You are the most correct, that statement should have been in the past tense. The common experiences witnessed in that threat when it existed however are the same as I expressed.
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It wasnt a logical leap because you have no idea what experience most subscribers are having. MOST subscribers dont post on this message board. You don't personally know MOST SUBSCRIBERS. So when you say "is not an experience most subscribers are having?" What are you talking about? Most subscribers who have issues do post on these forums in the Customer Service Threads. They also post on the Pathfinder subreddit and I've read many of these comments. So THAT is what I'm talking about. Why are you getting so needlessly aggressive? What I take umbrage to is this Why do you need to take umbrage with ANYTHING that was said by anyone in this thread? Nothing in this thread rises to any level of real importance Without insinuating or downplaying anyone else's experience. AND most importantly, without inflating my own importance / relevance by saying that I know the experiences of MOST subscribers in order to invalidate someone's experience. Right, because how dare someone point out that your experience is atypical? How hard is it to simply say: "yikes that's rough. Okay I get why {name} would feel that way. It hasn't been MY experience but okay." Pretty hard it looks like... About as hard as reading someone speculate on why you had an atypical experience and not respond by condescendingly push back at them for the suggestion they made, apparently.
I mean, you still have to email them to cancel your subscription. Even barring a recent FTC Rule in the US, it's just pretty anti-consumer to put barriers to stopping automatic charges to a card. I'm not in agreement about the need for a PDF only subscription or a common PDF release date - but the above statement dovetails with one of the things I would love to see added to the subscription process. It should be easier to cancel subs and it should be easier to pause subscriptions or skip books. Particularly if Remastered reprints like the upcoming Guns & Gears is going to be a pattern. Cancelling my sub to not get a reprint of a book I already own and then resubscribing to get the next book feels like it could be streamlined.
They made that logical leap because consistently getting your subscription books after the street date is not an experience most subscribers are having. The one time it happened to me it was because my shipment was lost in transit and Paizo had to send me a replacement, otherwise - even though I am receiving my books after other subscribers I am still getting it prior to street date. This is the more common experience subscribers are having.
The creeping negative thought darting around in the back of my mind is that those of us who are pending today will not come out of the pending state until after Gen Con. Spoke too soon. Just got the shipping notice.
The creeping negative thought darting around in the back of my mind is that those of us who are pending today will not come out of the pending state until after Gen Con.
I’m almost more concerned about the idea of a pending charge on my debit card for the last 12 days. This happened once before with a Paizo order and my bank just cancelled the hold charge and blocked the second attempt when Paizo went to reauth.
Is today still the estimated last day of the shipping window? Have we seen any update saying that window had likely extended? Because I'm still in the "pending" boat
Emailed CS because my order has been pending for over a week with no auth completion. Was told that the delay in processing subscriptions was delaying processing other orders (which is strange because mine is a subscription order.) So I'm unsure where I am in the process.
Having games I'm likely never going to get to play is my curse. I have so many things I'd love to play, and more on the way, but there just isn't enough interest with my table for all of it. And these are just my games, I'm sure the others have their own stack of games we'll never get around to. Just a quick glance reveals the following list of things I've purchased and never touched : Mummy: The Curse 1st Edition
why shock at 3e? What happened? We're a largely traditional book and printed sheet group, and 3e Exalted is a siege weapon of a text. Nearly as dense within as its size intimates.
Finally did it. Ripped the bandaid off and played out a session featuring the Exaltation of three of our characters for the Exalted campaign. It had been quite a long time since I'd stepped into the world of creation, and in the interim my expectations had grown quite high. Exalted 1e was my favorite game of all time, and after so much time away and disappointment with the system for 2e and shock at 3e I was worried that maybe it wouldn't work To my delight it was like slipping on a perfectly worn hoodie, going home again is possible.
Wrapping up Hunter: The Vigil took a little longer than planned due to some player choices. The plan moving out of that was to sit back and let the other GM's at the table run alternating games while I did some worldbuilding in Exalted for our eventual Essence campaign. Then there was a system shock issue with our Mythos campaign (not in CoC) and some players are focused on a cross country move so the hat got handed back very quickly and Exalted Essence is firing up this weekend. Meanwhile playing Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition has been a blast so far. So much so that I'm wondering if this iteration of the old Storyteller system is actually smoother than the Storytelling system of Chronicles of Darkness. I would have said no before playing this. I would have also said that Requiem has better player options until really digging into Masquerade V5.
I'm sorry your core GM passed, but finishing the campaign is a great way to honor the years together. That's awesome. I've considered going back to our own Hellmouth, but those players are all scattered to the wind. Still, it'd be nice. That's why I'm leaning toward running Exalted. One of the other players at my table is my brother, he is the only member of our old group still playing with me. We ran a nearly four year Exalted campaign that spanned both groups, with both he and I running for big stretches. It's been 20 years since that campaign began, and we're fast approaching 20 with the current group. It feels appropriate to go back to where it all started for our current players.
I loved the Unisystem rules for Buffy and Angel, and the group I was with before this one played in several seasons of two separate series that I ran. I also was lucky enough to get to playtest for Eden Studios. That game was a blast
I'm now at that difficult point of deciding where the journey goes NEXT. Our group has been playing together now for about 18 years, and throughout most of that I've been one of two or three rotating GM's. We're never at a loss for ideas on what we want to play next, if anything we have reached the point where we have more games than we have time for. Even limiting ourselves to short form narratives and one shots, each of the three of us has so many campaign ideas that we might never get to them all - and great new games keep coming out. I'm just about to wrap up an arc in our Hunter: The Vigil game, while another GM is about to come online with a Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition campaign that I'm looking forward to greatly as I've spent very little time with Masquerade and LOTS of time with Requiem. But where to next? Bringing the current arc of Vigil to a landing has given me a plethora of ideas for that campaigns next major arc, but I was also deep into planning a return to the world of Exalted. That said I also have ideas I want to explore in PF2, OSE, Shadowdark, Kids on Bikes, They Came From Classified, They Came From the Cyclops Cave, Trinity Adventure, Trinity Aberrant, Scion, Monster of the Week, Star Wars Too many games, not enough time.
maybe that's why poor customer service brews conspiracy theories I'm really hesitant to call Paizo's customer service "poor" they're by leaps and bounds more involved and organized than any other TTRPG's CS departments.
They do know what Baylen is going after. There is an arc of stories in The Clone Wars called The Mortis Arc, it ties in heavily to the world between worlds where Ahsoka faced Anakin. Baylen is standing on a statue of one of the mythical Force deities presented in that story. I don't want to spoil too much, you should definitely check it out.
Different systems they need access to. It’s less like a physical key and more like an MFA token, but in this case featuring high end encryption
They're code cylinders. Security Access keys basically.
Once again, trying to skirt the rules on the profanity filter. That's actually a violation of the TOS. I'm harping on the idea that you think a fictional character has access to information that you gained only from watching a movie set in the universe he is a character in. I'm mentioning Ritson because he is the most SENIOR authority on who is considered an alien in the fictional policy he instigated about fighting Aliens on his fictional Earth. See when determining who is an alien and who isn't, he can't log into Disney+ and watch the Thor movie, any more than you can watch what is happening in my home right now. I'm sorry you don't understand the concept of the fourth wall, but I know Al Ewing does.
What is that idea again, that President Ritson read the script for Thor: Love & Thunder so he knows that Christian Bale's character considered Asgardians to be gods and that is why he didn't include them in his anti alien policy?
"Who shot J.R.?" was a decade earlier. Dynasty, Falcon Crest, even Cheers routinely used cliffhanger endings before Best of Both Worlds.
In The Way to Eden, the main hippy alien has at least two musical numbers where he sings. There are five musical numbers in the episode, four of which contain Charles Napier’s vocals.
Though the opening setting of "hey, what's the cheapest location we can shoot at where it would make sense for people to be?" was hilarious, as was the lampshading as to why it was that location. Spent too much money on animation I guess. ;) Shot mostly on the holodeck, it was not a budgetary constraint but an homage to the backlot colony worlds from TOS.
The girl playing with Spock is but one of five musical numbers in this particular episode. The other four are vocal numbers
Firstly, I am not worked up over this at all. Secondly, moderation of a web forum is not a particularly risky thing. If my posts get deleted, or god forbid a thread gets locked, the world does continue spinning. Thirdly, Seitz, I’m not the only one who has commented on your need to get the final word. The difference between you and I is that for me these forums are a sometimes food. It’s a bunch of cape stuff, is it REALLY that important to waste this many days on arguing that the President meant the Skrulls but not the Asgardians?
Blame Tristan for me refusing to not yield. No dude, blame your incessant need to have the last word that you exhibit up and down this section of the forum. The Meta narrative defines Asgardians as advanced aliens who are perceived by some cultures as gods. They are both. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Their existence in the narrative however, has no bearing on the actions of the character of Ritson because he is WITHIN the narrative and not AWARE of the narrative.
If you didn't see the trailer, it's not on me to make you understand my position that's I've stated clearly like 5 times... President Ritson can’t see the trailer for Loki. He’s a fictional character without your viewers access to the film franchise. Your meta argument that he didn’t mean the Asgardians because the movies define the Asgardians as gods is dumb. When you said you were giving it up the other day, you should have.
So when did they move Rhodey because it seems like realistically if it was directly after the accident, they wouldn't have been able to keep him alive. Of course medicine, like morality, is not one size fits all. Your friends spinal cord injury is not everyones spinal cord injury. In the film Captain America Civil War we saw Rhodey, without the need to be on a ventilator, while he was in the hospital. that has horrendous implications as to his ability to recover from his injuries. No more horrendous than the prior implication that he was only mobile because his rich friend built him a custom prosthesis. As it is, I hate how they minimize extremity trauma with amputees like Bucky. Even if you get a magic prosthetic losing a limb impacts you mentally and emotionally. This is another case of not having enough information. Bucky lost his arm, and then spent 70 years having his emotions and memories controlled by former Nazi scientists. Did they minimize his trauma, or did they simply just not show it because it would have been at its sharpest during the period of time our story did not take place in?
No but I still am standing by it after Loki season 2 trailer drops... Standing by what dude?
That’s probably for the best.
The sense that you clearly are taking my words out of context and phrasing them in such a way to justify you're own take that has NO bearing on the fact that ASGARDIANS ARE NOT ALIENS!!! Not in the least. I’m asking you what the hell Gorr the god butchers claim of godhood for the Asgardians has to do with President Ritson who as a fictional character in that world has never seen that movie to know what the hell Gorr said in the first place. As far as Ritson knows is that the Asgardians arrived from their HOME PLANET in a SPACESHIP and built a refugee camp in an unpopulated area of the world during the blip. That sure would sound like aliens to me.
So narratives should ignore any sense of reality and treat the characters in the series as if they are also the audience for the series? What kind of sense does THAT make?
Why do the actions of the President have to account for the opinion of Gorr the God Butcher?
To be honest, it doesn’t really bother me all that much, other than a vague feeling of sadness at how the mighty have fallen. What does that even mean? I’ve got my Blu-ray copies of the original series and Next Generation to make up for the loss. So you can go watch the time the did a Noir episode, or the time they die a Sherlock Holmes episode; or the time they did a Robin Hood episode, or the time they did a western episode, or the times they did a procedural, or the times they did a trial, or the time they did an episode where they interpreted any existing genre into their episodic format. That’s the exact same thing they’re doing on SNW
Wait are you suggesting that a reactionary policy from a United States President is based in some part on the actions of someone who called himself a God Butcher? Like dude woke up and said “we’ll hunt down the aliens, except those people because the God Butcher said they were gods”
I don't really feel like doing an alien influence episode in the back half of season one and another in the back half of season two is really THAT much of a problem
Yeah I just don't get the resistance to the idea of a musical episode. Had Gene thought of the idea of doing an entire episode that capitalized on Nichelle and Leonard's vocal training - he would absolutely have done it. Berman era Trek would also be a natural fit for a musical episode. TNG it would have been at home in a holodeck episode, a Q episode, or as one of Dr. Crusher's productions. DS9 it would have been more successful than "Move Along Home" and in the back half of the series would 100% have involved Vic Fontaine's lounge. Voyager basically did an episode that was one long Opera recital by The Doctor.
Also We know Pike is going to die. No we know explicitly that Pike is NOT going to die. We know that because Pike knows he's going to die. Pike knows he is going to lose all mobility and communication skills and be confined to a chair that beeps once for yes and twice for no. That is his fate. Not death. He knows that fate.
I wouldn't exactly say that Christine Chapel was a main character in TOS with her 33 appearances. As for M'benga we know that he remains a medical officer on the Enterprise, though no longer the Chief Medical Officer
Getting it early or getting it late is a quirk of the process and nothing more.Okay but does that make it a good thing? No it makes it a completely neutral thing We really need to uncouple our emotional experience from the process at which stuff moves through the mail.Why? Emotional experience is central to our existence as a species. Take a beat, divorce yourself from the idea that we're talking about a TTRPG product from Paizo. Does Amazon need to tailer its shipping practices around what makes you "feel good?" Does UPS? Does the Postal Service? Discounting that is silly. Pretending customer experience doesn't matter is just flat out wrong given how much business can live or die on UX (not really at issue here, more speaking generally to an earlier statement). It's not a matter of the user experience, they aren't a shipping company. Their product is not the delivery method. It also feels a little weird to worry about their emotional state given the way this thread has been going, but whatever. The whole argument has been about it "feeling bad" when books don't show up early and finding ways to tailor the process so everyone "feels good". The whole thread has been based on emotionality, but whatever.
They are currently listed as the next four available books in the Rulebook subscription.
"vibe/customer experience" Why does this matter in the least? Getting it early or getting it late is a quirk of the process and nothing more. People who get it early aren't being rewarded, people who get it late aren't being punished. There is not some mass inequity that needs resolving. We really need to uncouple our emotional experience from the process at which stuff moves through the mail.
The process of sending the pdf at the time the book is processed for shipping is also a unified process for each order. Your card is charged and auth code verified; physical product is picked, packed, labeled and set aside for shipper pickup; your digital product is released to your account. Doing it in the ways suggested above alters that into multiple batched processes. Processing all payments -> Picking all physical products -> Packing, labeling and shipping all products -> releasing all digital products. Paizo isn't a huge megacorporation with hundreds of warehouse and fulfillment staff members, any change to their workflow is a change to the amount of work their employees are engaging with. What improves your sense of whether a business process feels good or not, might have the opposite effect on the employee.
I think the real question is, does the company really need to amend their entire release workflow so as to not bum someone out?Because it is not one person. The number of people who have a negative emotional response to a shipping practice is immaterial to the point that the shipping practice doesn't need to be built around emotional responses. A surprising number of people in this thread seem to have a para-social investment with the billing and shipping methods of this company It's a shipping method, it can't invest back.
As a subscriber I have received my pdf early in the advance cycle, and I have received my pdf late in the advance cycle. I've even once received my pdf after the book was available on store shelves to the general public. I get that this can feel frustrating to the people effected negatively by it, but I don't think that a company (any company not just Paizo) should adjust their shipping and release scheme based on what "feels good" to any specific set of customers.
Allowing Spock to have such a deep glimpse of his human side, and setting him up for a relationship with Chapel whom we know is going to marry another man gives a reason for Nimoy Spock to so fiercely cling to his Vulcan identity in TOS. It allows them to move Peck Spock to the Where No Man Has Gone Before starting point so that Kirk and Bones can draw him toward the balanced Spock he grows to become. It also gives the dissolution of the Spock and T’Pring relationship a deeper meaning. She was not as we saw in Amok Time, a calculating opportunist attempting to move upward in Vulcan society with Stonn, she was someone who truly cared for Spock and was hurt by him deeply.
As much as I love a race that evolves beyond physical form, I was thinking the idea of a race on a moon in the Vulcan system that disappeared without a trace might be a series of early hints about the Romulan diaspora.
But you can extrapolate it from the other residents of the planet, who are not sociopathic. Not really, because the other residents of the planet were residents of the planet and were not marooned there, only to forget why before clawing their way into a leadership position to take the palace and recover their memories. It also feels a little quick to give a psychological diagnosis to a character we see in exactly two scenes. That's a cool interpretation. In the story, I would have thought the fortress was built before the asteroid hit, and just happened to be made of something that shield the residents from its effects, which added to the society's existing stratification. But symbolically it could still stand for that. The palace was built out of the asteroid itself, as confirmed by Yeoman Zac's dialogue with Pike when Pike returns to the palace.
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