Major mental illness is funny; not "haha" funny, but... funny. In that certain horrible way. I've got a cousin who's borderline schizophrenic, and some of his beliefs made you chuckle, right up until his folks discovered his ammunition stockpiling :/

And not a single frame of Thulsa Doom turning snake.

At least I don't think so, I did not watch it all.

Continued to watch it.

"Large muscles/cords are bulging out from her neck, which is definitely not human anatomy,[...]"
Umh...

Yes, I was seriously disappointed by the lack of James Earl Jones. How can you talk about reptilian transformations in Conan the Barbarian and completely ignore the transforming Snake God?! Even if he was the one true non-reptilian actor in the whole film, his transformation was obviously the Reptilians mocking us for not knowing what the rest of the cast actually are.

Anky's little pet project is working out nicely.

Someone should take some 24fps, low light, wide aperture film of this guy running and jumping around, then let him inspect it frame by fram. He will be horrified to discover that the reptilians have infected him in a hideous, evil plot to transform all of humanity into beasts like themselves!

I'm guessing they've got some kind of internal filter that would tell them either the distortions in their own images were just video artifacts that were completely different from the OBVIOUS WAKE-UP-SHEEPLE evidence they've collected or that said "tells" were just the reptillian overlords doctoring their footage as some kind of psy-op against them personally.

A similar phenomenon is "orbs." Because circular artifacts in photos taken with a flash are totally ghosts and not dust, because apparently paranoid obsessives never wore glasses in their lives.

True. If the answer to, "What evidence would convince you that your current beliefs are incorrect?" is, "There is none." there's no point in even bothering.

The thing is they've developed this amazingly complicated mythology that would make for an interesting sci-fi/horror novel or RPG setting.

The trouble is, I'd fear there wouldn't be a ton of mainstream appeal, but the crazies would latch onto it and just re-enforce their insanity. Kind of like what happened with the Illuminati New World Order card game.

Both of the V mini series were well received and very popular. The later tv series was, at the time, the most expensive show per episode, ever. So there may a decent amount of interest in such an RPG.

The hard part is to not re-create Pandemonium. The rabbit hole just goes too deep, I tells ya!

BTW, I got my copy of that game after they ran an ad in Dragon Magazine where if you sent an SASE for media mail, they'd send a free copy just to clear out their warehouse.

That game looks great. I like his comment about how even serious RPGs have an unavoidable streak of silliness. Why not embrace it? It's been ten years or more since I've played a non-computer RPG, but this looks like one I might look into buying.

Not that I'd encourage this kind of thing, but LOADS of old out-of-print RPGs are available via torrent. I even found some I went out and bought later on, having never heard of them before (including one of the bleaker post-apoc settings I've ever run across, KidWorld).

Were I to start up a new gaming group, I'd probably try to find some universal RPG system (GURPS or Hero are favorites, just for flexibility, or maybe the Storyteller one they use for the Dresden Files) and adapt the crap out of a forgotten campaign setting. I found a lot of lost-n-gone RPGs had great setups but poor mechanics.

A few years ago I torrented The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan and The Ghost Tower of Inverness D&D modules just to read through them for nostalgia's sake. I still have a very clear visual memory of the huge "boulder" in a room made of caustic limestone that turns out to be a giant hermit crab. We all died many times getting through that one. I'm pretty sure it was in the Hidden Shrine. I should find Against the Giants and Queen of the Demon Web Pits just for fun. Somewhere I still have my original Monster Manual and Player's Handbook.

[PDF]The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan
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I think half the shrine was made out of caustic limestone.

And I've saved ALL the D&D I ever came in contact with. Unfortunately, they used REALLY cheap-ass staples, so most of my older rulebooks & modules have rust-spots holding them together.

b what you reckon can I be Lizard King?

They can take over whatever the hell they want to as long as the next Star Wars movies aren't complete crap.

Betray that trust and I'm dropping nukes into the core of the Earth.

I don't envy the crazy, but I am kind of jealous of that level of focus.

I feel like if I had that level of focus, I could melt steel with just my mind.

So you're saying that while jet fuel can't melt steel beams...