Posts made by Auspice

@Miss-Demeanor said in RL Anger:

@Arkandel Since the 13 year old doesn't have a phone right now, he has no account with which to play Pokemon. Hence the threat to give it to him.

@Auspice Look at my post, hun. Second sentence. Both boys are teenagers, and thus do not require parental controlled accounts.

It's been a long week.

I've gotten a couple Squirtles.
One Charmander (in the wild, another in an egg, and then my Starter).

Never seen a Bulbasaur or Pikachu tho.

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

@Miss-Demeanor Although I commend the strategy, don't they have separate accounts with their own Pokemon on each?

Well, considering that PTC (versus Google) accounts, which are required for under-13 are controlled by a parental account?

It belongs to who she says it belongs to.

In my first 'play' of the game (I restarted because I screwed some things up), I left my starter planet asap... because I had the ill luck of being on an extreme planet.

On my second play, the starter planet was just so bereft of minerals and shit that I left. But the 2nd planet? I'm staying there for a while. SO MUCH GOLD AND PLUTONIUM.

@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go:

@Auspice Abra was weird for me. For some reason every time it'd escape and poof after the first catch - I never got a second shot at it.

Then I caught it once, followed by like five more catches within a couple of weeks.

That's emulating the fact that in the Pokemon games, you get one shot at Abra before it runs. In most games, the only way to catch one is to put it to sleep turn 1 and then catch it.

My primary experience with Mages on multi-sphere games are either:
'Let me come in and rule the plot and look how amazing I am.' / (if Staff) 'I am going to flood this +request with so many different ways that I am trying to bend/break the rules and hoping you don't notice so I can solve this plot thing in one fell swoop LIKE A GOD'

or

'IT'S NOT FAIR THAT I CAN'T <insert thing that's rightfully unique to another splat>'

Sure, I've known good Mage players. But so many are just outright dicks that I just don't like it multi-sphere. Tabletop, yeah. Mage-only MU*? Sure. But on multi-sphere... sorry, annoying assholes have ruined it for me.

Finally caught a goddamn Abra.

Almost level 17.

So I kept skipping this thread because 'I don't collect anything'

... but as I'm packing to move, I came across my box with 70+ decks of cards and then remembered the others strewn about.

Oops.

So, yeah. I collect playing cards.

@ThugHeaven said in No Man's Sky Thread:

I must confess with my new monster rig , I am intrigued. It sounds like a souped version of Elite.

Is it on steam?

It is on Steam.

And as someone who has Elite and got angry at trying to play it without a HOTAS... I really like 'piloting' in No Man's Sky.

Well, the other big issue of Mage on MU*s and why they're able to be so 'overpowered'... I have yet to see a multi-sphere place that even takes Paradox into consideration. Or enforces it if they claim to.

So their biggest drawback, on many games, just doesn't even exist.

@Ganymede said in Fanbase entitlement:

@Auspice said in Fanbase entitlement:

But NMS, at its core, advertised as a single-person exploration game. I think a lot of these people saw it as a "replacement" for Star Citizen or EVE. Because for all the people who don't like it (and claim Hello Games lied), I know just as many people like me who got exactly what they wanted.

NMS is exactly what I expected, and exactly what I wanted.

I am very happy I don't have to put up with 13-year-old mongs. Or any other fucking idiots I've bumped into while playing games on the Internet.

I mean, you guys not included. Honest.

(Not all of you, at least.)

Right?
Now, an instanced/server multiplayer, where I could control who I play with? That'd be cool.

But I enjoy that I get to play this massive space game and not constantly be dealing with griefers.

I'm intrigued by the setting... but I have no desire to play Vampire, Werewolf, or Mage right now.

(And I'll admit to being kinda special snowflake in that playing only Mortal PCs bores me to tears)

@Misadventure said in RL Anger:

I am fairly sure there are some comedy specials by women comedians addressing just that topic. Perhaps your teen friend should do some research.

Funny enough (knowing the situation in question), that's what set the whole discussion off. One such video that was done in a tongue-in-cheek fashion (female comedians making the types of comments made about them re: men instead, like 'Can you imagine a male-led comedy?!').

I've followed NMS for a while. Since that first 'trailer,' which I took for what it was: 'Here's what we want to pull off.'

Everyone does it.
I mean, Apple is pulling the 'iPhone 7 Pro' because they couldn't make it what they wanted, so there's just gonna be the 7 and the 7Plus.

How often does a movie trailer match the movie precisely? I mean, I get wanting what the original trailers imply. I remember being somewhat let down by Black & White (I still enjoyed it, mind) because even their 'gameplay' trailers didn't match what there was later.

But NMS, at its core, advertised as a single-person exploration game. I think a lot of these people saw it as a "replacement" for Star Citizen or EVE. Because for all the people who don't like it (and claim Hello Games lied), I know just as many people like me who got exactly what they wanted.

I just amused myself for about 15 minutes by plotting out how I'd use FS3 for a Pern game.

And I had giggles over the vehicle code being 'dragons' instead.

@Insomnia said in Fanbase entitlement:

A quick Google search...

Only reference to Star Citizen in there was someone asking why the backlash on NMS when there'd been no updates to SC for a while.

Still not a death threat. More of a 'Why are people so broken up about a 1 month delay on No Man's Sky when Star Citizen has languished for so long?'

Oh wait. There's this: http://mmofallout.com/derek-smart-indie-devs-and-death-threats/
A guy who criticized Star Citizen received a death threat for speaking out against the game/dev.
Facepalming over here.

@Insomnia said in Fanbase entitlement:

@Auspice OTOH, Star Citizen.

Well. I haven't seen anyone issue death threats over SC yet.

I'm restarting.

I screwed some stuff up.
And then I screwed up majorly today.

SO.
Starting over. Wiser.

Got the apartment.

...now I just gotta find someone who can lend me some money for just-shy of a month. 'Cause the move date is right before I get paid. Derp.

@Insomnia said in RL things I love:

Bra company CEO makes his male workers wear weights around their necks one day a year so they can know what it's like to have E cup breasts.

As a bearer of HH-cups, I highly approve.