Posts made by Thenomain

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

Give me a lolly.

HAVE A LORRY

No, have a Laurie.

@shangexile said in RL Anger:

Much use of the word "creep". In honor of that, some musical entertainment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPZmPaHme0

A far far better version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjlaN-X8-0

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

@mietze said in RL Anger:

If the meetup is held in Seattle I'll make a couple of Jell-O shot cakes. Maybe even a whole one for WTFE.

I can testify that @mietze's Jell-O shot cakes will knock you on the ground, and you won't get up again for hours.

It happened to me!

Now we know why you're called Cupcake.

@Sparks said in Most active scifi games right now?:

@Thenomain said in Most active scifi games right now?:

@Sparks said in Most active scifi games right now?:

@RnMissionRun said in Most active scifi games right now?:

@Sparks said in Most active scifi games right now?:

I still kind of want to see someone build an Expanse game.

This is one of the possible settings that I'm considering for the Evennia based game that me and some of my friends have been working on

I would be super interested if you did.

Guaranteed success!

I won't lie, the idea of a spaceflight system written for Evennia excites me. You could even calculate the rough G force based on ship velocity, so you know if everything's on the float or whether you better be strapped into a chair and on the juice.

Heck, you could even use the web integration to make a live solar system map showing the position of ships and various solar bodies.

Aaaaaaaaaand volunteer coder achieved.

You, not me. I wouldn’t know where to begin.

@Meg said in RL Anger:

@Auspice was that at me. :x i'm sorry; i'll stop.

ETA: It's obvious that SOMEONE took one too many college philosophy classes.

Well I think it’s cute.

Wait, are we doing that date thing or not?

Edit: I suspect that Auspice is responding to this recent thread. “Leg” is my current body part insult of choice.

@Sparks said in Most active scifi games right now?:

@RnMissionRun said in Most active scifi games right now?:

@Sparks said in Most active scifi games right now?:

I still kind of want to see someone build an Expanse game.

This is one of the possible settings that I'm considering for the Evennia based game that me and some of my friends have been working on

I would be super interested if you did.

Guaranteed success!

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@Meg said in RL Anger:

No one can /make/ someone feel something.

Maybe you ought to re-think hopping onto a World of Darkness game.

Are you kidding me? Someone who can recognize the manipulation of another player and point it out is sure to make many frenemies. You and I should know.

@saosmash said in RL Anger:

FUCK THIS DINNER TABLE.

Don’t be such a leg.

Babylon 5: A single-station setting with a heavy exploration theme.

Buck Rodgers (TV series version): Takes place on Earth, much exploration.

@Meg said in RL Anger:

I have to admit, I get uncomfortable when even other people are gleeful about another person's death. Even a fictional character's death.

I think we are supposed to be allowed to cheer for the death of a fictional character, like at the end of The Terminator, or very often in Game of Thrones, though I understand the sympathy that crosses the fictional/reality divide in our mind, and respect it.

@Thenomain said in Most active scifi games right now?:

I thought the concern was silly.

@Ominous said in Most active scifi games right now?:

What matters is the OP's definition,

It's good to agree.

I wrote a long-ish post explaining an earth-devouring demon in hard sci-fi terms.

I deleted it because I realized at the end of it that I thought the concern was silly.

By @Ominous' definition, the most popular sci-fi game is (this user cannot remember the name of the Mud/Mush index, let alone sort it by 'popularity' for you, because if fantasy is no different than sci-fi then sarcastically pick the most popular game and hand-wave the rest).

Like I said, silly.

@Misadventure said in RL Anger:

@Admiral said in RL Anger:

I will take a stance -against- cancer.

I have a newfound respect and feelings of camaraderie and friendship towards you. Whoever you are.

And awareness brings us to action, without which it takes billions of years of hoping for the right accident to take place in order get anything done.

Can I respect someone based on their actions? Why/why not?

Can someone respect me based on my actions? Why/why not?

@Cupcake was being silly in hyperbole. @Coin was being silly in pedanticism. (Probably. Let's just say he was not serious because it's better that way.)

I think I can speak for all of us, however, when I say: Fuck cancer.

@Ashen-Shugar said in Guest Names:

• RAW ANSI in names of things. Rhost does not support RAW ansi of names. While it'll convert fine and Rhost will seem to work fine with it, you can tell pretty early on that Rhost doesnt' like it. It breaks formatting and other things, but doesn't 'damage' the mush with it done. The correct solution to this is re-name the ansified named items with a normal name, then just use extansi to colorize the name of the item (help @extansi)

In Mux, this is called @moniker. Probably because goofballs tried this ansi-in-name thing on every game.

@Aria

What I apparently forgot to do is add a linking word like "although". Star Wars is compelling even if it's not "what is humanity". I don't think science fiction needs to ask that question. I think it's best defined as asking "what is humanity now that this happened".

Star Wars answers that question as: One of just another race. (Or later in the expanded universe: Can be a bunch of species-iest dicks.) And that's a notable science fiction aspect of Star Wars.

We can agree on this, but even "pew pew!" has something that would normally be considered a little jarring until you get into it.

@Aria said in Most active scifi games right now?:

[S]pace opera laser pew-pew it is for me.

The same space opera that has aliens and uplifting and sentient ships, where the question "what is it to be human" is always right on the next horizon?

One of the things I like about (the original) Star Wars is that it looks like that question was answered and life went on.

I am lucky to have friends who are willing to tell me when I'm being an asshole, without being assholes about it.

In return for their kindness, I try to make up for it. Not just to them, but to everyone involved, even if it's at a level they'll not be aware of. Sometimes an apology isn't enough. Sometimes an apology is the wrong thing to do, because too many people stop there when they need to fix the damn problem.

Some day I will learn, somewhere deep down, how to simply not be an asshole, but I suspect this will require some help that I can't yet afford.

@_Haven_

I'd say at this point, Rhost is 99% transferable from Mux.

Just expect columns() to break.

Hard.

@Jennkryst said in Most active scifi games right now?:

@Thenomain And here I though that the issue was how we are 3/4 of the way into the dystopia, but don't have magic to cushion the blow.

In my Shadowrun, magic is half the cause of the dystopia. Because screw this hippy fantasy crap!

The other half is domestic terrorism inflicted in the name of nationalism. Which I know isn't shocking, but here I mean "in America" rather than "in the Middle East" or "in Africa".