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Leperflesh posted:Friend Computer sounds like your group's GM, obviously "GM"? That sounds like commie poo poo to me! Get him!
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Nessus posted:My real question is what the hell brought Mark Rein*Hagan to live in Georgia? Did he just get on the wrong plane coming home from a con and didn't realize for months, and at that point he'd bought a house? Yeah, I had the same question when I hear he'd moved from Georgia the state to Georgia the country. He was there during the war in 2008, too, so he packed up right after he sold his WW shares if Wikipedia is to be believed.
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Apr 5, 2019 02:20
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, I had the same question when I hear he'd moved from Georgia the state to Georgia the country. He was there during the war in 2008, too, so he packed up right after he sold his WW shares if Wikipedia is to be believed.
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Apr 5, 2019 02:26
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He's done political and non-profit work in former Eastern Bloc countries campaigning for more equitable democracies. It's the trump card he kept pulling during the "Punching Nazis won't get the political change you want." blowup. His wife is also Georgian, and he says it was partially to get away from a particular flavor of gaming nerds harassing/stalking him in the US.
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Apr 5, 2019 02:45
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Nuns with Guns posted:He's done political and non-profit work in former Eastern Bloc countries campaigning for more equitable democracies. It's the trump card he kept pulling during the "Punching Nazis won't get the political change you want." blowup. His wife is also Georgian, and he says it was partially to get away from a particular flavor of gaming nerds harassing/stalking him in the US.
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Apr 5, 2019 02:56
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Apr 5, 2019 03:10
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I assume he's terrible at it, if that helps. "Just tell them you want democracy and if that doesn't work, turn the other - oh, they've already clubbed that side too."
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Apr 5, 2019 04:37
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Well he made a middling board game about it, if you want an idea of his views. It was only two years late on the projected release from its kickstarter.
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Apr 5, 2019 04:54
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Someone can do good and laudable things and still be a moron otherwise.
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Apr 5, 2019 06:07
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Dawgstar posted:This but sometimes he gets his words wrong and the Troubleshooters have to wonder if they should correct him. I always heard it more as Holly. "They're all dead, Dave."
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Apr 5, 2019 06:35
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Liquid Communism posted:I always heard it more as Holly. I've been imagining the world's most generic sounding lady who remains slightly perky but perfectly calm at all times. Like the safety videos you get on planes. But now I'm only ever going to hear Holly.
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Apr 5, 2019 12:49
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My favorite take on Friend Computer is that it sounds like pretty much anything or anyone from moment to moment, even changing gender and intonation within a sentence. It may start a conversation sounding like a Speak N' Spell and end it sounding like GladOS. Or vice-versa.
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Apr 5, 2019 13:07
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I'd love to run Friend Computer by pre-programming a set of 50 or so stock phrases into a TTS programme including the obvious ones like yes, no, maybe, that is above your clearance level, etc, but also a selection of inspirational quotes, both the real ones and those super depressing AI generated ones, and just playing a random one whenever a question was asked, or, you know, I felt like it.
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Apr 5, 2019 13:12
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thespaceinvader posted:I'd love to run Friend Computer by pre-programming a set of 50 or so stock phrases into a TTS programme including the obvious ones like yes, no, maybe, that is above your clearance level, etc, but also a selection of inspirational quotes, both the real ones and those super depressing AI generated ones, and just playing a random one whenever a question was asked, or, you know, I felt like it. A Paranoia soundboard app would be excellent.
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Apr 5, 2019 14:16
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It’s like the sharp turn of perky pre-rampancy SHODAN welcoming you to Citadel Station, and the creepy, glitchy menace she becomes.
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Apr 5, 2019 17:39
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I always liked the idea that Friend Computer would have a vocal tic similar to Max Headroom's... you know, kind of a tendency to loop a word or syllable two or three times, due to glitches. Are you Ha-Ha-Ha-Happy, Citizen? Happiness is Ma-a-a-aaaaandatory! tory! e. Or basically the computer in the movie Moon is Friend Computer, more or less. Complete with the actually-genuinely-helpful but also security protocols, capability of deception, and other sinister undertones. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Apr 5, 2019 |
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Apr 5, 2019 18:02
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homullus posted:A Paranoia soundboard app would be excellent. The Paranoia XP GM screen is covered in fortune cookie Computer quotes on the outside and it is EXCELLENT for setting the mood. I used it with a bunch of new players and they got the idea instantly just from this text telling them about new improved Bouncy Bubble Beverage.
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Apr 5, 2019 18:03
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Before GladOS, I often imagined Friend Computer sounded like the one in Logan's Run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkrLsxEhic
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Apr 5, 2019 18:12
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Leperflesh posted:e. Or basically the computer in the movie Moon is Friend Computer, more or less. Complete with the actually-genuinely-helpful but also security protocols, capability of deception, and other sinister undertones. GERTY was more of a subversion of that evil computer concept since in the end it overrides its programming to actually help the hero instead of serving the sinister mission that the corporation that build it gave it.
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Apr 5, 2019 18:25
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friend computer sounds like your mom, different for everyone or tim sniffen from hello from the magic tavern
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Apr 5, 2019 18:26
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Plutonis posted:GERTY was more of a subversion of that evil computer concept since in the end it overrides its programming to actually help the hero instead of serving the sinister mission that the corporation that build it gave it. Yeah, I know, but I intentionally didn't mention that, because it'd be a spoiler, lol
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Apr 5, 2019 18:35
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I always imagined Friend Computer having the voice of Eddie, the Heart of Gold’s shipboard computer, from the Hitcherhiker’s Guide radio program.
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Apr 5, 2019 18:50
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At this point Friend Computer genuinely intending to be helpful but being endlessly hampered by its own lovely/evil programming would probably be a bigger subversion/parody than the original take on it.
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Apr 6, 2019 02:49
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Roadie posted:At this point Friend Computer genuinely intending to be helpful but being endlessly hampered by its own lovely/evil programming would probably be a bigger subversion/parody than the original take on it. I mean, that basically is the take. Friend Computer genuinely believes it is trying to help you and genuinely wants you to be happy. It's just also been programmed to be paranoid, blase about death and terrified of many things, and also is buggy as poo poo.
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Apr 6, 2019 03:26
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Mors Rattus posted:I mean, that basically is the take. Friend Computer genuinely believes it is trying to help you and genuinely wants you to be happy.
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Apr 6, 2019 03:42
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Clearly what Friend Computer sounds like should depend on how well-maintained the local infrastructure it runs on is.
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Apr 6, 2019 04:17
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Nuns with Guns posted:particular flavor of gaming nerds harassing/stalking him in the US. I wonder what that was. People mad about Changing Breeds? People that believed all the poo poo in Deliria and wanted him to introduce them to the cool fairies? People making fun of his asterisk?
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Apr 6, 2019 05:23
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I think you’re thinking of Phil Brucato, who is probably more likely to the stalker/harasser. Rein*hagen might have been bothered by some of the same goth types that used to bother Anne Rice, basically wanting their scene to be real. He’s still a douche though.
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Apr 6, 2019 05:39
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Makes you wonder how Stephen King deals with it.
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Apr 6, 2019 06:10
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Cocaine. I'm assuming cocaine. Edit : This is also how I assume he deals with the mail arriving or the rising of the sun.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Cocaine. I'm assuming cocaine. I think now he has a stout fence and also still lives in Maine, so nobody can find him without getting eaten by the Wendigo or Paul LePage.
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Apr 6, 2019 06:34
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Fine you win. He did stop at some point. Now he probably get really, really angry at vans.
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Apr 6, 2019 07:32
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Nessus posted:That's how he used to deal with it, but then he got clean. Apparently he doesn't remember writing Cujo! Yeah I believe he still lives in Bangor, which means no one survives the frozen trek to stalk him. Seriously I've been to Bangor it's not great
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Evil Mastermind posted:It doesn't help that High Programmers all have their own agendas and rivalries, the Computer Phreaks like messing with code just because they can, PURGE keeps blowing up the infrastructures, and of course there's that algae tank leaking into Compnode 98G/f.4. But don't worry, TechServ is going to get to that soon. Next Threesday at the latest. White Box had a neat take on this: it’s a late stage civilisation and everything is running out. But no-one ever programmed The Computer to allow for there being no metal in the mines or no oil in the derricks (because what would they have it do, just say goodbye?) It therefore thinks that the dwindling returns it’s getting from basic resources are symptoms of sabotage or laziness and, since it’s affecting everything, there must be some huge conspiracy against it...
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hyphz posted:White Box had a neat take on this: it’s a late stage civilisation and everything is running out. But no-one ever programmed The Computer to allow for there being no metal in the mines or no oil in the derricks (because what would they have it do, just say goodbye?)
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hyphz posted:White Box had a neat take on this: it’s a late stage civilisation and everything is running out. But no-one ever programmed The Computer to allow for there being no metal in the mines or no oil in the derricks (because what would they have it do, just say goodbye?) And just when you thought Paranoia's style of satire had been tapped out...
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And just when you thought Paranoia's style of satire had been tapped out...
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Hostile V posted:It is, White Box is pretty bad thanks to behind the scenes shenanigans and just a general sense of not knowing what the hell to make so it has no real audience. Xp is still the best edition. It feels a little outdated due to some of the humour being now 15 years old, but the core mechanics/setting/everything hold up fine.
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Apr 6, 2019 17:11
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I eagerly await Vampire XP, in which fifth edition is thrown away and forgotten.
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Pope Guilty posted:I eagerly await Vampire XP, in which fifth edition is thrown away and forgotten. Does that mean the last book of VtM 5e will be an unfunny parody of Paranoia?
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