Boredom. Avoiding schoolwork in a world without video games. Didn't want to become a phreaker because of fear of jail-time.
(note: I did want to become a phreaker.)
Boredom. Avoiding schoolwork in a world without video games. Didn't want to become a phreaker because of fear of jail-time.
(note: I did want to become a phreaker.)
@arkandel said in Celebrities that are Dead To Us:
I don't know about you but I'd watch the shit out of a sitcom of @kanye-qwest being married to Mr. Rogers.
I too enjoyed Season One of "The Good Place".
@tinuviel said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
I mean. I guess my main query about all this would be: Does it matter?
Of course not. It’s a thread to test if the poll function was duplicating.
The only correct, purely logical answer to the poll is “no”. The question includes all forms of Mu*, and some forms of Mu* are not games. And because not all Mu*s are games, they cannot be video games, no matter how you want to define “video game”.
If you want to start a flame war on RPG forums, start a thread called “What is a game?” You know how some people get so tired of answering the same question for newbies so many times that they get angry? That’s what this question is like.
Nobody can define “game”, and nobody can define “play”. We can feel it, we know the shape of it, and we know what we accept, but the best we can do it agree on a rough definition, or clarify when that definition doesn’t meet our own.
Q: What is art?
A: I don’t know, but I know what I like.
@ganymede said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):
TAKE OFF THAT DAMN HAT.
You know, I'm hesitating about it, but I want to say: This actually hurt. That kitten didn't do anything wrong, and got hit for...well, probably not smelling right.
I know it's animal nature, but goodfeels it's not.
Well, I've been forced to give up my spot for my usual chargen panic attack, though I do warn people that the staff are not people to disagree with unless it's on their terms.
I can't say this is a negative thing for many games, but in this case the experience was sadly blunt, ugly, and short with no give-and-take.
I love Chipotle. I know it will impact my health, but it’s so tasty.
@shelbeast said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):
This thread makes me long for heart emojis instead of upvotes.
Remember your history.
Long live the emoticon.
@kanye-qwest said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:
My stomach hurts for you. Just stop.
You know, this may be one of the few times I've ever seen you care.
Sincerely: Thank you.
And yes, I finally got enough sense to stop spazzing. I keep telling you I have an easy trigger-button.
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@meg said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:
i'm not asking you to prostrate yourself, theno. i'm really not. i don't wanna vent about you. i just don't think you understand how some of your posts have come off implying that people are horrible staffers. and if you think so, i mean, you can. but they are my friends and i am always gonna disagree.
I don't know how I can better say "I was wrong" and "I don't intend for my word to be law".
I do have someone whispering in my ear about HOW I was wrong about this, but they saw the actual post that triggered me. Why would I say this if it weren't true? Because it's about someone else getting me straightened out, not about "OMG I HAVE FRIENDS!" which is my main problem of "prove these people exist" as an ask for evidence.
Is this where we've gotten to in this hobby? On the Internet? Where one person says "I hate this thing!" and everyone who doesn't hate that thing has to defend it to the death?
People have hated things long before the internet came around, and fist-fights and dead Hamiltons have happened over it.
I try not to be that person who defends their actions with RL situations. My cat died in my arms and I'm a wreck. My meds are no longer balancing my anxiety. I panic when cornered. I get information overload and don't know how to defend myself against people whose opinion I think is worth every bit as much as my own.
These are not excuses worth a dime. I can be a shit-lord and I don't know how to fix it. I recognize that I have to fix it (and if giving some fault to shitty actors is bad, then I'll be bad) but I will not ask you people to do so. Hell, I didn't even ask Spirit Lake staff to fix it, no matter what they might think. I got caught in an anxiety-depression loop. I'm sorry. Believe me or not.
My opinion is and always will be but one. That's really the opinion of everyone here on Soapbox.
Well I'm also the kind of person who when they go watch a movie based on a book I love, I'm not looking for that book in a movie. I could have liked the Star Trek reboot, but it was nothing I hadn't seen before. Maybe if I'd seen it with fresh eyes I could've enjoyed it. Too much was going on with too little linking it together. This was my problem with The Force Awakens. This is what I fear about Infinity Wars. Character creep is a very real problem, and I feel that The Last Jedi solved that while also not reducing things to A New Hope's level of incipit Joseph Campbell Hero's Journey blah blah blah.
I say that even though I am still very starry-eyed about A New Hope. It's a beautiful mark of our cinema history, and I think it's still very watchable. "Too simple" works very well for it.
I'm pretty sure that The Last Jedi was not going for that. I think it 90% succeeded in its goal, even if some of the beats wore very thin to me as well. But I still enjoyed watching it, and in the end of the day that's why we watch movies. And we're disagreeing about what's wrong with it, so it can't have done that bad.
@surreality said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:
^ Brain monsters.
Yeah, brain monsters. Fuck brain monsters.
@misadventure said in Um...What?:
Or whatever it is posdessed him, and now is getting used to pretending it's him.
ThiS vesel is inOErporiate for OUR NEEds,
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THis wone diksoverd thA t hr paCKrsge froM ATLAS GMAES conztaindD kicSTART expanTon chraraters for Vast The Crystal Caverns Swecond Pr4nfting. My game group doesn't like just how outrageously asymmetrical it is, but I do. The idea is that with four players, one player is going after you, one player is running away from you, and the other is playing Kingmaker to your game while trying to prevent you from playing Kingmaker in their own.
Alas, being stuck in a High Strategy gaming group sometimes means I don't get to play the more esoteric kinds of games. They won't even play Gloom. What the hell, guys.
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I've also Kickstarted Root: A Woodland Game of Might and Right because I think I can convince my game group to play what is basically a fantasy version of a heavier wargame without realizing it. Also, look how adorable those ruthless and deadly animals are. So adorbs!
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Er, I mean, wE thinkwe are aGEtting that hang ov this Vessel. Tramble mortals and giv us moar fish and milk.
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aside:
@emmahsue said in Um...What?:
Theno, I really kind-sorta need to know what's in that package. Spill the beans, man!
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Followed by:
@redjellybean said in Um...What?:
@emmahsue I was just thinking the same thing. He mentions getting a mystery package, then doesn't update everyone on what it is!
Heh. Heheh. "Spill the beans?" Get it? Ah, puns.
@Caryatid said in MU Things I Love:
Breaking your character so you can rebuild then anew from shards and ashes. >.>
Man, people were so pissed when I broke their characters.
People I'm still talking to today are people who enjoyed it and broke mine back.
So this thread has turned into a "when I met a fascist/socialist" thread.
Um...what?
(I am kidding; this is a fantastic series of um-whats.)
@krmbm said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:
Write with your enjoyment in mind.
This post does not have enough upvote buttons, so I'm quoting it again. Here, let me do it again, with a bit more emphasis:
@krmbm said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:
Write with your enjoyment in mind.
This is a hobby. The point of a hobby is to do things you enjoy.
Of course you know this (you @Cupcake) else you wouldn't be saying, "I'm not enjoying myself; please help." But this could probably be Rule #1. (late edit: Rule #0 is: "RL Comes First." I will go to my grave saying this.)
There is only one person you can make happy. There is only one person whose responses you can control. You.
Doing things for others can be poisonous for your well-being, but if you work with the foundation of what Krmbm said then you should be fine.
This was the first Christmas I can remember without my older sister. My brother-in-law was doing well, but muted, and occasionally shaken.
And let me tell you all through watching it happen: No parent should ever have to bury their child. If any of you have ever had to, I give you my deepest sympathy.
Fuck. Cancer.
@faraday said in How To Treat Your Players Right:
if you need to resort to page-blocking someone, there's a problem and I would prefer to know about it as staff
Except that in the human condition, the word "need" in social situations is highly subjective. If we all had the same understanding of what actions are actionable, we...wouldn't be humans, really.
I'm not being pedantic, either. This is not an infamous "It Depends". The fact that people will pagelock/gag/shun Susie for What Susie Said About Bob is a challenge that absolutely ties into this topic.
The Good Place is still that good. I like any show that doesn’t back down from a challenging plot, even if that plot isn’t trying to push boundaries or rip from the headlines.