Recent content by Mannahnin

Same, O brother.

Need to reverse those labels!

Dunk & Egg! I liked the couple of short stories I read about them... oof, many years ago now! :LOL: This grabs me more than House of the Dragon did, for sure.

Looks good! Cool to see Rami Malek; I'm in the middle of a re-watch of The Pacific, which I think is the first place I saw him. Haven't watched Crowe in anything since The Nice Guys and this looks like a role with some meat. Also reminds me that I need to get around to finally watching the...

After my book club did Bowling Alone we read Society of the Spectacle, by Guy DeBord. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, and it was both more Marxist than I anticipated and more philosophical. But some of the insights into our society, though nearly sixty years old at this point, were really...

Jumping around in time & space is also something that happens in at least a couple of V:tM's most immediate fictional influences- The Vampire Lestat and Time Enough for Love. Lucy sounds really cool.

Agreed, and I expanded on that in an immediate edit. Eh. Sexual violence as perpetrated is not quite the same thing as how common or accepted the presentation of it in media is. James Bond novels were still common and uncontroversial light reading when I was a kid. Fictional heroes (not just...

Certainly, although Danielson was also talking about a period predating the site by a couple of decades, and our present discussion by more than forty years. Selection bias certainly could be a factor between my, Ruin Explorer's, and Voadam's experiences vs what Fine observed 5-10 years...

Not that I disagree, but TBF their unusually spacious home/comfortable living circumstances is still pretty consistent with live action sitcoms and family dramas. Homes and living situations being unrealistically nice and big enough to shoot in, in TV shows, has been a trope for decades...

Got back in last night and did a pretty baseline session before D&D. Four sets machine pec flies with drop sets on the latter two, three of machine biceps curls with drop sets on the latter two, and three of machine triceps extensions with drop sets on the latter two. Hoping to get back in...

I agree that as a younger gamer coming into RPGs in the 80s, sexual violence appearing in games I was involved with was very much the exception, and fellow adolescent players who thought it appropriate fare made me and by brother (my main early gaming buddy) distinctly uncomfortable. One of the...

@Steampunkette @Ruin Explorer @Clint_L @Voadam I got sucked into revisiting this thread from last year today, and remembered that we had a general discussion about how uncommon sexual assault was in our gaming experiences, compared to what the article reported from Fine's book. That reminded...

People with a grudge against Gail or whatever and who can't resist sounding off would be inclined to do that regardless. Asking people to please refrain is definitely not an invitation. Any more than posting the rules on this forum is an invitation to behave contrary.

THAC0 was a bit of a simplification from the tables with their repeating 20s. Most players clearly got the hang of descending AC and the needed calculations, but there was always a sub-set who had trouble with it. There was almost always one or two at the table who had issues with the...

The amount of actual murder (as opposed to subdual) can vary from campaign to campaign and character to character. Especially in 5E where you can almost always choose to knock people out. And being discontented doesn't always stem from tragedy at home. As we've seen a bunch of examples of...