Faylar
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Pics or it didnt happenlies. I'm wearing a kilt now, and I have the blue bonnie ribbon to prove it...
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Pics or it didnt happenlies. I'm wearing a kilt now, and I have the blue bonnie ribbon to prove it...
Also, just to point out, I said "play by post freeform, the ones you'd find back on livejournal" which is very different than saying "all play by post games".
Though I feel Tristram would identify all of those as "interactive fiction".
Made me sad because I was never a WolverJean guy, preferring Silver Fox, Mariko, or literally any other love interest.
Why? Generalized statements of course lose nuance, everyone is an individual, but large scale trends do exist.
Also, just to point out, I said "play by post freeform, the ones you'd find back on livejournal" which is very different than saying "all play by post games".
Though I feel Tristram would identify all of those as "interactive fiction".
I dunno, I'm talking about the completely freeform forum post games, or ones that used to inhabit AoL chatrooms, when those were a thing. Not at all familiar with Livejournal, though it does sound like it could be more of the participatory fanfic stuff.
Pics or it didnt happen
I'm sure they do, but they rarely correspond to personal experiences. And, since they aren't universal, by nature, I kinda wonder what the point of them are outside of marketing?
Marvel Comics really hit rock bottom in the 90s and was about to go under. It looked good at the turn of the millennium until Queseda decided to make some of the worst decisions Marvel has ever seen.
The reason is basically that. It's not the kind of thread a person interested in that kind of game would want to post in.I don't think we are getting a holistic discussion from the types of people who would be more likely to play this style of game.
I find large scale trends like that interesting,
especially when this forum is mostly (with the exception of ladybird and tulpa girl) dudes talking about games. Basically: I don't think we are getting a holistic discussion from the types of people who would be more likely to play this style of game. (Actually one of my players has run Apocalypse World. I wasn't in the game though, so no idea how they approached it).
I kinda think this thread isn't really well suited for someone positively inclined towards the idea that "Sex Moves" could add anything interesting to a game.
That's OK, though.
Is it though? In context of some discussions we've had just recently, is dumping on something or mocking it in the first few posts of a thread about it really OK.
Like either it is or it isn't.
I think it can be. Like, this thread just started with an info dump on what AW Sex Moves were, so those unfamiliar could maybe get a bit of a sense of what they were, so it was a more "general audience" kind of thing. If someone trying to start convos assuming interest in the idea kept having their threads follow the path of this one, it'd be kinda disappointing though. It'd be a kind of "Joker's Veto", which I think this kind of subject is very vulnerable to.That's OK, though.
I think it can be. Like, this thread just started with an info dump on what AW Sex Moves were, so those unfamiliar could maybe get a bit of a sense of what they were, so it was a more "general audience" kind of thing. If someone trying to start convos assuming interest in the idea kept having their threads follow the path of this one, it'd be kinda disappointing though. It'd be a kind of "Joker's Veto", which I think this kind of subject is very vulnerable to.
Idk, I think that both do the same thing: Anyone who actually enjoys the mechanic is immediately either put on the defensive or just doesn't want to join in because they feel they will be mocked.
Plus, I 100% think that Gygax hiding behind a file cabinet is hilarious, but making fun of all the stories I hear about his GM style probably wouldn't be kosher in a thread about Gygax.
I'm a stupidly big X-Men fan. I've read literally every X-Men related comic from the 1960s through the mid 2000s. It took months. The 90s was literally death by X-Man. They had something like 20ish X-Related comics coming out every month, and Wolverine was in probably half of them.
It was very hit and miss though. Some were Ok, some were abysmal, some were ok but then had creative changes so often they got horrible (Generation X was actually good at some points then miserable at others because they kept changing the artists and writers).
I still like Age of Apocalypse (though, it is the most 90s of 90s things), but yeah, the 90s were so uneven.
Idk, I think that both do the same thing: Anyone who actually enjoys the mechanic is immediately either put on the defensive or just doesn't want to join in because they feel they will be mocked.
I still prefer the 90s to almost everything that came after, but that's a whole rant.
I pretty much stopped reading supers comics in the 90s, with a few rare exceptions since., so I haven't really seen how far down the rabbithole the new stuff is. From what I've glimpsed, I doubt I would recognize any of the characters I grew up with. I think Quesada effectively brought an end to the Marvel Universe I grew up with.
I pretty much stopped reading supers comics in the 90s, with a few rare exceptions since., so I haven't really seen how far down the rabbithole the new stuff is. From what I've glimpsed, I doubt I would recognize any of the characters I grew up with. I think Quesada effectively brought an end to the Marvel Universe I grew up with.
The good guys all became bad guys, the bad guys all joined the good guy teams, and everyone got replaced by someone who could do their job "better", as we were constantly reminded in every issue of every book the replacements appeared in.
So it's the Silver Age?
this forum is mostly (with the exception of ladybird and tulpa girl) dudes talking about games.
In my Mazes and Minotaurs game last year, our bard slept with the big villain, before he revealed his villainy. She was pretty embarrassed about that. We spent weeks making fun of her.Yep, all girls are perverts.
Possibly we should keep some sort of lexicon somewhere...
I tried to recruit another a while back, but she doesn't seem to have stuck around. For what it's worth, I think she blanched less at the blokeyness and more at the wall of roleplaying jargon. Possibly we should keep some sort of lexicon somewhere...
Most girls I know won't engage in volatile conversations with men, regardless of what they are interested in. But one only need stop by any of the major knitting forums to instantly disprove the notion that groups of (majority) women don't enjoy the same amount of geeky navelgazing regarding hobby minutia and terminology.
I like Urban Shadows’ Intimacy moves, because they’re broadened to be any downtime interaction between characters that build up their relationships. It can be hanging out at the bar and the PCs let their defences down to reveal motives and background details. It can be the characters bonding over research or car repair.
And yes, it can be sexy time too if players wanna go there, but I admit that I don’t expect any of my friends to go there, but you never know.
In my own experience men do have some interest in mechanics, only not to the degree we forum rats do. Women though? Zero interest. Fluff only.I started to write a post about how all the women I've roleplayed with at length seemed to be all about the fluff and having an aggressive disinterest in the crunch, but then it occurred to me that that actually describes most of the men I've roleplayed with at length, also. So it may be more about the sort of campaigns I run than anything else.
So it's the Silver Age?
Eh, I think that Marvel has been up and down forever to be honest. Some of their stuff is pretty decent, some of it is bad, and a lot of it is destroyed by editorial meddling (event fatigue was definitely a thing during the 00s).
But you still get some really good stuff like Kieron Gillen's run on Journey into Mystery, or the Matt Fraction/David Aja Hawkeye run.