@tinuviel said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
@faraday said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
We can ramble on about our own opinions all day long for fun
I mean. Ordinary people, maybe. But us? We have opinions.
@tinuviel said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
@faraday said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
We can ramble on about our own opinions all day long for fun
I mean. Ordinary people, maybe. But us? We have opinions.
@tinuviel said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
I mean. I guess my main query about all this would be: Does it matter?
Of course not. It’s a thread to test if the poll function was duplicating.
The only correct, purely logical answer to the poll is “no”. The question includes all forms of Mu*, and some forms of Mu* are not games. And because not all Mu*s are games, they cannot be video games, no matter how you want to define “video game”.
If you want to start a flame war on RPG forums, start a thread called “What is a game?” You know how some people get so tired of answering the same question for newbies so many times that they get angry? That’s what this question is like.
Nobody can define “game”, and nobody can define “play”. We can feel it, we know the shape of it, and we know what we accept, but the best we can do it agree on a rough definition, or clarify when that definition doesn’t meet our own.
Q: What is art?
A: I don’t know, but I know what I like.
Who wants to help me throw money at Greg Stolze for a new sci fi RPG?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gregstolze/termination-shock-the-print-version
@insomniac7809 said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
@deathbird said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
Nah. They're really just chat rooms with other nifty things added in to them.
Yup. If a MUSH is a video game, so was AOL Instant Messenger.
This is a good point. The underlying question is like asking, “Is wood a shelter?” Or, “Is Picasso worthwhile as a human being?”
Mu*s can be video games, but they can also not be video games. Application is the number one determination.
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@admiral said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
Any game you can play without a visual component doesn't qualify to me as a video game.
So...all text games are video games.
@testament said in Who are you?:
- I often refer to boats as butts.
I don't know if this is a call-back to Bane, but if it is then...welcome, survivor!
@ganymede said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
@thenomain said in Poll: Are MU* video games?:
Are text adventures "video games"?
That's what the people who liked Torment: Tides of Numenera tell me.
Says someone who apparently never played Planescape Torment.
Are text adventures "video games"?
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Here's my opinion:
I am a lost soul in the surreal realm of East Philadelphia, guided by a resident and sarcastic tour-guide named John the Cat, who is a cat.
When I was on a dial-up BBS, I wrote many small free-form snippets of story about a version of myself who was lost and I discovered that there was no such place as "East Philadelphia" (neither officially nor by reputation), and decided that an urban Wonderland would be a nicely dangerous place to be lost.
John the Cat existed because I like cats, and I really wouldn't mind having a familiar. John is a black cat, of course. He's sarcastic, of course. But he also acted as the voice of harsh reality, the Cheshire Cat but a more constant companion. Of course if I tried to make this a story these days the idea of a "snarky animal companion" would be so tired that I'd be embarrassed, but it must speak to something because a snarky animal companion was my ideal before the word "web" was uttered outside of CERN.
Sometimes tropes are there for a reason.
I'm also amused when surreal things are juxtaposed with mundanity. I was the mundanity.
I never got past writing stories for myself, but I'm still drawn to things like this, not because Alice in Wonderland was formative to me but because the world is strange and complex and I appreciate writing that leans toward this.
I can, however, still recite The Jabberwocky from memory.
The DMV/BMV. Not the office, but the people in line. It sucks to need education but these people who work here are doing their best.
This counts for everyone, really.
@surreality said in Setup ChimeMUX + MediaWiki on Digital Ocean:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions - preinstalled (enabling string functions is also useful)
Yeah, ParserFunctions is now one of the things you can install by default.
And String Functions isn't useful, it's goddamn mandatory. This is the one I was hoping to be reminded about.
"DPL3" being the other one.
Thanks.
Update
Base MediaWiki instructions are in. I had to update the instructions on creating the mySQL account in order to complete it without being confusing.
I would like a section on "best-practices wiki setup", as well as some of the most critical wiki plugins for our hobby, if anyone has suggestions.
Thanks.
https://gamerant.com/nes-snes-classic-discontinued-2018/
Why on Earth is Nintendo afraid of money?!
Boredom. Avoiding schoolwork in a world without video games. Didn't want to become a phreaker because of fear of jail-time.
(note: I did want to become a phreaker.)
@thenomain said in Good TV:
Hiss!
Might wanna shed your skin, snakey, it's got pwnage on it. Yuck.
Titans is really great so far.
Raven.
Smiles.
I respect your opinion and all, and I haven't watched it because...er, reasons, but it's starting at negative ten thousand points.