I’ve started a running gag in my masks game called OPN channel. for Oddly Personalised News.
I’m using it to “hang a lampshade” on the fact that in every movie, comic and TV show the main character Just happens to be watching TV JUST when something important to them or the story is being talked about or shown.
Too silly? or just silly enough?
Makes sense in a Big Data World.
It might be run by a Mr. Mxyzptlk type cosmic trickster being, or a growing AI threat!
Is there an explanation, like maybe it’s run by someone with mind-reading or precognitive powers?
Heh. In an old supers campaign I heard about but was sadly not in, the GM would assist the players when they needed transportation by providing them with an inter-dimensional taxi service, operated by an enigmatic fellow named Hadji who would always greet them with a cheerful, “Hadji Taxi, where travel is a way of life! How may I assist you in your life’s journey?”
Nestor Rodriguez I use the TFOS “cross town expediency bus” or the quote from the she-hulk comic “fastest way across town is a subplot” but same idea.
Jason Corley Sebastian BakerI hadn’t thought about giving it a reason. it’s just the way the world works. Like how all phone numbers start with 555. BUT maybe it’s run by a Uatu type cosmic power.
If it’s just how your world works that’s cool too, having a setting that acknowledges it’s little narrative “coincidences” could be fun.
I’ve used “Tonight, on Exposition News…”
Benjamin Davis I might steal basil exposition to be the news anchor
there was that show forever knight where the main character creator was constantly mind $%&@ the main character using a radio show where he seemed to know exactly what he was up to Ie:. he knew him so well, he was in his head
wyrd word I loved that Show! we used to call the chef of police “captain quaalude” because the actor had such a wonderful low energy delivery.
did you know the 68 caddie has the biggest trunk space of any car made?
Hmm perhaps it was chosen for an ulterior motive
Especially appropriate if Jay Jackson is playing your newscaster.