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06:53:31 ER: started a god game on some discord to test mechanics I'd been pondering
06:53:46 ER: ...but not the *simple* set of mechanics
06:54:07 ER: not the RTD one, the one where there are a bunch of mechanics
06:54:46 ER: I thought I'd simplified Death Plane 2 down to something runable, and I still think it's pretty elegant
06:55:46 ER: but it is a thousand words of rules
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06:56:37 ER: I only wrote down basically what I'd had on my mind when I was at work, but unpacking it from my brain into english was hard
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06:57:04 ER: I only wrote down basically what I'd had on my mind when I was at work, but unpacking it from my brain into english was hard
06:57:38 ER: and every turn some mana of random types shows up on it
06:58:10 ER: and as a god you can absorb one type of that mana as your creating things resource, impetus
06:58:20 ER: and you also get 1 impetus per turn passive
06:58:45 ER: if mana's not eaten it'll build up over time until there's so much that it all pops and turns into something
06:59:20 ER: you can do several things with impetus, but you mostly don't have any physical influence, except to make physical servants, Agents
06:59:41 ER: but agents don't take direct orders, you have to program three laws into them when you make them
07:00:15 ER: agents also need upkeep in the form of eating mana from the world which is their type, or directly feeding them your own impetus
07:02:10 Devastator: that's how I write rules. ;-p
07:02:13 MJ: So can Agents get more manna by eating other agents?
07:02:50 ER: I think they're just physical things, they don't have mana inside them after they eat it
07:03:28 Devastator: going to be around tonight?
07:03:52 MJ: Not really. I’m still recovering from thanksgiving.
07:03:55 Devastator: Extinction's going ok.
07:03:58 Devastator: ahh, hope that went ok.
07:04:52 MJ: It was fun, but complete chaos.
07:05:12 ER: I am also recovering from thanksgiving, by which I mean I got heckking sick right after
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08:09:57 Devastator: apparently sportsball went badly for
MJ.
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08:20:39 syv: Was planning to watch a movie with
Dev tonight... and then I slept in a bunch. :(
08:23:54 Devastator: just lemme get food first.
08:24:14 Devastator: yeah, it'll be a bit.
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09:07:53 Devastator: Back to the Future.
09:10:07 Devastator: still playing around with windows.
09:13:46 Devastator: obligatory 80s intro, this.
09:14:01 syv: Yes, I was just thinking this was oooold
09:14:56 Devastator: This moving is extremely 1980s.
09:16:09 Devastator: Every old movie reminds me of how clean every new movie is these days.
09:16:19 Devastator: everything must be perfectly polished.
09:16:34 syv: Huh, the plutonium is visible this early?
09:18:03 Devastator: phone hooked up to a fire alarm.
09:19:10 Devastator: this really is the total 1980s experience here.
09:21:47 syv: Just opening with him being a lead guitarist
09:22:00 Devastator: I mean, it's deliberately the most 1980s a thing could be.
09:22:12 Devastator: it's impressive they could have done such a good job forty years later.
09:24:52 Devastator: about 90% of the background stuff could have been my hometown,
syv.
09:26:52 Devastator: That's an efficient introduction.
09:33:28 Devastator: There's no other actor who could do as good a job.
09:34:14 Devastator: Heh, you can just make out the stunt driver in some of those shots.
09:35:15 syv: ...Kid is totally fine standing in front of the speeding car.
09:35:27 Devastator: but he trusts the doc.
09:35:54 Devastator: This is a hell of a shot, too.
09:39:28 Devastator: When the doc says someone else has a crazy idea..
09:40:00 syv: "It's not nuclear, it's electrical! Electricity from plutonium!"
09:40:27 Devastator: Yes, that means he invented a nuclear reactor that fits into a car.
09:40:44 syv: Which would still be nuclear powered. ;P
09:41:56 syv: ...Huh. I thought this was the finale.
09:42:28 Devastator: Ahh, the gun commentary.
09:43:09 Devastator: Some people have natural talent.
09:44:16 syv: This music doesn't really seem to fit?
09:44:43 syv: Also, was 90 mph particularly fast in 1885?
09:44:57 Devastator: It's not slow, but no, not terribly.
09:45:10 Devastator: the Delorean was not a fast car.
09:45:36 Devastator: not that I ever saw one, they weren't common enough to make it to this backwater.
09:47:15 Devastator: I used to work in a tree nursery,
syv. ;-p
09:47:21 Devastator: You can totally breed pines.
09:49:05 syv: He smashed one of the breeding pines.
09:49:12 Devastator: No idea why someone would in this neck of the woods.
09:54:13 syv: I like all the foreshadowing.
09:54:23 Devastator: Is that the right word?
09:56:39 Devastator: "Where are my pants?"
09:57:31 syv: Yeah, this is a genius scene.
09:59:01 Devastator: We are approaching maximum akwardness.
10:05:43 syv: He looks the same age in both.
10:05:49 Devastator: it's part of the joke.
10:06:11 Devastator: they repeat that one in the sequel, where the Doc gets a facelift in the future.. which makes him look exactly the same.
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10:12:43 Devastator: well, someone there might object.
10:14:08 Devastator: Strickland is good at those entrances.
10:14:15 Devastator: it's like the reverse of the batman exit.
10:15:20 Devastator: This is totally a good idea.
10:15:36 Devastator: There will be absolutely no repercussions to this event.
10:16:28 syv: Everything will work out perfectly, of course
10:17:11 syv: ...Is Marty the shortest person in the movie?
10:18:57 Devastator: Michael J Fox is like 5' 5"
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10:21:25 syv: His protagonist powers are too strong!
10:22:55 Devastator: 10:04 PM and how many seconds? ;-p
10:24:20 syv: And then it has to be accurate to better than a second...
10:24:34 Devastator: you could probably put enough slack in it to cover for one second.
10:26:05 Devastator: Yeah, that would do it.
10:26:59 Devastator: yes, nothing's going wrong with this plan.
10:29:59 Devastator: he was opening his wallet and took it out of the main fold.
10:31:45 Devastator: ..now we're approaching maximum akwardness.
10:38:09 syv: I feel like this would have too much risk of her noticing him on stage.
10:38:13 syv: Not many options, buuut....
10:38:22 Devastator: You know anyone else who can play the guitar.
10:39:07 syv: "And now to reveal that I practiced playing the guitar one-handed while living homless in the woods"
10:39:21 Devastator: Yeah, but he's got a full set of strings. ;-p
10:40:40 Devastator: More risk than this?
10:40:54 Devastator: Sometimes you just gotta seize the day.
10:41:26 Devastator: Looking it up, he's two years ahead of time here.
10:42:17 Devastator: I didn't know. Johnny B Goode is fairly contemporary, but I didn't have a number.
10:44:34 Devastator: he goes back to 1985, turns out he's named Dave and his older brother, their first, is named Marty. ;-p
10:44:44 syv: Doc's the best part of this movie
10:44:57 syv: Yeah, that would totally happen
10:45:57 syv: The clock being freezed by a lightning strike is terribly clever.
10:46:33 Devastator: I do find it hilarious.
10:46:38 syv: It means there's a singular opportunity that's important to hit in time.
10:46:43 Devastator: "As long as everything goes perfectly, everything will be fine."
10:48:56 Devastator: I think this is done in real time.
10:49:05 Devastator: four movie mintues later, he hits the line.
10:49:54 Devastator: I think the only other time I can remember a movie doing that is in Men in Black.
10:50:08 Devastator: the final countdown and fight scene come in like 20 seconds under the time limit.
10:50:12 syv: ...That would be another good one to watch.
10:50:42 Devastator: well, certainly see it sometime.
10:50:53 Devastator: although we should see the sequels to this too.
10:51:14 syv: I've seen the first sequel before, but not the second.
10:51:31 syv: ...Did he turn the clock back?
10:51:50 Devastator: well, that's one way to get an extra minute. ;-p
10:52:37 syv: Just complete the circuit with your arm~
10:53:27 syv: ...He has only ten minutes to get to the right place. It doesn't travel spatially.
10:53:43 Devastator: yeah, he thought too small.
10:54:24 Devastator: "Doc Brown Arrested for Damaging Clock Tower."
10:56:13 Devastator: "I HAVE A TIME MACHINE, WHY AM I STILL ALWAYS LATE?"
10:56:49 Devastator: It is the ending, yes.
10:56:49 syv: Neatly avoids breaking the time loop he wanted.
10:57:47 syv: AK would go through it BTW
10:58:57 Devastator: I'll ignore it, this once.
10:59:36 syv: Do they always crash into something in the sequels too?
10:59:37 Devastator: where would you drive to be sure you don't hit anyone?
11:00:22 syv: Salt flats. Traveling to one really shouldn't be a problem.
11:00:54 Devastator: None of those where I'm at.
11:01:24 syv: Some traveling would be acceptable if you don't need to time a lightning strike in the middle of a specific city.
11:03:40 Devastator: There should be somewhere closer, but I really can't think of one.
11:04:55 syv: Gotta dip back under the trees, yep
11:05:23 Devastator: thanks for watching.
11:05:50 Devastator: I still think it might be the most 1980s movie of all time.
11:06:14 Devastator: and yeah, Doc makes it.
11:09:34 syv: At 1:39:30... the cable comes unplugged for the second time.
11:09:41 Devastator: Nope, don't have it then.
11:10:37 syv: Lightning strikes at 1:40:39
11:10:44 syv: So just over five minutes, oh well.
11:10:58 syv: ...Unless he did give himself an extra minute. ;P
11:11:09 Devastator: Marty didn't start right when the bell went, too.
11:11:18 Devastator: he was, as always, late.
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