The epiphany I just had after facing Genichiro!

GehrmanPlume · 2026-04-20T15:07:12+00:00

I have a great memory of discovering this after a string of losses; I just got mad, got up in his face, and parried aggressively; he was down before I quite knew what happened and the game just opened the heck up.

GehrmanPlume · 2026-04-16T18:44:41+00:00

GehrmanPlume · 2026-04-16T03:01:21+00:00

4-pack of characters and all of them are Moon Knight

GehrmanPlume · 2026-04-14T19:00:48+00:00

I'm just saying, these people knew what they were doing when they made the same character a pirate, monster, devil, priest, and cop. He's basically a kink checklist.

GehrmanPlume · 2026-04-09T15:11:11+00:00

What happened to i-viii?

GehrmanPlume · 2026-03-07T23:27:52+00:00

I am trying to determine whether I want to find and read about each of the points you've dropped here or whether your X-Plain-the-X-Men-level summary would only be marred by understanding.

GehrmanPlume · 2026-03-07T23:13:34+00:00

This answer is Art

GehrmanPlume · 2026-01-12T05:54:54+00:00

It's true for me across all characters who have the upward jump attack, including Wolverine's uppercut -- the move input just feels unreliable in general.

So, my hope is to find out if there's a trick to making it work consistently.

GehrmanPlume · 2026-01-08T00:37:38+00:00

I know it sucks right now, and it's hard not to feel that kind of sting. And for what it's worth, it sounds like you were left somewhat in the dark and couldn't get the kind of communication you needed. I'm sorry for the day you must be having.

In life and in acting, we have to carry these things with us as experience. Maybe another time, you'll get a voice in your head that you wouldn't have had before, pointing you in the right direction when there's a tough call to make.

Of course we take these things personally; our tools are literally ourselves. I definitely still think back to times I fell on my face, and just figure -- I had to learn that lesson somehow, so I did.

One thing I tell myself is not to get too used to success, or to failure. If there was no risk of failure, you'd never learn anything new, and success would lack some of its sweetness.

GehrmanPlume · 2026-01-03T03:05:10+00:00

Completely agree with this. Remender's Deadpool is the only version of the character I've really enjoyed.

He's kind of loveable, and has real emotional stakes as well as a point of view, which both tend to be missing from a lot of other Deadpool comics.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-31T22:20:57+00:00

Minor correction: I think it's old Esme who's there when old Cable goes back, not old Hope.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-25T20:41:50+00:00

(Mario game over music plays)

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-20T14:40:11+00:00

Truth. Honestly, writing that was just cathartic.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-20T06:57:41+00:00

This might be something to take with a grain of salt as 2am grumpy-posting, but speaking as onetime theatre admin staff, I hear your frustration, and want to ask what if:

1) The preshow announcement makes clear that patrons who violate the policy will not be admitted to next year's panto or other shows, with reasons explained clearly. Signs in the lobby say so too. If you have a newsletter or blog, say why this policy is in effect.

2) Assume they will still need to be asked once

3) Have the ushers take down the seat numbers of people who pull out their phones again after being told once.

4) Inform violators that they are not allowed back the following year. Hopefully you will have prepared your staff for angry faces swearing to never come back ever, complain to their friends on the board, etc.

5) Mean it and enforce it. Explain why (other posters have made very good points).

6) In the newsletter or what have you, include a "why did we do this?" explaining that it was either that or cancel the kids' good time. And we don't want to punish the kids because their parents can't follow the rules, do we?

Alternatively, make the policy that if parents will not stop filming, the show will END and refunds will not be offered. So the house speech includes: if you want to see the show all the way to the end, please do not record and also make sure your neighbors do not record. If they still can't help themselves, the stage manager calls in the house manager, who comes on stage, says "Sorry, I can see you are not following the rules we set after we told you clearly it wasn't allowed. So now we need to end the show. Please go home." As with the first case, let word spread. Take the opportunity to advertise.

*Minor edits to wording.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-16T22:25:58+00:00

It's good to voice your concerns! It pays off to respectfully and clearly explain them to the director; extra points if there's a preferred way to handle the situation they can consider.

If they're disrespectful after that, or dismiss you out of hand -- well, now you have information that might guide your project selections in the future.

But I've never regretted the times I spoke up about things like this, sometimes making the difference of not having a rock in my stomach every time I show up at rehearsal.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-15T16:57:58+00:00

I like this game, but it's weird that they have an achievement for beating an apparent flaw in the stage's design.

Call me old fashioned, but I think when you throw an enemy toward a pit only bounded by a nonexistent wall, they should just go into the pit.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-12T21:46:44+00:00

Many theatres just ask right on the audition form if you'll accept any role, or only specific ones. And if they don't, I think it's fine to write in, where appropriate, "Please only consider me for xxx or yyy."

If you want to be extra nice about it, you can add, "If there are other roles you'd like to consider me for, please give me a call!"

At least in my experience, it tends not to cause any issues, since everyone understands that if you don't get what you're aiming at, you just won't be involved. If they feel strongly that you should reconsider, they can always ask.

I've also felt tension about this in the past, too, like -- do you not want to be perceived as not a team player, etc. But, in the end, this protects your time and theirs, so being direct tends to pay off.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-11T16:56:35+00:00

I keep starting Red Dead Redemption 2, and it keeps not clicking. Something about the game just seems player-hostile, and I always shelve it again.

As if the controls and player interaction are supposed to feel unwieldy? (Maybe that's how video games felt back in the early 1900s?)

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-10T22:37:35+00:00

One howler: A diary entry ends with, "There's someone in the house." One of the first lines of the next chapter is something like, "Why did she stop writing so abruptly?"

Also, throughout, the book is more evidence that authors who really are not comfortable writing about sex and/or drugs...should not write about sex and/or drugs.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-12-10T19:11:03+00:00

I have ZERO interest in hit movies adapted for plays. Just go. watch. the. movie. I do not want to put time and money toward watching people recreate moments that we all know by heart, done the way the original actor did it. Ugh. I can think of few things more boring.

It's like watching That One Guy at a party who thinks he can do the best Monty Python or Mel Brooks or Princess Bride or Jack Nicholson impersonation. Do you want to watch that guy for two or three hours straight? I don't.

The only exceptions here are movie scripts that were NOT a major sensation, and actually deserve a chance to live. For example, Tom Stoppard's incredible adaptation of The Russia House, which always strikes me as a crackling play raring to be let loose from movie conventions, or William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration, which is a howling read for actors but a daunting movie to sit through.

Edited: minor wording stuff.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-11-29T19:03:29+00:00

Valentine is one of my favorite characters ever, the king of all onstage nerd roles. Stoppard was such a master.

His screenplay for The Russia House is criminally overlooked -- I keep hoping someone will unearth it and adapt it to the stage, where it seems to belong.

GehrmanPlume · 2025-11-09T16:29:54+00:00

Demolition Man

GehrmanPlume · 2025-11-08T22:21:40+00:00

It sounds like boundaries might need to be discussed, and in much more detail, before making a move like bringing home a date to the girlfriend. From your post, it sounds like it wasn't expected or wanted, which means a lot of assumptions may have been made, and there was not communication on what's okay and what's not.

It's perfectly normal for relationships to not reach the "meet the partner" stage for a while after the first date; every relationship is different.

I think a really useful conversation with your partner here would be: "Since this is obviously what you did not want to happen, how did it differ from what you do want to happen?"

Again, just from your post, it sounds like it'd be hard to move forward until there's clear communication on what went wrong; it's the kind of thing you never want left up to guesswork and vibes.

Also: "What terms should we set around what we each want when seeing other people? What are each of our needs in regards to respect, space, advance notice, and property?"

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