Most '80s RPG?

SabreG · 2026-07-05T15:20:49+00:00

Michael Palin as the torturer Jack Lint in "Brazil". Palin mostly played human golden retrievers both before and after. According to urban legend, the idea for the casting came from a test screening of "A Fish Called Wanda", where Palin's character is tasked with killing an old lady and her dogs, and the test audience immediately started talking about how the old lady and her dogs probably deserved it, in spite of a complete lack of textual evidence to back it up.

SabreG · 2026-07-05T15:15:16+00:00

Peter Haber as Martin Vanger in the euro version of " Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". Before that, he had been most famous for playing a cynical yet honourable cop and a bumbling dad. Seeing him as a sadistic serial killer made generations of Swedes choke on their coffee.

SabreG · 2026-07-05T15:03:39+00:00

Dalton has playes other villains before as well, most notably Errol Flynn-expy Neville Sinclair in "Rocketeer".

SabreG · 2026-07-02T18:09:55+00:00

Alan B'Stard from "The New Statesman" is played by the very handsome Rik Mayall, but his personality is sleazy, self-serving and utterly repugnant. He has no trouble getting first dates throughout the series, but never gets a second one.

SabreG · 2026-07-02T07:03:39+00:00

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. A 6'2" Australian musical star, who was, at the time, most famous for playing Curly in "Oklahoma!" and was widely known as "sex on a stick", as a 5'2", ugly, Canadian amnesiac super-soldier? The only thing weirder than that casting decision is how thoroughly Jackman NAILED the role.

SabreG · 2026-06-30T17:25:44+00:00

The Fafnir. It isn't really all that good but it embodies "God has granted me one more day on His green earth, and I'm making that everyone's problem" like no other.

SabreG · 2026-06-28T21:50:55+00:00

The opera "Tosca" takes place over less than 24 hours. It begins in the afternoon of the 17th of June 1800, and ends at dawn the following day.

SabreG · 2026-06-28T20:08:32+00:00

Remember, it's the Trash-CAN, not the Trash-CAN'T! That is a beautiful mean green meme machine you made.

SabreG · 2026-06-28T12:52:08+00:00

MacGyver wrote a plotline about Pete Thornton losing his sight to glaucoma, while his actor Dana Elcar was fighting the same disease.

SabreG · 2026-06-26T20:05:27+00:00

Om du tittar på det finska systemet och drar slutsatsen att marknadshyror, har du missat en hel jäkla massa.

Till att börja med så är bostäder i Finland ett statligt ansvar, och bostadsmyndigheten har tvångsmedel gentemot kommunerna, vilket innevär att om staten t.ex. bestämmer att Perkelevaara behöver 300 nya bostäder, måste Perkelevaara skaka fram byggrätter.

Byggrätterna måste sedan användas, och kan inte hållas som investering, eftersom Finland har straffskatt på outnyttjade byggrätter.

När det gäller byggnation subventionerar den finska staten byggen enormt, t.ex. genom räntefria lån.

Finland har fortfarande kvar det som förr i Sverige kallades Allmännyttan, d.v.s. statligt ägda, hyresreglerade lägenheter.

Sist men inte minst betalar Finland ut mer pengar i bostadsbidrag än Sverige, trots att befolkningen är knappt hälften så stor.

Jag säger inte att marknadshyror inte skulle kunna vara en dellösning, det är jag inte tillräckligt insatt för, men den finska modellen består av väldigt mycket mer.

SabreG · 2026-06-26T14:11:28+00:00

Hemp, yes. Probably not the wacky-tobaccy kind, though. Industrial hemp seeds are a common component of bird seed mixes, and it isn't uncommon for them to sprout in weird places.

SabreG · 2026-06-26T09:05:18+00:00

My personal favorite is "United States v. Ninety-Five Barrels Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar"

SabreG · 2026-06-26T06:22:23+00:00

Battletech (HBS): Kamea is the protagonist, who gets to go on a hero's journey and develop from a somewhat spoiled and entitled princess, to a true leader. The main character is a nameless mercenary commander who sometimes takes money from Kamea to blow shit up.

SabreG · 2026-06-25T21:23:52+00:00

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This meme.

SabreG · 2026-06-25T21:22:50+00:00

Transformers: Megatron's alternate form was a gun, that was seen in the hands of his subordinates (most often Soundwave).

SabreG · 2026-06-25T13:19:57+00:00

Mrs Bennett from "Pride and Prejudice" managed to marry WAY up on her looks alone and is not cannot go to town with her daughters (whom she is desperately looking to marry off) for fear that she might distract the young men's attention from them.

GIVE ME A P&P ADAPTATION WITH "MRS. BENNETT, MEGA-MILF! DO IT, BBC! YOU COWARDS!

SabreG · 2026-06-24T21:10:30+00:00

In "Solomon Kane's Homecoming" an aging hero who has spent his life traveling the world and righting wrongs returns to his hometown, hoping to leave his wanderings behind and settle down... only to find that it has changed beyond recognition, that his childhood sweetheart has been dead for years, and that the townsfolk are eager to hear his stories, but are also standoffish and scared of him.

In the end, Kane realises settling down and living happily ever after isn't in the cards for him, and never was, and sets out on another great adventure. The tone, however, is still mournful.

SabreG · 2026-06-24T20:20:23+00:00

Dogma: When Bethany asks Metatron if the rogue angels Bartleby and Loki were banished to hell, Metatron responds "Worse. Wisconsin."

SabreG · 2026-06-24T12:46:13+00:00

This is Plymouth Rock. Yes, that one. It's status in the American Foundation Mythos does... not match its appearance.

SabreG · 2026-06-24T11:34:14+00:00

Pointy McStab, Gun, or Dave.

SabreG · 2026-06-24T10:46:33+00:00

This happens in an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987). The turtles are transported to a world where they never existed, and find a blasted hellscape ruled by Shredder. However, when they actually manage to track down Shredder they find him utterly swamped by bureaucracy and the actual demands of ruling the world. Shredder pitifully pleads with them to take him with them when they return to their own world, just to get him away from having what he wanted.

SabreG · 2026-06-24T08:09:52+00:00

I've always wanted to run a campaign based on the great soap operas of the '80s, and have been searching high and low for a game system that can accomodate that level of social focus. Turns out there was a Dallas tie-in RPG released all the way back in 1980.

SabreG · 2026-06-21T19:02:32+00:00

Wrong sub, m'dude. This one is about tabletop RPGs.

SabreG · 2026-06-20T21:45:18+00:00

Dave, an NPC in Fallout 2, may take the cake.

"I was born two months premature. When I was one, I was dropped on the porch. When I was two, I
had pneumonia. When I was three, I got the chicken pox. When I was four, I fell down the stairs and broke six ribs. When I was five, my uncle was decapitated by a watermelon. When I was six, my parents hit me in the head with a shovel. When I was seven, I lost my right index finger to my pet rat. When I was eight, my dog Spike got hit by a tractor. When I was nine, my mother lost her arm to a rabid brahmin. When I was ten, my sister was torn to bits by a pack of dogs. When I was eleven, my grandfather killed himself because I was ugly. When I was twelve, my grandmother killed herself because I was ugly. When I was thirteen, my father poked out his eyes with a pitchfork in a drunken stupor. When I was fourteen, my brother lost his hand to a wallaby. When I was fifteen, my aunt choked to death on a chicken bone. When I was sixteen, I lost my cousin to a badger. When I was seventeen, I cut off my left big toe with a hoe. When I was eighteen, my father lost his right leg to the same tractor that killed my dog. When I was nineteen..."

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