I most relate to Grand Warlord Voss, due to my enormous space armada and armies of conquered...wait, Voss isn't a hero?
Unity and I have a lot in common, but she's way more intense than me. Argent Adept might be a better pick (though that might be a skosh aspirational). He seems like a relaxed guy that just goes out and does what's needed without creating a lot of conflict (there's already plenty).
Between my day job being mostly data analysis and her attitude that seems to blend some snark and expectations of perfection with an overall laid-back relaxation, Parse is the easy answer.
I don't know if I can relate to any single hero in particular.
Tachyon, I guess, with her snark and her science and rambly sentences that go everywhere and nowhere at once.
Plus, if I ever had superpowers, I would absolutely use them for SCIENCE!
Unity's intensity and excitement about stuff she loves, I get as well. (and of course, there's Mr Chomps! :D )
But I"m going to have to chuck Absolute Zero in here too. Having struggled with depression and anxiety, I know what it is like to be surrounded by people who kind of know what you're going through, but don't really understand, and so feel incredibly alone. And I can get pretty abrasive when I'm like that, I know.
I don't know what makes me different and I don't care. Maybe it's not my problem, but why do they stare? - The Living End, Strange
I can Identify with having a heritage to be proud of and that you feel you must try to live up to. I can also identify with everything you do being a front, while the real you is at heart a family man who wants to take care of his wife and kids and tell the world to take a hike. I can identify with him having friends instead of followers and his overall leadership style. That level of attachment that breeds loyalty but also can be unhealthy.
I can also identify with getting more than a little crazy when something threatens or harms your family.
Right now, my favourite non-Sentinels game would probably be Penultima. It's just so much ridiculous fun.The game is for 3-8 players, and in theory only needs a chess board, though I've seen it also use a Diplomacy board, SotM health tokens, dice, and pieces and decks of cards from several other games. The board is set up for a chess game, and two people (the players) are chosen to actually play the game, but the other people (the spectators) make up the rules for how the pieces move - and they don't tell the players. Instead, on their turn a player must ask yes/no questions about whether their pieces can move in certain ways. These questions can be as general ('can any of my pieces move to the far side of the board?') or specific ('can I move this rook onto his queen?'), and they can ask as many questions as they need, but if what they ask is possible then they're locked in to that course of action. Instead of moving a piece, a player can also (if possible) activate a piece for some manner of special ability, which are frequently ridiculous. The goal is to take the enemy king (unless somebody changes it, which is possible).Highlights that I've seen include:Dirty bombs that turn pieces they hit into mindless zombies.A queen who shrinks the chessboard when activated.Castles that, when moved, are deconstructed, carried across the board and eventually rebuilt on the target square.Queens having affairs with enemy kings.Pawns which, when captured, appear on a nearby Diplomacy board and must battle their way to the other side in order to return to the chessboard.A king who earns money by being on the far side of the board, which he can then use to buy enemy pieces.
This looks pretty fascinating.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
Right now, my favourite non-Sentinels game would probably be Penultima. It's just so much ridiculous fun.The game is for 3-8 players, and in theory only needs a chess board, though I've seen it also use a Diplomacy board, SotM health tokens, dice, and pieces and decks of cards from several other games. The board is set up for a chess game, and two people (the players) are chosen to actually play the game, but the other people (the spectators) make up the rules for how the pieces move - and they don't tell the players. Instead, on their turn a player must ask yes/no questions about whether their pieces can move in certain ways. These questions can be as general ('can any of my pieces move to the far side of the board?') or specific ('can I move this rook onto his queen?'), and they can ask as many questions as they need, but if what they ask is possible then they're locked in to that course of action. Instead of moving a piece, a player can also (if possible) activate a piece for some manner of special ability, which are frequently ridiculous. The goal is to take the enemy king (unless somebody changes it, which is possible).Highlights that I've seen include:Dirty bombs that turn pieces they hit into mindless zombies.A queen who shrinks the chessboard when activated.Castles that, when moved, are deconstructed, carried across the board and eventually rebuilt on the target square.Queens having affairs with enemy kings.Pawns which, when captured, appear on a nearby Diplomacy board and must battle their way to the other side in order to return to the chessboard.A king who earns money by being on the far side of the board, which he can then use to buy enemy pieces.
This looks pretty fascinating.
It's like Mau with chess! Awesome!
McBehrer is the sole winner of this game... And McBehrer, I would step carefully should you find your way down dark alleys. More than one vote said simply, "McBehrer must die."
[Obligatory Monty Python response] To seek the Holy Grail! [/Obligatory Monty Python Response]
Really, I can't say that I have many major goals right now, aside from finding gainful employment again. My life's been kind of on hold for the past year and a half, so getting back into 'real life' is my biggest priority now.
"This my quest/To follow that star/No matter how hopeless, no matter how far/To fight for the right/Without question or pause/To be willing to march into hell/ For a heavenly cause!"
Yes, you guessed it, my goal is to get the song 'The Impossible Dream' out of my head.
I just wanna be the very best, like no one ever was. To catch them - my test. To Train them - my cause. I have traveled across this land searching far and wide for each one, trying to understand the power thats inside. I know its my destiny to catch them all.
My quest is too symbolic and abstract for anyone other than me and someone wearing a duck as a hat while upside and singing the American National Anthem in Chinese.
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
To outlive my parents and not bury my niece and nephew.
Ra, God of the Fun
Draw, God of the Sun
The Matriarch's Psychic damage is her forcing a gratuitous amount of Snapple facts about birds into a hero's brain.
I would love to see a F4 movie set done like the avengers and their surrounding films.
What I really want is a greatest legacy movie to start it.
To fit the timing I'd have his dad be very young in WW2 like 16 in 1943, and miss most of the war, or at least be viewed as too young to be of any help, then he gets his misfit team and limited work, recon and such, comes across Ramonat and takes out his Zeppelins.
Go through early cold war and the growth of technology that takes him from being a super weapon to being viewed as obsolete. I'd have him seriously wounded in Korea, or maybe the early parts of Vietnam (like 1960), and he goes home, recovers and starts a family. Refuses to fight later in the war, and starts to see the supervillain activity on the rise. No one will listen to him after he refuses to fight in Vietnam and the now older man goes off to investigate the rise of what he suspects is Supervillain activity leading to his eventual death at the hands of Baron Blade.
I'd center the narrative around Young Paul being told about the Legacy tradition, and have flashbacks to his family from the beginning on, the bulk being about his dad, and the end being Finest Legacy stepping up to fill the role he was born to.
You'd get flashbacks to the old Bunker suits, hints of people like Chairman Pike, Citizen Dawn, Haka (I'd have him meet Haka in Vietnam), maybe even the Scholar. It would be hard to pull off, but amazing to see.
I like the idea of an Avengers-type movie series, but I'd hope that the Freedom Four/Five films would be more ensemble pieces (I found Avengers to be somewhat lacking in that).
I don't know what makes me different and I don't care. Maybe it's not my problem, but why do they stare? - The Living End, Strange
I like the Dark Watch, but as a trilogy. The first movie would be Spite, the second Gloomweaver, and the third RevoCorp.
I would like someone like Jane Lynch for ExPatriette, Terry Crews as Mr. Fixer, Benedict Cumberbatch as Gloomweaver, and someone who I can think of but can't name off the top of my head as Spite. Hugo Weaving, maybe.
McBehrer is the sole winner of this game... And McBehrer, I would step carefully should you find your way down dark alleys. More than one vote said simply, "McBehrer must die."
If Alexis Denisof doesn't play Spite, it's a crime against humanity.
Please elaborate, because I can only picture Wesley Wyndam-Price...
I'm not sure where imprimis5 was going, but do you remember The Other in the Avengers? The creature on the other side of the universe who was Loki's intermediary? Alexis played him.
Plus, Wesley had some very dark and powerful moments in Angel (don't know if you watched it) that showed an impressive range.
In general, he's a pretty good actor. I don't know if I'd say it would be a crime if he wasn't, but I think he could do it.
"See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart." - Mal
I'm not sure where imprimis5 was going, but do you remember The Other in the Avengers? The creature on the other side of the universe who was Loki's intermediary? Alexis played him.
This is exactly what I was going for. Combined with the, er, less-than-ethical Wesley…
I forgot about the Other, that helps. Loved Angel, but dark Wesley, while a nice turn for that character, never impressed me as a true villain. He could do a fine job, but maybe more of a character actor for Spite...
BuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBudda
“Heh, pow. Sound effects are the best.” –The Idealist
I thought the point was that Wesley was never truly a villain. But then again, the whole thing went very soap opera and I lost track of what was meant to be going on.
I don't know what makes me different and I don't care. Maybe it's not my problem, but why do they stare? - The Living End, Strange
I probably relate the most to Tachyon. No matter what she's doing, there's a sense of humor and irreverence to her.
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
I most relate to Grand Warlord Voss, due to my enormous space armada and armies of conquered...wait, Voss isn't a hero?
Unity and I have a lot in common, but she's way more intense than me. Argent Adept might be a better pick (though that might be a skosh aspirational). He seems like a relaxed guy that just goes out and does what's needed without creating a lot of conflict (there's already plenty).
I don't think I really relate to any of them. Shame!
Just assume I'm always doing that.
Damn it, Ronway!
The Scholar. By day, a mild-mannered f***-up. By night, a man harbouring secret knowledge.
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I relate to the Cursed Acolyte. Those chops are awesome, much like my own!
Between my day job being mostly data analysis and her attitude that seems to blend some snark and expectations of perfection with an overall laid-back relaxation, Parse is the easy answer.
I don't know if I can relate to any single hero in particular.
Tachyon, I guess, with her snark and her science and rambly sentences that go everywhere and nowhere at once.
Plus, if I ever had superpowers, I would absolutely use them for SCIENCE!
Unity's intensity and excitement about stuff she loves, I get as well. (and of course, there's Mr Chomps! :D )
But I"m going to have to chuck Absolute Zero in here too. Having struggled with depression and anxiety, I know what it is like to be surrounded by people who kind of know what you're going through, but don't really understand, and so feel incredibly alone. And I can get pretty abrasive when I'm like that, I know.
I don't know what makes me different and I don't care. Maybe it's not my problem, but why do they stare? - The Living End, Strange
Unity--not doing so well in college because I really only have a passion for one thing, and everything else seems boring by comparison.
You're free to do whatever you want to.
I feel that I relate to The Scholar most. I'm pretty laid back, enjoy a cold beverage, and like to serve as an 'advisor' to my friends.
Plus, y'know...The Dude abides.
I'm gonna go with Tachyon, because laid-back snarkiness and also SCIENCE.
“You gotta have blue hair."
-Reckless
I'm going to go with Legacy.
I can Identify with having a heritage to be proud of and that you feel you must try to live up to. I can also identify with everything you do being a front, while the real you is at heart a family man who wants to take care of his wife and kids and tell the world to take a hike. I can identify with him having friends instead of followers and his overall leadership style. That level of attachment that breeds loyalty but also can be unhealthy.
I can also identify with getting more than a little crazy when something threatens or harms your family.
Citizen Dawn.
"Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This looks pretty fascinating.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
I relate a bit to Tempest -- people enslaved by Voss / people enslaved by Hitler. A bit of a fish out of water. Trying to do right.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
You forgot that you can control the weather.
Twitter: imprimis5. Follow away!
Well, sorta. I control the cops. THEY control the weather.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
Does that mean that everyone on this forum is actually a citizen in your war against humanity? Eh, I could live with that.
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
It's like Mau with chess! Awesome!
McBehrer is the sole winner of this game... And McBehrer, I would step carefully should you find your way down dark alleys. More than one vote said simply, "McBehrer must die."
McBehrer confirmed to be Biomancer!
-- Trajector
I feel I relate to Plantinum Warlock's answer the most, pretty laid back most of the time, and I tend not to wear pants much.
New question; what is you quest? (life goal/ambition/whatever you want to call it, a Monty Python quote was too good an opportunity to pass up though)
Stop lurking, it makes you look like a villain target
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all
My quest is to spread the Way of the Ronway through the entire universe! Forcing all forms of life to worship the most amazing being ever!
[Obligatory Monty Python response] To seek the Holy Grail! [/Obligatory Monty Python Response]
Really, I can't say that I have many major goals right now, aside from finding gainful employment again. My life's been kind of on hold for the past year and a half, so getting back into 'real life' is my biggest priority now.
"This my quest/To follow that star/No matter how hopeless, no matter how far/To fight for the right/Without question or pause/To be willing to march into hell/ For a heavenly cause!"
Yes, you guessed it, my goal is to get the song 'The Impossible Dream' out of my head.
Semper ludens.
I just wanna be the very best, like no one ever was. To catch them - my test. To Train them - my cause. I have traveled across this land searching far and wide for each one, trying to understand the power thats inside. I know its my destiny to catch them all.
To convince 20% of Angelenos leave their cars at home and take transit, ride bikes, or walk for 20% of their trips
To comfortably be able to do whatever I want to do, whenever I want to do it. Legally, of course.
A little civil disobedience never hurt anyone
True. I continue to campaign daily for increased speed limits via statements expressed through vehicular motion.
To figure out the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. I already know the answer.
BuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBudda
“Heh, pow. Sound effects are the best.” –The Idealist
To help people be happy.
"Deja-fu? You've heard of that?"
- Lu Tze, Sweeper, Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
My quest is too symbolic and abstract for anyone other than me and someone wearing a duck as a hat while upside and singing the American National Anthem in Chinese.
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
My short-term quest is to breed a red-podded pea. I expect to see one in 2016, and it will be beautiful.
Just assume I'm always doing that.
Damn it, Ronway!
To successfully get my kids into adulthood, so they can go away.
To root out and resolve my neuroses.
To love and be loved.
To gain in frugality (but not cheapness) and wealth to the point that I could retire.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
To outlive my parents and not bury my niece and nephew.
Ra, God of the Fun
Draw, God of the Sun
The Matriarch's Psychic damage is her forcing a gratuitous amount of Snapple facts about birds into a hero's brain.
To live and die in Los Angeles, and love every second of it.
You're free to do whatever you want to.
...with Wang Chung supplying the sound track.
To get married and possibly start a family. It seems like it's about time for that.
lots of good stuff here.
very interesting.
this is not at all a post to set us up for a new question.
New Question
Which Sentinels Hero or Team would you like to see made into a big Hollywood movie?
Who would direct, write, and star in these movies?
Good ideas are usually just bad ideas a stubborn person eventually fixed.
Darkwatch vs Gloomweaver
Written and directed by Joss Whedon. Starring:
NightMist Amy Acker, because she's awesome
Expatriette Gina Carano
Setback Mark Wahlberg -- he's got the physique, at least. Not sure how well he matches the personality.
Mr. Fixer Jim Kelley (starred in Enter The dragon). Sadly, he passed away last year.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
I choose Dark Watch Vs. GloomWeaver also, but throw in Spite as well. I want to see that arc play out!
And since I don't pay attention to the names of people, I will copy arenson9 for who to direct, write, and star in it!
I would love to see a F4 movie set done like the avengers and their surrounding films.
What I really want is a greatest legacy movie to start it.
To fit the timing I'd have his dad be very young in WW2 like 16 in 1943, and miss most of the war, or at least be viewed as too young to be of any help, then he gets his misfit team and limited work, recon and such, comes across Ramonat and takes out his Zeppelins.
Go through early cold war and the growth of technology that takes him from being a super weapon to being viewed as obsolete. I'd have him seriously wounded in Korea, or maybe the early parts of Vietnam (like 1960), and he goes home, recovers and starts a family. Refuses to fight later in the war, and starts to see the supervillain activity on the rise. No one will listen to him after he refuses to fight in Vietnam and the now older man goes off to investigate the rise of what he suspects is Supervillain activity leading to his eventual death at the hands of Baron Blade.
I'd center the narrative around Young Paul being told about the Legacy tradition, and have flashbacks to his family from the beginning on, the bulk being about his dad, and the end being Finest Legacy stepping up to fill the role he was born to.
You'd get flashbacks to the old Bunker suits, hints of people like Chairman Pike, Citizen Dawn, Haka (I'd have him meet Haka in Vietnam), maybe even the Scholar. It would be hard to pull off, but amazing to see.
I like the idea of an Avengers-type movie series, but I'd hope that the Freedom Four/Five films would be more ensemble pieces (I found Avengers to be somewhat lacking in that).
I don't know what makes me different and I don't care. Maybe it's not my problem, but why do they stare? - The Living End, Strange
I like the Dark Watch, but as a trilogy. The first movie would be Spite, the second Gloomweaver, and the third RevoCorp.
I would like someone like Jane Lynch for ExPatriette, Terry Crews as Mr. Fixer, Benedict Cumberbatch as Gloomweaver, and someone who I can think of but can't name off the top of my head as Spite. Hugo Weaving, maybe.
McBehrer is the sole winner of this game... And McBehrer, I would step carefully should you find your way down dark alleys. More than one vote said simply, "McBehrer must die."
McBehrer confirmed to be Biomancer!
-- Trajector
If Alexis Denisof doesn't play Spite, it's a crime against humanity.
Twitter: imprimis5. Follow away!
Please elaborate, because I can only picture Wesley Wyndam-Price...
BuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBudda
“Heh, pow. Sound effects are the best.” –The Idealist
I'm not sure where imprimis5 was going, but do you remember The Other in the Avengers? The creature on the other side of the universe who was Loki's intermediary? Alexis played him.
Plus, Wesley had some very dark and powerful moments in Angel (don't know if you watched it) that showed an impressive range.
In general, he's a pretty good actor. I don't know if I'd say it would be a crime if he wasn't, but I think he could do it.
"See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart." - Mal
Unicode U+24BD gets us Ⓗ. (Thanks, Godai!)
This is exactly what I was going for. Combined with the, er, less-than-ethical Wesley…
Twitter: imprimis5. Follow away!
I forgot about the Other, that helps. Loved Angel, but dark Wesley, while a nice turn for that character, never impressed me as a true villain. He could do a fine job, but maybe more of a character actor for Spite...
BuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBudda
“Heh, pow. Sound effects are the best.” –The Idealist
I thought the point was that Wesley was never truly a villain. But then again, the whole thing went very soap opera and I lost track of what was meant to be going on.
I don't know what makes me different and I don't care. Maybe it's not my problem, but why do they stare? - The Living End, Strange
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