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Tuxedo Catfish posted:no, but there's a semi-accurate equivalence to be made between IPS-N and Amazon, so you've got a whole lot of Bezos mechs at least  IPS-N is Amazon if they stopped pretending to not be in bed with military contractors, and instead starting bragging about the proprietary SSC is if Sony and Apple merged and their board of directors was locked in a room with a lifetime supply of cocaine and a Eurobeat remix of the Doom Eternal soundtrack. HA are War Crimes Incorporated and don't even try to hide it, which I guess makes them Lockheed-Martin. And Horus are if Anonymous and Scientology merged except somehow Scientology had been right all along. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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I think the worst bit of writing in LANCER that I can remember is that the official campaign (which is, to my knowledge, never gonna get its part two) is based off the core conceit that people forgot where Hercynia, the site of first contact between humanity and a sapient species, and the subsequent genocide of the local aliens results in the government being overthrown, is located. They go through these hoops to justify why Smith-Shimano can drop off their colonists there without greatly pissing off the current government, but its sort of like if the French forgot where the Bastille was. Also, you figure this big corporate state that Union can't actually war with might not give a poo poo if Union is mad at them if they get a free world that requires basically no terraforming out of it.
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girl dick energy posted:And Horus are if Anonymous and Scientology merged except somehow Scientology had been right all along. I will be stealing and sharing this with my play group.
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While we're talking about RPGs in the KSBD thread Abaddon's gonna come out with a new one soon and it looks sick. https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1701641310321434817?s=20
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skaianDestiny posted:While we're talking about RPGs in the KSBD thread Abaddon's gonna come out with a new one soon and it looks sick. Can noone stop Abaddon from making games (you don't actually need to stop)
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https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1701597423846723698 Dear god man normally people play video games or watch TV not add another project to their workload
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skaianDestiny posted:While we're talking about RPGs in the KSBD thread Abaddon's gonna come out with a new one soon and it looks sick. Everyone go and read The Locked Tomb as required reading.
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M_Gargantua posted:Everyone go and read The Locked Tomb as required reading. They are very good books. They are also very silly at times.
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ConfusedUs posted:They are very good books. They are also very silly at times. The only degree of separation between KSBD and Locked Tomb is Homestuck. Seriously, Gideon and Harrow are basically Davekat.
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This is like how Brandon Sanderson used his pandemic downtime to write new books in secret. M_Gargantua posted:Everyone go and read The Locked Tomb as required reading. Better yet, listen to the audiobooks because Moira Quirk does an amazing job for all the voices.
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Ashcans posted:This is like how Brandon Sanderson used his pandemic downtime to write new books in secret. https://youtu.be/pvJOuUJNcx8?si=3yM2E8bz7_KEDdsJ She really does, and I don’t normally like audiobooks.
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skaianDestiny posted:While we're talking about RPGs in the KSBD thread Abaddon's gonna come out with a new one soon and it looks sick. oh hell yes
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skaianDestiny posted:The only degree of separation between KSBD and Locked Tomb is Homestuck. To return the thread back to the substrate, to the real essence from which all other Internet discourse arises, it must be asserted that Ianthe is, in fact, a Vriska.
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Rohan Kishibe posted:To return the thread back to the substrate, to the real essence from which all other Internet discourse arises, it must be asserted that Ianthe is, in fact, a Vriska. May you be awakened in the still and deep portion of the night by an inexplicable, yet undeniable urge to stare into the mirror and wonder, where did you lose yourself.
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Rohan Kishibe posted:To return the thread back to the substrate, to the real essence from which all other Internet discourse arises, it must be asserted that Ianthe is, in fact, a Vriska. 
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skaianDestiny posted:While we're talking about RPGs in the KSBD thread Abaddon's gonna come out with a new one soon and it looks sick. hey Operant, LMK if you need a bluesky invite
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skaianDestiny posted:While we're talking about RPGs in the KSBD thread Abaddon's gonna come out with a new one soon and it looks sick. Male ghast
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Male ghast More like Male Gaze-t am I right? She looks like she's down to bone!
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skaianDestiny posted:While we're talking about RPGs in the KSBD thread Abaddon's gonna come out with a new one soon and it looks sick. that's nice but also I wish he would stick to one at a time because LANCER's been completely dead in the water and I now am wondering if ICON will follow as well
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Whirling posted:that's nice but also I wish he would stick to one at a time because LANCER's been completely dead in the water and I now am wondering if ICON will follow as well Aren't they just one-shot releases?
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Does lancer have any cool wheel or tread mechs?
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Bilirubin posted:hey Operant, LMK if you need a bluesky invite He is already there https://bsky.app/profile/orbitaldropkick.bsky.social
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That said, I have a few Bluesky invites if anyone wants to be sprung from the hellpit. Post here if you've got plat and I'll DM you, first come first serve, I think I currently have 
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GlyphGryph posted:Does lancer have any cool wheel or tread mechs? They’re all bipedal or quadruped. The robots are meant to be customisable and modular though so if you want to say your Lancaster has treads instead of legs, doesn’t really impact anything mechanically though you may have to get creative with how you climb on top of a building or whatever.
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Whirling posted:that's nice but also I wish he would stick to one at a time because LANCER's been completely dead in the water and I now am wondering if ICON will follow as well maybe my perception of how tabletop games work is skewed by regularly playing a bunch of stuff from like 1980 but having been out for a couple years and having a pretty active community with a bunch of third-party expansions and stuff doesn't strike me as "dead in the water", that's pretty normal for anything that doesn't revolve around constantly buying playing cards
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the games-as-a-service expectation that new content will constantly be getting added faster than it can possibly be developed and refined sucks. not even just because it sets an unreasonable expectation for anyone who isn't Hasbro or Activision or w/e, but because it's not even really a good thing on its face; past a certain point cramming more poo poo in doesn't even make games better, it just makes balance and niche protection functionally impossible
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:the games-as-a-service expectation that new content will constantly be getting added faster than it can possibly be developed and refined sucks. not even just because it sets an unreasonable expectation for anyone who isn't Hasbro or Activision or w/e, but because it's not even really a good thing on its face; past a certain point cramming more poo poo in doesn't even make games better, it just makes balance and niche protection functionally impossible I dunno, I just want them to finish up their example campaign and maybe add some other conflict zones, no idea where you're getting all that from my post.
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Potato Salad posted:I will be stealing and sharing this with my play group.
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Whirling posted:I dunno, I just want them to finish up their example campaign and maybe add some other conflict zones, no idea where you're getting all that from my post. sorry, didn't really mean you in particular. just a long-running frustration.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:the games-as-a-service expectation that new content will constantly be getting added faster than it can possibly be developed and refined sucks. not even just because it sets an unreasonable expectation for anyone who isn't Hasbro or Activision or w/e, but because it's not even really a good thing on its face; past a certain point cramming more poo poo in doesn't even make games better, it just makes balance and niche protection functionally impossible I agree wholeheartedly. Endgame mentality and the eternal treadmill are plagues that have utterly warped expectations of what a game should be. I think there has been a pushback in recent years, and a returning appreciation for things that conclude, but for the longest time it felt like a cancer growing throughout the gaming industry.
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I’d kill for an Operant artbook and would absolutely support a kickstarter ngl, I want to see so much of the design thoughts, drafts, artworks, etc. from all the series together since I don’t tabletop.
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coolusername posted:I’d kill for an Operant artbook and would absolutely support a kickstarter ngl, I want to see so much of the design thoughts, drafts, artworks, etc. from all the series together since I don’t tabletop. This but with KSBD.
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Twibbit posted:He is already there https://bsky.app/profile/orbitaldropkick.bsky.social thanks! I hadn't searched again recently Anyone else needs an invite one just dropped
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my big mistake is putting my personal projects online because I like sharing them with people but this is also how ksbd started so we've released two lancer books this year I am not certain how this qualifies as dead in the water but you do you
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i wrote a 28 thousand word blades in the dark hack in 9 days this is just how im built, i'm like a shark if i stop swimming i will die
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Operant posted:we've released two lancer books this year I am not certain how this qualifies as dead in the water but you do you Question, was No Room for a Wallflower partially inspired by the Ender's Game trilogy? I can't help but notice the similarities between what happened with the Egregorians and the Buggers.
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Operant posted:i wrote a 28 thousand word blades in the dark hack in 9 days this is just how im built, i'm like a shark if i stop swimming i will die Genuinely curious: Do you have a routine or rituals Or are you the sort that is so explosively full of energy that you just need to pour it into your work as an outlet?
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