Downtown Rumbles: Sharp's Scotch Bar

[Nik Hasta]

I'll do you one better:

Yeah, that seems about right.

[Nik Hasta]

So, I remain conflicted about Tsugumomo as a series.

The art is fantastic, the choreography is really cool and the world is pretty interesting in terms of how it's plays around with some tropes of shonen.

Unfortunately, it's also an ecchi series wherein the like... 14 year old protagonist powers up his ever increasing harem of pre-teen waifus by naked massages and finger-banging.

It really kind of suckered me on because I happened to click on a more recent chapter in the middle of a combat sequence because the cover looked interesting and thought it was good. Then I went back and began reading from the beginning and... yeah, lots of weird softcore stuff with a mostly underage cast.

Japan, why do you do this?

[Nik Hasta]

On the other end of the spectrum, Gigant continues Oku's exploration of the theme of "All people are cruel and unkind to one another in a thousand tiny largely pointless ways that our entire species is likely doomed," that he touched on in Gantz and, to a lesser extent, Inuyashiki. This time there's more surrealism.

In this most recent chapter, the climax is that our protagonist literally has a tantrum in a restaurant until the girl he is meeting with agrees to date him out of sheer awkwardness.

It's like... a horrendous cringe but it's quite engaging. Like a car crash in slow motion.

[Noldere]

Just a reminder folks, got an RPG thread if you interested in mecha, Kaiju demons, space exploration and themes of sacrifice

Pilot: "I don't know. The offer sounds great, but the dearth of detail is... disquieting."

T1XTN: "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL COMMITMENT"

[Sharpandpointies]

Just a reminder folks, got an RPG thread if you interested in mecha, Kaiju demons, space exploration and themes of sacrifice

I'll have a look. For fun. Can't promise anything...a lot will depend on the system.

Edit: I see speed, speed, and speed.

[Tami]

Just a reminder folks, got an RPG thread if you interested in mecha, Kaiju demons, space exploration and themes of sacrifice

Sounds interesting, but I can only, barely, handle 1 RPG at a time. Good luck with it.

[Froggy]

Pilot: "I don't know. The offer sounds great, but the dearth of detail is... disquieting."

T1XTN: "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL COMMITMENT"

Id day ask questions but it is what it is, noted. I don’t wanna give anything away

I'll have a look. For fun. Can't promise anything...a lot will depend on the system.

Edit: I see speed, speed, and speed.

Dont worry, I have an idea for that

Sounds interesting, but I can only, barely, handle 1 RPG at a time. Good luck with it.

Understandable

[Anarchist]

Oh hell no.

Goku is such an idiot he'd probably mess things up involuntarily xD

[Noldere]

Edit: I see speed, speed, and speed.

If I correctly recall, you have quite a few unstandable issues with speed being a stat in a role playing game system- probably even more issues than I have with Intelligence being a stat in such systems.

Dont worry, I have an idea for that

...and now I'm getting flashbacks of a certain other game.

Id day ask questions but it is what it is, noted. I don’t wanna give anything away

I'll have to get back to this.

[Sharpandpointies]

Dont worry, I have an idea for that

What's the idea?

If I correctly recall, you have quite a few unstandable issues with speed being a stat in a role playing game system- probably even more issues than I have with Intelligence being a stat in such systems.

Yesss...I find it a huge issue. I have yet to see it done perfectly, save in the systems that say 'Screw Speed, we're not bothering/rolling it up in some other stat'.

[Nik Hasta]

Kingdom remains really strong.

A lot of tension here.

[Froggy]

What's the idea?



Yesss...I find it a huge issue. I have yet to see it done perfectly, save in the systems that say 'Screw Speed, we're not bothering/rolling it up in some other stat'.

The idea was the way Nemesis Tech works is that while you may want to specialize, you’ll need to balance or at least lever yourself. Tying speed to other stats because if people just dump into speed then they’ll tear themselves apart first time they thrust in battle is the idea. Like anchor stats

If you get High in speed need to tie it to two stats, the points increase as more are added.

[Froggy]

If I correctly recall, you have quite a few unstandable issues with speed being a stat in a role playing game system- probably even more issues than I have with Intelligence being a stat in such systems.



...and now I'm getting flashbacks of a certain other game.



I'll have to get back to this.

Idk the other game you’re thinking of honestly, and I’ll be waiting

[Sharpandpointies]

The idea was the way Nemesis Tech works is that while you may want to specialize, you’ll need to balance or at least lever yourself. Tying speed to other stats because if people just dump into speed then they’ll tear themselves apart first time they thrust in battle is the idea. Like anchor stats

If you get High in speed need to tie it to two stats, the points increase as more are added.

That's a good start, but if blitzing is possible as noted then the problem I have with speed (well, one of them) still exists.

The second people become capable of blitzing other people, we get into the idea that one character can do all kinds of things when another character cannot. Or render their skill impotent due to speed (which is blitzing). That's a problem.

[master of read]

Kingdom remains really strong.

A lot of tension here.

just like ouki's lips.