Posts made by Ganymede

@Coin said in General Video Game Thread:

And like I said last night: I would vastly suggest using a controller over the mouse and keyboard, but that's a preference you'll have to figure out for yourself.

I can't even imagine playing without a controller.

@Thenomain, my tip would be to go light. Go with the Cat School. You may be a bit brittle, but dodging out of combat is your way to get safe and charge up your magic. And having Quen is a good shield when you have to wade into a pitched battle.

This is a game you can sink tons of time into. I think I plunged over 100 hours into it, over the course of 3 or 4 months. It's a completionist's game too: you will be rewarded for finishing all of the quests, and there is a lot to be found.

That the game is fucking beautiful accentuates it.

And to think: this was backed by Warner Bros. Imagine if they had put this much thought into, oh, Batman v. Superman.

@Darinelle said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

My biggest case for a +meetme command is actually because it makes it SO nice for newcomers. Once I'm in a MU and I know how to get around it's no big deal, but honestly when I'm new and just want to RP with someone, sometimes that initial "but where am I and how do I get to where the fun is happening" is intensely frustrating. A +meetme lets me hit the grid and start RPing immediately, which I really dig.

It's also helpful in scenes when you're running it already and someone logs on late and still wants to come - cuts down the between here-and-there running you do. I get that you don't want people to exclusively use meetme and ignore the grid entirely, but some implementation of the command proper would be super helpful, IMO.

All of this. Yes.

@Misadventure said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

She doesn't hate Sinn Féin Assamites.

My Sinn Fein alts were never Ass-mites.

@Coin said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

I thought I was going to have to super-agree with @Ganymede, but no, she hates Assamites, and therefore is still wrong.

Your mom is wrong.

@Misadventure said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

That would fail to be OWoD then.

And now we know why I haven't really had much of an urge to go back to playing oWoD.

@Misadventure said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

How about if we used Blood Potency without the need to LOSE it every now and then?

How about we not go back to Generation at all, where we had games where you had to apply to have Generation over a certain level, and all those slots went to Staff sluts?

That's really all I care about.

Oh, and fuck the Assamites.

@Insomnia said in RL Anger:

I wonder how she feels now since you can pretty much sneeze and get 5k gold.

In her case, I'm not sure I want to know what comes out of her if she sneezes.

@Misadventure said in Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition:

I agree. But for those going for that OWoD feel, I suspect they'd want Generations and all it entails.

I like the feel, but I prefer Blood Potency.

@Coin said in RL Anger:

Turns out it can be super fun to try to make having sex while playing video games a game itself.

I was playing Halo with a friend of mine who totally ghosted for 2 or 3 missions. When I demanded an explanation, he provided one:

Well, my girl was over, and she told me that she would start sucking me off if I killed someone, and stop if I died. So I sniped the first chump I found, and hid in the shadows until she was done.

Best explanation ever.

Do you have children?

Here's something you should watch, all the way through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyZaOQu9chQ

Of course, it is further evidence that I am a monster that feeds off the sadness of others.

I've finished The Last of Us no less than five times. And it still hits me in the feels in 60 fps.

Awesome.

@WTFE said in Arx- Gareth:

And by "love it" I mean "want to scoop out your eyeballs with a spork just to feel the pain"…

The problem is, you have eyeballs.

Join the LawyerBot Crusade. We have (inorganic, silicon-based) pie.

@Wizz

Don't shit where you eat. That's what I have to say about that.

@Thenomain said in Arx- Gareth:

I was talking emotionally and mentally, mind you. If full custody can do that, I want to re-think my life.

Well, you know me: I like to attack points with as much humor as I can muster.

In this context, the comment does seem a little back-handed. But the decision was the correct one. Staff could have ignored him, kept entertaining his arguments, and continue the fruitless interaction; however, they chose otherwise, quite wisely. I see no stink in that, even if there may have been a moment of puerile ear-tweaking.

But, yes. You can free someone by granting a wish or by doing something beyond their wisdom. It doesn't make you a guru or a saint, but it is what it is.

@Thenomain said in Arx- Gareth:

Because nobody has the ability to free someone else to move on.

You have clearly never asked someone for full custody or a dissolution, then.

@Rucket said in Arx- Gareth:

If you feel you need to change behaviors around certain people, maybe your behavior is the problem and you should stop behaving that way in general.

But how is he supposed to know his behavior is not a problem if no one informs him?

(Not a genuine question.)

@Kireek said in Arx- Gareth:

Never pressured anyones character to be something they are not, that specifically didn't happen.

And that's something that I did not specifically accuse you of. My post was in response to @deadculture, not you.

So, good? It still sounds like you don't get it, which is okay.

And, yes, a personality conflict is a very good reason to ask someone to leave a game.

@Kireek said in Arx- Gareth:

I don't know if I actually believe that sentiment is realistic Ganymede. You don't believe it's appropriate to talk oocly about people in your factions about scenes you might want to have, why you haven't gotten the results you should of for things etc? In a game where I play an antagonistic character- it can often behoove me to speak oocly to people about things, to communicate feelings, emotions, sentiments, etc.

It is very realistic, actually, because I picked my words carefully.

I said that I don't OOCly try to coerce people into playing what's needed for my faction rather than what they want to play. That is, if someone asks me what is needed to play a healer, I don't try to coerce them into a playing a warrior. Or to pick stats which benefit me or my faction.

This is not a subtle distinction.

For example, when I first came to RfK, I did so at the invitation of a friend who is also @lordbelh's friend. I fell into their RP group pretty quickly. While they told me what they liked to see, I ended up taking a different concept. And while I wasn't as useful to their faction stat-wise, I was an active participant and contributed in other ways that fit the concept I chose. At no time did anyone tell me how I should build my PC.

Obviously, if someone asks what I might need for my faction, the wheels come off. But that's very different than what I was talking about. Or what you're talking about.

@deadculture said in Arx- Gareth:

While the OOC parts of the charges levied on the man seem reasonable (like speaking with others about the support system, throwing a fit about another character's stats, complaining about code changes) how is being competitive as a player bad?

It's not bad to be competitive as a player. I'm a very competitive player.

But I don't take it OOC, or try to get people to break rules, or try to coerce people into playing what's needed for my faction (rather than what they want to play), or try to get an advantage during the Alpha-development stage of a game.

Staff always has the discretion to determine who they want on their game and when, so I can't fault them for making the call here.

@Kireek

All of this is very upsetting to me.