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@SG said in Space Sim w/Economy:

@Paradox said in Space Sim w/Economy:

So let me ask, what are people really interested in:

1. The time sink of cruising from Point A to Point B to kill time

2. Something to do BESIDES RP that requires some planning/scheming to try to maximize benefits.

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.

The time sink of cruising from A to B is terrible. Space systems where you have to spam your own screen every few seconds are the worst. I think ideally, space would just be a set of rooms that you can move your ship through. Maybe ships have a set number of rooms they can do per fuel tank? I dunno, but I hate most of the space systems out there already that aren't as easy as moving your bit to another room.

On the other hand... I love them. :X

@Sparks said in General Video Game Thread:

@Ghost - D-d-d-danger lurks behind me?

I hear there's a stranger out to find you.

@livia said in Shadows Over Reno (Threeboot?):

Yes, people should come play, I'm there as Lisa the Daeva, and stuff is goin' on.

Yes! Like Baby's First Public Murder!

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

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

Can we please take politics discussion to the politics board? There's a place for it. Thanks!

Real World Peeve: when people put their fingers in their ears and want to ignore discussion about how people put their fingers in their ears to ignore discussions.

Yo, she's right. There's a politics board for a reason. Some of us do want a break from otherwise endless political rants. This is not mod-ask, but ask as someone else who does otherwise get no end to it. I just wanna bang on the proverbial drum somewhere for funsies.

Can we do that? Playtime here and y'all can go and scream about how we're terrible horrible people for wanting a slice of the web that isn't Politics Hour over in the politics board.

The two issues I had with asps:

people who would set a long-term to something utterly unachievable. ('Get the Nobel Peace Prize') and when I would try to explain no, that's not what a long-term is, they'd have a pissy fit and then I'd shrug and be like 'your funeral' and later they'd come back and have a fit because 'omggggg why is everyone else getting long-term asps and I'm nooooooot'. Well buddy I tried to help you.'

And I always felt like there should maybe be a cap on how many you could earn in a week. Because some people do have an easier time coming up with short-terms than others, so it was absolutely skewed towards the guy who could churn out 'smile at pretty girl' 'hi5 someone' 'sway my hips' 'read a newspaper' 'play a video game' and fifty others in the course of one week...

and the people who would go:
'Have coffee with a friend.'
'Get to use one of my powers.'
...and focus on character growth vs 'what two things can I guarantee I will do the next time I RP so I get XP?'

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/06/ea-loot-boxes-actually-surprise-mechanics-that-are-ethical-and-fun/

@cupcake said in Mutant Genesis (X-Men):

@auspice I hope you enjoy her! I'm familiar enough with you to know you won't go for erasure of her Jewish-ness which is pretty much the standard by which I measure Kitty-players.

Nah. Neither erasure nor like THIS IS A FULL ON TROPE GUIZ.
It's just another part of who she is, yo.

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

I mean, while I can see where you're coming from, let's remember two things:
1). You are currently in the Hog Pit. I don't think "having nice things" is a realistic bar in here.

ETA: Sorry, replied before I saw your edit! Good catch, sir, thank you.

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

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

'Get the Nobel Peace Prize'

Why is this a bad long-term Aspiration? You get Beats for it when you work toward it, which is the goal of a long-term Aspiration. That it's not good for a Mush is a different issue.

It's probably not great for a tabletop, but the ST will see this and plan around it. Or not. It's their funeral.

This is one of those: for the fuck of everything theno can you just appreciate that I was trying to come up with something off the top of my head and didn't want to spend half an hour thinking of something you weren't going to nitpick?

clearly you understand the point I was getting at

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

Sarkeesian is a bit of a carpetbagger.

A bit?

It’s sad that anyone can turn Feminism into a business model.

I think someone in that Twitter thread had the right response: it sounds like the freakin' mob.

'What a nice game you have here... be a shame if something happened to it.'
She's gone into the 'protection' business for game companies. It's gross. It reads like she's picking out potentially controversial games and saying 'If you pay me, I won't say bad things about you and your game.'

I will say this was never my experience over on the DC game. Maybe it was overall run by a different person. But I went in not knowing anyone at all and have had a fantastic time and have never felt like I'm hitting any walls or anything. I will say I brought a few people with me and I did come in running plots and scenes, so I may have helped myself out in that regard; I had some built-in RP and I was able to bring RP to myself.

@templari said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):

@auspice This may have made me go head boop my cat.

Every day when I get home from work, my kitty leaps up on the laptop table and meeps at me demanding heat butts and nuzzles.

@Roz said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:

@Sunny said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:

I would play literally any system if it meant I could Old Republic it up I don't even care.

Yeah, I don't really know any of the systems. I just always want an Old Republic game.

because old republic is best republic

@PuppyBreath said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice I'm currently in the middle of no where waiting on my car to be fit to drive. There's nothing around me! I drove with my mom through the nearest town the other day and it was still pretty barren. You're crushing my hopes of having better pickings in Austin, haha.

There's a lot of locations here, but I he algorithm sadly seems to have made most of them fortresses or greenhouses. I'm hoping in an update that gets fixed.

I do know scheduling makes it v. hard sometimes on games.

But for anyone who is a nighttime / evening player... I do run stuff (I'm on a bit of a 'hiatus' right now because school kicked my ass the past few weeks) after about 9pm CST and usually on Mondays/Tuesdays if I run earlier. I've primarily played on the DC side, but as noted earlier in the thread: I just picked up Kitty, but I haven't yet gotten to try to get involved in things.

If you're uncertain, please give the DC side a try! Myself, Hal, and Dinah are all running / wanting to run stuff for people. I know Hal has had a beast of a time getting people to join him when he's running plots and nothing makes me more sad than seeing an ST who can't get people to show up.

@zobi said in Good Music:

I'm on this huge synthwave kick lately and all I want to listen to is Scandroid and Gunship. Okay, there are others but these two are my current must-have's.

Gunship - Tech Noir
Scandroid - Neo-Tokyo

This remix of Scandroid's Aphelion is in my daily mix.

@Roz said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:

@Auspice said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:

@Roz said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:

@Sunny said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:

I would play literally any system if it meant I could Old Republic it up I don't even care.

Yeah, I don't really know any of the systems. I just always want an Old Republic game.

because old republic is best republic

It just seems really ideal for a MU* setting? Just in terms of, like -- you've got some well-defined factions and it bypasses a thing I've heard a lot with people complaining about super limited Force user slots and whatnot. It's a time when Force users are common on both sides, there's a rich dynamic, etc.

That, too. Also means no temptation to use the 'big' FCs for plot purposes (thus creating a fishbowl effect). I just also love the setting of the Old Republic.

@Too-Old-For-This said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain I can't get into it because its not Chrono Cross.

This threw me.
Most people dislike Cross because it's not Trigger!

@kitteh said in Mutant Genesis (X-Men):

So it's probably a bit of everyone needing to be a little more proactive?

Honestly, this is something I hit just about everywhere these days. So many people just sort of... sit on their hands and seem afraid to go out and do much of anything.

It's so so hard to get people to do stuff. Like, I say this as an ST! I can advertise plots and scenes and people just... don't show. I can schedule for times people say are good and then half those people don't show up.

I promise, while in some cases there might be cliques, I talk to a lot of people who are just struggling to find RP and just aren't talking to each other. Person A feels like they're on the outside, but so does Person B, C, and D... and when I ask them all if they've asked for RP, talked to people, etc., it's 'Well, I'm just not sure...' 'I'm scared of saying anything...'

Speak up! Chat! Say hi! Ask for RP! Put up a social event!

I promise. If you feel awks, so do a few other people.

(This advice goes for p much every game out there.)

@bobotron said in RL things I love:

Google Chrome sync. I love having all my stuff sync from my laptop to my tablet to my phone.

No. Shit.
Phone, Laptop, Desktop, Work PC.
Also the 'instances' ('Person' dropdown). I have Work, Personal, and School.

ilu, Chrome.