Posts made by Arkandel

@Cobaltasaurus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I'm out of spoons. Metaphorical spoons.

There... is no spoon?

(I have nothing).

@Tinuviel And that's intentional.

@BobGoblin said in Intersectional MU* Community - Discussion:

I haven't seen an adequate amount of rage from people re: Mueller Report. Is there a thread I'm missing where that's happening? I need the sweet sweet taste of Leftist Tears to tickle my tongue.

For starters please let's not bring politics into this forum.

For another there is already a conversation about it here.

@Thenomain I think their best bet is to rely on a person - or small group - to provide the forum with a consistent identity.

If they are lucky with leadership they can ride that identity to become a stable community, but the risk is that otherwise playing politics will rear its ugly head... and on online forums that's a damn ugly head.

@Auspice That's a feature!

@Thenomain said in Intersectional MU* Community - Discussion:

What I'm reading here is that a "quorum of like minded individuals" can maintain a space if they have a vote of no-confidence on its current leader.

Worse - it can make a moderator depended on the current political climate to continue doing their job. So they'd be at the constant whim of the strongest clique (and there are always cliques) to enforce their policies.

@Auspice said in Intersectional MU* Community - Discussion:

@surreality said in Intersectional MU* Community - Discussion:
Well, I mean, I tried to ask a question in good faith as to how they'll judge whether or not someone is a good enough staffer to be able to 'run' their game channel on the Discord and I was wholly ignored.

Because I fear it would be based on personal feelings/opinions and clash of personalities as opposed to 'this person did actually treat people of minorities poorly.'

To be fair, the moment you ask a question like "who is a good enough staffer" then of course the answer is going to become really subjective. Unless that person is really horrible at it all you have to work with is anecdotal evidence, hearsay and unreliable third party opinions.

It's not leadership or rules that I suspect will be their biggest challenge, it's the echoing chamber effect.

@Insomnia I know, but what I meant is... at the moment you buy (or 'buy') a game. Like, the title is what you purchase.

In the cloud/streaming model it's more likely we'll be purchasing subscriptions to libraries of games instead. So instead of $60 for the latest CoD we'd be paying $10/month for premium titles, $3/month for casual games, etc.

I think to a lot of people - I really don't think it's such a small minority - every MUSH is basically a dating simulation.

Sure, you might be playing vampires, nobles, werewolves or space pirates but that's just the context; the point is to find a romantic/sexual partner and use the setting's trappings to enhance the experience. Is it TS? Do we have fangs? Then we bite each other, yay! Can we shapeshift? Time to get furry with it, yay! Mecha-suits? Uh, let's read the manual first but yay!

And there's nothing wrong with that. As long as they're not nagging, coercing or forcing anyone else into it there's no harm no matter how some people complain about folks in locked rooms and how they detract from the game; it's their playing time too. As long as it doesn't actively get in the way of anyone else's RP then that's fine.

My only objection otherwise is in agreement with @Sparks - there is so much focus on it the characters' arc can only burn out. It's both all too common but also not sustainable to see PCs hit the grid then find their soulmates in two weeks or less (sometimes much less); where do you go from there, when your goal was the romance itself? Well, you won the game - now what?

@surreality said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

I'm describing guys I have personally known who talk about their wokefulness, how they are 'not like all those other guys', and how they play a lesbian 'right'.

Spoiler alert: they don't.

Personally I don't even care just how right (or wrong) they are portrayed since... well,lots of things are roleplayed badly. Unless it's really offensive I wouldn't care since it's none of my business.

What is my business is how they are likely to respond when things don't go their way, when not enough attention is catered for whatever their agenda is supposed to serve or of course when bad things happen to their characters and they choose to see a narrative that wasn't there.

@Sunny I get more shit done when I work from home. My cats can't bug me more than my coworkers even though they try their best.

@surreality said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

@Prototart That is such a fucking truth.

Look, straight white guys. Please, don't play lesbians to show your woke-i-tude. Wokefulness. Wokeaholism... woke-ever.

I'll go up one level; don't play anything to support an agenda. That's not what playing games is for, and it won't go over well when things which typically happen in games affect that agenda.

This is one of the weirdest topics I've read about recently. Did people in antiquity experience colors differently than we do?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-sea-was-never-blue

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

@Arkandel

It will be decades, or at least a decade, before the current generation gamers give up on hardware, and hardware manufacturers will do everything in their power to stay relevant.

I'd say we're still a few years ago for at least the 5G to be in place so the bandwidth needs alone are met. But if that existed I really don't see why gamers would be so attached to their current hardware if what they get in return - portability, large catalogues instead of paying $60+ for triple-A games, etc - is better than what they have now. I have decent machines, an XBone and a Switch and I'd give those up in a minute.

It’s the next generation of gamers that Google should be eventually aiming towards. Google hasn’t shown the patience for anything but data collection, and those things that go directly into that business. Casual gamers could carry the short- to medium-term, but for now streaming boxes are still a loss leader at best.

That's true but Microsoft is doing the same thing and they have plenty of gaming street cred by now. Amazon is throwing their hat in that race, and their deep pockets shouldn't be discounted.

The real issue anyone but Microsoft will have is finding support from game developing companies to make titles for them. Especially the large names in the field. That's where the real corporate war will be, since without major games even if they do wonders on technical side they'll be dead in the water, and those companies are going to be super concerned about what leverage they'll have in this brave new era.

As for hardware companies, they're either shitting their pants right now or already counting on selling directly to cloud data centers which in a way might be a good thing for them - way less customer support needed, for example, and fewer models of machines to put out every year.

@Testament In this brave new world you won't need local storage almost at all (especially since there won't be any buffering - that doesn't do anything for gaming).

On the other hand... well, we won't ever own games any more, at all. Not even through DRM; as long as your subscription is current you'll be able to play the catalog you're paying for, else you got nothing.

Then again no more having to own a beastly machine just to run the latest games. Your processing power will be nearly irrelevant. Why upgrade?

... That last one is going to make things reaaaally awkward for the relations between Dell and Microsoft, for example.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/emilia-clarke-a-battle-for-my-life-brain-aneurysm-surgery-game-of-thrones

The race that's about to begin over stream gaming between Google, Microsoft and possibly Amazon has the potential to change gaming as we know it.

Combined with 5G (heh!) we might be looking at a near future where people buy subscriptions to services rather than individual games or platforms. No more arguing XBox over PS4, it would be more which bundled online service you'll be paying.

More importantly... the hardware will be largely irrelevant. All of the computing would be on the cloud, and all you need is an internet-enabled device and a controller.

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Wretched
Damn you beat me to it. I was just here to drop the news. I got to talk to someone today about some details for it.

Well...?

This is the discussion thread for the Intersectional MU* community.

@Roz said in Intersectional MU* Community:

@Arkandel said in Intersectional MU* Community:

@Tempest You earned that upvote.

This is not a GREAT look for you in the Ad section with the current rules.

You are right. I'll fix it. My bad.