Posts made by Arkandel

@icanbeyourmuse Hey, it's your game. You asked for opinions, that's mine. What you do with it is up to you.

@icanbeyourmuse My only suggestion about theme design is this: Don't do theme design by committee.

Have one person (or very tiny group who know each other very well and have a proven record of bouncing ideas off of each other) do it. You can fine tune things later but that initial stage, in my experience, isn't one where wider collaboration pays off.

Come up with something that excites you, that makes the game's primary participants go "I want to do this so badly". Then do it.

People like this give ammunition to people who barely even needed an excuse in the first place.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/4erwg4/woman_who_accused_zach_randolph_of_assault_admits/

@Vorpal said in RL Anger:

The guy is basically a failed tenor who is a pain to listen to- he’s a proponent of the Can Belto school, so most of his ‘performances’ is him screaming in pitch with an enormous wobble and calling himself a ‘heldentenor.’

I realize these are words which mean things but that's as far as my mortal mind takes me.

@Lithium Ugh, necromancer!

@Olsson said:

I know it is probably different since I played at a RP server

I only ever play on RP servers. Not for any other reason (the 'roleplay' to be found, if it exists at all, is hilariously bad) but because I always figure there's a higher probability people will be able to spell and type.

... Which I am continuously proven so very, very wrong about.

@somasatori Which part of Gany's statement involved wink wink nudge nudge in the least?

That robot's programming is very straight forward. And perverted.

@Lithium Well, it's anecdotal of course but I haven't met women - even the most avid readers - who liked certain aspects of books or games that I did.

For example I love 'tactical' novels featuring brilliant military leaders overcoming the odds. And yet even female friends who enjoyed books such as The Red Knight didn't like those parts as much. It's also a cliche but there might be a point in it that girl-gamers like the story more than men do -- on WoW I and many of my guy friends barely read most of the quest texts other than the "what to kill" and "what that gets you" parts but several ladies I know do.

Now, there are two obvious conclusions I can draw here.

1. As mentioned it's all anecdotal. Some chicks will be even more into the tactical crap than I am or barely skim at quest texts, and some dudes will be all over those things.

2. We don't need to be the same, to like the exact same things, in order to get along.

Having said that, girls still have the cooties. Boys rule, girls drool.

@Ganymede said:

@SG said:

@Ganymede I thought you were an owl.

That's a common mistake, given my love for hooters.

I obviously misread that.

@Lithium said:

Also: I hate the idea that women are only fit for healer rolls, I tank, a lot. I DPS some too, the only game I am comfortable healing in is FFXIV.

I only ever play healers.

@deadculture When it comes to MMOs in particular words cannot describe how low priority I place on someone's gender. I have so many other real things to consider - are you a good player? On time for groups? Well geared/enchanted/buffed? Is your DPS/performance good for your role? Do you stay focused through it? Do you follow instructions promptly (for PvP) and/or understand the fight (for PvE)?

The rest is gravy.

On MU* it's basically the same thing. Even if my PC is looking for a romantic partner what good does is that if someone else can't type or spell, or if they can't put together creative poses to make it fun to play with them? I honestly can't think of any good reason I should care, which isn't necessarily about gender parity.

Are you entertaining and sane, dammit? Then we'll get along.

@Coin said:

@Arkandel said:

@Roz I wonder how/if they're gonna tie him to the rest of the Marvel Universe though. It seems a bit late in the process - but if they can do it with a new Spider-man maybe it's doable.

Strange can be incredibly powerful, too.

Where do you see them having difficulties?

Well, up to and including Civil War there's been no mention of Doctor Strange anywhere (that I am aware of) in the cinematic/TV universes.

Bringing him up out of nowhere in the story's mid/late stages could feel forced, depending on just how late it is. Not saying it can't be done, just... they need to get on with it if that's the case.

@Ganymede Everyone here knows you are a robot. You're not fooling anyone with your Turing algorithms, rust-bucket.

@Roz I wonder how/if they're gonna tie him to the rest of the Marvel Universe though. It seems a bit late in the process - but if they can do it with a new Spider-man maybe it's doable.

Strange can be incredibly powerful, too.

Several years ago I was the raid leader for a WoW guild. Some of us were flying to the summoning stones to summoning the rest including one of the guild's tanks, a pretty good feral druid, played by a girl. That she was a good, well geared tank was of importance to me; that she was a girl was just a curiosity since there were fewer around than guys.

So anyway, we were using Ventrilo (a voice-chat program) to coordinate, and one of my online friends with a reputation of being flirty/promiscuous iRL logged on then hopped on the voice channel waiting for a summon. When he heard her voice (and realized she was female) he started ... acting differently. "Heey and who are you honey?", that sort of thing. Nothing outright inappropriate but definitely different; to me she was a group member, to him she was a girl who also played WoW.

I remember all this now because it was the first time that got my attention - it was unfamiliar territory, see. Was she upset? She didn't sound like it from her response ("why do you want to know?" in a sort of amused way) but what did I know?. Was she flattered? Was this how it usually was for females and she knew how to handle herself? Again it was hard to tell, or to know how or if to address it.

I went with my usual charm ("dude, shut up and bring a flask this time!") which seemed to end the weirdness and we never got an actual complaint about anything of the sort but in retrospect there were incidents I can think back and wonder; that one of the guild's other girls called our guild leader a 'dirty old man' (to be fair he was in his forties at the time and she was maybe twenty) after she left the guild, did that mean something?

I don't know. I don't know what the norm is, and that's just online. iRL is a whole different ballgame that I understand even less.

I do think if a girl wants to only be known as a good feral druid though they should be able to do that.

First trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwcSki7r9cQ

@somasatori said:

LA traffic. That's all.

I support the Spurs (second choice: the Thunder, because Westbrook) in these playoffs but I think it bears saying: if somehow LeBron manages to walk away from this one with a chip then he has a legitimate claim on GOAT. The Cavs are such underdogs compared to the big two in the west that he'd need to carry them there kicking and screaming.

I don't see that happening, though.

Stupid spring. Come on already! Yesterday it was freakin' snowing - it's April! Come on!

I need to be able to go out and walk without freezing my ass off.