Posts made by Auspice

@SG said in RL things I love:

I just rolled a 20 and my garlic bread was 90% garlic, 10% bread. Who wants to make out?

I just want the bread.

@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.'

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

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

People who cannot be on time, but will insist that you are.

You could just say "middle management."

...you know, considering that's what my dad is, I think you're on to something there.

RL peeve:
People who cannot be on time, but will insist that you are.

I should have just assumed that my parents would be 45m-hour late meeting me this morning and slept more. But nooooo I believed their continued insistence last night that they wanted to meet at 7.

I’m glad they leave today. It’s been a better trip than I expected (shockingly, I got no mockery for being the liberal one in the family for once), but I am tired and stressed and ready to have a more open schedule.

@Wretched said in Good Music:

Lil Nas X, his new EP 7 is just great. It's like half hop hop and half... 90's alternative, with a couple country songs.

I just like this song.

Tell me this sint some 90's alternative shit.

I've been really digging Lil Nas X, fo sho. Had it playing at work for a bit tonight.

@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 What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:.

I'm gonna say flat out (IMO) that because of this zombie apocalypse themes are simply bad for mushing altogether.

Considering how the game we played a handful of years back went, I gotta agree.

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.

An easy CG and being up front about things being dangerous, high risk of death, etc (then carrying through on that) would help...but right. People aren't a fan of PC death (or even injury: how many PCs on games with combat do we witness getting over a major injury within a couple days?).

In theory I'd love a zombie survival game.

In practice, from the ones I've played, they turn into Homemaker Simulator 3000 where people just wanna RP settling a town and shacking up together.

I feel like zombie games fall into the same category as, say, an Alien game*: they're best as a O/TT with a small group.

*With the new TT coming out, I've been trying to figure out how one would work and still evoke the same imagery and such as the movies.

@crayon I recall one Xanth game. You would get a number, 1-100, that dictated how strong your power could be.

I had more fun with my power 5 char who could breathe candy coating on things (trust me, hilarity) than my power 98 who could heal anything just shy of death.

@Sparks

I do the same thing: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ak4lmrbnx5gbltx/AABqyQI8MjFzEafLHk5m_tY2a?dl=0

I'll check out yours tonight when I won't be scrolling around on a phone.

@Sparks

Today it was my mother texting me (they're in town still, but meeting someone else they know in the area) to ask if I was at a place for lunch because she saw someone who looked exactly like me.

...which really, probably, is what makes it worse. That your own mother couldn't tell it wasn't you. That's just sort of disturbing. And similar maybe to your situation, except you were the 'other' (...which sounds kinda mean when put like that perhaps but at the same time, I find it kind of funny and it's now giving me ideas... like a story from the perspective of the intrusionary 'other' rather than the person being replaced...... DOPPELGANGERS WANNA LIVE, TOO!)

@Sparks said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is part of this month's Humble Bundle. I already have the game, but I say this because it's an amazing game and everyone should play it.

Seconded. It's surprisingly affecting in terms of narrative and execution, plus has really quite good atmospherics; a couple of the screenshots in my wallpapers directory are ones I took in Hellblade using Ansel.

Share these wallpapers plzkthx.

I feel weird whenever someone tells me they've run across someone that looks just like me.

Like, it's sort of an uncanny valley-ish sensation and also I just feel bad for whoever has to live with being this unappealing.

@Roz said in Good TV:

@Auspice You can still watched it subbed on Netflix.

Oh! Good.
I like watching anime subbed for a couple reasons. I like seeing it as-it-was-meant-to-be and it also helps me not completely lose what Japanese I do know (I find whenever I watch an anime subbed, after a few episodes I stop relying on the subs as much. I still need them at times / to supplement, but it's kind of enjoyable to go 'okay I seem to know this language more than I thought I did' ....... also proves that immersion does totally work?)

I've only seen one of the movies and it's been so very long since I watched the series. I might need to check this out.
(Though I only ever watched subs so... it'll be weird for that reason for me)

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is part of this month's Humble Bundle. I already have the game, but I say this because it's an amazing game and everyone should play it.

Aubrey Plaza on Hot Ones

I love her so much.

@Macha

Uh. I'd definitely report it to HR. It's not acceptable by any means because a) sexuality discrimination and b) health (disability) discrimination.

She has no place or right to make comments like that in a professional setting.

Work is busy and strapped for people today and here I am so nauseated I'm afraid I might puke at any minute.I wanna go home but I don't wanna leave them struggling even more.

Thanks migraine! I hate it.

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