MOAR BLACK PANTHER STUFFS. It’s 2018 folks.
Women of Wakanda: http://jenbartel.tumblr.com/post/171064021659/waka…
Letitia Wright Freestyling in Costume Somehow Makes Black Panther Even Better: https://io9.gizmodo.com/letitia-wright-freestyling…
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6121574
http://digg.com/video/affectionate-teasing
Affectionately Teasing Others, And Letting Them Affectionately Tease You, Might Make You A Better Person
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6133380
Bill G. said:
http://digg.com/video/affectionate-teasing
Affectionately Teasing Others, And Letting Them Affectionately Tease You, Might Make You A Better Person
Which is why Jason puts up with so much shit from his team mates: because it’s both spot on and affectionately delivered.
author: *** Dave H.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6133416
author: Doyce T.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6154782
School crush awkwardness. https://imgur.com/gallery/iHycs
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6172642
Two posts of possible interests on hair.
First, I always love when the basis of Leo’s carbon tech proves itself useful in yet another field. Here’s graphene hair dye: https://www.fastcodesign.com/90164386/graphene-hai…
Second, here’s an article about a game with a black protagonist, whose developers took time to get her hair right: https://theoutline.com/post/3749/the-first-game-to…
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6192918
We rewatched The Avengers (the Marvel movie) the other night, and each time I do so I find myself appreciating more and more the work that went into balancing the different character stories, from introduction to final drive-away. It’s not perfect (it never is), and there are a few characters that get shorter shrift (Hawkeye, for example, though it gets made up the next outing, and he’s still awesome), but it’s really a great example of how to do a team movie, from conflicts to friendships.
And while there are all sorts of individual moments and stories during the climactic battle, it’s of note that between the famous Avengers circle-up and the end of battle Avengers all sitting on top of Loki, in-between that there’s at least one extended sequence that actually incorporates all the characters in turn in a continuous huge sweep around and through the NYC battlefield (the sequence ends with the Hulk-punches-Thor bit); it’s nicely done to show not only the scope of the conflict, but each player’s contribution.
Throw in an enjoyable villain with his own mixed motivation, and I’m sure there are a ton of game-related lessons (including the lesson that it’s not the power set and HP and damage rating that makes a character great, but what they do with it).
author: *** Dave H.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6193769
Doyce, I don’t know if you saw this (or something like this) already, but I think it’s relevant to your podcasting activity:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?5066-When…
Some of the points in the article:
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6196630
I should add I don’t think the takeaway of this was “audio sucks, only video matters”, just that streaming games is a lot of fun in general for a lot of people. 
And it sounds like you’ve already gotten comments to that effect.
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6196683
It’s an interesting article, certainly.
I’m on the fence about the whole thing, to be honest. I like to have the recordings of the game simply because I forget stuff, or I miss comments that end up being useful and full of ideas later; that said, as much as I try to, I have trouble enjoying other people’s game recordings, whether it’s video recordings on YouTube, or Twitch, or podcasts - there are just a few I find really enjoyable and inspiring, and the rest are full of “ugh you’re getting that rule WRONG” or “okay why are you obsessing over whether or not your guy can get around on roller skates as the main determining factor of picking a playbook?!? That’s all you guys have talked about for TWENTY MINUTES.” So, for me, the folks who follow our game are doing something *I* couldn’t do, if it weren’t OUR game.
The subject of the article obviously functions at several (3, I think) orders of magnitude higher with regards to YouTube. Some of our folks comment they love the youtube version - some have been really happy the podcasts exist, so it’s kind of a mixed bag. I’m glad some folks seem to enjoy it.
I don’t, personally, see much of a difference between the podcast and the youtube channel, because so little actually happens on the screen in our games, since we can’t stream videos.
author: Doyce T.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6196809
Interesting article indeed.
There have definitely been times when I’ve gone back to the YT videos here to find something, but in general watching / listening to game sessions (even ones I’m in, or esp. ones I’m in) tends to be akin to going to a live sporting event and realizing why commercial breaks and feature reels and other elisions of the dull parts of play are a good thing.
(On the other hand, I’d fork over some big bucks to go back to listen to some sessions I was in back in college and shortly thereafter. Or I think I would.)
For myself, I just don’t get into podcasts. I listen to audiobooks in the car, sometimes, but with an arbitrary start and stop (and I choose non-fiction vs fiction because I want to be able to just start and stop). That’s my particular kink, I realize, and it keeps me from some good material, but there you go.
I appreciate that Doyce broadcasts this stuff in the media he does, because I think it crazy-insane that we live in a world where that can be done. That others get enjoyment from it is awesome (as long as we players play to the game, not to the studio audience).
author: *** Dave H.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6196885
For me, the podcast format is technically more accessible, since I can download episodes, listen on my phone with other apps in the foreground (something YouTube blocks for monetization reasons), and generally hear it when and where I want. I don’t miss any video since we have none, but that’s an advantage for me here.
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6196896
I’m a video guy. I love me some podcasts, but for gaming I need to have some video. It all comes down to format.
For your average podcast, you have one, maybe two people speaking (unless you get into your big radio drama-style podcasts like Serial and the like, but that’s a whole different can of worms). But with an actual play, you have four/five/six different speakers and I get lost with that many different speakers and no other method of telling who is speaking (same reason I dread phone meetings).
Now once I’m familiar enough with the speakers’ voices I can sometimes get away without the reference, but that means I need the reference in the first place.
author: Mike
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6197261
Mike said:
Now once I’m familiar enough with the speakers’ voices I can sometimes get away without the reference, but that means I need the reference in the first place.
Well, heck, I still have problems sometimes differentiating between Mike and Bill, so, yeah, I can see (er, hear) that. It’s like, “quick, whose circle is flashing on Discord?”
Coincidentally enough, the voice artist for Benton Quest was swapped out early in the series because he sounded too much like the voice artist for Race Bannon.
author: *** Dave H.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6197624
*** Dave H. said:
Well, heck, I still have problems sometimes differentiating between Mike and Bill, so, yeah, I can see (er, hear) that. It’s like, “quick, whose circle is flashing on Discord?”
So ditch the nonregional diction I acquired in college to be taken seriously in my science program and bring back my thick, unmistakable Arkansas accent from when I was a kid? Can do. 
author: Mike
url: Community Forums: General Inspiration Thread | Roll20: Online virtual tabletop
Or you can combine science AND Arkansas!
author: *** Dave H.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6197731
I’m just going to reiterate my recommendation of the Netflix Defender series. Luke Cage as The Bull, Jessica Jones as the delinquent, Daredevil as the Janus, and Iron Fist… Excuse me the IMMORTAL Iron Fist as the Legacy that takes himself way, way, way too seriously.
author: Doyce T.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6201901
Why my child calls me a geek:
We were talking about which Chris was the one in Guardians of the Galaxy (vs the one in Thor vs the one in Captain America vs the one in Fantastic Four [which is the same as the one in Captain America] vs. the one in Star Trek), and I said it was actually supposed to be Jason.
Which I was able to point out was part of stuff I wrote back in August:
THERE WAS ANOTHER ENTERTAINMENT CONTRACT THAT DIDN’T QUITE COME TO FRUITION.
Oh, God. Yeah. So Marvel is negotiating with Hanna-Barbera*, right? And they want to do this space adventure thing with me as a grown-up, and there’s this mess of paperwork and half the deal’s done and stuff is getting signed and everything’s mid-negotiation – when Disney walks into the room, and everything goes to hell and Marvel pulls back and does their own thing, but they still have this character they have the signed-off right to call Jason Quill. And H-B, they threaten to sue, and Dad threatens to sue, and, for all I know, Dr Chin threatens to sue, and they end up renaming the Marvel character Peter Jason Quill, and doing him in the movie as a not-a-blonde. And that’s how I almost got into the Guardians of the Galaxy, but didn’t really.
ARE YOU SORRY IT WORKED OUT THAT WAY?
Not really. I get into enough trouble with people recognizing me from the cartoons of me as a kid. I really, really don’t regret they won’t make assumptions about me as an adult from a movie. Though the movies were cool. I don’t think I’m quite that adventurous.
(All of which derived from my taking a long walk and realizing I had named my character the same thing as Star-Lord, so I decided to make it the other way around.)
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* The animation company, not the coincidentally-named lawyers, of course.
author: *** Dave H.
url: Community Forums: General Inspiration Thread | Roll20: Online virtual tabletop
A man in love is no simple thing.
https://imgur.com/gallery/EYsLmvq
author: Bill G.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6208906
^ +10
author: *** Dave H.
url: https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/6209017