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@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

@Dropbear said in TS - Danger zone:

imagine if in the last 2 minutes a sports event the whole game is decided by who can get the refs off fastest

but only the refs favorites can compete

Is this a TS discussion or a TS pitch.

Fast ball, slow ball,curve ball....

@magee101 said in TS - Danger zone:

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

( @bored was kinda right when he said this feels like I'm running a survey here)

TS with NPCs or during PrPs. Where do you stand on this? What I'm thinking is PrPs involving one ST and one player but y'all might surprise me.

Admittedly only on Shangrila, but I've definitely ran gangbangs for 1-2 players.

That's not a gangbang.

@Scissors said in TS - Danger zone:

@Auspice You pick up your phone, video it and post it on Pornhub, of course!

only if it's bees so PornHub can kick off a new category to donate to bee-related charities.

So here's my issue with the idea of 'Why can't the big influential NPC be influenced?'

We're all biased.
We know we are.

Unless it's purely decided by dice (as I think @bored suggested), then there's going to be cries of favoritism. And likely accurate ones. It's not 'you had the same chance as anyone else!' at all. Brad and Chad both could be flirting with Janet the Primogen but if the Staffer controlling her likes Brad's player and RP better.....well. Too bad so sad.

That's why people prefer it not be done. Plain and simple.
Because staff will RP with the people they enjoy RP with more. They'll give favor to the people they enjoy more. This isn't about TS. It's about bias.

Plenty of us are bold enough to take chances so it's not nyah nyah you're just salty you didn't think of it. It's 'I don't want to lose out on stuff because I'm not the inner circle.'

So sure. Give shit out that way......provided it's based on social influence dice.

I guess maybe PRP needs to be broken down further:

Is the ST Staff or is it just another ST?

If it's Staff, I think there needs to be consideration.
Is the NPC a community NPC (because I sure don't want to step in to run an NPC for a few weeks, or as a new Staffer, and have someone jumping into my PMs asking when we get to TS again)? Is there risk of other duties/players being neglected? ('Hey guys we're gonna handwave the rest of this plot so I can go RP with Bob one-on-one.')

If it's just a player-ST, sure, whatever. If you wanna use your NPCs to TS... go for it?

It's not something that 'does it' for me, personally, but hey. You do you.

@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:

The open world aspect conflicted with the story

This puts into words something I got a strong feel from with Dragon Age, thank you.

People would ask 'Oh did you-'
'No, what are you talking about?'
'When you were in X town, did you <thing>?'
'No? Should I go back an-'
'Oh, no, you had to do it at a very specific time. Oh well, you can do it next time you play. It's pretty much ruined now.'

.......so it's an open-world game where I have to do things in a very linear way to get the full effect. Thanks.
I don't want to play with a walk-through open to get the 'best' effect out of the game. I almost never play games a second time through. I don't have time to play games a second time through.

@Coin said in TS - Danger zone:

@Auspice said in TS - Danger zone:

@WildBaboons said in TS - Danger zone:

(like NPC turns into a millions spiders upon climax or something), just skip to that point

I want that page.

Staffer pages you: NPC takes you to his bedroom while the rest of the group remains at the party. You have a good time, but as NPC climaxes... they turn into millions of spiders that swarm all over you... WHAT DO YOU DO?!'

I'm for it.

Are there any girls in room?

Cuz if there are, I wanna doooooo theeeeeeeeem.

<casts magic missile at the darkness>

@Cupcake
Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man

@WildBaboons said in TS - Danger zone:

(like NPC turns into a millions spiders upon climax or something), just skip to that point

I want that page.

Staffer pages you: NPC takes you to his bedroom while the rest of the group remains at the party. You have a good time, but as NPC climaxes... they turn into millions of spiders that swarm all over you... WHAT DO YOU DO?!'

I'm for it.

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

(@bored was kinda right when he said this feels like I'm running a survey here)

TS with NPCs or during PrPs. Where do you stand on this? What I'm thinking is PrPs involving one ST and one player but y'all might surprise me.

FTB. On both ends.
As a player it'd just feel clinical.
As an ST - I ain't got time for that.

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:

@magee101 said in General Video Game Thread:

The main reason I said 1$ per hour would be good for Outer Worlds is because it is marketed as a open world RPG. It's also why I don't buy games like Last of Us or the Call of Duties, I buy RPG games because I want something that will give me 40-60 if not more hours for that 60 dollar price tag.

To each their own. I suppose your analysis is why I enjoyed any of the Mass Effect games more than Dragon Age: Inquisition.

DA:I was too long for you?

I never made it to Inquisition. Origins was mind-numbingly dull.

Mass Effect forever.

@Ganymede said in TS - Danger zone:

@Auspice said in TS - Danger zone:

Don't ask if your character can kiss mine. Don't wait for her to make the first move. Just do it. If she doesn't want it she'll make it clear.

With most of my PCs, I highly recommend asking first.

The cute ones are the deadly ones.

nope.
surprise makeouts for Gany always.

I quite liked Doctor Sleep. It's a slow burn. More thriller than horror for sure. Nice balance of levity to the story telling (even horror or drama or sad etc should still have its humorous parts). The visuals it had were well done.

I know recreating and recasting every role almost 40 years later is bound to be difficult but I thought they did a great job.

If it's your kind of film? You'll prob enjoy it.

@silverfox said in TS - Danger zone:

@Auspice

I TOTALLY agree with that, personally.

I just also see people here going, "No, I don't enjoy talking OOC about stuff," and I feel like even that request is going to fly in the face of what they want. It feels like then it just... hangs there. Forever. Because you're not comfortable continuing to RP and they're not comfortable working things out OOCly to come to an agreement, then nothing ever gets resolved because neither person is comfortable bending. So I still don't think there's going to be a solid resolution.

I think there's also a middle ground to be had.

I don't always need or want to discuss everything in advance OOC, but I'm fine with a pause to do so in the midst of things if need calls for it.

To me that's the middle ground. The 'Hey can we discuss this one thing' before moving on.

Don't ask if your character can kiss mine. Don't wait for her to make the first move. Just do it. If she doesn't want it she'll make it clear.

@silverfox said in TS - Danger zone:

So I don't think there is ever going to be a resolution for this.

o/~ Communication o/~

'Hey, I'm sorry, but I need to call a pause here so we can hammer some things out.'

If the other party isn't cool with that, they fucking suck.

@AeriaNyx
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Wanderer

@Tyche said in The Football Thread:

That spicy chicken sandwich seems to have a powerful effect:
Man fatally stabbed in fight over Popeyes chicken sandwich in Maryland, police say

As a friend and I discussed earlier today:
no surprise it was in PG Country.
If it'd been Anne Arundel, it'd have been a shooting.

@Macha
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

I don't think 30 hours is short either, but there are people who feel they need upwards of 100 hours of content to be satisfied. But I've never been in the boat of 100% completion that that camp seems to be.