@tragedyjones said in Interest/Volunteer Check: Major Multisphere Chronicles of Darkness:
But even otherwise, these gamessages ARE written with the idea that you will have the rules handy.
Occasionally we respect copyright law.
Very, very occasionally.
Surviving more than a year is difficult, especially if there just happens to be a little, you know, toxic fallout for two seasons. Everyone died of poisoning and insanity.
@surreality said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness:
@Thenomain We called that one TR, if I recall.
(Somebody had to say it.)
Yeah, until Mom and ... well, just Mom came home and said we couldn't have fun and hired too many babysitters who couldn't handle us until she found some who could and now it's just no longer any fun for anyone.
I am trying to figure out what's going on in the Crossover Chronicles information. I can't even work out which games are which except Demon and Werewolf, and even then I'm iffy about Demon.
I'm guessing it's meant to be: Demon, Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Promethean, and only because those are the order they're released in. Asked without knowing that and I'd say: Deamon, Changeling, Werewolf, Mage, Vampire.
What it looks like is: Indifference, Party, WWE, Even More Indifference, and Saw II.
I want to play this Onyx Path game about parties.
@Ganymede said in Cheap or Free Games!:
@Insomnia said in Cheap or Free Games!:
Mordheim City of the Damned is having a free weekend until Sunday, and 60% off until Monday on Steam.
... huh. I didn't even know this was a thing.
Left4Dead, Warhammer Fantasy Edition.
I was going to point out that the change.org petition was essentially calling for censorship, but I guess someone else got to him first as the title of the petition is now "Don't listen to film criticism".
Maybe it can be tempered further to something realistic, like, "Listen to film criticism, but make your own decision." Or possibly, "It's only a movie, people, don't flip out."
Use full path. That is, where you have the file installed, type pwd, and use that (plus weather.txt) for the help file definition.
Remember to @restart.
I'll boil this down even further:
Staff should show respect for the time and effort given to a game.
Everything about this is up in the air.
@Thenomain No, Admiral was saying they watched the trailer with OMFG's Hello overlaid and it was an improvement.
Well yes, of course it would be. <.<
I don't know what you guys are talking about. >.>
... Exit, Stage Left!
Reread @Admiral's thing again, this time for comprehension, @Thenomain.
"It actually improves it." Yup, checked that for clear comparison about five times before posting. "It" is not clear, but sometimes, a pronoun is just a pronoun and even if we're agreeing then I still get a chance to make fun of the advertising decisions again without insulting Admiral, and so I took it.
You might want to check for a slipped sense of humor.
@Admiral
This is an objectively provable falsehood. Bohemian Rhapsody is diminished by its misuse here, which amazes me since it's such a strongly thematic song that you'd have to be socially tone-deaf to screw up at this level. What, did Warner Bros. hire an advertising team of hipsters? Did they use the asset this badly ironically?
Thank you, Suicide Squad adverts, for proving that Bohemian Rhapsody can be ruined if you take it far enough out of context without providing juxtaposition or consideration to either source materials. You might as well have overlaid OMFG's Hello. It would have worked just as well.
My long-haul is three years, but I also code for portability. Coding portability with SQL is not quite but close to as bad as coding portability for Mediawiki hooks. Nnnngh.
I've broken a game before, but it's entirely due to lbuf and nothing else. A smart selection of lattr() statements and organization of data and it can fit. That said, the game only broke because who wasn't me someone decided it was a great idea to list every single rote, book and home-made, from Mage in the stat lookup system instead of creating a different system for it.
Been there done that.
And yeah, it's entirely doable. We've been doing it for decades. "A waste of space" has not been that much of a concern for a Mu* for about ten years. I think the closest I've come to slowing down a game is half a second, which even then bothers me to the point of doing code judo to fix it.
I've never coded on a game quite as large as Firan, but I've come pretty close. What I'm saying here is that yes SQL is better, but there's no critical muppet-arms flailing as you run away from an on-game log model.
One of the things I heard a lot of postmortems about the RNC was how the whole thing was not the main event, that it was a celebration of Being Republican. Whether or not any of us agree with this, it does put in mind that people were boo-ing a character, not the actor. It was entirely mis-placed, but know your audience is a writer's first rule.
If Joss Wheedon wants to change his audience, good on him. I still think Drew Carey is a bit of a home-town traitor in a way that a lot of people thought that LeBron was before he came back. They built up an expectation, and it's really up to history to determine if they paid it back. I think Joss and LeBron have. I don't think Drew did, but that's in the past.
During a convention I went to with the Babylon 5 actors, Ed Wasser (who played Morden) started with: "Okay, everyone raise your left hand. C'mon, everyone. Everyone? Okay. Now wave, just like this." It got a laugh and it got us out of any mindset that he was his character.
I can't imagine how any of this applies to running a game.
@Thenomain said in Fanbase entitlement:
Prediction: This thread will be about how entitlement is bad and specific examples about how people have acted in an entitled manner. No debate about if entitlement is bad will take place.
Exception: Ganymede will make a probative statement about either definition or practice, and will largely be ignored.
I got these two flipped. Still, pretty good for a nonsense post becoming a nonsense discussion about how nonsense the English Language is.
I'm calling this a win. A weak win, but a win.
Sigh.
@skew said in Recc/Squee/Kudos Code?:
The general idea is to allow players to use a command to give kudos to their follow players. Unlike most of the other systems, I don't want this to translate to any sort of benefit (such as experience points or whatever). It should just be informational, and display on screen, and log.
I think this is pretty clear. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, people.