Best posts made by Thenomain

Okay! Now that everyone has settled on their opinions on what makes a good game, go out and make one!

...

Hey, it was worth a shot.

@auspice said in Random links:

@thenomain said in Random links:

@shelbeast said in Random links:

@insomnia Fine. You can buy me a chocolate butthole, then.

If someone has had their butthole bleached, would you use white chocolate?

I'm asking for a friend.

White chocolate is a lie.

Well so is bleaching your butthole.

So I'm told.

@Derp said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:

Staff needs to get better at saying 'this is what our vision of the game is, and the kinds of things that we are expecting. If this is not what you want, then this isn't the game for you.

Needs framed and displayed prominently on a poster involving a kitten, or a dog dressed as a chemist.

@miss-demeanor said in I DON'T WANT TO DATE YOU:

@mietze If you start to turn green or fuzzy all over, you have expired.

Or we're finally entering the Sixth World.

@Coin said in MU Things I Love:

Being engaged enough in a character that it inspires IC creativity.

I miss the fuck out of this.

Goddammit face, now is not the time to decide to extract my sinuses through my cheekbones.

@Sparks said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:

However. I don't think that means it isn't still staff's game to decide what the culture should be.

I feel this was caused by poor wording on my part.

Staff has inherent powers to shape the game, but like any creative work they should--in my experience--be beholden to the same consistency in working within the game as it is implied as a player.

The real reason for the above justification is to get into people's minds that the staff does not come before the game.

Tangentially: It never ceased to amaze me that people who staffed acted like they needed benefits. You can change the course of the entire game, numnutz, what kind of benefit would you call that? And you get to RP any NPC at any time as befits the game. And you have an organized support network, which is far more than non-staff players can say.

Some people's children. Sheesh.

@bobotron said in Random links:

@arkandel

Just... why?

Because meeting up with celebrities to solve mysteries is what Scooby Doo does.

edit:

Batman & Robin. C'mon, the real question is why didn't this happen sooner?

So, a staffer playing an NPC versus a staffer playing a PC.

Is there really a difference?

Can an NPC without extensive documentation exist?

When does an NPC become a Staff PC?

Fight.

Animated gifs with text about what the person is saying, and it obvious that the person isn't saying all of it.

Get it right, people!

Double post for reasons of actual content.

@mietze said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:

@Thenomain No, I don't consider someone throwing a bottle and another person getting hit by it in game purposeful in-game direction of the game, sorry.

Actually I wanted to harp on respond to this a bit, too.

Someone poses that it's a windy day and someone else poses an NPC losing their hat.

It's certainly not a purposeful in-game direction of the game, but it's flavor that goes toward making the game alive for me. The more that I feel my character is part of a world and not just a scene, the more I enjoy a game. I like immersion, and I like a story that is not just plot.

Today I saw two hipsters get out of a car in the middle of busy traffic in order to help a woman in her early 40s get her stalled car into a nearby parking lot.

What people say about hipsters could've been said about any generation. It's just as true, and that's great.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:

@Thenomain That was extremely uncool of you. If you don't know why, please step back and think about your choices.

And I should take your advice because...?

edit: Not that I shouldn't take the advice, just that I can think of almost nobody less qualified to give me advice.

@roz said in Good TV:

@aria Parks & Rec and The Good Place are the first that comes to mind for upswings.

No joke on The Good Place. There is not a single episode that is not positive. I haven’t felt this hopeful for characters since Pushing Daisies.

@Arkandel & @Ganymede :

Can we get this thread pinned? Thanks.

@mr-johnson

What? The original was a hot mess developed on the sets paid for by Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, sneaking in after hours to shoot. (This is really true.)

But it was original and made with the same care and ideology of most 60s American TV Scifi (the hippies), so it gets a major pass.

All the reviews for the new LiS have it being strange but not bad.

Unlike ReBoot, dammit, which looks to be an ill-conceived cash-in.

I giggled my head off while putting in my SHH application. Partially because some of it is so silly, partially because so am I.

@vulgarkitten said in HQ!!!!!:

Never letting go of that one!

Never gonna give it up?

Never gonna run around and desert it?

... I'll show myself out.

@tragedyjones said:

Thanks @Derp. I am not the poster MSB deserves

But you are the poster that MSB gets.

@surreality

Every Sperm is Sacred.