The Cabinet (General On/Off Topic Thread)

I got nothing unless you wanna watch gameplay of the Nancy Drew PC games. Nobody even seems to know those exist anyways :joy:

The rest are some opinionated stuff I donā€™t wanna push on you guys since you guys are my friends :wink:

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Yeah, for sure! Camp NaNo officially starts April 1, so thereā€™s plenty of time. My Discord username is Reve#6692.

As far as good videos - hmmā€¦ReignBot on youtube has a few longer videos (warning: itā€™s horror/mystery themed stuff). Thereā€™s also podcasts - my favorites are The Black Tapes, Tanis, and The Adventure Zone. If youā€™d like some movie recs, Iā€™d suggest Mirror Mask, Moonrise Kingdom, Attack the Block, Mulholland Drive, Trainspotting, or The Little Prince.

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If you have Spotify or iTunes, I know thereā€™s a cool podcast called Myths and Legends, which is a really cool podcast aboutā€¦well, I think itā€™s pretty obvious :sweat_smile: but thatā€™s about all I can think of

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working on it, and will probably hop in myself on this camp NaNo

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wait, i havent heard of this. and i work for the mouse.

im very concerned, though i didnt exactly enjoy Moffatā€™s time as showrunner. (nevermind his treatment of the revival of The Master (another time, another rant))

maybe it wont be so bad. maybe. hopefully. who knows?

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You didnt hear about it getting rebroadcasted on Disney XD? They have the ability to do that right now but I already know that they are gonna have the full rights to it in like 5 minutes so Iā€™ve already given up :joy: after Peter Capaldi is done itā€™s bye bye DW!

Honestly it makes me sad because they put so much work into having everything weave and wind and connect with eachother and yetā€¦ Disney will abso-flippin-lutely put all that to the side to make some cash. I mean, the show is supposed to come to an end. The Doctor is supposed to not exist after 13 (which apparently is this one, not sure how that works) according to everything that happened in the 50th anniversary episodes. But I mean, who cares about that? Their excuse will likely be ā€œuhhh, wibbly wobbly timey wimeyā€ which for me is not funny or witty!! Iā€™ll give them a 13th doctor as far as the actors go, thats just barely canon, after thatā€¦ Iā€™m done with it. I feel like one of them old people thats like ā€œthings used to be better in the good ole daysā€ but I
Okay, rant over. Iā€™m sorry :smile:
I guess Iā€™m also sorry that the Doctor is never gonna be a ginger :wink:

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well, honestly, I feel that.

I havent watched most of Claraā€™s episodes as Smithā€™s person, or any of Capaldi.
I just know about shudders The Mistress. Which is a topic that kinda ticks me off to no end. even not being as connected to this series as i was before. ( i can be obliged to continue this line of conversation in DMs as to not clog the thread, but yeah)

Disneyā€¦is weird about that sort of thing, but maybe they just got the rebroadcasting rights for it in the US?
hopefully? I havenā€™t seen anything about us owning the franchise.

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Is anyone playing any good ARGS? Besides this I havent been able to find any. Mind you I can be picky as I like lore leaning ARGS over puzzle driven ones (Hence why I am such a loyal ingresser) If you know of any, or where I can go looking Iā€™d love to know!

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TREASON! Let the witch hunt begin!!!

jk <3 Though, sadly I donā€™t have any recommendations for you right now. @Revenir might, though!

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RIGHT!? Being a code hating ARG player is like being a introverted actor
Guess Iā€™m full of paradoxes!

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I was actually talking about you wanting ARGs that arenā€™t this one ;p

But that too! Double witch hunt; two pitchforks!

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OH NOā€™S!!!
I donā€™t really, I absotutley love this ARG (Honestly its quickly becoming my favorite) But I have a feeling Iā€™ll be snowed in tomorrow and Iā€™m looking for one to play:)

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Heheh, @Chordieā€™s got my number. :joy:

Admittedly, the only ARG Iā€™m really following intensely is this one, buuut I do know of a few points of interest. Maybe theyā€™re worth checking out?

The Lust Experience - The sequel to The Tension Experience. The actual ARG doesnā€™t start until April/May, but thereā€™s lots of lore and theorizing to catch up on.

Wizard Curriculum - A new ARG, itā€™s not much of a code-breaker and thereā€™s a bit of lore. Just donā€™t go into it comparing it to the Monarch Papers. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

The Black Watchmen - A ā€œpermanent argā€ Iā€™ve heard compared to Ingress. I donā€™t know that Iā€™d call this a ā€˜trueā€™ ARG, but it is interesting.

Night - Sleepwalking Journal - Most of the action goes down in a discord server. Thereā€™s a lot of story to catch up on, but itā€™s a pretty well liked ARG.

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Iā€™ve played Black Watchmen. Iā€™m enjoying it so far, but it does have a noticeable distinction from other ARGs.

Edit: I guess the best way I can describe the disconnect is the lack of urgency. I wasnā€™t playing during the actual ā€œseasons,ā€ but the ā€œpermanentā€ part of the game means that itā€™s not going anywhere, so thereā€™s no pressing need to do anything, which kinda detracts from motivation and immersion. Monarch Papers (and many other ARGs) more or less doesnā€™t have a time constraint as far as most fragments taking a couple days to solve, but ultimately, weā€™re on a clock, a schedule, and events evolve in real time. It does make a noticeable difference, at least to me.

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Yeah, I kind of felt the same way about Black Watchmen, but I do like that thereā€™s always information to explore about it. Still, hard to feel like youā€™re making a difference when everythingā€™s fixed in place. Apparently when it was during an actual season it was much more ARG-like in the traditional sense.

Still, itā€™s not a bad game to play during a snow storm? Thereā€™s a good bit of content between its two seasons and Ahnayro.

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I really do quite like that you have to research independently to find answers and it doesnā€™t hand everything to you in the game itself. Thatā€™s the way it should be.

Side note: I think this is the longest the Spellcaster title/badge has stayed on my profile without breaking.

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And it broke again!

Apparently I was not meant to have a title.

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You should get a special one just for that :smile:

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ā€œYou have earned ā€˜Entitledā€™ā€

But then I wouldnā€™t be able to show it off xD

My Spellcaster title is protean. Itā€™s there sometimes and otherwise not, and it works in mysterious ways.

Theory: I have a much smaller version of the spell that was on DG which keeps away the title. Anyone up for some spellcasting?

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Twin Peaks. Itā€™s not technically an ARG, but it does have ARG elements to it (especially lately https://youtu.be/yVs4c1DWr3Y). Just trying to suss out the lore and symbolism can take a lifetime. I think of it as the eternal ARG, especially since the ā€œPMā€ will never, ever tell us what it all means.

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