Best posts made by Thenomain

@RnMissionRun said in New Start Databases:

MUX has SGP and MUXcore

Nnnnnnnnnggghhhhhhhkkkiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnda? I've yet to see a Mux project where someone hasn't essentially wanted to throw SGP to the curb, and I keep forgetting that Muxcore exists which just a slightly cleaned up version of same. SGP is absolutely better than nothing, but that's about all I can say about it.

@miss-demeanor said in Good TV:

@roz Unfortunately, its now canon for the MCU and we must deal with it as a 'thing'.

Which MCU?

sets down the nerd trap, baits it, and walks innocently away

@misadventure said in System dealbreakers:

Not a dealbreaker, but close: anything you can only get at character creation.

It creates an artificial special category that is often seen as part of the balancing of a system, while rarely being that important.

Dwarfism, etc., should be chargen-only. Or racial benefits that come from things you can only choose at character creation.

@Lotherio said in Econ Code:

a feasible [...] economy

I'll be frank: I've never seen a feasible Mu* economy. The best I've seen is a minigame that hits the beats you're looking for. I know this is of no immediate help, but hopefully people who know of precreated code will say what it does, what it's for.

I'll be honest: People who conflate different mediums as the same source are one of the things that has turned me off comic books for most of my life. Not just this, but it's the topic of the day.

This bugs the shit out of me because of anyone, you'd think that comic fans would understand that different versions of the same character are distinct entities.

@arkandel said in System dealbreakers:

CGen shouldn't be a trap.

Except for Traveller. It's actually kind of fun knowing that you could die in chargen. But it's a short series of rolls so it's no big deal.

But I have come to absolutely hate different point distribution systems between chargen and gameplay. Shadowrun has twisted itself in knots trying to have its cake and eat it too, on this front, but I don't see any need for this at all, whatsoever, for the Mu*.

@derp said in System dealbreakers:

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@auspice said in System dealbreakers:

YOU TOO COULD BE A WASTE MANAGEMENT PRINCESS.

I have my next WoD concept.

I'm afraid you'll have to fight me for it. puts up his dukes

Tell you what. I'll take the concept to Werewolf, you can have Changeling.

Only if they can either be BFF's or mortal enemies.

Why 'or'?

ETA: If we can get @Ganymede to throw in with a similar Nossie concept, we could do wonderful and terrible things.

Bonus if Ventrue.

@faraday said in Brilliant Breakthroughs and Impossible Projects:

It's a tool not a religion

That's totally opposite the usual mood about code bases; you really are tired of this hobby, aren't you?

Cryotic.

I've been trying to make a character recently.

The amount that I have to do my own finding of answers that are referenced on the website is wearing down my teeth.

People who make games, if you're using a wiki please remember that the web was designed to link information for easy reference. It's not an information dump, and if you want people to go to your wiki for information—especially if it's not available on the game—then it must be useful.

No, let me generalize that further: If you're not writing your files for easy reference, you're doing it wrong.

This is my personal #1 hurdle to starting a new game; just trying to figure out what the game is about.

Fix that, people. Thanks.

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Oh! My +Events code is there! AWESOME! Thank you for finding that!

@Cobaltasaurus, I've been maintaining and improving your +Events code for a while now, you dork.

@admiral

I am not looking forward to the next balance patch.

@arkandel said in Do you buy your RPG books?:

Digital files, when downloaded, don't take away anything from someone's inventory.

But it reduces the potential market pool by one: You. Each 'one' reduces the market pool, which reduces the selling power of that item. If they were following elementary market rules, they would respond to a decrease in demand (people paying for it) with a decrease in price. This has worked for the music industry and briefly for the TV industry, though I think as the streaming platforms fracture the number of people willing to pirate will rise again.

Atoms are easy to count, but those things that can be converted to bits are being converted to bits and the atomic-based economics can't be applied wholesale anymore. The movie industry is trying to hold on with both hands and their teeth to their control, and that content providers are also access providers (or strong-arming them, vis a vis Youtube) will certainly help the businesses charge what they believe is right rather than let market forces dictate.

Apple and Spotify are making money hand over fist (tho one is only now crawling into the black) because that's what the market wants. If video wasn't so expensive to make then maybe the same could happen there, though I should reiterate just how much I'm enjoying The Good Place and that can't be expensive at all.

Anyway, most writers don't get paid much. Most of us don't get paid much, but still, buy things from writers you especially like.

@skew

I completely remembered it. While tired. And sick. And not anywhere near a login. And having played video games all day. I hope you're that capable when you're thirty, like me.

@Luna said:

Burners.

Please link to Urban Dictionary on this one, as I cannot imagine someone "going to a pre-paid phone".

@rook said in How do you construct your characters?:

@thenomain
I am coming to you, sir, to critique and make recommendations if/when I get ready to open.

You called this down on yourself.

I don’t mind helping, but this is the kind of thing that should be done by multiple people trying to make a character without help from you or anyone else. They do have to treat the testing honestly at first; you can test against people deliberately trying to break or misinterpret the systems some other time, like from game open to game close.

Every published board game goes through this; the developer gets people who have never seen the game before in a room, gives them the rules and components, and sits back to watch and take notes. We don’t normally have the time or ability to cold test like this, especially after the game has opened, but if we’re fortunate we will get enough players so we can read the temperature in the room.

But yes, I can criticize. Boy howdy can I criticize. The hard part is using my power for good, not whining.

I wish TinyMUX had regedit, like Penn and Rhost have.

This is pretty much the only thing that is solidly on my wish-list.

@ganymede

White Wolf wants to go back to its roots: A group of stoners led by a charismatic douche that touched on the nerve of a generation that felt underrepresented.

I’m not calling Hite a stoner, but on the same token the current underrepresented generation is rebelling against violence and eating Tide pods, so I’m not sure how they think this is going to work.