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Sorry she's a chaos bomb, but here's to better luck with the next gal, eh?

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*Facepalm of unfortunate decisions +1*

  well, maybe the next one after that then

Yeah, there's a long story attached (one that involves a lot of sexually related themes and as such is likely inappropriate for the public boards), but it was definitely not said in a playful manner 

"Simp" would make a lot more sense, but sense is not something the person in question is making a lot of right now and I feel like the production facilities may be undergoing some persistent malfunctions.


In any case, I am distancing myself way the fuck away from this narcissistic chaos bomb and just quietly enjoying the fireworks as she tries to simultaneously redeem herself and dig herself deeper into the hole 

Everyone cool their tits immediately and go spend an hour or two outside this thread before you all get yourselves banned.

Re: Thread title

Weird shit. Shit I can't really even talk about here on the board. But it's got me pretty exhausted and is chewing away at what self-esteem I do have.


Why do people have to be, y'know... People?

For those of you who have seen Take Shelter - in your opinion, would the film be better without the ending or worse? Does it cheapen the rest of the movie, or elevate it?

It's been a while since I've seen it, but... I dunno. In a way I liked it, because, y'know... "Happy" ending. I'm personally a sucker for final vindication, because I really relate to that feeling (or rather, wanting to feel it  ). But it does mess a bit with the overall conflict of the movie, I'll agree.

As for right now... I'd say keep it. I think the ending being decisively on one side of the conflict may have been necessary here, as otherwise it's not *really* a muddled enough issue throughout the rest of the film for it to be compellingly difficult to make up our minds as to what "really" happened. The ending being as far into the one side as it was, specifically onto the side that leaves us asking "Wait, what? Can that be right?", might just have been the little kick it needed to keep things from just sort of trailing off at the end.


For whatever else it may or may not be though, it's definitely a film that convinced me to watch whatever Michael Shannon does.

Womble's editing is on point, in love his videos.

It absolutely is! Almost makes the quarterly release schedule bearable...

So y'know that game I mentioned earlier, with the dude planning on going Full Bard and providing his narcissistance to the group (with Gilderoy Lockhart being the driving character inspiration)? Well he actually mellowed out really well and changed his dude into a kinda overly fanciful bard who was starstruck with the party's barbarian and was determined to write the most epic biography of this musclebound fellow, glossing over any inconsistencies about not always being 100% Best and Glorious Supreme Champion.

...which ended up being particularly entertaining, because said barbarian had godawful dice rolls and ended up whiffing almost every attempt at everything


My non-combative-personnel rogue ended up machine gunning down the majority of enemies we encountered, and we eventually leveled up to 2!

...and then the DM left and cut off all contact with us without a word. So yeah, fun!

Speaking of undead, here's one I've been wanting to do.  The players have to go to an ancient ruined city to retrieve a mystical artifact, the usual shit.  When they get there, it's guarded by undead, bound to protect the artifact until the fated heroes prove their worth in the vault's deadly trials and retrieve the artifact, the usual shit.

Complication, they don't know they're dead.  There's thousands of skeletons, all still thinking they're alive, still doing normal city shit.  Chances are the players' reaction gives the game away and the city goes apeshit.  Riots in the streets, political upheaval, factions coalescing around differing approaches to the "holy shit we're skeletons what the fuck" revelation.  Worse, if the players complete their quest the spell will be broken.  Some people are still friendly to the heroes, some are hostile to these dickheads who turned their society upside down, some just want to die for real, some are trying to sabotage the trials and preserve their immortality, players have to survive a city in chaos and navigate cutthroat skeleton politics while deciding what to actually do about the macguffin.

Sounds like that city is...

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...boned

Ammunition pouch is closed when you need to make a ranged attack, component pouch is closed when needing to cast a spell, money pouch when making a purchase etc...

Great at holding stuff for when you don't have an immediate need for it! Not so great if you do.