Posts made by Arkandel

@lordbelh "S6E9 Battle of the Bastards currently has a perfect 10/10 rating on IMDB with 34,000 votes"

...Holy shit.

If you had told me five years ago I'd be the guy who sets his alarm clock at 5:30 am so I can ride my bicycle across the city to lift weights at the gym before going to work I'd laugh at you.

And yet here I am. I guess people do change.

I think the crux of the issue is the same, and it's as old as gaming itself; people detest it when they don't get their own way. They want what they want, if they can't have it they consider themselves wronged and react in bizarre ways to that.

In regards to playing specific characters I personally don't get it; if I'd play Cyborg in a way that significantly departs from the original comic books - in terms of his personality, sexuality, etc - then why not play an original character instead? At some point the only thing that actually remains from that character is his looks, and it can't be that hard to get staff to approve a new PC with a similar enough appearance (there are hundreds of Cyborg depictions spanning several decades, it shouldn't be hard to find one which sufficiently departs from the traditional one), and voila! Cyberman is born.

Otherwise if the MU* is supposed to reflect regular continuity then play the damn character as per that continuity.

And get off my damn lawn.

@thebird In my experience watching GoT increases stress, it doesn't alleviate it.

May your favorite character die last though!

Japanese Hearthstone commercial. Be Legend!

@Pondscum The RL anger thread is over there --->

(Spoiler-free)

Game of Thrones. The Battle of the Bastards is as high as any movie I've seen in production values, the performances were spot-on and despite a couple of things that annoyed me about the overall writing that show is firing on all cylinders this season.

Can't wait for the season finale next week.

@Tyche It's not clear who helpfiles in most games are aimed for; the vast majority are stock ones and all over the place (referencing cash options or dates inapplicable for the MU* in question, for instance) so they're not there for newbies.

To top it sometimes you can get information with +help $command, other times you need to get the syntax from typing $command without any argument, and it gets worse when it comes to CGen-specific things (which, quite often, you'll find what you need on the wiki... if you're lucky).

@WTFE Not surprisingly need, rather than preference, dictates usage. For example I ssh and work on a significant number of VMs so unless I puppet'ed my credentials for each so I can edit files remotely it'd be a complete pain in the ass to do it any other way than by using an editor already installed on the machines themselves. vim fits that bill nicely.

I really don't do enough 'work' on Windows to warrant anything more than Notepad++ to be honest, it's just convenience for me. A few config files here and there but otherwise it's my go-to for MUSH log editing. I'll have to give Textadept a look though.

Also emacs is fine but it really needs a good text editor.

If I'm on Linux I use vim, else if I'm on Windows I go with UltraEdit or Notepad++. It depends though on whether I want a true IDE with an integrated debugger or not.

The Warriors got so cocky, it easily bordered on arrogance. It's sports 101 - don't brag until you win, man... making flippant comments about how they're better than the Showtime Lakers while still in the WCF? Now they get to eat crow.

As for Curry, his legacy took a huge hit from this. There was talk about him being the GOAT before this. Oops.

LeBron can do whatever he likes in Cleveland now, he owns the city. He could spend the rest of his career dribbling the shotclock out then chucking 3s and no one there will have an issue with that.

My wife made me stop screaming a couple of minutes after the buzzer. Worth it!

@Cupcake said in What series are you reading?:

Red Rising trilogy

Red Rising was great! Ender's Game meets Hunger Games. In space! And Roman themes! Exclamation mark!

Who said that!

@Cupcake Well, on one hand I can't quite agree there was something wrong with a rumor you started OOC yourself being believed by any PCs; after all the fact it became a rumor IC means someone believed it, right? It caught on, by definition and your own hand. So I can sort of kind of see a player feeling slighted if he's confronted about taking something that's on the board at face value, especially if - if they're extended the benefit of a doubt - they genuinely though you were asking for that kind of roleplay in the first place since you were the one who came up with it.

On the other hand though the gap between staff and characters, even NPCs, should be considerably wider than what's demonstrated. "Don't argue with staffers" is a dumb expectation - let alone game rule - to have as not only does the staffbit not convey infallibility but also because arguing with the DM is an honored RPG trope. Sure, doing so in the middle of the scene is frustrating since it interrupts its flow, and if someone's a chronic whiner it legitimises the intervention a bit but there's no evidence of that here.

In fact the rule probably does more harm than good, especially for a game whose runner just posted right on this thread that he didn't hear about a problem until it was too late. If you discourage your players from talking to you it shouldn't be a surprise that they don't.

@Cupcake Nah, that's fine - I'm mostly confused about what the problem was. You made a post portraying your PC in a false, negative light (which is usually an OOC commendable thing to do) and the King believed the lie IC.

What's the issue?

@Cupcake said in Kushiel's Debut:

I OOCly started a negative rumor about my character (one feature I've never liked about certain rumor systems is that they're concerned IC only in context) that wasn't true.

I'm not sure what that means, can you elaborate please? Did you make an OOC post saying your character did <bad thing> for example?

@Ominous said in A new game?:

Kushiels Debut has been mentioned already, but I play there. Yes, it has lots of sex, which should be unsurprising considering the source material.

I have never been on a game where there wasn't a lot of sex, or where people weren't more or less openly rolling characters whose main goal was to find a romantic/TS partner, or pairs weren't locked up in private rooms forever.

I think the narrative about 'sex games' is fundamentally flawed. Yes, on a game like KD there are going to be fewer plots about say... killing things (although there are still some) than a Werewolf game, but there'd be just as much of a focus on politics as anything involving the Kindred. All they are doing is making it more public that it's the theme's focus as opposed to horror or whatever.

@tragedyjones said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness:

@Saulot I downvoted you like you downvoted my fucking dreams.

But those are the only kinds of dreams you have.

@DnvnQuinn It's not MSB's role to dictate anything to game-runners, it's only to provide an environment to express opinions. If this MU* succeeds more power to them.