Best posts made by Thenomain

I Kickstarted it because Kill Six Billion Demons. I will probably never play it even once.

@auspice said in Game Restarts:

@kanye-qwest said in Game Restarts:

1. Reboot any and every game into a game of Pugmire
2. Profit

Where's Parxmire?

Hopefully waiting for the cat expansion.

@Gingerlily said:

Does that make more sense?

It absolutely does.

See, I have a roundabout point, and that is that some terms are being talked about as if they were chiseled out of marble. We all probably feel that way about some of The Way We Do Things, but a different group of people may just look at you funny, like you walked out of some religious compound and are withstanding that the world works a different way.

I am all for Muds Being Muds, and Mushes Being Mushes, and I probably could enjoy a Mud for what it is, but that's not what's going on here.

they are all perfectly legitimate, lovely ways to be geeky!

Yeah! Go geeky! Let's accept more than one set of qualifications! Acceptance!

@fatefan said in Lancer RPG:

@Thenomain I was reminded this morning that Abbadon made a PbtA-based Kill Six Billion Demons RPG that I still need to play, too...

And suddenly all his side-stories becomes RPG fodder, giving you an excuse to burn through the entire backlog again.

Like anyone needed a reason.

On Eldritch, I am the first contact for code but not wiki, and I have a say in meta plot and I will probably be the changeling expert. I exist in only one sphere: the decision-makers. I am in this sphere because I am trusted to say, "I don't know, ask this person."

The problem I have with spheres in any sort is that the people in them feel responsible to come up with an answer even if they don't know. This too often means that they expect their answer to be the only answer, this creates fiefdoms, which precludes the conversation that is critical to the system of effective staffing.

It turns game running into political groups. Do you really need a law staffer? No, no, and hell no. What you need is communication among all staffers the kind of problems someone trying to break or even enforce the law will run into. Having an expert is good, but not critical.

The same goes for high society and streetwise staffers, which I think would be more critical than law/crime.

Anyhow, that's my thing,

@Gingerlily

Cake, Ice Cream

Someone came into our Cake Decoration (and Rogue Elements) conglomerate and said they're advertising desserts and making a newsletter for dessert shops of every kind, but we can only show cakes if they 1) are cold, 2) can melt, 3) are made from a milk or cream base.

I will accept that a dessert that can melt has a bit of urgency to it that maybe they enjoy in their post-meal delights, but saying you're for all desserts but will only really feature desserts that are nearly Ice Cream may not be the best way to approach it. A very small number of cake-decorators work for Baskin Robins.

Okay, my example is horrible, but in my defense I like both cake and iced cream and maybe a dessert-shop newsletter should dial it back if it wants to call itself "a place for all dessert makers to talk about their thing".

@Auspice said in Random links:

MSB discussions in a nutshell.

I can almost guarantee you cash money that the discussion about this color choice in the hospital went much the same, and they still decided on bleeding-torso.

I'll be honest: I don't care if people are the same on-line as off. I care how they act.

I do find that very few people act the same on-line as off because of how we interface with one another.

The medium is the message.

Everything else is conscious effort. This is why I will forgive anyone who shows a willingness to change, or an awareness of their actions. Slapping someone down who is trying to do good is a good way to get them to stop trying, and then you're a part of the problem.

Mind you, a lot of people will say it's not their problem. These people aren't wrong, but it doesn't absolve these people of participating in this person's change or lack thereof. No man is an island. Everything you do or don't do affects the world around you. It's part of the pain of being a sentient being, and something we have to live with of ourselves.

Those people I know who are the same on-line as off- are aware of the medium in a way that most people don't. They take that upon themselves in a way that most people don't bother considering.

It's a pessimistic outlook, but it's why I think talking from a position of understanding is the only way to fly. If everything is a matter of perspective, then starting from a different perspective means bringing people with you.

I just have a hard time maintaining it because so many people are assholes and I don't have the patience for them.

I don't go to MUDs now because I'm afraid they're all just like MUSHes, that any one of us is just like any other, and I would have to go straight for someone's jugular.

I still love this guy.

I will bounce off what @coin said to pitch Part-Time Gods, not post-apoc/post-god(s), but I like how it manages to have basically a superhero "all-spark" mythos but not be drowned out by an all-encompassing metaplot or setting focus. I personally find it awfully human, which is to say I think it would make a good Mu*. I would play it as an optimistic future, knowing that the gods in our past were complete dicks.

Current Staffer "Cards Against Humanity" win count:

@Coin: 4
@Eerie: 2
@EmmahSue: 1
@Thenomain: 1

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

@KDraygo You just added to @Pandora's gift list.

Or at least her daughter's.

@vulgarkitten

It's not favoritism if it's true.

@Coin

Fixed.

Emmah is not a staffer everywhere she goes in the same way that I'm not a coder on every WoD Mux.

Link describes it all:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/you-can-now-download-the-source-code-for-all-infocom-text-adventure-classics/

@rizbunz said in What Is Missing For You?:

What settings do you beg to see but just don't?

Fallout.

I mean, some of these settings would not make a good Mu*.

What types of games do you enjoy that aren't being catered to as well, or as much, as you'd like?

Chronicles of Darkness.

I can feel the collective eye-rolling from here (and it fuels my ennui), but you asked as well as I'd like. I've seen Bland By Night so many times that I kind of don't want to see anyone try it again.

But if you do, lets talk about code.

Also: Possibly a superhero game where I don't have to be an expert on the genre to play or enjoy.

What favorite settings do you have that you would adore playing in and being a part of, that simply don't exist anymore, or if they do, need a new breath of life pumped into their lungs?

Nothing springs to mind for me here. "See Above" would be one answer, but I think that even more talk about WoD/CoD is not useful, so I won't.

@Too-Old-For-This said in Good or New Movies Review:

Clearly none of you has seen Manos, Hands of Fate.

But with two robots and a guy in a red jumpsuit, I’ll take “hands, the hands of fate” over Ishtar any damn day.

Nobody mentioned Pugmire.

Why did nobody mention Pugmire?

I mean, besides Fear of Furries: Yiffobia.