Similar to how Peter Parker can delivery a ninety word monologue in the space of a single facekick.

It's been done for a while. Catch it while you can. It's scary, and intense, and amazing, and horrifying, and so beautiful.

I did that with Penny Dreadful. I watched the first two episodes, then decided I couldn't stand waiting week to week, so I marathoned it one weekend. Gods how I love VOD and DVRs.

They only look above average to me. I see people on my commute texting like savants. It's the way of the future I guess. Makes me feel like an idiot for bothering to learn how to type.

Yeah, but you can edit text before you send it so the display would be quick, just that for "drama" the response time for a reply to appear after a sent message has been shortened significantly.

I think I understand the point of this article. The icons, screens, and fonts are generally big and goofy looking in movies and such. However, I think part of the reason is the need to make the shots highly visible on the screen and also to explicitly cue the audience that, yep, this is a shot of a…

They were characters introduced the last season. Years later White Wolf Publishing put out a game called VtM: Bloodlines and the Prince of LA was named Lacroix and the Asylum Club was run by "Jeanette". A nice shout out to Forever Knight.

I think you're failing to remember that half the Toreador were the 'artistes' and the other half were the 'poseur' groups generally speaking.

The Werewolves were interesting because there's almost literally nothing out there that does go and do the whole Werewolves as eco-terrorists thing. It's actually kind of genius when you get down to it.

I always thought the character played by Antonio Banderas in Interview (Armand I think?) was a clear-cut Toreador.

I think the main problem with Wraith was that it was so bleak nobody really wanted to play it. It had a supplement about the Holocaust, for chrissake.

The Ventrue are only pretentious lucious Malfoy motherfuckers if they are played like lame cliches.

"Just the fact that you know what "The Hunger" is tells me you are not a typical vampire fan."

Mostly I associate it all with the music.

Wait, how do you even manage that without big furry monsters just tearing off a vampire's head?

Lestat was the quintessential Toreador, wasn't he?

I lay whatever hipness I have about vampires, HP Lovecraft and whatever antecedents to early 80s goth subculture at the feet of my girlfriend. She read all the Varney penny dreadfuls for fun. She instructed me, at length.

Despite more than 35 years in the TTRPG scene, I never played any White Wolf stuff. Vampires were the 80s and 90s version of zombies; it got rapidly played out after Bauhaus' "Bela..." and The Hunger.

Personally, I'd bump the Toreador and Nosferatu up a notch or two, because with a creative player in control, they can be awesome. I'd also kick the Ventrue and Assamites down a notch or two because of their weaknesses; the Ventrue are SOL if they don't have their preferred blood-from-a-Gemini-left-handed-vagabond (or…

I'm used to it. I'm not even planning to address a few of our more... erstwhile exclusionists. I'll probably let them have free reign in the comments unless they truly cross a hate speech line, though.