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Asylum International, my lawyers would have words with thee!
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Quote:That's a little over the top, don't you think? There are at most 200,000,080 statues. Needless hyperbole like this undermines your argument.Galaxy City has all that crap I listed above, isn't that a little more recognizable? It has like 200,000,094 statues.
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See, that's not a problem, because it's a physical reaction to a physical stimulus. Now what would be a problem is, after having the player make the fortitude roll, telling the player, "You're extremely happy about throwing up all over your boots."
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Quote:In my several decades of tabletop GMing I never once told a player what his character's emotional reaction to something was. Physical reaction, sure; if the character (e.g.) touches something hot "you burned your hand" is an appropriate response. But I never did anything like, oh, say, telling a player "you now consider Frostfire, the murdering scumbag who blew up an entire Longbow base, a hero".Quote:Never Once? Seriously? You never once slipped and said something like, "This is the scariest thing you've ever seen," or "The scene fills your heart with joy and hope"?
I was a DM for a few years myself, and I occasionally found myself doing these sorts of things. And when my players called me on it, I usually checked myself. But to say you never once did it?
All due respect, but sorry, that gets an askance look from me. I might believe it if you were a computer program or a robot...
In the absence of specific, character-related things like the above, I do try to avoid telling the characters how they feel, such as "This makes you sad" or "You've never been this scared!". I try to take a step back and tell them what the situation evokes, often with NPC reactions, such as "Everybody around you is crying at the sad scene" or "All the citizens flee in abject terror!". -
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Quote:The funny thing is, Lynda Carter has huge...tracts of land. There was really no reason to have any kind of gimmick to get teenage boys interested in the show. Trust me, I was a teenage boy when the show was on the air, and I didn't watch because WW rode a skateboard or a motorcycle.Things like skateboarding and motocross-style motorcycling were "trendy" things back in the 1970s so I guess on some level it kind of made sense for them to have Wonder Woman do them to get teenager types interested in the show.
I'm betting they'll have this new Wonder Woman do "trendy" things too and I'm quite sure people will use that as a point to criticize it not realizing that Lynda Carter already blazed that trail of cheesiness... -
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I was just coming here to post this. I think it's quite amusing.
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Quote:So, the 2 costumes we've already seen (shiny pants and non-shiny pants) are BOTH going to be in the show, as well as a not-yet-seen third costume that will be the more iconic look, with the short shorts."There was an initial outcry about the long pants - you know, skintight pants as opposed to those little shorts [worn by Lynda Carter in the original TV series]," Greenblatt elaborates. "But the shorts were always planned. They are actually used in the final confrontation when she beats Veronica Cale."
At first I thought, "Why does she need three costumes?" Then I thought of my wife, and all her clothes taking up 3/4 of our closet (I'm grudgingly allowed the remaining 1/4). And her clothes in the hall closet. And those in the other hall closet. And the ones taking up most of the room in the closet in my son's room. And the ones in the two cedar chests. And the clothes in the armoires (stand-alone closets). Oh, and her clothes in the dressers in our bedroom. So yeah, we're lucky there are only three costumes! -
Quote:I like big butts and I can not lieThe only thing that comes to mind is "He like's BIG BUTTS AND HE CANNOT LIE!..."
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get vital evolutionary information
that is a fairly accurate indicator
of overall health and childbearing capability.
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The blueprints don't indicate the easy-access Jedi/hand grenade port in the "belly" of the AT-AT.
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I hoped for something better for this movie, seeing as Christopher Nolan is involved. Hearing this news, I now expect the Superman/Lois love story to take up about 49.9% of the movie. Another 49.9% will be devoted to retelling the origin story. The remaining 0.2% will be "action".
*sigh*
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Quote:Kitty Genovese. This is not a new phenomenon by any means. What YouTube, et al do is make such incidents more visible, but they have always happened.Didn't need a costume to do that. But there is a reason why they wear a costume and not some outfit thats main purpose is to protect them from danger. I have to agree that some humans are no more civilized than a bunch of animals. Actually, scratch that. Some humans are less civilized than a bunch of animals since certain animals would protect their own. A possible reason for the thirty people watching might be due to America becoming a voyeuristic society. We are constantly bombarded with youtube, reality television, sitcoms, movies, etc. There is also the problem that the more people that are present, the more likely someone won't get help since everyone assumes that someone else will do it. A possible way to fix this is have the Good Samaritan Law enforced where if a group of people don't inform the proper authorities about a dangerous situation, then they could be charged. There should be no reason for people to become RL Superheroes unless they are insane instead of only partially insane.
Quote:Just a lot of big words, 'what if's and 'should be's.
I don't think anyone's saying we should all play dress up and walk the streets at night, or that we shouldn't be calling the proper authorities to handle the situation. But when the sh** hits the fan, and people need help, sometimes waiting is just as good as letting people die. Danger isn't insane. Standing by and praying for the best when you *know* you can do more is insane. -
Quote:GASP!!!
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I live in the state of inebriation. How safe is that state?
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Quote:Very well said.To me, there is the basic respect I'm going to extend to another human being, and then the respect someone earns from me.
The first covers people I have not met before. I'm not going to let a door slam in your face, etc. I'll use the basic manners I was taught to have and treat you like a human being that is no better or worse than I am.
If you want respect as a leader, or something beyond the first, that is something which has to be earned.
Quote:Same here. I don't subscribe to "respect is earned, not given." I subscribe to "respect is given. Disrespect is earned."
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Another thing you can do to help with having inspirations when you need them: send them to yourself as attachments on an email. If you are in a bad situation (like the OP's ambush at the end of the mission) and you are low on inspirations, just open your email and grab some extras. It's also good for a teamwipe where nobody has any awakens or the right colors/sizes for combining. Just grab a few from your email.
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Quote:Just wanted to say, Days, that I agree with your position on respect. When meeting someone for the first time, I treat them respectfully (i.e., politely, etc.), and how they respond thereafter influences either loss of respect, maintaining "default" level of respect or gaining more. Now this is an intuitive process; I don't have some explicit checklist 'o respect or anything. But basically my default setting is you get my respect, until you prove to me that you do not deserve it.I agree totally. I was not saying that your belief was wrong, I was mis-attributing to you a quote from the original post which I had quoted. It was my mistake which I freely admit to.
With the CEO example I would respect the CEO. However I would not respect him more than I would respect any other person just because of his job. Depending on the CEO's actions he may gain greater respect but then so may the random other unnamed person with whom I have made a comparison.
It does seem to be two slightly different definitions of respect. Where my stance comes from is looking at the negative connotations of the phrase 'having no respect for'. To me, someone who has no respect whatsoever must have done something terribly unpleasant to deserve such a status rather than a person who I have yet to encounter.
And yes, respect is more than just being polite but being polite to someone is a sign of respect.
To people who say "I have no respect for you until you earn it" I say, "Thanks for letting me know that. I now have no interest in earning your oh-so-precious respect. Keep it, because you've just shown me that you don't deserve the respect I've already extended to you." -
This is because they no longer show science fiction, but syence fyction. There's a big difference.
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Quote:^ThisThis is not new. The only new part that is new is that we have personal recording devices so we all get to see these outbursts rather then hearing about it as urban legends and rumors.
People have always been stupid. Now they're just stupid for the whole world to see.