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Surviving more than a year is difficult, especially if there just happens to be a little, you know, toxic fallout for two seasons. Everyone died of poisoning and insanity.

@Lithium

And I apologize about getting heated, but I have been, and seen others be, hurt by all of this. My comment about "it takes egos to keep all this running" is because we seem to only have popular, long-lasting games when staff are utter jackasses. How is this fun?!

I think (and here, yea, opinion) this is because we have been hammered with rules and concepts and labels over the past decade to lead to this, mostly by strong-willed people who will fight to get their ways which are usually pretty selfish, from this kind of person.

I get passionate when I think people are abusing one another, and I feel very strongly that this cycle needs to be broken even if that means breaking and discarding a term, or how we see something, because how we see the interaction of IC and OOC is a cause of major drama.

Characters are tools, puppets, toys, things to be enjoyed but eventually put away. They serve a role, but we've learned to make the character far more important than the game itself.

Not that I haven't taken games too seriously. I swear, if I'm forced to play another game of Agricola...

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@bored said in Halicron's Rules For Good RP (which be more like guidelines):

@Halicron

You can't put up a definitive list and then wave off criticisms of it with 'all lists are made to be broken'. If that's your feeling, you probably should have written a different post to begin with.

You may have missed this part of the thread's title:

(which be more like guidelines)

If you didn't miss it, then maybe you don't know what it might mean. Let me help you out, there.

I read the post as "if you do these they would probably help you quite a bit". I'm not alone in this.

@RDC said:

If you think you know what you're doing enough to attempt that, then step up.

But I don't. With /deny & /approve, you will never see these again on a game I'm coding.

With showing dark staff? I want it to work, but I'm not convinced it will. I am convinced that this is the right direction, and a lot of why I posted it here was to get the feedback to keep the idea as true to usable as possible, and people have been pretty damn good about that.

I try to read the criticisms as "well, this concerns me". Attacking code for being code? Yeah. No. Maybe I missed what HR was trying to say, and as one of my lynchpin flaws I will assume I read things right the first time. (I do try to backpedal and apologize when I'm wrong.)

"Thenomain's Principle of Code" is not set in stone, but it does go something like this: Using code to try and address social issues is tricky; be very careful.

I'm planning on being careful, and pull it if it doesn't work. Trust me on this one.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Best author, Martin or Tolkien?

Tolkien rapped the shit out of Martin, so that one's answered.

@Coin, look up Clone High.

@Botulism said in Fear and Loathing:

Vegas is VERY Spring.

I imagine that it's also very Winter (especially for those who live there) and Autumn (for those who prey on the unsuspecting). The only Court I can't imagine having a consistently solid hold on part of the minds of Vegas would be Summer. Ironic, considering the heat.

@Chime said in What Do You Collect?:

Take a peek at https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font if you want to see a faithful modern take on the 3270 font though... very nice.

Oh yes, and I collect fonts.

@Groth said:

@Olsson said:

@skew
Nordic LARP methodology.

What's that exactly?

It means LARP with little to no formal rules and a focus on cooperative storytelling.

So ... improv, with fucking?

@Botulism

You will be glad that in the next version of Changeling, each area has its own Freehold system. The up-side should be obvious: You aren't limited to emotions, but to what makes sense for the area. The down-side is that you have to create your own courts and court benefits. As of last known draft, you must (must!) have a way to share the rule, even if nobody else wins the brass ring; I'll be interested in how they enforce this, as they only made vague threatening boogyman noises in nWoD Changeling.

No, geese! Don't be flying north! Stop flying overhead! It's too soon! It's...too soon. (sob)

Only if I can call it "World of Glam" and force everyone to listen to a Top-40 80s Spotify channel as a prerequisite to playing . Given the age of most of you, this would be a hay-day to your glory years.

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Message: 1/20                      Posted        Author
HURT LOCKER: Stats are In          Fri Feb 17    Thenomain
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Wow. I...don't know what to say. All the Merits from Hurt Locker are now in. If 
you had any, they're now reflected on your sheet. 

We did have to split Grappling into Grappling and Clinching. We did have to 
split Martial Arts into Martial Arts and Muay Thai. If you had these merits, we 
did a little hand-waving to keep the levels they bought under the old or assumed 
system.

Important caveat: CHARGEN AND BUYING IS NOT IN YET. If you want these merits at 
Chargen, if you want to buy these merits, contact your nearest staffer.

'Transfer Maneuver' also isn't in yet. It's complex enough that if it's coded, 
it needs more attention than the rest of the system.

But otherwise, consider Hurt Locker stats fair game. Enjoy. And hey, thanks.
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(edit: formatting, whups about over-promising)

@somasatori said in No Man's Sky Thread:

@Ganymede said in No Man's Sky Thread:

I'm still in Dragon Age: Inquisition, for fuck's sake

Same. And eventually I figure I'll actually finish Mass Effect 3, or one of the Fallout games aside from New Vegas instead of getting distracted.

You finished the best Fallout game, so you can stop there if you want.

ME3 ends a good storyline. Playing it just for the Citadel DLC is worth it, tho.

@Derp and @The_Supremes,

Have you ever hacked the Gibsons?! It's UNIX! I know this!

No movie should ever try to get technical for that reason.

@RDC

Yeah, but when have I ever done anything the easy way? The only reason I split these overlapping fighting styles into two different merits is because it was becoming teeth-grindingly implausible to go back and re-create the entire "list class" trait system. Now that I have the code logic to allow skipped levels, I can give 'cg/check' the power it needs to finalize this project.

I just learned that HBO Now will be $15/mo. I don't MMO, so ... well, yes.

I just noticed the words "IKEA Express Shuttle" and thought of so many things that could interrupt a simple encounter on a map with those words.

@Sonder said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:

@Coin I need to listen to that. Badly.

Listen to it. Listen to it right now. Find a podcasting app. Sign up. I was hooked at "dogs are not allowed in the dog park". Paranoia, xenophobia, acceptance of the bizarre and macabre, the world of Night Vale is every bit of A Prairie Home Companion distilled by someone who loves HP Lovecraft.

If someone asks if you need help, and they are earnest, the response is never a defensive "obviously". You realize that I could mess you up at any point in this discussion, right?

Also, you are apparently a sock puppet made of straw.

If Kingsmouth is using their own GMC/nWoDv2/CofD system, then there's two. I know someone who is making a third, in spite of my protesting that I'd help her install mine. Sometimes the fun is in the creation, so I can respect that.

I have stopped trying to assure that my code works on Rhost or Penn, but since both of those are usually supersets of Mux then it should largely work with the notable exception of any time I use columns(), which Rhost had rewritten from the ground up. There is a function or two that Penn and Mux call by different names but are otherwise identical.

I'm willing to work with coders on these platforms to pull out these functions into what I've been calling "dot functions" for easier conversion. For instance, sometimes you'll see in my code 'u( .columns, ... )' which is my way of trying to make cross-platform installation easier on the coder. I'm mainly using these now for when I know I'm using user-defined functions like 'lmax()' or 'titlestr()'.