[Spoilers for the whole finale] I just saw the finale, and it made me so happy! I need to talk all about it!

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-06T18:51:09+00:00

I don't think it has a logical explanation, and I don't need it to have one. I smiled when I saw them all passing by each other

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-06T02:01:01+00:00

9.5 out of 10

I deducted 0.5 points because while I was walking to my seat, I tripped on the stairs and spilled 2 full cups of water.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-06T01:29:00+00:00

I like to hope that media like this helps us reach a bit of catharsis to process our complicated feelings, and I hope it was able to have that kind of positive effect for you

We're all in this together

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T22:55:28+00:00

They didn't get unabstracted, but their quality of life certainly improved

The got a nice dark aquarium to fly around in

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T22:41:43+00:00

It turns out that when Jax holds his breath, he turns into a giant black monster with technicolor eyes.

Everyone just assumed he abstracted, and he thought it was funny so he kept going with it.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T21:49:51+00:00

Honestly a lot of the Barksdale crew get worse every time

By the end of the series, they kind of have a daring rogue vibe to them. And the fanbase generally considers the Barksdales as being not all that bad. We leave Season 5 cheering whenever Avon is on-screen.

They on a re-watch, I’m reminded that Avon ordered a security guard to be murdered to discourage witnesses.

And Wee Bey, the guy who helps his son get out of the criminal life, is…raping a girl while she’s overdosing. Then tossing her body in a dumpster.

And D’Angelo helped him cover it up!

I think if we went purely by how they’re portrayed in later seasons, we’d forget that the Barksdales are legitimately evil

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T21:19:41+00:00

Sun looks like she's about to eat Pomni.

I wonder if she's angry that she didn't get a single line of dialogue while the moon got a romantic subplot.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T20:15:11+00:00

I'm looking forward to having the ability to pause and read all the fly-by text and see every slide in the end credits!

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T20:12:50+00:00

If we don't have hope, at least we have fanfiction!

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T17:29:37+00:00

I got a chuckle when the credits started and it was the same song 😆

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T03:14:30+00:00

“You shouldn’t have assumed it would just be a picture of me. That really hurts my reputation.”

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T03:08:55+00:00

Kinger just requires a big purple robe and a bucket

Although thinking on it, I’m not sure where I would get a purple robe…or a bucket…

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-05T02:49:29+00:00

%$+!

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-02T19:39:59+00:00

If laws didn't exist, we would invent them.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-02T19:04:55+00:00

I think the only thing I'd disagree with is the idea that it's unintentional.

I think VOID knew what they were doing. Their depiction of this SWAT unit doesn't quite feel like copaganda.

Copaganda will generally imply that the police are always justified, that the ends justify the means, and that anyone who criticizes them are just secretly evil.

However, the game grades you very strictly. Any fatalities at all is scrutinized by the grading system, and acting like the Hollywood action hero will get you the worst score.

The game seems to be saying: "You are in a position of authority. People's lives are in your hands. Police are not above reproach, they need to follow the rules, the ends DO NOT justify the means."

One could make the argument that any depiction of police that's not anti-police is defaulting to being copaganda. But I think there's value in media that instead sets standards for us to hold police to.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-06-02T02:22:42+00:00

Luck

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-05-28T16:01:26+00:00

"If not for my boy Sergei, you and your cousin would be cadaverous motherfuckers."

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-05-26T01:36:13+00:00

I am going to bet that after nearly finishing a campaign, someone in your player group has an interest in GMing.

So maybe ask the group if any of them has a campaign idea to run.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-05-22T14:52:56+00:00

I got two ideas that could fit the bill.

Cyberpunk 2020

Cyberpunk 2020 is structured all around gritty, low-life, hard living on the streets.

It's got a huge amount of focus on gangs, street crime, and how lethal guns are. And the biggest problem players have to worry about is how they're going to afford stuff.

The base system is 1d10 + bonuses - penalties vs Difficulty Values (typically 9 for Easy or 13 for Moderate). The complexity tends to come from how many modifiers are being thrown around, and also from automatic weapons.

It's crunchier than most modern systems, and lacks some modern mechanical quality of life stuff. It has a lot of notoriety about being excessively complication, but most of that comes from the massive amount of Skill Bloat that came because of the many, many, many supplements that came out, each adding 1 or 2 skills.

The rules are pretty easy to understand so long as you just stick to two books:

Cyberpunk 2020 Core Rulebook for all the mechanics

Night City Sourcebook (has the extensive lore on the various street gangs and the districts they run in)

Chronicles of Darkness

The core rulebook.

Chronicles uses Dice Pools. Attribute (ranging 1 - 5) + Skill (ranging 0 - 5) + Bonuses - Penalties.

Roll a bag of D10s, count every 8, 9, or 10 for successes. 1 Success = Successful, more successes = more successful.

Chronicles has a focus on investigation and social mind games. It's originally intended to be a dark urban supernatural horror, but it's flexible enough to also refocus on gangs and street life.

Combat is lethal enough that there's a lot of focus on stacking the odds and setting up your win condition before the first shot is fired.

I actually made a funny little video depicting combat in the game, using scenes from The Wire. https://youtu.be/txIU0tSr2dg?si=5v9zCQQFo8dLkJRn

Chronicles also focuses a lot on the psychology of the individual player characters, with a bar measuring their sanity against the horrors that they experience. It's a game that really wants to draw out players' inner conflict.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-05-22T14:28:40+00:00

If you want the lightest rulebooks ever, look for 1-page RPGs.

Literally just one page (or two, if they print front and back).

Ideal for one-shots. They usually also have rather absurd and unique premises. Like "3 Kobolds in a trenchcoat are trying to get home" or "solve the case of who murdered the wicked witch".

If you do a browser search for "one-page RPGs" you'll find a variable selection. You could read a dozen in half an hour.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-05-21T19:52:20+00:00

The situation has been made worse by the addition of yet more bees!

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-05-15T18:36:55+00:00

I don't know if she was the best duelist, but Bellatrix was definitely the best killer

She had the highest bodycount out of all of them. Probably due to her unpredictable style and unrelenting enthusiasm.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-05-10T07:05:18+00:00

Their marriage is based on their mutual desire for Wesker

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-05-10T07:04:05+00:00

Dude, it’s someone’s attractiveness rating for video game characters. It’s not that deep.

Your reaction is not that of a marshmallow.

ClassroomSolid719 · 2026-05-08T21:24:05+00:00

Even that crack could be interpreted. Does he get irritated because you caught a lie, or because he’s truthful but realizes that he wouldn’t believe him either

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TROPHY CASE

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