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@faraday said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Auspice said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Apocalypse settings in general are tough because people gravitate towards making things easy/normal and a lot of people hate playing 'shortage' plots (food shortage, water contamination, illness with no medicine) which are almost necessary to Apocalypse settings.

I see this as being more of an issue than the lack of character death. I think at the end of the day most players don't really want to play the apocalypse. And I don't quite get that, because to me it's like logging onto a Vampire WoD game and being all: "Yeah, I don't want anything to do with Vampires. They're a drag." Like... you're entitled to that opinion, sure, but WTF are you doing there, then?!

The majority of players seem to want to either "fix" the apocalypse (which is okay, to a point, since improving quality of life is a legit plotline, but mostly these folks seem to want the Easy Mode version) or ignore it altogether. Frankly I don't think killing people off is going to help with that fundamental behavior. But if somebody wants to try it - I wish them luck.

I completely agree. I mean, you could definitely have a core group of people who continue to survive....but the rest is necessary.

It reminds me of the first LARP I was ever in. oWoD Werewolf. The cairn was written as an office building in downtown. You introduced yourself with a phone call (instead of the classic howl I mean cmon :P).

It was easy mode. It took away so much of the theme of survival and struggle that I just couldn't take the game seriously at all.

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

Me: Oh wow, Bloodlines 2 is up for preorder everywhere!
GOG: Available March 2020
Me: ... Nevermind.

There are a few things I will pre-order (CP2077 will be one of them to support everyone involved), but with a whole year of lead-time? Yahno.

After Anthem I've decided to reenact my "wait until I know more about what I'm buying policy."

But then again, knowing me, 4 months before Bloodlines 2 comes out I'll squeal like a kid about Masquerade+RPG+maybe nudity and throw money at it.

If you preorder the deluxe one you get a stop sign item.

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

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

@templari We used to have a Chia Head we would wrap and regift to various family members back and forth on whatever the next available gift-giving holiday was as a joke, but then she went and lost it.

In high school, my friends and I had the Birthday Burrito, which was a frozen burrito from a gas station. Until one guy ate it because he was hungry and found it tucked somewhere in his freezer.

There never was another Birthday Burrito.

My father has 5 siblings. For many years, the siblings and their spouses would do a white elephant gift exchange. One year, the black sheep brother, J, gave my mother a fertility statue (this is in a family where everyone, by and far, is very fundamentally religious and far right). To this day no one knows why he did. I don't think even he knew why at the time.

The following year, my mother passed it on to the person whose name she got. And so on. But each year, they'd write a very loving note to go with it (and the notes remained to be a sort of time capsule). One year it got broken and packaged carefully (broken) in a nice box, but with notes intact. It disappeared for a good decade in someone's attic and the year it resurfaced it ended up back in my mother's hands. and so on.

I don't know when or why it finally disappeared, but it was one of the better family traditions while it lasted.

@PuppyBreath said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Auspice Kids don't MU. We can be a super serious 18+ game based on young adult novels. There are no faults in my logic.

Oh. They find MUs. When they get banned on forums meant for the 9-15 range for continually engaging in adult content...... I know for a fact some discovered MUs.

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice Yanno, I'm not so convinced the next Elder Scrolls game is going to be a megahit like Skyrim was. Elder Scrolls has a following, but none of the games exploded the way that Skyrim did. Popular? Yes. MEGApopular? Skyrim was.

Will Elder Scrolls' next major release do as well without fighting dragons and Viking badasses? I guess we're gonna find out one way or another.

Don't you dare hurt me this early in the week.

I recently, at the urging of a friend (who had no one else to discuss it with) began watching Marco Polo on Netflix and goddamn this is some good stuff.

I rarely, rarely find myself so invested in both the protagonist side and antagonist side. I mean, I hate the antagonist (especially now after episode 4), but holy shit is he well-written (which is why I hate him, which showcases just how well-written he is).

And Hundred Eyes is just awesome.

@Runescryer said in A fully OC supers MU:

My only issue with FATE in regards to Supers is the 'wiggle' room. It works fine in a TT setting, where there is a certain amount of trust, familiarity, and an unspoken agreement among the players not to abuse the system. Online, all that mostly goes out the door and players will argue for every scrap of advantage they can get, IMO.

Again, just my feelings. If you have a very dedicated Staff willing to say 'No' to players, it can work. But then you have a whole new set of difficulties with claims of 'a-hole Staff'.

This happens on just about every current superhero game out there, though. They use ‘traits’ systems that can be rather vague and difficult people abuse them to pull the ‘I win’ sort of behavior.

I’ve played on some that were great and where people knew how to play well with one another. I’ve played on others where people.... did not.

But it’s something most comic genre people will be familiar with at least.

@Ghost

JUST BECAUSE YOU MOCKED ME (and because I was on that side of town and have been meaning to)... I went to the discnation store and checked out some disc golf stuff... >.>

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

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

People who are mean, cruel, antagonistic to serving staff at restaurants.

Waiting has been out for 12 years as an example of why you do not fuck with your food servers. They get what they deserve...

I love that movie.

@Atomic said in A fully OC supers MU:

So what a supers MU needs is a system. Something that can basically end a schoolyard shoving match between players. M&M is fine. FATE is fine too, especially since it can get pretty granular where powers and what you do with them are concerned. It's no Champions, but it can be reasonably precise.

I'm thinking I'll go with Ares and FATE, since that seems to be the quickest and best supported way to stand it up right now.

A lot of classic SupersMU players hate systems, just FYI.

I’m fine with either. I’ve done both, I’m cool with both. Systems have their drawbacks also (people need to learn the system, people who wanna game the system, etc...). I know @ZombieGenesis ran into a lot of issues with people who felt their char should be X (notably I recall the Wonder Woman paper who thought she should be as strong as Superman, as fast as the Flash, etc etc etc.... basically made it so ‘if I’m not the best at everything, my character is ruined!’).

So just be ready for situations like that. People are gonna look at the Big Guys and model their sheet after them because of a fear of being ‘not good enough.’

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Jennkryst
Do you use KB&M for Elite Dangerous when you play or do you use a flightstick setup?

And if it is a flightstick set up do you have any good low budget recommendations?

I'm not @Jennkryst, but I found it impossible to play with a KB&M (I know someone who does and I don't get it). I can't afford the HOTAS I want, so I play with an XB1 controller. I find it works pretty well for me at least.

However, combat is still tricky since fewer buttons/toggles, but I use an AI to assist.

https://www.hcsvoicepacks.com/

I have ASTRA and she's lovely. (They have AIs voiced by the likes of Shatner, Nimoy, Michael Dorn.....so so many, take your pick)

There will definitely be more events.

Once I get my brain wrapped around 'pirates' and not 'scifi' (I can come up with like, a dozen scifi plots and one-offs... pirates and magic in the 17th century? That's harder for me) and my RL finishes chilling the fuck out from Hell Month, I'll be running, too.

I also plan to run some long-term plots once I come up with them, with scenes to highlights points in the plots.

And as the bbposts on game say: if you wanna see something in particular, let me know! (Missed out on the chupacabra fight but really wanna fight one? Drop me a line on game and I'll see if we can work out scheduling one you can make it to. :))

I have a fairly flexible schedule, but if people don't speak up, I will be scheduling things when my lazy ass wants to do them. But I really do want to make people happy. You just have to speak up and let me know what you want to see.

@rook said in Good TV:

@auspice
Well with a name like WARNER BROTHERS, no one would have seen THAT coming. AMIRITE?

@RDC said in A fully OC supers MU:

Gotta say, one of the reasons I only play OC-only games is that I definitely DO NOT want to be playing a character and have someone app a canonical love interest and be like: YOU NOW MUST LOVE ME.

I still enjoy Canon chars but yes. This is an issue.

Apped onto a game with a friend once. He apped Nightwing and from day 1 the Starfire was obsessed. (And holy shit the shade I got when it was clear we were apping in together...)

@Derp said in General Video Game Thread:

I want Days Gone, like, right now. Now now.

But I should also finish Resident Evil 2 first.

God. Decisions.

WWZ is top of my list right now.

Sharing the bbpost here. This was not the same person as DownWithOPP.

(Formatting removed because it made things messy:)

Bennett Banned Leviathan
Announcements (1/23) Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:21pm

Bennett has been banned from the game due to breaking the TOS, specifically, for metagaming, for harassing another player, and for not seeing that his behavior was a problem when Staff talked with him about it.

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

This happened today. A good female friend, a self-proclaimed Feminist who loves to go on and on about sexism and inequality, today ends up all depressed because her crush isn't going right. All was fine, we talked about it, until she blurted out that she was tired of waiting.

Me: "Waiting on what?"
Her: "For him to ask me out! I'm starting to think that he doesn't like me!"
Me: "Why haven't you approached him?"
Her: "He's the guy!"
Me: "What does that have to do with anything?"
Her: "What?! What do you mean? It's the man's job to make the first move!"
Me: facepalms "You're serious? That's sexist, don't you think? What happened to equality?"

We talked a little longer, and now I think she has a little better grasp as to why I was so shocked to hear her talk like that.

Almost every single relationship I've ever had, I've initiated.

...I'd like to be the one asked out someday, but come on, Rook's friend!
Make the first move.

I've been told guys find that hot, even!