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My all-time favourite movie.
Same Here!
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My all-time favourite movie.
Also same.Same Here!
The only films I own on hardcopy are Conan the Barbarian, Blade Runner, and Brazil. I absolutely loved how the same song was used in different ways to convey mood and atmosphere while maintaining a certain continuity that never got tedious. That's one detail of many that make Brazil awesome and I'm sure one of the Pub's film or literature gurus could explain why this film is a masterpiece better than I.My all-time favourite movie.
It has a happy ending.
Really.
I must have typed out and deleted five or six posts to respond to this thread.
I'll just say this. If anybody here needs to talk about anything, my door is open. I might not be able to tell you what you want to hear, I might not be able to tell you everything that's on my mind that you might want to know, but I will lend you my ears. If you need somebody to talk to, send me a PM. I was again reminded recently that just talking to somebody, anybody, when you are stressed out is better than keeping it inside. And sometimes you don't necessarily want to talk to your family about it, for whatever reason. I get it. The door is open if you need it.
I swear to god everytime I log on to this forum I learn about some new niche roleplaying game that makes me ask "Why did someone make this?"You say that now, but wait until Voros releases his Canucksploitation Lesibisnakes hack.
Join the Facebook dead games group. I'm a decent collector of old and odd RPGs and I'm amazed at how many I've seen there that I've never heard of before.I swear to god everytime I log on to this forum I learn about some new niche roleplaying game that makes me ask "Why did someone make this?"
I assume you mention such games to contrast them with those filling a universal well recognised need like "A Cozy Den" above.I swear to god everytime I log on to this forum I learn about some new niche roleplaying game that makes me ask "Why did someone make this?"
I assume you mention such games to contrast them with those filling a universal well recognised need like "A Cozy Den" above.
Ah cool! Jokes aside it would be interesting to see such a different type of game analysed, especially the PbtA deconstruction part which I'd be interested to see what they mean. It's POD now I noticed.I got the pdf of Cozy Den and will start a review thread on it but first I gotta do reviews on the Christian fantasy rpg Dragonraid and Smallville which Dumarest was kind enough to send me.
The first time I heard about it I was sure it was a joke about what indie RPG's are like.I swear to god everytime I log on to this forum I learn about some new niche roleplaying game that makes me ask "Why did someone make this?"
I own all the same movies!The only films I own on hardcopy are Conan the Barbarian, Blade Runner, and Brazil.
Curious about how it plays, but the reality could never live up to my expectations. Like FATAL. In my imagination it's an archetypal bad/insane RPG, a pen-and-paper Lament Configuration. In play, it would probably just be boring.I swear to god everytime I log on to this forum I learn about some new niche roleplaying game that makes me ask "Why did someone make this?"
I've read it all. Don't waste your time - it's the textual equivalent of yelling "CUNT!" in an empty room and preening about how offensive you are.Curious about how it plays, but the reality could never live up to my expectations. Like FATAL. In my imagination it's an archetypal bad/insane RPG, a pen-and-paper Lament Configuration. In play, it would probably just be boring.
Well, this is a sorry state of affairs. Someone makes an unsubstantiated claim instead of reporting a post and pages later the fallout might lead to 2 posters leaving. Woot.
It's not even that good. It's an adolescent power fantasy filled with boobs, dicks and anal rape.I've read it all. Don't waste your time - it's the textual equivalent of yelling "CUNT!" in an empty room and preening about how offensive you are.
Yeah, the thing with FATAL is it manages to make being offensive really really boring.It's not even that good. It's an adolescent power fantasy filled with boobs, dicks and anal rape.
Behind the system that isn't just complicated, it's really unworkable, and once you get past the nipple size charts and anal circumference rolls, is a fairly intriguing world that looks like Rpme meets Middle Earth.
But the rest of the text comes over as being written by a 14 year old who wonders why nobody likes his work of genius.
TristramEvans fumbled the initial handling.
T The Butcher pulled the trigger a little quick on a post.
noman got struck a tad too close to home for essentially being right.
There’s no need for anyone to leave over this. Explanations have been given, apologies have been offered. Everyone needs to cool down and chill out.
The Pub is trying to be a No Politics island in a stormy sea where politics, tribalism, and culture war are demanding that everyone take a side, on Everything, and come out swinging, all in the middle of a Global Pandemic, Civil Unrest and Economic Hardship.
We’re going to have these blowouts from time to time, it’s inevitable. The most important takeaway, I think, is what TristramEvans brought up - Benefit of the Doubt.
Curious about how it plays, but the reality could never live up to my expectations.
I am a huge Burroughs fan and never heard of this. I need details please.Over the Edge, a game inspired by the writing of W.S. Burroughs
I am a huge Burroughs fan and never heard of this. I need details please.
Canadian riot - those naughty people ->I still haven't been to Victoria. They have a miniatures museum there I'd love to check out.
Vancouver, though I've been here close to a decade, still doesn't feel like home. I've just never been able to integrate into West Coast culture - I have an ingrained longing for brownstones and...distinct seasons...
But it is a beautiful city. I took a photographic log of my walk home from wwork a while back...
Part of the challenge facing the forum is that every aspect of life is currently being re-examined in the culture by every end of the ideological spectrum.
Therefore, things that haven't been political for a long time are now political again, and many innocent people haven't realized that yet. You'd be surprised how many values that you believe are self-evidently agreed on by everyone are actually contested, possibly even in the process of shifting.
What is this greater world you speak of? There is only Zul.I think that comes close to mistaking the US for the rest of the world.
Too often on forums politics in the US dominate discussions in a way all out of proportion to lived reality.
Some seem unaware how tiresome their insistence in dragging their domestic politics into hobby forums is to those with some outside perspective. There is always political unrest, even political violence and wars going on but somehow we're all supposed to pay 100% attention to every detail, shift and diruption in US domestic politics. When I was younger I bought the 'well it has an effect on other countries' argument but after decades I realize that is much less true than some insist.
I think that comes close to mistaking the US for the rest of the world.
Too often on forums politics in the US dominate discussions in a way all out of proportion to lived reality.
Some seem unaware how tiresome their insistence in dragging their domestic politics into hobby forums is to those with some outside perspective. There is always political unrest, even political violence and wars going on but somehow we're all supposed to pay 100% attention to every detail, shift and diruption in US domestic politics. When I was younger I bought the 'well it has an effect on other countries' argument but after decades I realize that is much less true than some insist.
These are good observations, but I happen to know very similar processes are underway in the UK, France, and Germany to name a few. The specifics may be different, but the feeling of shock at how quickly the middle ground has been shifting (or badly misunderstood in the first place) is pretty universal.
I'll attribute this simultaneity to the effects of the internet.
I think that comes close to mistaking the US for the rest of the world.
Too often on forums politics in the US dominate discussions in a way all out of proportion to lived reality.
Some seem unaware how tiresome their insistence in dragging their domestic politics into hobby forums is to those with some outside perspective. There is always political unrest, even political violence and wars going on but somehow we're all supposed to pay 100% attention to every detail, shift and diruption in US domestic politics. When I was younger I bought the 'well it has an effect on other countries' argument but after decades I realize that is much less true than some insist.
Putting it simply, the Pub would close before political discussion is allowed here. I’m not going back on my word after all these years. We will always try our best to keep it at bay and keep this place our little Shangri-La.