https://www.blindsparrowinteractive.com/ready-to-roll/
Ready To Roll
A blind and low vision accessible RPG dice manager
So cool.
https://www.blindsparrowinteractive.com/ready-to-roll/
Ready To Roll
A blind and low vision accessible RPG dice manager
So cool.
This was posted by @Tat on the Ares Discord, and I think it's a strong, good, nuanced outsider non-spoiler breakdown of this season of Game of Thrones.
https://twitter.com/dsilvermint/status/1125856091261136896?s=21
Or: D&D plots, GRRM pants.
@Sunny said in WoW Classic:
@Thenomain said in WoW Classic:
A bunch of young kids at work are going crazy about this “Magic the Gathering” thing. What the hell is going on in the world? Are we grasping for nostalgia so hard even people who never lived through these things are pining for it?
I think it's called 'we are getting old'. This happened with Bell Bottom pants, too.
Yeah, but these are people young enough that this is their first experience with Magic.
In retrospect, it's probably a well-supported business model and maintaining the brand and game in such a way that it's still something nerds like.
You are eating on your fucking drawing tablet? What is wrong with you!
Wait, what's not wrong with you?!
My nickname at one of the places I worked was "Leroy Jenkins".
'Nuff said.
A bunch of young kids at work are going crazy about this “Magic the Gathering” thing. What the hell is going on in the world? Are we grasping for nostalgia so hard even people who never lived through these things are pining for it?
The links above work for me right now, too. Maybe you caught it when the game was down and your system wants to push you right there. Try the ol’ clear-cache trick?
Or any time staff decides to overstep the rules for their own sake, or ignore proper decorum, that clues people that the rules are not being enforced. I've seen staff try to clamp down on players do what staff says but not what staff does, but it's nobody's fault but their own.
***=Like you need to know this thread has spoilers.***
DOOBLE POOST:
@saosmash said in The OOC Masquerade ?:
I find that when information is widely available there is a concomitant social pressure to minimally familiarize myself with it or Not Know What is Going On.
I find that people love to read logs, explore wikis, and immerse themselves in the culture.
I also find that if people are familiar with each other—or want to be—to joke about things on people's wikis on OOC chat, they are acknowledging that it's Table Talk, that it's OOC, and that supports a culture of keeping it considerate. Saying, "WE are the players, these are our characters. They aren't the same thing."
This is one dino's WoD focus, but I've watched the shift, and seen other cultures (specifically AetherMUX) be confused that "OOC Masq" was ever a needed thing.
When people here say it's up to culture, it really is. And staff's approach informs that culture. Which includes code implementation.
Ta.
Yeah, because more paperwork is what we need in this hobby.
@Bad-at-Lurking said in The OOC Masquerade ?:
Obviously, if a game's wiki or somebody's page asserts that information on it is strictly OOC, I don't use it.
You know what? I'm going to make a strong statement:
Assume that a Wiki is OOC first. Did your character learn this information through interactions on the game? No? Then it's OOC.
If you want to use the information, do it. I'm all for people using the information, especially using the information as a way to contact someone if they can use the information and the best way to do so. This is Table Talk. This is social interaction. This. Is. Awesome.
What is IC? What is OOC? If people use their common sense, treat each other with politeness and consideration, and treat the game world with consideration, then who in the world cares?
Well, I don't.
@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
He's right. Nobody memorizes phone numbers anymore.
Remember when all those numbers you didn't know where in this giant book, and if you wanted to call someone whose number you didn't commit to memory or write in a smaller book you had to remember where you put the book, possibly remember their street address, remember to carry the book near to the phone so that you could dial the phone, wait for it to dial and then maybe, maybe you could get done what you were trying to do?
I thought about this procedure and I wasn't even done remembering it before part of my brain said, "This is taking too long!" That's right, not only did I lose the skill to something that is much more convenient, but I've lost the ability to be patient enough to remember what it was like. And it's not like looking up numbers in the phonebook was horrible; you'd chat with family or listen to the TV while doing it.
I swear that we've given ourselves ADD.
And if you dialed the wrong number, the exchange would be fairly pleasant. "Oops, wrong number." / "That's okay." / "Thanks, bye." I once recently had someone call me to chew me out for dialing the wrong number, and it wasn't me. He dialed the wrong number to complain! (More likely it was a faked called ID, but the idea that someone yells at anyone for wrong numbers makes me sigh.)
We all feeling good? Yeah? Nice and positive atmosphere? Cool. We deserve it.
A lot of us reading know what it's like to be in a room RPing and know that another character is there invisible, listening. Back in the day this can mean that the conversation changes, quite suddenly and suspiciously, from undermining one character's plans to the movie night.
Does this still happen? I don't know; the last game I've been on with this as a consideration we had to open a job with staff and wait a few days for an answer. But in talking who knows who else is a vampire or a witch, that does seem to be dead in the community. I'd give it about a decade in the ground at this point.
But there's more to OOC Masq then knowing the potential power set of characters that your character might have reason to play against. Ghost's example is one. Mine is another. I don't think that's dead, but I also don't think it's unhealthy.
But it's not cut and dry. "You can't know I'm here. I can't help that there's no code supporting invisibility." Things that we decide our characters know IC based on decisions we make OOC affect other characters. This is a tool, intrinsically nether good or bad.
The key to me is if it's fun and reasonable. Is it plausible? Cool. Is it reasonable in the IC nature of the game? Awesome!
I know there are people already lining up their responses with those like "that's never happened to me" or "I'm not responsible for the fun of others" or "just don't make a game where that's possible". Pretend this post doesn't exist because it doesn't affect you, your play style, or the kind of games that you play. Here's your cookie and feeling of self-worth. I'm honestly kind of jealous.
For the rest of us? Let it roll!
Does the Wayback machine do IPs? I’m sure someone somewhere set up a machine to record WHOIS information for the entire net. Nobody sane, mind....
@Arkandel said in Fallcoast Domain Expired:
I can't look at most of those IP ranges without cringing.
@Rinel said in Fallcoast Domain Expired:
@Arkandel It was the 90s. It was a simpler time.
Or Bill is such a nerd that he knew this and didn’t want to spam someone’s site by accident.
And we know how much of a nerd Mr. Amend is.
Jenny Nicholson: Thanos Has a Great Plan (infinity war spoilers)
I have a new analogy for Thanos in IW: If they were telling his story as though he were the hero, they told it in 30 second segments throughout the rest of the movie. With the fifteen or so other leads of the movie and their more coherent involvement.
At the end of Wicked, you get to see The Wizard of Oz through Elphaba’s view. Good on Infinity War for trying, but like the end of Endgame completely ruined Steve Rogers for some people, I cannot agree that Thanos was presented as a hero.
So.
Avengers: Endgame.
Yeah, it was pretty good.
As many people have already said: It absolutely did not feel like a three-hour movie.
I don't know if that justifies making us ("making" being a strong word, here) watch Infinity War first, but I doubt the payoff would have been quite as good without the first movie, so if you watched it then eventually see this one for the payoff.
I got "Return of the King" feels about the payoff.
I sadly did not recognize Stan Lee in the movie.
Sorry, Stan.
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But goddamn did Karen Gillian steal the show in both movies. I hope she continues to grow as an actress and knock it out of the park in whatever she decides to do. We have so many good actresses in the movie industry right now that I hope "The Hustle" is an instant classic. Er, not that I like McCarthy, but she can be as funny as she's directed to be.