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Notahippie posted:It was one of those points where I was like "poo poo, cyberpunk happened when I wasn't looking." Those are coming increasingly frequently, which is worrying. People pretending to be catgirls is cyberpunk?
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thetoughestbean posted:People pretending to be catgirls is cyberpunk? Based on every cyberpunk game I’ve played in, yes.
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Apr 27, 2021 20:09
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thetoughestbean posted:People pretending to be catgirls is cyberpunk? Virtual idols sure are.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Virtual idols sure are. Yeah, and even Gibson didn't see home-computer generated idorus run by random folks in their bedroom coming.
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Apr 27, 2021 20:15
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he came up with artisanal handcrafted computers, we get mass market where everything's either a black block or rgb gamer bullshit he extended the massive idol trend into the same but cyber, we get random niche weirdos doing streams as whatever idol rig they came up with
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Apr 27, 2021 20:22
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Hololive is way more Gibsonesque by virtue of being a big Japanese syndicate.
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Haystack posted:Hololive is way more Gibsonesque by virtue of being a big Japanese syndicate. There's already even an example of one of their creations (sort of) going rogue! 
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90s Cringe Rock posted:he came up with artisanal handcrafted computers, we get mass market where everything's either a black block or rgb gamer bullshit the artisinal handcrafted thing does exist but only for keyboards
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Apr 27, 2021 22:36
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Impermanent posted:the artisinal handcrafted thing does exist but only for keyboards Building your own pc from parts would definitely seem like it has some parallels with building your own custom deck, but I can't say I have personal experience with either.
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Haystack posted:Hololive is way more Gibsonesque by virtue of being a big Japanese syndicate. The main difference is the talent appears to have a fair amount of power in the relationship and by and large seem to be really, genuinely not exploited.
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lightrook posted:Building your own pc from parts would definitely seem like it has some parallels with building your own custom deck, but I can't say I have personal experience with either. Even more cyberpunk than usual right now, because you can't get the parts to build your own rig due to a bunch of cargo-cult capitalists buying up all the graphics cards to waste as much energy with them as possible.
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Liquid Communism posted:Even more cyberpunk than usual right now, because you can't get the parts to build your own rig due to a bunch of cargo-cult capitalists buying up all the graphics cards to waste as much energy with them as possible.
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Liquid Communism posted:Even more cyberpunk than usual right now, because you can't get the parts to build your own rig due to a bunch of cargo-cult capitalists buying up all the graphics cards to waste as much energy with them as possible. If you wrote a novel about people inventing a business that just pollutes the world and wastes energy and that this generates money for you, you'd get rejected by every publishing house for writing "cartoonish characters" and told that nobody wants to buy your terrible Fern Gully fanfiction.
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Mors Rattus posted:The main difference is the talent appears to have a fair amount of power in the relationship and by and large seem to be really, genuinely not exploited. It's haaaaaard to say, because the whole product is charming people living happy lives. And you hear about that vomz girl who got fired & memory holed for.... something that offended management. Who knows what. We'll find out in fifteen years, maybe.
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Hey so remember how Zak S is suing GenCon? Guess who else he's suing. https://twitter.com/funtasticFunman/status/1388277057898139648
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Lol that's a quick dismissal on the gen con suit.
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dwarf74 posted:Lol that's a quick dismissal on the gen con suit. lmao yeah that didn't take much time at all, I guess it's different suing people in a country where it isn't incredibly weighted against the defendant.
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 It's like, the one thing America isn't trash about sometimes. Still, I wonder what case he could possibly think he has against Mearls, of all people.
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Agent Rush posted:
I mean I genuinely doubt he has a case but if I had to guess why he's suing him it's for his name getting removed from the credits of future 5E corebook printings.
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Zak's lawyer is 100% taking him for a ride and I'm honestly here for it. "Yeah, sure, sue Mike Mearls. Keep suing people. Sue everyone. Let me keep bleeding daddy's trust fund in lawyer fees"
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dwarf74 posted:Lol that's a quick dismissal on the gen con suit. Mearls suit got dismissed just about one month after filing. I’m a little curious to read the ruling, but not curious enough to pay the 3.50 it’d cost to access the record from the King County Superior Court.
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I'm curious enough. I can't believe Zak wasted fifty cents of my money by reproducing Mandy's entire blog post. Anyhow. It's about Mearls' Facebook post, in which he criticized harassers in general and then said Mandy was brave and that people shouldn't buy into Zak's smear campaign. It's also about WotC announcing that Zak's name was out of the credits. It's interesting to note that "Since Defendant published the Mearls Post, Plaintiff has been shunned by book publishers, in the art world, and in the film industry, and has lost substantial income." Mearls' lawyers pointed out that the post wasn't actionable and that Zak loves him some unproven hypotheticals. "Smith’s bizarre and unpled allegations that Mearls acted out of jealousy or 'wokeness,' for example, are allegations of fault, not falsity." Oh my god, Zak's claiming Mearls was jealous of him because Zak beat him in the Ennies.
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Thanlis posted:Oh my god, Zak's claiming Mearls was jealous of him because Zak beat him in the Ennies. lmao
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Thanlis posted:I'm curious enough. I can't believe Zak wasted fifty cents of my money by reproducing Mandy's entire blog post. Anyhow.
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May 1, 2021 03:10
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Tag yourself, I'm the bizarre and unpled allegations.
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May 1, 2021 03:13
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Bad hair man wants to win Meltdown May.
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May 1, 2021 03:14
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May 1, 2021 03:28
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A lawyer had to tell another lawyer the exact words of a man who looks and lives like he method acted a goth drug dealer for a community theatre walk-on and then never got out of character
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May 1, 2021 03:44
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Thanlis posted:I'm curious enough. I can't believe Zak wasted fifty cents of my money by reproducing Mandy's entire blog post. Anyhow. The hero we deserve.
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May 1, 2021 03:50
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Thanlis posted:Mearls' lawyers pointed out that the post wasn't actionable and that Zak loves him some unproven hypotheticals. "Smith’s bizarre and unpled allegations that Mearls acted out of jealousy or 'wokeness,' for example, are allegations of fault, not falsity." loving astounding. It's hard not to imagine that this all boils down to Our Most Infallibly Logical Boy inflicting his posting style on his lawyer. Though of course there is no shortage of just lovely lawyers in this country, which seem like the only ones likely to carry this turd's water. quote:Oh my god, Zak's claiming Mearls was jealous of him because Zak beat him in the Ennies. Didn't D&D sweep them every time until enough people got tired of it that they just withdrew from consideration?
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Halloween Jack posted:I'm going to sue Monte Cook for being a bad designer. He's criminally bad, but sadly meets standards and expectations of the industry.
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moths posted:He's criminally bad, but sadly meets standards and expectations of the industry. The plastic handjob should be a criminal offense in any court in the land.
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That Old Tree posted:loving astounding. It's hard not to imagine that this all boils down to Our Most Infallibly Logical Boy inflicting his posting style on his lawyer. Though of course there is no shortage of just lovely lawyers in this country, which seem like the only ones likely to carry this turd's water. Guarantee he's getting paid hourly
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Kurieg posted:The plastic handjob should be a criminal offense in any court in the land. is there an indepth review of that ridiculous cube somewhere that isnt from someone that isn't a sunk cost cultist? i dont care if its a good or negative review, im just tired of gushing Froghammer posted:Rich ligitous clients attract a very specific breed of lawyer. Someone with pockets as deep as Zak's who likes suing people over petty nonsense make a certain type of person's eyes turn into giant cartoon dollar signs. In the book Conspiracy, basically the story of how Peter Thiel destroyed Gawker, Ryan Holliday makes it very clear that 99.9% of lawyers who get involved in lawsuits like that absolutely cum when an "obvious mark" walks through a door. Not saying Zak is, but, you know.
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Thanlis posted:I'm curious enough. I can't believe Zak wasted fifty cents of my money by reproducing Mandy's entire blog post. Anyhow. Side note: Does this mean that Mandy's post about Zak is now on the record somewhere he can't get it wiped by threatening legal action?
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:is there an indepth review of that ridiculous cube somewhere that isnt from someone that isn't a sunk cost cultist? i dont care if its a good or negative review, im just tired of gushing Someone was doing it for FATAL and Friends, I think? If that didn't finish... well, I may need to pick it up. I bought that big loving cube, after all, and should do penance for that. (Short review: the feelies are lavish, at least for the core Black Cube, but the product is basically a gilded packing peanut. There's next to nothing there, even by the pretty lax standards of a Monte Cook game.)
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:is there an indepth review of that ridiculous cube somewhere that isnt from someone that isn't a sunk cost cultist? i dont care if its a good or negative review, im just tired of gushing I went over it for my Patreon but that's not public, I think it's best described as an occult mystery game that was fundamentally disinterested in being mysterious. Though the base mechanics are loose, the game is loaded with so much crunch that it's ultimately like if you stapled d20-style advancement onto FATE, it's just got lots of different moving parts pushing against each other.
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The most Monte Cook thing about Invisible Sun, the thing that really sums it up to me, is that one of the characters you can play is a wizard who memorizes spells by having to fit actual physical spell cards onto an inventory page. Right away, that concept conjures up all sorts of neat ideas, yeah? Spell cards of wildly different shapes that you can try and puzzle out different ways to make all fit together, progression upgrades that let you do things like physically alter cards by folding or cutting them into new shapes, buffs or debuffs that temporarily (or permanently) alter the inventory page itself in some fashion, etc. And the actual execution is that every spell is just on the same square shaped card, that's it.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I went over it for my Patreon but that's not public, I think it's best described as an occult mystery game that was fundamentally disinterested in being mysterious. Though the base mechanics are loose, the game is loaded with so much crunch that it's ultimately like if you stapled d20-style advancement onto FATE, it's just got lots of different moving parts pushing against each other. what the gently caress I thought it was an Amber or Ember or whatever, what with the real world being fake and pocket dimensional poo poo
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