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Midjack posted:I'm not going to check but I'm guessing any of the people you just named who are biologically capable of doing so are sporting ridiculous facial hair. Possibly, although I think Warwick and Stelarc are clean-shaven these days and Lepht Anonym was born a woman, with "it" being the preferred pronoun since Anonym declared itself genderless. Edit: one of the names I didn't mention, Tim Cannon, does have this ridiculous goatee in his VICE/Motherboard interview pre- and post-implant surgery for his Circadia biomonitor (maybe  for iPhone-sized implant in the guy's arm.)
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Nessus posted:I think the all consuming desire of a lot of the singulatarians is that, oh please, let the computer god - who will be, strangely, exactly like the Biblical God, but with computers instead of divine power - come before I die, so I never have to. It's very precise in these metaphors. There's a reason why the Singularity is often referred to as "The Rapture Of The Nerds".
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Dec 4, 2015 02:56
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Midjack posted:With Rifts just assume any weapon with no art looks like a Wilk's laser pistol, regardless of what it actually is. Or the Northern Gun ion blaster, which looks like an MP5K done up like Han's blaster from Star Wars.
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Dec 6, 2015 21:32
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That Old Tree posted:While it's already too much, there have "only" been a couple handfuls of C&D's from Palladium as far as I've ever heard. Kevin has said some weird, dumb poo poo about what he thinks copyright law means, usually on ancient threads on his forum. But in recent years he's mellowed/given up/no one gives a poo poo enough to create and support a Palladium fan site big enough for him to notice. It's basically random. There are sites out there that have been up for over a decade. Like many things Palladium, it appears whimsy is a key factor. Aren't we also waiting for an official Savage Worlds adaptation, last I heard? Punting posted:Exceedingly broad archetypes would work fine for Rifts, since most classes already *DO* fall into fairly broad classifications; You have Skilled (Rogue Scientist, Cyberdoc), Augmented (Juicer, Cyborg), Magical (Ley Line Walker, Warlock), Psychic (Mind Melter, Psy-Knight), Vehicle Specialist (Glitter Boys, Giant Robots, etc), and Mutant/D-Bee (Dog Boys, Psi-Stalker). That some playbooks would have crossover can be solved with some Archetype-hybridizing moves. I hate to bring up stillborn projects, but one of my ideas was to come up with a "Not-Rifts" game that did something similar to this, although I actually separated the Glitter Boy from power armored mercs by making them Lost World Paladins and giving them some sort of special weapon, be it something like the Glitter Boy, a super truck-helicopter hybrid (or landmaster or battletruck), a super car, or a special bike. I think one of the abilities I was brainstorming is to sacrifice their chosen steed and be able to rebuild one, find one or regain another one in the next game session, to kinda keep with the theme (especially with RIFTS, where you stumble across Glitter Boys like mad through out game play). Young Freud fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Dec 12, 2015 |
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Dec 12, 2015 05:00
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Nuns with Guns posted:this is amazing because I totally didn't notice this before, but I feel all the profiles should be on display for posterity's sake: Silverwing Ouren is definitely Angel, given that Angel loses his wings at one point and regains them through a bargain with Apocalypse. Thunder Juuto is so Gambit it's not even funny, it's hilarious. Makoto of the Eater Worms is probably based off Maggott, an obscure X-man. I'm guessing the Rikudo Aya is Psylocke, being a quasi-psychic ninja. I'd think that Kanoh Fustatsu is based off Cannonball from the New Mutants and Idaten Ginji is Quicksilver, even with being the son of super-important and bad.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:As if more evidence was needed, the line-up of X-Men that most closely matches the Kuze-Shu is from around Uncanny X-Men #355, since there's only a brief window that both Cannonball and Maggott are both in the book, which dates them to reading it around 1998. Tenra came out in 1997, but the Kuze-Shu were originally from a supplement that dates roughly between then and 2000. So they were not only reading X-Men, but were reading it up-to-date at the time. Would that have included Iceman and Jubilee? I didn't list Hyouki the Ice Demon as Iceman, because it was too obvious, and Shumi Hourin I'd imagine sounds a lot like Jubilee, especially her going toward the younger set. Also, Rei the Shrine Maiden is clearly Jean Grey.
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Terrible Opinions posted:What? Like as some sort of Cthulhutech thing where they bring it up in the fluff all the time, or like FATAL with hilarious eurogamesy rules for mutant rape? Either way it seems like a bad idea for very obvious reason of shedding even a bit of ones cloths in the zone is a very bad idea, and everything is poisonous. What idiocy did the RPG give? The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games always struck me as one of those "man-only" environments, especially given how most of the Zone's population is voluntary to a degree and most of the normal people who lived in the Zone before it expanded either were evacuated or mutated. It's not the place for "girly-girls". A woman stalker is probably going to resemble her male counterparts in more ways than one, like Calamity Jane in "Deadwood", and recognizable women in the Zone would be rare as unicorns, such as a female scientist or a prostitute in 100 Rads (and even they would probably get worn out after awhile, also like in "Deadwood"). If there's any rape, it would likely be homo-rape given that the whole place is like a giant prison once you get past the barricades. As well, there would probably be a lot of male-on-male hooking up, since male-exclusive environments tend to make for a lot of "gay for the stay/range" situations
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Dec 19, 2015 21:57
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theironjef posted:Wick: "Who's holding the light?" Don't forget Half-Orcs and Drow. It also depends if it's D&D or Pathfinder. Apparently, Orcs in Pathfinder and Open D20 SRD use Darkvision, but Orcs in D&D editions only have Low-Light, meaning that they're likely holding their own lights in a dungeon. Edit: thinking about Wick's novella, if that's actually something that happened in a real-life gaming party, then the solution to get the wealthy courtesan back into party is a fall from grace, either by GM fiat or through player shenanigans. Getting leaked to the king's guards that popular upcoming courtesan was a foreign spy in the court and that the fortune she made came from being bankrolled through blackmail and extortion would suddenly kill her business, get her on the run fast and give her incentive to get back into dungeon delving real quick. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Dec 22, 2015 |
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Kavak posted:In my experience, most PC's are going to use both hands for weaponry, shields, or spellcasting, so either someone is designated torchbearer beforehand or the wizard or whatever casts Light. It's also not like if I drop my torch, it's going to instantly go out. It might get knocked away or stomped out in a fight, but it's going to last for awhile on the ground. You can even stake a torch into the ground. In addition, I pretty sure you can hold a shield and a light source in the same hand, especially if you're not actually holding the shield but have it strapped to the arm, there was even shields that were purposely build for this for night watch duties
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Falconier111 posted:
The other thing about creative work is that, especially if you're formally taught in a college or art school, you get used to the concept of peer critique. It doesn't matter if it's writing, fine art, video game development, etc., you put your rough work out to show and your peers disassemble it in front of you to see how it works for them, what needs improvement, and where it doesn't work. It's a humbling experience to have a good chunk of your life that is a creative project destroyed so that you can take those pieces that did survive and rebuild them into a better work. That's what makes Wick's complaint about "no one should review his masterworks". It's clear that he's probably either in an echo chamber of cowed whipped dogs or sycophants and that whenever he hears anything outside that bubble. Most professional reviewers are or were artists themselves, famously Roger Ebert doing screenwriting on a couple of Russ Meyer's movies. Even the "review as critique" works with Ebert, considering the famous scuffle between him and Vincent Gallo over The Brown Bunny, where Gallo actually went back, reedited the film down, and Ebert gave it another pass and gave it a "thumbs up" for the effort in reworking the movie. Gallo now actually hates The Brown Bunny, being self-indulgent and still being too green in his sophomore film. Point said, if you want to claim being a creative, then you have to accept critique and review as part of the natural process of the creation process.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Hahaha, true to steampunk form that's a loving repainted Nerf gun. I'm glad that I wasn't the only one to not notice that.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:John has a friend named Chris. Chris has a sixteen year-old daughter. Daughter is in a GURPS high fantasy game dad runs. Dad lets his daughter's character have a magic stone that has her regenerate lodged in her heart. Also, she feels no pain because of that. Dad is bugged that now his daughter charges heedlessly into battle in a game that doesn't generally reward that. But John has a solution for Chris. Why give her such an artifact in the first place? Didn't they know that's basically going to create Wolverine, and Wolverine does what Wolverine does, and that's charge heedlessly into battle because nothing can really kill him and if it does impair him, he'll be back up by the end of the comic? If he wanted to her to be more cautious, then don't give that poo poo to her in the first place. I'm not even going to touch on the other stuff except that it's goddamn creepy for them to torture their kids like that.
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unseenlibrarian posted:City with a single letter name is also a thing in the One Punch Man series; Saitama lives in City Z (Which is basically a burned out shell because of how many monsters show up there), while City A is where the Hero Association HQ is based. A couple others get destroyed in the early issues. It's the same rationale why "199X" shows up in a lot of Japanese media. It provides a generic frame of reference, but also allows for it to be differentiated and specified if needed. Alien Rope Burn posted:Play Dirty 2: Even Dirtier Part 9: "I said, 'Go on. Kill them. They’re worth 100 XP each.'" This is also before The Hobbit films made dwarves hot. Alien Rope Burn posted:The idea of having more nuanced fantasy races isn't terribly new. It goes back to Trollpak for Runequest. Or Orcs of Thar in Dungeons & Dragons. Even new material like Number Appearing for Dungeon World or (noted goon game) Fellowship. I remember a similar screed to Wick's in GURPS Fantasy, though at mercifully shorter length. This is why when Wick presents it as a shocking turn, I sigh. My last fantasy game had people playing giants and dragons and shadowfolk. I even had a plot where oppressed giants struggled to improve their borough peacefully in the face of prejudice and poverty. A bugbear was one of the most memorable PCs I ever got to see in a D&D game. This is not a revelation. This is a screed. Greg Costikyan brought this up in the "monster manual" section for Violence: The RPG. In between "Bin Laden Cell", "Mom With Small Children" and "The Pigs", Costikyan drops this... quote:Now—before you put this away, either “hurr hurr”ing like an rear end in a top hat, or feeling vaguely disturbed, I want to ask you a question. That orc—you know, the orc in that room in the dungeon, you open the door, there’s an orc there. He looks up, a bunch of heavily armed human motherfuckers are charging into the room waving weapons. What’s he supposed to do? Smile broadly and say “Hey, mi casa es su casa, amigos!”? No, he whimpers with fear, pulls out his pigsticker, and prepares to meet his doom. I wanna know about his childhood. Are you telling me he doesn’t have friends who are going to miss him? That he didn’t have hopes and fears and aspirations of his own? That you aren’t a bunch of loving degraded monsters for wasting him without a second thought? You’re playing a loving role, okay, you’re supposed to act like a real character in this world. And yet you saunter around, killing intelligent creatures like they’re just another widget, a bunch of pixels to blow away, a mechanism for obtaining experience points and treasure. That isn’t roleplaying. Not as I understand it. This was 1999. Also, Wick's never played Shadowrun, where the whole things is predicated on racial injustice because of magic has returned and brought back the creatures of myth back with it, with some people either giving birth or spontaneously becoming fantasy creatures.
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So where's the Overmind that thinks exterminating humanity isn't the problem, it's exterminating humanity's baser impluses that is? It doesn't seem to make much sense if Zone Berlin is reintroducing extinct species while leaving out humans from that environmental reintroduction. Seriously, an "Appleseed" Olympus analog, with genetically-modified and mentally-conditioned "perfect" humans maintain harmony, seems like it would be a natural fit and be creepy for all the right reasons. Or maybe even a "Battle Angel Alita" Zalem/Tiphares hivemind or maybe even a merging of the two.
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Evil Mastermind posted:There's always a downside, though, and the public perception of the Yakuza has gone down post-Invasion. You see, back I love how something like twenty-thirty years can change. A lot of this is going off the whole "benevolent fraternal organization" hype the Yakuza themselves believe, but when they're talking about "changes", they're kinda taking that from Black Rain and the difference between the old leadership and the newer guys like Sato, but I almost instantly went to Felipe Smith's "Peepo Choo" and the young Yakuza thug who learned all he knew about being a mobster from watching American "gangsta" films, TV, and rap videos. The Lone Badger posted:This makes no sense. So he owns a huge pile of Nuyen / other Earth currency - if he abandons Earth then he also abandons this currency. To actually keep the profit he'd need to be shipping stuff back to his home reality that he can keep. They are shipping stuff back home or using it to fuel other ventures. Both Nile Empire and Tharkold splatbooks go into that there's more to raiding another cosm than just getting Possibility Energy, there's also natural resources. You literally have an Earth's worth of petroleum, precious metals, fissionable materials, outsourced workforce, etc. With Kanawa, each cosm raided ensures continuous growth and unlimited profits. There's actually a rather good William Gibson story called "Mozart In Mirrorshades", where someone discovers a way to open time portals into the past, but it turns out that they're not "our time" but an alternate universe created the instant the time portal entered into their timeline and branched it. The whole story is like an allegory for globalization and the third world, because what happens is a bunch of corporations start "mining" the past for natural resources, leaving the timeline's inhabitants with an exhausted husk of a planet. And, because it's "our" past, they can min-max geopolitical relationships ahead of time and neutralize any unruly segments (like round up the leaders of the French Revolution and prevent it from happening, because King Louis would play ball better with our corporate chrono-conquistadors). And, if an uprising breaks out, they can pull from any number of hardcore shitkickers from the past, give them modern weapons, and put it down.
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PurpleXVI posted:Oh no! They actually "explain" that in the fluff. Apparently it was an experiment to see whether ears helped sharks hear better... but it didn't, so they didn't bother giving them to any of the other fish. They're just ripping off Verg from Blue Submarine No. 6...  But he had ears because he was some sort of shark-hyena-human hybrid or something. Kurieg posted:It's been done, the wizards won. TBF, "Sicarius" is also the Latin term for assassin, murderer, or killer. Well, one of them. There's a movie that came out last year that used the Spanish evolution of the word as it's title, so I'm thinking that it's less some obscure anti-Semitic phrasing and simply that they're pulling it from the Latin and an "-us" ending word sounds more taxonomical than "percussor" and "interfector". Communist Zombie posted:Looking at the menu it seems some of the items are 5 and 6 dimensional quarter pounders, for something around 15.XX credits. Which might be a steal? Assuming theyre not some lovely 'novelty' burger to scam tourists with. It's very likely they wanted to hide that because this is a "serious" game for furries.
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I don't want to know how much waste that webbing where the legs merge collects if she has to use the restroom. Also, a gap like that is in no way aquadynamic. Especially with how it's webbed, it's going to create a pocket that creates a lot of drag.
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