What happened this Monday?

Quote from: GeekyBugle on April 30, 2024, 09:53:28 PM

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on April 30, 2024, 05:22:01 PMIt's more or less a rehash of 40k. What about other settings? Something more like Starship Troopers, Halo or Starcraft? Except not stupid or "satire".

Thought you wanted totally original settings?

Anything that's "more like Starship Troopers, Halo or Starcraft" can't be original, by definition.

I like having a plethora of settings and I like them not being owned by stupid corpos that drive them into the ground and kill them.

Starship Troopers is crap because Verhoven turned it into bad "satire" and Sony ran with that stupid shit. Now the brand name is garbage. The Mongoose ttrpg was nice, but they lost the license and now even the PDFs aren't available on drivethru.

Halo is... well, it's been mismanaged into crap.

Starcraft... same. The premise was interesting, even if it was derivative, but then the idiots in charge turned it into a shitty soap opera about a dumb space cowboy and his dumb bug girlfriend. it makes Twilight look like Shakespeare.

Being into nerdy topics is so frustrating nowadays because everything is crap.

TSR's Star*Drive didn't turn into crap, but it was canceled after two years and Hasbro refuses to even make the PDFs available on drivethru and that makes it nearly impossible to share the game with other people.

No, piracy is not a sustainable solution because it opens you to litigation. The whole copyright law needs reforming. Not that I expect that to happen any time soon because our governments are effing morons who don't give a crap about preserving history, art, and culture.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on May 01, 2024, 02:53:36 PM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on April 30, 2024, 09:53:28 PM

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on April 30, 2024, 05:22:01 PMIt's more or less a rehash of 40k. What about other settings? Something more like Starship Troopers, Halo or Starcraft? Except not stupid or "satire".

Thought you wanted totally original settings?

Anything that's "more like Starship Troopers, Halo or Starcraft" can't be original, by definition.

I like having a plethora of settings and I like them not being owned by stupid corpos that drive them into the ground and kill them.

Starship Troopers is crap because Verhoven turned it into bad "satire" and Sony ran with that stupid shit. Now the brand name is garbage. The Mongoose ttrpg was nice, but they lost the license and now even the PDFs aren't available on drivethru.

Halo is... well, it's been mismanaged into crap.

Starcraft... same. The premise was interesting, even if it was derivative, but then the idiots in charge turned it into a shitty soap opera about a dumb space cowboy and his dumb bug girlfriend. it makes Twilight look like Shakespeare.

Being into nerdy topics is so frustrating nowadays because everything is crap.

TSR's Star*Drive didn't turn into crap, but it was canceled after two years and Hasbro refuses to even make the PDFs available on drivethru and that makes it nearly impossible to share the game with other people.

No, piracy is not a sustainable solution because it opens you to litigation. The whole copyright law needs reforming. Not that I expect that to happen any time soon because our governments are effing morons who don't give a crap about preserving history, art, and culture.

Starship Troopers is the novel, not the movie and the movie can't rewrite the novel. But you can always take some derivative setting like say WH40K or Helldivers and make a derivative of it.

The "Starship Troopers" movie suckes because there's no powered armour and the bugs don't have guns and space ships.

I'm working on original settings inspired by the novel in order to compensate for Sony shitting on it. Although one difference I make is that I try to explore the bug pov in some chapters in order to pre-empt bad faith critics. No, they're not a persecuted minority who just want to live in peace, they're engineered killing machines that want to assimilate humanity borg-style. They're highly intelligent and use subversive tactics, like sending in replicants to foment dissent among human societies to weaken them before the invasion, even sending outright diplomats/missionaries to trick the weak-minded.

GW has been trash since at least the 2000s and was showing signs of trouble by the late 90s

Quote from: Omega on May 05, 2024, 06:56:55 AMGW has been trash since at least the 2000s and was showing signs of trouble by the late 90s

Greetings!

Yes, that is right, Omega! I left Games Workshop back then when they just up and cancelled the Warhammer 40K Epic Space Marine game. I had invested literally *thousands* of dollars into this game, building out huge armies of Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Chaos, Eldar, and Tyrannids. Games Workshop showed me then that they were a selfish, greedy, and arrogant company that were disrespectful and thoughtless. So, I said fuck them! I have never been a customer for them since. I don't spend one dime on them anymore.

It is sad though to see so many people getting fucked over by Games Workshop. Just recently, like three weeks ago or so, GW cancelled 50% of the Age of Sigmar game. I saw this one video where a fan had spent 5,000 dollars on this huge, gorgeous army--that is now cancelled. He threw them all into the trash, and said "Fuck Games Workshop! I'm Done!" You could tell that he was both heartbroken and enraged. I am totally empathetic for his feelings. I was there, exactly similar. It does boggle me why though when Games Workshop has now a long history of price gouging, disrespect, and otherwise abusing fans through their policies and statements, for at least 25 years now, that people continue to sign up for them, and then proceed to invest god-awful amounts of money in their products, when it is a certainty that somewhere soon, GW will fuck them too in some way, either cancelling the game entirely, or modifying it severely, or something else stupid and greedy.

As you noted, I discovered that GW was a fucking BS company back in the late 90's. Games Workshop has simply gotten worse, and have continued to be them greedy, stupid selves again and again and again. This is a pattern of greed, stupidity, and disrespect.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Anyone checking out RAVAGED STAR?

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/miniwargaming/ravaged-star-tabletop-miniature-wargame


It looks like a possible 40k replacement.

Anyone played it yet?