TG July Chat Thread: Now with 20% less uncanny valley

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Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Captain Foo posted:

In conclusion don't play anime games

It's amazing how terrible all teen anime games are and Monsterhearts just kind of sits there being boss as hell. It's probably the PbtA.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2014 21:04

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:11

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Isn't that half the Monsterhearts games that got played in the Game Room?

# ¿ Jul 1, 2014 21:07

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

I'm officially recanting my position because Teenagers from Outer Space was indeed boss as hell.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2014 21:24

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

New Demon says no, no it does not.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2014 21:39

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Have you guys considered watching good anime instead?

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 02:26

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

If I have to repeat that Space Pirate Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 are the best animes in every monthly thread I will.

Technically the best anime is Legend of Galactic Heroes but you can't convince anyone to watch that much anime in one go.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 03:03

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Kill la Kill mentioned, terminate all anime chat because it won't be getting any better.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 06:39

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Somewhere between GSS and Ryuutama lies the correct chill frequency for Mushi-shi.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 12:15

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Davin Valkri posted:

Hahahaha, look who's talking, Mr. "Anime x Lovecraft" Aussie.

Seriously, though, better anime games and bishonen swordsmen holding roses than the "Everything is grimdark and groggy and lame" thing that some of those games on F&F go for.

Wooooosh.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 17:16

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Porn mogul turned grognard lord.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2014 19:16

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Cyphoderus posted:

Off the top of my head: Literature has Lovecraft. Music has Wagner. Even chess has Bobby Fischer. Those are all horrible, toxic human beings that are legitimized on a much bigger scale than what we have going on here (that Looking for Bobby Fischer movie fails to mention even once that the guy was a loving anti-semite). Don't start going "gently caress this hobby" just yet; this kind of situation is something that people have to deal with in every area of human achievement.

The problem with that is this poo poo is endemic to the drat hobby. For every Zak S. there's a thousand people churning content for Grogs.txt, for every Pundit a dozen dudes threatening legal action and private investigators for not putting out a kickstarter fast enough. It's a death by a thousand harassments on twitter.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2014 03:15

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Bucnasti posted:

But you also have to remember that for every shitheel that makes noise on the internet there's ten perfectly rational people who are happy and have better things to do than post on crappy little websites.

Most of them have better things to do than elfgames as well.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2014 03:19

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Or you make small print RPGs.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2014 03:44

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

It's a well known fact that if you ignore harassers for seven days and seven nights they turn into mist and blow away in the morning breeze.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2014 10:23

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Bucnasti posted:

Fine, knock yourselves out, have fun with your boycott or whatever you plan to do, please give my regard to Barbara Streisand when you're all done.

Pictures of a house, a sustained campaign of harassment. Tomayto, Tomahto am I right fellas.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2014 11:22

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

HoL.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2014 02:46

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

octaNe, too.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2014 02:53

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Captain Foo posted:

Neon, bucnasti, cyphoderous, and gnoll know what is up. Whoever said that gnoll's position was pushing poo poo onto other people was being disingenuous as hell. Play games and make people understand that games are fun! When they run across shitheads, they'll react appropriately. And no, you don't get decide what that is. The gaming community you're a part of does.

Yeah but the gaming community is poo poo? If the opinion of the community as a whole gets to decide what is a good or right reaction I'm done gaming because I'm being told loud and clear that they don't want me around.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2014 06:45

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

GURPS does seem like a game you gotta prepare for, though. All those bits.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2014 07:38

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Tollymain posted:

what would the ideal system be for running kill six billion demons

Reskin octaNe.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2014 18:40

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

The true problem is that people keep taking this guy who takes pains to harass people, not just on the internet but in actual real life, too seriously. Cool, cool.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2014 01:34

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

There is an appeal of a facist sort to have complete control of some aspect of another human being's reality.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 19:07

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Sionak posted:

I really don't want to read his blog, but does the guy actually have any players who enjoy that style? Or is he entirely a theory-GM?

He lives in South America, I think? Maybe Paraguay? Apparently his usual group was basically introduced to roleplaying through him so they probably don't have much experience with swine games.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 19:32

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Also, for the non-PnP TG crowd, they're kickstarting a Mouse Guard board game. Has Luke Crane done any other board game work?

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 19:57

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Umberto Eco has a great essay about how all totalitarian thought relies on the paradox that an enemy must be a pervasive and potent threat and yet easily beatable by real people doing The Right Thing.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 22:35

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Ettin posted:

I would pay Fantasy loving Vietnam World.

Isn't there already a PbtA loving Vietnam game?

# ¿ Jul 9, 2014 10:52

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Ewen Cluney posted:

So like Nathan Paletta's World Wide Wrestling?

Welp, time to get a crew together.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2014 14:25

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

A Catastrophe posted:

Disappointed that y'all didn't mention the most glorious of the ttrpg-to-crpg career paths, that of Mister Chris Avellone.\

Warren Spector made better games both for the table top and the vidcon though?

# ¿ Jul 10, 2014 23:24

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Anybody know of a good game for playing doctors in a hospital that isn't Fiasco?

# ¿ Jul 12, 2014 00:08

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Running Darkplace in anything but Fiasco seems against the spirit of it.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2014 00:13

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

TurninTrix posted:

One of the sample scenarios in the Cortex Plus Hacker's guide is basically that, though a bit sparse on the details. (Cortex+ is a good game, right?)

Cortex+ is possibly the BEST game.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2014 00:35

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Gau posted:

Now I totally want to play a D&D (Dungeon Fantasy, whatever) campaign where you're clerics trying to heal the grotesque and bizarre wounds suffered by adventurers in their random, meaningless encounters with the enemy.

My original idea was to have players play doctors and clerics in a fantasy metropolitan hospital and also the adventurers who go out and get the obscure herbs and magical bear asses that allow modern magic medicine to happen.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2014 03:42

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

General Ironicus posted:

I didn't even use his name. Maybe he was searching for the more popularly linked articles? I don't know. But he's replying to me about negotiating truces and asking for specific grievances. This is suddenly very tiring.

Just call him a fucker over and over until his argumentometer ticks over.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2014 04:29

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Rulebook Heavily posted:

I'm not sure how he keeps a column at the Escapist like this. The rest of the site mustn't have noticed him yet.

Pretty sure the Escapist is just as groggy as Zak, sadly.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2014 05:32

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Asymmetrikon posted:

You know drat well that that's not going to do anything though; he's just gonna want to argue about the definition of 'harassment' so that his behavior couldn't possibly be classified as such.

But then, then you get to tell him No.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2014 19:09

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Wasn't there a Fate Core version of Kerberos Club coming out soon?

# ¿ Jul 13, 2014 05:39

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Zereth posted:

Make the choices Bad Choice, Bad Choice, and Kill Everyone? (last one is probably also a bad choice)

Mega Facism, No Rulz, Pass The Buck, Comedy Fourth Option. SMT Tradition.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 09:07

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Zereth posted:

I said "probably". And this was about D&D, not real life.

I thought it was usually Mega Facism, ANARCHY IN THE UKEVERYWHERE, and I Don't Like Either Of Those Options So It's MURDER TIME

Although SMT3 had like seven weird options including quintupling down on MURDER TIME.

Generally the 'Neutral' option is kill 6 billion demon random encounters and make all the buggaboos go away without firmly engaging with whatever moral quandaries caused demons to show up in the first place, thereby leaving the chance of what hath been wrought being wrought anew. This is still the superior option always because choosing a side is always a losing move unless you post in Let's Play too much.

SMT 3 had an optional Mom's Basement path, and a double optional Break Heaven's Gate Hail Satan path.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 09:20

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Ratpick posted:

Fake edit: Having typed all that, I'm starting to feel like some bizarre tradgames version of that guy in the Senran Kagura thread constantly defending his anime titty ninja game as having a really deep plot and the fanservice being completely inconsequential to his liking the game.

No, you're using logic and not calling women whores while shrugging and going "MY EXPERIENCE IS" so you're lightyears away from Dark_Tizimice.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 23:24

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:11

Mr. Maltose: Feb 16, 2011; The Guffless Girlverine

Fuego Fish posted:

More like Dork_Titsanime, if you wanna go the full extra mile.

He's not a dork, he's a fucker. Big difference.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 23:40

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