Jorick

Spam Sector: Orgins [working title]

Svenn said
because jorick has a small wee wee of course.

It's microscopic.

Awson said
And uh... HehYou're not a badass motherfucker.Heh heh.

No shh I'm the baddest of asses and I fornicate with mothers all the time.

Spam Sector: Orgins [working title]

Awson said
But you would be the captain tho

Yes, and? I'm okay with jokes being made at my expense.

Spam Sector: Orgins [working title]

Cpt Toellner said
That would be the most unfortunate ship name ever.

Yeah, but it could make for some humor. Have some badass motherfucker as the captain of the ship, but everyone makes small dick jokes about him all day long.

Who are your top 10 favourite RPG members?

Hank said
you fucking cunt

I didn't forget you or consider you inactive, by the way. You're just not in my top ten now.

Spam Sector: Orgins [working title]

-What would you want your character to be named in a serious story?

<rankname> Jorick. No need to fuck with a first and last name, imo.

-List any names for Starships you would want to use.

The Littlefinger
The Wall (of text)
The Magnificent Bastard

Okay those are all kind of lame but that's all I could come up with that is somewhat fitting for me.

-If you were in charge of a ship or a fleet in a space battle, what strategies would you use?

I'd be all about information gathering and adaptability. Learn as much as possible about the enemy before the fight, keep eyes on any potential enemies to learn their own tactics, even keep files on staunch allies just in case. Information wins fights just as often as big guns, and it can even prevent fights that don't need to happen, so that would be my primary weapon.

Strong intelligence gathering would then be backed up by having a large and varied fleet that can adapt to various enemy tactics. Think jack of all trades, master of none. There's something of everything there, so there's less chance of getting hosed by something I wasn't expecting or prepared for. Counter long range bombardment by sending stealth guys in to wreck their artillery, counter zerg rushers by using defensive maneuvers, counter defensive turtlers by smashing them with long range artillery, etc. Sticking to one battle tactic is the best way to get your shit handed to you, since all it'll take for you to get wrecked is going up against someone whose sole tactic is a good counter to yours or someone who knows how to adapt and take advantage of you.

Other than that, I'd fight dirty as fuck. No mercy, kill civilians to demoralize the enemy, agree to discuss peace terms with an enemy and murderize the enemy leaders despite meeting under a peace banner, etc. So long as the enemy dies and I live, no tactic is too dirty for me.

-Do you have any ideas for names of planets?

Nope. My ship names were bad enough, won't even try here.

What are your top 10 favorite books?

Ugh Idle why would you do this to me? I have a compulsion to do these top ten list things but trying to judge my favorite book series against on another... I'm gonna make it easier on myself by listing series as one item and not over thinking it with long explanations.

1. A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin - Duh.
2. Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson - Tons of characters with a story that seems to span only a few years but has important shit reaching back hundreds and thousands of years. One of the most intricate and far-reaching plots I've ever seen in a series of books. First book was kinda lackluster, but it picks up real quick after that.
3. Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (who completed it after Jordan's death) - Starts of as a kind of typical "random farmboy is actually the chosen one" thing, but it gets a lot bigger and better as it goes on.
4. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - Fuck it's hard to weigh single books against series, but it's damned good. I've got a generally higher opinion of the Wheel of Time though, so it gets the #4 slot.
5. The Stand by Stephen King - Notable for being the least fantasy type book on my whole list. It's a huge book full of great characters who develop in interesting ways, and it might've beat out Good Omens if not for the ending being kinda underwhelming in typical Stephen King fashion.
6. American Gods by Neil Gaiman - The most recent addition to my top ten. The basic premise of it is a very interesting take on gods and religion and American culture, where all the various gods of the past actually exist as people and the things modern people worship (like TV and the internet and such) also have humanized forms. It's neat.
7. Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson - Probably the coolest magic system I've ever seen. Instead of magic just being a deus ex machina tool, in Mistborn it's more like a science with real material costs and such. It's also a cool story with good characters and blah blah blah.
8. Coldfire trilogy by C.S. Friedman - This is the closest thing to sci-fi as exists on my list, but in the end it's really still a fantasy thing. It's set on some other planet way in the future, but people have lost all their tech shit and there's magic going on and such.
9. The Black Company series by Glen Cook - Like my #2 pick, this one was kinda hard to get into. It's the story of a mercenary company, called The Black Company, and it's told through the company historian dude's record keeping. It's by no means a standard fantasy thing, lots of weird shit going on, but I got into it and ended up liking it a lot.
10. Discworld series by Terry Pratchett - Fantasy-leaning comedy is best comedy. Tons of goofy hilarious crap in these books, but also some surprisingly great characters.

Honorable Mentions
Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien - Can't be a fantasy fan and not give props to LotR. Doesn't make my top ten because it really does drag ass through a lot of the books, kinda crap pacing, but it does still manage to be an interesting read anyway and without it fantasy as a genre as it exists today probably wouldn't be a thing.
Redwall series by Brian Jacques - My first foray into fantasy, courtesy of my grandmother giving me the first book (called Redwall, like the series itself) for one of my birthdays. Without this book and series being part of my young life, I feel like I would have been a very different person, so I couldn't not mention it.
Shannara series by Terry Brooks - This was the first epic fantasy (by the definition I like, not the one lots of people use that's interchangeable with 'high fantasy') series I read, and it led me to a lot of other great series through recommendations from various sources. Similar story with Redwall here, of not being high quality enough for my top ten but too influential on my younger self's reading habits to not mention.
Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind - Used to be my favorite book series of all time, before I ever read any of the ones currently sitting on my list. It felt like something new and amazing and different from everything else when I was 14 and read the first book, but it really deserves an honorable mention for the same reason as the above things for influence and leading me to other stuff. I was first recommended my current top three book series on some forum where I was discussing the Sword of Truth series with other people and asked people what other fantasy series out there I might like since loved this one, so it gets props for leading me to true greatness.

The BannerMoth Saga: A Spamfic.

Detailed violence for sure.

idlehands said
Now I'm really curious as who asked that? One thing about the Spam fics is there isn't much romance, barring Bella's tryst with Awson and her love of Toellner in Jorick's first story. There might be others I missed but that's the most obvious. Better hope I never write one of these things.

Bela was a succubus. Having no sex stuff for her would've been dumb.

There was also the scene of Toellner waiting in her brothel and noticing some people at work there, and Doivid and Sophi also banged in the story.

Role play player limit?

It's absolutely possible. More players just means a higher potential volume of posts to read through and a likely higher amount of people requesting things of you as the GM. As long as you have the free time to spare for the reading and doing GM stuff, there shouldn't be much of a problem. Honestly I think the thing that'll be hardest about doing a 16 person RP is actually getting 16 interested people to join.

However, if you're not feeling 100% confident of your ability to do so, the easiest way to simplify things for yourself while maintaining the high player number would be to get a co-GM. You could focus on GMing one group of 8, and the co-GM could focus on the other. Or you could get two co-GMs, one to co-GM for each side while you do the overall GMing stuff. Either way, that'd make it less crazy for you to manage and thus increase the chances of it running successfully.

Who are your top 10 favourite RPG members?

ImANargleHunter said
Oh my god I am so unpopularOkay I want to see the most disliked rankings though

You wouldn't even make my top 10 most disliked rankings. You're middle of the pack material, nerd.

What's your top 10 favourite TV shows?

Okay, so I have to do two separate lists, one for anime and one for non-anime. I have so many of each category that come to mind, and it's so fucking hard to judge the craziness of anime against non-animated shows. I don't happen to have any animated shows that aren't anime that would make a top ten list, so even that possible avenue of comparison won't work. So fuck it, splitting it up. Non-anime stuff first, then anime.

10. Misfits - Unlike a lot of people who make clarifications about which seasons exactly of this show they like (often only the first two or three), I like them all. Season 4 was slow to get rolling and was probably the weakest season of the show, but some of the episodes were really great and season 5 is just as good as any of the first few imo. Anyway, I like it because it's funny shit while still managing to have a real and often serious plot going on, plus actual character development which is rare for comedy shows.

9. Doctor Who - I'm only counting the 2005 and later stuff here, as I haven't bothered watching the older stuff. It can get kinda formulaic and some episodes are crap, but when it's good it's amazing. Also, Tennant > Smith > Eccleston. Haven't seen enough of Capaldi to decide where he goes.

8. House M.D. - Mainly because Hugh Laurie as House is one of my favorite TV characters ever. He's a great example of an anti-hero done well, and well done anti-heroes are sadly a rarity. Other than that it's a really well done medical drama, and I enjoy medical dramas.

7. Sherlock - Yes, the BBC one with Bendydick Cunterpunch. I'm not including it in my top 10 just to make that lame joke, I swear. If you haven't already heard tons of people raving about why this show is great I will be super surprised, so I won't bother explaining.

6. Hannibal - I thought Hannibal would be higher on my list when I first set out to make it, but apparently not. It's really great, one of the very few examples of a show with highly intelligent characters that actually portrays intellect well, rather than acting like being smart is some kind of super power. The dialogue is what really does it: it's not just that the smart people do smart things, they also talk like people with large vocabularies and a strong command of the language. It's great.

5. Luther - You know how there are tons of people who talk about how Firefly ended way too early and it needs to come back and have more? This is my version of that. It got a decent 3 seasons, but that was nowhere near enough for me. I've heard people describe it as 'Sherlock if Sherlock was black and not autistic' and that's a pretty decent explanation I think.

4. House of Cards - I was one of those people who laughed at the idea of Netflix producing original shows, but goddamn this one made me a believer. Everything about it is great, and Kevin Spacey is the centerpiece of the magnificence and he's damned good in everything he does. I enjoy political intrigue in fiction, and that's what House of Cards is all about.

3. Breaking Bad - If you don't know why Breaking Bad is amazing, I feel like you must have been living under a rock for the past 5 years at least. Tons of people are hailing it as a modern masterpiece, best show of our time, etc. Obviously I happen to disagree since I'm only ranking it as #3, but seriously, get with the times if you don't know about it.

2. The Wire - Easily the best crime drama show ever, imo, though it's one that a lot of people apparently don't know about. It's not super flashy and exciting, but the great acting and characters and the gritty realism it presents are phenomenal. It doesn't just stick to police perspective like most crime dramas: it focuses on cops, criminals, politicians, and a few other people who don't quite fit into any one of those categories, all in order to give a more balanced and human view of a crime-ridden city and the efforts being made to clean it up.

1. Game of Thrones - While it has flaws and isn't as good as the book series it's based on, I still fucking love this show to death. I fully admit that GoT taking my top show spot is largely due to my fanboy status courtesy of the books. It would probably be more like 3 or 4 if not for the book nerd fanboy bonus, but the fact that this show gets me more hyped for episodes I know are going to be relatively dull than for season finales of other shows on this list is something I can't ignore.

Honorable Mentions

Jekyll - Made by the same dudes who did Sherlock. It's really good, though it's on the short side since it's only one season of six 1 hour long episodes. It's a modern take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, just like Sherlock is a modern take on Sherlock Holmes.

Boardwalk Empire/Homeland/The Newsroom - Any of these could have maybe made one of the bottom slots of my top ten, but I'm a season behind in each of them and I felt like it'd be weird to put them in my top ten when I'm so far behind and have procrastinated for so long about catching up.

The Walking Dead - It's good and I like it, but it's not good enough to beat any of the above stuff.

Dexter - Used to be a sure pick for my top 10, and at one point in time I considered it my favorite show of all time, but is started going downhill for me in season 5 and then that last season just blew major ass and kind of ruined everything. Probably the most disappointing TV show ending I've ever witnessed. This is half an honorable mention, half a dishonorable one. I guess it's just a mention.

Okay, now for the anime list. I'll just throw this one in a hider so my post isn't huge as fuck.

Anime Top 10

10. Death Note - Death Note has become one of those sort of entry level anime where any time someone asks for recommendations, it's on the list people give of "if you haven't seen all these things, go watch them now," and that's because it's good. It would be higher on my list if it had ended at a certain point where a major thing happens around the middle of the story, because what follows isn't as good as the first ~half, but it's still good enough overall to be a solid pick for my top 10 anime.

9. Mirai Nikki - This is one of those anime that is most certainly not for everyone. The premise is that a bunch of people have their diaries on their phones (because who the fuck keeps a pen and paper diary nowadays?) start to show the future as if they had written it (the show title means Future Diary, btw), and they're pit against each other in a last man standing battle to the death. If you can't handle over the top ridiculousness, Mirai Nikki just won't work for you. I love over the top ridiculousness though, so it entertained the shit out of me. It's got huge hype moments in nearly every episode, and even the dumb characters are still amusing. The one major flaw with the show is that the original ending they gave was shit, but they fixed it by releasing an extra episode thing that gives the full ending from the manga.

8. Bakemonogatari - This one is about a guy who's part vampire (because he was turned into one and then sorta turned back human, it's hard to explain) and helps other people with their own supernatural creature problems. It's a strange anime that plays with various anime tropes (particularly those of harem type anime) by sometimes playing them straight and other times satirizing them and leaning on the fourth wall. The main reasons I like it are because of the clever dialogue and the cast of interesting characters who develop in rather natural feeling ways, but the general plot stuff and the art are pretty great too.

7. Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica - This is the anime on my list that I very rarely recommend to people because it's just not worth the headache of explaining to people what it really is. On the surface it looks like a magical girl anime directed at young girls, but that's not at all what it is. It's more like a psychological drama/thriller with horror elements. Some really dark shit goes down, man, and it fucks with the characters just as much as the viewers. I love it.

6. Kill la Kill - Kill la Kill is another ridiculous over the top shit anime, similar to Mirai Nikki. However, it does it way better than Mirai Nikki and has a far more compelling protagonist, plus it doesn't take itself super seriously and has a lot of humor thrown in. It's the second best anime I've watched for getting the viewer hyped up about all the insane shit going down (the best one being my #3 pick, and KLK was made by a lot of people who made that one, so it makes sense), and it does so largely through it's fucking amazing soundtrack, which is probably my favorite anime soundtrack of all time.

5. Hunter x Hunter - This was one of the hardest shows for me to place. It's the one on the list that I finished watching (or, well, got caught up with, since it's still going) most recently, and weighing fresh hype again old favorites is weird. Anyway, it's about a kid who wants to become a Hunter (special dudes who are skilled at magic-ish skills and/or fighting) so he can find his father, who was never really around because he was too busy being a Hunter himself. The main reasons why I like this show so much is because it's got some of the best character development I've ever seen in an anime, and it strikes a great balance of over the top shenanigans and serious shit going down.

4. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - This is another one of those entry level anime that is recommended far and wide because of how good it is. It's actually rather similar to Hunter x Hunter in my mind because the highlights are character development and a great mix of shenanigans and seriousness, but I give it the leg up because the actual plot is superior imo, and the fight scenes are generally more entertaining.

3. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Usually called Gurren Lagann for short. It's a mecha anime set in a world that's... not quite post-apocalyptic, maybe best described as a dismal shithole future setting. This is the anime I referenced in the Kill la Kill entry, the one that's the best I've ever seen at getting you hyped up about all the insane shit that happens, again in large part due to the soundtrack being top tier. One thing it has that KLK kinda lacks is real and meaningful character development, and as you might have noticed from my list so far I really like good character development in my anime.

2. Code Geass - Code Geass is another mecha anime, sorta. Unlike most mecha anime where they're the huge focus and they have the whole "ermagerd muh fighting spirit can make me overcome technological limitations" thing, Code Geass just uses them as tools of war in reasonable way. The real focus is on the characters and the shenanigans that go down. The protagonist is a chessmaster type dude who wants to overthrow the evil empire, but it's not really as simple as a struggle between the good guy rebel and the evil oppressors. I can't really say more because spoilers, but it had all sorts of ridiculous plot twists going down and the main character is hammy as fuck when he's pulling off his crazy plans and there's some great character development for all the major players throughout, and overall it's just wonderful.

1. Monster - This is the only anime I would have felt comfortable comparing to the non-anime shows list (and it would have ranked in at #2 there, for perspective), because it really doesn't feel like watching an anime. It's a serious drama with none of the over the top craziness you find in the other entries in this list. It's about a surgeon who goes against the orders of his superiors to save the life of a child who goes on to do horrible things such that he views the guy as a monster (thus the title), and he struggles with the dilemma of feeling like he's responsible for the monster being let loose on the world. It deals with a lot of moral questions, has some amazing character development for all of the important characters, and the ending (for those who have watched it, I mean the ending of the penultimate episode, since I see the final episode as being more of an epilogue than anything else) is a strong contender for best ending ever across all entertainment media for me.

There has been talk about an American live action adaptation getting made some time in the future, and I really hope it happens and is done well so people can get in on this great story even if they've got an aversion to anime. I'd really suggest it for anyone, even if they hate all other anime they've tried, but some people refuse to give it a chance just because it's anime so a live action adaptation would be nice so I can get more people to watch it.

Anime Honorable Mentions

Fairy Tail - Like a few items on my honorable mentions for non-anime, this one wasn't included above because I'm not actually caught up to current on it. I figure once I actually get there, assuming it retains the same level of quality throughout, it'll knock TTGL off the third place spot; if it gets even better as it goes on I would not be surprised to see it kick Code Geass down a peg too, but I dunno if it'll have what it takes to dethrone Monster.

Fullmetal Alchemist - Not as good as the Brotherhood version, imo, but still good and worth watching.

Attack on Titan - Overhyped as fuck, but good enough for a mention at least.

Yu Yu Hakusho - It's basically just a fight-centric anime like Dragonball Z and Bleach and such, but I like it significantly better than the others of its ilk. Used to be an easy pick for my anime top 10, but in the past few years I've watched a lot of great anime that whoop its ass.

Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? - My favorite comedy anime, and the only one I've seen that's worth mentioning.