@JinShei said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I had a nightmare that @Ganymede logged into my game to tell me my family house was too powerful.
I was contemplating joining Arx in the new year.
You may want to check with Dr. Venkman regarding your precognitive powers.
@Testament said in The Haul:
Excuse me. What is this fuckery, changing one of the Dinobots names.
My understanding is that term "slag" means something awful in British slang, but you may want to check with our resident Brits about that.
@surreality said in Model Policies?:
Culture varies from game to game.
Being able to explain the cultural differences between games is largely an exercise in futility, if we presume that people can have their own understanding of what "being excellent" means even on the same game.
I appreciate players who want guidelines to follow so that they can avoid "trouble," but having an online social faux-pas might as well be added to "death" and "taxes" as an inevitability we all need to be gracious about.
Knowing that everyone is going to make a mistake about something largely means that the overseers of games should act thoughtfully and maturely when confronting a situation. This goes back to what I said about the quality of staff as opposed to the quality of policies. Staffers who are dogmatic and policy-driven have, and will, let egregious things happen because "they were not against the rules." Anecdotally, this happens more often in my experience than incidences of staffers taking harsh, egregious action against a player for something that isn't contrary to some unwritten set of mores that persist across games, which may euphemistically be called "common sense."
I think we all know people here which we trust implicitly and are well-regarded based on their online persona. Most, if not all of us, would play on a game run by Faraday, for example, even if her conduct policy read something like: THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES. And when Admiral, in some other thread, asked who was running a new game, I found this to be the best question a player can ask.
Nothing is magically intuitive, yes, but policies aren't the only or best solution. I think the best solution is to recognize that a player making a faux-pas is a person, that people make mistakes, but that there are certain mistakes that breach common sense and that these mistakes cannot be condoned if you want a player population to remain. And the best way to communicate this sort of policy is to tell players: we will do what we believe to be fair and consistent to the best of our ability to provide a welcoming player community.
Santa brought my children the following:
For the boy:
For the girl:
Also, I gots The Outer Worlds and Jedi Fallen Order.
I mean, seriously, if y'all can't appreciate that haul, yo --
@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
two thirds of the yearly CLEs in two days!
I take roughly 24 CLEs per year.
I like them.
Plus, yeah, if I want to be a specialist --
@eye8urcake said in Model Policies?:
I disagree with this statement in that I believe the only way you can really quantify the performance of staff is by whether/how policies are implemented.
While I cannot argue against your beliefs, I will again restate my opinion that all policies are inherently arbitrary and that the quality of staff's performance is more dependent on the quality of staff than the quantity or quality of the policies they devise or implement.
This is why I continue to believe in the value of this forum where, constructively or not, we are all open to being vilified as deserved.
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
I am stupid, but not so stupid I can't tell the difference between words and deeds, and it bothers me Disney thinks they can trick me into giving them money for saying they're doing things they aren't doing.
The only reasonable conclusion to suit your position is that you believe a production company should either have complete, unabashed representation or none at all. And I don't think that's a reasonable position to take.
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
I mostly like this movie, a few nitpicks with pacing aside, but nah, it can fuck off with the queerbait.
Can you tell me what so offends you about queer bait?
I’m an old hat at life and I’m curious.
Counterpoint: you reap what you sow.
When the Kindle came out, Amazon put the screws to the publishers. They fell in line as big box bookstores started to die out. That Apple put the screws in a similar way does not make me cry for them in the slightest.
Have I stopped buying Apple shit? Yes. But let’s not pick on this little corporate skirmish as the best reason to do so. Amazon started the fire, and Apple adapted to it.
I’m really enjoying The Outer Worlds. The dialogue is witty; the gear system is crunchy but not too crunchy; and the skill and perk system is simple to understand and play with. As a casual gamer, this fits right into how I like my gaming experiences.
Would be nice to know how and if there will be DLC.
I enjoyed Spies in Disguise. Fun, postmodern critique of boomer philosophies.
I think that one reaches the zenith of honesty when the audience gleefully accepts the cruelty you heap upon it.
Frankly, I would let anything be said on the public channel. It’s good way to figure out who the civil people are.
I don’t need to have a policy to remove someone. If it’s my game, I will do as I will. People can come and go as they please, but if they are here they are subject to my whims alone.
This is the only honest ethical thing to announce. We all play on these games at the behest of the host. Any attempt to bind that host’s authority is impolite at best.
I opted for ‘19.
Always take advantage of speed. Don’t check against players; there are so many ways to get around you. Instead, tie up players in the slot on defense when you can.
Overload is your best bet for your forwards. Keep your defense staggered and conservative, and they will cover the edges in the offensive zone. My passing isn’t always clean, but it keeps player defenses honest. When you are on defense, pull your controlled player back into the slot so that you have three people there.
Finished The Witcher.
I really liked it. I needed something a little different than the usual. My partner even got into it. What they did with Yennefer was fantastic, and while there was some holes in logic I could forgive lapses with the overall aims of her storyline.
I think it really captured what gamers came to expect from the series: a lot of side-quests; a funny bard; copious but not overwhelming nudity; and violence. I could have done with some more monster-killing, but that's not really what the books were about.
I'm looking forward to next season, definitely. Especially knowing that most of the scripts and direction will come from women.
@Derp said in Good or New Movies Review:
We've known that the force can heal people and stave off death for like a decade now. Wtf do you think Anakin was even trying to learn?
How to kill children?
You think Lundquist is the worst? Try Price or Rinne.
NHL '18 isn't my favorite, but it's not that much different than '17. I find a great deal of success moving up the boards and cycling on Overload behind the net. Sticking two people in front of the net has the effect of also screening the goaltender, so I usually combat this by sliding my defenseman into the slot and wristing it up into one corner or the other.
Assuming he was setting up a traditional defense, this will force the forwards from the blue line down. You can outlet pass to the strong side, and have a forward slide up behind your piercing defenseman while the defending forward pinches down and one of the two "blockers" moves up to check your piercing defenseman. With the goalie in the butterfly, you can then pass to the opposite defenseman or across the high slot to another forward.
Bam, one-timer.
I like to confuse human opponents by sliding up the boards and around the back of the net. On Overload, your other forwards will trail behind, so you can pass backwards to them (don't drop pass, ever). If the defending forwards are chasing, poke checks are more likely to create tripping penalties (which is very much the case in NHL '19). Once your opponent is a man-down, you have the advantage.
We should play online.
I don't always brag, but I usually run up the score to about 20-0 before letting the AI take over and re-enter the franchise mode.
Tips:
If there's one thing I love, it's EA's NHL series.
