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@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

@Coin said in TS - Danger zone:

@Arkandel said in TS - Danger zone:

@Pandora said in TS - Danger zone:

I can't believe that actually got a response. I win this thread, InB4 @Arkandel shows up and ruins my fun as usual.

I've been here for a while watching you people ruin this classy thread with your memes.

TBF, you started this thread, so it was never gonna be classy.

How dare you suggest TS - Danger zone was not destined for greatness.

I didn't say it wasn't destined for greatness, I said it was never going to be classy.

You're the one equating class with greatness, you bourgeois pig.

@DamnitJim, don't dissect the metaphor.

@Auspice said in Good TV:

@tragedyjones said in Good TV:

@Auspice I saw this last night and had just already assumed it had been renewed ages ago.

With the struggles Netflix has had this year, I'm guessing they're having to hold off a bit longer now on their renewals.

MAYBE IF THEY HADN'T CANCELED SENSE8

[still flipping desks, haven't stopped, won't stop until movie comes out, or there are no desks left to flip]

@surreality said:

Sphere staff unto itself isn't so much a bad thing in that it means there's one person with a final call that is expected to know what the hell they're talking about, and have at least passably reasonable judgment.

That is more necessary than it may sound; even staff teams that get along very well may have vastly different ideas about which direction to go on any given issue -- from a basic 'goddammit OP left this totally nebulous again and left it up to the ST to make a call so we should probably post somewhere how the game handles this scenario for future reference and consistency' (which comes up all the time) to more serious concerns, like 'the sphere is in shambles and everyone hates everybody else in it and nothing is happening and dogs and cats are living together and... and... and... ' final calls on how to handle it -- revamp, scrap, overhaul, close for repairs, etc.

Everybody is going to have a different idea about those things, and while it's great to have a variety of opinions pouring into the idea pot for consideration? It can be argued and voted on until doomsday, which is a common recipe for burnout, frustration, flaring tempers, and hostility in too many cases for it that to be a good thing.

There's a hell of a lot of problems with the sphere staff model -- but not everything about it is a bad idea. 'Everybody does everything' is not the best solution for consistency or all the details working out; considering the density of the source material and all of its quirks, not everyone is going to be as competent at certain tasks. The 'all admins are general admins + there is a sphere expert/authority available/poor son of a bitch stuck standing right where the buck stops' model is considerably better than either, really.

"Everyone does everything" isn't a good model. "Anyone can do anything [if they're knowledgeable about it]" is much, much better.

@Tempest said in Sin City Chronicles:

@Arkandel

The same usual batch of people who make these cookie-cutter multisphere games with approximately 0 effort put into the setting/theme and then abandon them in a matter of months, I'd assume.

Oh wait, I'm probably not allowed to say that around this crowd.

Good luck and all that, but it feels like we see this song and dance from the same people over and over and they always flake out, without fail, then come back 6 months later to "bask in the attention of being the heroes of MUing" again.

Okay guys, wrap it up. There's no point. @Tempest has come to inform us of our flaws and the error of our ways. She and her spotless° record creating, running, hosting, and headstaffing MUs speaks for itself and we should all stop trying because we are the people that, she has made the startingly original observation, have tried and failed before.

Pack it in, let's let someone else try, since as we all know, there is a limit as to how many games can exist and we're just taking up valuable space someone else (like @Tempest!) could be using to generate her own magnificent, original, and most of all enduring, content that will appeal to every single person without regard of their personal preference, due to its implicit perfection.

C'est la vie, mes amis.

° Spotless, of course, either due to its inexistence or a subtlety so profound no one ever fucking noticed.

@Thenomain said in RL things I love:

@Meg is becoming an expert at Dad Jokes.

I worry.

I have a running joke on one of my RL friends who makes dad jokes all the time. My theory is that he's a dad, he just doesn't know it, but the instinct is too strong.

So I have several theories of who has had his child and how they have different facebook accounts to keep it a secret from him.

@Tinuviel said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

@Coin There's a big difference between being upfront and painting it in neon colours on the door, though.

We play in a hobby where people routinely choose not to read news files and, for example, things like Gray Harbor's 'don't you dare spoil Game of Thrones' had to be put in bright red in the connect screen.

So, like, neon colors, please.

Like I willa ccept some sort of plausible uninformed consent if it's in the news files and just not prominently displayed and people chose not to read--but being up front, IMO, requires you make sure the person is listening, not just muttering it and hoping they chose to listen to those words specifically.

It's the difference, IMO, between "honest" and "up front".

@Royal said in Sin City Chronicles:

@surreality Upvoted because horsefuckery.

You and your bestiality.

I suspect the reduced number of episodes and the cutting of filler bullshit is due to them wanting more of their budget for effects (i.e. MOAR DRAGONZ and stuff).

@Ganymede said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

@Coin said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

We play in a hobby where people routinely choose not to read news files and, for example, things like Gray Harbor's 'don't you dare spoil Game of Thrones' had to be put in bright red in the connect screen.

So, like, neon colors, please.

It is never advisable to set policy based on the lowest denominator.

Anecdotally, I am fairly sure that most people expect privacy unless under suspicion. To think otherwise is a combination of naivete and willful ignorance.

Man, I wish those people were the lowest denominator.

@Royal said in Sin City Chronicles:

@Coin Don't you judge me. You 're not my real dad!

By the way, horsefuckery aside, really looking forward to seeing this take off. I'd love a new crack at playing 2E Mage.

You could always help.

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<3ubro.

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Arkandel It's not Black Sails, but I suppose it will do.

<ducks and runs away very fast>

(Sorry, had to. I'm gonna miss the shit out of that show. I hope some day they do something similarish, like a prequel or something. There was brief talk of such a thing, but I don't think it got anywhere. Though three cheers for any series that has a target ending goal and doesn't just putter along past it, and instead ends the way they mean it to, when they mean it to.)

Honestly, I hope they do Treasure Island and bring back the acto for Long-John with a musty fucking grey beard. Since Black Sails is literally a historically-influenced prequel of Treasure Island.

@Bobotron said:

Hopefully related to the future of this topic.

Wish me luck guys. I'm sending in my freelancer stuff this week to OPP, after my friend who writes for them does a first read for me. I'm sending in some 'after the Withering' post-Gehenna setting information for my fluff section, and a combo Discipline for the crunch stuff that I need.

Are you actually freelancing for them or are you submitting something in hopes of..? Either way, good luck.

@Wizz, that person's voice sounds like @EmmahSue's, roflmfao.

Epic story about border crossing and racial profiling. 3-2-1-go:

I lived in the U.S. for a while; about a decade, between my two stays. Like I said before on this thread, I'm Hispanic, but I'm light-skinned compared to a lot of Hispanics, especially Hispanics in San Francisco, California's Mission District, where I lived. I have blue eyes, for fuck's sake.

It was 1994 when my step-dad, Carlos, and his friend, Brad, decided to take me and Brad's son, Alex, on a half-country road-trip from S.F. to Texas by way of the U.S.-Mexico border. The idea was that we'd cross the border a few times in significant spots and generally have a good time.

Carlos had been a nationalized U.S. Citizen for over a decade by then and is also of Italian descent, so fairly pale, but had a tan, and Alex and Brad were born and bred, both Caucasian, but with tans. I was the only one of the quartet that was not a citizen; I was a resident with a green card. I had also just had a monster case of the flu (or something) and had been in bed for two weeks, so I was extra pale when we set off.

We must have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border four times, at least, and I do not exaggerate when I say we got stopped every single time, to have our car searched every single time, and border patrol asked for papers every single time.

And every single time when it came time for me to show my papers, the border guard would take a single look at me, and wave me through.

No, seriously.

I've since had my share of instances where my nationality, my race, my appearance, and my values have caused me to be on the wrong side of the law, acceptance, or both. But I'll never forgt the irony and stupidity of those officers who were so ingrained in their inability to see past what amounted to a tan or lack there of. At ten years old, I was so baffled by the utter stupidity that I never forgot the story.

@Auspice said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

@Ganymede said in The ethics of IC romance, TS, etc:

I mean, my version of Magma on ESH was a hard deviation

To be fair, also: Marvel characters outside the big core 'X-Men' group are easier to 'Year Zero' and just make up your own shit altogether.

In the X-Men: Evolution cartoon, they gender-bent Magma by making her Lance and plunking her in the Brotherhood. Similar character, slightly different powerset, but arguably (IMO I guess) that's exactly where he came from. The 'We need a buddy comedy situ for Pyro....... earth powers would work.... heeeeeeeeeeeey'

Avalanche (and his companionship with Blob and Pyro) is an actual character from the comics, not some replacement for Magma. In fact, in the comics, Pyro and Avalanche are a trio with the Blob, they were in Freedom Force together.

Like, sorry to get all comic book fact-nerdy on you, but uh.

@Tempest said in Sin City Chronicles:

@tragedyjones
It was @Coin wasn't it! He sabotaged our love!

Man, I wish I could take the credit. But no, it was just you being an asshole. Go figure.

@GentlemanJack, my country has the best chorizo and if you are ever here, I will treat you.

@Coin said in Punishments in MU*:

@Seraphim73 said in Punishments in MU*:

@Auspice I could see some people claiming that they're being punished in Chargen by not being allowed that 8th dot of the Awesome skill, when they see that some other characters have it. On a well-run game, those other characters will have more experience/training/etc, and that will have been made clear to the complaining player (along with suggestions on how to explain how the character got their skill that high), but we all know that that won't stop some players from feeling like they're being punished anyhow.

My problem here is that since games have different people doing apps and often don't have a general, well-stated consensus of what makes a good app ont hat game, you end up with one app staffer who approves someone whose concept they like with whatever stats they think are fine while another app staffer doesn't really care about some rando's concept and buckles down on 'you can't have that stat that high'.

That's not even getting into some people getting approved because staff is their friend and "they can be trusted with this".

And further, just as general, unsolicited advice for app staffers out there:

If your reasoning for not allowing someone a stat at a certain level is "it's not supported by your background", and that person adds to the background to support it in their re-app, and it's still not enough, don't just buckle-down and deny it to them when they ask for clarification and maybe an example of what would justify it, because players can't read your mind and know what, in your brain, justifies what, in theirs, is already justified. Communication is key.

If you just sit there and say, "naw, I don't want you to have this but I am going to say it's because your background doesn't support it and then procede to just deny you an example of what would support it", that's lame and you should just say, "I don't want to allow this stat at this level for you, sorry".

The "for you" is key, because you can be sure that someone else has been or will be approved with that same stat that that player wanted at some point.

Stats aren't the be-all, end-all, but the way they are permitted, given access to, and denied, and to whom, with what criteria, etc., does say a lot about the treatment players can expect. I'm never going to not app on a game because they won't let me have a stat at a high level and they did let someone else have it. But it's gonna color my perspective, inevitably.

I'd have legend say that Flash took a ray gun to the chest, but the truth is that either he's trapped/kidnapped, or braaaaainwashed by Ming.

Save the Flash, Save the Universe!

... except when they save him it turns out he's just too fucked up to be of any use. >.>