@JinShei How do I delete someone else's post on MSB?

And wherever that came from initially.

Is there any interest in a game heavily inspired by paranormal/supernatural-themed media such as Control (the 2019 game, check it out if the rest of these are your thing), SCP, Fringe, X-Files, etc? It'd be heavily focused towards investigation, some sort of mysterious agency, yadda yadda yadda. Think monster of the week but with an overarching metaplot.

don't @ me

I'm as white as they come, but my first reaction to anyone using the word 'nubian' in a character description is that they're either trying to get a rise out of someone, or visualizing a fetish for black people. And "buff black meat" is just fucking absurd, never mind "neanderthal". I would have mashed the ban button without even giving them a chance to edit.

@GreenFlashlight said in The Work Thread:

but I'm starting to feel bad about how work must suck for my coworkers since we operate on skeleton crews anyway.

Please keep in mind that this is the fault of your employer, not you. All too often companies shame and guilt their employees for needing to take time off when they're ill (fast food, retail, etc. are the absolute worst for this kind of thing). Even outside of pandemic conditions, you shouldn't feel guilty for taking time off when you're unable to work in a manner that's safe for everyone.

I'm dumb enough and new enough to the community to suggest the opposite - the sheer popularity of Arx is why we don't have more games. It has a monopolistic effect, drawing people over there because That's Where Everyone Else Is.

If there was a site like MUD Connector for MUSHes, it'd help, but the current situation of those sites existing and having the next generation of MUSHes (Ares) not speak MSSP and etc in favor of the AresCentral directory is not helping anyone.

New cases are at a record high here due to a variant, denialists started freaking the fuck out when restaurant indoor dining got shut down for three weeks. And I keep doomscrolling and seeing all these extremely bad news things happening locally about it and I am starting to have difficulty coping.

There's also a ton of people RPing on Discord servers these days, and they can get more complex than you might think with bots and such.

With MUSHes finally starting to embrace modern things like, say, functional websites, and programming languages that people actually use, I think a lot of the existing player base has to consider what they want the future to be. Keep on what you've been doing for decades with Penn and static webpages at best, or evolve along with the pace of modern technology to make the hobby more inclusive and welcoming.

The kids are not going to be starting telnet.exe.

the sun remains a deadly lazer.

This sort of uninformed fearmongering doesn't really help anyone.

realizing that I basically want to make a game about every book or piece of media that isn't a movie or song, except then I don't

most of a concept cooked up involving elements from one of the books from the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, currently reading Walkaway by Cory Doctorow and feeling a few ideas percolating..

@masterreeve said in Shadowrun: Anarchy MU seeking staff:

@sixregrets It's the Shadowrun: Anarchy ruleset as a whole. It will not be focused on only one specific corporation. If that's the story you want to tell, though, you'd be most welcome to do so.

Ah, I was actually referring to the server software AresMUSH, so that's probably 'something else', then.

Is this going to be an Ares game, or something else?

Lazy interest check: mostly-social sandbox on a space station above a mostly-fucked earth? I'd probably be inclined to run it statless, but there'd be some plot to it to keep things moving.

Different from The 100, in that the surface would be used for strip mining for resources, and the space station wouldn't be on the verge of falling apart.

@squirreltalk said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@lotherio A new, explicit, 'go ahead and be gratuitously sexy or gropey even in non-sexual scenes' one, in this case. But ideally still with plots. What could go wrong???

Isn't that just Arx?

(I do not know anything about Arx.)

@misterboring said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Ooh. I got another one.

A small town Unknown Armies game where hokey small time magic users in the early 1980s fight over control of the mundane population like feudal lords.

I've been doing some research into Unknown Armies 3e for game development. Are you aware of any MUs that have used it?

@pyrephox said in Last One Standing:

Yesterday, the web portal stopped working on my work computer. It works fine from home, but from work, it claims that there's an invalid security certificate. This may just be a glitch on my end, but if other people are experiencing it, I figure I'd put it out there in case something could be fixed before the start of the game proper.

I don't think anyone else has mentioned this sort of issue, but I can't speak for @crayon . The SSL certificate currently being presented looks valid to me, and it looks like a bog standard Let's Encrypt certificate, so if you were running into issues on your work machine, I'd expect you to have pretty widespread errors on other websites as well. Might be worth trying a force refresh (ctrl-f5 in Chrome) if you haven't yet and making sure that the work computer's time and date are accurate.

@geeklure said in General Video Game Thread:

@sixregrets This is a very interesting thing to me as it's one of my fave genres, and it might be helpful to you to know - if you didn't already - that 'cosmic horror' is usually the go-to descriptor for control/lovecraft/xfiles-esque biz

Yeah, I just tend to shy away from that label because usually the next word out that comes up is Lovecraftian, and then that brings out all sorts of racist weirdos.

@tnp said in General Video Game Thread:

I haven't played it (though I just got it since it's free) but it seems similar in concept to Prey by the makers of Dishonored. If you like Control you might like those as well.

Prey was free on the 25th, actually! I love both of those games but I'd really only call them similar to theming to a degree. Prey is an immersive sim, while Control is more of a shooter. Prey is more about fighting monsters - Control's enemies are considerably more on the human side of things in terms of appearance.

I'm still working on building my MUSH that borrows from Control among other things, but Control is today's EGS free game of the day. Give it a whirl if you think you might be into it: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/control