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Sony and Disney finally reached an agreement and a third Kevin Feige produced MCU Spider-Man movie will hit theaters July 16 of 2021.

And how does that make me feel?!

spider-man happy

Hah! Kudos for that one Arkandel. You're absolutely right. 👍

I was pissed when we picked staff names on CoMux. I wanted to go with Disney chars because I was known as Aladdin to all of my friends, but I was out voted about 137 to one. They wanted to go with drinks and I was going to go with Water. But then someone offered that we should do math because everyone hates math and it would be sort of a dark joke (I hope it was my idea, but I don't remember). Since I'd just gone on one of my huge soapbox speeches, Tangent was an easy fit.

He should just as Nymeria for help. sagenod

fuck you sir

Plenty of Forum(Play By Post) platforms. Jcink lets create message boards and have accounts (that can be linked together in a ''Player" to "Character" account and allow for switching, Most forum gamers use this sort of model.

Jcink is also Free.

@Ganymede said:

In short: I'm pretty sure I'm a good team player. But I'm the team player that will stand firm on issues that relate to my players or that will lead, in my experience, to bad outcomes. When that happens, I have to ask if I want to continue to volunteer on the team, or move on so as to avoid a messy game divorce.

This also isn't what you wrote. You can't always push interpretation on the reader; you know that. Teamwork relies on back-and-forth and an understanding of those around you, which is exactly why I called you in particular out on sounding like you made an ultimatum.

Your clarification is, in my opinion, more important than the statement it was clarifying.

@Arkandel

cat slap

In case you were wondering...

Set tiers

Beheadings do tend to discourage wide use of the scientific method, yes.

@Jennkryst said:

I'd have thought being able to swap bodies (and thus alter every skill on your +sheet) would be a bigger concern. In my imagined EP mush, there would be actual money, and your rep would limit what can be done with it, rather than actually be the money.

Well yes, that's a problem, but if you know about that problem from Step 1 you can make sure to tell the system: "Look for a sheet location on the character object. If there is no sheet location, look on the character object." Then have every stat lookup and set code read from/set to there instead. For example: sheetloc( %# ) instead of %#.

The system to switch sheets may be a problem, with its limitations and considerations, but now we're just coding a +shift or +desc system.

It's a solve-once problem, one sheet 8 times, instead of 8 systems. (Possible exception of the bodyless/AIs; I'd have to check.)

@Arkandel
Cockatrice, that's the one I was groping around for the name of. I have had that recommended to me on other gaming forums, and it seems to be the equivalent to YGOPro or DevPro, which are the same thing but for YGO (with the added benefit of YGOpro actually handling your mechanics for you).

Completely irrelevant to The FUTURE but still, I happened to be reading about it recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Hunger_March

Justice, like lightning!

For you animal lovers, especially kitten lovers, there's always this:

https://livestream.com/FosterKittenCam/CloneTroopers

Ted Lasso finale. I wasn't ready for that show to be over.

ted lasso

@HelloRaptor said:

I didn't say we'd cross off 90% of stuff, thus leaving 10% behind, just that I'm only 90% sure we'd cross off 100% of everything anyone does on these games.

100% - 90% = 10%, duh.

(Joke with Raptor. It's super-effective.)

Yeah, I know what you meant, frat-boy.There was a game, Metro perhaps, which had a specific category for "Victim RP" where you could pull out an NPC just to be messed with and, well, victimized. It makes my skin crawl, but I can't deny that it was quite popular.

@Arkandel said:

@Groth I don't know that I like an implementation where one person screwing up could cripple a number of people for that long. It might be more realistic but from a gameplay point of view... a month?

Especially since it could happen by mistake (typo!) or someone could be a newbie to the system or... whatever.

Another scenario: I log on when your coterie is not around, go to your neighbohood and drink to my character's dark heart content. Yummy, and now your pool is depleted for weeks.

A single -1 penalty is hardly crippling. However if you want to deliberately cripple a rivals blood pool by repeatedly draining it for the stacking penalty you can certainly do that. However they can also investigate who drained their blood pool and pay you a visit.

@Arkandel said:

Unless consent is required at every level, including losing contested but non-lethal/permanently changing rolls, a player could still try to push those things through. Hell, look at Shang, it happens there routinely right?

Sure does. Staff-approved too. That was how I was removed without consent, without even a simple heads-up OOCly. I could write a lot about it and why that game is truly toxic but that's just rehashing what everyone here already knows.

I can tell you from experience that it's ultimately up to the staff to make sure consent and non-consent 'works'. @Arkandel, your notion to keep rules simple such as 'don't be a dick' is spot on. Or, as I used for my online community:

Any kind of behavior that threatens the welcoming, cohesive and coherent mentality and atmosphere of the community will be dealt with according to severity of the disruption. Repeated behaviors that attempt again will result in expulsion.

There. That's it. "Don't be a dick" put down in nice firm 'legalese'. Human nature manifests itself in different details for eons. Attempting to catalog those details is futile and creates loopholes: "but it's not in the list of stuff I can't do!" That means the only defense a player has is their action was not illegal to express under the current listed regulations. However, it's clear the root: willful "antagonization" of the community. Transparency allows players to decide if that is the case. It's looking at the bigger picture to the result not so much the actions themselves.

The best use for geometry ever. It's proven; larger pizzas are a better value.