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@fatefan said in Avatar / Korra game considerations:

I find myself thinking about what a MU* in 2020 might look like based on ATLA and/or the Legend of Korra.

Don't be teasing me. I need this. I didn't know I need this, but I need this.

• Clear point in game world/timeline

I personally don't care. I'm not immersed enough in the lore that referencing specific events in the timeline actually means anything to me. If the recent history is a big deal, then sure, detail it, but otherwise?

• Long-term central storyline(s) that all PCs can contribute to

That would be nice.

• Opportunities for easily grouping together PCs in scenes

Isn't that up to the players, though?

• Wide range of backgrounds & bending abilities

Like a specific list of options to choose from? I take it the goal here is to provide some freedom while enforcing thematic cohesion?

• Some sort of coded conflict resolution system

I personally prefer consent-based games these days. MUSHes do not do a good job of communicating the information needed about their systems, at least to my way of learning. I'd be so interested in the game I'd think of bending this principle, though.

@neksinnad said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

@GreenFlashlight I think this goes back a few games. There was a really annoying player who picked up a ton of furry characters, mostly pure animals -- wanted to play Dexstarr and 'Hope Corgi'. Suddenly there was a ban on animals.

It seems to me the answer is to ban that person rather than concepts, particularly when concepts that can get around the letter of the law while still violating the spirit are permissible (is anything stopping Beast Boy from never leaving animal form?), but oh well.

@SilentHills said in Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books:

You're all saying 'childhood' and posting a bunch of deep bullshit.

It depends on what we call childhood, I suppose. If we go way back, I remember Curious George very fondly, and Encyclopedia Brown, and Bunnicula. These might not count, but I also remember getting into comics by reading these pocket-sized digest comic versions of horror novels like Dracula and Frankenstein (I really wish I could remember those more clearly because I'd love to buy them if I could just find them).

@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:

I meant more: Sucks that these writers, game makers, content creators, etc worked so hard to keep it going, made so many awesome things that people loved, all on the assumption that Mr. Star Wars was on board with it...and then in the end he comes out and says "Yeaaaaaaah I dont know any of those guys and didn't read any of that. They dont count."

That makes more sense. Thanks for explaining. I still don't fully get it, though. I don't know any writers, so I'm pulling this from my ass, but I'd have thought the satisfaction would come from the fans (and the paycheck), not the acknowledgment of the guy who owns the land you're mining and who owns the rights to whatever you dig up.

@Runescryer said in Avatar / Korra game considerations:

While I do like the steampunk/dieselpunk feel of Republic City, I realize it's not everyone's favorite setting. And setting it after Korra's death would increase the tech further. As an option, think of setting it in the past, before Roku, Kyoshi, Kuruk, or Yangchen (Yangchen being the Avatar born to the Air Nomads before Aang and dying 345 years before the Fire Nation killed all the Air Nomads). Bonus for an earlier time setting: no restrictions on Airbenders, since the Air Nomads are still alive.

As I understand the timeline, playing before Korra would make metalbending impossible, and that would make me sad. One of my favorite things from the series was the people with a roll of cable on their belts using it in all kinds of cool ways.

I'm not trying to start a fight, just providing input in case anyone is counting votes.

@neksinnad said in Empire State Heroes Mush:

As BB's player, I use his animal forms, ICly, mostly to punctuate conversation.

Sorry, I didn't think of how my post could sound accusatory. I only mention Beast Boy in the context of how I can't figure out what the no animal rule is meant to accomplish, since any goal I can conjure for it could be defeated by Beast Boy.

@RDC said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:

I'll let y'all decide for yourselves if I was overreacting.

Oh, I didn't mean you were overreacting. I just meant fuckin hell, you know? There was so much yikes in those few words I couldn't even encapsulate it in words.

@Rinel said in Good or New Movies Review:

@GreenFlashlight

I guess it's just that I view bait as something like a lure instead of, idk, a stick of dynamite tossed into the water.

I consider it bait in that Elsa is coded very gay for people who know what to look for, and Disney is aware of but has refused to comment on Elsa's sexuality, meaning they want us to believe whatever we believe and to take those beliefs with us to the ticket stall. But they'll have her sing about figuring out she's not straight, they'll have her walk through tunnels and fog clouds both shaped like spread vaginas, they'll have a female character stroke her knee oops I mean stroke the scarf resting on her knee, they'll even have her sister say things like "I don't want to change who you are, I just don't want you to get hurt;" but they won't give her a girlfriend? Nah.

I mostly like this movie, a few nitpicks with pacing aside, but nah, it can fuck off with the queerbait.

@Ganymede said in Magicy Shenanigans - high fantasy or more modern:

May I suggest not requiring Mastery to make new rotes?

I personally never understood that requirement. If magic is individual, why can't an individual who can cast a particular spell figure out how to do it?

Because holding rotes over newbies' heads enforces a system of control that makes the apprentice/master relationship justified by the mechanics as well as the fluff. Like you implied (or maybe I just inferred it), it's probably not relevant to a game that doesn't use the setting.

@Pandora My only thought is that these measures can only be successful to the degree that staff can be trusted to enforce them without bias. I can't tell if that's a separate issue from your proposal, but I don't think it is, because the idea has to be enacted within the culture we operate in.

@pyrephox Huh. I figured it's because whatever pisses a person off about this or that WoD game won't be solved by making a new one, since whoever did the thing on the other game would come over to yours.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

However pigs will fly probably fly before Disney (of all studios) makes an major animated movie aimed at kids whose protagonist is gay. I don't even think they have the guts to make any of the supporting cast, either.

I'm confused by your 'however.' Do you think I haven't noticed Disney will sell me a rainbow-colored Mickey Mouse cap during Gay Pride but won't give me a movie about a gay woman who has a girlfriend, or do you mean something else I'm overlooking?

So, just Mage, then? No other 20th-edition splats?

@Pandora I mean it has been my experience that telling staff my boundaries have been violated is more likely to result in nothing* being done than something, which makes me wonder how effective red cards would be.

*or worse than nothing, but I don't want to get into that again right now

I want to play the new Spider-Man game because Miles is the second-best Spider-Man ever (Gwen is the best), but my connection is so shit I have thirty hours of download time left. Fuck off, Playstation.

@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

Can you tell me what so offends you about queer bait?

I dislike being lied to, or at least being lied to by people who aren't willing to put in the effort to do it well.

I should probably say something more noble about the importance of representation, but that wouldn't be true. I don't like when people pretend to be my ally while refusing to back it up like they think I'm too stupid to notice how craven they are. I am stupid, but not so stupid I can't tell the difference between words and deeds, and it bothers me Disney thinks they can trick me into giving them money for saying they're doing things they aren't doing. That's all.

Is there a difference between being trustworthy and being an effective communicator with good interpersonal skills, though? Like, I'd never lie to my players or show favoritism among them, but I'm also a complete clown who can barely express a thought without fucking it up somewhere in the journey from brain to tongue.

@Bad-at-Lurking said in Model Policies?:

Something about the OOC room brings out the inner mean girl (regardless of player gender) in some players, which is, for reasons I've never really been clear on, tolerated by fellow players and staff.

I think it's intrinsic to gaming. Once you start measuring penises character traits in objective terms, there becomes an incentive to value those measurements by comparison to others'. So someone who has a seventeen dice in their Fuckability dice pool on a WoD game, or someone on a superhero game has the ability to lift 100 tons, people will want to be sure their primary character shtick gets respected for how long, thick, and veiny it is.

@tnp said in General Video Game Thread:

Define crunch in this context?

Crunch is the practice of expecting laborers to put in excessive, dangerously high number of hours per work week to get a product out at the advertised time.

@Jennkryst said in Good or New Movies Review:

@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:

In other, late news, the new Star Wars movie is pretty alright.

So alright, in fact, that the writers are trying to throw everyone else under the bus to justify why it is so bad, up to and including blaming Carrie Fisher for 'how hard it was to write scenes and dialogue to integrate archived footage of her'.

I have not seen those attempts at bus-throwing, so cannot comment beyond saying what the writers say or do not say to control the PR does not affect my analysis of the movie's execution.