At the risk of invoking Godwin's law here, I'm going to bring up world war 2, or more specifically Hitler youth. when Nazis where on their last legs they were sending Hitler youth, their version of the boy scouts, first to man and load artillery and then as the situation grew more dire to fight on the front lines.
Meanwhile, across the channel English boy scouts had been learning gorilla tactics, including how to decapitate passing motorcyclists with piano wire, in case the country was invaded.

So yeah, underestimate the boy scouts at your own risk.

Gorilla Tactics? They beat their chests and made funny noises while jumping up and down?
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You got a better way to fight Nazis? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Especially Nazi dinosaurs? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

And my next run is formed.

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I do recommend that game, by the way. The community is small, but every time I boot the game up--regardless of day of the week or the time of day--I can find one server that is nearly full.

It's one of the most balanced asymetrical class based shooters I've ever seen. There is nothing, and I mean nothing as satisfying as pouncing on someone and tearing their throat out, or picking up a goat and hurling it at lethal velocities, or sniping with an anti-aircraft gun.

Of course, the allies (human team (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) ) have toys too. Their sniper has a jackrabbit (nothing as satisfying as nomming one of those down--gak! *dead*), one guy has sticky bombs (they totally stick to players), and of course Trigger, the protoceratops and his 50cal. machine gun.

2042: My players are not allowed to do extensive body/chassis modifications to their vehicles and drones. Otherwise they will start suggesting silly things like turning their GM Doberman drones into...bunny drones.

And I will not hear the end of extensive Monty Python jokes.

*grin* be grateful you don't house shadow bronies.

...I actually do.

To the point that he made his character more or less like one of the characters from MLP.

And by the time it came to my attention, it was too late to change it. So I've had to settle for making sure he doesn't pile on too many more MLP refs onto his character.

It still ruffles my scales that he's probably dropping MLP refs that are flying completely under my radar, and I can't do much to stop him...

*snickers*
tricksy little ponyses! ^^

....'course, it is so NOT a coincidence that his character is, for some odd reason, the main target of the enemy forces and most certainly NOT the reason why the enemy hacker is constantly trying to hack his cyberware every chance he gets, or why the enemy barghest suddenly decides that it's jonesing for some dryad meat....NOPE! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

which one is he?
and be glad he forgot about centaurs being playable characters . .

Oh, he plays as a female dryad street sam infiltrator. Main thing about her is sniping, but at close range has her AA-16 auto-shotty (and that's the other thing: the bastard immediately flung for the Restricted Gear 3 quality just so he get the most powerful shotgun in SR4a, AND rating 3 dermal plating...yet somehow showed restraint and didn't get the Barret sniper rifle).

And oh, my players saw the centaur (including this player in question). They immediately balked at the idea of centaurs having horse heads sitting on top of humanoid torsos. And of course, reminding them if they have a freakin' centaur going on runs in the middle of Seattle, that's gonna get them unwanted attention. (can't really infiltrate an Ares research facility as the custodial staff if one of your guys has four legs and the head of freakin' Epona...unless if they know for a fact that Ares employs centaurs).

(and yes, they did balk at when I showed them pictures of SR merrows. one of my players wondered if the artist who came up with that was high as freakin' kite when they thought up of that)

So, AJ then? O.o

...actually it's NOT one of the Mane Six.

It's Octavia.

It's almost a point for point port of the character, right down to her being a cello player, the hairstyle, the color scheme, AND having the damn cutie mark as a tattoo... *eyerolls*

Had to stop him from giving her the pink bow.

... honestly? As long as the character is also viable for Shadowrun in it's own right .... what so bad about copying an MLP character? Especially one that's not in the Mane 6 ...?

What's wrong with the bow? You can hide so many interesting things in a bow!

It's the "in-thing" to hate on Bronies, Pax. For some people, anything involving ponies is grounds for immediate ire and rage. It's essentially an irrational over-response to the annoyances and perversions of the Brony subculture, who themselves are mostly trolls out to mess with their detractors.

The rest of us can only look on in bafflement as they dance a strange symbiotic waltz, each feeding off the negative energy of the other, a perfect storm of misplaced priorities, petty conflict, and self amusement. They are two sides of a vicious cycle of idiocy.

~Umi

It mostly pertains to my persnal house-rule: don't make straight rips of existing fictional characters. It's fine if you take elements from existing characters, but not a point for point copy of them.

Admittedly, the guy doesn't RP her exactly like MLP Octavia... She just looks like her in human form.


And the funny thing about the bow, its that I actually suggested to change it into a hair bow (especially since his character has waist-length hair and, y' know, you don't want hair to get in the way of sniping) but he said no, and that he wanted it to be a neck bow, which I soundly rejected.

i'd have gone for P0N3 myself.

I don't recall Octavia being a human living in a future distopia, working as a mercenary criminal, and shooting people with sniper rifles, so I'm not seeing how the character is a point for point copy.

If you really need some justification for the character, tell yourself she's just a deranged human who became obsessed with an ancient televison series that was once the center of a bizarre cult with rumors of brainwashing, and that she's so far gone down the rabbit hole that she actually believes she's a character from the show. I've heard much bigger nonsense in canon SR lore.

~Umi

Is it a bad thing that I recently tried to do something similar? ^^ basically a person who had obsessed with being a pony persona on the Matrix, stuffing similar beetles and such to the point she actually now believes she IS Derpy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) stuck in the wrong body.

All I can suggest is that you read this abomination of a...fanfiction that I have in my email that is...

Let's just say that it's terrible and horrendous and pairs Twilight Sparkle with Edward (from Twilight).

Then you can start making veiled references to that back at him. It might not be worth the sanity points though.

...and as I said, despite looking like MLP-Octavia, he doesn't RP her like MLP-Octavia.

Actually, I'd say her personality is more closer to the Major from GitS. Which I'm a bit more ok with.....as long as he doesn't attempt any body-swapping shenanigans. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)




Oh, trust me when I say that my plans for invoking Cthulupunk are well underway... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

Yeah, about that...
2043: I will not make the holy book from one of my players religions actually a horrors artifact that possesses all who read it and turns them into horrible tentacle monsters.
2043a: I will not then have it stolen from its vault in the church and read, turning the cultists that stole it into horrible monsters just as the group rocks up.
2043b: I am no longer allowed to be surprised when one of my runners tries to get a counterfeit book commissioned at a fraction of the price of doing the run.
2043c: My group is here for the violence. If I want to run a game with investigation, or planning, or any of that namsy pansy 'not-shooting-everyone-we-meet-in-the-face-for-money' stuff I tried to pull then I should go and make a group for that.