Posts made by Lithium

@Cirno

ROFL

If you believe black people cannot be racist against people of other ethnicities...

I have no words to truly convey things at this point, but I will try. That's just hilarious, and sad, but mostly sad.

I'm starting to agree with @Arkandel at this point, you've got to be trolling and either way, done feeding this pointless conversation.

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On Topic, I hate people who don't use their fucking blinkers. It's like, the flip of a lever, really, turn on the god damned blinker before you start cutting people off.

Since it really belongs over here, one of the projects I am working on is a Mutants & Masterminds MUX, set in an original world. The general idea is that the city is frikken huge, not like Mega-City 1 from Judge Dread huge, but huge enough that it goes from horizon to horizon.

Because it's so big, there's so many people, that even thousands of heroes can't stop all the crime everywhere (I am taking that from Dread though) so there is always a need for heroes even though there's tons of them.

I want to have different areas of the grid be set up for different styles of play, some will be grit and gritty for vigilante type characters where it's messy and bloody, some will be more akin to four color good guys vs bad, some will be in between. This way there is a wide variety of areas for people to play in and a wide variety of acceptable characters.

Starting characters will be of two varieties, standard Power Level 10 characters will require an approval before play, while anyone can make a quicky character that is PL 5. PL 5 characters are more 'High School' or 'Side Kick' type of characters, or just someone very very new to their abilities. PL 5 characters won't require an approval, just go through the chargen and if they finish to the code's satisfaction, they can play immediately.

Obviously I can't run it all by myself, and there is some huge gaps in themes, so when I am ready I am going to look for other staffers but until then, that's the general idea.

I went with Mutants & Masterminds because the system is fast and simple and generally should be pretty smooth for combat scenes I am hoping without to much chart checking, and chargen is a breeze compared to, say, Hero System.

@Runescryer

Let me throw up a new thread about it to be discussed there.

@Cirno said:

@Lithium said:

@Cirno said:

@Lithium said:

Then I guess you just are flat out IGNORING what happens in certain african countries, because of the shape of people's noses. I am sure you are ignoring the times when yes, people are attacked and killed, because of NOT being black, or mexican, or south american, or not having the right religion, or not agreeing in the same VERSION of marriage?

You're right, just because you can link pictures of HORRIBLE stuff people have done to black people, means that black people have NEVER done HORRIBLE stuff to others because they weren't black.

I've seen what happens and experienced violence myself. I may not be dead and hung, or burned because clearly I am still here, but there are PLENTY of violence on BOTH SIDES.

EDIT: But hey, that's a complete fallacy, never happens, totally untrue.

Guess what, institutionalized slavery? Not a thing currently going on here. Bad shit happened, nobody is denying that. Bad shit STILL happens. But apparently it only counts when it happens to black people.

And this is why it will never end.

Edit 2:

And because I have no desire to try and outshock anyone, I'm not going to link what happened to /my/ ancestors.

But are you dead, though?

Furthermore, are you aware of the Rwandan Genocide? You know, the time when black people ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of other black people?

So your point about Africa isn't really going anywhere.

Also, What race are you? Declare yourself, or hold your peace. Not that it matters, because I'm pulling out of this thread.

I've already declared myself. I am a mutt. I am a mix of a few different European caucasian branches, along with Blackfoot and Sioux. Enough so that I am legally of those two tribes but I don't look like an archetypical native american.

And yes, the Rwandan genocide does prove my point. Everyone does it.

Japan and China, the Korean peninsula, Indonesia, the caste systems in India, the general state of things in the middle east, humans are fucked up, racist, and downright brutal to everyone.

It's not a 'white' thing. It's a /human/ thing.

Until people can come to grips with that, and move beyond it, you're going to get the same old shit happening over and over again.

There is plenty of horror in this world there is no need to try and make it worse with an us vs them mentality that @Cirno is promoting.

There will always be the Us vs. them mentality. It's not going to go away. It is basic human nature.

I'm sorry, but I didn't make the rules.

So then you admit to being a racist, and unwilling to even try and make the world a better place.

Fair enough, you are officially part of the problem and not a part of the solution.

@Runescryer

I'll be looking for help with staffing it when I get the base code down and chargen working. I am working on two projects atm (This one, and a shadowrun 5th edition game) so it will be some time.

@Cirno said:

@Lithium said:

Then I guess you just are flat out IGNORING what happens in certain african countries, because of the shape of people's noses. I am sure you are ignoring the times when yes, people are attacked and killed, because of NOT being black, or mexican, or south american, or not having the right religion, or not agreeing in the same VERSION of marriage?

You're right, just because you can link pictures of HORRIBLE stuff people have done to black people, means that black people have NEVER done HORRIBLE stuff to others because they weren't black.

I've seen what happens and experienced violence myself. I may not be dead and hung, or burned because clearly I am still here, but there are PLENTY of violence on BOTH SIDES.

EDIT: But hey, that's a complete fallacy, never happens, totally untrue.

Guess what, institutionalized slavery? Not a thing currently going on here. Bad shit happened, nobody is denying that. Bad shit STILL happens. But apparently it only counts when it happens to black people.

And this is why it will never end.

Edit 2:

And because I have no desire to try and outshock anyone, I'm not going to link what happened to /my/ ancestors.

But are you dead, though?

Furthermore, are you aware of the Rwandan Genocide? You know, the time when black people ethnically cleansed hundreds of thousands of other black people?

So your point about Africa isn't really going anywhere.

Also, What race are you? Declare yourself, or hold your peace. Not that it matters, because I'm pulling out of this thread.

I've already declared myself. I am a mutt. I am a mix of a few different European caucasian branches, along with Blackfoot and Sioux. Enough so that I am legally of those two tribes but I don't look like an archetypical native american.

And yes, the Rwandan genocide does prove my point. Everyone does it.

Japan and China, the Korean peninsula, Indonesia, the caste systems in India, the general state of things in the middle east, humans are fucked up, racist, and downright brutal to everyone.

It's not a 'white' thing. It's a /human/ thing.

Until people can come to grips with that, and move beyond it, you're going to get the same old shit happening over and over again.

There is plenty of horror in this world there is no need to try and make it worse with an us vs them mentality that @Cirno is promoting.

Then I guess you just are flat out IGNORING what happens in certain african countries, because of the shape of people's noses. I am sure you are ignoring the times when yes, people are attacked and killed, because of NOT being black, or mexican, or south american, or not having the right religion, or not agreeing in the same VERSION of marriage?

You're right, just because you can link pictures of HORRIBLE stuff people have done to black people, means that black people have NEVER done HORRIBLE stuff to others because they weren't black.

I've seen what happens and experienced violence myself. I may not be dead and hung, or burned because clearly I am still here, but there are PLENTY of violence on BOTH SIDES.

EDIT: But hey, that's a complete fallacy, never happens, totally untrue.

Guess what, institutionalized slavery? Not a thing currently going on here. Bad shit happened, nobody is denying that. Bad shit STILL happens. But apparently it only counts when it happens to black people.

And this is why it will never end.

Edit 2:

And because I have no desire to try and outshock anyone, I'm not going to link what happened to /my/ ancestors.

I'm coding my own chargen for M&M because I want a wholly original SuperHero game, in an original city, that isn't based around FC's from established comic books.

Peopple should make their own characters and make their own stories, not warp someone else's writing because no matter what idea you have for a FC, I guarantee it'll piss off or upset SOMEBODY.

Ah the good old days when the soapbox reminds me that it's not forgotten it's WORA roots.

Seriously:

People are fucked up to other people. Period. They don't /need/ an excuse, they just /find/ one.

Humanity is screwed up. Society is screwed up. There will never be true equality because 'people' as a whole don't /want/ equality. They /want/ to be /better/ than others, they want to have more, they think they deserve more.

Racism works both ways. Racial slurs exist on both sides, and I /have/ been called them by black individuals in the past. I've experienced violence, because of this us vs them mentality that is fostered so often. (I'm actually a mutt, mix of european of a variety of types along with Blackfoot and Sioux tribes enough to claim it) Yes, sexism is a thing as well but honestly...

/EVERYONE/ has to be willing to move past it and look to the future or it'll just continue.

P.S. There's plenty of white on white violence also that doesn't necessarily make the news either. Personally I'm of the opinion this social experiment isn't working and we should just stop /all/ the hate, /all/ the judgement, because we /all/ experience it anymore. That doesn't make any part of it right or better.

Completely unrelated to the events of the past but, how would one go about setting up backups going to dropbox? I would love to set that up for a game I am working on.

EDIT: Sorry about the necro

I think people would respect a Hunter game where people lost their characters a lot more than the typical nonsense where PC's survive shit they really shouldn't.

I vote for Hunter.

I wish I knew more about Fading Suns... then I'd have yet another distraction from coding and writing...

I am working on my own, it'll be done when it's done. It may never get done. Consider it vapor ware until it's finished.

@Templari said:

I want the Mechwarrior jacket package... just got to find out where to sell my blood, and maybe the blood of others. Got some souls in storage... if I win the lottery in the next 30 days I'd be happy to throw them 10K too.

Yeah I went for the jacket, it was the highest I could feasibly go under my current budget, maybe when I'm making more than 100 grand a year I can consider throwing more than that...

PvP is a mixed bag, and setting dependent. Some settings PvP should absolutely be a hazard, such as Dark Sun, for example. Other games it might not work so well on, such as a ship based Star Trek game, killing crew members is frowned upon.

I also think we have to discuss different types of PvP, there is a lot more to PvP than: I want you dead.

There is I want you ruined.

I want your significant other.

I want your money/empire.

I want your daughter (I've come for your daughter, Chuck).

So and so forth.

Not all PvP is bad, some of it can lead to great stories, so I don't think the type of person who likes or wants PvP is necessarily bad but I do believe in putting the boot down on the throat of those who defy theme/setting/system in order to do so.

To me code needs to help tell the story, bring people together, or otherwise get out of the way of RP. Sometimes code is necessary, depending on the system, for being an impartial mediator for combat for example or for other contests. I have played super code heavy games like ATS, and while it can be fun, it also takes away from RP.

The heavy code emphasis made it so you could play the whole game while rarely seeing another person face to face. You could trade, or you could hunt pirates, or various npc ships, etc. Face to faces were exceedingly rare and that level of code stymied the RP.

Back in the day though I had some fabulous RP there, now, not so much.

Personal resonance with a game system does not necessarily make it good, or bad, it just makes it not to your taste and/or preference. Which is completely, and utterly, fine. There is nothing bad about disliking a game system. There may even be reasons you personally find a system lackluster, or failing in an area, but this does not in general make a system 'bad'.

All a system is, is a series of rules, to try and interpret our pretendy fun times in a way that doesn't devolve into infantile cowboys and indians/cops and robbers where someone got shot, and another person says they didn't, and the back and forth lasts for all eternity.

The system is supposed to be the impartial mediator. If everyone plays by the same rules, then everyone is in balance, in theory.

The reality is that no system is perfect, there are people who find the holes either accidentally or on purpose, and build to take advantage of the system being ran (Such as multiple action combat merits in nWoD 1.0 for example, or a mentalist in Champions). These can make a system appear to be imbalanced, but everyone is still playing by those very same rules.

Long story short: Different strokes, for different folks.

As to capped vs staggered? I dislike automagic xp. XP is supposed to signify important life altering events that spur a person to change and grow one way or another. It's a mechanic to give the illusion of increased experience.

One can simply do the same job, day in, and day out, and live without truly living, and thus gain no experience. Their skills are static because they aren't being challenged to improve them. They are couch potatoes who spend much of their free time watching the telly.

If you don't have those experiences, then you shouldn't get xp in my opinion.

Also: The only day we stop learning, is when we die (Theoretical soul notwithstanding) thus I am against xp caps.

I also don't believe that some fresh character should be the equal to one who has had all these experiences that have shaped them and made them grow beyond a starting character. It devalues all those experiences.

That's just me.

I have no familiarity with any coding language beyond MUX. I am not that good yet, it takes me a long time to bang out stuff that other people here could probably do in their sleep. (Like I created a chargen system that was all in one room, and the room description varied depending on what stage you were on, and so when anyone looked at the room, it was what it was supposed to be for them. Hard as heck to figure out for me but I got it working, was a good feeling.)

MOO or MUCK or whatever might be easier to code in, but for someone like me who is still only half a coder, it just seems very daunting, and since it's not /my/ game, I would feel horrible if I failed.

They got my money, that's for sure.