Mmhmm. No complaints. Like I said 'it's more about saying the right thing than how you say the wrong thing.'. :p the 11 really isn't anything special, and the two that are lower than her just don't talk much XD
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Watching Hrut's link:
Me: "Is this going somewhere?"
"Redheads, strippers, anyone named Tiffany."
This is the point I lost it. XD
LMAO! MY friend recently broke up with a red head who cheated on him, I sent it to her, super funny response text lmao. But mostly the end part for the guy matrix, in reference to Horgus hah.
I need to go to bed... I'll do my usually 6am post if you need me. ATM, any sort of prep post I could possibly make would be silly. :)
Also, does this count as Forest Terrain? ;)
Also, does this count as Forest Terrain? ;)
Where the group is, yes. Where you are, no. ;) (You're on a street right now.)
I'm headed to work. Don't leave me behind!Pffffffffftt.
If there aren't at least 20 posts for you to read when you get back I'll have considered it a failed evening D:
There were, in fact, 76 posts (over FOUR F@@+ING HOURS. WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO WITH ALL OF YOUR TIME? DO PLAY-BY-POST?)
I have no life on weekends and the only other campaign I'm in that gets more than a few posts a week is GMed by you.
Alright, I'm just catching up. I am glad to have something to read, I just feel like I'm falling behind all the time. And then I need to go look at Sky Piracy and post something XD
I usually do stuff on weekend evenings, but this is an especially slow weekend, which is ok by me :p
So now you just need to respond to 76 posts worth of dialogue in one post. ;)
Just in case it gets around to me while I'm sleeping :p
Li'an moves forward quickly, trying to get an idea if the Howler is aware of their presence.
There were, in fact, 76 posts (over FOUR F#@!ING HOURS. WHAT DO YOU GUYS DO WITH ALL OF YOUR TIME? DO PLAY-BY-POST?)I'm headed to work. Don't leave me behind!Pffffffffftt.
If there aren't at least 20 posts for you to read when you get back I'll have considered it a failed evening D:
Haha!
Yeah - basically. I had Saturday off and other than going to the DMV it was gloriously unproductive. I got so much done both here and for my f2f game though :D
Today, sadly, I must go to a company get-together thing at a wave pool. I think I'd rather go to the DMV again.
That seems like a very strange place for a company get-together. :P
They do it every summer, and its meant to be a nice thing for the kids (they rent inflatables and entertainers and stuff - have a big cookout)
I have no kids so for me its just awkward. But not going makes you seem like a social outcast or something >_> So I must go.
Heh, I -am- a social outcast, and attend all of the gatherings for my workplace. Even though they're mostly 'go sit in a cabin and play games like charades' and 'go to an overpriced restaurant and eat very American food'. :P
Yeah, I hadn't thought about the kids; getting them out of the parent's hair is kind of a big deal, huh? :P
I just thought they were trying to make excuses to get people half-naked in public. :P
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We usually go out to dinner once a semester or so to celebrate students completing their qualifying exams or defense. So free lunch is good. I usually don't go to parties though, I really hate being around large numbers of people I don't know, it takes way too much energy to deal with it :p
I'm pretty much in the same camp. But similarly, my workplace basically has 'christmas party' and nothing else, so shutting off my mind and just being weird-me around coworkers that never see weird-me is nice. :)
Plus, I agree, the free food isn't bad. :p
If they did it at a pool, though, I don't think I'd go. I love to swim, but I'm too self-conscious.
I don't have nearly enough of a professional life for anything like a company get-together XD
I get the impression that all of you guys are older than I am. And you know, that's not actually a given, because plenty of actually young folks play this game.
I'm 28 and 1/12. :)
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I'm 20 and my birthday's next Saturday.
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I turned 20 last Sunday.
:P I don't feel old! I'm actually -by far- the youngest member of my face to face group. :o
Oh my.
22 and a half. :P
I'm the ancient one I think, 37 in a couple weeks :P
Edit: I suppose it's fitting that Li'an is *also* the oldest one in the group by far.
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I am 27 :3
I am also the youngest in my f2f group, but not by a whole lot. The oldest guy is 35 I think.
The pool thing is where a lot of my anxiety came from. It's.... weird seeing people that you're used to seeing in a suit (or scrubs, or white coat) in a bathing suit. I just ended up not swimming and came over did-up and said I was going out on a date after and didn't want to wash off my make-up >_> *cough*
Free food is good though!
Anyway - saw Ant-man after a couple of hours of corporate awkwardness! It was very good - I highly recommend it if you're into superheroes :D
Though, take that with a grain of salt - I'm a big marvel fan-girl and am biased :p Marvel superhero movies have to be reeeeeeallly bad for me to hate on them.
Ant-Man was great! I've gone to see most of the Marvel movies on blind faith and have yet to be disappointed.
I'm not huge on the comics, but I remember thinking Thor was the lamest idea for a superhero ever - nothing could convince me that they could possibly make a decent movie based on him, let alone a good one. Well, until I went to see it. :P
I've never been a Thor fan either but the movies did a great job :D
Lady Sif, on the other hand... Mmhmm <3
I think what I like about Marvel's MCU is that they're willing to go balls-to-the-wall comic book silly. they're like, yeah we make movies about talking raccoons, and guys who shrink and talk to ants, and norse gods. And they all hang out and stuff. Deal with it!
I've read comic books for a loooong time now so the fact that an Ant-man movie exists is still kinda surreal.
34 and in my f2f group I am about the youngest by probably 10 years, I thought I was the oldest one, interesting. I loved Ant-Man, huge fan of Paul Rudd also, double winner in my book!
I'm actually also the youngest in my group. In the group I've played with forever now (going on 15 years), the oldest is 52, and most are between 42-45 :p
I'll need to go check it out then. Marvel really hasn't made a crappy movie since they started with the X-Men series. In fact, they've really gotten better at tying everything together and making enjoyable super-hero movies.
It's a shame DC can't manage to put together that level of coherence and expertise. Seems like they can't keep the same actors for more than a movie, and they've rebooted Superman like 3-4 times now? Only Batman seems to have any level of thought put towards it.
Edit: I was thinking Hrut was probably closest in age. Now I don't feel quite so out of place ;p
And even Batman has problems. No one seems to know how to end a series of Batman stories without faking Batman's death. It's starting to get tiresome.
Well, at least that's an old problem. Sherlock Holmes ended that way, well actually he was supposed to be dead, but everyone kept bugging Sir A. Conan Doyle to bring him back.
They could always resort to how they ended the last series... Get Arnold Schwarzenegger in tights on ice. :P
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I didn't get a lot out of Avengers 2 to be honest. I didn't really know anything about Ultron, and I just wound up feeling he was lackluster. Otherwise, I've enjoyed all of the Marvel movies (and I still liked Avengers 2, don't get me wrong. It also set up a lot of neat stuff. I just feel like it's more there to set up the future than to be its own movie!
I was just talking about this the other day, though. I feel like DC is just... not that good, comparatively. I have to shut my mind off to watch DC stuff. For Marvel, I just enjoy it. I think giving each hero their own intro movie to tell who they were was brilliant. I also liked that they play up the mysterious of the two paragon humans by only giving them cameos and not giving them a movie. And it's not silly Kiora-lady! None of it is silly! :|
I've never been huge on comics themselves. I think I've owned maybe 5 in my lifetime. I've liked them in theory, but... money was tight in my family. So the very idea of comics was unlikely. All of the money I got for birthdays and such went into games that I spent hundreds of hours of my youth playing. :)
On the bright side, my face to face group plays at a gaming store, and the owner and all of them are -really- into this stuff. So I'm learning fast.
I thought it worked for the Dark Knight trilogy since the movies were basically tracking his career from its start to his retirement... though they did not show the passage of time that well. I mean, it didn't feel like he was Batman for all that long, but he had apparently been at it for years.
Honestly, I think the X-Men movies have only recently gotten good again. And poor Spider-Man really needs to catch a break.
The Fantastic Four on the other hand... well, it could be worse. It'd be nice if Marvel could get the movie rights to its properties back.
Re: X-men movies: This is not Marvel's fault. (As Ehren points out, studios have the rights, but don't know what to do with them) Also, X-men movies could -really- use the Avenger's treatment. As it stands, having 50 mutants appear in any given movie and make 4 of them plot relevant just irks me. That being said, I will -still- be going to see the next X-men movie, because I need to know who they're using as the four horsemen.
Giving my favorite X-man a power she has no right to (while the character who the power belongs to is standing right next to her) kind of PO'd me. Shadowcat is amazing without needing to shove more into her.
Also, their portrayal of Gambit in Origins: Wolverine was a travesty that should be placed into Lian's journal alongside the Crevasse That Shall Not Be Named.
Re: Dark Knight Trilogy: Oh my god, I know. The time passing thing was devastating to me. Months passed in between black screens and I'm just supposed to know? :| I did enjoy the trilogy, but like all DC works... I had to shut off my brain.
I think the worst travesty coming up with DC is that they're doing a Justice League and are neither making the television series canon to the movies nor using the same actors. This is just... insanely vehemently bad. Also, Batman v. Superman sounds stupid. I'd have rather seen Green Lantern v. Batman called 'Darkest Knight' or something. I -am- looking forward to Aquaman, though. :) Also... Suicide Squad is probably my favorite comic book IP, conceptually.
Maybe if there'd been more villains in the Dark Knight trilogy, I think I wouldn't mind it as much. Batman's best feature is his villains and without people like Penguin, Mr. Freeze (my personal favorite), Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn (hell, they did Joker), and plenty more, it doesn't feel like Batman. There's basically three supervillains in the entire Dark Knight universe and that just makes me sad.
Not to mention...
I haven't seen any of the recent Spider-Man or X-Men movie unfortunately. I've heard they're improving, so maybe things are looking up. And Spider-Man is supposedly going to appear in Civil War when it comes out next year, so that might be a good appearance for the webslinger.
I don't know, I liked that the Dark Knight movies only had one (okay, two at most) villains apiece. It made them feel a lot more focused, and with the movies taking a more "realistic" approach, a lot of the iconic Batman villains would not have really fit in. Same reason they couldn't use Nolan's trilogy for the Justice League - it wouldn't make any sense to focus so much on realism in Batman's movies, only to have him team up with an alien in the next flick.
Granted, Joker would have very likely made an appearance in Rises had Ledger not died... *sigh*
I don't know, either! Batman was cool and nifty, and I liked the vibe... but it felt so disjointed, and the pacing was utterly horrid.
On the bright side, they did bring back Scarecrow in part 3. :P
I would also like a singular good Green Lantern movie. Kthx. There is so much to work with here, how do they continuously get it wrong!?
Also, there needs to be a scene in the Deadpool Movie where Deadpool points out all of the other characters played by Ryan Reynolds in some way. :p
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Yeah, that was a huge loss. Ledger's Joker was really spot on in my opinion. I think I liked him better than Nicholson's
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Deleted my post because Kiora-lady is on top of things and had more correct information. And is also faster than me. And probably made coffee while copy-pasting-bolding the rules during the time it took me to type something up. :|
I still prefer Mark Hamill's Joker.
Yeah, Hamill's is still the best. I'm almost convinced that he could have done a live interpretation if he had really wanted to. :P
The realistic approach to the Nolan films made them great and was crippling at the same time. It made some parts awesome, like Scarecrow and Joker, but then it made some parts really kind of silly. And come on, since when is the concept of Batman realistic? He's a rich guy with no day job who runs around rooftops dressed as a bat beating up mobsters every night.
I actually would have liked if those little cameos at the beginning of each movie had been of a different out of focus villain. Replace Scarecrow in Dark Knight with Penguin selling guns, have a scene at the beginning of Rises have mentions of several other villains that have come up in the space between the two movies. Give some acknowledgement that they exist in the universe is all I'm asking.
Though I do agree, Hamil is the best Joker. His work in the Animated Series and the Arkham games is my favorite by far. I did like Ledger's Joker though. He captured the funny but psychotic elements really well.
You know what would be interesting for a future Green Lantern movie? Using a new story line. The Sinestro Corps War or the Rage of the Red Lanterns or even Blackest Night. Those would at least let them try something new instead of giving us another version of Hal Jordan's origin story.
Hah, I never knew Hamill did the Joker in the Animated Series. The Batman cartoon series was a favorite of mine back when it was on, and in many ways I think did more justice to Batman than any of the movies.
Batman also has a bit of an identity crisis. It's been around for so long, and through so many iterations that it's really covered everything. All the way from super-campy Adam West to the grim anti-hero versions of him.
Comic books are really expensive. I only got to read a few growing up here and there, so when I grew up and had stable income I've pretty much sploded my collection. It's basically taken over my bedroom. I need to rent a storage locker I think....but I'm lazy... and attached to having all of them at my finger-tips.
For example I have every She-Hulk comic ever maaddeeeeeee. Someday I'mma splurge for a NM #1, they're not that expensive so iunno why I haven't already D:
I'd suggest to anyone who is trying to get into comics, at least into Marvel, to look into Marvel Unlimited - it's basically netflix for comic books at $10/month - the database they have is enormous and covers pretty much every big event you'd want to read. You'd need to be looking for something reeeeallllly obscure (or really recent, as in, within the past year) for it not to be available.
But yeah. I feel like MCU (not all the Marvel IP stuff, just MCU) embraces the weirdness of comic books.
DC generally tries to cover things up by making it "gritty" and "mature" (a direct consequence of the Dark Knight Trilogy doing well, I think) - and they just end up coming off as ashamed of their own characters, at least to me lol.
Man of Steel offended me to the point that I'm not planning to see any more DC films in theaters :P I'll redbox it lol.
Yeah, one thing I've focused on a lot lately, Li'an is the opportunity cost of the chosen medium. There are a ton to use, and you have to pick the right one for what you want. Normally, anyway.
Publishing powerhouses are changing that up a lot. You can simultaneously create a television series, a movie, and a comic book, that all tell the same stories in a coherent fashion, marrying all of the best parts together. And I think that's why Marvel is going to do insanely well; they're taking direct advantage of that.
They just can't put out a movie that encompasses an entire superhero. They can lampshade who they are in a movie, but you don't get the depth that a series can do.
On the other hand... in a movie, you don't have to worry about months of padding before a payoff.
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I could never bother with comic books, asides from a few select storylines I've picked up here and there. Ones that don't need a terrible lot of context to make sense. They otherwise tend to just get far too convoluted for my tastes... not to mention the aforementioned expenses that are involved.
I became a fan mostly through the cartoons, movies, and video games. Maybe I'll try my hand at roleplaying games one day. :P
Re: Recent: What are your thoughts on Spider Gwen? Personally, I'm a huge fan. But my first introduction to her was really dark. It had a picture of her and Spidey hanging upside down across from each other with a wall between, seeing each other through a broken window. It had the words 'But you're... dead.' with them reaching out one-handed towards each other. I didn't favorite it on Deviantart when I saw it, and it's a little devastating. I didn't know how much I'd like the idea.
A friend of mine introduced my to Phoenix, a somewhat new system that's made for playing superheroes. You can find all the information for playing it online if you just Google Phoenix RPG. It's got a site like the PFSRD and everything.
Comics are super convoluted. I don't know why the industry hasn't gotten a better handle on making it more accessible to new people. Some books assume you have an encyclopedic knowledge of past events/characters to even pick up. Others are utterly self-contained. The problem is there aren't really resources to help you sort through it all, you just have to know someone who reads or hopefully have a local comic shop owner who isn't too snobby about it.
I'm loving Spider-Gwen so far. I'm so happy that they're keeping her going. Her one-shot was like.. the only thing I cared for in the whole Spider-Verse mess.
What I don't like is that they're apparently pulling her out of her own little AU to hang out with everyone else in Marvel Comics through Secret Wars. I liked the idea of her being the ONLY spider-hero in her own universe. Now she's just one spider-hero in a whole crazy tangle of spider-heroes.
Which I guess gets into the stuff Ehren was talking about - too convoluted - too much stuff going on.
I've honestly never met a snobby comic book owner that didn't go out of business. It's his job to sell you these things, and if he wants to sell them to you, he has to make you want them and crave them. Telling you 'you have to be this tall to ride' is nice for keeping you from buying something you'll hate... but not helping you understand something you love? Bad call!
There's also the whole New 52 thing, where only select things are still Canon and basically everything has reset. I think a reboot is kinda a nuke option, though. Especially since it's only a short term one.
