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@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:

FF: Road Trip got me to tear up at the end. The end story was wonderful.

Well, it was a really pretty game.

@downwithopp said in Dead Celebrities 2018:

David Ogden Stiers, best known as Major Charles Emerson Winchester of MASH, the voice of Cogsworth in 'Beauty and the Beast' and Jamba in 'Lilo & Stitch', bladder cancer - 75.

And the Archdeacon in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Governor Ratcliffe in Pocahontas, and Mr. Maellard on Regular Show.

@chibichibi

May I suggest not requiring Mastery to make new rotes?

I personally never understood that requirement. If magic is individual, why can't an individual who can cast a particular spell figure out how to do it? This is especially true if a mage cannot cast an effect without a rote, which I believe is what you're aiming for.

@Derp said in General Video Game Thread:

I swear I played Greedfall for like three days and was no closer to a plot point than when I started.

Greedfall was what I wanted DA:I to be, except I got DA:I instead.

Get Out.

@Ominous said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

As much as I love the setting for Mass Effect or really any space game, I always worry that the distances involved breaks up the playerbase too much.

Much like Arx, you can base the game in a single location, and have outward missions to other realms as PRPs or staff-run plots. The Citadel would be an ideal place to base the game, but so would Noveria. I think Arx's code-base lends itself just as well to exploring the Heleus Cluster from the Nexus.

The code's got everything I was conceiving of a few years ago, from a clue system to action points, to resource gathering. Adapting it would be a true labor.

@dreampipe said in General Video Game Thread:

Not every mage gets possessed by bad spirits, though. See Anders in Awakening before Justice went full Punisher-mode in DA2. Wynne also has a healing spirit that's keeping her alive and helping the party through the first game.

This is kind of the point with the Circle.

Some Mages don't have much power; some have a lot of power. Some can control themselves; others cannot. Those who get possessed sometimes get possessed by bad spirits and do bad things; others get possessed by good spirits and do good things. Some people who practice blood magic do bad things with it; others do good things. Letting the Circle mages snatch up children sounds horrible, but that's how they can indoctrinate and minimize the possibility of child mages getting possessed.

And it is horrible, but that's part of the entire moral quandary behind the Circle.

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I'm peeved that my laser eye surgery does not mean surgery to get laser eyes like Cyclops.

On the upside, you're not Cyclops.

@Mr-Johnson said in Spitballing for a supers Mush:

Nothing else 'sells' DC only games even with an active Dev team don't sell. Marvel only doesn't sell. The market has shown over and over that people don't REALLY want anything new.

I think the market shows that it's dying because it's the same shit with a different covering.

I really liked 4T, but the game ground down for me because the players, by and large, didn't appear to be doing anything. My time online is too limited to just wait for things to happen. And nothing really did.

@derp

I'd prefer something else.

I read this and it made me think of a lot of people I've met MUSHing over the years.

@Sunny said in Web portals and scenes and grids oh my!:

eta: I honestly do not at all understand the INSISTENCE that a particular tool is good at all the jobs, rather than just the job that it was designed to do. It's NOT good at all the jobs, but it IS good at its job. It's not a criticism to say that you can't use your lawnmower to clean your effing pool!

Look, you clearly haven't tried hard enough with your lawnmower; if you just --

@greenflashlight

I would swap “expecting” with “forcing.”

@auspice said in RL things I love:

Oh, yes, Adam Driver is p. great.

He really does make Logan Lucky a complete movie.

@faraday said in Web portals and scenes and grids oh my!:

I could log into a TinyMUX game and get put off because there's never any RP to be had because everybody's off in their private apartments or RP rooms.

And this also puts me off. It's a problem on World of Darkness games, if you ask me.

@derp said in General Video Game Thread:

That's basically what they're saying. They're saying that CDPR lied to investors about the product they were putting out, resulting in substantial losses.

Good luck proving that a media release is fraudulent.

@auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

I feel like Ehrenreich didn't even try. He's just playing 'random 'cool kid from the wrong side of the tracks' #15.'

I got the complete opposite feel, if I may be honest.

I see it. I hear it. I'm not going to judge based on the trailer, because it seems pretty clear to me that Lando and Chewie are going to steal the movie while I stare longingly at Emilia Clarke.

@cobaltasaurus

goddammit cobie i don't use discord i'm fucking old as shit

@runescryer said in General Video Game Thread:

Just another month or two until the ME Trilogy Remastered for next-gen consoles is released.

My partner's reaction to me buying a next-gen console for the game:

@auspice said in RL things I love:

There have been incredibly clear violations of privacy.

Have there?

We should probably more this to a Politics topic, but, as a short note: (1) you only have a reasonable expectation of privacy as it pertains to government intrusion; (2) to the best of my knowledge there is no federal statute authorizing a private cause of action for intrusion upon seclusion, aka invasion of privacy; (3) not all states have created such a private cause of action by statute or recognized such by common law; and (4), even if all states had done so, the federal government has no business in getting involved with what may be best considered a state-authorized private cause of action.

I understand why we are having the hearings, but don't leap to the conclusion that Facebook has done anything unlawful.