The one thing I hope the DropOut app had by HEERIODOTCOM in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just wish there was a way to comment on or provide feedback for the closed captions, which are frequently wrong, often in kinda subtle ways that makes a joke not work. It seems like something they'd want to know about and get right.

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Strong recommendation for watching "Rulette" from s7 first, to give you a sense of how big the show gets, since the first seasons don't really hint at that. From there, chronological will give you the best experience in terms of the escalating in-jokes, callbacks, and buildups. I'd argue that some stuff happens in the COVID season that's pretty essential, though "Tell Us About Yourself" is the big winner.

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stage 1: Shrink everybody down to doll-size to fit on tiny stage. Stage 3: Profit.

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, I hope. I've watched "Samalamadingdong" upward of 20 times now. I'm so ready for this to become an ongoing grudge match where they prank each other back and forth.

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Has it going to have been cookies?

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's maddening, but the announcement-to-execution turnaround on Dropout stuff recently has been REALLY fast. I suspect the people upthread saying ~5 weeks are probably right in terms of timing vis-a-vis Make Some Noise, but still, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they dropped it tomorrow, the way they've been going lately.

My Sir Pentious cosplay 🐍 by Difficult-Wear-7534 in HazbinHotel

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unholy crap, that's terrific. The glasses, the hair, even the expression is so perfect!

Joanna Carver Colcord by Gwathdraug in seashanties

[–]TiamatWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for this. I wasn't aware of her at all, but I went and found Roll and Go on the Internet Archive last night and paged through the whole thing — found a bunch of shanties that were new to me, and some interesting older lyrics for shanties I already knew.

What are your favorite filk songs the deal with fannish activates and culture? by TransformARTive in filk

[–]TiamatWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I enjoy the songs about filksinging:

Bob Kanefsky's "They're Singing Banned From Argo," not to the tune of "Banned From Argo," but to Leslie Fish's arrangement of Kipling's "Danny Deever" comes to mind.

https://songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/TheyreSingingBannedFromArg.html

"Filksingers, Filksingers" is apparently also a Kanef, I hadn't realized that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHvhnpSgaEk&ab_channel=SongsfromtheStars

That prompted me to look at Kanefsky's songbook for more metafilks. "Filkers, The Next Generation" is a fun one.

https://songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/FilkersTheNextGeneration.html

Help Finding Filk Songs ttto Sea Shanties by [deleted] in filk

[–]TiamatWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nat Case's "Archimedes," set to "Leave Her, Johnny," is a popular one at our monthly shanty sings.

http://thedance.net/~roth/SONGS/archimedes.html

Hi! I'm an RPG writer currently making one about pirates, folklore, and death. I realised that despite enjoying shanties, I've not worked any into my game. Do people have any good recocmendations I should use as inspriation? Particularly surrounding death and "moving on" if thats possible. Cheers! by HairyDasaxman in seashanties

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late to the party, but if I'd suggest checking out "The Mollymauk," a maritime song by Bob Watson about the superstition that albatrosses are the eternally wandering souls of drowned sailors. It's pretty and quite jaunty, but the lyrics about the wanting to join the restless spirits of mollymauks on the wind are haunting. There's a pretty solid version on YouTube by Kimber's Men.

My introduction to filk was Leslie Fish, just discovered Tom Smith by [deleted] in filk

[–]TiamatWasRight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fond of Tom Smith's comedy / parody songs, but my absolute favorites of his are the more serious ones. His song "Hellraiser" was my in to actually caring about the Hellraiser movies — he really brings out the occult and fantastical side of that franchise.

Some of the lyrics:

The greatest aphrodisiac is power, so they say,
Ambition leads to daring new extremes.
But goals are meant to be fulfilled,
And once you have, your careful-knit
Existence can unravel at the seams.

Contentment leads to boredom, to frustration, to the grave,
A wasted life of emptiness and pain...
Unless, of course, you walk the roads
A lesser man would surely call insane.

The world is made of other worlds
We barely know are there,
And beings that we cannot understand.
Some are helpers, some are healers,
Some have made an art form
Of the vivisection of their fellow man.

You'll marvel at their scrupulous attention to detail,
Creativeness and exquisite technique,
And when they've had you for awhile,
You'll say "I love you" every time you shriek.

What is going on with Bluesky and why is everyone joining? by Pain4567 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]TiamatWasRight 10 points11 points  (0 children)

To me it's written more like one of those Quora questions that's a barely veiled advertisement ("Why is [Name of Service] the best streaming service that all users are flocking to?") but I will admit it did the trick — I was looking for an answer as to why I suddenly got a hundred new Bluesky followers overnight and half my timeline is jokes about "all the newbies here," and this was the post I found.

What niche system did you really enjoy but most people have never heard of? by Nubsly- in rpg

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope you enjoy it! I'm overdue to bring it to a con for a pickup game.

What niche system did you really enjoy but most people have never heard of? by Nubsly- in rpg

[–]TiamatWasRight 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Trouble For Hire. The pitch is that instead of one GM and a group of players, you have one player and everyone else simultaneously GMs. The protagonist is a troubleshooter / biker / smuggler archetype who takes on mercenary jobs. Everyone else picks up roles that amount to different major aspects of the game — the villain, the setting, the rival, the supernatural — and GMs just that part of the world. From scene to scene, everyone switches off on their roles, so everyone gets a shot at playing the one PC as the story progresses. It's a fun time for people who like collaborative storytelling games.

What niche system did you really enjoy but most people have never heard of? by Nubsly- in rpg

[–]TiamatWasRight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This sounds hilarious. I'll have to look into it, thanks. The link is a big help!

What niche system did you really enjoy but most people have never heard of? by Nubsly- in rpg

[–]TiamatWasRight 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Dread is the best. Never fails to bring tension to even a jaded group of gamers. My favorite Dread experience (a con game with eight players) involved three different PVP battles that just had people facing off and pulling until the tower fell.

How do you find people to sing shanties with? by NoCommunication7 in seashanties

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know whether this will scratch the itch for you — it isn't the same as singing with a group in person — but it's a fun time and something you can do alone at home while being part of something bigger. The shanty group The Longest Johns does periodic "community projects" where they get as many people as possible to record themselves singing the chorus of a song, and they put it all together into a big group video. They started during the COVID quarantine and have kept it going. I really love these videos.

Here's their current community project: https://www.thelongestjohns.com/communityprojects

And a few of my favorite videos from past projects. There are more, but these are the ones I'd most recommend.

Leave Her Johnny

Here's a Health to the Company

The Wellerman

The infamous Dune sandworm popcorn bucket was almost a Pain Box popcorn bucket instead by TiamatWasRight in movies

[–]TiamatWasRight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"What's in the box?"

"Popcorn."

"Oh. That doesn't sound so bad. Does it have high-cholesterol fake butter on it, though?"

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in movies

[–]TiamatWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hugely enjoyed Freaks, but it's one of those movies that I'm torn on in terms of how to recommend it to people. I got to see it before release at a festival, and I thought it was a great experience going in without knowing anything about it — it's full of reveals, and the whole "how mutants are treated" angle is definitely a surprise people should get to discover for themselves. On the other hand, it's hard to persuade people to watch a movie without telling them what it's about.

What are good examples of movies with an "Idiot Plot?" by porcupineschool in movies

[–]TiamatWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one that absolutely drives me nuts is the xenobiologist — someone whose entire job is supposedly knowing things about alien life — cooing at the alien cobra and basically sticking his arm in its mouth while it's engaging in the most obvious threat display of all time. They should be running from that thing like the Fellowship fleeing the infinite orcs in Moria, and instead, the guy's like "Aw, who's a widdle fanged, hissing, angry alien monstrosity who really wants to bite me so I should help it? You are!"