Best posts made by Thenomain

@caryatid

This is a fair and measured assessment. I will own this as many times as it takes for people to think, "Hmm, that Thenomain, he seems to be owning this," but your summary is perhaps the most fair, certainly the one that gives space for discussion. I appreciate your skill.

My response to staff's private lecture was that I understand and would try, but I didn't appreciate them giving me the same lecture twice. I think that if you're asking for consideration and understanding that you also be able to give it. I will be far from the last person they have to deal with who freaks out, though I'd be surprised if they have to deal with someone who does so as much.

Also note that as some people were telling me to take a breather, others were dogpiling. I'm still owning that I should have the ability to chill the fuck out, but it goes both ways. It's too late now, but it ties strongly back into what's wrong with discussions on Soapbox in general, and gives a more even view of what was going on the channel.

@lordbelh said in Cheap or Free Games!:

So Steam Summer Sale is going. I'm thinking of buying the Shadowrun games. Anyone played them?

I love them. The first one the least, the last one the most, but they're all good and fun even if I can't seem to defeat the final boss levels on the second two.

That said, my fellow Shadowrun enthusiast @faraday didn't care for the first one so didn't play the others.

@meg said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:

it's just bad form.

Only if I were saying "all these people hate the game". Tacitly I am, but if you're hand-wringing about four people, then I don't know what to tell you.

Also, the bad form use is when people say "several" or "a lot". Four is a specific number. Sure I could be making it up, but if I'm giving you a number I must have the confidence that they exist.

It's not my place to out them. You know what happens to players who want to lie low to questionable staff but get outed? It's not pretty. I'm willing--maybe too eager--to be that person but it's not my place.
see above.

What? No. Not 'see above'. This is a legitimate concern. There is a reason these people told me in private. I consider this point to be the #1 reason not to name names. I disregard your disregard for their online safety.

I am not falling into that. but you saying there is evidence is what i am calling out.

This is fine. I'm not expecting you to believe me. I'm putting it out there to leave a trail of bread crumbs. Again, I think you're reading more into my purpose than there is. I'm trying to get you centered on it, but if you don't then there's only so much I can do about it.

That you were disinvited from a game doesn't amount to 'evidence'.

And I haven't used that as evidence. I'm sorry; have you not read each and every time I said that I deserved it?

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@saosmash : I will contact you in PM so you can let me have it in private. As I said, I deserve it.

@Ganymede said in Cheap or Free Games!:

@Insomnia said in Cheap or Free Games!:

Mordheim City of the Damned is having a free weekend until Sunday, and 60% off until Monday on Steam.

... huh. I didn't even know this was a thing.

Left4Dead, Warhammer Fantasy Edition.

Okay, done in a moment.

@apos said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:

I really think you should just reflect on that

I have been.

You might have your underwear in a twist over that 10%, but your disingenuous harping on it is just drawing this out.

Ditto to @Meg .

(edit) Not making a new thread. Man I want to give you people a place to vent, but I suck, I can't prostrate myself enough for you people, I can't manage to change myself, whatever.

@ThatGuyThere said in Cheap or Free Games!:

@Auspice said in Cheap or Free Games!:

Can be high and/or drunk and still have a great time. It's ridiculous, silly, and totally worth playing.

So just like real golf then?

Only in real golf, you need to be drunk or high to enjoy it.

(I'm so going to get downvoted for that.)

(Still worth it.)

@paris said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:

@thenomain You have my shoulder if you need it, and my goodwill even if you don't. I've never taken your needling personally.

Thank you.

Because I take everything personally.

@Arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain I can't quite fathom how a mouse+keyboard would be worse than using a controller but that might be because I suck at the latter.

The Korra video game is the only one that I've played that is far better on a controller.

@meg

Nope. Just to say there's a nontrivial link.

[Taking the Witcher 3 out of the No Man's Sky thread]

@Ganymede said in No Man's Sky Thread:

As for Ciri's eyeshadow, just play the game. And watch this trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr-DKyAVU34

Yyyeaaaaahhhhh, but I can't even make it through Witcher 1 for its janky controls—I can't mentally get through it—and its buggy nonsense—the reverend disappeared so I can't get past the starting village. As much as I absolutely adore a good story, I do have standards.

@kanye-qwest said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:

@arkandel said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:

heno's, or Arx staff's

FOR ONCE no one was talking about Arx, and you ruined it. You ruined it!

I tried!*

* (no I didn't)

@Insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:

@Derp Did you buy a wireless dongle thingy?

I truly love being a part of a technical community.

@highfalutin said in Charging for MU* Code?:

Is this still a thing you're willing/able to do for random folks, @thenomain?

Yes, but I have two games already who've been waiting for me to brain. Now that The Season is over, I really need to focus on them.

@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

@Ganymede

You have a technical community on your nightstand?

(Double Posting)

I know that people have accused you of being a dickhole recently, but if you start to nag on my jokes, I will seriously drive the 1 hour to where you are and choke you out.

If you're going to bring your kinks into this, at least let me choose the restaurant.

(Alternative Response)

I get yelled at when I'm trying to joke about trolls, I get yelled at when I'm trying to be helpful, and now you're telling me that I get yelled at when I'm trying to joke with someone? It's like you can't please all of the people all of the time or something.

Do you want your damn code or what?

@derp said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

@thenomain said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

@goldfish said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

I don't believe it's even coded in yet.

While it hasn't been extensively tested, nWoD Mage 2e is coded. I think. I'm pretty sure. I've had some reasonable requests from other people about it, but haven't managed to do anything with it.

makes grabbyhands at

https://github.com/thenomain/GMCCG/tree/master/Z - Game Lines/Mage the Awakening

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@skew said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

Yes, it's coded. Yes, it works. Unless you broke it in the interim!

I mean, this is me we're talking about, and even then I'm having trouble remembering myself today.

I want to say there's something incomplete about Proximus, but I can't remember what.

@Ganymede

Two words:

Mass.

Effect.

@Derp said in Changeling: The Lost Update [CofD]:

Sin Eaters are not dead things.

Having peeked at the Geist 2e rules, they are now very specifically not alive.

Dropping teasers, here.

When it comes to player arbitration, tho, it's just as much about the complaint as the rules. It's not irony for me to say that it's a lot harder to come up with a good answer if anyone is being a dick about it, and getting a second opinion is critical.

Also, take responsibility for your actions. Make it clear that it's your decision. The buck stops in your lap; own it.

I think the shittiest thing I had to deal with when Headstaff on Reach was when two staffers were using their staff position to help solidify their positions in a...I want to say family faction? They laughed it off until I got directly involved.

Maybe worse was letting the Changeling admin act as sphere lead though we specifically forbade her from becoming sphere lead. Not finding a solution was us tacitly saying "yes, she is sphere lead". I didn't think she should have even been an admin, but such the mistakes we can make when balancing the needs of the sphere to have even a shitty staffer getting things done, vs. nothing getting done.

I've been playing Saints Row 4, which I got as part of some Humble Bundle some years ago. It's also okay. If it weren't for the humor, it would be boring as sin, but with the humor it's more like watching a bad movie that is still fun to watch.

@Thenomain said in Changeling: The Lost Update [CofD]:

News at 11.

This Just In: Yup, by "Non-changeling", they mean every non-changeling, as the story permits.

Mind you, now I'm embroiled in a discussion about the nature of merits for NPCs. It's...tense, for which I'm surprised.

@SG said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain Keith David playing Keith David was the best.

No, best was the "Opposites Attract" duet. I sat and listened to the whole thing. (No spoilers, but it's well-written; the joke set up hours before the punchline.)

I think that Borderlands has a better tongue-in-cheek-gangsta feel, but I strongly disagree with Yahtzee that Saint's Row 4 goes too far into silliness. It's silly for silliness' sake, and that's okay.

The Big Bad is an 80s-era stick-up-ass douche who would, in another context, be shaking with rage and yelling, "Nnnneeeeerrrrrrrrrdss!", and that is perfect.