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Posts made by Thenomain
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RE: General Video Game Thread
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RE: General Video Game Thread
@Insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:
@Derp Did you buy a wireless dongle thingy?
I truly love being a part of a technical community.
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RE: RL things I love
I live within walking distance of fresh, loose tea. Not brewed, god no, I brew it myself, but if I run out of gunpowder tea, it's not like I'm hurting for it. This is critical because there are so fewer places to get good tea than good coffee.
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RE: RL Anger
Root canal.
Let me elaborate: Not the root canal, but the cost. Oh dear effing lord! The skill and the charge seem to be in line, but having to pay that much for anything I'm not planning on always makes me rar grr.
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RE: Tales of Cobalt-Colored Woe
An update from our code maven:
Hallo! Thanks to everyone's generosity I was able to purchase a new car (pictures added!). At this point, everything else donated is going to be going toward filling the hole that paying the towing company for my old car caused in my rent funds, and to compensating for the two weeks of pay I lost for not having the car. (Not to mention however much I'll end up having to pay for the 2k ambulance bill the city just tried to hit me with.)
THANKS TO EVERYONE! REALLY!
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RE: Tales of Cobalt-Colored Woe
I don't want anyone to feel that they need to match some of the insanely amazing numbers other people are donating. I was honestly expecting a long trickling parade of $5, which would have still warmed my soul.
I feel the same way. Actually, I feel a real connection to the hobby in a way I haven't in decades. Even for people who quietly wished well for Cobalt, I wholeheartedly thank you.
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RE: Tales of Cobalt-Colored Woe
@Ganymede said in Tales of Cobalt-Colored Woe:
@Thenomain said in Tales of Cobalt-Colored Woe:
To those who have helped, you have my undying gratitude. I've been thinking of what I could do for those insanely amazing people who have donated $100 (and higher, holy shit!), but short of baking cookies or code services, I can't think of anything.
I intend to donate again once I get my next paycheck in 6 days. And if I had my tax refund in, yeah, I'd do what I can too.
Because I need code help.
Ffffiiiiiiine, I'll code Earthdawn.
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RE: Tales of Cobalt-Colored Woe
To those who have helped, you have my undying gratitude. I've been thinking of what I could do for those insanely amazing people who have donated $100 (and higher, holy shit!), but short of baking cookies or code services, I can't think of anything.
Thank you.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
Yes, but we know that you are an anomaly.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Sunny said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
I find it frustrating to have it be implied that to be successful, you have to be online a lot, not have a life, etc. I am not successful because I have a time advantage (being on and being engaged are very different).
I delegate.
It depends on what you consider success. Many crafting systems favor the people who are on more to the point where they can grossly diminish the need of another such crafter. Similar has been discussed about the problem of xp and it's curves, skills and their limited values but unlimited availability.
Playing the character you thought you were making is impacted by these. I personally didn't think that Arx was going to run into this issue, but it's come up more than once in the past dozen or so posts.
I don't know if this is what you meant, but I think most people mean success as "success in what I want to be successful at". Which is mostly about being capable or even powerful characters. Remember, a lot of us are WoDers, not L&Lers!
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Arkandel said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@surreality said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
FWIW, I have known Thenomain for a fairly long while on and off. We argue a lot and agree on... well, not a heck of a lot, sometimes. In all that time, though, I have never known him to blow smoke up someone's ass or issue a false compliment, or one meant to undercut someone else.
When I signed up to staff on TR I had to pick the bit's name after a city where a disaster had taken place. I picked Waterdeep because of course I did.
At which point Thenomain asked if we were scraping the bottom of the barrel for names now! Screw you, Theno! That was a perfectly good name. I shall be silent no longer.
-Arkandel, who's carried this inside him for years.
Man, I was a real asshole. UNLIKE NOW.
I would've told that jerk "and what country is 'Thenomain' in, huh?"
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
My words are sincere, else I wouldn't have bothered to use them. The world is messed up enough without intending to make it worse.
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RE: Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff
@Ganymede said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
maybe there's something wrong with being a brick
I'm trying to maintain the fluctuations between brick and spazz. It's wonderful when you get there, so best of luck to you getting there.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
This is why I call it your game. I honestly believe without your level-headedness and your ability to calmly identify issues and respond to them, that Arx would probably not survive. It may not be yours in the sense that you are the head of all decision-making, but yours in the sense of being the foundation.
Likewise, if your game has a non-trivial population who are against a certain behavior, I trust through experience that you would address it. I'd imagine that you have considered pros and cons to the issue and probably have a stance. These are responsible actions that make games not only look fantastic, but be fantastic. You recognize that perfection isn't going to happen, and identify the places where "good enough" is good enough.
That you refuse to call it yours checks the very last item on the "great staffer" checklist: You feel a responsibility to the game above your own desires; it's not YOUR game, it's THE game and you have your role in it. That role even seems to want people like me to be a part of it, and that's someone being so much bigger than I've been that I can't help but point it out.
I know you're here to help the game, but don't underestimate your own importance in it.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
In spite of alt-facts, I hadn't until the ANSI. And that is less "pissing on things" and more "rolling of the eyes". Like I said before, I'm not going to stop mild criticism of bad design choices, and don't think this kind of shit-storm should ever come out of one. I'm at fault for not picking my words more carefully, but I do think I could make a case that I'm not the only guilty party for blowing this out of proportion. At worst I'm one-half of it, and I thank people like you for trying to stop it rather than spinning the tea-cup ride faster until everyone wants to throw up.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Sunny said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
It looks to me like you're deliberately antagonizing her and then trying to blame her for reacting to it, personally.
I genuinely have no desire to do so as I didn't mention her until she mentioned me. Throw some examples my way in PM (god, get this bullshit off this thread), if you would. Please keep in mind, if I thought I was antagonized first, whose responsibility does it become to stop?
I've always been of the mind that it should be everyone involved. She's continued to antagonize me even after I stopped. My response to it was measured and not antagonistic. Really not seeing it.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Roz said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Also, KQ is very aggressive on Arx about letting people have their fun when it's not hurting others or the game.
That's fair (though I disagree on the topic, and don't consider it a fault to say so), but she's asked me to tone it down, I asked her to do the same. I wasn't kidding that I can't find a single post from her about me that wasn't somehow insulting. Makes it hard to not think that it isn't somewhat about me.
For instance...
@Kanye-Qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@thenomain That's not all you edited! Did you change your mind about me not being a positive force for the game? Awww.
Regardless what I think about you, I thought it was better if I didn't make it a talking point. You know, like you asked. It looks like you're not even trying.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Caryatid said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
Dude. You just said you admitted to being a dick. You recognized you were being a dick. You have owned up to your dickishness. And yet, in her own advertisement thread, @Kanye-Qwest is not allowed to call you out on being a dick, in direct response to the dickery that you have confessed to?
There's calling out (Roz) and there's being a dick about calling someone out for being a dick (Kanye).
WTF does being a man have anything to do with the design of the game?
I was talking about @Apos (edit: who as far as I know is a man, and my apologies if I'm wrong). There's nothing more to read into this.
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RE: Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning
@Roz had it covered. @Meg had it covered. Hell, even I had it covered. I was leaving it alone until you called me out, and you called me out in an extremely snarky way. I've asked you multiple times to quit, and asked you to bury the hatchet. This being the first time you've asked me to anything--certainly the first time you've treated me with anything but disdain, here--I invite you to look into the mirror and let it go. (Singing optional.)
That is, of course I'm willing. Are you willing?
I have an extremely hard time reading blocks of text with low contrast, and even moreso when the contrast jumps around like an Alt-Right activist watching a Nazi get punched. I recognized that I was being a bit of a dick, kind of hinted at it, Roz called me out and I kkiiiiinda said I was? Regardless, I was. Regardless, I was also right; low-contrast and inconsistent text is bad design. Is what @Meg did fun design? Yes! Does it matter to @Meg what I think? Not one bit!
Am I going to stop pointing things like this out just because one staffer can't handle negative feedback from someone she doesn't like? No. Sorry. Arx is a fine game designed by a fine and level-headed man. It needs some serious work on its educational files (is there anything explaining the "reflection" or whatver the nickname for the land beyond death is yet?), but he knows this. He's failed to insult me, has talked me off the roof, and so I trust his judgement.
I clearly don't mind you making this about me, @Kanye-Qwest, but you really should stop. The game doesn't need this much defending, and certainly not from me.
It's all good. Sorry if what I said was complete ass-hattery. See Paragraph 3 above as to why the reaction. Sometimes the User Experience part of my education meets the unfiltered WORA (pre-Soapbox) personality, which really needs a good steaming hot cup of shut-the-fuck-up.