Garrett Rooney

Software engineer, role playing games + comics geek, probably thinking about the X-Men right now.

Married to @slipperywhisper.

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Digging through my 1990s era comics wasn't just a jaunt down memory lane, it was the start of a quest, to collect the complete Claremont run of X-Men.

(For my purposes, "The Claremont Run" will be defined by mistaketheory's reading order.)

This thread tracks my progress.

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@saavikford Okay, that's really neat. So cool that we're still finding out stuff like that about things that are (relatively) in our neighborhood.

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@saavikford Yeah, I'm up to date on Hurling Things At Giant Rocks In Space news.

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@saavikford Heh. Already saw both of those, turns out the Bad Astronomy newsletter is great for this sort of thing ;-)

The moon thing was really neat, fascinating how different the results are when you up the resolution of the sim.

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@JohnDorianSmith @sheepycutie I find it helpful to think in terms of alternate goals. My Olivia, Crimson Bride deck is trying to reanimate a bunch of busted creatures. I’m not trying to win, because soon after I do this the table will see the threat and annihilate me, but I did the thing so I “win” anyway.

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@emmmzyne Treespeaker.

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@saavikford That sucks, but it doesn't suck as much as trying to push it and injuring yourself again in the process.

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@RobertSecundus Do the X-Men work better when the stories are mostly filled with mutants, or when the cast has plenty of baseline human characters sprinkled in?

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@Stoltzken @dmdavidblog That feels like the initial question, yeah. Are the OneD&D rules changes oriented to making a VTT easier to build? And yeah, I think the answer is “not really”, which seems for the best honestly.

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@arthurstacy Most under-rated Krakoa era X-Book?

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@NotLasers What's your favorite non-Claremont X-Men run?

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@seananmcguire Glad to see I wasn't the only one who preferred black dice with red writing back in the day.

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@arthurstacy @RobertSecundus @emilywritesgood Don’t forget the part where the game is effectively over with the winner clearly determined But you still need to play for like another endless hour to get to the end, just like capitalism!

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@ghirapurigears It’s a hard call, but it’s hard to go wrong with something that finds you more gas and drains the whole table.

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@zachrabiroff @emilywritesgood "But Zach, you hardly make anything from comic article freelancing."

"Yep, that is correct."

"Oh."

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@zachrabiroff @emilywritesgood I mean, from everything I know about what it's like to work IN publishing, I suspect it was also to your relief.

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@zachrabiroff @emilywritesgood Huh, I had no idea you used to do literary agent type stuff.

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@emilymharding Looking forward to reading it, just put my pre-order in.

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@drewlevin @lsv @a_fish_ionado @sickofit Nostalgia.

Speaking as someone who owns an Unlimited one for no reason other than I never had one back in the day and they're awesome, although I admit I bought it 9 years ago and it was dramatically cheaper then.