@JinShei said in Accessibility in gaming:
@Auspice @Ganymede move me again? Forgive me my error, for I have sinned
lol, I mean, it can fit here too! But I more mean there might be threads in the game dev forum that suit this (if you'd been hoping to tie to an existing thread).
(it's also a newer forum so I know it gets missed a lot)
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
Zombie-wise, anyone pick up World War Z? I hear it's the new Left4Dead, and since fuckin Valve is dodging the zombie cash cow and not releasing L4D3...I've been reading reviews and considering.
I haven't bought it yet, but I know people who have.
The main complaints are: getting into multi-player with people is kind of a pain.
You can't change class during multi-player without fully backing out and going into a match again, which is a pain when playing with people.
But that's all pvp complaints. Like the actual missions look to be really smooth and the team is so far on the ball with fixing things as they come up.
Plus oh man the zombie hordes and the way they just fucking flood in. I wanna play so bad.
My job is all email tickets. I've been solely on 'cancellations and refunds' for the product (a streaming service). The rules are: work tickets oldest to newest. Period. Don't cherry pick. Don't skip a ticket that a coworker has worked previously (they might not be working that day, they might be on a special project, etc etc).
Continually, my coworkers have been cherry picking. Even more worryingly, they have been skipping tickets assigned to me. Just the ones assigned to me. I brought this up to my PM* today. I know I'm a team lead, but they still need to be working those tickets.
He gets back to me: 'so they said they've been skipping them because you're very, very good and you have a better rapport with the users than they do.'
So we had to have a chat with the team of hey, that's flattering guys, but
a) I want you guys to have a good rapport, too!
b) I have days off and we really, really don't want customers to ever wait close to 72 hours for a response.
This has also been why my # of tickets handled has been shit because they were basically agreeing with each other 'Auspice will be good at handling this one!' and skipping to 'easier to handle' tickets and leaving all the really angry or 'might possibly be angry' users for me.
So while I'm flattered, I'm also not happy with my team. 
*I brought it up to the PM because I've tried bringing it up to the team myself previously and right now, the bulk of them are in Sacramento while I'm in Austin and 'discussing' things with people via group Skype chat lacks the same impact as his being able to take them aside directly in the Sacramento office.
@popes said in Power Rangers: Power of the Grid:
@gryphter That is a question that I don't have an answer for. I am a code idiot. I will be looking for a coder and stuff. I'm open to suggestions.
Upside to Ares is you don't need a coder.
I've touched code once for my game and that was a tweak that's not needed for most.
I do have a lot of custom CSS, but that's not necessary either if you use one of the pre-built themes for the web portal.
Really, it's just about being able to customize settings and @faraday has tons of documentation on that.
@Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread:
Is WWZ closer to book or movie? Because I have some issues with movie logistics.
It was based on the movie.
I didn't enjoy the movie at all as a movie. In fact, I hated it.
HOWEVER.... as a video game I think the piles-upon-piles-upon-piles of zombies are fucking hilarious when you throw grenades into them.
For those that don't/didn't know, I played Astrid. Feel free to PM me if you want the email address I use for gaming or my Discord.
Maybe it's just from too many years working customer/technical support, but I have this especial dislike for people who end communications/emails with 'God Bless.'
You're spreading god's word with your passive-aggressive email, Sharon!
@Cupcake said in Power Rangers: Power of the Grid:
I might have dreamed of being a Purple Ranger when I was a kid.
I'm not saying I did, but I might have!
I 100% wanted to be the yellow ranger. Best zord.
@Ghost said in Alien RPG coming soon...:
@Auspice said in Alien RPG coming soon...:
You should uh....
....run an OTT.<.<
Only for people who upvote me.
You know I upvote you on the reg bih
I'll be honest, Mighty Morphin' is all I know.
My younger siblings were really into the one where they go into space tho, so I caught glimpses of it.
But MM was my show. 
@Ghost said in Alien RPG coming soon...:
@Auspice hah. I know. Lemme look through the book and see if I'm down for it.
I'm attending/staffing a game convention in July that may need extra GMs, so a few playthroughs OTT to polish the session, before the con might be in order.
I would need beta testers. Beta players? Testers.
I'd be all for it. I'm trying to find ways to budget in pre-ordering this and I can't but oh god I want.
Unfortunately, I'm steadily proving to myself that I am prob. diabetic. 
I feel worse whenever I have sugary things, so.
No cookies for me. I'll just be over here with my snack of pita and hummus. Someone get a box of samoas for me?
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
look I got really frisky with some cardboard last night okay
If it didn't want to be used as it was, it shouldn't have been corrugated.
Well, cardboard isn't always corrugated and corrugated paper isn't always cardboard. But what saosmash and I do in the dark..........
This came up in a talk with someone else: we want something like WNOHGB had. A game where we can fly ships around and work an economy system.
Not a full MUD (tho maybe there's a MUD out there that can scratch the itch), but something akin to, yes, WNOHGB with its trade system.
Considering I haven't heard about any such game in ages...... would there be anyone interested in working on developing one? Or anyone who has the code to one of these games that'd be willing to work on resurfacing it?
@Jennkryst (not the person I was talking to, mind) would probably love you forever if they got to play a space trucker.
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
Man, I played Star Trek Bridge Crew once and loved it; probably a little too much. They let me have the "Captain" role. LOL that was such a bad call to give a RPer like me an authority role. It was like Archer meets full-blown employee review threats and inspirational corporate slogans. So much fun.
I might go the VR rig route but game development hasnt exactly caught up with VR yet, so I'm waiting a little longer to see how it pans out.
So my buddies and I play that sometimes on their streaming nights and that shit gets ridiculous.
I am not a good Captain but I AM good as a pilot.
My most memorable moment was the night I began as a pilot and one of them kept giving me a hard time so we finally switch up the roles and I end up on tactical and he takes up the conn.
...and is just struggling.
Me: NOT SO EASY IS IT?!
Him, small voice: ......no
But yeah, lots of Trek jokes, mockery of each other, etc. abound. I love Bridge Crew. It's up there with my fave thing to play with those guys.
@surreality said in Fear and Loathing (Official Thread):
@miss-demeanor They're actually way better (and cheaper) than the Keebler knockoffs (dunno if those are still made or not), believe it or not.
It's true. They do. But I actually still kind of love the GSC one a little more.
And the Walgreen's version of Tagalogs is pretty good, too!
@darinelle said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My parents are coming to town next week. They are staying in my little one-bedroom apartment with me for a few days.
I am super anxious about this.
Oh. Oh dear. Good luck, and I mean that so sincerely.
Mine have never stayed with me and my father can be a raging dick. He's, a) Mr. Right-Wing Christian Fundie, b) acts like the rules don't apply to him about anything, anywhere, and he's charming and narcissistic enough to get away with it (though the people around him aren't).
My mother is very sweet and I know she's very much looking forward to seeing me. And sometimes visits with them go smoothly, but I'm just very wound up already, though I'm trying so hard not to be.
