Posts made by HelloRaptor

@ThatGuyThere
All it's really missing is nested replies and even more aggressive stupidity than even we usually generate.

So no matter which way you skin it, it still looks like the comments section of a buzzfeed article. Or youtube. Pick your poison, really. Hopefully we'll get back to looking like an actual forum eventually.

I realize that's just my personal aesthetics, but adding an extra click just to get to edit is just objectively bad design.

It's not @Glitch's design, though, I realize. Far as I know he's just updating us to the latest version of the software, but whoever's developing it... meh.

@Glitch
Agh. Is there a skin that makes it look like a forum again instead of like the comments section of a youtube video?

Visual aesthetic is displeasing.

@Arkandel said:

@HelloRaptor The sky was never falling, I had very little doubt the last thing Microsoft wanted was piss off all those users for next to no gain for themselves. However it was still relevant to Windows 10.

I didn't think you thought the sky was falling, but the preponderance of articles seem to be leaping that way. For example:

"Windows 10 Checks For Pirate Bay Torrents, Bootleg Games And Hardware Automatically"

It flat out does not do one of those things, and only does the other two in an incredibly limited fashion, but similar claims have exploded around the internet.

@Arkandel said:

http://www.pcgamer.com/windows-10-can-disable-pirated-games/

As an update, jeeeeeesus internet news sites are blowing their shit up about this, even including awesome clickbait in titles like how Windows 10 will SEARCH OUT AND DESTROY YOUR PIRATE BAY TORRENTS omg omg omg. ;D

Gamespot at least updated itself with some sanity:

[UPDATE] Although Microsoft is yet to provide official clarification on the matter, reports have suggested the EULA cited below pertains to Microsoft services, as opposed to the Windows 10 software itself.

This means the changes made to the license agreement were intended to protect against illicitly obtained Xbox Live and Windows Store content, not all pirated content on a PC.

GameSpot has asked Microsoft for a statement clarifying the policy and will update this story when it has been issued. [UPDATE ENDS]

Windows 10 added the ability to play your XBox games through your Windows 10 PCs. It took about four seconds for people to figure out ways that would help facilitate piracy of XBox games, so Microsoft added safeguards to Windows 10 against that (which will probably be effective for another four seconds).

Yet again, the sky is not falling.

@Miss-Demeanor
Huzzah!

@Miss-Demeanor said:

Dick pic!

And then some.

@Miss-Demeanor said:

Here's a gaming related problem.

I just got Beyond Earth, its all installed, everything is verified and looks good. But every time I go to play the game, it brings up that first time 'install' screen, nothing shows on it, and it blips out after 3-5 seconds. I never even get to the main window. Anyone know if Windows 10 is maybe just not playing nice with BE?

Mine's working okay? I posted a big list of games earlier from my Steam (and some others) that I'd poked through, at least to make sure they'd open right.

I dunno if you're using Steam, but I have once or twice in the past hit an issue with Steam where it does that cycling of first-time-opening-this-game over and over. I'd suggest you try:

1. Right-click the game, go to properties > local files > verify game cache, try again. If that fails...
2. Properties > local files > browse local files and manually open CivilizationBE_DX11.exe (or CivilizationBE_Mantle.exe if you have an AMD card), see if the game runs. If it does run, wait for the menu to load, exit out, then try to open through Steam again and see if it bypasses the cycling now.

Dunno why #2 seems to work, but I had it happen to me in Win8 and Win7 from time to time as well, where Steam would for some reason think I'd never opened a game before and get stuck on that first bit, but once I opened the game via the .exe directly Steam would work with it just fine.

@Arkandel
Just like they've been doing with the OS itself, and things like Office, basically forever.

Which is to say their efforts will never catch up to the ways in which people pirate things, and a game getting disabled will last about as long as an Office installation gets rendered invalid, which is precisely as long as it takes you to notice and fix it.

It's specific to Microsoft games, though, and I'd hazard a guess that it's only going to be for stuff running through Games for Windows Live, or whatever they replace it with. Given that even the GfWL games that get pirated usually don't get actually run through GfWL, GfWL just gets spoofed so the game thinks it is, I'll be surprised if this amounts to anything more than a mild inconvenience if anything at all.

Or do archery and just lol your way to victory.

@Usekh

That is one of the things that always got me, folks running around with stats like Int boosted to 8-9 permanently. Maybe my interpretation is wrong, but at that level trying to deal with normal people would be frustrating at best.

If you consider that 5 is supposedly the limit of purely human ability in terms of Intelligence, one would assume that would be true of even people with Int 5, given the frequency with which extreme intelligence seems to come paired with one sort of social dysfunction or another (whatever its source).

Since nobody's really interested in enforcing that either, it'd be difficult to make a case for doing it towards those with Int 8-9. There's also the argument that if you have enough Mind to bump your Int to 8 or 9, you also have enough Mind to recognize and adjust yourself not to suffer those dysfunctions at the same time. Edit: Which is one of the reasons it's so much of a pain to push for mental attributes provoking Disbelief. People are rarely using their Int 9 to do anything a normal person would actually disbelieve.

@Luna

@HelloRaptor Lol! Have we played together before?

Yes, those are all from logs.

No, I don't actually remember who you played anymore, I just saw the bit you quoted about faking disconnects if bored by TS and started thinking of all the lulzy ways to fake a disconnect while making sure they knew it was fake because lol.

@Luna said:

If you bore me though during TS I will totally fake a disconnect. You are warned.

Bonus points for...

<OOC> Luna says, "Just so you know we're experiencing a plague of locusts in my area, so my internet might be spotty."
Luna has disconnected.

<OOC> Luna looks out her window, frowns at the approaching meteor.
Luna has disconnected.

<OOC> Luna hmms, "I could have sworn I was home alone tonight, so who keeps turning the lights off?"
Luna has disconnected.

<OOC> Luna says, "Will pose in a sec, can't see through tears."
Luna has disconnected.

<OOC> Luna cannot stop laughing, might need EMTs.
Luna has disconnected.

@Tempest

For how often mage players bring up "disbelief", it never seemed to be much of a thing in actual play

That has more to do with the nature of a MU* setting than anything else. The majority of PCs tend to be supernaturals or folks who won't provoke Disbelief to begin with, so the people you're interacting with in day to day roleplay aren't a problem. The NPCs around you should be, but the majority of folks who acknowledge that are by definition not doing things to provoke disbelief, so you're not going to notice them. A mage who can pump all his stats to 8 but isn't walking around like that all the time is, by definition, not bothered by disbelief.

It's the handful of assholes who do it and pretend like nobody would ever notice you've got Dex 10, Str 10 who make it seem like the rest of us are just ignoring it. The worstmy own mage did was Stamina 8, and even that was only occasionally.

Managing disbelief for mages is a lot like managing the masquerade for vampires: If you're being careful, it's probably not going to come up unless a Storyteller decides to make a point of it. Disbelief is just kind of more nebulous in that the line of where it'll be provoked isn't always agreed upon, and the natural inclination of people to err on the side of being dicks doesn't help.

and people love to brag about "omg I can do XYZ without causing disbelief", in a fashion that seems to imply they know they're being asshats and effectively breaking the system.

I'm not sure what you mean here. If somebody's saying they can walk around with Str 10 without causing Disbelief then yeah, they're being an asshat and effectively breaking the system. If they're talking about Legacy attainments, then it's effectively breaking the system in a way the system intends it to be broken.

Here's to hoping the new book makes them less ridiculous and gives some actual downsides to being a mage.

I dunno, nVampire didn't make sunlight any more of an actual downside to being a vampire in practical terms. When all your scenes take place at night and everybody handwaves how much shit is absolutely not open or active at 4 in the morning you might as well be daywalking.

There's not really a way to make them 'less ridiculous' in a way that's meaningful to anybody who already doesn't like Mage. There's a lot of tweaks to the basic system, though. Fast casting is supposedly much more difficult (default of everything is ritual cast and you need extra effort or power to drop shit on the fly) but the things people whined about the most were generally not the on-the-fly shit to begin with, so while that will count as a pretty substantial downgrade in power to people who actually play Mage, it's probably meaningless to people who just complain about it.

What game is this that allowed custom legacies? The Reach? I don't understand how a multi-sphere game can allow custom shit in one splat, and not others. Another mark against the asinine idea that is "sphere staff", imo.

TR allowed custom Legacies, yeah, but you're absolutely right about the first part. It should have been allowed across all spheres. I don't see it as having much to do with sphere staff, though, especially given the amount of rotation that took place in most spheres on TR.

@Ganymede said:

@EmmahSue said:

Note how HR doesn't complain about how that jury summons happens to have hit the exact week his mother in law is in town.

Coincidental magic is coincidental.

I love my mother in law. She's awesome. But yes, jury duty is magic.

@Arkandel
Doesn't MTGO require a paid account or something? I also hear a lot about it being buggy as shit.

I started playing M:D and my two main gripes are:

1. For following immediately after Magic 2015 the interface feels less polished. M2015 felt very smooth in how the cards played and the flow of a turn. M:D isn't bad, it's just different in ways that feel a little rough to me.

2. Requiring me to go through all the tutorial things to get some of the initial coins was a hugely boring pain in the ass. I own like four of these games, I know how this shit works. >_<

I got 3 boosters as a bonus for finishing the first Origin, and enough coins to get another 2. I haven't played much more, aside from the one AI duel to unlock deck building, and just went with the deck wizard for that one so I could get right into it. I'll probably play s'more today to see how fast it seems to go. I'm curious to run through all of the Origin stories anyway.

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor said:

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@Miss-Demeanor said:

AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.

So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!

Or he doesn't live in the States... so maybe it's different.

Eu não entendo o que você está dizendo, você poderia explicar?

Que te recontra por las dudas.

No, your mom.

I'm up for jury duty in Federal court in a couple of weeks. I'm mostly just wary of my ability to stay awake the whole time. My sleep schedule is pretty fucking erratic for a number of reasons, so having to be awake and alert during the day every day if I get called will be problematic. I imagine falling asleep during a trial would probably get me in trouble.

@Arkandel

So when applying for the same thing - let's say a 5-dot Gadget - with the same mechanical goal in mind ('I want to punch harder') I might end up with a bonus ('+5 to punchery!') while shameless jerks like @HelloRaptor end up with something far better ('+5 to punchery and 50% chance for a knockout! and it projects a WHAP! sound balloon over the target's head!') simply because the rules for what's permitted are fuzzy and there aren't samples to go by and determine how much power each dot level represents. There are a few in the splat-books usually but the pool is tiny and MUSHes often interpret then set the bar differently.

That's not really the case for Mage Legacies, though. There are a fuck ton of them. There are two entire books full of them, and more in every Order book, etc. Here's a list. They do vary pretty wildly in power level, from the barely useful to the earth shatteringly ridiculous, but there's no shortage of examples to pull from or base ideas on.

As for you being opposed to asking for more bang for your buck, that's a pretty poor excuse for anything, man.

It only gets worse if people expect theirs to be exclusive because some of the nicer mechanics (reflexive healing, damage downgrade/upgrade, etc) really are few in number.

Again, I'm only speaking of Mage Legacies, but exclusive is a weird way to put it. While I can only speak for myself, the situation wasn't even exclusive, it was that my character had developed his Legacy IC and it was not a Legacy people were walking around teaching in the wider world, so somebody suddenly showing up claiming otherwise was pretty disgruntling.

I know that I, along with a couple of others in similar situations, was more than happy to bring someone into the Legacy. The problem was that people wanted to bring in brand new characters who already had it, and then got pissy when told that wasn't cool. Or in one case was told it was cool by an asshole staffer who I still think new better.

And since you're focused on specific powers, the folks I spoke to with other custom legacies couldn't have given two fucks if somebody used their shit as the basis for something new. Want reflexive healing or damage downgrading? Cool, come up with your own spin on it. Every power my Legacy had was directly based on shit I found just poking around the Legacies. Want to make something more powerful in one area, weaken it in another, etc. Slap a new coat of paint on it, there you go.

People objecting to other folks being allowed access to their custom Legacy, one created IC, isn't about coveting a particular power. As I said before, I found people trying to claim that because they came up with a spell nobody else should be able to cast it to be pretty lame. But whining because you don't get to come in as an established Superdude Legacy character when Dude is the one who created the Superdude Legacy IC and hasn't had a chance to bring anybody else into it, is not even remotely the same thing.

Now, I did hear that at one point there was a kerfluffle because a player had designed an existing Legacy for his character to be a part of and was getting pissy over people wanting to bring in characters who also belonged to it. That, again, isn't even remotely the same thing. He was a douche for trying to assert that because he'd come up with it OOC nobody else could use it, when his having bought it at straight Gnosis (and the Legacy writeup itself) indicated there were NPCs out there with that Legacy.

reflexive healing

This has been mentioned more than once, and I grind my teeth at people using it an example of overpowered Legacy powers. Yes, it was reflexive healing. With a limit of no more than base Stamina+Size healing per day, that could only be activated immediately after taking damage (so if you took 5 but only rolled 2 succs, you don't get to try and heal the other 3 until you've been injured again, at which point there's even more damage to heal).

The Legacy healing power it was based on wasn't reflexive but was otherwise Disbelief-free healing all day if you needed it. What's functionally an extra 7-11 HL per day is really only situationally better than 'however many that you need', especially when there was a Life spell to just give yourself extra health levels and another for flat out regeneration.

@SG said:

Yeah, it's good smack. I keep thinking a terminator mush would be fun, but sending unkillable robots after PCs seems kind of sadistic after a bit of thought.

Mmm. HITMarks.

Though to be fair, the robots (both terminators and hitmarks) were pretty dmonstrably not unkillable. They killed at least one per movie! Sometimes more!

I did enjoy the tv series.