@Derp Cameras everywhere. Im watching you.

@Ghost I played that a few years ago. It was pretty good.

Helix has graciously fixed the code issue that wasn't allowing folks to finalize their sheets/buy new gifts. Everything is up and running smoothly and there's RP to be had in Lyonesse, specifically around the Chromatic Order.

@ZombieGenesis Yeah, it is a spectrum with a lot of overlap, probably. The intersection of gaming and creative writing is honestly so magical. I haven't found anything else like it in my life. Definitely people seem to prefer different spots on the spectrum, though. My best friend in the hobby prefers a spot more towards the imaginative storytelling side, and I am constantly in awe of their storytelling capabilities, and often feel pretty silly in comparison. At least our playstyles are similar enough to get along and play with each other happily.

@RightMeow said in Not sure what board it belongs on:

it serves my RL trauma (and internet ones) how it needs to.

This sounds like a great place to be. It gives me hope.

I know that's not the main point, but the rest doesn't need my commentary.

@Derp said in Westworld:

@Ghost said in Westworld:

@Derp ugh I'm so far behind. I'm still at Samurai season. I keep getting derailed but the promos for this season make it look like I've missed so much good stuff.

Dude you have. Get caught up and we'll gab!

Sounds like a plan. I think we got derailed once by one of the star wars series and never circled back around. I'll get watchin.

...well, something happened here. o_O

@Tez

Gmail does not work, you are right. We currently use SendGrid for our email. It was a little faster to set up than SendInBlue.

The limits on both are such that you will want to ask people not to subscribe to topic updates by email if you have any kind of voulme at all. We blew through 300 emails by like 10am with just a few people subscribed.

I think that's configurable in Node 2.0. Are you guys running that yet? I'd have to go dig back in the guts and see, but I think that you can turn off the ability for people to subscribe to e-mail updates. Realistically they can get pretty granular updates with the built-in watch system without having to get them in their e-mail, since that can be problematic apparently.

Edit: Correction, apparently you can only disable digest e-mails. The issue has come up several times on the forum on how to globally disable the option, and the co-founder keeps marking it as resolved by referring back to a circular chain of asks for it.

Seems weird but ok.

The hidden playing of cards is a way to emulate predicting or reacting to your opponent's moves. It's referred to as yomi in some circles, so if anyone is looking for ways to get that feeling with something other than RAW Street Fighter, that term may help you find some inspiration.

You'll also find at least one martial arts fighting card game by the same name.

I think the truth is, everybody does wish fulfillment RP at some point or another, and as some element of nearly every character. Not all the time, and not only. Same way everybody wants to win some. Of course they do.

Every so often, yeah, one runs across a player who really seems, from every angle you look, to be doing only wish fulfillment and want all and only triumphs and glory. But more often, it's just an accusation used to promote the idea that somebody deserves less consideration in a conflict. It is also very often projection. Abelard wants to roll, protests being simply declared to have failed, but Brigid will not get the glory if Abelard succeeds, so she says Abelard "just wants to win," or "just wants his character to be super-cool all the time." In reality both want to win and be super-cool, and neither wants only that all the time, but both are likely to suggest the other is greedy for wins and wish fulfillment and rejecting other play. Just how likely they are to make these accusations depends on individual temperament, individual mental state at the time, individual past experiences of such claims working or not, how much OOC-cooperative vibe/tradition exists on the game, and (as mentioned in the incentivizing failure thread) how confident those players are of getting more chances.

@reimesu said in Book suggestions:

I just read "Uprooted" by Naomi Novik and it pretty much blew me away. It didn't go where I thought it would, which made it a lot better, and it was a wild ride.

I know, I'm late to the party.

Naomi Novik is an amazing storyteller! I've really enjoyed all her books, and if you haven't, check out her Temeraire series. So good 🙂

Along those same lines, if you haven't already, you could try Madeline Miller. I just finished reading 'Circe' and every sentence feels like an artform. It was beautiful and engaging.

@Arkandel said in Upgrade Bugs, Quirks, and Questions:

@Derp I had some "Forbidden" errors pop up when I tried to submit posts in multiple threads (including in 'Readers' and 'Mildly Constructive').

When I refreshed the tab a few times and pasted the same post a few more, it finally let the post go through.

Yeah it’s probably a session mismatch since the ux stuff is somewhat different. I recommend clearing cookies and doing a hard refresh. It happened to me a few times too.

Welcome to the future, ya'll!

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@macha said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@too-old-for-this My dad was also never home for YEARS after my mother passed (I was 4 when she passed), I honestly think if she'd lived, even just a handful more years, I would have been far better off, in so many ways.

But, as a female, they just wrote me off as lazy when I was a shining star in class, and never did the homework.

I seriously wonder if going back to college classes now on Adderall would be different.

ETA: Stupid spelling mistakes in the wee hours.

I'm late to this comment - sorry.
I was like a 2.5 gpa high school student. I never turned in my daily work because I'd forget. I tested off the charts. I was intelligent, I was just bored.

In college I found things I adored doing and other classes that I had to force focus, but I was a 4.0 college student. I have full faith if you want to go back, you'd be a rockstar at it. With the added help of medicine to help you think and concentrate better, even more. So good vibes to you if you are going back.

I almost want to trail of onto a different topic about Wish Fulfillment that Faraday brought up, because that is pretty true!

But maybe I should make a new thread for that, ponders!

I feel this.

Once upon a time on a game far, far, away... I had a RPing partner on a MU*. They were giving off all the indications of something being off about their patterns. They were partying harder, they were depressed, they were angry, etc. We would touch on it. I wasn't sure what to do for the longest time for many of the reasons already listed here. Then I just one day went -- Hey, are you really okay? Seriously? -- Then I went through and talked about medication and how I don't view it as something that had to be hidden. I shared a bit of my own personal story and that person ended up seeking help.

Now, it is not your JOB to do this. Please understand that. Not everyone is the same. -- My thought on it (which is personal) is that if someone is put upon my heart, then I should reach out. I would rather lose a friend with a show of concern then stay silent. HOWEVER that is just my thoughts and your choices are valid how you end up handling it.

I'm sorry that you are in the situation though.

@lotherio

So the short of it is that with knowledge, you get better everything else. You get better traits, which makes vassals like you more and disencourages murder / rebellions. The more you're liked, the more troops you get. In addition, the quicker you can upgrade your military units and get more men at arms. It improves development quickly, and development is where your taxation is based, so you get more money. It makes the church like you, and makes converting counties to your religion / getting a claim much faster; this also helps getting money from the Pope if you're Catholic/Insular.

I guess the only thing it doesn't really improve is intrigue, but the truth of the matter is you don't need high intrigue to be successful.

It also makes your ruler live longer, which is /huge/, and you know 1 year before he dies. There's no surprises (because everyone loves you, you're not likely to get murdered -- and you have money to improve their opinion). Your ruler can live, in medieval terms, to 70-80 yrs old, whereas if you focused on anything else, he could drop dead at 40.

There also is a lot that could be done to make things safer that mangement/owners are not willing to do because it would cost money and the owners are rich.