Posts made by SixRegrets

This sort of uninformed fearmongering doesn't really help anyone.

realizing that I basically want to make a game about every book or piece of media that isn't a movie or song, except then I don't

most of a concept cooked up involving elements from one of the books from the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers, currently reading Walkaway by Cory Doctorow and feeling a few ideas percolating..

@masterreeve said in Shadowrun: Anarchy MU seeking staff:

@sixregrets It's the Shadowrun: Anarchy ruleset as a whole. It will not be focused on only one specific corporation. If that's the story you want to tell, though, you'd be most welcome to do so.

Ah, I was actually referring to the server software AresMUSH, so that's probably 'something else', then.

Is this going to be an Ares game, or something else?

Lazy interest check: mostly-social sandbox on a space station above a mostly-fucked earth? I'd probably be inclined to run it statless, but there'd be some plot to it to keep things moving.

Different from The 100, in that the surface would be used for strip mining for resources, and the space station wouldn't be on the verge of falling apart.

@squirreltalk said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@lotherio A new, explicit, 'go ahead and be gratuitously sexy or gropey even in non-sexual scenes' one, in this case. But ideally still with plots. What could go wrong???

Isn't that just Arx?

(I do not know anything about Arx.)

@misterboring said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Ooh. I got another one.

A small town Unknown Armies game where hokey small time magic users in the early 1980s fight over control of the mundane population like feudal lords.

I've been doing some research into Unknown Armies 3e for game development. Are you aware of any MUs that have used it?

@pyrephox said in Last One Standing:

Yesterday, the web portal stopped working on my work computer. It works fine from home, but from work, it claims that there's an invalid security certificate. This may just be a glitch on my end, but if other people are experiencing it, I figure I'd put it out there in case something could be fixed before the start of the game proper.

I don't think anyone else has mentioned this sort of issue, but I can't speak for @crayon . The SSL certificate currently being presented looks valid to me, and it looks like a bog standard Let's Encrypt certificate, so if you were running into issues on your work machine, I'd expect you to have pretty widespread errors on other websites as well. Might be worth trying a force refresh (ctrl-f5 in Chrome) if you haven't yet and making sure that the work computer's time and date are accurate.

@geeklure said in General Video Game Thread:

@sixregrets This is a very interesting thing to me as it's one of my fave genres, and it might be helpful to you to know - if you didn't already - that 'cosmic horror' is usually the go-to descriptor for control/lovecraft/xfiles-esque biz

Yeah, I just tend to shy away from that label because usually the next word out that comes up is Lovecraftian, and then that brings out all sorts of racist weirdos.

@tnp said in General Video Game Thread:

I haven't played it (though I just got it since it's free) but it seems similar in concept to Prey by the makers of Dishonored. If you like Control you might like those as well.

Prey was free on the 25th, actually! I love both of those games but I'd really only call them similar to theming to a degree. Prey is an immersive sim, while Control is more of a shooter. Prey is more about fighting monsters - Control's enemies are considerably more on the human side of things in terms of appearance.

I'm still working on building my MUSH that borrows from Control among other things, but Control is today's EGS free game of the day. Give it a whirl if you think you might be into it: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/control

Not surprised, but still disappointed that Mage appears to not be included for this.

@wizz said in Forum wonk:

The purpose of the board is a safe venting space, not some sort of weird drama archive, right?

@faraday said in Forum wonk:

What do you mean? I can go to an individual page for a long-running forum thread in Discoure on the Ares forum.

Example: https://forum.aresmush.com/t/minor-nuisances

I was referring to a particular page in a thread, not a 'web page'. Conventional forums having 20 or 40 posts per page in a given thread, for example. I don't believe that Discourse separates posts into separate pages for display.

@derp Not really, but it seems like most of the posts these days happen in the same few long running threads, which probably don't do nodeBB any favors. I can't imagine that trying to find something in the Arx threads is any more difficult than it is on Discourse, but given that they don't show up on the recent activity page anymore, there's bound to be some special jank going on.

FWIW, I have a deep loathing for Discourse due to the way it does away with the notion of individual pages for forum threads, and in support of that, breaks browser-based ctrl-f in favor of using their terrible built in search. Might not be that big of a deal for here, but it's a huge pain in the ass when you're trying to track down something on a technical oriented forum that uses Discourse.

While I agree that what Rinel (I do not know this person and am unaware of their previous posting history) said in that particular post was inappropriate, a ban seems unjustified, unless there are posts in that thread that were removed. You have other tools at your disposal, such as editing people's posts, temporary suspensions, etc.

If Rinel had actually accused the other person of particular things, sure, but for having particular sympathies?

Right now, nowhere that I would recommend, really, but there's a decent list of active Ares games here: https://arescentral.aresmush.com/games

don't @ me

I keep having faint ideas of a PvE game of rebellion. Robots, or at least cybernetically-enhanced individuals - but I can't quite figure out if players would be the robots or not, or who would be in charge. Unimatrix Zero from Star Trek: Voyager comes to mind, but it wouldn't be something directly related to Voyager or even Star Trek.

@horrorhound Might be worth checking out this thread: https://musoapbox.net/topic/3173/interest-in-cyberpunk-mu