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Gleemax: WTF is this shit?!

Started by RPGPundit, August 17, 2007, 04:19:55 AM

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August 17, 2007, 04:19:55 AM
Yes, I have to ask again, exactly WTF is Gleemax?! Also, will it be the same thing as D&D Insider?

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August 17, 2007, 04:44:33 AM
Quote from: RPGPunditYes, I have to ask again, exactly WTF is Gleemax?! Also, will it be the same thing as D&D Insider?

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It's an ugly-ass website, is what it is. I try to read it.....but just can't. I'm unable to stay on the site for more than a few seconds before I feel compelled to leave. So much for the "Digital Initiative"! :haw:

The name keeps making me think of "Jizzmax", or "Kleenex", or "Joygasm", and other stupid shit.

Their brain-in-a-jar motif makes me think of some kind of ugly-ass Gamma World/Paranoia hybrid. I am NOT diggin' it. :(

Blackleaf

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August 17, 2007, 06:08:06 AM
Wizard, Dragon, Dungeon -- all strong trademarks.  Gleemax... no.  It'll be interesting to hear the inside scoop in a few years on what the hell happened with WotC/Hasbro this year.

Serious Paul

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August 17, 2007, 08:08:26 AM
I just want to know who came up with the name, and why?

James J Skach

#4
August 17, 2007, 08:21:39 AM
jesus people, we've been over this ground before.  In fact, in the first thread of this title.

It was an old, inside joke at WotC - that the company was run by a brain in a jar called gleemax.  That's it.  That's all.  Nothing more, nothing less.
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#5
August 17, 2007, 08:25:53 AM
Quote from: RPGPunditYes, I have to ask again, exactly WTF is Gleemax?! Also, will it be the same thing as D&D Insider?

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It's Wizards attempt at an ENWorld-esque site.

Sosthenes

#6
August 17, 2007, 08:26:02 AM
Hey, I missed that the first time. Brains in jars are always cool...
 

jrients

#7
August 17, 2007, 08:53:14 AM
Quote from: SosthenesHey, I missed that the first time. Brains in jars are always cool...

That's what I used to think.  Somehow Wizards has managed to ruin the concept.
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August 17, 2007, 08:54:11 AM
Quote from: SosthenesHey, I missed that the first time. Brains in jars are always cool...


Hm...
Swords & Wizardry & Manga ... oh my.
(Beware. This is a Kickstarter link.)

Settembrini

#9
August 17, 2007, 08:56:24 AM
AWESOME!

Still waiting for the RPG-Sourcebook, that wraps up all the Universe info.

GURPS: Captain Future, I heart thee.
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Serious Paul

#10
August 17, 2007, 08:56:47 AM
Yeah I missed this the first time as well. Did we all agree it's completely fucking ghey and a waste of good advertising dollars?

I mean I have bills they can pay if they just want to straight up waste money on shit.

kregmosier

#11
August 17, 2007, 08:59:36 AM
I'm just suprised Dungeons and Dragons hasn't been tacked on as a Hasbro sub-forum under 'Ants in the Pants' and before 'Littlest Pet Shop'.

guess that's worth being optimistic about... :raise:
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#12
August 17, 2007, 09:09:41 AM
Quote from: SettembriniAWESOME!
Still waiting for the RPG-Sourcebook, that wraps up all the Universe info.
GURPS: Captain Future, I heart thee.
This would be rather difficult. Which version of Captain Future would we be talking about?

First the anime butchered Edmond Hamilton's novels. (Not that they were particularly good to begin with... they strongly reminded me of the very early Perry Rhodan.)
And then Arena Synchron/ZDF further butchered the anime series to make it into their vision of a clean saturday afternoon children's programme.

Give me the Raumpatrouille RPG instead!

(No brain-in-a-jar there, no Gleemax.)
Swords & Wizardry & Manga ... oh my.
(Beware. This is a Kickstarter link.)

Settembrini

#13
August 17, 2007, 09:10:51 AM
Quote from: Dirk RemmeckeThis would be rather difficult. Which version of Captain Future would we be talking about?

First the anime butchered Edmond Hamilton's novels. (Not that they were particularly good to begin with... they strongly reminded me of the very early Perry Rhodan.)
And then Arena Synchron/ZDF further butchered the anime series to make it into their vision of a clean saturday afternoon children's programme.

Give me the Raumpatrouille RPG instead!

(No brain-in-a-jar there, no Gleemax.)

I want them all, too.
If there can\'t be a TPK against the will of the players it\'s not an RPG.- Pierce Inverarity

Sosthenes

#14
August 17, 2007, 09:17:58 AM
Quote from: Dirk RemmeckeAnd then Arena Synchron/ZDF further butchered the anime series to make it into their vision of a clean saturday afternoon children's programme.
But so we got the great soundtrack. The dubber giveth, the dubber taketh away.

I have to admit that I own the Perry Rhodan RPG. And even the fantasy "rules" they had that used the same system. In both you have to construct your armor by the millimeter (that's 4.97096954 × 10-6 furlongs for you imperialists).

It's sad that Professor Simon Wright is your first thought when it comes to brain jars. What about the Providers?
 
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