HiImThomasPynchon

That's how I feel 24/7.

Is that...like...good?

Ana was the girlfriend of one of the guys in the band. One day he broke up with her. When everyone else in the band found out, they looked at him and said "What the fuck, man? You can't break up with her. She brought us food at practice." And then they wrote Ana and claimed he wrote it on his own so that Ana would come back to him.

I don't know if it worked, but I 100% agree with the rest of Los Saicos. There's millions of beautiful women in this world, but they don't all bring you food at band practice. If you got a significant other who brings you food at band practice, you hold on for dear life.

Johnny Marr is good. Morrissey is bad.

vs. Not having enough confidence to post in c/Chapotraphouse or c/Main and doing it here instead

Who wins?

Four score and seven beers ago...

I run a weekly WFRP group and for various personal reasons our two most competent fighters have left the group. This has left the remaining 3 characters (a hedge mage, a social character, and a ranged fighter) in a situation where they are simply too scared to take plot threads, as they might entail combat.

Yes, they have the option (and enough money) to hire mercenaries just to put bodies between them and danger, but that also entails an ongoing cost. They also happen to be at the beginning of Shadows Over Bögenhafen, which is a convenient place to on-board new players.

edit: oh, uh you can just respond to this post or DM me to apply.

Genuinely, the guy is complaining that the game, that we know practically nothing about, will probably give you a questline to liberate slaves.

At the most basic level (I.E. role-playing as an evil character) I sort of agree. But, like, they're not going to force you to do the whole quest. Ignoring the prompt is the evil option. If you ignore the questline, the slaves remain slaves.

The problem isn't wokeness. I doubt anyone would object to the concept of role-playing as an evil character. Hell, it can even be beneficial to role-play as an evil character, as it can provide insight into what motivates evil in the real world. Bethesda isn't trying to take away evil options because they have a woke agenda. Bethesda isn't going to give us evil options because Todd Howard is an idiot who believes having broad gameplay is the same as having deep gameplay.

Every morning I recite Count Frightenstein's pledge, right after I offer remembrance to Lenin and Mao.

Jokes aside, this show has been kind of in my aether for a very long time. When I was a kid, one of my uncles tried to buy the rights to it. When I was a teenager, I knew a guy who used to work with Billy Van (The Count) and he would reel of tales of how they made the show. Apparently they would get Vincent Price to come in once a season and just read off little bumper poems for a day. At the end of the day, Price would gift the crew with cases of beer and some of his own cooking. What a guy.

In the mid-50s, TV executives discovered that you could license cheap horror/suspense movies, air them late at night, tie the whole show together with a hokey character providing lead-ins, and get pretty big ratings. So began the trend of Horror Hosts, like Shock Theater with Roland "The Cool Ghoul" or Sir Graves Ghastly or Svengoolie. However, the inarguable progenitor of it all was Maila Nurmi in The Vampira Show.

The Vampira Show ran from 1954-55, and featured Nurmi as a Morticia Addams-like character in a tight, low-cut black dress. Throughout the night's entertainment, she would make jibes about the low-budget horror movie while reclining barefoot on a dark couch decorated with skulls. Between segments, she would play with her pet spider, talk with "ghosts" around the set, and torment her producer. This was enough to draw big viewing numbers in LA, and eventually media outlets across the country were talking about Vampira. While her show was based in Los Angeles, she would appear on a number of other shows and even a handful of movies, including Ed Wood's legendary Plan 9 From Outer Space. However, when Nurmi refused to sell the rights to the character to ABC, they cancelled the show.

Cut forward to 1981, and executives were looking to cash in on the resurgence of horror movies. They reached out to Maila Nurmi to re-create The Vampira Show for a modern audience. However, Nurmi was well aware that the primary appeal was that she wore a tight, low-cut, black dress, and she didn't think audiences would be as interested in watching her do it all over 27 years later. So she referred the producers to Lola Falana, a younger actress whom she had mentored. Executives looked into Lola Falana, found out she's black, and turned her down. Incensed, Nurmi refused to give them the rights to Vampira.

And so it came to pass that LA TV executives went about 'creating' Elvira, shamelessly ripping off everything that had worked on the original Vampira Show to create Elvira's Movie Macabre. In later interviews, Nurmi openly accused Cassandra Peterson of emulating Vampira through the Elvira character. Though as time went on, Evira became more of an 80's goth chick and less of a vampire.

Lola Falana would appear a handful of times on TV and in movies before calling it quits in 1997.