Posts made by Thenomain

@alzie said in Your Opinions of These Games:

huh. The eldritch website is still up and the game is still running but I did a quick connect and there are 0 people on.

Sometimes we prod at the code, what can I say?

@auspice

Timbuktu is insanely heavy. Two miles on your feet would be tough, yes. Gany is right about a backpack, the weight distribution will help a lot.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@thenomain Of if you're into the utopia aspect of Star Trek then this show is definitely going to piss you off. It's way grittier than anything Trek has ever seen before.

I don't mind gritty. Deep Space Nine was at its best when it was gritty.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

They dropped multiple F-bombs in a Star Trek show, you guys! Not Orville, not a parody, this was a real Star Trek show!

That's actually quite too bad. Star Trek was always pretty squeaky-clean, but it was based on a utopia future. Even the harsh bits were the challenge of all. I hear it's good, but ah well.

@faraday said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

Offer encouragement? Sure, great idea. But how?

Staff needs to be the change they want to see.

This is why I think you have such good luck on your games.

@three-eyed-crow said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

It's also about players...actually doing it.

In the very late 90s, early 00s, players would whine to staff that X person wasn't doing Y right. That itself wasn't a problem but then this kind of player started building games or given positions of authority on games.

Mostly this is WoD and Pern, but a lot of players have had the "you are encouraged" beaten out of them, and there is a culture that continues this.

@auspice said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

Right at the moment? The Expanse.
But every time I bring it up, I get more 'omg you should do Eclipse Phase instead' than any interest in an Expanse game.

And Eclipse Phase != Expanse.

Or you could do what you're passionate about and let that passion help carry to the players and the game.

@auspice said in Potential Game / Temperature Read:

1. The Magicians - this would be a blend of book/show.

Your concern about original theme isn't reflected here as well? People who have only part the knowledge will have to catch up somehow, albeit it's far, far easier to catch up with most of the knowhow than with none.

2. The Expanse - This is the game I'm sort of wanting right now.

This is the hotness, and as described you could have read only the books.

3. Original SciFi - So I have this scifi setting. It's sort of my personal 'masterwork' for school. I've used it for scripts, game concepts (video game), and short stories. I've fleshed out the historical timeline, one of the societies, and I have 6 plotlines that could be worked with / woven into a metaplot. I'd probably set the game on a station, to start with. FS3 would also work for this. (I'll also note it has a feel akin to Firefly in some ways, if that's your thing)

The advantage of this is that the only source players need to know are those provided by you.

As you are a writer, you could write introductions for all three and make them well-presented for people unfamiliar with what you want to do with it. I think 2 or 3 are more approachable as sci-fi is mostly knowing things about space and learning the setting, while fantasy means learning the world's rules as well as the setting.

This is my view at least.

@prototart said in FCs on Comic MUs:

Seriously anything on top of Mutant and all that means is "see? See? Didn't we tell you they're all depraved?"

I had a flashback to literally today, concerning people of color.

@kanye-qwest

I know that. Sorry; without quoting or directly linking to what you replied to, I just assumed it was about me (having gone into enforcing the setting). If not, my bad.

Not sure how answering “don’t box me in; this is a discussion” turned into “straw man”.

Well, I do, but it’s no less silly for knowing it.

@tempest

Okay.

The civil rights movement was in full swing during 1963-64 and dear god 1965. The Beatles' first album, JFK's assassination, the nation was changing in ways that both allow what's going on today and informs the argument against it. You might even call the mid-60s a more violent reflection of the late 2000s.

I wouldn't want to play it either, but because I don't like the flights-and-tights genre for it's-basically-a-soap-opera reasons. Reminding people that their characters are probably deviants is the kind of theme-enforcement that is critical for a good game. It could also be done so ham-handedly that it's a drawback, but not doing so at all is, I believe, a disservice to the act of running a game.

So is this a discussion on themes and settings that should not be attempted in games, or themes and settings that the posters personally have no interest in? Because let me tell you, I never understood the attraction of Firan.

@theonceler said in Good TV:

a Blake’s 7 remake

So it will lull you to sleep but of you miss even 30 seconds of it you will have no idea what's going on.

Netflix is showing a new Tomorrow People, which was my power fantasy when I was 12.

@zombiegenesis said in Good TV:

@three-eyed-crow said in Good TV:

@thenomain
The Good Place is probably my favorite thing on TV right now. Brings me joy every week.

How is Season 2? I enjoyed Season 1 so much that I've been afraid to watch Season 2 in case it went downhill.

I haven't watched Season 2 because I am a Netflix boy and don't have network television, but I'm told that if enjoyed Season 1 I would love Season 2 so far.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

@thenomain Does it get better? I watched... I want to say the first two episodes, maybe 2.5, and I didn't like it that much.

Take The Good Place for what it is: Witty fluff. You are going to get more wit and witticism in a half our from Rick & Morty, but it has some of the same quirkiness that I loved in Pushing Daisies (also a more refined and wittier show).

I can best describe it as an anime, the sort that has a plot and not the kind designed to go on for a million years. The first half is mostly world-building with the barest hints that there is a plot, and the second half is the plot going from "huh, this is interesting" to "wow, so, that happened".

It starts coming into its own at about the end of episode 3 of 12, when The Monk speaks. I wouldn't call it an amazing show; I'm not going to rave about it to everyone I know, but it's a nice half hour distraction and it is more than just that. By the end of the last episode of the first season, I felt that I didn't waste a single moment watching it.

@bobgoblin

With chocobo, Bob. With chocobo.

I just binge watched season one of The Good Place. It’s good. No spoilers!

@auspice said in MU Things I Love:

@thenomain said in MU Things I Love:

@arkandel said in MU Things I Love:

@ganymede said in MU Things I Love:

Wrong thread, dork. You're looking for the thread titled "Shit that don't mean shit to Ganymede or to how the NBA Finals are going to play out."

That's just because you're not woke like Kyrie, fam.

Fucking hipsters.

Complaining about hipsters is the new hipster thing to do, Theno.
YOU ARE NOW ONE OF THEM.

I was bitching about hipsters before it was oh my god I’m one of them now

Kidding. As a Gen-Xer, I can only say: Rookies.

Edit: Will you never rest, fighting the battle of who could care less?

@arkandel said in MU Things I Love:

@ganymede said in MU Things I Love:

Wrong thread, dork. You're looking for the thread titled "Shit that don't mean shit to Ganymede or to how the NBA Finals are going to play out."

That's just because you're not woke like Kyrie, fam.

Fucking hipsters.

@ganymede

I suggest that they are kept. I can’t imagine that Soapbox is everybody’s go to place for advertising, and predict a baby/bathwater situation.