Best posts made by Kireek

@Wizz

Hate to bring back up a silly topic, but.. sometimes things just don't.. age well? People grow up? What was once an incisive critique/social commentary has aged REALLY poorly. Things change.. Judging books nearly 2-4 decades old at this point for being culturally savvy and appropriate is nearly as bad as expecting Birth of a Nation to have a nuanced view on race relations and immigration.

People who are like, well the voodoo boys were written as racist.. in a setting that is about like, hey racism is messed up.. is lie getting upset at vampires because it sexualizes blood. It's kinda built into the theme. Just the portrayals of that racism haven't aged well.. because.. this may be crazy.. the dialogue/nuances have changed.

So this is genuinely underway at this point, and we are looking for people to help test/build and generally encourage our coder to keep working and show interest.

There may yet be another fallout game. Give me a message if your interested or post here to let me know.

Got a server up and everything. We'll get more details out eventually, but for now at the very least we are planning to set the game in New Canaan and allow players to come from a variety of backgrounds as refugees to the city.

More later.

I have mixed feelings about this advertisement about where the game is going.. its definitely a big case of... I'll beileve it when I see it..

Reno nearly died becuase of a lack of staff assistance in running things.. so if they are willing to pick up the slack unlike what they did before.. perhaps there is something to look forward to! Again though, I wouldn't recommend getting too invested.. but..

Seriously though. Anders.. There is going to be an Anders in this game guys.

There is going to someone who is playing Anders and the question we all are thinking is.. Who is going to get to kill Anders first? Can we kill Anders first? Please let us Kill Anders.

@Kanye-Qwest We'll go halfsies, you can eat it for me.

OH yes, the Bull-born and the Cockroach shifters- I remember those... very interesting aspects and a book that never got used.

The problem is I know for a fact that WW 2e will not have any info on that- so if you are going to use them- that is going to be a completely player driven conversion for the most part.

Perhaps I am off base posting this NOW, but I do want to bring up that reading OR? I cannot help but snicker ever so slightly..

All this discussion on.. RPI staffing and the Community posts made on OR about staffing and ethics.. are... how do I say, questionable at best? Not because the discussion is needed, but because the people who tend t o be discussing it are often times the worst offenders of the bunch, or may have, but nobody knows, because there has been consistently 0 transparency with the authors and writers.

. Sure there might be some merit in the discussion about how Mush's evolved as a game code wise, yes. Ethics and Staff Culture however? That is another cookie entirety. It's funny to see these posts to me. Especially with SOI's recent outburst of anxiety and anger towards their staff, the closing of their forums, and the migration of those groups to other forums, how far the mushing community has come in comparison. Whereas Mushs have constantly had to compete with this problem, and answered this question by trying to be more transparent, developing new systems to be inclusive to newer players making them more relevant, and generally just a philosophy of staffing focused on the appearance of justice, if not justice itself..

RPI's and perhaps Evennia I've noticed, seem to be in constant risk of slipping further and further down the corruption hole. The lack of staff-player communication, except through a one sided system. Total Staff Anonymity, Obscuring mechanics and systems intentionally, and never necessarily revealing their existence. Then of course, the fact that when a problem blows up in their face, because players are unable to complain- they have to 'deal' icly with staff hissy fits for what can sometimes be legitimate complaints... well..

I've got to jet here in about 5, but I wanted to put this out here.
I'll do a comparison of RPI vs Mush character advancement to underscore the differences in design philosophy and staffing principals that I find why RPI systems to be fundamentally misguided on creating a fun, inclusive game.

What impresses me so much about Cyberpunk 2077 is its world building... as well as its story..

Did you know..

(Kinda spoilery, but not really
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And a LITTLE more spoilers, but has nothing to do with the plot or anything relevant to V at all. If things have gone off the wall, you should of been able to figure this one out.

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Well, Well... WELL

I'm going to roll the stats for a fucking
outspoken Tiefling Druid from a plague ridden city who is downright racist towards living skeletons

@wizz More than fair! Again, I won't deny its problematic, but at least in helped contribute to the dialouge, and Pondsmith IS changing and updating things. Better to adapt and change then just keep it the same right?

Shadowrun does a way better job at it- a lot more obvious, its easy to point out how racism is fucked up when you literally just make another race to expy for Blacks- great way to help demonstrate the concept of systematic racism too, in easy to understand terms!

Cyberpunk (the game, not the genre) doesn't have that going for it sadly, and so has to just be more overt at times, and sometimes that makes it age really, really poorly.