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Current Steampunk or Cyberpunk decisions, decisions.
4 yrs ago
I've written and published two books before my 30th birthday, I'm happy but I should have started sooner.
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I stopped RPing for nearly a year because I've been self publishing novels, but maybe I should jump back in again.
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6 yrs ago
Stan Lee was able to create superheroes on the pages for us as kids, so we could find the superheroes in ourselves as adults.
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6 yrs ago
A local hairdresser was arrested for prostitution last night. I'm shocked. I was a customer of hers for years, and I didn't even know she was a hairdresser.
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Although I know many people who consider CD Project Red, one of the last "good Triple A" companies. Since so many others have been so greedy with their monetization practices lately.(Among other/darker things.)


Really like who? Naughty Dog just put out a successful game, I haven't been swindled into any or microtransactions in TLOU2 or did you mean something else?

Skyrim isn't a bad game but it's definitely overrated and unpolished. I do agree some people give it too much shit though.

@SleepingSilence

TLOU2 is no masterpiece but then neither was the first one.

The voice acting is stellar and some of the story beats are interesting, but if this was a 'gritty' movie or tv series it'd be forgotten in a week. The fact that it's lauded as masterful storytelling says more about your average game than the writing itself. When it does get made into a cringy 'dark' HBO series this much will become apparent.

TLOU2 is at its best when it leans into being what it wants to be: a cynical, angsty bloodbath. Playing as a knifey iron lesbian filled with piss, vinegar and adolescent fury as she carves her way through drab psuedo-military survivalists and Hare-Krishna serial killers is even more fun than it sounds.

As far as the plot backlash, 50% is coming from people who didn't even play the game. 35% is coming from those who stopped playing it after Joel died and 15% stopped playing it after you switch to Abby. And no, watching an obviously scripted let's play where some obnoxious internet personality reiterates that it trash during every cutscene is not an honest way to experience the game. Joel died because he was a hateful, cynical, selfish, broken headcase who wanted another chance at feeling like a dad by any means necessary. But even if he was a paragon of virtue, it's the fucking apocalypse. The aggressively ever-present threat of death doesn't care about your character development.

You can't have it both ways. You can't love a story because of it's cold, unflinching portrayal of dystopian existence where the life of your loved ones can be snatched away in an instant, and then be pissed when the life of a character you love gets snatched away in an instant. If you feel entitled to have your sexy, rural, gravelly voiced daddy figure be immortal to the repercussions of his actions then you never wanted a post apocalyptic story, you wanted a survivalist power fantasy.

TLOU2's story is about as good as the first one. It's fine with moments of greatness. The gameplay is better and it looks better. It's less linear, but then there is more heel dragging with the flashback scenes. The 'Woke Agenda Neil Cuckman SJW' bullshit is just that, bullshit.

8.3/10 for the game and Abby is hot, would bang 8.5/10

EDIT: Oh and no one asked me but Cyberpunk2077 is gonna be a massive letdown.

I'tll be an over-ambitious mess of loads of different mechanics that aren't polished enough to enjoy on their own. The illusion of size and choice will obscure wonky shooting mechanics, floaty jumps and bullet sponge enemies. The dialouge will probably be cringe and the story will either stick to the most basic anarchist, edgy hacker anti-hero tropes known to man or will overreach into something more complex and become nonsensical.

The game will be pretty but in the end it will just feel like a less polished Deus Ex in a more lifeless Los Santos.

Cyberpunk 2077 will be the Skyrim the next decade.


Forgot to tag you because you asked about Cyberpunk 2077

TLOU2 is no masterpiece but then neither was the first one.

The voice acting is stellar and some of the story beats are interesting, but if this was a 'gritty' movie or tv series it'd be forgotten in a week. The fact that it's lauded as masterful storytelling says more about your average game than the writing itself. When it does get made into a cringy 'dark' HBO series this much will become apparent.

TLOU2 is at its best when it leans into being what it wants to be: a cynical, angsty bloodbath. Playing as a knifey iron lesbian filled with piss, vinegar and adolescent fury as she carves her way through drab psuedo-military survivalists and Hare-Krishna serial killers is even more fun than it sounds.

As far as the plot backlash, 50% is coming from people who didn't even play the game. 35% is coming from those who stopped playing it after Joel died and 15% stopped playing it after you switch to Abby. And no, watching an obviously scripted let's play where some obnoxious internet personality reiterates that it trash during every cutscene is not an honest way to experience the game. Joel died because he was a hateful, cynical, selfish, broken headcase who wanted another chance at feeling like a dad by any means necessary. But even if he was a paragon of virtue, it's the fucking apocalypse. The aggressively ever-present threat of death doesn't care about your character development.

You can't have it both ways. You can't love a story because of it's cold, unflinching portrayal of dystopian existence where the life of your loved ones can be snatched away in an instant, and then be pissed when the life of a character you love gets snatched away in an instant. If you feel entitled to have your sexy, rural, gravelly voiced daddy figure be immortal to the repercussions of his actions then you never wanted a post apocalyptic story, you wanted a survivalist power fantasy.

TLOU2's story is about as good as the first one. It's fine with moments of greatness. The gameplay is better and it looks better. It's less linear, but then there is more heel dragging with the flashback scenes. The 'Woke Agenda Neil Cuckman SJW' bullshit is just that, bullshit.

8.3/10 for the game and Abby is hot, would bang 8.5/10

EDIT: Oh and no one asked me but Cyberpunk2077 is gonna be a massive letdown.

I'tll be an over-ambitious mess of loads of different mechanics that aren't polished enough to enjoy on their own. The illusion of size and choice will obscure wonky shooting mechanics, floaty jumps and bullet sponge enemies. The dialouge will probably be cringe and the story will either stick to the most basic anarchist, edgy hacker anti-hero tropes known to man or will overreach into something more complex and become nonsensical.

The game will be pretty but in the end it will just feel like a less polished Deus Ex in a more lifeless Los Santos.

Cyberpunk 2077 will be the Skyrim the next decade.
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My hottest take from TLOU2 is that Abby is low-key fine.
Forgive me, for I have sinned.





I never meant for things to turn out this way. I want everyone who reads this, to know that despite my mistakes and horrible misjudgment that my intentions were always noble, I was just trying to do some good in the world. Me and my wife were loving, decent god fearing people. We knew the world around us was a dark and scary place so we did everything we could to lead as best an example as we could. We prayed every day, we paid our taxes, we gave to charity and we would always stand up to immoral acts. But despite all this we were never blessed with children. My wife grew up a very sickly girl and had an operation in her teens that saved her life but made it so she would never conceive children. We kept a positive attitude, but this always made our lives feel hollow and empty, we wanted children, we wanted someone to protect.

We were never poor, but we were not wealthy enough to adopt in our county, and our local orphanage was shut down shortly after we got married for reasons I'd rather not get into right now. But there was another way, another method to have children to look after that was somewhat more....ungodly. The ex priest of our local parish was thrown out of the church because of his practice of the dark arts, but my wife and I stayed in contact with him. As we found it hard to turn our back on the man who married us. He always knew of our desire to be parents and he came to us with an offer. He could place children in our care....that had already died.

His plan was twisted but tempting, he said that he could use his dark arts to resurrect children's spirits that had their lives cut unfortunately short and bring them back to life for a second chance at happiness, with me and my wife as their loving guardians. We knew this was incredibly dangerous and strange but our desire to be parents overwhelmed us, and we accepted his offer. Sadly I cant go into the details of what happened after that, its simply too painful. But I will say that we made a mistake, those children should have never been brought back to life. They belonged in the afterlife and we unleashed a great evil on the mortal world. My 5 daughters, who I gave my life to, have left my care and now are loose in the world, not quite mortal and not fully spirits they occupy a strange place in limbo that only the resurrected may inhabit. They are all extremely dangerous and they need to be sealed away, otherwise they will destroy the mortal plane from the ether, and my soul will never be able to rest.

My name is Calvin Corvin, My 5 daughters need to be stopped. I have been dead for nearly 10 years and I need your help.


The 5 Corvin Girls


'The Creative One'



'The Active One'




'The Romantic One'



'The Flattered One'




'The Perfect One'


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Hi everyone, been a long time since I've RP'd but I had a good idea and wanted to reach out.

Have a fairly lighthearted plot about someone who gets locked into a Fantasy world with fellowship adventure themes. The main character would be male, and the party would be female. If you feel you could play 3 or 4 distinct characters that would be great. Also the characters would be of different classes (Warrior, Mage, Theif, Dancer, Ninja, Witch, Archer, etc) to keep the dynamics interesting.

Hi everyone, been a long time since I've RP'd but I had a good idea and wanted to reach out.

Have a fairly lighthearted plot about someone who gets locked into a Fantasy world with fellowship adventure themes. The main character would be male, and the party would be female. If you feel you could play 3 or 4 distinct characters that would be great.

@Queen of Hell Would you be interested in a MxFxF?
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