remind players that they can always opt-out.
Or in mushing terms: It is always okay to fade to black.
I cannot stress “always” enough.
remind players that they can always opt-out.
Or in mushing terms: It is always okay to fade to black.
I cannot stress “always” enough.
Dude, where were you two days ago? Four days ago?
This is not a potshot, just an open comment phrased as a question that doesn't need answered.
Ta.
Did You Know:
Obduction, from Cyan—you know, the farmer guys who made Myst?—is free on Good Ol' Games.
You'd think this would be good for their "Firmament" Kickstarter.
But you can still give Cyan money for Firmament, so I'm going to note that too. Because Cyan.
And now you know.
@Admiral said in General Video Game Thread:
@Testament Kojima is the Wes Anderson of video games.
...that is not a compliment. Wes Anderson is terrible.
If Kojima is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
More quibbles, but first a word from our sponsor:
I agree one hundred percent.
I agree that access should be fair, even to the point of removing your personal feeling about people (assuming they're not abusing you while you're working with them—eff that ess in the ay). Some people aren't good at that. I can be terrible at that, but it's a goal worth aiming toward.
@Darinelle said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
something I want to tell on my own time
What is staff's "own time"? I usually consider every moment a staffer is logged in to be their own time to get done what needs done however they feel is appropriate, as long as they're reasonable about it.
@Darinelle said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
Everyone should have equal access to the main plot.
I'm going to quibble. Or maybe agree.
It's impossible edit: incredibly challenging for everyone to have the same access to the main plot on games that aren't structured like Greatest Generation or HorrorMu*. There are not enough hours in the day to give equal time and access to everyone, even if they are more proactive in engaging staff for it.
This does, of course, depend on what the "main plot" is. I'd consider a main plot well-crafted if your statement is correct. A mage, a werewolf, and a vampire walk into a plot. What happens next tells us a lot.
@Arkandel said in Not even sure what to title this, but here goes..:
No, I'm Lilith.
No, I'm Jenny.
...
Well there goes 30 years of careful cultivation.
@Botulism said in Our Tendency Towards Absolutes:
I try REALLY HARD to kill my players, but they usually live.
Your...players?
Now I know why you're named "Botulism".
Did I mention I live in Quebec? Yup, that's where you can find me. Quebec. In...Quebec City. (Yeah, that's a fake-sounding name. They'll never find me there.)
@Cupcake said in Fandom and entitlement:
@Thenomain Oh, you mean my nigh decade long lady crush?
She can rub me the wrong way, but she is absolutely someone I enjoy getting rubbed by.
...That came off the wrong way.
... ...I just can't stop the references.
I discovered Ellis via Korra. No joke. I really never liked Nostalgia Critic. Not even a little. His voice, his attitude, so I never ran into Nostalgia Chick, but one day I was curious who did the voice for Eska and it was someone I never heard of named "Aubrey Plaza". Hold on, it gets better. Aubrey did this fake movie trailer for College Humor. "Daria, The Movie".
Have you seen it? You must see it.
And in the sidebar, there's someone called "Nostalgia Chick" doing a retrospective in what made Daria great, and I watch it and I'm astounded. Here's someone doing the Nostalgia Critic thing in a way that's much more tolerable. I wondered for a moment if Nostalgia Critic knew that someone was doing his thing better than him. That didn't last long. It also didn't last long until my Youtube account started throwing this woman named "Lindsay Ellis" at me, and in short order I was watching this incredibly extensive video essay on what was wrong with The Hobbit movies, and that was it. I was hooked.
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As an aside: I only now realized while researching this that Eska and Fake Daria was Audrey Freaking Plaza.
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I can understand if she gets under some people's fingernails. She is very blunt in her conclusions, but I can follow them and learn about things like "death of the author".
Another interesting conversation with the fanbase was had by nerd favorite Joss Whedon, though not framed this way at the time. It's been too long that I don't remember what Buffy episode he was talking about, but he was very vocal on social media that the characters didn't belong to the fans, then a little while later made a much softer-worded statement that yeah, yeah they did.
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What do I think? I think fans are fine. The problem in any field are extremists, and the current social media scene makes extremism very easy.
@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:
@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
Why haven't people been crowing about Divinity more? I've been playing this with @EmmahSue and the level of consideration and interaction of bits of plot and environment is amazing, and chasing one plot can get anyone involved in five others.
I can't wait to start Divinity 2 with friends.
Because it's almost never on sale?
But when it is, it's the best isometric CRPG I've played since Planescape:Torment. No joke.
Lindsay Ellis did a bit on Death Of the Author. Mostly about history of the topic, and no real conclusions.
Because there are no real conclusions. There's a stance to take, and that's about it.
Why haven't people been crowing about Divinity more? I've been playing this with @EmmahSue and the level of consideration and interaction of bits of plot and environment is amazing, and chasing one plot can get anyone involved in five others.
I can't wait to start Divinity 2 with friends.
@Wretched, you are the man this board deserves.
God rest our souls.
@Arkandel said in Our Tendency Towards Absolutes:
@onigiri said in Our Tendency Towards Absolutes:
There is a definite tendency for players to dehumanize staffers
We dehumanize everyone we don't know. Maybe it's our community in particular but I don't know that's the case.
There is also a definite tendency for staffers to dehumanize players.
This is one of the Tendency Toward Absolutes that is a pox on this hobby.
@Roz said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
@Derp said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
@Roz said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
"you're too emotional" is a common derailing tactic in debate used against women who express any sort of investment in what they're arguing about.
Which would be more valid if he implied it was because she was a woman, and not just a person getting emotional.
Telling someone you believe they are getting to emotional is perfectly fine. I think that people are reading some kind of sexism into the statement that Thenomain didn't put in there.
People, regardless of sex, can in fact be getting too emotional.
He wanted to know why people were reacting the way they were, and I was just explaining, since he asked for further explanation.
And he's questioning them in a logical manner.
I get it.
I've also backed off and apologized to the party directly affected, and thanked Roz privately for the consideration.
@Roz said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
@Thenomain tl;dr "you're too emotional" is a common derailing tactic in debate used against women who express any sort of investment in what they're arguing about.
Well this is fucking stupid of those people to try and shut up women for being women. "Special Circle of Hell" stupid.
I'm too emotional and sometimes need warned from it.
a lot of women who have experienced it or witnessed it a fair amount don't appreciate seeing it because its most common usage is to try and shut them up.
Not my intention, and my deepest apologies that this happened.
@saosmash said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
@Thenomain Consider your words in the context of the discussion and what it means to dismiss anyone's point on the basis that you believe they are "getting emotional", and understand why so many people are reacting to this with "wow," "yikes," and etc.
And if I don't? Let's say I say, "No, I don't get it." At this point I'm putting my trust out there that I'm not going to get dogpiled for it.
Let's say I was thinking, "Yeah, I've said stupid things because I'm getting emotional, or certainly not thinking rationally." What would you say to this...entirely hypothetical...version of someone? Would you explain it? Or would you deride them?
You? I'd expect you'd be more in the former camp.
Your longstanding feud with KQ is really, really not the issue.
Which is why I added the edit. I will consider the advice from nearly anyone else.
I don't trust KQ to do anything but spit in the face of people if she herself thinks it's necessary, whether or not it is.
@Kanye-Qwest said in Difference between an NPC and a Staff PC?:
@Thenomain That was extremely uncool of you. If you don't know why, please step back and think about your choices.
And I should take your advice because...?
edit: Not that I shouldn't take the advice, just that I can think of almost nobody less qualified to give me advice.