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The forums are not indicative of the game as a whole. I liken them to WORA; the last vestige of a more negative part of the community that serves the purpose of allowing people to vent out their frustrations.

Here's the version for dummies:

CGen crap -

Basic CGen - Lower starting stats/skills, can be upgraded to regular in-game by writing up a background and public history. Requires no approval. Your first character should be a basic, just to explore the mechanics of the game and see if you like it. Then you should probably ditch this one to make a standard since you'll know more about what you want to play.

Standard CGen - Full starting stats/skills, requires background and at least an attempt at a description for your character. This is what you want to make for your 'first real character'.

Advanced CGen - Full starting stats/skills, but with more advantages to choose from such as 'simulant' or 'mutant' which are advanced roleplay concepts that require a great deal more effort on your part to play. There are benefits to playing these characters but also serious drawbacks. There is no reason to make this your first character.

Min/maxing is encouraged in CGen, however, you get plenty of skill points so you can easily have a number of skills 'soft capped'. Progression in the game is based on who you know/how good your gear is/how much fun you have. Anyone can kill anyone, potentially. I've seen day old characters get in a fight with a 10 year old character and win before. So there's never a need to feel like 'I will never be the biggest badass so why bother?' There's more to do than just fight, anyways.

Tips:

Always take 'Newbie Tutorial Job' advantage. It's free money for those who know the game and a short primer for those who don't.

@fp-list and then @fp <location here> is excellent for those using screen readers who have difficulty traversing a map or newbies just wanting an easier path somewhere.

You can also turn off the fluff descriptions on street rooms. Also good for screen readers. This game is fairly 'sight impaired' friendly.

Treat NPCs as people. Walking around murdering 'mobs' is... well. Allowed. But you're playing a murdering psychopath if you do that.

Remember that 'who' is an IC list. It isn't a list of 'everyone in the city', of course. Imagination the list is fully populated by a bunch of people and these are the ones who stand out. Some are NPCs. Some are PCs.

The game population isn't huge, so the game is best played with idles while in another window when you're not actively doing things and short bursts of activity when you are.

Cybersphere isn't for everyone. Or even for most people, to be honest. But if you enjoy code with your RP then I say go for it. The game allows and even encourages group apps so you can grab your friends and come in as a neat little clique right off the bat. Be a street gang. Circus performers. Wannabe corpies. It's fun to fail together.

That's a pretty lame recruitment post.

Having watched Iron Fist in its entirety twice now, I feel safe in offering the following opinion of the show:

It was the weakest of the set so far, however it is made better by watching it from the start with the viewpoint that the show is about a -VERY BAD- Iron Fist and his bumblings. Danny Rand is not a good Iron Fist. He is not a good person. You are watching a self-centered man child flail his arms and witnessing the damage it causes to those around him.

If you watch it with that perspective in mind the show is actually much, much better. Ward Meacham is the true 'hero' of the story. He has the most growth and best subplot, after all.

Sexism aside, different sexes have different brain chemical shit going on.

And that provides a difference of perspective. I see nothing wrong with wanting to hire a man or a woman specifically.

@Gilette Sounds like you need to just stay out of OOC rooms then. Problem solved.

Thanks for the sentiment but he was murdered when I was 13 or so, which was over 20 years ago.

So anyways! On another topic:

I hate it when employers pass me over for people less qualified after flat out promising me I was next in line for promotion. Repeatedly.

It's my (deceased) father's birthday today. It makes the sting of unfunny jokes worse.

The only bonus is I can tell people 'My dead dad's birthday is today' when they do a lame joke and make them feel awful.

IC examples:

Voodoo magic to disable an opponent so you can murder them off screen.

Holy magic so you can paralyze someone so you can murder them by proxy.

Space lasers.

More space lasers, taking out an entire sphere.

Magic snipers.

...and that's just the ways I've been personally telenuked.

Speaking as someone who has been telenuked many, many times, here is the definitive definition:

Telenuke - An act whereby a character inflicts damage or death on another character through means that do not require the two characters to be in a scene together.

Because you can put 'a' after any string of letters and turn it into a feminine sounding name.

Buttera

Tacoa

Doga

Peanuta

...ad infinitum.

@Goyim Or maybe it was because of foreign influence and a corrupt, outdated electorate system coupled with years of programming from a partisan news network.

But you know, that would be too reasonable. You forgot to add the Illuminati to your post, by the way.

@Reason Floofy elves or floofy MOOs, you mean.

It always means 'the one you put the least points into'.

He has the meaning backwards. Charisma is a dump stat.

@Ganymede Pyramid Scheme - The Game.

Seconded on Rimworld. I play it daily. It's Dwarf Fortress for those of us who need at least rudimentary graphics.

@Bobotron Meetup might be a good alternative?

I just found out the board game night I go to is hosted by a guy who works for Steve Jackson Games. I could ask him about it in person if folks want.

Never go to a psychiatrist. Go to a psychologist. Let a psychologist refer you to a psychiatrist if you need one.

I highly suggest therapy to anyone who can afford it.

Just being able to talk to a professional is fantastic. I am not in a situation where that is financially feasible right now myself, unfortunately.