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Exalted 3 - What the hell?

Started by DisgruntleFairy, February 24, 2014, 01:51:28 AM

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Warthur

#60
February 28, 2014, 02:35:18 AM
Quote from: BedrockBrendan;733528Hopefully it isn't cancer. It sometimes takes a while for the severity of an illness or condition like this to sink. Looking at the update posts in that link, I suspect he was far more optimistic a couple of months ago and now things are seeming a lot more serious. Sounds like it is really taking a toll on him.
Yeah, I don't think we've ever had confirmation of exactly what it is.

The mention of swelling starting up in his armpit is alarming because if it is lymphatic cancer, then once it starts spreading it takes you down mercilessly. On the other hand, swelling in other parts of the lymphatic system would be expected in a wide variety of lymph node infections.
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Skywalker

#61
February 28, 2014, 03:16:34 AM
Quote from: Warthur;733582The mention of swelling starting up in his armpit is alarming because if it is lymphatic cancer, then once it starts spreading it takes you down mercilessly. On the other hand, swelling in other parts of the lymphatic system would be expected in a wide variety of lymph node infections.

His ailment last year was a massive swelling in the side of his neck (it has since gone down as noted in his update). In light of this, the second swelling is ominous.

Warthur

#62
February 28, 2014, 03:40:27 AM
Yeah, and also last year his doctors were suggesting that they might need to do surgery in order to hack out that node and see what was going on with it. Dude was talking about "the knife or the hourglass" (the knife being the surgery and the hourglass being waiting it out) and seemed to be going for the latter.

Incidentally, holy shit USA sort out your medical system, people shouldn't be in the position of saying "well, I could have this potentially life-saving surgery, but it'll financially ruin me".
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I recommend The RPG Pub as a friendly place where RPGs can be discussed and where the guiding principles of moderation are "be kind to each other" and "no politics". It\'s pretty chill so far.

Bradford C. Walker

#63
February 28, 2014, 04:37:23 AM
Quote from: Warthur;733586Yeah, and also last year his doctors were suggesting that they might need to do surgery in order to hack out that node and see what was going on with it. Dude was talking about "the knife or the hourglass" (the knife being the surgery and the hourglass being waiting it out) and seemed to be going for the latter.

Incidentally, holy shit USA sort out your medical system, people shouldn't be in the position of saying "well, I could have this potentially life-saving surgery, but it'll financially ruin me".
This has been sorted out.  The sorting ended with "Fuck you if you're not rich, powerful, or well-connected."  The system's purpose is what it does, and what it does is not hard to figure out.

Kiero

#64
February 28, 2014, 06:22:03 AM
Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;733587This has been sorted out.  The sorting ended with "Fuck you if you're not rich, powerful, or well-connected."  The system's purpose is what it does, and what it does is not hard to figure out.

It's a protection racket run for the benefit of medical insurers and Big Pharma, plain and simple. Which is why it costs more than everywhere else in the world, yet delivers less.
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#65
February 28, 2014, 10:53:16 AM
Quote from: Rincewind1;733562Seeing how Holden is the part of the problem that allowed this SJW Lynching Developers culture to develop, I'd say he well deserves a "Live by the sword...". Sadly, I'll admit that they also played me like a fiddle, though only for a buck, as I did throw one down Exalted's way in the middle of SJW flame war.

Man, that was great.  Talk about getting mauled by your pet tiger.  "There are two usages of this word, the common use and the medieval one. Why are these assholes screaming that the old ass horrid one must be the one I'm using.  I guess I will just have to explain what I meant.  Holy shit, they aren't listening, why aren't they listening?"

As for John Morke, you said you were sick, and couldn't afford the doctor cost, and the community raised seven times what your bills were. Stop being an asshole and go to the fucking doctor.

gamerGoyf

#66
February 28, 2014, 11:39:11 AM
What I never got about that debacle was what took so long? White Wolf fluff has pretty much always been a crime against humanity. I don't see how the rape ghosts where a bridge too far given what WW has already published.

Snowman0147

#67
February 28, 2014, 11:43:15 AM
Quote from: Kiero;733590It's a protection racket run for the benefit of medical insurers and Big Pharma, plain and simple. Which is why it costs more than everywhere else in the world, yet delivers less.

No shit.  I seen documentries of people leaving the country to get medical treatment.  Seriously there is a whole industry for it.  People who are too poor to afford surgery have the option to go to another country to get help from there.  So far it had been successful and less expensive.

Snowman0147

#68
February 28, 2014, 11:54:38 AM
Quote from: gamerGoyf;733639What I never got about that debacle was what took so long? White Wolf fluff has pretty much always been a crime against humanity. I don't see how the rape ghosts where a bridge too far given what WW has already published.

It isn't.  I seen and heard worst that white wolf made.  So yeah first time I heard the SJW did attack any thing from white wolf.  Maybe they never got the memo that onyx path is the new white wolf?

Nexus

#69
February 28, 2014, 12:02:13 PM
Quote from: The Ent;732852Yeah, I absolutely agree with Kiero. What's the point? If they'd streamlined everything and made all the Exalt types etc available in the main core rulebook then maybe but as it stands...why want this?.

Because I don't use the other Exalts as anything other than antagonist so don't need full rules for them. But I do enjoy the old played out shit but the rules, as they stand, suck ass for even that.
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Warthur

#70
February 28, 2014, 12:10:09 PM
Maybe there's a tonal thing here too? People might be more willing to see repugnant shit in a horror game because, hey, it's horror, grim stuff happens and you're supposed to be appalled and outraged by it. Exalted always struck me as weird-for-weird's-sake fantasy which bent over backwards to incorporate any fantastic influence not represented in D&D, with the PCs as Super Saiyans, so dropping a heap of rape in there feels tonally inappropriate even if it is handled delicately.

As for the little girl who becomes a bloated monster in hell covered in orifices from which she gives births to entire species of hellspawn, holy shit put the edgy away Exalted people, that's even worse than the worst of the Black Dog shit.
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Nexus

#71
February 28, 2014, 12:15:12 PM
Quote from: James Gillen;733020Oh, I don't wonder why it WAS popular when it first came out, at all.
I wonder why it's still popular, given that its transitional Storyteller system, like ABERRANT, is a case of "turn it up to 11 when the amplifier only goes to 6" and Second Edition was basically the same thing, only overcomplicated.

JG

I like the analogy.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

Snowman0147

#72
February 28, 2014, 12:31:38 PM
Quote from: Warthur;733643Maybe there's a tonal thing here too? People might be more willing to see repugnant shit in a horror game because, hey, it's horror, grim stuff happens and you're supposed to be appalled and outraged by it. Exalted always struck me as weird-for-weird's-sake fantasy which bent over backwards to incorporate any fantastic influence not represented in D&D, with the PCs as Super Saiyans, so dropping a heap of rape in there feels tonally inappropriate even if it is handled delicately.

As for the little girl who becomes a bloated monster in hell covered in orifices from which she gives births to entire species of hellspawn, holy shit put the edgy away Exalted people, that's even worse than the worst of the Black Dog shit.

You know as a person that read some of the books of Exalted I have to say the little girl bit ain't even the worst of it.  In fact I would even argue that is a better fate than other people had suffered in the setting.  That speaks a whole lot of volume, but given the setting the world of darkness ain't shit compared to the horror that exalted can dish out.

Nexus

#73
February 28, 2014, 12:36:34 PM
You also have to keep in mind how much gaming culture has changed since the White Wolf/Black Dog heydays and now. Hell, its changed allot since Exalted was first marketed. Remember this is a game that used to inspires NC-17 content contests on Rpg.net that featured entries like a Lunar Lolita Zoophile and a Sidereal with a fetish for having sex with random internal organs he knocked loose from his lovers with super magical Kung Fu. These threads were generally accepted and fairly widely participated.
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

Snowman0147

#74
February 28, 2014, 12:51:03 PM
Quote from: Nexus;733647You also have to keep in mind how much gaming culture has changed since the White Wolf/Black Dog heydays and now. Hell, its changed allot since Exalted was first marketed. Remember this is a game that used to inspires NC-17 content contests on Rpg.net that featured entries like a Lunar Lolita Zoophile and a Sidereal with a fetish for having sex with random internal organs he knocked loose from his lovers with super magical Kung Fu. These threads were generally accepted and fairly widely participated.

Well yeah if you look at things over all gaming did improve over the years and this is despite the SJWs and other sub groups of the hobby from ruining things.  Still Exalted was always the crazy horse that when it was mention people go, "WTF?"  At times I imagine that was the entire point.  It is basicly the Lady Gaga and Milly Cyrise of rpgs.  When you see it you can't resist staring at it with confusion and disbelief.
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