Yes, ready to move on. Let's PARTAY!@Hylozoist

Well, the bad news is that even in the face of some wonderful catching up on the part of my spectacular players, I'll have to ask you all to wait until Monday for my next post - as much as I don't like to see folks waiting on me, this weekend is proving pretty busy. After forcing my friend last weekend to start playing FF9, he's been demanding gently encouraging me this weekend to try stuff I've not got around to trying.

So today has mostly been spent trying to ignore the wincing and sharp intake of breath I can hear every time I screw something up in Undertale.

@Hylozoist Ah undertale, the game that punches you in the feels.

@Hylozoist Ah undertale, the game that punches you in the feels.

IMO: Undertale is a decent game, but I did not like it shoving the moral message of "Killing video game characters is as bad as real life murder" down my throat. The entire story revolved around that message, and it felt like it was more preaching at me for being a horrible person for using a medium with no consequences to engage in violence.

@Hylozoist Ah undertale, the game that punches you in the feels.

Yeah. It's funny, really, because it lowers your guard a little with the simple graphics (and gets quite a lot done with fairly simple animations, the characterisation is spot on) and the cutesy music and dogs and then, bam! I'd managed to avoid most of the fuss about it when it came out, and so didn't really have much in the way of expectations for it, beyond my friend going "you should play this", "why haven't you played this?!", "please hurry up and play this so I can talk about it" and "it's good there's this character you'll love trust me".

IMO: Undertale is a decent game, but I did not like it shoving the moral message of "Killing video game characters is as bad as real life murder" down my throat. The entire story revolved around that message, and it felt like it was more preaching at me for being a horrible person for using a medium with no consequences to engage in violence.

I've not gone down the killing stuff route yet (as can probably be inferred by pretty much everything I post, I'm something of a softie), so can't really comment on how the game handles players choosing to be violent. I'll get back to you properly on that front when I've done it, because while I think the game should react to the decisions of the player character to give a sense of meaning, presumably in some cases people find it heavy-handed.

Jeebus I'm doing lots of inneundos with Toony huh? xD.

Jeebus I'm doing lots of inneundos with Toony huh? xD.

Innuendos Schminuendos.

Let me apologise firstly for failing to get a post up today; Sunday got a bit weird (a conversation that began with "so you know I like you, right?" kind of threw me for a loop), and I've basically spent today running on auto-pilot and baking my weight in sponge cakes and parkin.

I'm going to quickly catch up with things now, then get some sleep (it's... about ten o'clock in the evening for me here), and hopefully my brain-meats will be back to normal after eight hours of sleep.

Once again, I'm really sorry; I don't like asking people to wait around for me, and missing deadlines (even self-imposed ones!), but Weird Circumstances and a busy weekend have left me feeling rather drained.

@Hylozoist There is a story there, wanna share it?

Don't you worry you brilliant yet crazy little head of yours @Hylozoist. Just don't disappear on us ok? The RP graveyard is overflowing as it is. It's a sad and really putrid smelling state of affairs. Also, let's face it, the zombie craze is so 2011. I got nothing against zombies, it's just that there's only so much you can do with a story based on them ya know. There was that one zombie movie that was a romantic comedy. Warm Bodies is what it's called. I haven't seen it but apparently it's pretty good. You know what's also pretty good? Lemony Snickets a Series of Unfortunate Events the series. I mean, I may be biased since I've been waiting for that show to come out for the last couple of years but wow. I didn't much like the wooden child actors though. But I suppose everything and everyone in that show is exaggerated to the extreme. For the sake of comedy and general light heartedness. Wait, what am I talking about again?

Sorry, I just went off on a bit of a tangent there. Well anyways, I'm sure what you've got cooked up for us would be amazeballs. Just take all the time you need. We're not all silently judging you or anything. Well, maybe some of us. Nah, just kidding. Or am I!?

@TwelveOf8As far as ASOUE goes: The actors seem wooden because the dialogue is modeled/ripped from the books, and the three of them are VERY wooden in the books. In text it comes across as intelligent and more sophisticated, with the primary thing being the lack of contractions, but in terms of dialogue it comes across as rather stilted, but as you said, it really fits the over-the-top nature of the whole thing.

Note to all: I do write when I would rather be playing video games or sleeping. That would explain the strange language I use sometimes. Apologies I advance. I'm just a very very very lazy man. I'm as lazy as I am crazy. That's saying something. Anyways, good tidings and happy festivus for the rest of us.

Well, Tuesday is here, I've had my breakfast and the post is up. Again, sorry about the delay there!

Just don't disappear on us ok? The RP graveyard is overflowing as it is.

No need to worry on that front; I have had a good night of sleep, a cup of tea and I'm ready to face both the real world and our shared imaginary one. I'm probably going to be a bit busy today, but shall be keeping half an eye on things here, as it's likely that I've managed to forget something critical in my IC post and will need to clarify something! If there is something I've missed, though, if you've got an idea for how to fill in the blank that's fun, go for it.

On the ASOUE front - I've not seen the series, and I've not read the books. To those of you folks who have done both, is it a good idea to read the books first, or can the series be enjoyed without too much knowledge from them? I've got a bit of a reading backlog (I picked up Neil Gaiman's book about Norse mythology, called, um, "Norse Mythology", making an explanation of what it's about a little redundant), so if it's a case of "best enjoyed by reading the books first", I may have to not watch it for a while.

@Hylozoist There is a story there, wanna share it?

The short version is "friend likes me as more than friend, awkwardness ensues, but I think it'll be okay", the long version is basically a story of one awkward dork trying to ask another awkward (and apparently quite oblivious) dork out, set against a backdrop of computer games, late night discussions about cosplay and too much caffeine and sugar. It's nothing bad, it was just a case of being kind of taken by surprise by it, and so I panicked, he panicked, everyone panicked and so it took me a day of running on auto-pilot before I could actually think about things without going "eeep" and wanting to hide.

There was that one zombie movie that was a romantic comedy. Warm Bodies is what it's called. I haven't seen it but apparently it's pretty good.

Does Shaun of the Dead count as a romantic comedy with zombies? Probably not. I liked Shaun of the Dead; it was sort of like a film-length episode of Spaced. Spaced was good, if a bit weird. It probably doesn't help that I last rewatched Spaced about a decade ago, so my fuzzy memory plus how weird it was has mingled together to create something much weirder.

@Hylozoist Ah. Well, I can say if you were a lady, I would also be pretty interested in trying a date assuming we're around the same age and whatnot. You got that nice sense of carefree and eccentric that I like xD. At least knowing only what I do with your forum persona and whatnot. Dunno if that helps or makes it more weird, I know I'd be flattered if someone said the same to me, but I'm a guy so I don't get comments like that very often at all. lol.

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Does Shaun of the Dead count as a romantic comedy with zombies? Probably not. I liked Shaun of the Dead; it was sort of like a film-length episode of Spaced. Spaced was good, if a bit weird. It probably doesn't help that I last rewatched Spaced about a decade ago, so my fuzzy memory plus how weird it was has mingled together to create something much weirder.

Shaun of the Dead was amazing! I so would've came up with the same plan to survive the zombie apocalypse. Just go to the Winchester and wait for it all to blow over. I haven't seen spaced, maybe I will look it up later. I have enough weirdness to deal with already though a little more can't hurt.

Apologies once again for delays in posts; week is turning kind of hectic! Turns out that my schedule for this week is pretty tight, and the chap I usually rely on to come and help when this happens isn't feeling well, so I'm holding the fort on my own here. Will aim to get a post up later on today.

Sorry for the double post, but I need to get down on my knees and beg your forgiveness here - things are getting crazy hectic this week, and I am struggling a little to cope with pesky "real world responsibilities", let alone my far more interesting and entertaining online ones. I'm going to need a bit more time to put everything in order in the aforementioned real world before I can get our sharedimaginary world back in order.

Sorry for the double post, but I need to get down on my knees and beg your forgiveness here - things are getting crazy hectic this week, and I am struggling a little to cope with pesky "real world responsibilities", let alone my far more interesting and entertaining online ones. I'm going to need a bit more time to put everything in order in the aforementioned real world before I can get our sharedimaginary world back in order.

Don't worry if the responsibilities of being a GM get too much for you at times. We can always amuse ourselves by creating new stuff and delving into that a little. If you have any anxieties at all then feel free to share with the group or privately with any of the role players, myself included.

Best wishes and good luck.