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RPG Ghetto / Re: Coyote's random RPG ideas

« on: May 14, 2013, 04:18:55 am »

Mind if I throw one in?

if it's bouncing off of one of mine go ahead.

Not really, but the first reminded me of an idea I had for a post-apocalyptic game in which huge asteroids had struck the earth in the middle of World War I. Europe reverted to a feudal system and there were things like knights walking the earth with Brodie helmets and Lee-Enfields, trying to survive the horrors of feudal trench warfare and the Lovecraftian things that were living in the asteroids. Mechanical knowledge from the industrial era was revered, and machines that still worked were cherished as holy relics. I figured the main action of the game could take place on the British mainland. The idea was silly as fuck, but also grim in a way that only this image can properly convey: http://michaelkutsche.deviantart.com/art/The-Trench-94147716
I figured I'd run it in a heavily modified variant of D20 Modern, or maybe Pathfinder, but I couldn't figure out a way to balance it properly or handle pre-decimalized currency, so I scrapped it.

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RPG Ghetto / Re: Coyote's random RPG ideas

« on: May 13, 2013, 05:16:20 pm »

Mind if I throw one in?

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Apple Zone / Re: Hyperbole and a Half: motherfucking UPDATE

« on: May 10, 2013, 04:55:43 am »

Yeah, it takes work. Work and discipline, I find. It's weird, but I found a degree of self-discipline actually made me a bit more flexible in my thinking. For me, depression took the form of a rigid dogma, and forcing myself to step back and think "It's just your brain being retarded, take another go at it with logic" tended to totally short it out. Another thought I found helpful when my friends started telling me it was all a choice(the more I think about them, the shittier people they seem to be. I think I'm beginning to detect a pattern here.) was "You can't choose what to feel, but you can choose not to be defeated by it". For now, it's my standby whenever the depression comes back. I just go through the motions as well as I can and ride it out, and it seems to resolve itself a lot more quickly and thoroughly than when I stress out over not being happy enough.

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Or Kill Me / Re: All Justified

« on: May 03, 2013, 10:26:07 am »

Not intended to be allegory for anything, but feel free to read it that way. I'm not sure it really counts as a rant, but I was sick of the contents and needed to vent.

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Or Kill Me / All Justified

« on: May 03, 2013, 04:55:27 am »

Dammit, I hate what I've become. I'm a walking appliance. I can do the work of two men, but I can't smile, or tell a joke, or even laugh at one. I spend all my time at work half-awake, trying to psychoanalyze myself and make up fucking terrible fantasy settings for games that are doubly imaginary, since they'll only ever exist in my own head. I have no education and no idea what I even want out of life. The only friends I ever see in person are filthy borderline cultists that keep pressuring me into joining a hypothetical primitivist settlement that I really don't want anything to do with because I think it's fucking retarded, and it hurts whenever I see them, because it feels like I'm watching them die. I talk to them, but I know on some level I'm just talking to the corpses of the friends I used to have, and what's left is just a pair of puppets, and sometimes I can feel the things inside them reaching out with their tentacles and trying to pull me in. And you know what? They were jerks to begin with. And so was I. So fuck it. It is what it is, and everyone involved deserved it.

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RPG Ghetto / Re: Project Eternity

« on: April 26, 2013, 07:16:58 pm »

Liking the creature design for PE so far:

...Batmen? There's a race of batmen? Awesome.

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RPG Ghetto / Re: The Saga of Asobien

« on: March 28, 2013, 04:46:07 am »

Nice name for a desert settlement. I gather the dwarves have a sense of humor.

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Apple Zone / Re: Little Orange Breaks Bad

« on: March 06, 2013, 03:38:59 am »

Excellent work, Roger. I wanted to say so earlier, but I figured I'd wait until it was done so I wouldn't have to keep repeating myself.
I might write something for this, but if I do it'll likely involve a totally different set of characters in the same general universe, partly because I know a few people I want to write about, and partly because I figure it's the best way to avoid shitting all over your versions of the characters. I figure if it worked for the Nessie thread, it'll probably work for this one.

That's kind of the idea.  Use the structure, add your own characters.

That was a bit of a Captain Obvious statement on my part, wasn't it?
Fuck it, I'll be back later with a story.

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Apple Zone / Re: Little Orange Breaks Bad

« on: March 06, 2013, 02:44:17 am »

Excellent work, Roger. I wanted to say so earlier, but I figured I'd wait until it was done so I wouldn't have to keep repeating myself.
I might write something for this, but if I do it'll likely involve a totally different set of characters in the same general universe, partly because I know a few people I want to write about, and partly because I figure it's the best way to avoid shitting all over your versions of the characters. I figure if it worked for the Nessie thread, it'll probably work for this one.

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Apple Zone / Re: Manic Depression- explained by me, your unfriendly neighborhood Squid

« on: March 02, 2013, 07:24:56 pm »

FUCK. YEAH.


This is the shit I try explaining to my retarded New Age hippie friends when they tell me my state of mind's a matter of choice. You can't choose not to be depressed, only not to be defeated by it.

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Apple Zone / Re: ITT: TGRR helps you with your personals ads.

« on: March 02, 2013, 06:42:15 am »

Once again, I will request an ad for a neurotic Canadian.

M/S/straight/<insert age> in frozen hellhole, seeks hot socialist mama to get my social safety net on with.  Must enjoy vinegar on french fries, hockey on Sunday, and 10 extra yards in football for no apparent reason.  I'll bring the mukluks, you bring the crotchless wet suit and 5 gallon jug of mayonnaise, and we'll play "frack the shale" on the back patio.  My ideal woman votes NDP but has a secret crush on Pierre Trudeau, wears heavier boots than me, and knows where the flannel shirt goes, if you know what I mean.  And I think you do.  Serious inquiries only.

Two layers of mittens. It's cold up here.

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Apple Zone / Re: ITT: TGRR helps you with your personals ads.

« on: March 02, 2013, 06:33:59 am »

Once again, I will request an ad for a neurotic Canadian.

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Apple Zone / Re: Hey

« on: January 19, 2013, 07:20:37 pm »

Eat the blanket.

That would entail a part of everything.

Really what's probably going to happen is I'm eventually going to go to the bodega for coffee V8 and macaroni and cheese.

I have just had a fucking godly bowl of macaroni and cheese. I added a capful of vinegar for bite and melted in a bit of mozzarella. Only two modifications I made, but the outcome was delicious. I highly recommend it.

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Apple Zone / Re: The Loser's Dream

« on: January 13, 2013, 04:26:57 pm »

The sad thing is, there's more than enough wealth for every single one of us to live a comfortable middle-class lifestyle, and enough left over for some people to be rich. Just not SUPER-rich. But who actually needs to be super-rich? What's the benefit?

I wouldn't mind the super-rich if they actually did something useful or interesting with their money, even if all they did was become stereotypical James Bond villains with death rays and secret bases in extinct volcanos.  Or maybe especially if that's what they did.  But another mansion, another yacht... it's all very boring and pointless.

This. It'd be cool if they acted like they did in the pulps. A world crawling with Batman and Doc Samson clones would be a hell of a lot more interesting than the one we live in now. That, and they probably wouldn't be able to keep it up for long, since they'd probably burn through their wealth on all the gadgets. If adventuring and villainy were some sort of bizarre custom among the rich, it'd probably result in a pretty high turnover rate for billionaires, which in turn could create a world where upward mobility is actually a thing in capitalism. Even if it didn't, at least all that money would be going somewhere. At least there'd be a point to all the concentration of wealth.

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Apple Zone / Re: I'M STARTING A NEW "WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?" THREAD

« on: January 11, 2013, 08:02:19 am »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ

Divinely-inspired glory.