Posts made by Bobotron

I am glad I read this thread in toto, it helped me put to words some of the stuff I wanted to write about concepts for my game, and some ways to suggest how to approach making those concepts work. You guys are awesome.

My own thoughts about other questionabe personality types? The troll. A character whose sole goal is to foment trouble with no goal other than to foment trouble. They can be fun in doses, but if every interaction is just LOL SO RANDUMB or ESCALATION, it's offputting and makes me not want to RP with you. And this is coming from someone who has played a deliberately troll-y character on a game. But I tempered it with losses, entire serious scenes that were almost mood whiplash, and allowing the people I was trolling to kick the shit out of me.

Hey guys. I'm in the market for a new tablet. I'm looking for something with a minimum of 4GB RAM and Win10, would prefer a 2-in-1 style with detachable keyboard. I've been digging around online and the options are huge and various. Anyone got any that they use/like that they'd suggest? Budget is up to about $300 or so. Need it for light gaming via steam, word processing, web browsing. PDF usage and markup.

@surreality

Oh I feel you. I hope y'all have a great time!

I don't do anything with my blood family (because fuck that dramabomb, it can put MU* dramabomb to shame), but my in-laws are crazy (my fiance of 16+ years is the oldest of 8, all of his sibs are married and there's 13 children of them, plus some cousins and aunts and uncles). And they are avid game players. Card games, board games, all kinds of stuff. Battle of the Sexes (FUN FACT DO NOT PLAY THIS WHEN THE GIRLS IN THE FAMILY HUNT, FISH, AND DO AUTOMOTIVE STUFF AS WELL AS THE GUYS!), Trivial Pursuit, Rook, BUNKO! and Cards Against Humanity are cutthroat. I love it.

@surreality

Sadly a lot of people, as we've discussed ad nauseum, is the MUSH power fantasy thing. Other character tropes I am really tired of is the 'good at everything' person. It's annoying to be talking to someone in RP and them go 'Oh, I know. <blahbityblahbity about topics>' especially with no stats to back it up.

@Kanye-Qwest
Well, that's fine. But a lot of us view a lack of OOC communication and collaboration to be a very bad thing. Like, talking to each other to ensure that there's not OOC animosity is fucking important in these hobbies. There is no tone to text, and sometimes it's more necessary than others. ETA: And I don't mean 'Oh, sorry, my character is just an asshole...' which can be okay if it's done right, but is usually just 'LOL I'm gonna be a shitheel of a human' when done. I mean the whole 'You RP something, someone goes apeshit/gets in a bad place/etc.' over it, and then there's OOC animosity and shit because of that.

@surreality

<sarcasm> BUT HE DESERVED IT! TASTE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE! </sarcasm>

It can be really thematic, and good RP, when a couple of people go overboard. But when the kill squad entirely goes above and beyond, that's just... yeah.

@auspice

I get you. I really want a Switch.

@auspice

PS4 is on sale this weekend, 1TB version for $199 on Amazon.

@ixokai

Honestly, I think it's less 'policing them' and making sure that it's very clear that, if they push and play those things, they may have a harder time of it or less support on the game. On Megaman X and BWTMet, we had a list of banned concepts that people could easily see, and an explanation on restricted stuff that might be problematic to play. It worked out well there (but then, we also had a deeply involved app process, so...)

@Peverel

LONG TIME NO SEE! Hope live has been treating you well!

@faceless

I love those days. And hey, sometimes the Not a Gamer portion of your peeps can give surprisingly awesome insight into it.

Supergirl last night was pretty epic. Good way to introduce/include expanded elements of the Supergirl and Superman mythos. LONG LIVE THE LEGION!

@thebigd

The PennMUSH binaries run really well; I use them to code on my tablet when I'm out and about and not around my laptop, like on lunch at work.

@arkandel
Wonder Woman's sequel is pretty assured; they even got rid of Brett Ratner because of the sexual harassment stuff going on.

@apu

Mostly I was looking at getting that service 'cause of the extra gaming content. VRV, that's the name ofi t.

@apu

I'll have to see what I can find then. A friend of mine has a subscription to... some gaming service that gets him Critical Role (I think) and a bunch of other RPG streaming stuff as well as CrunchyRoll. I'm thinking about adding that to my subscriptions.

@apu

Wait, Joe Manganiello RPGs? Wow. I need to see this.

Finding online resources for recipes. In this case, Korean food...

https://www.youtube.com/user/Maangchi

WELCOME TO MAANGCHI ENJOY YOUR JOURNEY DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE OF DELICIOUSNESS!

@arkandel

I wouldn't call it a derail, not completely anyway. And I agree with your sentiment. I've always worked with small staff in the MUSHes I've run in the past, and the LARPs I've run. I find that it makes it easier for all staffers to run plot if they want, have a consistency to theme and ease of spreading information, and makes it easy to ensure that everyone is on the same page.

And you're so right; I haven't put down to paper everything that's in my head, and there are things that, when I put them down I'm like 'Ugh, why did I write that?' But I'm hoping to have a good layout.

ETA: There's also stuff that can be easily automated on my game that many games don't. XP spends, for example. So it cuts down a lot on the 'need a staffer dedicated to X, Y and Z'. Or I hope it will.

@vorpal

Wasn't there something about him having a moustache during filming and them having to edit it out digitally?

@arkandel

Good to be ambitious

Well, I like to think so. I just don't want to bite off more than I can chew, but even if I get 20-40 people me plus a couple of others can do it.

Too many cooks

True. But right now it's like being just Gordon Ramsay with no kitchen staff, and less cursing sometimes. But yeah, I get you. I prefer smaller staff anyway, more easy to make sure everyone is on the same page and such.