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[feotakahari]

Sometimes it dizzies me how many different stories are the 800-pound gorilla in different social spheres. In my crowd, the big thing is a superhero story called Worm. If you interact with anyone here, you have at least heard of Worm. Then you go to any other social group, and you mention Worm, and they have no idea what you're talking about. Conversely, I once went to a site where everyone was talking about a zombie comic called Shootaround, and if you were reading anything there, you were reading Shootaround, and I had never, ever heard of this. Sometimes the gorilla is Penny Arcade, or Planescape Torment, or for that matter, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (which is more of a blue whale.) But there's always somewhere you could go where everyone would be like "what are you even talking about?"

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[lb_lee]

I've only heard of MCU and Penny Arcade. (And I mean. I'm a cartoonist. I'd have to be REALLY out to lunch not to have heard of them!)

None of the others, though.

[feotakahari]

Worm’s a superhero story. I haven’t read it myself. It’s . . . You know those stories where the author is sick of ridiculously happy stuff because it’s not realistic, so he writes something ridiculously unhappy and pretends that’s more realistic? That’s the impression I’ve always gotten when people try to explain Worm to me.

Planescape Torment is a video game based on Dungeons and Dragons. I haven’t played it either, but it’s known for being very, very talky, and for giving you a ridiculous amount of options. (There is unique dialogue for pretending you don’t speak a language you actually do speak, asking your party member to translate for you, and then calling him out when he translates wrong on purpose.)

[lb_lee]

Yeah, no wonder I don't know them then, neither sounds like my bag. Empowered is about as dark a superhero thing I can take, I think.

Do you know around the general time Planescape Torment was made? (I.e., is it an old game or a new one?) Because it sounds like something a friend of mine might like, but he basically doesn't play any game from like, after 2000 or so.

[feotakahari]

It’s from 1999.

(And yeah, “doesn’t play any game after 2000” is a good summary of the kind of people who like Planescape Torment. If you think every Fallout game after 2 is a disgrace to the series, you’re probably one of the people who likes Planescape.)

[lb_lee]

I have asked my friend about it. _@

--Sneak