@testament said in Why are there so many MUs set in Maine?:
If I ever make a modern game(I doubt I will), I'm going to plant it in Baja, California or somewhere in the middle of New Mexico.
Why? Because it'll allow me abuse one of my favorite words, being 'chupacabra' .
Every time I drive through New Mexico I think how cool it'd be to set a game there.
I don't HAVE any ideas at all to set there, but it'd be a great place for it.
And 272 games total.
I have managed this mostly through Humble Bundles and waiting for free games through Humble and GOG and similar.
@Arkandel - Talked to a buddy of mine that I know has a crazy game collection.
Amount spend: $11.5k
Total games: 2311 games, 1706 DLC.
@gryphter sorry, imperfection is only allowed for the people that aren't you.
There's a special place of suffering for people who set the office thermostat to 77.
77! WHY
My only memory of the time I was in State College (all of a weekend) was getting really high and being introduced to a place that puts stuff like onion rings and fries on its sammiches.
@ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:
It is the thing, and being naïve to the clear and present danger of venting your spleen publicly is no excuse.
There may also be a few other things at work here.
We don't know if she had previous issues within the company directly re: taking criticism. She works in a collaborative environment. If she behaved towards her coworkers as she did towards the Twitter users that responded to her (who was not, btw, a troll in his behaviors: I saw the thread, because it was RT'd on my timeline, before it all blew up), then she needs to learn how to interact in that environment and take criticism.
The user in question did compliment her and was very polite in his approach. I have seen, directly, how these guys approach all devs. Not just female (I've seen examples of 'mansplaining' before and it gets gross. This was not it), but all of them. He was polite. He was trying to engage. This wasn't a random gamer. He's a huge contributor fan-side on ArenaNet. He's had content he inspired in the game. I think the 'Reddit, we are legion hurr hurr' is disingenuous at best and Reddit assholes trying to take credit. The guy in question was probably not involved in that leg of the whole exchange.
She made it about gender, he did not. He never brought up her gender. He never pulled a 'Okay honey...' sort of spiel (which I have seen before). She's the one who brought gender into it. I personally think that if she had not RT'd the exchange with a snipe at him, it would have been fine.
But I think it really goes back to point one: we don't know if she's had other incidents. We don't know if she's had problems at work with taking criticism, too. What if she handles feedback from her coworkers in this same light? If she does, then maybe it is time for her to move on and do something else.
Do I think the gamers/Reddit/4chan at large handled it poorly? Yes.
Do I think she handled it poorly? Yes. She should not have RT'd it with an attack on the Twitter user.
There's a reason a lot of people have their 'I am a <writer/artist/dev> at company' Twitter and then their personal Twitter that doesn't have any mention of said company at all these days and carefully curate the two. She had her Twitter branded. She was posting about her job, ArenaNet, etc. on the main one. It may have been 'her' Twitter, but she was still representing the company while on it and she attacked a fan. Not just 'a fan,' but one who has been one of their community leaders.
@insomniac7809 said in MSB Peeves:
@Thenomain said in MSB Peeves:
I do not understand why people get up in arms about pop/soda/Coke. Except that "Coke" is a proper noun and should not be used as a collective noun.
Now excuse me, my allergies are making me sneeze my head off. Hand me some kleenex while I google a remedy.
Someone who says "pop" sounds like they're going to meet that cute boy/girl from third period at a diner to split a banana sundae in 1956.
Calling it "coke" is dumb because I need to clarify if I actually mean a coke or if I mean something else to get the kind of soda I want. That doesn't apply to "Kleenex" because the only people who have ever or will ever give a shit if their tissues are Kleenex-brand are employed at Kleenex's marketing department, and it doesn't apply to googling things because a) it's a verb, no one calls Bing "a google" and b) obviously I am using Google.
lemme bing that
The office thermostat was set to 78' today. I promptly turned it down to 72'. 
@Arkandel said in DC Game Wanted:
I don't care if it's an LGBTQ issue or anything else; if you play Batman, play him like he is in the comics timeline the game is using. Else play your own character.
No, I don't care if you think he should be driving a yellow Batmobile or wield a katana either.
I feel the same way, but I'll allow for people to be a little flexible or ambiguous if they want. I may cringe, but I'm not gonna stop in and tell them NO. Which is why I get so frustrated when I'm playing a character as-written and someone flips their shit because they TOTES want that char to be <some other way>.
I am personally rather against fanfic of the 'shipping' variety. Seeing an author's characters warped in a way so different than they were written (the 'OMG Name and Name are OTP! Author just wrote them as hating each other because they were scared people wouldn't understand!').
The idea of someone doing that to characters I've written just makes me uncomfortable. Like... how could someone claim to love something I'd written and then fundamentally change it so?
Comic characters, at least, do have a wide range of 'iterations' to choose from, but I think if they've been very clearly hetero or very clearly gay (hello, Northstar)... it's not really quite right to suddenly change them. You've got chars who have been straight in some iterations, gay in others, etc... sure, go for it. But others? Noooot so much.
@sparks said in General Video Game Thread:
So, the Monster Hunter World port for PC is out, and more solid than I expected. Performance is good! Joining up with friends is marginally less obnoxious than it was on the PS4 (but still obnoxious)!
But for whatever reason, Steam will just constantly flash '<name> is now playing....' for it.
I had to finally shut off the notifications. I kept seeing you (and about 4 other friends) pop up on my screen every few seconds and it was driving me mad. 
@surreality said in MSB Peeves:
@Doozer Oh, lord, it so was. "Honey, you're gonna be staying with us for almost a month, and there's two things you should know. First, if you stay longer and it goes over a month, you need to throw in on dishes and laundry. Second, <Coke lecture>."
It that important in Atlanta.
It is the home of the Coca-Cola HQ.
...but also coke is just superior to pepsi in every way.
I got my training on how to close down the office last minute today (rather than next week) since I'm working overtime and here solo.
As the HR guy was leaving:
"Lastly, if you hear something upstairs, it's either a) the ghost, or b) the homeless guy..." as he's running downstairs: "COULD BE EITHER ONE!"
(We work out of an old, three-story house converted into an office.)
And that dual-input, right? That's the main reason I'm bit-chomping. I've been missing my Potato dual-input soooooo bad.
@surreality said in MSB Peeves:
When I am less lazy/the soda stream is charged up I just mix my own with the Monin sugar cane cola syrup. (It makes both taste like asphalt by comparison, but nnngh $$$$.)
Nope, just coffee. Forever. YOU CAN'T TRICK ME.
This yin yoga sounds like just the thing for me. I may try to find some online stuff to follow along to.
...and hope my cats don't get in my way too much.
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Mac Client Recommendations?:
@faraday said in Mac Client Recommendations?:
Most people I know use it to compose a pose while simultaneously carrying on a page or channel convo. I've always been so accustomed to just using the clipboard as a copy/paste buffer that even when I've used Potato on occasion I haven't found myself utilizing the dual-input window. But maybe it's something you get used to over time.
This is primarily what I use it for and I find it a lot more helpful than I did in the beginning. Channel convo I can just let scroll and whatever, but sometimes there are pages I feel like I should respond to right away. I also use it as a quick reference to bbposts or character finger info while writing. Even when I tried to save poses by copy/pasting, if you aren't vigilant about it every time, they're just gone. And recreating poses, much like copy/pasting hyperlinks from SimpleMU because it fucks up links, is a PITA I wasn't entirely aware I hated until I no longer had to deal with it.
Much of this. When I'm running a scene, it's nice to be able to draft and edit and update my poses while also keeping an eye on the scene itself, answering questions, etc.
I lose way too many poses to copying to the clipboard... and then getting distracted just long enough to copy something else.
@ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:
@tempest said in General Video Game Thread:
Those two and 'robot-hunter girl' are my library atm. I haven't tried the hunter girl thing yet. (I always forget the name of that game.) Was only 20$ so grabbed that, tho.
Sounds like Horizon Zero Dawn.
You need to drop what you're doing and play it, if so. That is probably my second favorite game of all time.
This is the other game that I mention when people are all "but why not xbooooooox"
The reasons I need a playstaton:
Horizon Zero Dawn
Last of Us
RDR2
Spiderman
I am jonesin' for that sale to kick off Weds night next week so I can mash the buy button on Walmart's website. I won't get all four at once. I mean, a) moneh, b) I've already got plenty of games. It comes with Spidermens so I'll be set for a while at least and I'm digging on Destiny 2 pretty good right now.
As others have said, thank you for your time in service!
I would like to share for folks that may need it during the transition:
My friend hosts MU*s. Former player. It's $5/mo, first two weeks free for setup time. He'll gladly assist in the process (he knows some codebases better than others, but he's a dev guy so he can quickly learn).
@apu
I am re-adjusting to Wellbutrin after having been off of it for a month due to financial reasons.
Ike has been a very good nurse kitty today, sticking by me and watching over me to make sure I'm okay.
Cats like her are why I get really angry at the people who insist cats 'can't love.'