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Flexo said:
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But perhaps the most glaring and offensive example of his arrogance came in one of the 60th anniversary episodes in 2023. He had Isaac Newton (played by an Indian) mis-hear something the Doctor said, and as a consequence, mis-name gravity “mavity”. This seemed like a silly gag that would be over by the end of the episode. Instead, Davies has made it part of the show’s lore. From now on, anyone writing for Doctor Who, in any medium and in any spin-off, has to refer to gravity as “mavity”.​
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Explaining this to SFX Magazine after Season 1 had aired, Davies seemed like a man who had gone insane with power, even mocking people who were hoping for some kind of resolution. Apparently he was banging his fist on the desk while saying:​
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I think the GRIDS and drugs has eaten RTD's brain
 
Flexo said:
I... what?
But perhaps the most glaring and offensive example of his arrogance came in one of the 60th anniversary episodes in 2023. He had Isaac Newton (played by an Indian) mis-hear something the Doctor said, and as a consequence, mis-name gravity “mavity”. This seemed like a silly gag that would be over by the end of the episode. Instead, Davies has made it part of the show’s lore. From now on, anyone writing for Doctor Who, in any medium and in any spin-off, has to refer to gravity as “mavity”.​
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Explaining this to SFX Magazine after Season 1 had aired, Davies seemed like a man who had gone insane with power, even mocking people who were hoping for some kind of resolution. Apparently he was banging his fist on the desk while saying:​
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This is idiocy. Not only on the part of RTD for imagining "mavity" is funny whereas it's more like the guy who comes to your RPG campaign with a character with a joke name who imagines it wont be grating after the first half-hour, but because 'gravity' comes from the Latin 'gravitas' meaning weight. So unless the Doctor went back to Ancient Roman times and changed the Latin language and English is now filled with words like 'mavitas', this doesn't make a great deal of sense. It's called Gravity for a specific etymological reason.

It's an albatross around the neck of any Doctor Who writer whether audio, novel, comic or show.
 
Overly Serious said:
it's more like the guy who comes to your RPG campaign with a character with a joke name who imagines it wont be grating after the first half-hour
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You aren't playing an rpg campaign right if you don't have at least one guy named some shit like "guy fairy", "fouk you", or "José Noir". All the best one's I've played with friends have just been comprised of the most stupid bullshit names imaginable based on some vulgar shit or some pun name version of pop culture shit.
Also had a shitload more substance than "Mavity" so make of that what you will.
 
The Lawgiver said:
You aren't playing an rpg campaign right if you don't have at least one guy named some shit like "guy fairy", "fouk you", or "José Noir". All the best one's I've played with friends have just been comprised of the most stupid bullshit names imaginable based on some vulgar shit or some pun name version of pop culture shit.
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I'm afraid I'm one of those GMs that attempts to cultivate a "serious atmosphere". I didn't pick my username for nothing.

That said, even in most groups, Poopy the Wizard gets old pretty quickly, imo.
 
Overly Serious said:
I'm afraid I'm one of those GMs that attempts to cultivate a "serious atmosphere". I didn't pick my username for nothing.

That said, even in most groups, Poopy the Wizard gets old pretty quickly, imo.
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The combo of serious atmosphere and hardships alongside goofy sounding names is one of the best dynamics. Bilbo Baggins is a goofy ass name a few steps removed from poopy yet the hobbit and LOTR went on to inspire shitloads of fantasy and tabletop shit. Watership down is a similar case where it's all these cutesy little animals with goofy little names facing genuine horrors.
 
The Lawgiver said:
The combo of serious atmosphere and hardships alongside goofy sounding names is one of the best dynamics. Bilbo Baggins is a goofy ass name a few steps removed from poopy yet the hobbit and LOTR went on to inspire shitloads of fantasy and tabletop shit. Watership down is a similar case where it's all these cutesy little animals with goofy little names facing genuine horrors.
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That... is a fair point. If a player shows up with a character named "Bigwig" I will hear him out.
 
The Lawgiver said:
The combo of serious atmosphere and hardships alongside goofy sounding names is one of the best dynamics. Bilbo Baggins is a goofy ass name a few steps removed from poopy yet the hobbit and LOTR went on to inspire shitloads of fantasy and tabletop shit. Watership down is a similar case where it's all these cutesy little animals with goofy little names facing genuine horrors.
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To be fair, there's "acceptable" goofy and "grating" goofy.

The real measure is how much you want to stab yourself in the ear the tenth time you've heard it.
 
Big Finish Productions appears to be in rhe process of necking itself.

Shortly after announcing a vampire series for which they bagged Mara Wilson ( played the title role in Matilda ), and getting Jodie Whittaker and her Indian concubine to do some audios , they royally fucked up a site & app relaunch.

Jason Haigh Ellery ( Chairman ) has allegedly released an apologetic statement, but Nick Briggs, ( the real head cheese ), is DOA.

Their variable story quality and rising prices have been the major dings in the past, but this technological fuckup may be the third and final strike.
 
Kerr Avon said:
Big Finish Productions appears to be in rhe process of necking itself.

Shortly after announcing a vampire series for which they bagged Mara Wilson ( played the title role in Matilda ), and getting Jodie Whittaker and her Indian concubine to do some audios , they royally fucked up a site & app relaunch.

Jason Haigh Ellery ( Chairman ) has allegedly released an apologetic statement, but Nick Briggs, ( the real head cheese ), is DOA.

Their variable story quality and rising prices have been the major dings in the past, but this technological fuckup may be the third and final strike.
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Big Finish will probably give away free downloads to calm down the paypigs and make people calm down

edit; I always wonder how long Big Finish can continue going as a independent company before they get bought out by the BBC or Bad Wolf
 
Chaos Theorist said:
Big Finish will probably give away free downloads to calm down the paypigs and make people calm down
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the only way this will work (without their customers being sheep) is if one of those free downloads is Absent Friends (the Torchwood story with David Tennant)
 
Overly Serious said:
This is idiocy. Not only on the part of RTD for imagining "mavity" is funny whereas it's more like the guy who comes to your RPG campaign with a character with a joke name who imagines it wont be grating after the first half-hour, but because 'gravity' comes from the Latin 'gravitas' meaning weight. So unless the Doctor went back to Ancient Roman times and changed the Latin language and English is now filled with words like 'mavitas', this doesn't make a great deal of sense. It's called Gravity for a specific etymological reason.

It's an albatross around the neck of any Doctor Who writer whether audio, novel, comic or show.
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giving autistic nerds another thing to memorize that will alienate newcomers is certainly the way to go
 
Overly Serious said:
I'm afraid I'm one of those GMs that attempts to cultivate a "serious atmosphere". I didn't pick my username for nothing.

That said, even in most groups, Poopy the Wizard gets old pretty quickly, imo.
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Some backgrounds are so dark that without any humor at all they get grimderp really fast: e.g., Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer. I had a series of ridiculous NPC barbarians in Stormbringer that all had names that were anagrams because since everyone wanted to be some kind of evil sorceror, the muscle was usually NPCs. And they were so utterly disposable I made them basically interchangeable. They usually tried to keep them alive before murdering them in the Battle Royale that ended nearly every scenario where everyone tried to kill each other for the MacGuffin.
 
Overly Serious said:
This is idiocy. Not only on the part of RTD for imagining "mavity" is funny whereas it's more like the guy who comes to your RPG campaign with a character with a joke name who imagines it wont be grating after the first half-hour, but because 'gravity' comes from the Latin 'gravitas' meaning weight. So unless the Doctor went back to Ancient Roman times and changed the Latin language and English is now filled with words like 'mavitas', this doesn't make a great deal of sense. It's called Gravity for a specific etymological reason.

It's an albatross around the neck of any Doctor Who writer whether audio, novel, comic or show.
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It would have worked as a one-episode gag, maybe with a Deadpool 2-esque addendum where the Doctor goes back and fixes it. Hell, RTD pulled this exact sort of thing in School Reunion ("the tin dog.") It really just goes to show that not only can't creators equal each other, they often can't even equal themselves.
 
Oilspill Battery said:
What is the joke with this one I don't get it.
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