Best posts made by Sunny

so. um.

Valheim?

It was nice knowing everybody.

eta: It's like playing Minecraft for the first time again.

Lux is great. Paris has stalked one friend of mine, harassed two others until they had to quit his game (one of whom had to quit ANOTHER game over it, because he logged in there to harass), and also closed a bunch of vamp jobs without talking to vamp staff about it first. Beyond, you know, the behavior he's exhibited here re: people he doesn't like.

ETA: And by closed, I do not mean resolved. I mean just closed.

@auspice ...I am saving that for the next time it's my turn to put a funny picture in the work newsletter thing...

I often show up as an alt of every damn person that uses Verizon from phone to connect in the PNW.

I do know of only a single instance of someone cheating where alts are concerned. One. Once, in all my years. Mind, maybe others were and they never got caught, but it's definitely not a significant problem in the community.

@cobalt

I am not sure if I am presently up for such things, but I really appreciate the invitation!

@tempest

Well sure, it's always a PITA. Trying to alt-tab on a phone is next level PITA though, rather than just the regular garden variety. Uuuuugh.

@ganymede The most traumatic thing about the whole thing (aside from the pain itself, because it was INSANE) was 'dunno, go ask the next doctor in a few days' I kept getting. Like 'I don't know' was an acceptable stopping point. I was scared. Thank the stars for the ER doctor last night who didn't think it was acceptable.

I think it's an interesting thought exercise. It's fascinating and interesting to work out, and I would personally run screaming from something like this coming anywhere near a game I was interested in playing on. It would be a hard stop for me, for the reasons @surreality mentions. It's very clear that I'm not the target audience though, so I think it's certainly worth exploring it for the sort of folks that it is the target audience for.

It really does to me come off a little bit like proposing a solution, then finding a problem to solve with it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBnAhedVIAInnvT?format=jpg

That is the face of a GM getting ready to unleash serious pain on his players. Just saying.

@arkandel said in Character Information: Wiki or Mu*?:

@sunny Well, they wouldn't be on MSB any more, just for starters.

Right. The times, they are a'changing. When we compare it to the actual things that were happening in the hobby 15 years ago, there is no basis to claim that things are more negative / hyperbolic now.

Can we please take politics discussion to the politics board? There's a place for it. Thanks!

@Cobaltasaurus said:

PERN:

• dragons
• ??

Not dragons, but I would do:

• Hatching
• Search
• Gather
• Hall
• Hold
• Weyr
• Political
• Fall
• Mating Flight

@arkandel

I mean employees are still staging walkouts, and the entire industry isn’t so bad that employees are driven to suicide, but YMMV I guess.

ETA: do they all have a Cosby room, too?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/12/09/activision-union-strike-fund/ <-- current situation, they are actually on strike RIGHT NOW.

The WSJ released a bombshell report (it's behind a paywall, alas) that Bobby Kotick (whom they have NOT fired, yet) actually knew about the rapes and everything and hid them from the board. Had receipts and everything (emails). It's not hard to find if you don't mind paying the WSJ sub.

@auspice I've seen theme files lifted wholesale on a number of occasions in the scenario you're describing. I don't understand what possesses people to do that.

http://musoapbox.net/category/19/politics

@Thenomain

Yeah, I know it was a decade ago. I was also, during this time period, actually doing a great deal of coding myself. I helped design and then code one of the most terrible of the involved phone code systems that ever existed. But there is some conflating going on here between the monstrosities that we built in the day and the actual base idea itself. There was discouragement for writing phone code at all because 'we stopped doing that because people didn't use it'. It's not true. 'We stopped doing that because we made it way more complicated than it needed to be and people didn't use the way more complicated thing' is a different statement, and it actually gets to the ACTUAL problem and the thing that people designing code need to pay attention to: ease of use. They stopped using it because we made it too complicated to use, not because it wasn't useful.

Everything Obsidian is doing/has done. Forza. Game Pass. Minecraft. Bethesda's ship being righted (whether or not FO76's playerbase has come back, it's clear that Microsoft is taking an active hand at course correcting it). Halo.

There's SO many good things coming out of them as a publisher, and they are well poised to address the ROT at Blizzard. If they get rid of Bobby, they have my vote.

@faraday OK, sorry. I completely misunderstood.

@firansurvivor And? You don't get to yell at someone for making generalities by doing so yourself. I don't care if other people were in some other space. She was not. My point was she was not. That other people do/were is irrelevant.

Hate is distinct from dislike. One is ok, the other when felt about a movie makes you a damn lunatic.

@Wizz said:

@crusader said:

@Wizz Because four pages is such a lengthy and comprehensive discussion. It must not have been, if the creator still thinks that apps page is a good idea, or else it's a deliberate move to lessen interest in his game.

I'd suggest it was a deliberate move to lessen interest in this game, for players like you. Your sensibilities are not going to align with the Supreme's sensibilities, and as far as I understand that's the whole point of doing this in the first place rather than waiting for some obnoxious drama down the road. But we couldn't have solved the mystery without you, Scoob, great work.

We have a winner.

That's my experience with the game and with Sups; he's communicated very specifically where he stands on things so that those folks who won't enjoy his game...won't come and play on his game. While I know I said I would quit squawking about it, I've been playing there for a bit now, and Sups is possibly the most active & engaged good headstaffer that I've ever run across. Also, he's a phenom storyteller. Like woah. The app requirements are NOT as bad as they look. Even a little bit.