Posts made by Coin

@HelloRaptor said:

I'm more than a little weirded out by the fact you seem to think that softcore pics of a sexual PC are ok if the player is going to engage in TS, but not if they aren't.

Srsly.

@JaySherman said:

They want to be pretty and have everyone love them but TS is icky and gross.

I find that if you really don't want to be propositioned for TS, there are better PB avatar images.

I know you're kidding (I hope you're kidding) but this is a sentiment that people actually show in all seriousness, and it's stupid.

@Tempest
And yet, there's really no reason to equate sexuality and the portrayal of someone sexual with their chosen profession.

Do we really think snipe-slash-car-mechanic chick can't be a sexual being?

And if this isn't what was meant, then maybe a rephrasing or clarification is in order.

@JaySherman
That's the general consensus, yeah.

@Arkandel said:

I suppose the idea is that the character is hypersexualized but their player doesn't want to TS. I mean you're right, it's a bit weird, but it's not incomprehensible. Also, some people who proclaim they never TS don't really mean never.

Sometimes "never" just means "don't proposition me". Like people who "never sleep with someone on a first date" but then they do because the person was just that charming.

My own question is why people who don't play sexual concepts have bikini-clad models as their PBs. If you're playing a tough sniper-slash-car-mechanic chick then what's with the boobs?

... what? This is dumb. I can't even begin to answer this without being flabbergasted.

@JaySherman, I believe the wiki was hosted on the same server as WORA itself, so the likelihood of it being salvageable is low.

"It hurts no one" is not a reason to not do something,

This sentence hurts my English Teaching heart.

@Derp

I would actually really like it if we could tag NSFW pages with a Category:NSFW and it would make anyone going to one of those have to go through a filter page that says, 'are you sure you want to see something NSFW?'

That would be ballz. Especially if you could opt out.

@Silver DIAF.

@Silver, I wouldn't invite you because you're a horrible person and I hate you, as has been previously declared elsethread.

It would need to be a small game.

Another idea I had was for a comic book MU that did the same thing.

e.g. Start with Year One. Superman. Wonder Woman. Batman. Hal Jordan. Barry Allen. Etc. Start them young; mid twenties.

Play for six months to a year.

Skip ahead three to five years:

e.g. Superman (now with Supergirl). Wonder Woman (now with Wonder Girl). Batman (Dick is Robin), Hal Jordan's been gone a bit from Earth, John Stewart (or Guy Gardner) is the Green Lantern of the sector. Wally West is Kid Flash. End it with something important, Doomsday, Knightfall, etc. (maybe not specifically these, but that sort of thing).

Play for six months to a year.

Skip ahead three to five years: Superman has been cloned (Superboy is running around), Wonder Girl is Cassie Sandsmark now, and Jason Todd is either Robin or has become the Red Hood and Tim Drake is Robin--Teen Titans are an established thing...

You see where I'm going. And that's just DC examples.

e.g. Superman

@Sponge said:

Had an idea, I'm not going to execute on it.

Vampire game set in 1920. It runs for a year then goes to soft RP for two weeks to retool.

After the retooling, the year is 1930. The game runs for a year, then goes to soft RP for two weeks to retool...

I've had this idea before, but the transition was a lot longer. You pick an Ancient time. Maybe Rome. Play for a year. Then you transition over to the Middle Ages. Then to the time of the Inquisition. Renaissance. Victorian Era/Wild West. 1920s. 1960s. Today... the FUTURE.

@Eerie, our love is a pragmatic love.

Also, if you want more players from a different pool, finish your game, make sure it's stable, and then advertise. Put up an advert here, on other games. Trust your game.

@Derp said:

@Coin said:

@Derp Host it.

I lack any knowledge of how to do this thing.

Learn.

Alternatively, furiously TS someone who knows how.

@Arkandel said:

@Coin said:

@Arkandel said:

@Thenomain Do you think the game's ready for the opening day? In terms of CGen, handling XP spends, etc?

... cries laughing ...

... then laughs crying ...

Ah, the joys of staffing. Are you enjoying your power and authority yet?!

Gimme two weeks. I'll let you know after I've murdered your PC and used his entrails to fuel my metaplot.

@Arkandel said:

@Thenomain Do you think the game's ready for the opening day? In terms of CGen, handling XP spends, etc?

... cries laughing ...

... then laughs crying ...

@Arkandel said:

@Coin Yeah, I'm not happy with my commute at all. At least in the spring+summer I can make better use of it by cycling when it's not rainy but once it's cold enough it's dead time stuck in the subway and buses for two hours a day - that's a huge waste of time, even if it at least means I can read books to make some use of it. On the other hand the neighborhood where I live is pretty nice and quite safe, otherwise it wouldn't have been an issue at all to move somewhere closer to my job.

I get carsick sometimes if I'm reading while on a bus/subway/car/whatever, but sometimes not. It's weird. It's good you can make use of the time.

I am dreading the cold months, but I will just man up and get some gloves and a warm jacket. And I guess take the subway/bus when it rains. But the cold really shouldn't stop me.

@Arkandel said:

@SG Thanks for the input, that really helps. I'll be using it mostly for my commute (~15km each way) on city roads - some of them are bumpy and some are uphill but nothing extreme. The insight on the disc brakes is useful! I was thinking of a road bike or a hybrid, there's no point in anything else. As for gears... I barely shift on my existent bike - I go between 3-7 based on the road and that's about it.

That's a pretty long commute on a bike. Mine will be about half that when the office moves. But I guess it feels really long because right now I live six blocks away from work and the change to living seven kilometers away will be pretty huge.

@Bobotron Fuck. Yes.