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Okay.
False alarm.
Maybe.

One of the girls I hang out with regularly showed up so if nothing else we can eat and drink and hang out.

Plus the hibiscus cider I got is super tasty.

@Tinuviel said in Looking for a Pennmush coder:

Then that's somehow even creepier.

P. sure it's a fake photo since her 'bio' on the website says she won't give a real one.

Kinda skeevy to cop someone's photo to use for your internet persona.

@eye8urcake said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

@Arkandel So you can ooze your admiration for the guy all over the place unrebuffed in the thread, but I can't chafe at that and rebut? Got it.

A man (and his daughter) died. Some of us are really taken back by it. It's in poor taste (IMO) to sneer about it in a place where people are trying to come to terms with it.

If you wanna speak poorly about him, go do it in RL Anger or the politics board; no one will stop you there. But this thread is for mourning the dead.

@Ghost

@Sunny said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

@ZombieGenesis said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

It's for mourning the dead...except for when it isn't? This is the same forum where, in similar threads, people have posted 'X has died' and it's been followed by a host of "I'm glad he's dead!" posts. I honestly don't care either way but the hypocrisy found in this forum is often hilarious.

There is a point here, folks. Why is this objection not OK and others have been?

tbh, I haven't been cool with it the other times, either, but the other times have been for political deaths (IIRC) and uhhhh...

Frankly, I felt if I'd said 'hey, this feels uncomfortable' over, say, people cheering on a Republican's death, people would've labeled me a white supremacist.

Plz someone play a Giovanni with me.

I mean getting rid of pollution is cool.

But it won't change how, thanks to a childhood battle with pneumonia, I now struggle to breathe if the temperature gets cold fast. Or can require a steroid treatment when I get sick. Or the struggles someone with CF has.

Could help, but we still would like to be able to... I dunno. Feel pretty when we wear masks to breathe better.

@lotherio said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

I hope some of the folks encouraging limits/alterations/fixes of rules are familiar with Rhost (I believe that was indicated earlier as the base code) to help Mr. Johnson make these alterations and changes they may want. He's indicated already its a side project to comply with the interest in just such a Mu from the other thread. I don't know Rhost or have the time to help (or would offer), but I see a lot of suggestions of what to do and only hope folks are recognizing he's indicated a need of code help (which could get the project running sooner).

I've also echoed the call for code help.
I'm actually having to learn Rhost from the server-side as I've never managed Rhost from that end before (most others, yes, but never Rhost!). I could do very, very basic code, but I also don't plan to stick around to staff. I'm just facilitating the setup here. MJ said he would make this happen if he got the DB. I was able to talk to the right people to get it and see it happen.

But yes, if you or someone you know can code in Rhost, please: speak up or email the guy. The upside is this isn't a code-from-start project, but it is a mess so it'd be some work for sure.

For non-code help... MJ will prob. need descers, since the whole grid will need to be overhauled.

He'll need storytellers.

I'm just a server person. I just wanna play this game.

@tek said in The Crafting Thread:

@JinShei all I can see are my mistakes. I made fewer on the first hat. But thank you!

I hate that feeling and know it well. It's something that all makers feel. I have a few stitches on my current piece that are pinching each other and the fabric and I know they will ease out, but I am fighting myself not to rip hours and hours of work out to fix just these 4 stitches.

And I know, when it's done, I will wash and iron it and they will disappear and no one will ever know buuuuuuuuuuut......

I've had my own game idea that required timeskipping... but kind of worse in that it required a majority of the PCs being 'reset' on the timeline. You wouldn't lose XP or anything, but everyone would essentially suffer memory loss.

I've never rolled it out because I know people would hate the relationship 'loss,' but man I think it'd be fun metaplot/story-wise.

I do feel maybe being 100% up front would help. And maybe only doing it once, at the beginning, might soften the blow a bit. Use it as a way to kick off the game and ease in. Then it's only your initial players doing it. It's a hook into the game. It's a bonus! not a detractor.

@Aria said in Good TV:

Please excuse me while I ugly snot-cry at The Good Place finale.

I haven't watched it yet and I don't wanna watch it cause I don't want it to end but I want to watch it because it's The Good Place but....

@seraphim73 said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

@mr-johnson I think that it's totally fair to have a scene with a predetermined ending, so long as a) all of the players know it going into the scene, and b) there are lots and lots of things that provide lots of things to react to (plus time and space to react) and preferrably things to do during the scene.

So if they're at Malachor V, then they could totally be in a fight out at the edge of the system, fighting Mandalorians and kicking butt... they just can't impact the big event that will impact them all at the end of their own boarding action/starfighter combat. Lots for people to do, and they still get to show their characters' reactions to Malachor V "on-screen."

I think it's eminently doable, but I also completely understand where you're coming from.

It's also doable to have X number of smaller battles that players can affect the outcomes of, just not the outcome of the big battle.

Do you get the upper hand over there? Do you get the supplies? Do you overpower the base? etc.

The players could have the small victories that can inform how the next stage moves forward for their world, even if the greater mechanisms behind the scenes are moving differently.

The one example of this (shared acct) that I know in my extended family is my uncle. He made one for him and my aunt to engage with his grandkids and ... well he keeps hoping he'll get great-nieces and nephews but there's me and my siblings (and we're all too fucked up to have healthy relationships sorry uncle Doug) and the next oldest set are still teenagers themselves.

Poor guy went hard at grandad mode. He loves being a grandad. He loves having a huge family.

I don't mind it though. He's actually the best relative I have and the first time I got to see him post-divorce and having him open up to me about HIS divorce (which I HAD NEVER KNOWN ABOUT BEFORE I NEVER KNEW HE HAD A WIFE BEFORE MY AUNT HOORAY FAMILY SECRETS) was probably the thing that set me best on my path to healing. He's the family member who has always been the most uplifting, most vocally proud, so y'know what? Get on with your shared-account-grandad-self.
(Both his daughters live in another state and are big instagram users for posting photos of their kids, so I know that's why he did it.)

@bored said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

And yeah, definitely agree. Railroading on that grand scale is perfectly OK if it's telegraphed.

If you call the event 'The Fall of Malachor V' or 'The Crusaders Last Stand' people are going to know what they're signing up for.

The key thing, of course, is to give people other ways to matter. They can't save the Neo-Crusader movement, they can't win. But they might, for instance, save a single ship that goes on to form a camp-colony which becomes a center for future recruitment and continuity of the Mandalorian culture.

If anything, their adaptability is one of the coolest things about the Mandalorians in the EU. Once you get past the Boba Fett speshul factor of omg we r best bounty hunter, it's a pretty fascinating invented culture, what with its nomadic, species-agnostic, and yet somehow ageless nature.

Exactly this.
People can handle big vast things happening way over there that are predetermined so long as the stuff happening here and now isn't.

"So we know the outcome of this war, but you all get to decide what the outcome of this battle is and it will inform the game moving forward."

I bet you'd get a lot of people signing right the hell up for that.

@Gingerlily said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@Auspice

I also remember that one number someone said to me aloud in person, one someone said on the phone, and another one I copied from somewhere else. It's like I'm the star of my own mystery!

It's really common for me to need to find something and go 'I remember I put it somewhere that made sense at the time.'

I'm moving this to our new Game Design section, because hey!

@Ominous said in Dating in the 2020's:

If I mow the lawn, rake the leaves, clean out the gutters, etc, can we be a polycule?

Yes.
But everyone folds their own laundry. I'll run the laundry, but I ain't folding it.

@faraday said in Genosha (Interest Poll):

@tempest said in Genosha (Interest Poll):

This culture of "OMG INSULTS! INSULT! THAT OFFENDED ME! CENSOR!!!" is not healthy.

Rules of Engagement

I'm keeping this one as a reminder, yes, of the rules of engagement. The post was originally in Ads, but as others pointed out: it didn't belong there. It has been moved. The rules apply going forward.

You have your Hogpit thread now, congratulations.

I have two cats and they have to approve of anyone I date.

Ok. One does. The other is an idiot and would approve of a damp sock if it contained treats.

@faraday

I like personal emits that are very infrequent (we're talking 'you might go an entire day without seeing one') that relate to the state of your PC / their sheet / etc.

But I wholly agree that ambience ones can conflict with the scene at hand. Additionally, you're stuck cleaning Yet Another Thing from your logs and unless they have a tag on them (like '<AEmit>'), they're a PITA to locate in said log to scrub out.