Posts made by ThatGuyThere

I was one of the big proponents of being able to use softcode in the last conversation and i still am.
Most of what I use it for basically to let me do tasks I do often quicker, such as WoD power activation, or shifting in places that did not have a shift code set up so I could make a quick shift command and have it macroed in to change my name, desc, etc to fit the new form my character had taken. Now every recent game I have played a shifter on has had shift code in place so it is less of a practical issue in that case anymore.
I have not had to really use any of my limited soft code tricks because now the games have things set up so there is less of a need to come up with them from a player side of things. though I still like having the ability to if the need should arise.

@Arkandel
Part of it might come down to the type of fan you are. If it is a sport I like I can watch it even if I do not care about either team the play itself entertains me, the laundry worn by the players does not matter.
I do follow and consider myself to support some teams for example on the thread topic I am a T-wolves fan, have been since they first came into existence when I was in junior high.
Recently they have been very entertaining, so I have watched a lot of their games, for a lot (possibly most) of their history they have not been an entertaining team to watch so while I checked the box scores daily and followed the team I did not watch them I would watch two entertaining teams play while not cheering for anything but quality play.
And while sports does not save lives I do consider providing entertainment a valuable service, maybe not a necessary one but a valuable one.
Now I will cheer for certain athletes but that is not always based on weather they play for a team I like. I have never liked the Cowboys but was a huge Emmitt Smith fan, and cheered for him despite the team he played for. And there are certain players I dislike and will cheer against even when they are playing for teams that I love.
I don't have a large emotional investment in the teams I follow though. Again I think a lot of this might be the teams I grew up cheering, none are "big name" franchises and only the Twins have ever won championships (1987, 1991). I know the season will end in failure so I enjoy the ride but make sure my emotional seat belt is buckled though cause the crash is coming, for proof of that I give you the end of the Vikes- Seahawks playoff game of this January.

@Ganymede
Oh I completely understand why most sports fans feel they way they do about star athletes changing employers. It is just one of those things that makes zero sense to me.
I do not feel a cashier need only work for one store ever why would i feel that way about a power forward?
As far as some of the other points I think it is a negative sign that are culture obsesses as much as it does about athletes and other celebs as much as it does, and any parent who hasn't taught their children that athletes aren't to be emulated is doing an absolutely shitty job. The "But athletes are special" argument is why we get lings like the Baylor scandal or the various assaults that get swept under the rub or Ray Lewis being celebrated as a hero despite obstructing justice in a murder case.
the only time I tend to side with the team loyalty thing is holding out when a contract is in place. In that case you signed a deal live up to it, in any other case I am a big proponent of the free market, labor has to right to decide where to work as long as they can find a management willing to agree to the terms.

@Ganymede said in The basketball thread:

OKC had a legitimate shot of knocking out GSW next year if Durant stuck around. He did not. And I don't see any way he shakes that reputation-hit.

This is the one or the two things about sports fandom I will never get. Athletes are working a job like anyone else. His contract was up how does him changing employers effect his reputation?
Maybe it is growing up a fan of Minnesota teams where the free agent migration away is pretty much a given. Now I will admit revering the few that stick around but I do not hold leaving against the ones that do. It's a job plain and simple they just get payed more them most because they possess a rarer skill set.

To answer the original question, no but then I also do not consider the various works of interactive fiction to be video games.
I tend to agree with Ark's assessment that for it to be a video game it should provide more then a basis of communication, the computer should be a viable source of game play.
I could see muds counting since they have computer controlled opponents and systems to play with with out needing to involve other people. On a MUSH the main entertainment comes from other players for good or ill you cannot really MUSH without other MUSHers, you would be mostly watching an unmoving screen . You can play an MMO and never interact with another player if you don't want to. True you lose much of the content but it is possible. You can play a fighting game single player and never square off against another person, it is less fun but doable same with any other genre of video game.

@Arkandel said in The basketball thread:
. Plus there's a rumor Tim Duncan is leaning toward retirement.

Duncan is almost certain to retire if the report I saw on Deadspin is correct and the Spurs signed Pau Gasol.
I am not sure that is a good deal for them since it also means they likely lose Diaw as well to the salary cap, but when it comes to the NBA one thing I have learned d is that R C Bufford knows best.

I will be he voice of dissension here. I think it was a good move, for one reason only It is essentially a one year gig, he has the option to become a free agent again next summer. He gets a shot at a ring and a big one year payday then becomes a free agent again next year when the new TV money kicked in and the estimates I am seeing make the salary cap for 2017-2018 about $30 mil more then the cap for 2016-2017.
Most of the talk I heard around Durant were teams wanting to sign him for longer terms. Honestly any big name who signs long term this summer is likely doing themselves a disservice unless age is a factor or there is some other risk factor for not grabbing the money now. Durant is not near the age of decline yet, and will likely be able to pull down a max contract next summer which will be substantially larger then a max deal this one. And it is called professional basketball for a reason money matters.
Now I am not sure GS is a good fit for him team wise or legacy wise but for a one year stop there are a lot worse calls.

@Coin said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

@ThatGuyThere said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

I think the second edition mechanics are superior for the most part the story parts for 2nd leave me totally cold.

Which story parts?

The God Machine in it's entirety, and making tribal choice in werewolf determine your hunting specialty. I tended to play a lot of spirit focus Iron Masters now they would be simply very urbanized Bone Shadows which it not the same feel to me.

Also I am somewhat biased because the character I am playing now is not possible in 2nd ed changeling at least not the stuff we have seen of it.

How so?

At least in the previews we saw how you escaped from Arcadia determined your seeming. In my case I am playing an Ogre who escaped by trickery (Troll kith, nice bonus to manipulation rolls) meaning that in the new version I would either be a Darkling, changing my contract option and essentially forcing my character down a path I have zero desire to play or I would have to completely alter his backstory about how he escaped.
I also don't like the fact that what you do to escape becomes your seeming because a lot of what I like about changeling is playing tout the self acceptance of what you have become,to me this is lost because it is not an unwilling change but the very tool of your freedom.

@Wizz said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

@ThatGuyThere said in An open letter to Fallcoast:

I have know problem with there being 2E games but why do folks keep harping on the one option to play 1E changing?

Because 1E is a relic. 2E has done such an amazing job for the most part making each game its own thing, trimming the fat, and adding fun new elements to the system as a whole that any time anyone talks about going back I am baffled. I don't think anyone has ever managed to give me an objective answer for their preference either, aside from what can be considered nostalgia or just fear of new shiny things.

I think the second edition mechanics are superior for the most part the story parts for 2nd leave me totally cold.
Also I am somewhat biased because the character I am playing now is not possible in 2nd ed changeling at least not the stuff we have seen of it.

Con :
There are multiple 2E options out there and none stopping anyone from making another.
Fallcoast is the only 1E game remaining. (That I know of)

I have know problem with there being 2E games but why do folks keep harping on the one option to play 1E changing?

@surreality said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

@ThatGuyThere said in Retail "Horror" Stories:

then tell my manager if I am scheduled for a Monday again I am done. That Friday we get the schedule for the next week.

I had one of these at a (different!) department store the first year I was in college.

Semesters change, my availability changes. My (snotty, classic mean girl breed) manager calls me into her office and says, "You are going to need to think long and hard about what's important to you, college, or your job," while making it clear she thought working as a part-time contigent in a crappy department store trumps a college education in some universal order of importance.

I got that same line when I was working as a telemarketer about a year after the restaurant gig. My supervisor was stunned when I literally laughed at the question.

@Cobaltasaurus said in Retail "Horror" Stories:
d the personnel manager has said she'll put my fall schedule into affect a week or so before school starts. We'll see if this comes true come September.

I hope this happens for you. My only similar experience was not a pleasant one.
Slightly off topic cause it is food service but not retail. My first college job was working as a dishwasher in a restaurant. I started in the summer and had already registered for fall. One of the classes I took was a Monday night class, after being on the job for a few weeks and generally liking it but being scheduled every Monday night, I go into my manager, and said Starting in September I need Monday nights off because I have a night class if that is an issue let me know so I can change my class schedule. There were other sections of the same class with open spots I had just picked the night class on a whim. He says It won't be a problem. Cool I work the rest of the summer. Schedules were made weekly so I went in two weeks before classes started to remind the manager, again I was told it was not an issue.
So the schedule for the first week comes out and I ma set for Monday. I go in talk to the manager and he changes it. Second week scheduled for Monday, I skip class and work it talking to the manager again and being assured tit will not happen again. Third week, I am working Monday on the schedule I switch shifts with a co-worker, then tell my manager if I am scheduled for a Monday again I am done. That Friday we get the schedule for the next week. I am listed as working that next Monday, so I work that Friday then head out of town for the weekend, missing the shifts I normally worked and was scheduled for on the weekend. I then return home to a lot of messages from the place, I then called in dead. No really, in the smarmy way that only an 19 year old can I called in and told the guy I would not be coming in again "Because I am like dead or something."

@Royal
What was the make and model? Anything that can take that kind of abusive before dying needs to get proper credit.

Not retail but food service.
Being a regular does not remove your duty to tip. In fact it increases it. The rest of us regulars know this and this is why we get excellent service. Your food takes almost an hour because the waitress knows you won't tip so doesn't care. Also yes we can see it sitting at the window too waiting to be brought out, start tipping more then 8 percent and I am sure it won't sit there nearly as long.

@Songtress
Yup, the boot Roman soldiers wore was the caliga, and he got the nickname because as a child he liked to hang around with the military and dress up as a soldier.

The custom of someone's name changing as they got older was not all that uncommon among real world cultures either, at least before modern times. As was the practice of using a childhood nickname to denote a personal relationship as opposed to a more formal one. In some cases even historians adopted the childhood nickname rather then the actual one, for example Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, is much more well known to modern people under his nickname Caligula (Little Boots.)

@VulgarKitten
Just so those of us in the peanut gallery can put your continued defense of the game/attacking of Sunny into proper perspective, where you one of the Chosen in the scene that resolved the game wide two year long plot or were you one of the plebs in the social scene?

@Ide
It was the very time consuming and robust system that RfK used to handle the doing of all the stuff that happened off screen, mostly investigations, political maneuverings, and territorial management.

@VulgarKitten said in Kushiel's Debut:

@Shlappy said in Kushiel's Debut:

@VulgarKitten Yet important enough to you still to bring up almost 2 years later...

To illustrate the hypocrisy here. For that, yep, it was important enough to bring up. I could have just said it was hypocrisy without providing an example but that seems kind of silly.

So the Dunlin stuff was scheduled to coincide with "the most important IC social event of the year" ?

And weather Sunny is guilty of doing the same thing in the past is really less of an issue, lets talk KD, was this important plat ending scene publicly posted in advance? I have not heard it was and not of the defenders so far has mentioned that it was. It definitely was set for a time that would create scheduling conflicts for folks.
No not every person can get involved in every plot but when the scene that ends a major meta plot ends up being populated by mostly staff alts and friends. (Which I will point out the defenders have also not denied) while there is a social scene going on to keep the plebs busy, that is gonna raise a lot of eyebrows. And while there is no way to prove it was designed that way and that the game is therefore a total sandbox, but it sure is walking like a duck and qwacking up a storm so I have no problem calling it a duck.

@VulgarKitten
Was this Elder Dunlin plot on the Reach something that had affected the entire game as the plot on KD certainly sounds to have done?
If not then yay you have made a false equivalency.
Also nice job of blaming Sunny for mentioning the FB thing rather then the person who actually made the comments on her FB.