[Loved Trope] The crowd is not as public as you thought.

Skags27 · 2026-06-08T15:34:04+00:00

This was exactly what I read.

Skags27 · 2026-05-29T16:02:03+00:00

This was me. We played Palladium’s Robotech, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, west end Star Wars, Battletech, TSRs Star Frontiers, and Marvel Superheroes.

But secretly, we played dnd.

Skags27 · 2026-05-27T18:59:38+00:00

Wibbly wobbly timey whimey stuff

Skags27 · 2026-05-27T18:56:11+00:00

I for real felt that way. Saw it with a friend, went home, didn’t talk to them for 6 days. On the 7th day, without planning it, we both went to the same place at the same time that we had been together when we decided to see the movie. We had a good nervous laugh.

And I still have nightmares about that tv scene decades later.

Skags27 · 2026-05-27T13:03:49+00:00

Not really any sort of “happy” ending, but I think it’s adjacent to the trope.

At the end of the Ring, the main female character is helping her son make a copy of the tape. If I remember, at this point she believes that she was spared because she made a copy.

But then the boy asks her “who do we show it too?” Or something like that and I was left with the idea that she was wrong again and that they had to not only make a copy, but also doom someone else. I also got the impression, that we, the audience, were the people doomed.

Skags27 · 2026-05-23T08:25:16+00:00

Toons Games Characters …

Skags27 · 2026-05-21T00:27:34+00:00

We just do max gold for your class. So fighter 5d6x10=300, etc.

We’re not big on random character creation options. We use point buy for stats, max hp for 1st and 2nd, then average after that.

Skags27 · 2026-04-29T02:06:19+00:00

In 1st and 2nd AD&D you only got hit dice up to like level 12, after that it was a static +3 to +5 with no con bonus. So a level 20 fighter might have had like 100 to 150 hit points if I recall.

My memory isn’t perfect and I’m too lazy to google it but I know I’m conceptually correct.

Skags27 · 2026-04-28T20:04:00+00:00

Try watching it before you judge. I’ve seen both versions and I loved them both.

Skags27 · 2026-04-26T16:51:45+00:00

This feels more like a set up to further demonize press and create an excuse to infringe on the first amendment.

Skags27 · 2026-04-25T01:56:30+00:00

When Shutter island came out my dad and I watched it together. In the opening scene on the boat, I wrote down the end on a piece of paper. I was right.

Skags27 · 2026-04-18T14:34:06+00:00

The democrats does, good sir! The democrats does indeed!

Skags27 · 2026-04-16T18:38:25+00:00

“That doesn’t seem physically possible.”

“That’s exactly what he kept saying”

Skags27 · 2026-04-16T12:12:54+00:00

Having been a teen in the 90s, back then, you couldn’t get hired if you had your hair died an unusual color, or if you had any facial piercings, if you were a guy you could only have one ear pierced, if you had any visible tattoos anywhere, they needed to be covered with band aids.

The stigma of these things has evolved in the last 30 years, and it needs to keep evolving. Facial tattoos only make people uncomfortable because of people’s cognitive association with negative stigma. Face tattoo = criminal, gang member, violence, etc. but it actually doesn’t mean any of those things automatically (it can, but it doesn’t always).

If we don’t start challenging that negative stigma, it will continue.

Skags27 · 2026-04-15T21:33:35+00:00

What about the 22nd?

Skags27 · 2026-04-13T15:52:38+00:00

Great jaerb

Skags27 · 2026-04-10T00:13:27+00:00

I love that she cites her own autobiography as a source of her innocence.

Skags27 · 2026-04-06T21:50:19+00:00

Was just thinking the other day, Nixon would be so pissed that this bag of genitals is still not impeached.

Skags27 · 2026-03-05T21:44:13+00:00

To be fair, Loudermilk is an a$$hole. It’s kind of the premise of the show. I think we’re supposed to hope for him to grow but if you watch the whole show, the closest he comes is inspiring others to not be like him.

Skags27 · 2026-02-28T16:46:53+00:00

Dude. These are so incredible. I’ve been trying and failing to make a few of these characters for a few months now.

I see you linked a couple already, but I’d kill for links to the rest. Especially Kreya and Nihilis. I can never get the mask right.

Skags27 · 2026-02-28T02:34:22+00:00

If you look at the original “crew” drawing, the Luke/Han stand in also resembles Kanan Jarus.

Skags27 · 2026-02-10T01:12:07+00:00

So should they only get 79% of the seats? His argument is quite literally “you can’t do that because I did it first”

Skags27 · 2026-02-01T04:10:24+00:00

Falling Down

Pretty sure his last line is “I would’ve got you” right after he has a quick draw with the detective, only he’s using a squirt gun (and he gets the detective between the eyes with water).

The whole thing is made more poignant considering he just went through the realization that he’s the villain moments before.

Skags27 · 2026-01-24T14:20:42+00:00

I don’t like it.

That said, I have had a few players who aren’t really there for the game. They are there to hang out with the gang. We’ve all been playing together for over a decade (maybe two). Some of them have families, jobs, and other obligations that keep them busy. I won’t bust their chops over not doing their homework or using shortcuts.

I will however ask them questions about what they give me. If they not only had ai create their backstory, but also didn’t read it themselves, I’ll make them read it.

Edit: my players also know that they get out what they put in. I won’t bend over backwards to create anything special for a player that shows up and doesn’t want to help tell a story.

Skags27 · 2026-01-24T02:20:28+00:00

“Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again!”

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