@aria said in Why are there so many MUs set in Maine?:
I had two PCs on the Reach and I put some solid thought into "Why would these concepts I want to play live in this little town?" and would strip out or add things to their background as needed.
Clarice was a Lost Mouse looking for a place to hide.
Ripley was ... well, she fits right into a King novel, that's for sure.
You can really avoid this sort of theme drift by creating a setting that you want and forbidding players from fucking with it.
It’s not too hard, but you have to be willing to say “no” and too few staff are willing to do this.
The important part is that the car now functions. I will have to clean the corrosion off my Subaru contacts.
Everything is fine for now. The battery apparently was the issue, according to my mechanic.
Today began with a heap of shit.
My partner's car refused to start. We thought it was the battery. It took me 10 minutes to find the cables that were supposed to be in the trunk of my car. Jumping did nothing, but the battery on my car was heavily corroded. I let my partner take my car, and I took the company vehicle to work.
At work, I spilled coffee on my papers. Twice. And I drink out of tall, 20 oz. cups. My office smells lovely, but the papers on my desk are fucking destroyed.
Went back home to work from there because fuck you world and fuck you lack of dexterity this morning. Tried to jump the partner's car with my company car, but no luck. Went to get a new battery, installed it, and -- fucking nothing. And this is a fucking Nissan Rogue, where the spark plugs are buried so deep in the engine that Ron Jeremy could fuck the shit out of it without getting his dick burned.
In frustration, I just cranked the motherfucking key in ignition and --
VROOM.
The car starts up. Like, for no fucking reason. Maybe it was the battery? Maybe not. Or maybe, just maybe, the fucking world decided to bang me in the ass for having the luck to come out on top of a House Valardin jousting tourney.
Ah well, this is me now.
@puppybreath said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
I'm not convinced macho bullshit isn't the reason prolonged eye contact is even a thing.
It is the reason.
So?
It's macho bullshit. I know that; everyone knows that. It was never about respect; it's about engaging in that animalistic behavior known as staring someone down.
As a society, we think ourselves above it, but we aren't and we never will be.
I have learned not only to stare at people, but to stare and laugh at them.
All of the neurotypical behaviors are unfortunately red-flags when I look at a potential associate because every one of them are honest.
All warfare is deception.
@puppybreath said in How are you coping with COVID (and other 2020 fun)?:
It's been several days and I'm still so fucking angry that I probably didn't even write this well enough to convey why I'm so fucking angry.
Oh, I think we all felt it.
I'm tired.
Since December of 2019 I have been working with a client of mine to serve as a receiver for a company that needed to be reorganized without hitting the bankruptcy court. On Thursday, the owner of the company elected to file for bankruptcy.
We warned everyone this could happen. We warned everyone that if we spent even a day in bankruptcy, all of our vendors would terminate their services. We warned everyone that if the owner of the company tried to take control again, everyone would fight to get as far away from the company as possible.
Well, the interim CEO resigned today. The billing company is out. We're dead in the water. One year of work, down the drain.
Don't mind me, I need to grouse.
@derp said in General Video Game Thread:
That's basically what they're saying. They're saying that CDPR lied to investors about the product they were putting out, resulting in substantial losses.
Good luck proving that a media release is fraudulent.
I hear what you’re saying. I’m pretty old school like that too. But the problems with NMS and ME:A aren’t the same. Believe me, the problems with ME:A go deeper than “there’s a lot of bugs.”
Bugs I can forgive. False advertising, not so much.
I feel a lot of this.
I treasure those commutes now.
Also, I drive about aimlessly at times.
I became more sympathetic when I began to understand how exploitive the industry is. About eight years ago, I guess, to confirm GreenFlashlight.
Dude, when did you start eating elephants?
I concur with everything here but add that I believe the most important first step is envisioning what you as a player would want to do within the game’s setting. In short: what am I the player to do here?
That will help you choose if you need a simple or complex stat system, which will help you pick which platform to start with, which is where I would start when it comes to cobbling together the code.
There’s a reason why about half of lawyers practicing are textbook cases of ADHD. And that’s because it’s hardly ever truly repetitive.
