@Auspice said in Songs on a Theme:
@Ganymede said in Songs on a Theme:
@Auspice said in Songs on a Theme:
What do you listen to when it's raining or storming? What songs remind you of the rain?
Garbage: I'm Only Happy When It Rains.
I was actually thinking of coming back and adding this one.
Earwormed, thanks you two.
I listen to whatever is on the playlist when its raining. But if I want to feel like its raining, metaphorically, some Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns by Mother Love bone.
@Auspice Oh snap (small one, not universe altering one), that's right I forgot about the reboot. Well, that blows my theory on Josh Brolin eventually being a Nexus of All Realities (Alex Summers - Havok). Now there are two nexus in one reality - mind blown!
ETA: If it helps my favorite cross-over is Alfre Woodard, she's one up on Josh, Michael and Chris Evans (1st Storm/Capt America - I guess his ass is hot afterall?), she played two roles in the same movie verse (mother of boy killed in Sokovia and my favorite portrayal as Mariah Dillard on Luke Cage)
@Auspice Heh, I can make up crazy comic theories all day.
***=I've no clue if there will be spoilers or not in crazy talk, playing it safe.***
@Runescryer I've said it before, I'll say it again. Its part of the whole buying Fox thing. Thanos has his human side so when MCU combines with Fox Mutant-verse, the whole why Josh played Cable and Thanos will make since. Cable is a future split timeline that is righting itself*.
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Not for @AeriaNyx , but if you haven't seen Endgame, might not want to watch the trailer.
@Insomnia said in Dead Celebrities 2019:
@Rowan Yep. I my defense I am constantly having to be reminded it's May of 2019. Like... the 70's were 30 years ago, right? Even if I saw the date it wouldn't have registered.
Just to help even more, 1980 was 40 years ago. The 70s is like 4+ decades ago.
@faraday said in Space Games and Travel Time? Why? Why Not?:
You go down that rabbit hole and pretty soon you're talking a fully integrated economy/space/weapons system. There's nothing wrong with that, but these systems need to be in balance somehow.
This here. Agreed, nothing wrong with this. If you go down the rabbit hole, see where it goes! Make it good and make it balanced, but make it the focus, the big picture, the draw. If one's doing all that work, bring it center stage. Leave RP as an ancillary thing to do when one isn't transporting cargo, upgrading their ship,, evading Imperials as a 'smuggle and evade minigame', or calculating the cost of the spice melange on Arrakis following a fremen uprising (and yes, if you're doing space trade, have things like this affect it all somehow). Make it a good simulation of space, don't tack it on to an RPG set in space because you want it. For me, there's plenty of other space strategy games out there for me to get my fix that I don't care much for it when I seek RP; but I do love some good space travel/trading/mining/federation/etc games.
Taking onto feeling of big versus actual grid big. Most of those follow one group/crew, there is lots of new planets, but the central focus is a space port or ship or some such.
Take Star Wars and the hundreds of system. How much activity actually took place on Tatooine? In all the movies, how many locations actually made the cut, 3 or 4 tops; not hundreds of locations.
The small town @Coin mentioned, there is an entire world of places to go in that car or plane, but the main focus of the RP is that town it feels like. Still a might big world and anything needed could be done up in some temp room or just ooc My guy says, "Lets use this 'room' to RP, but we're on the road to the next town to dump this body in the river there" or whatever.
There is the illusion of big versus is do we need infinite space full of a hundred planets coded in to explore?
Fish tank as an allegory to space on a RPG-focused MU.
If you want live plants in a tank, you can't just slap some in your aquarium. It will upset the ecosystem and lead to hard to control algae blooms that makes it hard to see the focus of your tank, which was your fish you had established already in that micro ecosystem. For plants, you make a tank as a water garden and, once established you add a few fish as highlights to the lovely landscape you created. Google planted tank, there is 'room' for more fish in most of those tanks by basic hobbyist standards.
I rarely play WoD, just cause that was a baseline assumption of anyone who might disagree with the necro post that arose this thread from its grave. I played SW1 and a few other heavy coded space SW places, I played BT (less the RP ones like 3060, more the strategy game that was 3065 with random battles starting up all the time).
If /you/ want space, stop asking others to tack on space to their games. /You/ make the great space strategy game, then have RP as a highlight, and you may get what you're looking. Go back to googling a planted tank, most of those aquariums go against the rules of thumb for how many fish one can put in a tank (less than the rule of thumb). The plants are the space game (awesome landscape=awesome space play) and the few fish are the sparkling RP highlights to an already amazing backdrop and people can focus on what they want.
Oh yeah, secondary to the allegory, or part of it. The tanks is a closed space, if space is too open and there is meant to be some major RP/meta going on, it will be hard for the fish (I mean players) to find each other.
@Three-Eyed-Crow I don't know, Neal McDonough seems to have a role he's made for?
Can't speak for Jim Carrey. I sort of like Neal's work since he was on the one season show about the aircraft carrier during some apocalyptic event. Though the uniform could use an ironing - oh wait, I see the issue, US Army, its ironed enough I suppose.
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@Ghost That's close to mine, I'm torn between the never-hads and the been-a-whiles for hoisting the cup. Bruins are only there cause of my daughter for I'd be good seeing them get it. I'm still listening to games (yeah, more on, I could watch, but I've a habit of internet radio'ing the games, must be old age setting in, I can listen to games instead of watching).
@Ghost Exactly that. At least Nuge is still with the team out of a lot of great picks over the years. Complete change up again in upper management, maybe this year we'll see something (at least the playoffs because I don't think McDavid will wait as long as Ovechkin to hold the cup)
And that 05/06 playoff run was legendary - out of 61 penalty shots in stanley cups history, Pronger is the only one to score in a Stanley cup final. Small market killed that team staying together, his wife didn't like everyone treating her like a star around town.
On track for the thread and this year, I'm in a weird place, all the teams in round 2 are teams I would like to see win the cup (Bruins least of the four, but my daughter likes them as she's starting to watch some hockey now, so they can win to build her enthusiasm).
@Ghost I'll see you and raise. IF you want to complain about bad management over the past 20+ years, try being an Oilers fan. Management keys have moved around and changed enough hands, so to speak, its more like a curse and doesn't matter who's at the helm even. I don't know, folks thought when Pocklington was done (forced to sale) it was good, but should we be mad that Edmonton enforced whatever clause it was that kept the team in Edmonton until like 2004 or whatever (the reason he couldn't sell to another buyer in another city, despite all his threats to do so).
@stabeest said in MU* Gripes and Peeves:
I have been begging for YEARS for an evaluation because I could see how she was suffering and no one took me seriously.
Taking from Peeves after this went up, but this deserves its own complain thread in general. I had to walk on water to get the work down for my kid with Dyslexia as well for IEP and educational stuff to get system help in the schools. I flipped my lid on them last year, cause it they finally tested at year end then said yep, there ya go, but we have to retest at beginning of next school year cause of the time slip, like wtf, why'd you have us test now if it doesn't count.
Oh, and one more thing about Alice
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Now I have Jefferson Airplane stuck in my head jerk! I'll go ask her.
@faraday said in Saving Pages to the Database:
What I'm really asking is whether the illusion of private pages is important enough to players that they would not want to play on a game that was explicit about the fact that they're saved to the database.
@ZombieGenesis said in Saving Pages to the Database:
I'd be all for it. Anything nasty I have to say about a game I say to people via some other messenger service anyway.
@Ghost said in Saving Pages to the Database:
You take it on faith that staff, who you may or may not know, aren't reading pages, invisible and watching you TS, or saving your conversations with personal info. You resign to I'll...raise hell on MSB if I find out, but ultimately it's about faith and ignoring the negative/risks for the benefit.
I think these all sum it up for me. Late to the tea party as usual. I've seen a few similar such discussions on MUSH when talking about administrating a penn game and actually using the suspect/monitor flags. It's about the ethics more than anything else. Because staff can do some of that doesn't mean they should. Really there's no recourse other than broken trust if staff are found out. Secondary to that, I'm in the boat if I want to throw shade at staff, I do it off site.
I think as long as its explicit, pages are recorded, I'd play on the game, and yes, the others already have it as an optional switch staff can flip anytime they like (monitoring pages). I don't think its going to create any measurable loss of players who would play with that fact expressed. Staff can set up policy on the why/how they would check pages and if it comes out there was something shady, players can raise the mistrust by telling friends about staff or posting here, etc.
