@Sparks said in General Video Game Thread:

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Nnnghhh, don't make me want to play this bog-standard squad-based co-op.

@Kanye-Qwest

Yup. Thus taking "do x" as a goal, not a solution. A step, not a criticism. I'm not saying that simple advice is bad advice, but it's just advice. Just like a whole lot of other things, how the receiver takes it is also important.

"Put more effort into it" is not the only solution to being an accepted part of a community. The, er, Gender-Neutral PHB (I'm trying to think of a better way to put that, but will probably fail) is a huge part of the community, but is not something we would want to encourage. The people who are eager to engage with them are not doing themselves any good. I've seen good games collapse because good people followed cults of personality. I've seen toxic personalities maintain a game to the detriment of its players, who happily went along with it. I will go toe-to-toe with you or Apos about this.

Another thing I will go to the wall about: "Fun" is a mug's game. "Be Fun" implies that if you're not fun then people won't like you. This is utter bullshit. I'll go as far as to say this is dangerous thinking. (Even if it wasn't intended; now that I'm on this path I'm going to say it.) "Fun" is like "pretty". Very. Subjective. Judgement. Call.

Another answer is: Find people you like and show that like them back. Showing that you're interested in people works a lot of the time. This has been mentioned before and it's solid advice. I'm not going to say it's simple, but I will say that it doesn't have to take a lot of time.

I will agree that you have to put yourself in a situation for these things to happen. Sometimes they happen by accident; revel in those moments, but most of the time when it happens it's because you were doing something.

I’m told by @skew that the curl doesn’t always work or stopped working or something. I will try wget as mentioned here when I can: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-mediawiki-on-ubuntu-1804/#install-mediawiki

@Apos said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:

It's just the simplest things can be very difficult to do

I am partially kidding. Things that are simple to analyze can be very hard to accomplish. “Excuse me sir, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” / “Quite simply, son; practice!”

On the other hand, if the analysis seems simple then it’s possibly too simple and ignoring, on purpose or through simplicity, important steps.

“Try harder” is often used as a solution, or “relax” or “don’t do that” or “get a job”. As solutions they are demeaning, but there’s a way for the anxious and depressed to make it work: These things aren’t solutions, but they are goals, they are steps. And the thing about goals is that you’re not a bad person if you don’t reach them, as long as tomorrow is better than today.

Not even good. Better. Better is good. Shine on, my fellow crazy diamonds.

@Kanye-Qwest said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:

@Thenomain said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:

PHB (Psycho House-Beast)

Here's a term that should go back to the 90s. And then the 90s should go to jail.

Hah, House-Beast. Editing it to Hose-Beast.

Also, why?

Edit: Looked it up out of curiosity. Never knew it had a female use. I’ve always used it gender-neutral.

“Absolute Fucking Basket Case”, then.

“Control Freak With No Self-Control”, perhaps.

Double Post Theatre!

@Ganymede said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:

Our game culture hates assholes and degenerates.

Does it? Because there is no reason an asshole can’t also be generating events. I can think of quite a few assholes that people tolerated or even flocked to in a sort of cult of personality situation. VASpider isn’t even at the top of that list.

We have gotten better than the previous decade, more self-confident, more willing to let others in, but the degenerate still exists, the asshole still thrives. It’s been a short while since I’ve seen a popular game run by a PHB (Psycho Hose-Beast), and I’ll take that for as long as it lasts.

I agree with and like your sentiments otherwise, but this one cried out for correction.f

@silverfox said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:

@Apos said in When To Stop Listening To Those Voices:

It is simple. Don't think too much about your own character.

^^^ That, that, that.

Doesn’t. Work. Half. The. Time.

Sorry but it doesn’t. It is not a trivial thing for some people (for me people, but I’m not alone here) to just adjust to the group. If the group is being open then you go with the flow and it’s fun, but tell me if this has never happened to you:

[Appropriate Channel] You: Hey, what’s going on?
[Appropriate Channel] <silence>

There are other ways to try to insinuate yourself into scenes and groups, but there is a certain point where you give up, where you wonder if the problem is you, and if it is you what you can do about it. Welcome to the entryway to anxiety and depression, and if you don’t understand this then I am deeply, painfully jealous.

You say “That, that, that,” and I sigh, “No, no, no.” There is no easy solution, because the problem is partially about self-loathing, and pattern-finding, and otherwise sensible logic being applied where it shouldn’t. It’s not simple. God we wish it was.

@Sparks said in Atlantis Client:

@faraday — the old 32-bit version works fine on Mojave

In the 32-bit version, I started losing lines in multi-line code. The lines were there, but would black out. I only used this for manually compressing Mux code, and I suspect it a problem with Mac and not Atlantis, but this was going on.

Doesn’t happen on 64-bit version.

@Ghost said in Best (PnP) RPGs of 2018?:

saying that some Brujah might be alt-right or that radical Islamic vampires were involved in Chechnya IMO isn't shocking.

Except they weren’t saying that the vampires were involved, they were saying that the suffering wasn’t real and was a front. The people suffering said, “Um...what.”

I agree that the response hit GamerGate levels of stupid, the same kind of internet bullying that has hit many innocent and undeserving people, but there is a wide difference between Vagina Dentata; and Your Suffering Is Fake; and Here’s a Pedophile to Play, Enjoy!

I don’t fault White Wolf for trying to push comfort levels, as this is what good horror does. I also don’t blame Paradox for chastising White Wolf for not being able to read a room, especially with all the lead up they had. Nobody did anything catastrophically wrong except hiring Zak S. for anything.

https://www.gamesindex.org/home/2019/1/24/best-rpgs-and-rpg-related-products-of-2018

Check them out.

@Sparks

As a reminder somewhere more permanent:

The width of the screen vs. the number of characters that fill the screen width before wrapping are inconsistent.

@Cupcake

Believe it or not, but that's me. Always. I lash out against the "unfairness" of others, mostly because I think people who are actually being jerks should well know it.

(About half the people I consider good friends are those I've growled at before.)

There is no easy route out of it besides self-care. Breathe. Do things for you. If people don't enjoy you then fuck 'em.

But if I can say one thing, this is it:

If you're not enjoying yourself, then don't keep pushing yourself.

That way lies madness. I should know. I can talk in circles for hours about how this is a social hobby and therefore if I can't be social then I'm failing the hobby and blah blah blah. It's easy. It's not fun. It's insanity.

--

@Cupcake , I'm terrible at remembering people, but I've never thought of you as being one of the bad guys, can't imagine you being a poison. Those times I remember that it's you that I talked to, you've been pleasant and gentle. You're good people.

@RizBunz

What, technical issues with a Vault? You don't say.

(Also, I seem to be caught in a Vault Tec time-loop experiment. Help!)

@Arkandel

I’m looking forward to see young Gandalf before his parents die, and spending all season trying to guess which one becomes Sauron,

Update:

https://playnite.link/ now includes Epic and Itch.io's launcher.

Enjoy!

So I just got finished adding 26 Conditions (and having someone else edit even more) in preparation of codifying Changeling, and I'm also looking at the Clarity damage system and their method of Touchstones and Icons, and I've come to the personal conclusion that Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition is the second most personal game Onyx Path has written, nipping at the heels of the first edition Prometheus and it's story-arc system.

Almost everything in this game revolves the gaining and losing of Clarity, a specific kind of sanity that gives teeth to the situation of uncertainty of a world that first edition CtL promised.

This game looks like a bastard to keep track of. How can someone run this without printing the Conditions on flash cards? The amount of dice you roll for taking Clarity Damage is more fluid than the combat system. I say this with excitement. If you aren't playing with Conditions and messing with Clarity, you might as well just stick with CtL 1e.

I do like the simplification of the Contracts and the deadly knife of Pledges.

I do not know how I'm going to code a lot of this.

Data Entry people.

Thank you thank you one million times thank you. I cannot stand doing data entry, so everyone who volunteers to do this, know that without you we would be a whole lot more miserable.

@Scissors said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yes. If something like this happens at my work place, I will personally do the firing.

It's probably a good thing I never wanted to staff on a MU*.

Are you kidding? You're exactly the kind of person many Mu*s need.

There's someone I work with who has OCD. Sometimes people mess with his stuff because he's also a jerk, but not too often because he legitimately seems like the kind of person who will go from quiet to burning down the building. Yes, he even looks like Milton.

It's sadly dangerous to ask people to not mess with your stuff because some people's children take that as an invitation to mess with you more.

I don't know if you have a webcam that you or some nerd you know can set up to record motion, then politely ask the specific people to stop doing it. The Wyze camera is also pretty nice for that, and not very expensive.

I'm sorry things have gotten that far, @Auspice. I hope things settle soon.

@mietze

I cannot think of any situation where "pregnancy code" is a good idea.