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Bedlamdan posted:ok, yeah, you got me, Doof Warrior alone justified the entire ticket price. Never have I seen a person more at peace with the universe and sure of their purpose in it than the Coma-Doof Warrior. 
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Bedlamdan posted:man, I was interested in Fury Road, but now that I realize it has some deeply problematic tropes I feel safe in my decision to just ignore it completely and feel contempt for any who do not follow suit. see I WAS INTERESTED IN FURY ROAD TOO but then paul blart: flesh mall happened and it's like god why would you see any other movie, ever like both as a nuanced exploration of the human condition and a harrowing post-apocalyptic thrill ride it just blows fury road out of the water
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Ningyou posted:see I WAS INTERESTED IN FURY ROAD TOO but then paul blart: flesh mall happened and it's like god why would you see any other movie, ever Wow! Parr Barr sounds like a truly inclusive thrill ride, from start to finish!
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Bedlamdan posted:Wow! Parr Barr sounds like a truly inclusive thrill ride, from start to finish! like, a lot of it's subtext? but i'm pretty sure the writhing keening desert of sentient skin that was once a macy's full of surly teens midway through the movie had The Genders
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"That's quite the show, what do you call it?" "Paul Blart Mall Cop!"
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I liked Fury Road but that c/p tumblr post is wrong because at least a couple of those old ladies who killed men survived, also it was pretty cool how the old ladies did their own stunts
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This is topical http://www.amazon.com/Wilton-710-55...lver+color+mist
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Been awhile since I was in this sub forum, so if I missed a thread for random flavor ideas that's on me. Basically I came up with a potentially interesting spin on the Lich. Instead of putting their soul into a physical phylactery, they transmogrified it into an ineffable Geas. You have to solve a puzzle to kill them permanently, but instead of destroying the correct piece of gaudy jewelry it can be something like "how do I make her laugh?" or "can I trick him into aiding an elf in need?"
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Re:: Fury Road, I saw it with three rather feminist women, all of whom loved it. So I guess your mileage will vary!
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Buddy of mine took his wife to see Fury Road on their 5 year anniversary. They loved it.
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HitTheTargets posted:Been awhile since I was in this sub forum, so if I missed a thread for random flavor ideas that's on me. That's pretty good.
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This Fury Road thing is about the first time I've seen something described 100% honestly and mistook it for wild, impossible hype. If anything I was undersold on it. I really want either Broken World or Apocalypse World 2e to appear before me because I have some important poo poo to do with them.  HitTheTargets posted:Been awhile since I was in this sub forum, so if I missed a thread for random flavor ideas that's on me. It appears I have some other important poo poo to do like steal the hell out of this idea.
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HitTheTargets posted:Been awhile since I was in this sub forum, so if I missed a thread for random flavor ideas that's on me. I like it. Gives it a nice feeling, almost fairy tale-ish.
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quote:Did you read through Katanas & Trenchcoats, Episode 1: Welcome to Darkest Vancouver and think to yourself “Yeah, but playing Immortals is soooo ’90s. I need something that speaks to the here and now.”
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HitTheTargets posted:Been awhile since I was in this sub forum, so if I missed a thread for random flavor ideas that's on me. Wouldn't that make the Lich even more paranoid and likely to use every way possible to avoid Geas worse than the assholes who hide their phylactery on the negative energy plane or w/e.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Wouldn't that make the Lich even more paranoid and likely to use every way possible to avoid Geas worse than the assholes who hide their phylactery on the negative energy plane or w/e. Sounds like part of the hook to me. A lich who's trained herself to never find anything funny, or has attempted genocide on elves.
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Lightning Lord posted:Sounds like part of the hook to me. A lich who's trained herself to never find anything funny, or has attempted genocide on elves. More interesting if it requires adding a new geas every so often to maintain the effect, and the puzzle becomes finding out what the conditions are and then finding a way to trap the lich into fulfilling them, Cu Chulainn style.
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NinjaDebugger posted:More interesting if it requires adding a new geas every so often to maintain the effect, and the puzzle becomes finding out what the conditions are and then finding a way to trap the lich into fulfilling them, Cu Chulainn style. This idea just keeps getting better.
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Kung Fury's out: http://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg
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Wasn't there a Russian folklore wizard who hid his death inside his daughter's tears and then froze her heart so she didn't have emotions? Google isn't helping me out but I have vague memories reading a story like that as a child.
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PublicOpinion posted:Wasn't there a Russian folklore wizard who hid his death inside his daughter's tears and then froze her heart so she didn't have emotions? Google isn't helping me out but I have vague memories reading a story like that as a child. Koschei the Deathless. One of the prototypes for the modern lich, along with things like Clark Ashton Smith's Empire of the Necromancers stories. Also a rad Hellboy villain.
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I only know Koschei who according to legend has hidden his soul in a needle inside of an egg in a duck that's in a hare which itself is buried in a chest on an island. You open the chest, the hare gets away, you catch it and cut it open, the duck flies off. Always did think that would make a good D&D adventure. Kung Fury's fantastically designed and well executed but the writing can't keep up. If I was a cynic I'd suspect some enterprising group of special effects artists, set/costume designers and composers got together and successfully kickstarted a demo reel.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Kung Fury's fantastically designed and well executed but the writing can't keep up. If I was a cynic I'd suspect some enterprising group of special effects artists, set/costume designers and composers got together and successfully kickstarted a demo reel. Yeah, having watched it it was good mindless fun but nothing to write home about. The soundtrack and visuals were great though. Also, "No dinosaurs were extinct in the making of this movie."
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It's trying to be a mix of Naked Gun, Axe Cop and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, but without the writing chops to pull it off. Never quite finds the balance between homage and spoof, either. Still fun and if they got a good writer on board who introduced some consistency, this could be a really fantastic show. Do check out Darkplace if you're into this sort of faux-retro thing, it doesn't have the neon but it's a great take on low-budget 80's TV. e: Kung Fury also seems like it's confusing the 80s with the 90s in places, that Nazi fight scene had a lot of moves straight from Mortal Kombat. My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 10:36 on May 29, 2015 |
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My Lovely Horse posted:It's trying to be a mix of Naked Gun, Axe Cop and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, but without the writing chops to pull it off. Never quite finds the balance between homage and spoof, either. Still fun and if they got a good writer on board who introduced some consistency, this could be a really fantastic show. Yeah, thinking about it now, there was simply too much going on: there was good stuff in here for two separate short films, but bashed together they didn't quite mesh: Kung Fury's trip to the Viking Age was mostly irrelevant to the narrative because not much actually happened there. They should've focused on the kung-fu cop in a retrofuturistic city ruled by crime angle, and made a separate Viking babes with machine guns fighting laser dinosaurs film.
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paradoxGentleman posted:It was linked by Bogleech, a person whose art and worldbuilding style I very much enjoy, whose principles I generally agree with but whose opinions and methods sometime take me aback. It was apparently written by his girlfriend, who he agrees with. I still haven't watched the movie so I can't form an opinion as of right now, but I was just so surprised that it could give two so very different impressions on people, even by Internet standards. I consider Bogleech a friend, but yeah occasionally he does have an opinion I don't fully agree with(he has a surprising tendency to be very Black & White when it comes to Real World Issues), although I haven't seen Fury Road yet so I can't properly judge his or his girlfriend's opinions about it, but it's just an opinion about a movie so we shouldn't make a big deal about it to bring things back to more appropriate TG topics, everyone here who hasn't acquainted themselves with Bogleech's Mon Battling setting Mortasheen really should as it's an amazingly creative setting, also it's going to have an official RPG released sometime in the relatively near future(hopefully, it's suffered from some really nasty delays, as it was originally supposed to come out in 2012) 
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is there a particular drawback to using spindown dice or barrel dice? Spindown dice allow you the deft of hand to cheat rolls, since all of the good numbers are on one half.
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PublicOpinion posted:Wasn't there a Russian folklore wizard who hid his death inside his daughter's tears and then froze her heart so she didn't have emotions? Google isn't helping me out but I have vague memories reading a story like that as a child.
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Ratpick posted:Kung Fury's trip to the Viking Age was mostly irrelevant to the narrative because not much actually happened there. Although on the other hand, if you see it not as a standalone story but as a pilot for a series, it works as a character introduction, cause I drat sure would watch a show where the central cast was Kung Fu Cop, Hackerman and the Time-Travelling Viking Ladies. I think given where I'm posting any of us would.
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Kung Fury's dire. Way too tryhardy and oblivious to the fact that what made 80s b-movies work was their complete sincerity. It's just a cynical pile of references with terrible writing and utterly abysmal camerawork.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Yeah they introduced the viking girls and then clearly didn't know what to do with them once they'd checked off the "have viking girls" item. (I apologize for the deja vu if you're also following the gif thread.) It's not even "we need to have some girls", it's "we need to have another cliche". Thor talking about his pecs and saying, "Thanks Bro," with utter sincerity and appreciation with his Swedish accent made that whole segment worth it.
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I saw Kung Fury last night and was just like, hey, it's Feng Shui the movie. Not as appealing as Danger 5, though.
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Halloween Jack posted:Not as appealing as Danger 5, though. 
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is there a particular drawback to using spindown dice or barrel dice?
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is there a particular drawback to using spindown dice or barrel dice? Barrel dice are fine but the d20's have to be bigger than the ones I got because they are both hard to read and roll for a really long time. Also, I have a hard time determining what each one is but other than that they are normal dice. Illvillainy posted:Kung Fury's dire. Way too tryhardy and oblivious to the fact that what made 80s b-movies work was their complete sincerity. It's just a cynical pile of references with terrible writing and utterly abysmal camerawork.
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MadScientistWorking posted:Yeah its next to impossible to replicate that complete sincerity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T4-N1jRuQA
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My Lovely Horse posted:Yo seriously: Darkplace. I hate that we're never going to get the complete series on DVD here in the States because the commentaries and extras are all done in-character. They even filmed special "deleted scenes" and outakes. e: Darkplace fans should also check out The Reprisalizer, which is done by the same people.
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