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[Yousef]

You type like a poet. I like that.
Have you seen the golden age Superman cartoon from 1941?

 

[PrismRed]

Do you cease to exist if you went to buy milk?

 

[Krazy Kat]

what is your relation to p diddy, daddy?

 

[Mr. Daddy]

What are some of your favourite non-animated TV shows?​

I'll admit, this answer will probably be a little boring. I always spent most of my time watching a small number of channels growing up, because I only had cable when I was visiting my Grandparents. I pretty much exclusively watched Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Jetix/Disney XD, ABC Family for movies, and Nickelodeon (until they killed all their good shows) until I was about 16 and started branching off to other networks. THAT SAID, I do have some particular favorite live-action shows still, those being:​

• Cartoon Network's Destroy, Build, Destroy: This show is just unadulterated pure fun. Whoever thought it was a good idea to make a show where Andrew W.K. goes out into the desert with a bunch of kids and blow up cars to make vehicles out of the wreckage to do random bullshit, and the loser team's vehicle gets blown up at the end was a genius.​
• Mythbusters: I don't think I even really need to say anything about this. It's Mythbusters. What more could you even want?​
• Pretty much anything with Gordon Ramsay in it: Most shows of his I think are pretty much guaranteed to be a good time, though I do find myself preferring the less intense editing of a lot of the U.K. versions of his shows. My absolute favorite though is one that has yet to get a U.S. version called Gordon Behind Bars. I think it's a perfect look at exactly the type of man he really is, and you can tell it's something very important to him. The premise is that Gordon believes a part of the overcrowding in the prison system has to do with not providing enough opportunity to have prospects when you get out of prison, so he pairs with a prison to take a group of prisoners and teach them how to bake. The cupcakes get sold on the outside, and the money gets put back into the system to put less strain on people outside it, and it gives the prisoners a chance to reform and be something when they get outside. I can not recommend this more highly to anyone who hasn't seen it.​
• Battlebots: I'm a simple man with this one. You tell me that a bunch of nerds get to make robots and make them fight, I get excited.​
• If we're willing to include mini-series, Band of Brothers and The Pacific are two of my personal favorite pieces of media in general that I think you can find, but there's not really anything I can say about these that probably hasn't been said hundreds of times.​
• Because of watching as much Disney channel as I have, I have lots of experience with Disney channel sitcoms, and I can tell you most are really worth skipping. That said, there's three in particular I think stand above the rest, though even then they do still each have their low points. Suite Life of Zack and Cody is generally a pretty solid show, that I think maintains a good balance of serious moments and comedy. Having surprisingly solid child actors also helps a lot. Wizards of Waverly Place is also fairly solid, and is one of the few shows that if anything got better the longer it continued (with some mild exceptions. There was a brief period where Disney was oddly obsessed with vampires, probably because of Twilight, and anything that got tainted by that is pretty bad, and there's a small subplot of this show that did get that treatment that just kind of abruptly ends once the channel moved on from that fad). The movie it got as a finale is also pretty good, but I haven't seen the more recent one. The last of them is Good Luck, Charlie. It's just a generally solid and sweet family focused sitcom that does a lot with the limited cast and premise that it has. Some honorable mentions also go to That's So Raven, which I remember liking but haven't watched in so long that I don't know if I would still feel the same, Cory in the House for being the greatest anime of all time, Suite Life on Deck for completely losing its sanity and becoming one of the strangest shows you can watch, and Jessie for just being kind of okay with moments of being good.​
• Wipeout is probably my number one favorite competition/game show that you can find. I haven't seen any of the recent reboot series though, and I don't know if I want to. The hosts kind of made that show what it is.​
• Lastly, Seinfeld and Married With Children. I never watched these growing up, but I ended up seeing them because @Nidoking is particularly fond of them and likes to use them to go to bed. I think both are purely funny most of the time, and I must admit I relate a bit more than I'm proud of with George Costanza.​

Outside of D&D, what other board games do you like?​

I have a few particular favorites, but there's not many board games I've played that I don't enjoy on at least a basic level.​

• I grew up playing a lot of Risk, and it is and always will be one of my all-time favorite board games. The classic version is great, but I'm also particularly fond of both the Lord of the Rings edition and the Starcraft edition. The Lord of the Rings edition actually substantially changes the map, but also has many other small tweaks like strongholds that add 1 to your defense dice and give you an extra army recruited while you control it that really change the tactics of the game. Plus it comes with a replica of the One Ring that also acts as a game timer! The Starcraft edition actually has much more substantial tweaks that practically make it an entirely different game, and it's phenomenal. If you only ever play one version of Risk, including the classic edition, the Starcraft edition is what I would recommend.​
• HeroQuest: I was lucky enough to grow up with this bad boy, and it is probably to this day still tied to be my favorite board game of all time (we'll get to its competitor shortly). It's effectively a D&D light dungeon crawler, but I think it's an absolute blast. It's fairly simple, and based off of Warhammer for its mechanics. Really in some ways, you could say it's very similar to Warhammer what D&D's 1st edition was to Chainmail. The modern re-release from Hasbro is also actually a genuinely loving and accurate recreation of it (outside of replacing one of the Warhammer specific monsters with something new) and I would definitely recommend it. It has more expansions than the original, and if you happen to be able to get your hands on the original or any of its expansions (or any of the new expansions for that matter), they would all work together since none of the rules were changed.​
• Heroscape: I got lucky enough to get this for a birthday one year, and I also absolutely love this. For those unfamiliar, it's a miniatures wargame where the main gimmick is that the game comes with pieces of land so you can build the battlefield that battles take place in. Typically teams are small squads, and there's genuinely a lot of complexity when it comes to what units are worth taking and pairing together. Unfortunatley, getting anything for this game second hand can get very expensive very quickly.​
• Marvel Legendary: This is probably my second favorite board game of all time. It's a very unique deckbuilder, where the concept is that a team of heroes are trying to stop a single mastermind and their team of villains from successfully achieving a scheme. The theming is very strong in this game. Most heroes tht you play really feel like you're playing them, and this game has dozens of expansions that even include some fairly niche or obscure characters to play (Man-Thing, anyone?). It'll actually be getting a remastered base game box soon to remake a lot of the base heroes and bring them more in-line with more recent releases and apply keywords that didn't exist when the game came out originally, for anyone who might be interested.​
• Pandemic is as good as anyone you've heard talk about it say it is.​
• Roll Player: This is a very charming game focused on making a character! The idea is that you're going throught he process of making a tabletop character, and you get higher points based on if you meet certain criteria (like having specific totals in certain stats, being a certain alignment, having specific equipment, etc.).​
• Kill the Overlord: This is one part social deduction, and one part card-based strategy. The idea is simple; Everyone has a different class card, with one person being the Overlord, and everyone else being a variety of different subjects. Everyone also has a hand full of plot cards, which are the main driving force of how the game is played. The overlord picks someone to receive the exectuion order, and players use their plot cards to push it around to others. At the same time, players will receive gold based on their class (as well as potentially plot cards or class abilities). Whoever cannot pass the exection order is executed and eliminated from the round. The Overlord then picks someone new, and play continues like this until either everyone else is executed, or the Overlord is executed. If the Overlord is executed, class cards are passed out again and a new round begins. There are two ways to win, those being to either kill everyone else as the Overlord, or to start the round as the Overlord with 30 or more gold. Get a good large group together, and I guarantee you will have a blast with this game.​

TO BE CONTINUED (IF I EVER GET A BUMP)​

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Two animal species have to swap sizes but you get to choose which. Which ones do you choose?

 

[Mr. Daddy]

(THANK YOU TO @King Koopa FOR ALLOWING ME TO CONTINUE MY NONSENSE)
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Are you into any other tabletop RPGs?​

Absolutely! Some worthy ones worth mentioning:​

• Mutants and Masterminds 3rd edition might be my favorite all-time tabletop RPG, possibly even including D&D 3.5e. It's specifically themed on supers, but the rules for its systems are generic enough that you could use it for literally anything. Your character's abilities are split between their raw stats, skills, advantages (basically feats), and powers. You get points to spend on each of those categories to build your character, and there's redundancy built in to allow for different ways of doing the same thing. For instance, if you wanted a character skilled at martial arts, you'd have at least four ways of representing that mechanically. You could give your character a high Fighting base stat to represent them being a generically trained fighter, you could increase a variety of different Close Combat skills (like Close Combat: Swords, or Close Combat: Unarmed. The skill essentially lets you write in whatever you want for flavor as long as the application isn't to broad, like Close Combat: Melee Weapons.) to make yourself more specialized, you could give yourself a bunch of combat related feats, or you could spend points on powers to grant yourself any of what I just mentioned above, allowing you to now spend Extra Effort on it to make it stronger, but also risking needing to give yourself drawbacks or have your powers cancelled by a villain that counters you. It's very open-ended, and allows for tons of creativity.​
• Star Wars Saga Edition is my preferred go-to for Star Wars tabletop. Edge of the Empire is fine and all I guess, but I love the way that Saga Edition does a lot of things mechanically. It has a pretty heavy focus on prestige classes and multiclassing, so it encourages a lot of creativity when building your character there. It's based on a mix of a lot of the best aspects of both 3.5e and 4e D&D with several Star Wars related twists, which also admittedly does help it a lot. Most of the content is also based on what is now known as Legends continuity, which is my preference anyway as a whole, and it has many expansions for it, even including an Old Republic and a Legacy era expansion. There's so many little things to say about this one that I love that it'd be hard to fit into even a small handful of posts, I think.​
• I've played a bit of Pathfinder 1e, and generally really enjoy it. I have good reason to suspect that I'd also particularly like 2e, but haven't spent any time with it yet.​
• I have some experience with the 7th and 4th (I think, don't remember for certain) editions of Call of Cthulhu, and have loved every minute I've spent with the system.​
• I've also spent some time playing the 7th edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, and have enjoyed the time I've spent with it too. I hope someday to try out Mummy: The Resurrection though, as Mummies are probably my favorite of the monsters that World of Darkness has dipped its toes into adapting.​

Is RGT the first forum you've ever participated in? If not, do you have any good memories of other ones?​

RGT is not the first forum I've participated on, but it is the first one I've spent a significant amount of time participating with. I've always had some social anxiety that tends to push me to lurk, rather than participate, and I want to do what I can to push past that in small ways. Seeing how nice of a community there is here while @King Koopa was using it really helped encourage me to give it a shot, and I'm very glad I did. My main other forums I've actually used and did a little more than just lurk around in were some Minecraft roleplay server forums, the only one of which I think is still around is Massivecraft. I had a small friend group there that I roleplayed with regularly, and it was a really good, fun few years. There was eventually a falling out though, and I've lost touch with pretty much all of that group since then. I've lurked around a bit though on the Minecraft forums, Giant in the Playground, a variety of other individual Minecraft server related forums, the old Fusionfall forums, and Newgrounds if you count it. Tangentially related, I've also spent a lot of time on and was a fairly active user of 4chan from around 2011 until about last year when they really started pushing post limits on people who didn't pay for 4chan gold. I mostly stuck to /b/, /bant/, /r9k/, /co/, /mu/, /k/, /vr/, and /vp/, but I've spent a decent amount of time on many of the other boards.​

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You type like a poet. I like that.
Have you seen the golden age Superman cartoon from 1941?​

Thanks! This is actually kinda just how I talk.
As for your question though, I have! It's actually a big part of why I love rotoscoping as an animation technique, and, though I understand why it isn't, I really wish it was more common in the industry. I'm also quite the fan of Superman TAS, and have some interest in watching the live-action series some day. One small project I've actually been working on for a while (that I need to start writing more in detail about) is going through and reading comics that were adapted into films, and judging those films based on how much I enjoyed them, how they are as an adaptation, and how they are as films. I haven't finished writing the scripts yet (I plan to make videos about this general concept sometime, but it probably isn't an immediate future thing yet), but I have done the reading and watching for the Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher film serials. All I'll say on those is, they're both very worth watching for completely different reasons. Captain Marvel enters so bad it's good territory on multiple occasions. They kinda unintentionally just made him seem like a complete homicidal psychopath, which is funny in its own way with how it looks in the movie. The Spy Smasher one though is just a genuinely good spy action thriller, and I could not recommend it enough. It's even got some impressive effects for the 40s, like seamlessly having the same guy play two different characters on-screen. There's a version that cuts out some content to make it a feature-length movie, but I haven't watched that. I know it's received similarly well though.​

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Do you cease to exist if you went to buy milk?​

No, because I always come back. I actually find this particularly funny though because milk happens to be my favorite drink.​

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what is your relation to p diddy, daddy?​

No relation, fortunately.​

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Two animal species have to swap sizes but you get to choose which. Which ones do you choose?​

Dragonflies and Oarfish, let the chaos begin.​

 

[Octopus]

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• []Star Wars Saga Edition[/]

I hate it interrupt the ethereal "question then answer" flow here, but I have just have to say: based.

 

[Antilocal123]

Could’ve sworn I’d seen this one before…

Anyway, would you rather live the rest of your life as Sadako from The Ring or live the rest of your life as Jason Voorhees?

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

What is the music of life?

 

[Mr. Daddy]

Could’ve sworn I’d seen this one before…

Anyway, would you rather live the rest of your life as Sadako from The Ring or live the rest of your life as Jason Voorhees?​

You did, thread just got necro'd

As for your question, you're kidding right? Jason Voorhees gets to go to space as a monstrous undead cyborg and spends all eternity killing annoying teenagers who can't stop banging each other in brutal ways, of course I'd pick him.
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What is the music of life?​

Silence, my brother.​

 

[Mr. Daddy]

Is bumping your own AMA the next RGT trend?

I think it might be.​