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Kenneth Hite is the lead designer for the new edition of Vampire

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TrippyHippy

#510
June 24, 2017, 06:31:57 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;971232I'm sure he does.  I do as well.  So?
Well, I'd like to keep my identity anonymous around here in the meantime and am appreciative of the gaming group I have, I guess! :)
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crkrueger

#511
June 24, 2017, 07:46:56 PM Last Edit: June 24, 2017, 07:53:37 PM by CRKrueger
Quote from: TrippyHippy;971237Well, I'd like to keep my identity anonymous around here in the meantime and am appreciative of the gaming group I have, I guess! :)

You should try shooting, it's pretty fun.  A Cisco instructor I know is an old Navy guy from SOG in 'Nam.  He wasn't a Seal, he was the Seal's boat-driver. :D  In his 70's he's still Hell and Jesus with a .45.  Anyway, he got me down to the range.  Finally got a pistol ~a year and a half ago.  It's like anything I guess, it's fun getting better at something.

Gamedaddy strikes me as an old school live-and-let-live, let's each just mind our own damn business kind of guy, not an internet tough guy threat machine.
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Justin Alexander

#512
June 24, 2017, 08:42:08 PM Last Edit: June 23, 2018, 02:58:40 AM by Justin Alexander
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I am deleting my content.

I recommend you do the same.
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TrippyHippy

#513
June 24, 2017, 08:44:03 PM Last Edit: June 24, 2017, 08:46:36 PM by TrippyHippy
Quote from: CRKrueger;971249You should try shooting, it's pretty fun.  A Cisco instructor I know is an old Navy guy from SOG in 'Nam.  He wasn't a Seal, he was the Seal's boat-driver. :D  In his 70's he's still Hell and Jesus with a .45.  Anyway, he got me down to the range.  Finally got a pistol ~a year and a half ago.  It's like anything I guess, it's fun getting better at something.

Gamedaddy strikes me as an old school live-and-let-live, let's each just mind our own damn business kind of guy, not an internet tough guy threat machine.
I live in New Zealand, and we have plenty of hunting & fishing culture here already. Not really my point.

My point being: if someone is arguing that he, as a gaming enthusiast, is merely inhibiting deep-seated violent tendencies expressed through gaming (and blurring the notion that gamers can generally tell the difference between fantasy and reality)..... then I wouldn't want him to have a gun. 'Nuff said.
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crkrueger

#514
June 24, 2017, 08:55:10 PM
Quote from: TrippyHippy;971257I live in New Zealand, and we have plenty of hunting & fishing culture here already. Not really my point.

My point being: if someone is arguing that he, as a gaming enthusiast, is merely inhibiting deep-seated violent tendencies expressed through gaming (and blurring the notion that gamers can generally tell the difference between fantasy and reality)..... then I wouldn't want him to have a gun. 'Nuff said.

You live in New Zealand, here's a question you're probably tired as fuck of hearing... have you been to the hill where Edoras was, and how much was CGI? :D
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

Yes, Sean Connery\'s thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat

Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans

TrippyHippy

#515
June 24, 2017, 11:53:31 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;971259You live in New Zealand, here's a question you're probably tired as fuck of hearing... have you been to the hill where Edoras was, and how much was CGI? :D

Peter Jackson lives up the road from where I live. He has a life-sized model of an orc in his foyer.
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Baulderstone

#516
June 25, 2017, 01:10:25 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;971259You live in New Zealand, here's a question you're probably tired as fuck of hearing... have you been to the hill where Edoras was, and how much was CGI? :D

Here is the answer to your second question.

Rincewind1

#517
June 25, 2017, 09:05:47 AM
Last time I checked, D&D hasn't caused people to go into cellars and murder those who prevent them from stealing bikes for the glory of Bane. So much for the whole "gaming morality" bollocks.
Furthermore, I consider that  This is Why We Don\'t Like You thread should be closed

Dumarest

#518
June 25, 2017, 03:25:15 PM
Quote from: TrippyHippy;971284Peter Jackson lives up the road from where I live. He has a life-sized model of an orc in his foyer.

Was that the cowriter on the Hobbit movies? I bet it was his idea to have Legolas run up falling rocks to fight bad guys...

Voros

#519
June 25, 2017, 03:36:39 PM
Peter Jackson directed all the LOTR and Hobbit films. The LOTR films started well and went downhill I thought as Jackson paid too much fanservice to the LOTR nerds. The Hobbit butchered a fine book by stretching it to absurd lengths and shoehorning in numerous unneccessary action scenes. There is a two hour fanedit out there that cuts all the fat away and is nearly a good movie.

crkrueger

#520
June 25, 2017, 03:46:34 PM
Quote from: Voros;971465Peter Jackson directed all the LOTR and Hobbit films. The LOTR films started well and went downhill I thought as Jackson paid too much fanservice to the LOTR nerds. The Hobbit butchered a fine book by stretching it to absurd lengths and shoehorning in numerous unneccessary action scenes. There is a two hour fanedit out there that cuts all the fat away and is nearly a good movie.

You realize most of the unnecessary action scenes and absurd length is due to Jackson moving away from the books, telling his own versions of things, and it's the "LotR Nerds" who called him on it most of all...or maybe you don't.  You're confusing Jackson fanbois for LotR nerds I think.
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

Yes, Sean Connery\'s thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat

Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans

Simlasa

#521
June 25, 2017, 03:47:39 PM
Quote from: Voros;971465There is a two hour fanedit out there that cuts all the fat away and is nearly a good movie.
I saw that and it was ok... and enough to tell me that I did NOT want to watch the full length Hobbit movies. They really did pump in a lot of extraneous nonsense on those... almost like they were trying to launch a wider franchise of Middle-Earth Universe (as with the Marvel/DC films and that craptacular Mummy film Universal shat out recently).

crkrueger

#522
June 25, 2017, 03:53:56 PM
Quote from: Simlasa;971469I saw that and it was ok... and enough to tell me that I did NOT want to watch the full length Hobbit movies. They really did pump in a lot of extraneous nonsense on those... almost like they were trying to launch a wider franchise of Middle-Earth Universe (as with the Marvel/DC films and that craptacular Mummy film Universal shat out recently).

It was just a money grab.  You really could make the Lord of the Rings into three movies.  You really can't for the Hobbit, even if you throw in Gandalf's off-scene adventures with the White Council and the machinations of Orcs and Elves.  Maybe you could make two tight movies out of it, but three bloated hollywood monstrosities was idiotic, and Jackson knows it.
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

Yes, Sean Connery\'s thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat

Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans

Voros

#523
June 25, 2017, 03:56:41 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;971468You realize most of the unnecessary action scenes and absurd length is due to Jackson moving away from the books, telling his own versions of things, and it's the "LotR Nerds" who called him on it most of all...or maybe you don't.  You're confusing Jackson fanbois for LotR nerds I think.

Certainly true of The Hobbit. For LOTR I think pruning was the thing to do, thank god he cut Tom Bombadil for instance. The second and third films feel like slogs to me as I think he tried to keep too much of the books in them. The Fellowship worked best as a film. There are extended editions of LOTR that have a lot of the the details 'fans' wanted restored and they are interminable just as The Hobbit is, if for slightly different reasons.

Nexus

#524
June 25, 2017, 05:25:10 PM
Quote from: TrippyHippy;971284Peter Jackson lives up the road from where I live. He has a life-sized model of an orc in his foyer.

Okay, that's awesome.
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