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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Future Ransom: The Aaron/CoC Project

« on: July 21, 2010, 04:56:50 AM »

You guys need more dark haired people in your life. Like jake he seemed like a nice fellow.

One of the best people Tom and I know. We've talked to him about possibly joining in on an Actual Play, but getting him is somewhat difficult since he is usually on a very full school/work/artists schedule. 

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Future Ransom: The Aaron/CoC Project

« on: July 20, 2010, 10:01:51 PM »

The person playing our "Enforcer" is a friend of mine and Toms named Jake.  He was kind enough to step in and mime beating the living crap out of me.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Future Ransom: The Aaron/CoC Project

« on: July 20, 2010, 08:08:42 PM »

What did you think I looked like. (Seriously though, thank you all!)

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General Chaos / Re: Best Internet Vidyas

« on: July 19, 2010, 04:27:59 AM »

The Force is Strong with this one.....

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon Preparations

« on: July 19, 2010, 02:43:36 AM »

Dear Primus, I think you have Toms character sheet.

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General Chaos / Re: Inception

« on: July 19, 2010, 01:23:01 AM »

[spoiler]3) Logical inconsistencies. Okay, so this one comes with the territory of any sci-fi film, so I am willing to give it a small benefit of doubt, but it just seems ridiculous to me that seeing as how they have the ability to do anything in a dream, they wouldn’t be able to handle some guy’s subconscious. It was like they weren’t even trying!
“His mind has trained defenses of men shooting at us with machine guns!”
“Let’s use pistols on them!”
“Why don’t we just dream up another weapon that is far more powerful?”
“Because that requires a larger budget than this film is capable of. We’d have to have additional effects and explosions, etc.”[/spoiler]

[spoiler] I thought it was pretty obvious why the team only chose to combat Fischers subconscious defenses in a basic way.  When more alterations are introduced into a subjects mind, the more aggressive the response to the intrusion will be.  By keeping a low key (mostly), the team managed to only attract a well-armed, but smaller defense force in the first layer of the dream.  Had they tried anything more obtrusive, the level of retribution would have probably been more severe (e.g. the entire subconscious revolting, Godzilla attack, etc).

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General Chaos / Re: GenCon Preparations

« on: July 14, 2010, 05:19:43 PM »

The convention has freebie bade holders that work pretty well as long as you're not too rough with them (mine disintegrated on the third day of the con). They do sell better ones for around $10, I think. 

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General Chaos / Re: Image Thread

« on: July 14, 2010, 06:46:56 AM »

"The important thing is I'm meeting new people"

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General Chaos / Re: Image Thread

« on: July 13, 2010, 01:33:57 AM »

Sorry. Actually I had just finished this gif and needed an excuse to use it. 

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General Chaos / Re: Best Internet Vidyas

« on: July 13, 2010, 12:30:05 AM »

Continuing the current thread:

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Edit: Don't know who the heck Mill Maher is, but hopefully his performance will be the same as the Bill Maher one I have already seen.

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General Chaos / Re: Image Thread

« on: July 13, 2010, 12:18:44 AM »

As soon as the Greenland shark gets its act together and starts really scarfing down seals and pengins like it should I've got no choice. Doesn't mean I have to like the pale bastards.

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General Chaos / Re: Image Thread

« on: July 08, 2010, 07:32:11 AM »

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: ross post more updates do it

« on: July 05, 2010, 01:38:23 AM »

Cody, you should know better. We can't expect the same things of Aaron that we can of you.

Actually this was a misunderstanding on my part. The images I posted were actually coming from my wikidot storage page, so by technical definition it was not image leeching. But I failed to inform Ross of (which I've corrected), so the blame does rest on me. Sorry again.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: ross post more updates do it

« on: July 04, 2010, 12:18:01 AM »

When Ross doesn't update on time, this is the inevitable result:

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General Chaos / Re: Best Internet Vidyas

« on: July 02, 2010, 03:29:53 AM »

I guess I thought the world was quite interestingly painted, and an interesting concept, so having the mechanics of it barely touched upon before the quick cure was found left me a little cold. It might have warranted an HBO mini-series. Didn't notice the Gattaca style camera work

I definitely agree with you that a little more exposition on how the virus spread and mutated through the population could have helped the overall immersion.  But given the nature of the cure and the state of the vampire population at the end of the movie, that that leaves the potential for expanding the backstory in a sequel.