the ACTUALLY WARGAMES team needed everyone to be clearly red, blue, or environment/shop.
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remusclaw posted:And to hell with you Crom if you are going to gamify roleplaying in any manner whatsoever. Role play not Roll play amirite? Recognisably, removing real roleplaying requires revising, reworking, roleplaying rules. Terrible Opinions posted:A good 90% of paizo's forums are dominated by people who genuinely believe that actually analyzing the rules of the game and desiring the game be well designed means that you're some sort of sub human rules obsessed person playing to win. Yeah there's always been a large number of people who can't handle the idea that one half of "roleplaying game" actually counts. They've always seemed to be roughly evenly divided over which half. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Dec 16, 2018 |
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The proper system to run any game is Paranoia, frankly.
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The infinite cycle of arguments about the perfect balance between roleplaying and rules dating back to the very beginning amuses me, but I also like the documentation of the outrage at all this new blood entering the tabletop rpg scene thanks to Dragonlance novels reaching a wider audience of potential players that don't know how to play the game right because they weren't exposed to the correct way of doing things.
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Double posting to share the Gary Gygax article the guy was citing: https://twitter.com/derekthebard/status/1074377348848312320  
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Thranguy posted:Living City was late in the 2e cycle and is probably patient zero for the Rules As Written Though The Heavens Fall cult. What does that even mean people are talking about some weird 2e rules cult I’ve never heard of
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Nuns with Guns posted:Double posting to share the Gary Gygax article the guy was citing: Given the clickbaity title, this article ends up surprisingly even handed.
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Arivia posted:What does that even mean people are talking about some weird 2e rules cult I’ve never heard of Nightwatch in the Living City seems like it was very very procedural from its wikipedia description, right down to a flowchart of events, and that might have colored peoples's expectations of gameplay
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I looked into living city stuff waaaaaay back when and it was very DOES NOT COMPUTE. Errata: To correct unexpected result as experienced, player smiling happily is now mandatory for all results indicated as <fun> on the Table of Expected Outcomes (table 7c(ii)).
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Bieeanshee posted:If you dig far enough back into the Usenet archives, someone argues that codifying the rules into 1E threatened to turn the game into Nethack.
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