Posts made by Arkandel

@phase-face said in X-Men Game:

I'm not even totally against the idea of /a/ school, of there being a component of education and/or training to whatever setting is used, but on the occasions that I've played in the traditional setting, I've found it to be stifling and dragged down somewhat by an overemphasis on the minutiae of school life.

Having played in games - albeit not comic book ones - where 'education' was a part of roleplay I found this to be true, but part of it was just that it gave people an instant answer to the eternal question - what do we roleplay about? So if you had nothing else going on, Cyclops could always meet up with Bob the Melter to give them a lecture about leadership or... something.

On its own that's not a bad thing. It could even be a great thing.

The problem (for me, YMMV) is that it sometimes turns into a reason to prevent people from joining other types of RP, which is of course the exact opposite of the scenario above. "Evil robots are attacking! Let's go! Uh, just not you Bob, go to your room and study."

I feel if the game is clear enough that the latter is utterly stupid (in fact X-Men have been placing teenagers into danger since ever) then I don't see this as an issue.

Double post!

Marvel's Runaways trailer.

@thenomain Does it get better? I watched... I want to say the first two episodes, maybe 2.5, and I didn't like it that much.

@ixokai said in FCs on Comic MUs:

@kanye-qwest said in FCs on Comic MUs:

@tnp but is @ixokai going to take steps to protect players if the /playerbase/ cares that they app a bi or gay FC?

Yes.

It won't happen, but if it did: players do not, flatly, have a right to care about how someone elses character is being played. If a player doesn't like that, they can play elsewhere.

And what about the inverse?

What happens if someone apps Batwoman then plays her as straight?

@auspice I loved Legion. It's so not condescending at all - sink or swim, you need to keep up with all the weird shit going on or you're left behind.

@bobotron Huh. You are right. Alright, scratch that part.

What do you all think of the recent X-Men TV resurgence?

We've had Legion, The Gifted and soon New Mutants as ongoing shows. Hell, I'd even be inclined to count the Inhumans from uh, Inhumans and the last couple of seasons of Agents of Shield as extremely mutant-esque in theme.

@Tempest It's absurd to think of FCs as some sort of singular entities whose ways and personalities are well defined.

With some creator-owned exceptions any given character has been written by multiple different writers over the years, so they have acted... inconsistently themselves in their own works. Some of those writers weren't nearly as good as others or had the FCs act in controversial ways to fit the story they were telling at the time, too.

The spirit of the character is what matters. It's hardly as if past a certain point reading more Batman gives you brand new insights into the character, all it gives you is more versions of the FC written by different people.

@ganymede said in MU Things I Love:

Wrong thread, dork. You're looking for the thread titled "Shit that don't mean shit to Ganymede or to how the NBA Finals are going to play out."

That's just because you're not woke like Kyrie, fam.

@ganymede

@ganymede On... I want to say HM but maybe it was TR, there was a time when people thought it was unfair/close to cheating if you took a failure without failing the dice.

These 'moral gaming' trends seem to go in and out of fashion though, and I guess GMC has offered an official way to do it.

@wtfe The only thing I could do more is pay a bit extra to have regular backups made on the host provider level, but it seemed unnecessary other than to get the forum up faster following some kind of cataclysmic event.

As it stands I could set up a basic Linux VM, install redis and nodebb from scratch then restore the data and avatars, at which point we should be back up.

Have I tested it to see? Hah-hah-hah, I don't have to, as what can possibly go wrong? In theory that works so it should be fine.

@admiral Would you please not not-say it here either? It's not-not-not-constructive, you are right.

@thatguythere There's a moral to the story: Upvotes don't mean anything (although it's still fun for threads like this).

I don't even think downvotes meant anything when we had them.

Yeah, if I play on a comic book MU* it will need to be absolutely based on a specific time period or, even better, a book run. Say, place it in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men period, allow only mutants as playable characters, give information as needed to clarify what the rest of the setting was like (the Avengers roster, major world events) and go to town.

I don't know if it's really restricting that I can't play Captain Atom in such a game. It's like saying a fantasy game has to allow every humanoid race, or every WoD game has to include every supernatural type of PC.

@wtfe Well, I mean it's a possibility? But there's an automated backup system in place and we're grabbing daily snapshots of the data - including avatars - in two locations. It's not 100% super foolproof but...

The one way this can go south is if something physically happens to me since I'm the only person with shell access to the host at the moment. I'll remedy it at some point by giving the other two admins a way to grab the files as well, at which point... well, feel free to have me assassinated.

Also remember, since it doesn't take vast admin powers, if anyone wants to volunteer to keep a sticky post/thread going with links to MU* threads, wikis URLs etc in it we'd be happy to help from our end, so that anyone looking for a game can more easily find one.

@kanye-qwest But there's no reason the time period can't be defined either for the entire game or the character in question.

"This is Rebirth Superman".

(In fact, to me, there's no other way that makes sense but there are so many hybrid MU* out there I guess I must be a minority)

@ganymede Wut!

@lithium No, I agree. I guess the other factor though is that sometimes TS (or private RP in general) is a last resort when nothing else is happening on a MU*, since you can at least roleplay something. FCs aren't immune to that.

Now, granted, a major FC should find it easier to get something going - but that's on paper. For instance if I have Lex Luthor then I don't want him going to random bars (or at least not too often) since it will trivialise the character and cheapen his appearances; in a way there are fewer scene opportunities than others get.

But Clark Kent could be anywhere at all, so he doesn't get that free pass.