Best posts made by Auspice

Now, mind, while I wouldn't be opposed to helping on such a project... I've already got a pretty full plate with SGM.

I just wanna play space trucker dagummit.

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice Hahaha. I authorized the firing of one torpedo and the dude fired two. It turned into a scolding session that "we are on a FIVE YEAR JOURNEY and only have so many torpedos", and that he would be docked replicator rations until the value of the torpedo was repaid in full. Oh, and that if he went to Federation Human Resources over this as retaliation I'd have Operations airlock him.

Operations Guy: "FUCK YEA, BRO."

Me as Captain: '...look there is a FIRE at your STATION. WHY ARE YOU NOT TAKING CARE OF THAT?! What sort of SAFETY STANDARDS DID THEY EVEN TEACH YOU?!'

@bobotron said in DC : Gods and Monsters MUX:

@auspice

I did my +request. I'm like you, there's some media spinning together in my head (Smallville-inspired teen adventures rather than Superboy; StAS/JL/JLU-inspired 'world of cardboard, constantly suppressing his powers' Superman; everyman Christopher Reeve-inspired Clark Kent angle) since I don't religiously follow comics.

I don't religiously follow them, either. I generally find a character I like and learn a lot about them. And I think a lot of us are like that!

Thus far no one on the game has been a RAR OMG HOW DARE YOU NOT KNOW- etc. type. There's def. people who are savants, but they've been cool/helpful.

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

@auspice tell your mom I said what's up.

I'm sure she'll appreciate that.

@Dropbear said in Space Sim w/Economy:

Age of Alliances space trucker sim has a 24 hour cooldown

one run per 24 hours would get boring quick and may not scratch the itch

oh man no. what if that run takes 20 minutes?! I wanna design a complex route that'll make me profit and take me to ten different stops in 3 hours.

Divinity back on sale for the weekend and my paycheck got fixed (a day's pay + OT was missing originally ) so I'm grabbing it.
Finally.
GDI.

I will fully own up to using some CW influence in my take on Killer Frost, but. I feel like I have good reason.

A) She only really began showing in the comics beyond as a C-String villain that was barely extant last year.
B) It's hard being a villain like that and still RPable other than as a flavor-of-the-week thing for the heroes to fight. By using from the CW show for the 'split personality' aspect, I'm able to have an RPable side to her (and lure some heroic types into the moral quandary down the road of 'oh no, I have to fight my friend?!).

Some of us do consider TV versions to be canon or worthwhile versions to pull ideas from. I still used the comic primarily for her background, but the comic version of her was also two-dimensional 'it was all because men spurned her boo-hoo!!!!' and come on. Super lame. I wanted to do away with that part at least.

Got a bottle of nice beer out of the gift exchange at the office. This abides.

so maybe someone needs to boot up a Trade Wars server.

@Sunny said in General Video Game Thread:

TFW your favorite game publisher has a Steam sale and you cheer only to discover you freaking own everything they made (that's on Steam) already. Siiiiiiiigh. Fine. DON'T take my money.

Your wallet thanks you.

@ghost said in DC : Gods and Monsters MUX:

Bear in mind that taking some of the references from the TV versions of FCs doesn't change the fact that they're FCs.

Old DC? New 52? Rebirth? They're all comics with FCs, but there have been some drastic differences between each iteration.

Marvel has a lot of the same going on. Earth 616, Earth ####, and technically any Sam Jackson Nick Fury isn't 616 Fury but Ultimates Fury.

So, even if a few references from a TV show are taken (which I honestly suggest people do sometimes because it promotes source knowledge with a wider range of audiences, breeds familiarity, etc) they are still FCs.

And with the sheer number of Superman comics over the last 70 years, you have every imaginable iteration of Clark at this point. The aspect of Smallville used (because he used a few bits and parts from various places) made sense for the game's timeline. There may be a comic reference somewhere that works in the same exact way, but as I've said earlier in the thread: this isn't a MU* where you need to be a comic expert.

Key and Peele know about the baby arm holding an apple.

@Ominous said in Space Sim w/Economy:

@Jennkryst

I have avoided most sci-fi MUs, so I am not sure exactly how it works, but, while all of this interests me in the same way as Elite Dangerous and Eve Online do, what does one do while waiting to get from point A to point B? MUs tend to be oriented to RP, so what happens if the person you want to RP with is a few star systems over?

RP?

I want something to do while doing other stuff. >.>

Nothing is more important than Cyberpunk 2077.

It is everything.

It is my lifeblood.

(But this is the cyberpunk writer here talking. I can't help myself.)

@wretched said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:

yeah people can 'use their imagination'

Using your imagination on a text based game.

How novel.

My aunt is on one of her anti-vax tears on Facebook today and I'm in a shit mood, so I'm having a really hard time not replying to her threads with: 'Yeah, on my worse days, I do really wish I'd died of a preventable disease rather than be diagnosed on the autism spectrum. I'm sure <tag my mom> appreciates that you think that, too!'

But I probably shouldn't kick off any family feuds this close to Christmas.

@Paradox said in Space Sim w/Economy:

I guess why I'm asking this, is because if it's #2, you don't really need an 'advanced space system' to accomplish that, you just need a clever mini-game to do it.

So the reason I'm with @Jennkryst on 'both' is a story from WNOHGB.

I had terrible insomnia as a teenager. There wasn't really much RP to be had. That's part of why I got so into the whole trading game.

Now, it did take literal hours on that game to get places. But I decided one day... to start cutting across a sliver of Romulan space. Doing so saved me like, 2 hours. That's a savings on fuel and maximizes profit across the board. Just one little sliver of the RSE. No one noticed. My ship was a blip on someone's radar and it was a ship that could go toe-to-toe with almost anything Starfleet had. (pro tip: always ask staff if you can salvage a random ship you see sitting dead in space in the same spot for a couple weeks straight. It might turn out to be the most powerful fucking non-Starfleet ship on the game.... with a good warp and great cargo capacity to boot.)

Well, one Staffer noticed. They noticed and brought out the NPCs.

On my next trip through that sliver of RSE space, I run into the Romulans. Who, before I can get my shields up, transport me off my ship (leaving my compatriots to wake up in the morning and find it just sort of chillin' right outside the RSE). They haul my PC to jail.

Well, on this game, the rule was: intent doesn't matter. Code does. If your shields are up they'd better be codedly up. And in my case, the next day I'm chatting with my company on channel and discover.......... the Staffer forgot to lock the cell.

My friends goad me on.
'That means it isn't actually locked!'
'Dude you should totally escape.'

So I did.
I ran out of the prison and straight to the spaceport. Grab the first ship I see.
THE PRINCE'S PERSONAL SHIP.

Staffer, by the time I'm taking off, notices.
I get transported off again and this time, the ship is blown up. (All the more crimes to put on her poor head.)

whoops.gif

Tossed back in jail, this time with it locked.
Two weeks pass (so almost 2 months IC in 4:1 time) and the Staffer goes alrighty, so here's what happened: they let you go. But only after embedding a chip in your brain that records everything your character sees and hears. CONGRATS. You're now a spy.
ps if anyone ever digs around in her head the chip comes up as just a weird dream about a polar bear and a fish.

tl;dr
9 times out of 10 I just want the mini game to kill time, but that 1 time can be fucking epic.

I did love me some blitzball.

@surreality said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:

I know this won't be an 80s game. But all of this is why I still want one some day.

I think at the rate we're all going, it'll be an 80s game regardless.

Little miss evangelical classmate has taken on a level of crazy that has pissed me off and is going to lead to me filing a complaint.

After ignoring our rough draft document all weekend for the script (due Tues night) and then today saying she'd 'check in' after bible study, she added a single scene. One not in the outline (and of course, we're not required to stay strictly in the outline, but still: it keeps us all on path).

So a bit of backstory:

o Week 1, we all write our own outline in sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or mystery for a 5-7 page script. Anything we want!
o Week 2, we're put in groups of 6 and we must take our week 1 outlines and craft an outline from them for a 5-7 page script.
o Due to 2 people being delayed and the utter ridiculous nature of the assignment (having had zero structure and such a spread of concepts) we opted for a 'tabletop style' where we each picked one character and figured out reasons for them to all end up in a bar and on the same 'job.'
o So we have a guy from my sci-fi setting (far future), one from a near-future sci-fi, one from a fantasy, and then this chick's "horror" story (female) character. The three guys are hired by a 'Broker' who has intel from the female character. It's jenky, but fine, it works. Gotta fit the assignment, right?

So today, I check in on the rough draft and to add some scenes in, help clean/tighten up in places, offer thoughts, etc. As you do. And there I spot a scene. It's outside the outline, but hey: we expected that. Except this scene has one of the male characters telling this woman's female character: "Shut up, you're just here to look pretty." It's way out of character for the guy. It makes no sense in context. It's just shoved in there. There's no lead up. There's no conclusion for it. It's just a random bit of sexism.

W.
T.
F.

It's written in her color (we're using GDoc and we each have a 'color' to work in, so we know who is commenting/writing what at any given time).

The section is already highlighted and in the GDoc comments, to the right, two of the guys (the group is 4 guys, then me and this other woman) have already WTF'd it too. They had -- carefully -- called it out as being very out of place and that they were not at all comfortable with it, so good for them.

But I am still like: what is wrong with this woman?! (And yes, before anyone tries to question: I did verify via edit history that she wrote it and someone didn't just use her color to fake it being her.) Between her constant passive-aggressive behavior about wanting us to change things based on her religious 'ethics and morals' or her friend in the group (who has still done a grand total of nothing) and now this, I plan to file a complaint.

I can guarantee however that when I clean up and write the final version of the script in Final Draft for upload... that scene ain't gonna be anywhere in it.