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Exit Strategy posted:The best thing to do with a group like that? Run a combat-free campaign. Don't even give your NPCs stat blocks. Or find a copy of The Apocalypse Stone. Its designed for that poo poo. Even if you somehow beat the Beholders, Dragons, the Devil and a loving Tarrasque, the multiverse gets destroyed. Problem solved
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The whole 'friends don't really count if its only online' really shows Clines age, the idea that its only physical meetings that matter. For kids raised on a VR sandbox that is apparently as immersive as real life, it makes little sense. Even with text and maybe voip, myself and mates have made long lasting friendships, regardless of geography. Some I've since met which was more of a milestone, others I still haven't and have no feelings of lessening the connection. Its the kind of thing a paternal figure would say, not one half of said relationship. As for Wades 'character', lets go Plinkett on him- RLM posted:You must describe the character without mentioning: Here goes... ________ __________ ________ _________ He's an arsehole ___ ________ ______ __________ ___________ _____ _______ _________ __________ ______________ ______________
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Ccs posted:My favorite stupid thing about this book is that there is still school bullying even though users have the option of block other users. So the nerds are just forgetting that handy feature when their avatars are getting stuffed in lockers. The PvP restriction only stops physical harm. Mental and psychological harm, however...
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Mar 20, 2018 22:04
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SerialKilldeer posted:Cline has a superficial admiration of great scientists but is totally ignorant of their actual accomplishments? Fixed that for ya
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Mar 22, 2018 05:23
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Aren't Serenity and Bebop about the same size? Why wouldn't he have ample hangar space. On every level of the  spectrum, this book annoys me
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Mar 24, 2018 02:05
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Mel Mudkiper posted:so been doing some looking into Armada and it actually makes RPO look competent by comparison  I nodded. Not in agreement, but simply to indicate that I understood the reference.
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Deptfordx posted:Just looked at the Wikipedia plot summary for Armada, and I'm not sure which it's ripping of more, The Last Starfighter or Enders Game. Enders Last Guardian of the Baby Starfighter Game Driver Galaxy, Vol. 2
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Mar 26, 2018 10:22
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My disgust for the 'I can use guns in VR therefore real life ones are easy' line is only reduced because Cline had a reference in that last section that I understood, without him outright explaining it. More drops like Harry Tuttle, less 'a Firefly ship from Firefly which starred a Firefly' anvils.
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Mar 27, 2018 02:08
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Deptfordx posted:Wait. So anyone can email every other person on the future internet. How fortunate nobody has ever attempted to exploit this ability for financial gain/their own amusement leading to it's removal. They use the bulk spam filters Wade obviously used for his several million emails when he got famous. So obviously only a few lonely housewives will read it before sharing it on OASISbook with Minion pictures, and no one else
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Mar 27, 2018 09:57
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:It also annoys me that this is being played during the fight and not lets say the opening to Beast King GoLion, or something else thematically appropriate. I like AC/DC. It's mandatory for anyone who is an Australian citizen. I also really like Dirty Deeds. It should never be used as an arming up song. All I can think of is when Avengers used Shoot to Thrill, which did fit the scene. Though the fact that a song about a guy who will do anal sex for money being Wades battle music amuses me slightly.
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Apr 2, 2018 16:38
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Sperglord Actual posted:Did anyone pick BattleTech? Because if not, that's just Of course not, it was a 90s cartoon so was outside of the books frame of reference 
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Apr 4, 2018 06:26
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Sperglord Actual posted:Is this a joke? I really hope this is a joke. Considering Cline treated Tomb of Horrors as some obscure tabletop supplement, I can see how his only possible exposure to Battletech involved Adam 'MY HOME PLANET' Steiner, never knowing the game exists (except for Mechwarrior, and then only because of huge MW2 was)
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Apr 4, 2018 08:36
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Sperglord Actual posted:Cheap Inner Sphere mechs. Although it would mean they square off with some try hard Clanners... 'The walking tanks formed up into a loose formation, two sets of five, while an eleventh Battlemech stood a hundred metres out front. The squat chicken-legged war machine glistened in bright crimson, with a snarling wolfs head painted on each of the boxy missile launchers mounted above its dropping gun arms. "I am Vladimir Adamska Kerensky, Khan of Clan Wolf. I bid my Timberwolf and command binary to this Trial. With what forces do you wish" His transmission cut off as a flying pink tavern slammed into his Battlemech, crushing it totally.' I lost track, were there any H2G2 references at all? I swear 'Don't Panic' showed up somewhere.
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Samizdata posted:Or it would be time-apropos for some of the Goonters to show up as a WAAAGH! wif 'Ard Boys, Mega-Armored Nobz, and a bunch a Shoota Boyz to add dakka to da stupid pinkskinz! I just want ALL the droptroops raining from on high during the fight Colonial Marines, ODSTs, Elysian Droptroops, Space Marines, Roughnecks, GDI Shock Infantry. As soon as the shield is down, they're hammering on the castle and getting killed off by the dozens as the main characters fight to them.
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Apr 6, 2018 09:08
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Choco1980 posted:Are...are those words, or are you having a stroke? The Ork language makes heavy use of blows to the skull. That's also the recommended method to prepare yourself before you dive into Warhammer lore.
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Apr 6, 2018 11:16
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Sperglord Actual posted:Please tell me it sounds authentic. "I like to keep this for close encounters' she sighed as she drew her Lancer
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Apr 8, 2018 09:54
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chitoryu12 posted:If you want a reference that not everyone would get, during his intro scene Aech is seen dual-wielding the rail guns from Eraser and Art3mis may use the Lawgiver II from the 1995 Judge Dredd. Wade uses a rocket launcher in the final battle that I swear I recognize, but I'm not entirely sure what it is. Might have been from Halo? I know Aech uses an MA5B before getting the rail guns. Had a dig for screengrabs and yep- its the twin tube SPNKr launcher he's using.
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Apr 9, 2018 01:47
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Testekill posted:There was actually a particularly painful reference when Wade was listing off all the poo poo that he (and of course Cline) likes and he just randomly drops Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil into it. That actually made me hyper focus on that reference because there's no loving way that he knows what that song is all about let alone any of their discography. At the very least he could have made a joke about the frontman being a poo poo politician but nope. This. Is there any relevance to a song about forced relocation of natives in order to do nuclear weapon testing, to anything in this book? Also, Blue Sky Mine is their best song, Read About It a close second I was as confused by this as the live action Death Note having loving Australian Crawl in the intro.
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loquacius posted:Also: the Simpsons Wade probably read that Halliday did watch some Simpsons at some point, so obviously you had to watch all of it. Which I assume means all 45 seasons, to burn away entire years of his life.
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" but that doesn't work because he talks about knowing Springfield better than he knows his hometown and I don't think they even went outside much in the Tracey Ullman shorts sooo