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@Seamus
Cindy Lauper - Time After Time

@Chime said:

@Catsmeow said:

If you don't log, you get screwed.

Player logs are ultimately meaningless and easily forged. There are various ways to do server-side logging to line checksums or the like, but people either think it's some spy game or too complicated.

But yes-- it's essential to keep your own logs independent of what the server has.

I've never understood the over-reliance on logs-as-proof, myself. It's foolhardy and stupid to think that someone being accused of something bad (if guilty) wouldn't be willing and able to forge or edit some log to further their own goals or whatever.

Oh, boy, where to start?

@Kireek said:

@Coin
Listen man, if it hurts your feelings, that's fine, but Reno has gotten basically a free pass for like 6 months with nary a word said bad about it on WORA and here. It was fortunate, and lucky because no ones been so upset by the game that they have to post something on it. (Which again speaks to how well things went that the game more stagnated than collapsed)

First of all, just because I think your attitude towards this advertisement was counter-productive and made damn sure that you were aware of it doesn't mean that you hurt my feelings. I have no feelings about this one way or another, because other than having a character that I don't play much on Reno, I have no investment. But I could, if I wanted to, and I might, now that there's something to invest in. So the point I was making was that if I had been someone who could be swayed by your comments (it scares me that there might be someone like that, but I have to believe in all possibilities, no matter how remote) I may have decided not to do so and been discouraged by someone who can't actually see positivity.

I got your point, but your issue here is that I'm discouraging people from playing... Nay, I'm just relaying the facts of what happened, if that upsets you.... if facts upset you man, than I can't help you. There were problems, and if they are trying to fix them, great, but its going to require work, a lot of work, a lot of effort to get trust back and it ain't easy. If you want to sugar coat everything man, that's your prerogative, but it ain't mine. If people are going to be buying a used car- they should know things about it. If that's discouraging for people, hey, that just means you have to double down with your effort yah? SHOW that I'm full of shit, instead of complaining that I'm hurting your feelings. The best part? If I'm proven wrong, I'll be right there playing the damn game and being like, THIS PLACE IS GREAT. And hey, the staff will get the smug sanctification from that I expect them to. It's only fair.

Again, it doesn't hurt my feelings or upset me. It calls up the part of me that used to go out and run for student body just so people like you didn't get to run shit in high school, but other than that, it doesn't hurt my feelings; the only one with hurt feelings here is probably you, since you apparently have a chip on your shoulder regarding Reno's activity (despite @tragedyjones being completely forthcoming and honest about its metaplot-lacking sandbox nature from the very start).

I have spent the better part of this month posting here and trying to express my views on what I think could be done to help the MU community. Guess what, being a negative jerk in the face of someone trying to drum up activity for their game doesn't even register as a 'way to help'. You're not doing people a favor when you run your mouth; you're just discouraging them.

I'm aware of what things are like now. I've seen all the staff members in question, and I'm aware of most of the things going on as RDC says its happening. Hey, new WW staffers, great, I've seen them, they've worked on some of my jobs for me, and Reno will be prepared for 2E..

Still doesn't change whats happened and what you have to work from. If they want help doing it, hell, I'll sign up and do whats needed, I've volunteered for things before, worked on things, but it doesn't change the past and what needs to change.

It may not change what has happened, but it sure as hell makes it unnecessary for you to rant about everything that was wrong on the place where they're advertising their changes.

It's also really easy to criticize people when you're not doing shit to help. So let me put this in the most traditional way possible: when people are advertising for their game, if you don't have anything nice to say, I suggest you don't say anything at all.

Go open a thread on the Hog Pit and rail against them all you want; but actually discouraging people in the very same thread they are trying to advertise on is a pretty dick move, dude.

So sorry if that hurts your feelings.

Pleonasm.
Anamnesis.
Deliquesce.

@Seamus
The Knack - My Sharona

re, logging:

If something is happening to you that is important enought hat a log will be needed for verification, do not present a text log--reduce the font size of your MU client, open it up to full screen if you don't have it already, and then proceed to screenshot the entire conversation, with each image having at its top a verifiably identical section as the bottom of the image before it.

Yes, images can be doctored; no, most people won't think to doctor an image, they will think a text log is enough. It's not. As a staffer, if I am presented with screenshots of something and the other party gives me a text log that is different, the text log isn't going to be worth SHIT.

@crusader
This basically just tells me that people like that want to app in with power, not play the game to gain it. So no, those people aren't really going to have the BEST time at a game with NPC powers they need to overcome.

Eldritch.
Shiv.
Sliver.
Saccade.

@Seamus
Pet Shop Boys - My Head Is Spinning

I was gonna do Hump de Bump by RHCP but I don't know if it has to be exact. >.>

@TNP said:

I've been doing this a long, long time and gone through more characters that don't work than those that ever have. I've yet to figure out why one does when five or ten don't.

@Arkandel said:

Has he been in any actual plots? Interesting ones, relevant to the character's nature in any way?

Not yet. And while it might help, the question itself highlights the problem: his nature isn't there. There's no personality, no likes or dislikes, nothing beyond some words on paper that satisfies the demands of CG. It's the difference between having an owner's manual and riding in the car.

It's just really annoying. In the past, I just toss the character and try again till one works in that setting, with those other players, on that particular game. Maybe I should avoid games with sphere caps or at least spheres with caps. Granted, it's a more unique situation when the game is just starting so perhaps the timing is just off for me.

Let me get settled into the game now that it's fully open and I'll see what we can do to help you out. I don't want anyone to feel like they can't get into their character, but the game is new and the first week or two are gonna be a little rough for everyone. Poke me on the game. I'm going to be running some sphere stuff soon that I hope will give peopel reasons to interact and chances to find their characters's voices.

I'm looking forward to a game where the PCs charging head first into the antagonists is probably the worst idea.

@Auspice said in Favorite Words:

@Coin said in Favorite Words:

Eldritch

Along with eldritch, I like ephemeral. The two fit together for me somehow.

I also love words with 'ae.'

Aegis.
Aesthetic.
Vitae.
Aether.
Jaeger.

I like ephemeral but I hate how they used it in nWoD/CofD.

It feels like someone wanted to say ethereal, got it confused with ephemeral, and no one else said anything.

@Auspice
Alanis Morissette - Head Over Feet

I play asshole characters because they're the least effort. >.> <.<

@Olsson Differentiate.

@Ghost

"A person with black skin? Yeah, okay."
"A person who listens to heavy metal? Sure."
"A pair of girls who like to lick each other? Oh, yeeeeeah."
"Two dudes who want to get married? Burn the faggots."

(Feel free to switch this to people who are okay with gays but hate black people, or any other combination. I picked at random.)

Bigotry, as @Runescryer very aptly pointed out above, is twisted and doesn't follow conventional logic.

P.S.

Ether.

@Ninjakitten
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

@arkandel said in PBs You Haven't Had a Chance to Use:

@bobotron What happens if you pick a PB whose actress then has a topless scene six months down the line? Do you need to look different now?

The Alexandra Daddario Effect.

@Ghost said:

Shit, fool, I still might get a Blink tattoo. Morph was funny as hell and I loved seeing Nocturne go to New Excalibur.

Morph got such good arcs in that comic book. Ugh, it was all so good. I stopped reading around New Exiles when Psylocke joined. I love Psylocke, but I felt something had been lost.

@Auspice said in Favorite Words:

@Coin said in Favorite Words:

I like ephemeral but I hate how they used it in nWoD/CofD.
It feels like someone wanted to say ethereal, got it confused with ephemeral, and no one else said anything.

I mean. Their use of 'Auspice' is also weird. I get it ('born under the auspices of...') but I also don't get it because it feels so arbitrary.

Ephemeral literally means "transitory or short-lived". Spirits/Ghosts are... not... that. In fact, they are pretty permanent unless something goes and actively eats/destroys them, which is difficult without very specific tools they literally used a word that means the opposite of the thing.