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@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.

Sniff. Of course it would be on a Friday.

II see it as more a player habit as you pointed out, though I could see some games poising the players mind towards focusing on configuration of powers with many options.

@BetterNow That's actually a good idea. I might steal it. 🙂

An odd case of reverse PoGo is when people stare at players these days. "You are STILL playing that?"

Yes, the game you played six weeks ago is still being played. Just because you stopped playing it doesn't mean it's no longer any good for anyone else.

@Darinelle said in World of Warcraft: Legion:

I suspect this has to do with us being the perfect class, since we can fill any role, but whatever. With the new loot system the way it is, I don't mind having more leather-wearing classes around, to be sure.

The biggest problem with Legion (for me) is how the artifact system caps the potential for alts, or even other specs. So Druids actually have it worse because there are four specs to add those precious points to, which is...meh.

@Faceless said in Are MU* videogames:

I tend to liken them to reading a book. Often a book written by a horned-up teenager. Or a psychopath. Or both.

One of the original Penn devs said that TS was no more horrible than coauthored fiction-based mutual masturbation.

This pertains to nothing, just coming out of the grab bag of thoughts that is my head this afternoon.

A tag with the show title would be a good idea, yep. A spoilers tag wouldn't hurt. Search for the combo, and boom, done. ❤

@Ganymede said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

So, your name is Luca?

No, Luca was Vega's bass player and actually lived on the first floor.
He kept everyone up all night with the noise, until he started "running into doors".
The incidents were totally twisted around into something else.

@faraday

Throwing things directly into the tables. I never looked at the API because I imagined it was difficult to trigger from TinyMUX.

Addendum: I imagine the risk of inserting directly into a MediaWiki table to be pretty high, tho, since sometimes they change them or plug-ins change them for fun. But what the hell, right?

@icanbeyourmuse It's finished. It's in Mu2. Jobs are stored in the DB instead of on the game which means web interfaces can access the data.

The last scene, come ON.

I have serious doubts the US will ever adopt such a program, as we seem to really enjoy, deep down in side somewhere, social-darwinism and material-wealth competitions. Even if everything was automated, we would find a way. We are Orks like that.

@Vorpal said in Doctor Strange:

Pretty much. After all, you can't be Earth's first line of defense against mystical intrusions if there's no Earth left 😛

Doesn't matter. He's not Equity.

@Cupcake I went to see it with my two little cousins. They were like.. 'What? NOOOO! WHY?!?! Butbutbut' afterwards.

Poor traumatized kids.

@arkandel said in The basketball thread:

And it can be almost zero stakes for team owners especially in large markets because fans are gonna go buy tickets to their games and merchandise anyway. The New York Knicks for instance have been absolute shit for twenty five years and they're making money over fist, so...

Which is why I support nationalizing all sports franchises, including college teams; tying teams to municipalities; and allowing for the development of new teams.

@Jaded

Scan the staples.

I'm only being halfway sarcastic there, as the scanner will catch a little bit of the front and back, and if Hasbro-WotC doesn't accept it then they will be taught a valuable lesson.

Depends on if it's combat or not. If it's not combat, I generally go with Rule of 3. Three poses after yours, you can go again so long as it's not an action pose, this is pure social because large scenes tend to devolve into circles responding to each other anyways since 10 people rarely have a conversation. It's one person talking, 3 people listening, 3 other people talking about something else, and a pair of people mocking everyone.

For combat scenes I have the five minute rule. Pre-type your actions so that you can declare easy and roll then pose the attempt/effect whatever.

It's still a long thing depending on how many npc's there are and whatnot but that's what I do.

That poll thing is weird...