Posts made by RnMissionRun

Holy cow! It's not worth trying to work if your job pays less than 40k per year. That's insane.

@surreality The Starfinder PDF I bought is marked on every page with my real name and a code which I assume is the order number or something, so yeah, they are one of the ones that do that. I honestly don't mind this kind of DRM. I understand the need for it and besides, it's not like I am the kind of person who would redistribute the stuff anyway.

Offtopic, but the Starfinder people have the most annoying web store ever. Have they never heard of drivethrurpg?

/rant

@wretched said in The Music Tastes Thread!!!:

Right now I'm really into Chelsea Wolfe, my musical roots are oldschool goth, love industrial and hip hop and a lot of stuff in between. Leonard Cohen is my all time favorite however.

1: https://youtu.be/46u_Ggsub1A Chelsea Wolfe
2: https://youtu.be/okaqXB6Ns5s Leonard Cohen
3: https://youtu.be/XwsJlUdklmk Sopor Aeternus
4: https://youtu.be/3GBGwnA7bMk Psyclon 9
5: https://youtu.be/SX5cfMMM-LI Sisterhood/Sisters of Mercy
Because I am a Rebel I add a 6th!
6: https://youtu.be/WrsFXgQk5UI Lil Uzi Vert

Thumbs up, man. Love your taste in music

Unfortunately I am still stuck in the mindset that avoiding IC travel times and methods is cheating because that's how we did things for years and years on Star Trek games.

Want to go to to another planet? First you need to acquire a ship (this could take a year or more of working your way up though the ranks until you were assigned your own command), then you had to learn to fly it (you almost certainly had learned this long before you got your own ship), and then you had to learn to successfully navigate through open space full of PVPers. It was wild and crazy fun back in the day but no one plays MU*s like this anymore.

@wretched said in The Music Tastes Thread!!!:

@rnmissionrun Hey another AP fan, woo.

Yep!
I'm waiting for @bobotron to chime in here since he's the one that got me hooked on AP.

@miss-demeanor said in Sci Fi/Opera Originality:

@rnmissionrun Actually, you should take a look at Starfinder if you want a decent Firely-esque game that uses a known system. Its Paizo's new game, uses D&D system but the setting is pretty baller. And it introduces alien races, so its not just humans out there trolling the galaxy. There's everything from the Skittermander (think Stitch) to Vesk (giant lizardfolk) to Shirren (superhot alien psychics) to androids (self-explanatory), there's even insectile races and the Ysoki are rat-like folk. There's a bunch more, but this is what's in the core book. But yeah, you get a crew of people, a spaceship, and you go have adventures! Be smugglers, be heroes, fight against the Pact's oppressive influence (or accept the limits to freedom in return for more safety!). Its a pretty awesome game so far and I'm enjoying making my grenade-lobbing Ysoki mechanic with her doglike stealth drone!

I had not heard of StarFinder, so thanks for the recommendation!

@auspice said in The Music Tastes Thread!!!:

Someone savor new Eels with me.

Too quiet!

This is more my type of music.

@miss-demeanor said in Sci Fi/Opera Originality:

@arkandel See, and I like Firefly-type sci-fi. People living in ships, on planets, in stations that sit out in the vacuum of space. Being able to visit any or all of them. Just... doing what you do. I find crafting up NPC races/people to be easier, but that's a 'me personally' thing. Its harder for me to make the worlds and places.

I agree!

Still waiting for someone to make a good Firefly game!

It seems to depend on your ISP.

I have noticed that whenever a webpage tries to use geolocation on my IP (Verizon DSL) , it thinks I am in Washington, DC (which is a couple of hours north of my actual location).

The same with my Sprint V20 cell phone, when I go to the weather channel homepage, it always thinks that I am in Towson (which is nearly 1.5 hours away).

I'm guessing it's things like this that are the reason why Google freaks out when I turn off location services (OMG YOU TURNED OFF LOCATION SERVICES YOUR PHONE MIGHT EXPLODE DO YOU REALLY WANT TO DO THIS?!!!!)

@apos said in Sci Fi/Opera Originality:

I believe that the lack of sci fi games is because of people having unrealistic expectations and standards of what they can reasonably achieve.

I think the main reason why people avoid original sci-fi is because historically, such games were code-heavy affairs with simulated space, economy systems and coded combat, which a lot of people simply do not like. Eve Online, STO, E:D and similar MMOs do that so much better, and that's why the players that used to frequent games like Hemlock MUSH, Beyond the Fire and Otherspace (for example), no longer play.

It's not the only reason, of course but I've gotten busy at work and have to cut this short

@surreality said in Sci Fi/Opera Originality:

@rnmissionrun Again, though, that's an existing property. Even the people who don't know it have dozens of people who do they can ask, rather than having to rely on staff to answer them.

Few casual players on an OT game can do the same, and as a result, there's a heavier burden on staff in this regard (though from what I understand, @Roz is a special exception and deserves lots of cookies for being awesome this way, more OT games need people like this, and they should be appreciated a lot when they appear).

But, again... there are several solutions to this problem, depending on the kind of game you want to have and what you want people to be able to do within its framework.

I think the point I made is apropos to original games also. Focus on explaining what something is, in game terms, and leave the jargon and technical explanations for the wiki for the real nerds

I have to say, not once in more than 20 years of playing on Star Trek MU*s have I ever had to explain to a player how a 'transporter' works, not even to players that have never actually watched Star Trek. All they need to know is what it does (it moves you from one place to another nearly instantaneously) and how to operate it (ie you step on the pad, target a nearby space object and energize). In a sense, it's no different than an ox cart, H2 Hummer, or an Uber taxi. You don't need to know (or care about) the specifics of how it works in order to use it and that's what's important, IMO. If people are hung up on the details then they probably do not fully comprehend the function of the device (in game terms).

I once tried making an original sci-fi game with a setting that was essentially just a blend of Star Trek and Star Wars with the serial numbers filed off. I developed the setting specifically so people wouldn't have to read a novel-length document explaining things. The result? Empty MUSH. I had a few folks wander in but no one stayed, so I gave up on it after a year.

I am not a huge fan of baklava but I do buy it occasionally from the same Filipino lady who makes lumpia for me. It blows away the stuff Nikos sells (a local Greek restaurant).

@arkandel said in Comfort Food...:

@fortydeuce said in Comfort Food...:

I have baklava from Greece, thanks to my Greek housemate who went home for the holidays!

I never liked balkava. I'm a traitor to my own people.

Also wth goes to Greece in the winter? Wait for the summer, person!

The nice couple that owns the local Greek restaurant closes the shop every December-- for the entire month-- to go home for the holidays. They've done this every year for as long as I can remember.

These are about the only kind of burgers I eat anymore. Those are turkey burgers with onions, jalapenos, cilantro and chipotle peppers, topped with pepperjack cheese, pico de gallo and a dollup of fresh tomato salsa.

My favorite "comfort food" lunch: Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, Egg salad and Avodaco sandwiches. Yum!

@sockmonkey said in Comfort Food...:

Kraft Mac n Cheese. Made with Kerrygold salted butter and heavy cream.

Because I am one classy lady.

I make mine the same way, but I also throw in a few slices of Deluxe American cheese and a handful of sharp cheddar. I'll even add peas and diced Spam (or plain ham) and make it a meal. I don't have this often due to the calories/fat but man it is it good.