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@wyrdathru said in Development Thread: Sacred Seed:

only drunk contestants will be allowed

Well obviously, that's how you get Ballmer's Peak.

I'd suggest Red Dead or Outer Worlds.

civ 6 is forgettable as Gany said. I own it and 5 and I still default to 5.

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

Geist is so in once it's out that I've thought about adapting it to 2e MYSELF, then decided I'd rather not make more work for myself than necessary. I may not wait for Theno and just force Melpomene to do Geist once it's out, even. Geist is so NOLA it physically hurts me to not have it.

That makes me so happy.
I only got to play Geist for a hot minute on Fallcoast before I just... couldn't play Fallcoast because Fallcoast and there's nowhere else.

I've had SO MANY CONCEPTS for Geist. It seems like every few months I have a new one.

@seraphim73 said in The Football Thread:

@auspice Suck it, Goldilocks. Dirty ass player. Glad to see him clowned.

Cam's response was perfection.

@arkandel said in Midnight MUSH:

@wizz Jira is okay. We're migrating from SalesForce to Jira HelpDesk which is at least an upgrade, too.

Zendesk is still the best.

Jira is fine for bug tracking.

Salesforce for cases is so. goddamn. clunky. I have to use it right now and it drives me insane. No merging. No mass emailing. I can't edit internal notes (accidentally put a note on the wrong case? linked the wrong file? TOO BAD). So many complaints about it.

Like Salesforce you can do so much WHY AREN'T YOUR CASES BETTER?!

(But the worst... the WORST was this one system I had to use that was... I forget the name of it, but it was some smaller company that M$ absorbed and then pretty much immediately decided to retire because they even realized it wasn't even worth the time/effort to try to fix.)

I'm a bad gamer.
The last Final Fantasy that I played (not counting FFXIV) was FFX.

And I've only PLAYED (more than just a brief scratching of the surface) FF7, FFX, and FF Tactics (the GBA one).

jrpgs just, by and far, are not my jam. There's been a couple I really liked (Shadow Hearts for example), but by and far it's a style I just am not into.

@Tinuviel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

Except for those weird Crones.

They need VampChurch the most.

They may need it the most but I'm not dealing with their temper tantrums to force them to it.

They have to come of their own choices.

@tinuviel said in RL things I love:

@derp That's the kind of wealthy I want to be. Wealthy enough to pay someone else to organise my food.

This.

I can't meal plan worth a shit.

I eat the same general things week-to-week.

Those of you who can meal plan? Mad props. Mad, mad props.

@wizz said in Midnight MUSH:

Our president really, REALLY wanted to have proprietary software and birthed this unholy Frankenstein abomination from the scraps of like five other projects.

@saosmash said in General Video Game Thread:

I've been playing The Arcana, which is a mobile game. It's beautifully drawn and has pretty music and a neat story. It's a romance / VN with several unique routes and a story wound up with some neat Tarot mythos. You can pick your gender and pronouns. It's real good. I have been enjoying it enough that I looked up the dev and downloaded their other game also.

I have spent too much money on extra scenes. >.>

I started to play and then stopped because I knew I'd want to spend money and I can't afford to spend money but.

Buuuuuut

It is gorgeous so I recommend that anyone who either has restraint or money play it.

I picked up Ivy. Theme looks interesting and I wanted to play the girl who plays with dead things.

...probably (definitely) inspired by the book series I'm reading rn.

@admiral said in Good or New Movies Review:

https://movieweb.com/rotten-tomatoes-last-jedi-audience-score-fake-news/

It looks like the Rotten Tomatoes reviews for Last Jedi were trollbombed. Huh.

I didn't have time to actually read through them, but I was hella suspicious considering how every other review site out there, people I know, etc. were by and far positive about the movie. I mean yes, some people were lukewarm, some disliked it, etc... but the result did not lend towards the Rotten Tomatoes 'rating.'

That's some kind of bullshit. This is why I only give reviews and such a cursory opinion, tbh. Because of things like that.

@skew said in Mage 2e game - The Golden Road:

@Derp said in Mage 2e game - The Golden Road:

Paradox is meant to be a boogeyman, but it's also meant to be pretty rare...

Is it? It is very difficult to do much anything at low level gnosis/arcana rating without reaching. It becomes nigh impossible to do much of your high level magic without reaching. Unless you're continually casting spells 2+ levels below where you're at, you're risking paradox.

Really, the big things are that Paradox and Essence aren't tracked/enforced so you get people that just roll spells over... and over... until they 'get what they want' in ST'd scenes.

As someone who really likes Mage, those tend to be the two things that irk me the most. I mean, a vampire tracks their BP. But for some reason, I don't see that sort of thing enforced with Mages so you get the ones who just go 'woop, spell failed, okay lemme roll again.' and they just keep doing it until they get their intended result.

So yeah, if you're Reaching and risking Paradox (which a lot of people do so they get them extra dice!), it oughta be tracked. You're doing stuff that is at odds with the universe, forcing it to your will. This isn't the 'disbelief' factor (tho that's fun to play with, too!), but you're fighting the universe itself more or less.

@Admiral said in AI Dungeon:

The game ignores my inputs and seems to be pushing forward a story without anything I say mattering.

It helps to use the /remember command.
'/remember Ral is your friend'
'/remember you are going to the Academy'

It is still an AI and it seems to be using Markov as its basis, so it is imperfect.

The customs seem to be the most fun, IME. I had one go completely off the rails in an absolutely unexpected way and I wish I'd saved it. Like holy crap. It ended on a sort of 'What's happening?' 'It doesn't matter because you're already dead'

DUN DUN DUN

In fact, I think before I go into my Python studies for the day, I'm gonna spin up a story.

Hey! We're nearing the end of 'Season 1' and there's been a lot of big things in the past week or so.

We could absolutely use some NERDS (aka Science characters), particularly: biologists, engineers, and physicists. If this is something that interests you, feel free to stop in and check the place out. http://stargate.aresmush.com.

There is still always room for air force and marine PCs as well as other civilian contractor types. I'm still occasionally running my 'asynchronous portal plots and we have players in the UK and Australia which means there's almost always someone around looking for RP.

To get an idea of what's been going on, I suggest looking at the 'Weekly Updates' board, where @Paradox and I post on a weekly basis (this week's is a day behind since I was sick this past week and he had RL things over the weekend) to keep people in the loop about what's going on IC and OOC.

@sunny

I kind of hate that Facebook check-in thing. When it's been used for massive events like the landslides or hurricanes, when phone lines have been down? Yes, that's good. Those are times when loved ones have been actually well and truly incapable of checking in on the people who matter to them.

But ever since, people have been using it to 'check in' on events that don't matter. Shit, I've seen people 'check in' as safe for disasters in countries they don't even live in.

Llamas gonna drama, yo.

aka developing a sex game in FS3 (sorry @faraday).

This is all likely a lark and I am already developing a game so I doubt I am going to actually 'make this happen,' but I find a lot of enjoyment in theorycrafting. The initial idea for this was born out of bs'ing (and not actually complaining for once in our sorry lives) in the gripes thread. A 'what if' regarding an orgy scene that was not taken seriously. Which would, of course, take likely literal months to play out because of the logistics behind it.

The idea led me to consider: what if that was the entire point behind it? What if you approached it like a gaming session or even story? Develop a system in which each orgy has a different setting (and/or theme) and the goal is to be the last (wo)man standing? Because, you see, I am inspired by the game Kobolds Ate My Baby and this particular orgy would come with death tables. And embarrassment tables.

What's that? You failed a roll? Sorry, but the next time you go to lube up you grab the hot sauce instead.

I envision only 4 attributes (brawn, dexterity, wits, hotness), a v. streamlined action skillset, a heavy reliance on background skills, and RP hooks that read like a Tinder profile.

The only real issue I'm having at this point is: since death is gonna happen a lot (don't worry, the cleaners are discrete), I want a way to track deaths-per-player without requiring people use Ares handles. I feel like this may demand a custom Ares module.

(*This entire thing may be a joke. It may not. I'm kind of enjoying the idea of Orgy on a Cruise Ship followed by Orgy at the Office followed by Orgy at Bingo Night ....)

It got stuck on me being in a dream.
I'd wake up and I'd still be in the dream.
Over and over.
Until it was like you wake up and everything is normal.
You go to work and everything is normal.
It was ..... creepy.

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Rinel There are two religious sects in VtR, the Circle of the Crones (basically every pagan religion banded together to be numerous enough to not burn wholesale for heresy separately) and the Lancea et Sanctum, a splinter of Catholicism that believes Longinus (the dude who stabbed Jesus with a spear) is the vampire antichrist and that all vampires are, by their nature, Damned. It's their job to sin a bunch and to punish mortal sinners and to be an example of what not to do.

Also don't read the in-game book of theirs if you're squeamish about non-consensual sex acts and...basically just everything someone might put into an Aristocrats joke but played straight as if it were the most serious, badass shit ever.

Uh. Are there any ones who aren't, you know... awful?

they're vampires
the whole point is being awful

I mean there's the Ordo Dracul who basically worship Dracula and their whole deal is becoming super badass mutants so they can get to heaven and spit in the face of God

....but they perform mad science experiments on mortals and each other so they can become mutants

I mean they're all vampires.
They're evil.

@sunny said in RL things I love:

@auspice Probably one of the best things about your terrible situation with your commute is that I imagine it is probably a huge help w/ walking back the descent into type 2. I'm really glad you're going to the doctor about it, because knowing where you're at with your numbers and such will be a huge help in 'how much pasta can I keep eating' and such.

Maybe. Except the walking is bad for my hip (arthritis) and sucks on my time (being as it's 2+ hours out of my day) and for my fibro.

Right now I just hate the being thirsty all the goddamn time (I basically have been drinking water non-stop the past two weeks) and I'll really, really miss baking bread if I am. Not so much eating it. Baking it. I love the process.

And no, do not anyone suggest, nope- I am not going to start making some 'cauliflower rice flour' bread bullshit. Nope. Real bread or gtfo.