@arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
"Ugh, that girl is skinny! She needs to eat a sandwich."
There is no way they'd ever say "that girl is overweight, she needs to stop eating sandwiches". What gives?
Not around you. You're a guy.
But trust me: they say this all the time.
@wizz said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:
You guys should be having that conversation once in a blue moon for weird borderline cases, not often enough to dissuade you from taking any action at all.
We have these quite often, actually. Most of the time, it goes sort of like this:
Auspice: I think we have a problem.
Arkandel: I wonder what we can do about that problem?
Ganymede: Crush the problem.
Auspice: We could potentially do X.
Arkandel: What about Y?
Ganymede: Option Z is most appropriate, and it is to crush the problem.
Auspice: If we crush everyone, Gany, we won't have any more membership.
Arkandel: I wonder what having no membership would be like?
Ganymede: Serenity. Peace through tyranny.
Well, sort of, at least. With little less Megatron.
But, we talk. A lot. As of a few months ago, if you saw something it was for a reason.
@faraday said in UX: It's time for The Talk:
In my experience, that is quite simply untrue. Just look at how many players have successfully transitioned over to Arx (using Evennia) or BSGU (using Ares). I've had a bunch of players on Ares who don't even realize they're playing a different game server. They think it's just some kind of customized PennMUSH. It is absolutely possible to preserve 90% of the experience a player is used to while still expanding and simplifying that experience. It's called backwards compatibility and it's really not rocket science.
On most games, I use the same commands:
Desc
Who/Where
Mail
BB
Page
Pose
@emit
That's all. That's why it was pretty easy for me to get used to Evennia or Ares.
I get that some people are turned off by the incongruent command syntaxes between games. Maybe I'm an old fart who's just so used to this sort of gaming that I don't have to spend more than three seconds to figure out how to use basic commands. Or maybe it's because I also read the applicable help files and the wiki, and use the Newbie channel. Sure, I've given up on games because I don't like the system employed -- I'm looking at you, Unisystem -- but I can't say I've ever, ever, ever been turned off because I had to use +mail instead of @mail, no matter how much I may grouse about it.
If you want to do something, put some effort into it. Giving up on a game because it happens to use + or @ prefixes is sort of like refusing to play Final Fantasy XV because of its active combat system. It took me a little while to get used to BSG:U's entire code, but I never bitched or complained or just left because I wasn't immediately immersed in awesome RP.
I think that's the best part of the thing for me: as a single person, I can make a lot of food in an afternoon/evening and have plenty of leftovers. With my fibro and limited free time, that's a bonus.
The best part about being a single person is making whatever fuck kind of food you want, and not have to worry about monkey-shits or a picky partner that don't understand the tender love and care necessary to make Chinese pot-stickers from scratch.
Or a char-siu-inspired roasted pork tenderloin.
Fall-off-the-bone whole roasted chickens in InstantPots.
Because I like to cook.
Not that anyone in this goddamned townhouse seems to give a fuck.
Ingrates.
I respect everyone’s opinion regarding whether we moved too slowly on that thread. From my perspective, I believe Valkyrie kept things as clean as she could, and I believe the civility could have been better from the rest of us.
I’ll try to move faster in the future, but in my defense work is treating me like its bitch.
@faceless said in General Video Game Thread:
I haven't given that one a whirl yet. It looks nice, the aesthetics of the creatures has just never reached out to me, unfortunately.
I suppose it's not for everyone, but taking down a massive robot dinosaur armed with machineguns and lasers is ... well, it is what it is.
@ZombieGenesis said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
I think you are right though, the theme/setting/IP isn't everything. It is something though and can be a huge part of that initial draw. Once you get past that initial draw, however, you do need to have a secure infrastructure in place and a clear idea of what the game is and how to sustain it.
You should probably have a clear idea of what your game is and how to sustain it before you determine the infrastructure, and even begin on putting it together.
I'd love to collaborate with you because I have ideas, but not the time to pull it together. You probably need to find others that you can work with who can pull in some ideas, invest some time, and assist you. It sounds to me that you put your projects together with a small cadre of folks, so maybe you ought to consider reaching out to others.
@darinelle said in Recipes!:
My current partner is of the "what you make is amazing, but also I love Taco Bell" variety so I can never quite trust if he means it or if he's just content to eat so he doesn't die and anything would be fine.
Normally, I would just treat my partner like the kids, and tell her shut the fuck up and eat what I put in front of you because it is going inside of you through one end or the other. But she's smart, has keys to a vehicle, and can drive to Taco Bell herself.
Bitch.
That's okay. I've already applied the ban and I have the evidence I need to confirm the connection.
@testament said in General Video Game Thread:
So I guess there's this new thing where people need something to be angry at in video games ...
No shit, man. This is what I feel like when I hear people's criticism of Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Just fucking play the game and have a good time with it. Fallout 76 may be a shit-show, but as long as you don't hit No Man's Sky's levels of false promises don't hate on folks for enjoying it.
@Jennkryst said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
What they did have were the Aspirations. Like full on 'get XPz for doing the thing' along with the quick squirt of happy brain juice that goes along with that.
Which I admit I maaaay have over-used/abused.
Literally every scene involved fulfilling a short-term aspiration, or work towards fulfilling a long-term aspiration.
This isn't abusing the system.
This is what the system is fucking for. The Aspiration system provides something for your PC to do. It is quite frankly one of the best systems for online play, especially on MU*s that would otherwise be sandboxes. Staff can watch out for over-abuse, but also allow incentives for activity by letting the reins go.
The only thing I liked more was Requiem for Kingsmouth's beat system, but that requires an awful lot of staff-power to maintain.
@dontpanda said in RL Anger:
Taxation is theft in general.
I hear this a lot in Ohio.
I don't even know where to begin as to why this statement is factually, legally, and morally incorrect.
@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
What I want from a story is something done well. Take Star Wars, the original. It was little more but the standard Hero’s Journey, but it was done with passion and consistency and brought a sense of epicness to the table.
Comparing ME:A to Star Wars is a problem.
If we're going to talk about the Hero's Journey, then the Pathfinder's Journey, to me, is far more faithful than what Luke went through. Whereas the journey into the unknown isn't about magic (the force) or some ominous threat, initially (the Reapers), ME:A did bring that out with the Kett and their masters.
Comparing it to DA2 is also problematic, given that they are of different genres entirely (tactical fantasy v. FPS).
Still, like some, I think ME:A got unfairly pooped on. We all expected something grandiose like ME3, I guess, but that, in retrospect, is an unfair comparison. As ME looks like and is a horrible game relative to ME3, the only real comparison that ought to be made is whether ME:A lives up to future games.
For me, I compared ME:A to ME, and found ME:A fully and completely superior in story and play. ME:A is about as close as you can get to an open world ME game, and it delivers to that extent. ME:A gives us functioning vehicles that are gasp actually kind of useful and fun to bump around in. ME:A introduces us to a new kind of threat: an indoctrinating race that seem really close to the servants of the Reapers, and, for all we know, could have the precursors thereto or a splinter-group of Indoctrinated that could bring back the horror of the Reapers in a meaningful way (after all, the game is set way after the events of the first ME trilogy). There is, or was, a lot there to explore.
And then EA shit the bed.
@Jennkryst said in Welcome to the Euphoria!:
Depends on how weird is too weird.
If you know how World of Darkness stats work, then FS3 should be fairly simple to pick up. It's the rest of the code that will shock and amaze you, and make you never want to set foot on an average WoD game ever again.
@quinn said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
A month and a half? Where do you live? Cause dude, where I live it's $3900 a month for the two of them and it's only that cheap because the youngest just got out of the infant room. Still better than the $4500/month we were paying last year, though.
They are not fucking around when they say kids are expensive.
I've got two, and they are $1,200/4 wks. Thankfully, I live in a place where the cost of living is dirt-cheap.
But, I help put my partner through college too. And I have a mortgage. Full-time employment. Can guarantee around $7,000 in health care payments every year too.
I'm a lawyer. I charge $250/hr. on average. I'm still struggling to make ends meet.
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@tempest said in General Video Game Thread:
Those two and 'robot-hunter girl' are my library atm. I haven't tried the hunter girl thing yet. (I always forget the name of that game.) Was only 20$ so grabbed that, tho.
Sounds like Horizon Zero Dawn.
You need to drop what you're doing and play it, if so. That is probably my second favorite game of all time.
