Landon

Doubt I'll be jumping in because of LIFE, but y'all get a thumbs-up from me.

Street Fighter 6 will most likely be on the PS5, as will most other new iterations of the fighting games I buy, play for a day, then pretend I actually play regularly, so I'll be getting one.

New story is up. https://theconspiracyclub.com/2020/05/30/rainbow-connection/

Here's a project of mine that's been long-gestating and finally came to light this week. https://theconspiracyclub.com/ This is where I'll be posting my fiction and game writing stuff. I have a few things completed, a few things nearly completed, and a few more things in the works. I posted the site's first short story tonight. It features a familiar face, albeit a bit younger than usual in this particular story. Check it out. I'll be adding links to future stories to this main post. https://theconspiracyclub.com/2020/05/28/coolland-pizza/ https://theconspiracyclub.com/2020/05/30/rainbow-connection/

This makes the most sense. Redux isn't finished, but it's functional at the moment for the most part. A few peeps have made characters, testing the waters and all that. It becoming the "new" FPL, with the boards directing peeps to it if they wanna do that thing, is probably the best situation. Maybe all it'd need on your end is a link on the FPL frontpage, something along those lines? And then we can keep the couple of subforums on here.

This is a pretty good way to tackle a LOT of things about the site in general. Like, I had no problem using fanart for FPL pics back in the day, but nowadays I'd never just take someone's art-- especially something made by a fan-- and say "this pic represents my character, this is what they look like." Unless, you know, I had permission to do so. I shouldn't have done it in the past, but I'm more aware now.

A lot of us FPLers have kept in touch through Facebook, Twitter, and Discord since things wound down back in... 2013? Looks like some of y'all CBUBers did the same over at Magnetic Fox and likely in other places. That said, not everyone's been in touch, so... what's been going on with y'all? I got promoted at my job, then subsequently screwed over and fired from said job back in 2018. Moved to Las Vegas for a bit after that to work for Amazon. Moved back here to San Antonio, because running off to live alone in a different state to "find myself" wasn't working AT ALL. And a guy can only play slots so much before it goes from being fun to becoming the worst sort of temptation. I'm still working for Amazon (hey, no job disruptions during this virus mess, but I still have to GO OUT FOR WORK). The shift from working an office desk job from 2003-2018 to doing major physical work 40 hours a week was a bit of a shock, but it's also put me in my best physical health since I was in, like, high school. It's strange to say that I feel better now at 41 than I did when I Was 21 when this place was still fairly new, but it's true. I still write about anime, movies, and the like. I set up a new site a few years ago, Shin Mecha Guignol, that I updated sporadically. Been a couple of months since my last post, but I had a burst of activity at the beginning of the year before EVERYTHING happened. I also do quickie gut reaction movie reviews on Letterboxd. I've written some fiction stuff, and am currently working on getting something up online for it all, but it'll be a bit. I've also delved into writing table top RPG stuff. Got two small games roughly done, but neither's in a state where they can go public just yet. So, you know, COMING SOON. Maybe. Overall, life still kinda sucks. No more than before, just in different ways. But what else are you gonna do? Any other options involve not watching cartoons, and that's unacceptable.

Looks like it's just the CBUB that's back as far as STUFF goes? I remember the FPL being a bit more resource and time intensive, so that might not be in the cards. But it's rad to have the joint back regardless.

Well this is something I wasn't expecting.

Wrote a blog post about this summer's movies. I'm sure y'all will hate my rankings: http://mecha-guignol.com/2013/08/28/summer-movie-roundup-2013-flavored/

If Snyder's idea for Superman consists of him disregarding people in harm's way and snapping the necks of villains, his Batman will probably sit on the top floor of the Wayne Enterprises skyscraper and shoot jaywalkers with a sniper rifle.

Keaton is still the most interesting movie Bruce Wayne/Batman. He's just as much of a freak as the villains he faces, especially in Returns. Kimler and Clooney didn't get a chance to do anything worthwhile because their respective movies were so godawful. Bale was OK, but his Batman voice was *vulgarity*ing stupid. None of the Nolan movies were interesting due to his portrayal of the character, though. Begins is watchable only because of Scarecrow and Ras, Dark Knight is all about Joker, and Rises is good due to the operatic ridiculousness of everything. Considering how bad Man of Steel (and every other Zach Snyder movie) was, I have a feeling Affleck's gonna be tossed into the same camp as Kimler and Clooney. I just can't see Snyder and everyone else responsible for Man of Steel making a good Batman/Superman movie.

"Troll" is a meaningless word. Some people use it to refer to people who go out of their way to harass people. Others use it when you disagree with them, because any differing opinion just HAS to be you trying to get a rise out of them rather than a genuine differing opinion. Yeah. Stop using "troll" and come up with some new terms that actually have meaning.

A bunch of stuff happens in the movie. Then Wolverine gets shot in the head and he forgets all of it. We spent two hours watching a kinda crappy movie, only for the movie to tell us none of it mattered. That alone makes the movie completely worthless. It's a meaningless, insignificant movie that TELLS US it's meaningless and insignificant. Thankfully the newest Wolverine movie chose to ignore Origins' existence. I can handle X3 still being relevant. It's also a pretty bad movie, but the new movie expanded on its events about as well as you could expect.

Who is Penguin Hierarchy? Just curious.

http://chronicle.mecha-guignol.com/forum/index.php It ain't fancy or anything. Everything's still in "beta," so to speak. But yeah, we're live. Check things out. Talk. Ask questions.

I heard the CBUB didn't do well enough in the overseas markets, so there won't be a sequel. Can't make a sequel nowadays without hitting it big in China.

That isn't a sandbox. It's a litter box.

I don't mind if people have ideas they want to bring over into the new place. I just want everyone to be clear that, yeah, we're not just taking the decade-plus of pseudo-history that's existed in the FPL and saying "All that stuff's already established." Once we get going, if someone were to say "Hey, I like that Young Sentinels idea RP, let's write something using some of those characters we liked," that'd be cool. Stuff like that just isn't automatically assumed to exist. In the end we'll probably end up with a mix of the old and the new (more new, I hope), and by mixing the two it'll give whatever old ideas we had a new perspective.

Yeah. The site we're setting up is less about the characters and more about writing stories. There probably won't be any sort of "this guy fights this guy, so VOTE" things, at least on an official level. If it does take place it'd be informal polls on the message board or something like that.

Getting rid of a focal point such as Khazan will broaden the world. It will encourage people to use locations other than one central "connected to everything" city. Khazan's more of a crutch than anything. That doesn't mean alternate worlds/dimensions/times can't exist. All it means is that there isn't once central point where all of these worlds collide. And there WILL be certain types of characters that just plain won't work. Sack Full of Spiders? No. The thing we're building is geared more towards the actual story writing aspect of things. You can probably write something about some dude running around with a sack filled with spiders, but the actual Sack wouldn't be an entry in the character database. Basically, the act of character creation isn't going to be the main aspect of the new place. It's using those characters and actually writing stories. It's gonna be different, and it's possible that some people might not jive with it. But yeah, we aren't just moving to a new site and resuming as-is. We're taking this opportunity to refine things more towards a shared-universe fiction thing rather than "a place where you make a dude then watch him fight." Things might be a bit more confining, but at the same time we're trying to do something with a more concrete end goal. I think most of y'all will dig it once you shake off your FPL expectations. It won't be BETTER, just different.

The only thing I'm putting my foot down on is "No Khazan." That's a uniquely FPL/CBUB thing and is best left there. Everything else is still up for discussion.

I'll say this: Sentinels, Angels of Mercy, Syndicate, and Fallen won't be automatically transferred. If anything, it'd be best if we simply start from scratch if we need teams/organizations. I know I won't be transferring KALI over to the new place, at least not in its current form.

We're working on the new joint. We should be able to go public within the week.

If the only complains people have about The Wolverine are nitpicky fanboyish things, that's a pretty good sign that it's a genuinely good movie. And it is. Saw it the other night. Didn't care for the big finale. Up until that point, it wasn't falling into the usual comic book movie traps. It was more of a character drama thing that just happened to have a pretty awesome fight on the top of a bullet train. But the whole robot thing and the reveals in the final fight were kinda lame. It feels like something tacked on by some studio exec who thinks all comic book movies have to end with BIG ROBOT EXPLOSIONS. But it's still a pretty good movie despite that. Also saw Only God Forgives. Best movie I've seen all year.