No more than D&D, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Eclipse Phase, or Fill In The Blank are broken by default. Each system does a thing well and does a thing not well. Life is pain, Princess; anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.
Posts made by Thenomain
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RE: CofD and Professional Training
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
If physical situations can end a character, why not social situations? Is it different if the cut comes from a knife or a tongue?
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Sparks said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Roz and Glitch set up an unofficial wiki some time back with staff permission, and it looks like there is a very useful and simple quick start introduction on there. (I tend to forget about the wiki, which is a real failing on my part.)
This is, without hyperbole, about the only way I could possibly have gotten started on the game. The news and theme files otherwise are like playing 52 Card Pick-Up with the 3x5 cards of someone's book outline. I hope that the quick-start wiki is still being maintained.
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RE: MU and Alternate Channels
Here's my metric:
Q: Does the situation negatively affect the ability of a game to fulfill its role?
A1: Yes -- Consider taking action.
A2: No -- Consider not taking action.Nowhere in this is "happens on the game or not" a consideration.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Sparks said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Physical combat is easy. There's no "I found your sword-strike unconvincing"; you got hit, you got hit. Social combat, though? That's harder to define.
Fate does this incredibly elegantly, mostly that social combat isn't about social situations, but your ability to maneuver in them. To Fate, social grace is a mental trait.
So I do wish there was a more immediately clear "Quickstart Guide to Theme". Maybe it's worth making a little Player's Handbook to Arx to put up somewhere.
Asking/wondering/confused about this is the start of what got me labeled a troll on Arx. This game needs something like this so much that it burns. The chaotic and half-complete state of their news files is absolutely heartbreaking.
I understand someone started their own wiki to solve this problem; you may want to ask around.
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RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like
Agreed. I don't think that, or much of that at least, is happening here.
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RE: RL Anger
Peeve: There is not one America; North and South America are the continents. Central America is not a continent. So you can't say anyone is just an American, if we're using the continents to say why a USAer can't call themselves "American".
For the USA Irony, Mexicans are North Americans.
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RE: CofD and Professional Training
The Storytelling system is broken in certain precise circumstances. News at 11.
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RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like
@Derp said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:
@Thenomain said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:
Mind you, the court of popular opinion is not a recognized legal system.
@Rook said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:
Wait, what? In MUdom? Oh yes it is. It is how we operate. It is what most MUs are all about, outside of theme!
Yeah. Pretty much this.
Because we have to have this discussion proves that it is not a notable nor lasting legal system. Because Spider has returned proves pretty soundly that the Court of Popular Opinion has some leverage but does not force anyone to do anything.
I strongly disagree with you both. We are having a very even discussion, and it's been noted that Anna, head of Fate's Harvest, is being trusted. Even if she wasn't, there's not much more we can do than complain or leave.
Maybe I have a stronger will than you? I doubt it. I've stood up to the Court multiple times; when I've sat down it's because someone with a respectful tone and logic has told me why I'm wrong.
I've stood up for other people as well. A lot of my time in Wora and some of it here has been telling people to chill out. Hell, a lot of people here do that. This isn't a court, this is the commons, the square that people go to shout and try to figure out what's going on. Good luck getting any two of us to agree on anything.
And when we do? There's something going on that's far more sensible than a Court of Popular Opinion. It's scary and impressive. Like now.
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RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like
@Rook said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:
All I'm trying to say is that on the one hand, MSB encourages stricter, tighter staffing... but then is quick (I should say 'was quick', in the WORA days) to roast a staff for doing just that. Let's just take that into account in the conversation here, as I feel it is relevant.
Mind you, the court of popular opinion is not a recognized legal system.
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RE: RL Anger
@Sparks You mean Constantinople?
That's nobody's business but the Turks'.
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RE: RL things I love
- D'aaawwwwww. It has all the adorable.
- Obvious "pussy + boobs" joke. Which is why it's not first.
- Just thought of this one: Booby trap! (Alternatively: Booby trapped pussy!)
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RE: RL things I love
@Ganymede said in RL things I love:
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
And here I thought you'd just latch onto the 'boobs' part and glaze over the rest.
He does have two hands.
Dunno. If they're that big I'd have to use both to latch on, wouldn't I.
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RE: RL things I love
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
I do need someone who can paint my toenails for me. My boobs get in the way.
Filed under: Things that women grimace and nod about, and men simply do not get it.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Apos said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@Thenomain @Arkandel I'd prefer if you didn't.
I know you wouldn't, but that's different than being told you can't. I know you're taking a risk by not outright banning people you don't like, and I respect that. So far I've respected it by not logging in, even when people I know and like have said how much fun they're having on Arx and how they'd like me to join.
If I think I could do it so that you'd barely know I was there, I'd do it.
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RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like
@Rook said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:
Here's a question... how does someone like this come back into the community and NOT try to do so, if their intention is pure and honest, anonymously? Doesn't the consideration of that question lend some credence, one way or the other, to understanding intent?
Hello, my name is Thenomain and I fucked up.
During my headstaffing tenure at The Reach, as a part of trying to maintain my anonymity in a character, I lied to VASpider and her husband to try to take it easy on me. I knew at the time that this wasn't a good idea, but anxiety and depression got the better of me and I thought I could make it work.
It backfired. Of course it backfired. One of the extremely few people I trusted with that anonymity told Spider and she almost immediately tried to blackmail me with it, in order to get some space, in order to justify that she wasn't wrong.
I've never done anything like this before and I'm unlikely to do anything like this again, but it happened. Sorry.
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That's how. Be honest. Be forgiving. Be understanding. Be an adult. I would also accept "back away and hope it dies down and try again", but after the fifth or sixth time then I doubt this is going to be effective. In any case it has to start with recognition of the problem. If you can't recognize the problem--whether or not the problem was your fault--then I sincerely doubt it will change. One can always hope.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
Good point, Meg. If this is how staff of Arx has matured, it might be time for me to give it another shot and see if I have as well.
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RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like
@Ganymede said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:
VASpider? Crawls back into the community. And then has the nerve to tell us to leave her alone.
I can respect someone asking for space to try again. Again, someone who shows willing can show that they are no longer repeating the same patterns. It is the pattern of someone like Spider to use that space to entrench herself, like Custodius and Seanan do/did.
I say this not for you, Gany. You know this already. I say this for people at home so that they know what we're talking about, in part of my "Better Know a Twerp" series of helping people discuss and self-educate.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Cupcake said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Would it be wrong of me to hope certain players come back because he's gone?
It's never wrong of someone to hope that people you like to play with can be played with more.
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RE: A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like
@Ganymede said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:
Innocent people -- even guilty people -- have not gotten the same treatment.
Maybe some guilty people should, but this is less treatment and more a movement, building over years. The only other person I can think of who got this treatment is Seanan McGuire, and she went on to become a relatively successful author.
I honestly think that Custodius has hit the tipping point as people have been outing him whenever possible.