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Post by on_the_edge on Apr 20, 2024 19:31:24 GMT -5
I realized I have not played my COTG feds, current game year ones, in months. Almost a year, I think. I have started to itch to play them again. If for no other reason than to get ready for the new release at G-Con. I mean, I still have not introduced characters from last year's set. Now when I play, I make notes on where I am planning on going. I had gone thru my notes on GWF and CLAW/PAW and had not written new ones yet back when I stopped. The reason was I did not plan on such a long gap of playing. I have looked over where I left things and have a few ideas of where I was headed but a lot has slipped my memory. At first, I was disappointed at myself for not writing down the notes back then. Then I had an epiphany. This is not a bad thing. It is just something different. It is simply like having a new booker. I will be able to continue, mostly, on the path I was on earlier. It will just differ a bit much like bringing in a new booker. I mean things do not drastically change with a new booker. Well beyond that fiasco in WCW near the end. Or when Sly Drury took over the GWF in cannon. But otherwise, new bookers continue mostly the same story lines. At least at the beginning. #Silverlinings
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Post by victoryroll84 on Apr 21, 2024 10:57:11 GMT -5
I also write notes on where potential feuds (big and small) might head to on future super cards for big holovision events lol. I took a break from my COTG and LOW feds for a bit just to relax and avoid burn out. I checked my scribbles and notebook (the last few cards) and saw where I was going and off to the races I went looking forward to 2140! Always a good thing to write things down but changing and going in a fresh direction is a great way to stretch the creative juices too
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Post by on_the_edge on Apr 23, 2024 16:27:00 GMT -5
I also write notes on where potential feuds (big and small) might head to on future super cards for big holovision events lol. I took a break from my COTG and LOW feds for a bit just to relax and avoid burn out. I checked my scribbles and notebook (the last few cards) and saw where I was going and off to the races I went looking forward to 2140! Always a good thing to write things down but changing and going in a fresh direction is a great way to stretch the creative juices too Exactly. Like I said, if I knew my break was going to be that long I would have put some notes down. I usually do notes unless I am in the middle or rolling cards and I know where I am going so no need for them. In the past I would map out two months of my COTG feds at four cards per month. Building up to PPVs and the aftermath. Of course, the aftermath was a bit less detailed as a lot would depend on what the dice decided would happen at the PPV lol. |
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Post by ~KB~ on Apr 25, 2024 13:35:36 GMT -5
What is everyone's opinion of the Gladiators being a HIVE MIND?  I think it's the worst angle since the ALPHA STONE being fake, and only worked because people believed it did. It floated above Chaos, but that's neither here nor there. In a hive mind, the soldiers are emotionless drones ala the Borg from Star Trek. Some of the biggest personalities in the history of COTG have been Aethrans/Gladiators. MASSACRE - master tactician, leader BRUTE - no personality, just loyal to a flaw SPIKE - the ultimate egomaniac MAYHEM - crazy loose cannon VENGEANCE - sick twisted sociopath THUNDER - a rock star to the Nth power OVERKILL - stoic and pure disgust he has to soil his hands against lesser beings MALICE - pure... hatred and malice DISASTER - angry, distrust and did I say angry?!? HAVOC - rebel RUSH - Thunder 2.0 OVERMASTER - megalomaniac TURMOIL - high energy lunatic PARALYZE - like Brute, just a loyal soldier RAGE - never had a chance to develope SEIGE - Spike, Disaster and Havoc all rolled into one APEX - self entitled egomaniac FIST - IDK he might not even be Aethran, no face paint. LOL |
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Post by TTX on Apr 25, 2024 16:36:19 GMT -5
It makes no sense. Too many switches (not just Havoc) and you could never convince me Mayhem was ever part of a hive mind.
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Post by bear805 on Apr 25, 2024 18:09:36 GMT -5
The hive mind suffers from multiple personality disorder?
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Post by Pete on Apr 25, 2024 18:41:22 GMT -5
I don't think a hive mind has to be as thorough and complete as the Borg's to be real or effective. It can work in subtler ways--especially coming from Tom who's big on the concept of the subconscious.
Frankly I think the Aethrans could use a little something different. For 50 editions now their story has typically been a.) they sack a planet/star system and thus feud with that star system's team, or b.) internal conflict over who should lead the group. If this actually leads to a new kind of storyline for the Gladiators, I'm all for it.
And after the big Best of Both Worlds two-parter, the writers of Star Trek knew they couldn't tell the same old Borg stories, either. The next Borg episode was a much quieter, contemplative episode about Hugh, a singular Borg who had broken the hive mind. After that they had to introduce new aspect of the Borg or new, singular Borg characters like the Queen, or put the Borg into new situations like having to actually strike a deal with the Federation so they could both handle an enemy that the Borg couldn't assimilate. It can't just be "Big Borg Cube Threatens Everything, Enterprise Pulls Some Kind of Solution Out of Its Ass to Stop Them" all the time.
Honestly, one of my favorite post-classic edition feuds for the Gladiators was when they feuded with Vin Strutter's group. Even if you don't buy into Aethrans as babyfaces, Vin Strutter was a totally different kind of enemy for them whether Heroic or Villanous and I liked seeing the contrast in styles between the take-no-prisoners badass Glads and Strutter's Circus.
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Post by ~KB~ on Apr 25, 2024 20:56:00 GMT -5
I guess you missed my point Pete , as I don't mind a shake up or new direction for the Gladiators. An individual breaking free of the hive mind is understandable but doesn't explain all those different personalities. Sike's face turn for one year, Havoc's defection and the CIVAL WAR. What sits atop a hive mind always? A QUEEN! (Bees, ants, Xenomorphs and Borg) So, you're going to tell me the misogynistic testosterone driven Gladiators have taken their marching orders from a female since 2074 (SANTON)?? |
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Post by hexxstar on Apr 25, 2024 21:51:14 GMT -5
There are quite a few ideas/definitions for hive minds ~KB~, so you might be missing Pete point. A hive mind or group mind may refer to: Shared intelligence * Collective consciousness and collective intelligence, two concepts in sociology and philosophy * Group mind (science fiction), a type of collective consciousness * Groupthink, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in a group results in irrational or dysfunctional decision-making * Sheeple, a derogatory term referring to groups of people who ‘mindlessly’ follow those in power * Swarm intelligence, the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial * The apparent consciousness of colonies of social insects such as ants, bees, and termites * Universal mind, a type of universal higher consciousness in some esoteric beliefs * Egregore, a concept in occultism which has been described as group mind Your looking at it as a classic sc-fi example and I don’t think that’s how TOM is using the term “hive mind”. |
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Post by Pete on Apr 25, 2024 22:22:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not sure which of those categories the Aethrans fall into specifically but I think their "hivemind" is more of a vague telepathy than a full-on neural network. It's something that I don't think even Aethrans have been able to explain until now.
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