Apparently the Ant-Man movie is not about Hank Pym?
Hank Pym is the asshole super-scientist, right? The one who is violent with his wife and a complete dick?
there are 2 ant mans the one the movie is focusing on is scott lang
hank pym will be michael douglas who invents the shit but isnt a bad enough dude to rescue the president
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All this superhero talk is making me really want to play a superhero rpg.
Hey @Thomamelas, @Jacobkosh I'm not sure about the others in the our group but after this month of RP'ing I'd love to be part of a superhero RP if you guys ever get the itch to play it.
All this superhero talk is making me really want to play a superhero rpg.
Hey Thomamelas, Jacobkosh I'm not sure about the others in the our group but after this month of RP'ing I'd love to be part of a superhero RP if you guys ever get the itch to play it.
I think it could be really interesting to play Leverage with super-powers.
Apparently the Ant-Man movie is not about Hank Pym?
Hank Pym is the asshole super-scientist, right? The one who is violent with his wife and a complete dick?
there are 2 ant mans the one the movie is focusing on is scott lang
hank pym will be michael douglas who invents the shit but isnt a bad enough dude to rescue the president
Hank Pym really pretty much coasts off one discovery. His only other scientific accomplishment was building an AI. Which promptly went insane. I'm not saying he's the worst scientist in the MU but he's pretty bad. But hey, he did help set up this line.
The whole premise with Captain America in the second movie though is that he's a antiquated fossil of old ideals in a modern battleground of cloak and daggers.
The thing that I like about Captain America is that he doesn't go in for the cloak and dagger stuff. I mean, he'll sneak into a building, but he doesn't do the stab you in the back thing.
He's a good character that I always thought was lame, but the more I'm exposed to, the more I like. I like his kind of tragedy, and I like his motivations.
yeah captain america is actually good not because u take him and go llol wat a jingoistic fuckhead but precisely because he is an perfect version of a certain type of 1940s american masculine ideal - strong, honourable, capable, but also humble because he has memories of being weak and so on - but nonetheless he is totally out of his time. so first u get the shift of things that to him will seem harmless but will seem either funny at best or downright chauvanistic at worse, and the total disconnection between him and this world that has changed in all these truly bizarre ways.
and thats kewl. the more respect the writers have for the character the more interesting he gets, because he is one of the few characters who can be run as a boy scout and nonetheless be interesting; because hes not this years model of boy scout!
Also because Cap adapts
He's not all "Ugh, this modern world with your women who wear these things and these uppity blacks" like Mark Millar's Cap did.
He's like "Holy cow, the internet"
Too much hyperbole! Millar's Cap is not a racist! He is a bit chauvanistic in certain circumstances, but he is depicted as being from the 40s in a less idealized way!
I love 616 and movie Cap, I do. I do not feel that this requires me to pretend Millar's approach to Cap puts him as a Klan member piece of shit. You babies.
And I'm not even a Millar fan, Civil War sucked, Wanted sucked, Kickass was eh, but Ultimates was great!
I haven't actually read the Civil War stuff.
But in theory, I like it.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ok there is something I am obviously not getting with firefly and why people like it because I thought the show was a slow droll with a bit of funny witty dialogue here or there
You can see it as this sort of reflective space western where the cowboys were beaten by the outlaws and the plantation owners, and now there's a bunch of arguably good guys just trying to get by in a world that's gone mostly to shit.
It's suprisingly good tone-wise, because you have the joviality of the crew themselves, offset by the knowledge that the universe is now a much worse place for the browncoats having lost, and you can see how they try to keep their minds off the big issues in much the same way most people in real life do. So you have this mix of them trying to do small good deeds to feel a little better about themselves and the world, and them having to deal with the reality of just how much of a crapsack universe they live in.
All this superhero talk is making me really want to play a superhero rpg.
Hey Thomamelas, Jacobkosh I'm not sure about the others in the our group but after this month of RP'ing I'd love to be part of a superhero RP if you guys ever get the itch to play it.
I keep tossing around the idea but I've got some stuff to run first. Like Night's Black Agents. And Mutant City Blues.
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podly...
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
All this superhero talk is making me really want to play a superhero rpg.
Hey Thomamelas, Jacobkosh I'm not sure about the others in the our group but after this month of RP'ing I'd love to be part of a superhero RP if you guys ever get the itch to play it.
I was very seriously reading the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying book last night.
I really like it. It seems like a good system.
I may have already started thinking about writing something to run for it. Though I think that I would throw out the setting and do a vaguely heroes-ish type thing (having superpowers suddenly start appearing, and dealing with that)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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The whole premise with Captain America in the second movie though is that he's a antiquated fossil of old ideals in a modern battleground of cloak and daggers.
The thing that I like about Captain America is that he doesn't go in for the cloak and dagger stuff. I mean, he'll sneak into a building, but he doesn't do the stab you in the back thing.
He's a good character that I always thought was lame, but the more I'm exposed to, the more I like. I like his kind of tragedy, and I like his motivations.
yeah captain america is actually good not because u take him and go llol wat a jingoistic fuckhead but precisely because he is an perfect version of a certain type of 1940s american masculine ideal - strong, honourable, capable, but also humble because he has memories of being weak and so on - but nonetheless he is totally out of his time. so first u get the shift of things that to him will seem harmless but will seem either funny at best or downright chauvanistic at worse, and the total disconnection between him and this world that has changed in all these truly bizarre ways.
and thats kewl. the more respect the writers have for the character the more interesting he gets, because he is one of the few characters who can be run as a boy scout and nonetheless be interesting; because hes not this years model of boy scout!
Also because Cap adapts
He's not all "Ugh, this modern world with your women who wear these things and these uppity blacks" like Mark Millar's Cap did.
He's like "Holy cow, the internet"
Too much hyperbole! Millar's Cap is not a racist! He is a bit chauvanistic in certain circumstances, but he is depicted as being from the 40s in a less idealized way!
I love 616 and movie Cap, I do. I do not feel that this requires me to pretend Millar's approach to Cap puts him as a Klan member piece of shit. You babies.
And I'm not even a Millar fan, Civil War sucked, Wanted sucked, Kickass was eh, but Ultimates was great!
I haven't actually read the Civil War stuff.
But in theory, I like it.
There were a couple okay moments in Civil War but in total it was terrible and lame
Agents of SHIELD, which I think you discarded early on Pony, is still pretty ropey, but redeemed itself a bit around episode 12. It suffers pretty badly from how boring most of the cast are, and Clark Gregg does a lot of the heavy lifting to keep it enjoyable. But when it gets into Coulson's actual myth arc, as well as tying itself into the new Cap movie, it does a lot better.
For better or worse, they manage to tie the earlier monster of the week eps into the overarching plot.
my hope is Agents of SHIELD does some kind of thing with season 2 where like
they do a "jumping on point" for new people so you can just start watching it from there without having to watch the dreadful first season
because if you think I'm slogging through at least 12 episodes of Skye making awkward nerd jokes just to make the show watchable you are foolin' yourself
I watched the first five eps of AoS and concluded it was one of the worst TV shows I had seen in at least five years
admittedly, I watch very little TV so that's not a hard low to hit
but the problems I have with it are thus:
Skye in particular is offensively bad and every time she appears on screen I just want her off
the actress is bad and her writing is bad
hilariously enough Felicity Smoak on Arrow is more or less the same kind of character (incredibly hot super hacker genius who is kind of dorky and hits on the hot dude main lead awkwardly) and yet I find Felicity endearing and wonderful because the character is better written and the actress is leagues better
it's amazing the difference that makes
Ward is the boring lump of boringness (although someone spoiled how his character gets super interesting later) and I can't get over how Fitz and Simmons are literal children who are also cartoon characters
so in terms of interesting characters there are May and Coulson? they are cool
but they are surrounded by cartoons, a loaf of bread, and a motorized-chalkboard-with-nails-that-scratch-across-it-automatically device
as they engage in pointless janitorial work of the not-quite-Marvel Universe because Marvel won't let them play with any of the cool toys in case they want to make a movie out of that later
so instead of cool villains or cameos by interesting heroes, you get C-listers like Graviton (who isn't even Graviton yet, he's just a wink-wink-nudge-nudge to the fans in the style of Smallville), Z-listers like Deathlok (because they couldn't make him Power Man because Luke Cage is getting a Netflix series) or fully made up villains like the "Scorch"
I've kept my eye on AoS in case at any point it found it's testicles rolling around under the kids' table like d20s that fell down after an overenthusiastic saving throw
and apparently for all of its nonsense, Winter Soldier did some good things to the show and it might be watchable now
but we'll see.
it remains the show I want to like
but can't.
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All this superhero talk is making me really want to play a superhero rpg.
Hey Thomamelas, Jacobkosh I'm not sure about the others in the our group but after this month of RP'ing I'd love to be part of a superhero RP if you guys ever get the itch to play it.
I keep tossing around the idea but I've got some stuff to run first. Like Night's Black Agents. And Mutant City Blues.
Totally understand Thom. Definitely count me in though for anything in the future.
Also, totally looking forward to how things go tomorrow night. Really liking how things are shaping up for us. I could totally see it being like an offshoot of the show the way out wacky hijinks (mainly thanks to the dice) have been going.
Apparently the Ant-Man movie is not about Hank Pym?
Hank Pym is the asshole super-scientist, right? The one who is violent with his wife and a complete dick?
there are 2 ant mans the one the movie is focusing on is scott lang
hank pym will be michael douglas who invents the shit but isnt a bad enough dude to rescue the president
Right, right...
Are all Ant-men assholes in the comics? i seem to recall one title being something like "The Irredeemable Ant-Man"
That'd be the third Ant Man, Eric O'Grady, who was a low-level SHIELD employee with access to Pym's technology and was disgruntled with his job. Saw an opportunity to steal Pym's shit and become a "super-hero", so he did.
By "super-hero" he actually meant, thief and creep who sneaks into women's locker rooms and shit. Eric O'Grady is a creepy asshole weirdo.
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Hell not having to worry about money means that you could still do "work". But now you can do the work you want and not what you have to do to make ends meet. Look, now I can run a comic / gaming shop that doesn't make hardly any profit! Now I can take people on charter fishing trips without worrying about business costs!
Or just give people money to see what happens in Kamuro-cho.
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there are 2 ant mans the one the movie is focusing on is scott lang
hank pym will be michael douglas who invents the shit but isnt a bad enough dude to rescue the president
Hey @Thomamelas, @Jacobkosh I'm not sure about the others in the our group but after this month of RP'ing I'd love to be part of a superhero RP if you guys ever get the itch to play it.
Right, right...
Are all Ant-men assholes in the comics? i seem to recall one title being something like "The Irredeemable Ant-Man"
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Hank Pym really pretty much coasts off one discovery. His only other scientific accomplishment was building an AI. Which promptly went insane. I'm not saying he's the worst scientist in the MU but he's pretty bad. But hey, he did help set up this line.
I haven't actually read the Civil War stuff.
But in theory, I like it.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
It's suprisingly good tone-wise, because you have the joviality of the crew themselves, offset by the knowledge that the universe is now a much worse place for the browncoats having lost, and you can see how they try to keep their minds off the big issues in much the same way most people in real life do. So you have this mix of them trying to do small good deeds to feel a little better about themselves and the world, and them having to deal with the reality of just how much of a crapsack universe they live in.
I keep tossing around the idea but I've got some stuff to run first. Like Night's Black Agents. And Mutant City Blues.
podly...
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I was very seriously reading the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying book last night.
I really like it. It seems like a good system.
I may have already started thinking about writing something to run for it. Though I think that I would throw out the setting and do a vaguely heroes-ish type thing (having superpowers suddenly start appearing, and dealing with that)
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
There were a couple okay moments in Civil War but in total it was terrible and lame
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It would be off-beat.
You'd have heroes with super-powers doing things like saving people. it would be revolutionary.
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I'll admit this Pope seems pretty neat so far
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my hope is Agents of SHIELD does some kind of thing with season 2 where like
they do a "jumping on point" for new people so you can just start watching it from there without having to watch the dreadful first season
because if you think I'm slogging through at least 12 episodes of Skye making awkward nerd jokes just to make the show watchable you are foolin' yourself
I watched the first five eps of AoS and concluded it was one of the worst TV shows I had seen in at least five years
admittedly, I watch very little TV so that's not a hard low to hit
but the problems I have with it are thus:
Skye in particular is offensively bad and every time she appears on screen I just want her off
the actress is bad and her writing is bad
hilariously enough Felicity Smoak on Arrow is more or less the same kind of character (incredibly hot super hacker genius who is kind of dorky and hits on the hot dude main lead awkwardly) and yet I find Felicity endearing and wonderful because the character is better written and the actress is leagues better
it's amazing the difference that makes
Ward is the boring lump of boringness (although someone spoiled how his character gets super interesting later) and I can't get over how Fitz and Simmons are literal children who are also cartoon characters
so in terms of interesting characters there are May and Coulson? they are cool
but they are surrounded by cartoons, a loaf of bread, and a motorized-chalkboard-with-nails-that-scratch-across-it-automatically device
as they engage in pointless janitorial work of the not-quite-Marvel Universe because Marvel won't let them play with any of the cool toys in case they want to make a movie out of that later
so instead of cool villains or cameos by interesting heroes, you get C-listers like Graviton (who isn't even Graviton yet, he's just a wink-wink-nudge-nudge to the fans in the style of Smallville), Z-listers like Deathlok (because they couldn't make him Power Man because Luke Cage is getting a Netflix series) or fully made up villains like the "Scorch"
I've kept my eye on AoS in case at any point it found it's testicles rolling around under the kids' table like d20s that fell down after an overenthusiastic saving throw
and apparently for all of its nonsense, Winter Soldier did some good things to the show and it might be watchable now
but we'll see.
it remains the show I want to like
but can't.
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ehhh
in one picture shes wearing make up and a less stupid facial expression in the other she isn't, those pictures could have been taken 20 mins apart
basically she isn't ugly in pic one, she just hasn't scrubbed up
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Totally understand Thom. Definitely count me in though for anything in the future.
Also, totally looking forward to how things go tomorrow night. Really liking how things are shaping up for us. I could totally see it being like an offshoot of the show the way out wacky hijinks (mainly thanks to the dice) have been going.
have you considered #REKING someone over a nonexistant eating disorder?
podly can't dig it
must be an orphan
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Sounds like a spin-off for @Winky 's game.
That'd be the third Ant Man, Eric O'Grady, who was a low-level SHIELD employee with access to Pym's technology and was disgruntled with his job. Saw an opportunity to steal Pym's shit and become a "super-hero", so he did.
By "super-hero" he actually meant, thief and creep who sneaks into women's locker rooms and shit. Eric O'Grady is a creepy asshole weirdo.
but wait what happens if instead of making a sequence i stack the sequences on top of each other
and enter the second dimension of sound
Or just give people money to see what happens in Kamuro-cho.
frankly after a strong january and february your swag levels have really hit a trench
NOWHERE TO HIDE
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
Well I'm not the papiest person per se, but I enjoy a good paping, so I guess I'm papier than average for this papeless thread?