Posts made by tangent

@bored Let's add some fun to this and make a wager. Everyday from now until the end of time, you can refer to this game as one of the 73 games that have tried this and failed, up until at whenever, if ever, a time it becomes a success by some mutually negotiated user-count, longevity, number of scenes sort of metric. At that point, if ever, you would need to start a new thread about how you were wrong and there were only 72, but Insurgency was the exception that proved the rule, and I get to follow you around every so often and lightly troll you.

I'm a bettin man, so whaddya say?

@Seraphim73 I think we're pretty confident that this will work, at least according to our own vision of success. Folks were skeptical of Marvel 1963 and we have been able to outdo our wildest expectations. If we fail, we fail, but among our Comic Book Nerd Games there seemed to be a big market (for me, a big market is 30-50 log ins), so it'll be what it'll be. But I guarantee we're all going to have fun while we figure out whatever it becomes.

@bored I'll be sure to link them here after they occur for the benefit of you, the community, and mankind.

@bored Never tell me the odds. (I play Luke Skywalker)

@TNP

From the Punky Brewsters who brought you Marvel: 1963, we're making a Star Wars game.

Rhost
Fate
Post New Hope (like, a couple of weeks after)
Some simple changes to make Dark and Light side chars more appable (and middle types too)
Focusing mostly on one planet (although RP can be anywhere) in order to build Ic bonds

Grid is complete and Chargen's first run through is going strong. We have a ways to go before we go Beta, but we'll keep the interested informed.

I would tell you the address, but we're not there yet.

@ZombieGenesis commenting so I get pinged when it opens

@skew Yeah, man, Faraday literally came over and helped me set up house and get started. I think for what you've described it's a pretty nice set up. What kind of Supers game are you gonna do? I need an "off" game!

I'm sorry for that one time on Cybersphere where a kid took a bunch of effort into a plot, like months and what not, and I just walked in the room and put a bullet in his head.

And I'm also sorry for that time right after, that I set my tagline to NCSP: We're sorry about your plot.

@GangOfDolls LaX till I die flashes signs

@Thenomain I thought it was mushered instead of Musher Ed. Like, "Hey you gamin' tonight?" "Nah, I'm all mushered out." Musher Ed is a much better way to think about it.

@ThatGuyThere said in Footballs!:

They can make you give it back, though in 90 percent of cases they do not. I have never heard of that happening at a major college or pro level.
It does happen on occasion at lower college and high school levels due to budget issues.
So while most of the time you get to keep it that is a gift from the team not a mandatory situation.
Edit: In pro sports there is a collectors market for special homerun balls and the like and the fans that catch can make millions and the MLB allows it. Also some football teams make it a practice of handing touchdown balls to fans even if they do not go into the stands in the course of play. So while in a lot of cases it is the default the fan keeps things it is not a guarantee.

For years and years, the NFL had requested the ball back when inadvertently ends up in the stands. When given one by a player, the player is charged. At least this used to be the case. There could have been a change. In soccer, at all levels, this is also the case.

At the high school level, we usually check in 4 to 6 balls a game, so we wouldn't be able to lose any of them, especially on a wet night.

@kk Marvel: 1963 is pretty much as good as open, even though we're still technically in beta.

@Thenomain Best convo I ever had with a Mormon was about Jesus and John the Baptist. I was a Mormon for a few years as a child, and some stuff didn't make much sense to me the more I thought about it. They've outlawed drinking, but the sticky wicket is that Jesus drank (the Lord's Supper...turning water into /wine/...that sort of thing). It always bothered me how they talked about those who drank during church, so I brought it up to a missionary. Their response that they're taught in missionary school is that the water was so bad that everyone had to drink wine because of the impurities.

Of course, that doesn't explain John the Baptist, who did not drink.

No answer for that one.

I think, like most people, some Christians tend to focus on the parts of the Bible that support their worldview.

@Thenomain said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

It seems unusual that to be Christian in America seems to mean to be Conservative so strongly that if someone wanted to identify as a Liberal Christian, I'm not sure what they would say. Nothing, perhaps.

We basically stick up for gay people and point out the hypocrisy of conservative economic policy with Biblical principles. I'm sure you can guess how well that goes.

@Arkandel I think that's kind of an oversimplification of what the Crusades were, but your point still stands.

@MarsGrad marvel1963.genesismuds.com 9630

@MarsGrad !

@Pandora You told someone to kill themselves? Classy. Could've just stopped talking to them beforehand. PEMDAS. Order of operations, man.

@ThatGuyThere I would agree with that, but to me it seems temporary. I mean, if you app Batman, and you're not a very good Batman, your opportunities dwindle. If you're Paul Manning, it doesn't take very long for people to know you're a good scene. Maybe I'm myopically optimistic, but it seems mostly merit based to me.

@Lithium I think you may have just been ahead of your time. And to your other point, both OCs and FCs tend to get marginalized depending on how much and how fun their RP is. All this talk about a lack of plots is confusing to me. When folks want more plots they just run one, and the rest of us join. I can't speak to other types of games. @TNP and his attempts to get me on a WoD game or something SciFi have never panned out, so maybe I'm just confused as to the culture of different genres. Like going to Holland when you don't know the language, or something.