THE LAWYERBOT PRESENTS:
Answers to the "typical" questions:
"Do you think I should lose my job over this?"
"That's up to your employer to figure out, not me."
"Do I need to get a lawyer?"
"That's up to you to figure out, not me."
"The more my name comes up in connection with this incident, the more likely I could lose my job. That's not your problem, per se, but it will have an impact."
"Maybe you should have thought of that before you decided to do what you did."
@faraday said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:
A MUSH needs a critical mass of players to function, because people are turned away when they can't find RP (even bar RP) when they feel like playing. That's why sandboxes often sputter and die.
I concur, but that does not necessarily mean that a game cannot remind players that they can engage and create and that staff will facilitate that.
@kanye-qwest said in General Video Game Thread:
Yeah I really can't handle Japanese RPGs. They were ok when I was 19, but now the only thing I get from them is moments of LOL WTF. The last couple I finished, I couldn't have told you what the 'story' was to save my life. Something something teenagers and crazy hair and memories. The end.
The last one I plowed through was Final Fantasy XV, and it was pretty good. But I hated the catch-breath response to every fucking things, yeesh. It's like all the Japanese people in world are constantly surprised in the silliest way.
@kanye-qwest said in General Video Game Thread:
play valkyria chronicles 4 and just look out for any opportunities to assassinate someone in that game
I assassinate people whenever I get the chance.
I dunno. It's still a Japanese game. I liked Persona 5, but the horrible dialogue set my teeth on edge.
You ought to be angry at being so gosh darn gullible.
... says the token from the party that put forward such stellar candidates as Harriet Miers (withdrawn), Robert Bork (rejected), Harrold Carswell (rejected), and Clement Haynsworth (rejected) in the past 50 years.
Summary:
Miers: Horridly unqualified. Had the good grace to bow out.
Bork: Opposed by the ACLU (like Kavanaugh). Alleged extremist.
Carswell: Alleged racist. Considered "mediocre."
Haynsworth: Allegedly had financial interests in cases he presided over. "Too moderate."
The Republican Party has the worst recruitment team when it comes to finding qualified candidates.
@insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:
I would say Valkyria Chronicles 4. Origins is likely to probably be on sale a little bit around Christmas if you can wait.
I probably should have said "Odyssey," but I'll take everyone's points to heart.
I like VC and its sequels, but Japanese games have the sort of story and dialogue that sets my teeth on edge.
@rdc said in Requiem 2e Bloodlines:
You may have felt that way, but I was running multiple plots a week and constantly had posts up saying: "Hey, I will run stuff for you, hit me up".
I know you were doing this. That doesn't mean I didn't feel like avoiding involvement or digging deep into your Mystery Cults. Maybe I should have done that, maybe not, but that's not really material right now.
I think your takeaways from your first iteration are inaccurate. Your code and your setting were fine, and I fully intend to re-visit when the time comes. I think that MUSHers actually do not want a generic setting, and actually want a specific setting -- like what you had -- that has structure to it.
I understand why you would want to have, and would let, players determine power structures through their PCs; however, as mentioned, players generally eschew PvP situations, which is sort of necessary to have a power structure. I would encourage you to go with an empty power structure, but you might want to court some players that you trust to start one up, just so that you have some assurance that whatever power structure arises is sensible and is watched over by responsible players that won't go out of their way to break the sphere or the rest of the game.
@sunnyj said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:
Players should be expected to craft MOST of their fun on these games, sans-staff.
I concur with you, but, as Auspice points out, this does not seem to match the expectations of a lot of players. I would opine that the Number One reason why games idle into shutdown is because a lot of players are incapable of crafting their own fun without staff.
You and I? We don't count because our RP is on fire. Like, I can't remember any time I've ever RPed with you that didn't end up in our PCs madly dancing with one another in a vicious circle of hatred and sexual tension.
@goldfish said in Calaveras: Adult Fiction Drama MU:
That is something I've never done. How do you even do that? How can you be an asshole AND get people to play with you. (I mean, I've seen it but I can't figure it out.)
Have you played the game The Last of Us? You're the bad guy.
I have kids. They are whiners.
I appreciate that the Millenials you work with aren't whiners. I accept that.
The ones I come across? Are.
So, I'm like:
Regarding education, one cannot persuade another to think critically if the other is unable to be critical of themselves.
@thenomain said in RL Anger:
I think the Millennials where I work are tired of me reminding them to vote.
Tough shit.
You can't whine about your shitty working conditions if you don't at least do something meaningful to change the rules of the game.
Shitheads.
Vote.
You'll feel better.
Specifically, vote for people who don't make excuses for that shit, like you don't make excuses for that shit.
So, crossroads.
Do I pick up Valkyria Chronicles 4?
Or Assassin's Creed: Origins?
Because the partner is going away this weekend, which means it's my time to geek out hard.
@sunnyj said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:
Players should be able and ready to tell those stories by themselves on a MU, or not app a Promethean.
Players should be able and ready to do the same with any World of Darkness splat.
Bad guys would be good.
I play a bad guy.
Well, more a guy that's ambiguously bad. Y'know, good heart, bad deeds ... maybe bad heart, good deeds, I don't know, depends who you ask.
AMBIGUITY.
@kanye-qwest said in How to: make your poses less repetitive:
I mean I don't play much NOW but I sure did. I am very tall.
I wasn't into theatre much when I was younger, but I am now.
I suppose the word "break" more often than not makes me start singing Linkin Park.
@kanye-qwest said in How to: make your poses less repetitive:
It makes me want to run down the court and wait for the pass.
You play basketball?
It makes me want to swing back towards the hash marks on a slant.
@rdc said in Requiem 2e Bloodlines:
I'm super into custom local flavor. That said, unfortunately, most of the local stuff I wrote for NOLA 1 didn't get read by...basically anyone. We had precisely one person not on staff significantly interact with one Mystery Cult, and that was about it. Benefit vs. cost doesn't seem to work out when you try to alter what people expect too radically.
To be honest, when I was playing on NOLA I felt as if staff wasn't running anything. It felt very DIY -- which is fine -- but that turned me away from things like Mystery Cults.
