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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #60 on: April 30, 2011, 01:55:24 AM »


<-  Gonna make everyone go CRAZY!


CAN'T.

STOP.

WATCHING.

...oh my god it's full of stars
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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #61 on: May 18, 2011, 10:07:25 PM »

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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #62 on: July 10, 2011, 09:24:41 PM »
Rezzing the random thread to x-post this from the FB group page. YOU ARE PART OF THE FB GROUP PAGE, RIGHT, PANSIES?

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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #63 on: October 30, 2011, 09:06:57 PM »
Holy rez thread: Allen Gregory is the worst Fox cartoon I've seen.
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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #64 on: October 30, 2011, 09:23:13 PM »
Holy rez thread: Allen Gregory is the worst Fox cartoon I've seen.

The ads for this did not appeal to me at all...

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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #65 on: October 31, 2011, 12:47:28 AM »
Right now I'm busy writing a crappy lyric essay.
It's sort of kind of about WHAT THE FUCK IS A RPG?

I've gotten past the uhh, intro, dice rolling, character generation. I taking a break before I begin with explaining how to play. I'm beginning to hate it right now. I feel like I'm dissecting a Unicorn and finding it less magical. It's much easier experienced than explained. I've attempted to capture the feeling with uhh language.

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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #66 on: October 31, 2011, 02:05:36 AM »
the magic is simple: no one knows how the story turns out before it happens.

The GM sets the stages and controls the antagonists but he can't know how the players will react exactly nor will he know how the dice will roll.

The player knows what his character will do in any circumstance but he doesn't know what the GM has plotted, what the other players will do or what the dice will roll.

Sometimes it's for the worst. But when you roll a critical hit just when you needed it or saved the princess or solved the puzzle, it's authentic. You didn't know this would happen but it did. You create as you experience the game.

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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #67 on: October 31, 2011, 02:26:30 AM »
the magic is simple: no one knows how the story turns out before it happens.

The GM sets the stages and controls the antagonists but he can't know how the players will react exactly nor will he know how the dice will roll.

The player knows what his character will do in any circumstance but he doesn't know what the GM has plotted, what the other players will do or what the dice will roll.

Sometimes it's for the worst. But when you roll a critical hit just when you needed it or saved the princess or solved the puzzle, it's authentic. You didn't know this would happen but it did. You create as you experience the game.

I'm going to quote you on that. I'll put you in the coherent section of the piece.

And yes, I agree.

You'll probably get some italic text and a bordered text box for your quote. The end product is going to be layed out like a typical intro to an RPG book.

Edit: I actually just screen capped the post and cropped it. :D
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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #68 on: October 31, 2011, 11:42:02 AM »
Holy rez thread: Allen Gregory is the worst Fox cartoon I've seen.

The ads for this did not appeal to me at all...

My problem with it is that it demands for me to feel sorry for a spoiled rich kid who doesn't know how to act in "middle class" America. And how shocking it will be when his father officially goes bankrupt (probably around episode 4 or 5 given the foreshadowing in the pilot).
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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #69 on: October 31, 2011, 12:22:55 PM »
Is that what it's about, misplaced rich kid? I honestly couldn't tell. I saw an ad for it that juxtiposed it with Family Guy and The Simpsons where it looked horribly out of place. My first thought was that the show had escaped from Adult Swim or Comedy Central.

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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #70 on: October 31, 2011, 03:47:36 PM »
Is that what it's about, misplaced rich kid? I honestly couldn't tell. I saw an ad for it that juxtiposed it with Family Guy and The Simpsons where it looked horribly out of place. My first thought was that the show had escaped from Adult Swim or Comedy Central.

Yeah, which makes me more upset that it replaced Bob's Burgers, which was probably one of the best breakdowns of class politics in America I've seen for a long time (and had some of the best developed characters for a Fox cartoon series). These reason are probably why it didn't last.
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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #71 on: March 08, 2012, 01:08:22 AM »
So The Faerie Queene sucks.

In case you were planning on reading it. Soo many eftesoones. Just get it on libravox via archive.org
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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #72 on: March 08, 2012, 06:49:10 AM »
So The Faerie Queene sucks.

In case you were planning on reading it. Soo many eftesoones. Just get it on libravox via archive.org

Wow, what did you have to read that for?
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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #73 on: March 13, 2012, 05:06:14 AM »
 
So The Faerie Queene sucks.

In case you were planning on reading it. Soo many eftesoones. Just get it on libravox via archive.org

Wow, what did you have to read that for?

Grad Renaissance lit
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Re: Topic. It's what's for dinner.
« Reply #74 on: March 13, 2012, 04:14:28 PM »
So The Faerie Queene sucks.

In case you were planning on reading it. Soo many eftesoones. Just get it on libravox via archive.org

Wow, what did you have to read that for?

Grad Renaissance lit

Ah, the last time I read it was in a pre-modern survey class. In grad school, I managed to avoid it although I got suckered into taking two Restoration literature classes.
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