I had no idea what a favicon was until this thread.
You have made me smile for the first time today at your charming innocence.
I know that's a bit mean of me to say, but it's like seeing a puppy discover a mirror, or a student driver swear at being cut off in traffic.
I'll have to check on Mac, since Apple has only recently been harassed to re-add favicons to the tabs. Sometimes people want fun over minimalism, Tim.
@Insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:
Aggressive "subscribe to us!" popup. This is bad enough when I go to computer store websites.
@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:
It's like our entire debate on Dragon Age 2 all over again.
Less so, because DA2 sucks.
For Battletech, I just don't click with it.
That is, I can recognize when a game is Not For Me(tm), vs. one that betrays expectations by being a completely different game between iterations. I have spent so much time in DA:O and DA:I that DA2 was a console game in an RPG series. While DA:A also felt a bit this way, it was far more RPG than DA2.
It also had more than one dungeon and more than three environments.
Lady, if your pre-teen girls are coming up in my face playing the "I'm Not Touching You" game, doesn't make them exempt from the "My Angry Snarling Is Also Not Touching Them" game. In fact it makes the opposite. One of the two of us is legally responsible for their behavior, and it's not me.
My main problem is that I'm lost in a sea of not knowing when I'm supposed to move forward, and the missions get very repetitive very quick.
@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:
@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:
Gany have you checked out the RogueTech mod for Battletech yet? If not, I recommend it, you might enjoy how it plays.
Why would I enjoy it? I like the game as it is.
I got bored grinding for cash and parts.
I got confused why I can't do missions in the area of my strongest ally.
Am I supposed to be a lot more aggressive?
Ugh, I hate the background requirements a lot of games have because I want to hit that moment, I want to discover my character through play, not through backstory.
Especially not backstory being judged by staff through unwritten rules.
Especially not backstory that will never ever ever be used ever again ever.
I love games that don't do this.
Weather Underground has been purchased by The Weather Company, and while I'll miss Wunderground it's nice that they have a pay-out for all their efforts.
They were called Weather Underground because they were taking the information available for free via NOAA and presenting it to everyone on this young system called "The Internet", and not asking for money. It was a passion project that grew up, and now it's passed on into the great beyond of Things Getting Bought Out.
The bad news is that they no longer have a "free" (probably supposed to be short-term) demo API that did everything we needed to do, and more. Current conditions, forecast, tide information, moon and sun information, it was amazing what information they would give out. This means that this system is now defunct.
While the most popular aspect of the Almost Real-Time Weather System was the moon information, I'm looking through systems to reinstate it. So far the following systems are on the radar:
And the piece de resistance, for the werewolves out there:
The missing information that I could get from just one call from Wunderground is tide estimates. This is not critical for most games, but damn I kind of want it now that I don't have it.
Updates as I have them.
Sorry about this, Mushers.
Created new world with [+] in Address Book, the system isn't letting me select it to set it up.
0.9.9.5 Beta.
From the game's Discord chat:
Utahsaint
So is it Vault 1A, or Vault 1, Eh? :D
Demona
However you wanna say it.
@silverfox said in How do you like things GMed?:
How do you approach GMing scenes?
By walking in the opposite direction. Sometimes I even run. I've GM'd one scene successfully in my entire life, and even that was later negated by the players involved getting around the consequences.
I will say, however, that if you leave your character for two months and don't respond to emails about it, you don't get to complain that you didn't get a say in what happened to it.
@krmbm said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:
Write with your enjoyment in mind.
This post does not have enough upvote buttons, so I'm quoting it again. Here, let me do it again, with a bit more emphasis:
@krmbm said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:
Write with your enjoyment in mind.
This is a hobby. The point of a hobby is to do things you enjoy.
Of course you know this (you @Cupcake) else you wouldn't be saying, "I'm not enjoying myself; please help." But this could probably be Rule #1. (late edit: Rule #0 is: "RL Comes First." I will go to my grave saying this.)
There is only one person you can make happy. There is only one person whose responses you can control. You.
Doing things for others can be poisonous for your well-being, but if you work with the foundation of what Krmbm said then you should be fine.
@Cupcake
Pose directly at someone. People will respond to their name, often having it hilited, and this also gives you and excuse to page them if they donāt seem to respond. āDid you miss this?ā is polite, and Iāve seen it many times when I legitimately donāt see someone posing at me in bigger scenes.
This way youāve tried to engage someone directly, and have given them the benefit of the doubt if they overlook you, and you reinforce your interest in an OOC manner without being pushy.
Just a suggestion, of course. Find what works best for you. (This means there will be failures. Itās hard to learn sometimes, but failure here is okay. I am your proof of this.)
And remember, everyone is different. Even if three people brush you off doesnāt mean the fourth will.
And if they do? Their loss. I try to play somewhere I know people so I can ask them if they know whatās going on. This is much harder to do alone, but can be done.
Good luck! 
I wasnāt thrilled by the end of Maniac, but it was a phychologically heavy show of the kind I really like.
Canāt wait to start watching Russian Doll.
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Also: Dark mode please.
Thanks.
@Caryatid said in MU Things I Love:
Breaking your character so you can rebuild then anew from shards and ashes. >.>
Man, people were so pissed when I broke their characters.
People I'm still talking to today are people who enjoyed it and broke mine back.
@Kestrel said in MU Things I Love:
Am I weird for getting a kick out of this?
In a hobby of people pretending to be vampires and elves? Hahahaahahaha. Hardly. Revel knowing you're playing a compelling character.
@surreality said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:
^ Brain monsters.
Yeah, brain monsters. Fuck brain monsters.