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@lotherio said in Favorite Minigames:

Sort of what @Thenomain may have been getting at by referencing combat as a minigame, one they may not like buy in essance a side element of a MU that some people enjoy or look forward too.

This was the thrust of it, yes. What Is a Mini-Game? I think we don't have a solid idea, but that it's optional seems to be key. Sometimes games put up things that are meant to be optional but end up being the kind of thing that if you don't engage with it, e.g. crafting or buying or getting crafted hand-me-downs, that you can't engage with the core game as well as those who did, that's the kind of thing that people don't particularly like. (Unless they want to engage with it, of course.)

One of the major complaints of D&D 3/3.5 was that you needed magic items to build a credible character at higher levels, thus taking the core game fun out of it for quite a few people who would rather have focused on their character and leave the crafting subsystem alone.

Can someone realistically play an enjoyable game of Arx without clues or interacting with people who are using clues for RP? If not, then it's probably not a minigame. Ark's comment about soul-binding crafted items got me thinking about combat in the same light; if you don't focus on combat for your character on Game X then is it a minigame? How about combat being something you could ignore completely; does that make it a minigame? What is a minigame?

@ghost

No, Mira!

My shower thought: I enjoy talking about RP I’ve had than RPing.

@meg said in Hey you motherfuckers.:

Idk who you are, but hi yourself!

Probably the only sane administrator the Wora line of websites has ever had.

Yes, I'm calling you out, @Arkandel.

@ganymede

I’m that second raccoon, grudgingly there because I think there’s food. Later I will probably complain to the person holding the bubble gun and be mocked in public for it.

Still, I love this hobby and I’m always glad when people find things to love about it.

No one punches wolves like Gaston.

@apos said in Helpful Spellcasting Flowchart:

@thenomain said in Helpful Spellcasting Flowchart:

But I've also coded similar systems all throughout WoD and people almost never get so touchy about them as they do with this.

People that have paid their dues in learning something unnecessarily complicated tend to be very protective of that.

Absolutely. The hue and cry when World of Warcraft made it easier to level up was legendary and repeated in song for generations after.

But I think what's happening here is that people who think the flowchart is fair or is unrepresentative are feeling insulted that what they enjoy is being called stupid for reasons of either misunderstanding (c.f., "this is a good tool once you know the system") or is misapplying the chart (c.f., "this chart is more complicated than it has to be").

It is a truly horrendous chart, but show a new programmer the breakdown of ANSI SQL's SELECT statement and see what they say. The thing is not a teaching tool, and should not be seen as such.

Nobody likes being misrepresented, and I think that several people are calling this out. The people being called out don't like the implication that they're being called stupid, either (whether they really are or aren't) and so the cycle of "You!/No You!" happens again.

In summary: Sometimes it's possible that you're on the wrong side of an argument and should have enough self-awareness and humility to accept it when it happens.

@Cobaltasaurus said in Part time ST For Hire:

(unless @Thenomain is gonna code it for me and @Tributary is gonna help me admin it).

For you? Any time.

Whenever I see this thread pop up in my unread list, this conversation goes on in my head:

Thread: Let's talk about TS.
Voice in my head: Please god no.

It's kind of sad that the voice in my head is more sensible than I am.

@Alzie said in Thenomain's Playlist:

You should list The Reach under Ironman Challenge where it rightly belongs.

I helped start Dark Metal. The Reach was old hat by twenty years later.

@thenomain said in Why did you pick your username?:

Because it’s impossible to get me to shut up.

To clarify: I also often quote myself to clarify. And edit my posts. And expand. And and and...

Sometime in my teens, a coder looked at me and said, "You're like a Non-Maskable Interrupt." So I went by "The NMI" for a while.

This was stupid, but not as stupid as "Lance Peterson" which is the name I chose before that.

Because why not.

Shut up.

So I played around with "The Non-Maskable Interrupt" but that was way too long, and too on-the-nose. Why have a cyber-handle in the cyber-days of cyber when it's not clever? (Not clever people are not clever.)

So it's "THE NOn-MAskable INterrupt."

Still on-the nose, a little self-demeaning, but not as obvious until people ask me about it. And seriously, if you can find another Thenomain out there let me know so we can prove multiverse theory.

This is why it's shortened to "Theno", not "Then". Tho someone called me "The Non-Name" recently and I liked that quite a bit.

I downvoted Coin because I can. I have all the evil Admin powers.

@apos said in A (Mildly Complete) List of Current Games:

most players feel very little to no ownership over improving the hobby

Because so many games have worked very hard at removing their ability to influence the game.

Kudos to Arx for showing people how to reverse this trend.

So while this is something I did learn a very, very long time ago, it's still something I should have learned sooner than I did:

1. People will derail online conversational threads.
2. People who complain about a thread being derailed will still do it in other threads.

Not complaining, here, just sayin'.

@sunny said in How to start?:

...that started out as a joke...

From the aspect of a coder, it got funnier as you went along.

@Lain said in RL Anger:

Should we be policing people's political views?

Oh god yes please. "Your political view is without merit and based on nothing more than what you were told to believe. You are out of the voting pool until you can show a minimum national standard of independent thought."

I am obviously kidding but wishing that I didn't have to.

@ganymede said in What RPG SYSTEM do you want to play on a Mu*?:

In my opinion, GURPS Vampire is absolutely horrible to play

Fixed that for me.

I'm not looking to start a fight, but to me GURPS is...nngh, you guys have fun with that.

@cupcake said in Good TV:

@thenomain Walk-and-talks in zero gee?

I like to think they would be "float-and-gloats".

One of the things that still bugs me about this pose setup that we have is that it is much harder to get banter. I can’t interrupt, and it looks strange if I pose after someone else with: “ I— Well yes, but— Can I get a word in please!” I’ve always felt it less an organic storytelling and more just waiting for my turn to write.

It can be worked out when everyone else knows what you are trying to do, but there is no chance to interject into the break even if it enhances the pose or situation.

So we usually return to waiting for our turn to write.

Bill Cosby.

I grew up with him. He did work for children's programming, education, applying his PhD, throwing a positive image to millions of households with Fat Albert and with The Cosby Show. Most of his stand-up humor was pretty goddamn funny, too.

But now? The man should be in jail. I think he will be lucky if there is a second mistrial.

Louis CK I believe (and I will be the first to change this if I'm wrong) is sincerely apologetic and is looking to make a change. We shall see.

But Cosby? I hope he pays. With cash. A lot of it.