Posts made by Ganymede

@goldfish said in Echoes in the Mists - CoD 2e MU:

I won't speak for the staff in charge of the choice to Soft Open. I can speak for the mild clamoring we were all hearing quietly from folks who wanted to play. So, we were mostly ready, so why not open the playground?

Given how the advertisement above makes it clear that players can request changes to their PCs, I don't see how the availability of a wiki disadvantages anyone. As long as you have the books, this shouldn't be a difficult thing to figure out.

Also, given that this is the only multi-sphere CoD game out there, I can understand the interest.

@autumn

Me? I have a version of Harley Quinn I want to break out.

I think I'm ready to hit this when it's open.

I think.

@faraday said in Tools, and not just Beiber.:

I'm not actually opposed to muting the OOC room and forcing people to chat on channels. It's something I've considered anyway for Ares for other reasons (channel abuse tools, engaging people on the web portal, etc.). But I have zero expectation that it will encourage people to RP more. People will RP or they won't.

This is more or less true.

Frankly, though, I concur with @Lisse24 that the proliferation of OOC rooms, in my experience, coincided with the decrease of what I would call "spontaneous IC activity." To be fair, though, I am an almost-unicorn in that: (1) I usually only go online if I reasonably believe I'm able to RP with some activity and energy; and (2) when I'm online, I am almost always IC so that people can bump into me IC.

I'd rather that people think and play like I do, but I understand that my mentality is neither prevailing nor apparently common. Still, I manage to drum up RP by wandering ICly when I am able to.

Recently, not so much.

@arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:

Any non-8 bit inspired RPGs or such games you guys can recommend for the Nintendo Switch?

Valkyria Chronicles is coming out for the Switch.

@gangofdolls said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

I feel kind of weirdly ... punished or something that I can't be online all day.

It's taken you this long? I've been feeling this way for years.

I'm sure the game will open again. If not, so be it. The people I wanted to play with are there, and while I will miss them there will be other stories for other days.

@tempest said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

Is the, uh, ogopogo on staff here the one from Reno 7.0?

That’s “Conversion Software version 7.0.”

@sab

Into the Breach is the devil. It is so fucking addictive and annoying, but so enjoyable.

@bobotron said in General Video Game Thread:

Going to load another stick of RAM in it at least. But I need some additional game suggestions, in addition to some of the ones I've got. Fighters, RPGs, platformers, strategy games... suggestions welcome.

I'm not going to lie; I'm in love with The Banner Saga trilogy.

It doesn't require a high-end computer, but it's slick, sweet, and simple to enjoy.

Except for King Meinolf. Fuck you, King Meinolf, you cheater.

@faraday said in Looking for...:

That's well and good until someone decides to troll Harvey by creating a wiki page for Harvey.

Look, that's just what phouka do, okay?

@scar said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

ETA: Some smalltown job ideas. It's okay to be humble, ya'll are about to be wizards. https://spiritlakemu.com/wiki/job_ideas

Dibs on the lawyer.

@caryatid said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

You can stockpile some energy, I won't be playing a redhead. This time.

THEN WHY WOULD I BOTHER

@caryatid said in Spirit Lake: An Original Modern Fantasy Game:

I'm definitely going to be giving this a try. If anyone wants to be magic buddies, hit me up. I'll be playing the owner/artisan of a touristy botanicals and beauty shop inherited from her mother.

I'll be there.

I'm just so tired all the time.

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

For starters it doesn't matter what shape you're in - unsolicited advice is a no-no. Even at any half-decent gym it never happens; no one should come over while you're working out to give you tips no matter if they're a world-class contender unless you already know them and that's the kind of relationship you have with them... or, I guess, if you're in immediate clear and present danger or something.

I am peeved by folks who be like: "I go to Planet Fitness because I don't get judged there!" The fuck you don't. Gym rats really aren't judging anyone but themselves; at least, the serious ones don't. And the best ones are the ones that wipe their equipment down, and stay off their fucking phones.

@pandora

These are just transparent assholes to me.

@thenomain said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Don't you hate it when this happens to you?!

Fires and dislocated joints are bad.

I just have a wicked case of gastroenteritis.

I've lost weight, but my energy levels are waning. Maybe if I had the extra 20-25 pounds I had last year, I could have that store of energy in my body somewhere.

But, as an upshot, I didn't gain any weight this holiday season.

It's still better than the sprained ankle I had in my sleep last year.

sigh

Welcome to the Carlsberg years.

@jaded said in Good or New Movies Review:

When there was a Transformers movie originally announced the G1 representations are exactly what I had hoped for.

Me too.

But Blitzwing ain't no MiG-25. At least, there ain't no MiG I know flying the USAF insignia.

Looks like they just used a F-4 for the model (Phantom II, based on the way the wing-tips rise).

(Edit to add: I'm not a huge aircraft buff, but I've been through the USAF museum more times than I can count.)