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ParanoidObsessive posted...

You can't see it, but I assure you, there was a strong look of disgust on my face when you said that, because I've been a huge Clancy Brown fan since before at least a few people in this topic were alive. He's the goddamned Kurgan for Pete's sake!

And I'm the quintessential 80s kid, so I also knew him from Buckaroo Banzai, the Bride - where he was paired with another favorite of mine, David Rappaport - and Pet Sematary, so I have a hard time actually remembering a point in my life where I DIDN'T know who he was. Especially when he'd keep popping up every now and then in stuff like Shawshank and Starship Troopers in the 90s, and more recently stuff like Sleepy Hollow. And like you pointed out, he's done a ton of voice acting over the years as well.

I have an easier time with VAs than normal actors since I have difficulty differentiating faces, etc, but when all I have is a voice I can key into it better. Plus, out of everything he's done (that I can recall seeing, anyway), Luthor left the biggest imprint since he was phenomenal in the role and the DCAU was a pretty big thing which I've revisited quite a few times over the years.

Tangentially, I should mention that I gave up on Sleepy Hollow early into the second season given how badly they handled the fallout and resolution of season 1's cliffhanger. (Plus, generally speaking, it's a pretty awful show -- it and Grimm were the two worst things I was watching that year.) I'm not sure when or where he appears on it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I can't see it. Imgur is a terrible hosting site, and using NoScript renders it pretty much impossible to see anything there.

Well, to summarize, it was a security camera recording of two black youths in a convenience store. One is distracting the clerk by having him go to the far end while his buddy is crouched down in a nearby aisle stuffing items from the shelves into his backpack. Suddenly the lookout spots somebody coming in with a gun and ducks into that same aisle next to his friend, with the two watching a guy with a shotgun hold up the clerk.

The kids decide to interrupt the robbery by splitting up. One slides his skateboard out from the aisle so it hits the counter while he ducks down behind another aisle and, when the burglar looks down the aisle that the skateboard came from, the buddy shoves the thief from behind while the lookout pushes some shelves down on him then grabs the gun and throws it to the clerk before both kids run out (with whatever they stole).

It was labeled lawful evil, but the whole thing seemed chaotic neutral/evil since they were robbing the place themselves but decided on a whim to help their intended victim.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Mass Effect's Paragon/Renegade

tbh, I like the sound of that.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I came into gaming at a time when the d20 was still more or less the least useful die in the set outside of the d12, because pretty much nothing and no one used the d12 (unless you were like a shitty Barbarian or something). That, combined with the fact that my first two systems used d10s exclusively (MSHRPG as percentile dice, and WW as "roll a shitload of them" - which L5R later copied), I'm far more inclined to think of the d10 as the "default" RPG die. It wasn't until the OGL that the d20 boom really took off.

That being said, I also own a d24, a d30, and a d100 because I enjoy being weird.

It's less a matter of practicality than it is aesthetics. There's something inherently visually pleasing about a die with that many sides. Even a 12-sided die doesn't come close to evoking as strong a reaction.

Granted, *part* of it likely results from the fact I never properly played any P&P rpg so my connection is divorced from function.
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