@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.
@thatguythere said in Player buy-in:
I think the most important thing is to be a specific as possible, Post-Apocalyptic can mean a lot of things.
I agree. This is one of the best ways to get buy-in, and is why World of Darkness games of all stripes have an easy buy-in. Games with original settings have it a bit harder because they don't have tomes of fluff developed by committees to fall back on to answer the age-old questions, such as "can vampires have sex?" and other bullshit that players get caught up in.
@arkandel said in Player buy-in:
Either way that may still not be the game you wanted to run, or the things you hoped your players want to be doing. Maybe you hoped they'd turn a suspicious eye on each other, wondering who'll steal their supplies, develop tightly knit groups stealing resources from other groups... and instead you have folks running a bar.
I see this as malicious.
For me, malice is more than just ill-will, and includes a blatant disregard for others. In this case, you're describing a blatant disregard for the vision of staff and a clear description of the setting. Part of the concept of buy-in is accepting that vision and setting, and where elements are not so clear it is reasonable to expect someone to ask for clarification or permission to make an element their own.
@magee101 said in Development Thread: Sacred Seed:
ETA: I was not trying to be mean to Cobalt, what I saw was her saying I am getting overwhelmed in creation and work with this project, which is what she said about the last game she just closed and so I was just trying to be like "Welp, maybe you should look at not doing this for a minute." I think it is more important to look at the reality of a project or projects, what it will accomplish out of doing it or only partially doing it vs. The cost it takes to get there. If the process is becoming overwhelming to the point it is happening on more than one project maybe you need to look at going about it a different way or doing a different type of project. I am in no way trying to shit on Cobalt's parade, I am just trying to be the cold bucket of water after a weekend bender.
This is not positive feedback, and I'm not in the mood to argue about it.
I'm not complaining about the positive feedback and vibes. I'd like to encourage that. It's the negative feedback and comments directed at the same.
It's also just a gentle reminder as to the purpose of this board.
My opinion: positive feedback is great; calling out fellow members for past behavior, true, false, bad, or good, is not conducive to the purpose of this board.
Let's get back to the game development discussions, please.
@admiral said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Looking at tour dates. Puddles Pity Party in Austin on August 25! Yes!
...Austin, Minnesota. -MOTHERFUCKERS-.
@faraday said in AresMUSH Updates:
(Unless you want fully-automated combat, in which case you are.)
I want a lot of things, but this is the non-pareil that I'm trying to snag.
@thenomain said in AresMUSH Updates:
So not Mass Effect.
No. I can't figure out how to twist FS3 to simulate its combat, and it seems a lot easier for me to suggest tweaking some of BSG:U's code to represent giant robots and shit.
Plus, I like the idea of writing my own fiction for it.
And I intend to coerce Faraday into helping me.
So.
This game sounds more and more like a step backwards to me.
I'm still writing up my space opera game's background, but I really, really want to get back to this so hard right now.
Not because XCOM2 is in my blood either.
@admiral said in RL Anger:
They should have known better than to go there.
I concur.
But fuck the New York Times for even publishing such sanctimonious tripe.
@thenomain said in Dreamwalk MUSH:
Also, there are badass LBGTQIAK+(XZMPRgoodlordwegetit!) people out there. If they want to be space marines, give them a gun and get the hell out of their way.
"If they wanna fight, let 'em fight. Cause I ain't fightin'! I don't give a fuck if there's a Russian tank rollin' down Flatbush Avenue. I ain't shootin' nobody. So call me a faggot! When the war's over, I'll be the faggot with two legs, thank you!"
I'm still willing to do some write-ups for bloodlines, 2E style, if you're interested. Just PM me with some idea of what sort of "grit" you're looking for.
Example, The Descent had the bleed of ghosts and spirits into the real world, so a lot of the bloodlines had abilities to blend into that situation. What's City of Shadows about? That'll help me think of things.
Well, there goes all of my fucking spare-time work for the past couple of months.
@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/female-lawyers-sexism-courtroom/565778/
A female principal at my firm has made more than one person break down into tears. She likes theatre, her dog, and desserts at depositions.
If some asshole filed this, she would file an ethics complaint. That is, of course, if the judge didn't do it first.
I investigate ethics complaints for the local bar association. If any lawyer pulled this shit on the public record, I would simply demand that he turn over each and every motion that he filed, called each and every attorney he attempts to humiliate, and have that man marched up to Ohio Supreme Court to explain to Justice Maureen O'Connor why he thinks that was "okay."
In short: don't pull this shit in Ohio. Don't. Local grievance committees are vicious, vigilant, and voracious.
@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
It’s too bad that they started with about half fluff opinion quotes. Only half of the people interviewed seemed to take the situation seriously, and even if they were opinions they were opinions pointing toward understanding and fixing, the other almost half about blame.
I felt the same way.
I understand the issue and I agree it is a problem, but there just seemed to be so little in the way of constructive discussion.
And the discussion is imbalanced towards women, as if men didn't have their own opinion on toxic men and toxic masculinity and haven't been, in some way, victimized by the same.
Well, it's not my article.
@jaded said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Interestingly that is almost what the conversation was about. Except more modern economics and business accounting tax structures which they know nothing about but they watched business movies like Wolf of Wallstreet and thought they did.
Yeah, I get to sigh and listen to people tell me that capitalism is fascism or socialism is fascism, and I'm, like:
@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
TRACK CHANGES.
MARKUP.LEARN THESE THINGS.
I hate these things intensely.
Not generally; specifically, when people are making revisions to documents I draft. Why? Because I'm not a fucking dullard and I don't need people highlighting or scratching off shit, fucking up my formatting, like, bitch, I like my shit looking pretty, not like this ninth-grade English class abortion you just pushed out onto my computer screen.
I read. I edit. So fucking read the document again and check it over carefully, and I will do the same for you.
@jaded said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Yes please continue to lecture me about the topic you have no education in while I sit here and polish my framed degree.
Fuck I hate people.
This is how I feel when people start talking to me as if they understand capitalism and the history of economic change since the mid-1700s.
I have always believed, and will argue to the death, that Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare's greatest comedy.