Posts made by gasket

What's really important is, is this run by the The 100 staffers, or isn't it? It's the same domain name, and they left ads themselves, elsegame, promoting it, yet someone else is advertising for it, here.

Anyone know?

@Ashen-Shugar said in The Crafting Thread:

I likely will forgive it eventually. If for no other reason than to remove that pit of acid festering in my own gut. I likely won't forget it happened... ever... but forgive I can perhaps pull off.

Reconciling it -- internally, not with him -- might be enough, too. At least, that's my own hope. My kid brother did some things following our mother's death that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to forgive, but like you, I'd like to find a way past that festering pit if for no other reason than the memory of my mom deserves more.

That might be word-quibbling over reconciliation vs. forgiveness, too. Either way, best of luck.

Dry mustard is another super-tasty addition to meatloaf. Breadcrumbs > saltines > oatmeal as far as filler/binding goes, IMHO, but oatmeal would definitely make the meatloaf toothier.

The writing for GW2 is really, really great at times. Even if you've got a favourite race that you plan to stick with, definitely check out the others for a few levels just to see what they're all about and gawk at their home cities.

@FiranSurvivor

It appears more to be Round 452 or thereabouts of Theno using a half-million words where "Sorry, I was a dick," would suffice and serve him much better.

@faraday said in Star Wars: Insurgency:

But seriously - for those who think it's a bad idea for FCs to be PCs, or to be in everyday scenes, or to be less awesome than their movie counterparts, maybe just... don't play there? Constructive criticism is one thing, but I don't get the need to rain hostile critiques down on a game just because it isn't to your tastes. Especially on their own advertisement thread.

Not so constructive: "Having FCs as PCs is a horrible idea. They don't belong in everyday scenes. They should only ever be questgivers, period, end of discussion. This game is doooomed. But hey, good luck trying the same thing that 72 other games have tried and failed at. I'll just get the popcorn and wait for the Luke TS logs."

'Hostile critiques' and 'this is not constructive' is subjective, unless someone invented a meanness metric while I wasn't looking and gave the Meanness Police the ability to hand out tickets.

Maybe they want a good Star Wars game, have seen this exact same road travelled many, many times before, and are pointing out, "Hey, this has been tried fifty times and never worked," in hopes of avoiding example number fifty-one.

In my opinion, things don't tend to improve unless people speak up when they think they see a problem, and aren't told to pipe down because it might be a little mean. I suppose your mileage varies from mine.

Edit: "A little mean" isn't what I'm trying to get at. "Not perfectly worded" is closer.

@TNP said in Star Wars: Insurgency:

Plots focused on the Rebellion will be for Rebel PCs, not Rebel FCs and others. If someone apps an OC X-Wing pilot who survived the assault on the Death Star alongside Luke, then that is what he shall be and that is what game 'history' shall be.

There's the automatic rarefied air that comes along with a FC right here in your explanation of how there's really no difference between Nameless Shlub and Luke Skywalker Who We All Know.

People want to play FCs because they are the heroes and the centers of attention, and not the masses of nobodies milling in the background to make their glamour shots happen. This is how they get played, and how they get treated, because /it's what they are/. There's no equalizing the playing field for Luke Skywalker vs. your 'OC X-Wing pilot' because they will never be the same thing, not even by your own description of them.

The people desperate to play the hero of the show are typically also the last people you want actually playing them, but that's probably a tangent for another time.

Like others, I think you are opening a very well-labelled Pandora's Box for no good reasons, but maybe you'll make it work. Best of luck.

@bored

If we replace 'FC' with the also-accurate 'massively skilled and/or overpowered character with nigh-unto limitless resources compared to everyone else on the game', it's suddenly less of a mystery why FCs never, and will never, work.

I suppose staff feel less like they're rewarding themselves or the chosen few by not calling them that, though.

I have no idea how the hell one would logic up what we consider "modern" that also includes "Lords and Ladies", because as I understand it, we're modern because we kind of, you know, evolved PAST the whole lords-and-ladies, nobility, titles mattering, etc., nonsense.

If someone ever cracked that nut, though, I bet it would be interesting.

AKA deleting comments and/or entire threads when things aren't going your way.

Why is this allowed / why is this a good thing? We already have to re-re-retell old history whenever 'this is why X is a horrible person and should be avoided' comes up, rather than point to WORA and let them figure it out on their own. It's much easier to avoid he-said she-said when, you know, one doesn't get to stir shit and then delete it all.

@Seamus

This is pretty disingenuous. There's a wee bit of a difference between 'I want Instagram in the Middle Ages' and 'I want a medieval theme with some of the unnecessary ugly attitudes reworked'. There are angelic half-breeds, so by definition it's not historically accurate / liberties are already being taken.

I guess persecution is important to include? But, if it IS important, why keep insisting that nah, it's not really there, it's totally cool to do whatever you want? That's shooting the theme in the foot before it's even out the gate, isn't it? Which, at least for me, brings it back around to: why include something in pretendy funtimes, that's real-life anti-funtimes for some of the player base, that could be written out?

Again, if this part of the theme is somehow intrinsic to the setting, go on with your bad self. Otherwise, I don't understand this weird 'we need bigots to make this story work but don't worry you'll never actually see them' doublespeak that happens when these theme points are questioned.

It's a weird thing a few games have been doing more recently, in my observations -- saying that they support the ICness of being a bigot (to pick one of many flavours of closemindedness) but then get all twitchy and SSH DON'T ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THE BIGOTRY.

Why include it, then? Will your many-splendoured theme fall apart if people aren't bigots? Perhaps it's not so many-splendoured if it will.

My working observation is that the people who put forward these kinds of games and themes don't also confront this thing in their everyday lives, and so they find it exciting and edgy to be making believe that they're persecuted.

To each their own, but it's definitely not my sort of fun.

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@skew said in MUX: Openly writeable attribute?:

@gasket We had a real, real hard time getting it working correctly on Fallen World MUX... and that required Thenomain himself to do it. And it's still not working 100% correctly. Note that I didn't install it from the get-go, so who knows what happened along the way, but it's definitely not easy peasy.

Damn. That's really too bad. From a player POV, it was ideal. Obviously the new solution is for Theno to find another six hours in every day and make it work cross-platform out of the box.

@surreality

If you can get your hands on Theno's +temproom code, it's about perfect. I wish it was on every game. It might take some twiddling if you wanted to use it for permanent rooms rather than temporary RP locations, but it still has everything you're looking for.

@Derp said in House Rules vs Rules as Written:

If you DO enshrine them into formal legalese, then please, offer some elucidation on why you think this is so important it has to apply to all people forever.

This so much. If you can't clearly answer WHY, it should never be implemented.

So where is the line between 'holding a grudge', and 'you have proven to me that you are a horrible person and I'd like to keep my friends from dealing with the same ugly shit I did'?

IS there a line? Is it just a matter of which 'side' of the clash you're on? Is there maybe nothing wrong with holding a grudge, as long as you're not fucking petty with it? (see KQ and Ganymede, above)

This is something I chew on often, and recently it's more pertinent, as I'm sharing space on a game with someone who I'd drop in the same FOREVER NEVER pit as people like Spider. In my more optimistic moments, I tell myself maybe they're better people now. The rest of the time, there's no proof they're any better than they were, and I am caught between keeping silent vs. telling my friends to just NOPE out of any interactions with them. So far, I haven't pinned any scarlet letters on anyone, which is theoretically the more adult course of action, but it leave me feeling a bit like I'm choosing to let my friends grope around in a box which I know contains at least one knife.

@Thenomain

This is no time to respond sensibly to my flippant snarking, dammit.

How in the world is this bboard's fault?

Well, if it's not the bboard's fault, then it's the fault of /everyone who uses them/, which means the problem still comes back to the bboard. To use your hammers analogy, if you give everyone a hammer, but all they ever do is bash their thumbs bloody with it, maybe the solution is to stop trying to re-engineer the hammer and give them something else to use.

Bboards have always felt the very opposite of responsive to me. Maybe I've just had much poorer luck with them on games than you have.

Adding more plates for the smaller portions will not necessarily help. It may, but if you don't explore efficiency and effectiveness, you could be compounding the problem.

This is a fair point, too. Maybe a new system just has that new car smell going for it, and that's what makes it appeal more than fixing something that's already there.

@Thenomain

Because generally +bboards are a sucking chest wound of bad introduction posts, staff putting out fire long since burned through their course, and other stuff nobody really wants to read?

Even more sarcastically: another +bboard full of timed-out posts and no way to tell if the person asking for the scene ever got it /except paging them to do Round Seven Million of Surreality's dance/? Sign me up!

As I'm reading it, this is a suggestion being put forward that (1) isn't mired in mostly-useless means of communicating like a +bboard, and (2) isn't as high-pressure as a @mail. Mail is directly to you, no two ways about it, and it stares at you with its beady, judgy eyes. It's maybe even worse than Surreality's dance.

The suggestion sounds wonderfully low-key / zero pressure, which is the ideal ground to actually encourage people to pick up a loose thread and run with it. The requests for RP would be there to look at and nobody would ever have to know which ones you considered or didn't consider until you actually organized the scene with the person.

@Thenomain

You really do make all the shiny things.

@Apu

Yeah. He and the rest of his team were pretty amazing people. Space exploration is amazing, full stop.

I've been rolling over what I wrote to you since hitting return, basically. Thanks for not telling me to shut my unsympathetic face up. I could have said it a lot better than I did.