Posts made by Thenomain

@auspice

Then I suggest the tagline be:

(For discussions unrelated to gaming. Anything else goes.)

Kthx.

@arkandel

How does this differ from "Tastes Less Game'y (For discussions unrelated to MU. Anything else goes.)"?

Thanks.

@insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:

RIP TTG.

🤬

@waller

Of course he has.

Because he’s pretty baller.

The entire Evennia IRC crew are amazing. Their ability to answer the questions and do the things without making you feel like a newb is fantastic, and people there are always sharing thoughts and concepts on how to do things, for themselves and others.

A++, This Is How You Succeed at Interneting.

@zombiegenesis said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:

Pictures and other bits of pop culture laying around? They learn to read and think old school dime novels are history books? Maybe. I dunno.

This was it. That and other technologies that are lying around: Clothes. Hats. Moving pictures. Phonographs. Newspapers. The information era didn't start with DARPA or CERN.

I am a little sad at the world when my direct A Piece Of the Action quote was not jumped upon like the nerdbait it is. It's a pretty damn good episode, too.

Sometimes, Fizbin rules apply.

@faraday said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:

@coin said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:

Noir is a style and a theme.

Yeah but how do you do "noir" with medieval-fantasy people transplanted to 1920's earth? Not saying it's impossible, but it's hard to picture what that would even look like.

“In a few years, they might be looking for a piece of OUR action.”

- Cpt. J.T. Kirk, USS Enterprise.

Fedoras and tommy guns, hill giants in vests, flapper goblins.

I’ve started playing a point and click adventure called Pendula Swing which is a fantasy world that advanced to its version of the 20s. It’s buggy as hell right now but I’m hoping they fix it so I can seep in it.

If it's purely a question of tech level, I think the 20s are kind of a weird dead zone of popular culture compared to the more popular late-1800's (Wild West), 30s (gangsters) and 40s (WWII).

It’s entirely about the technology (more on that later). WW2 ushers in the modern era, especially the nuclear and informational age, and that would be just as well served by setting it today.

30s as good as the 20s. 50s would be fine, but I’d want to skip WW2 because I don’t want a world about fantasy races encountering global war machines. At least not to start.

50s would be funny for the Americana and Soviet Bloc trappings.

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@kanye-qwest said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:

100% modern. Seeing/playing them struggling to unlock things home computers and smart phones to try and understand how the world works would be amazing.

And this is where I started. A “The Walking Dead” motif to people who have to survive in such diverse locales.

I know that Pax, for instance, would rather humanity dropped into fantasy world, but I want the opposite of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. (“The flagon with the dragon.”) I want to see a world where a pixie tribe tries to work out freeze drying, and what direction that would take.

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This would be far easier if it happened even 20 or 30 years ago. Sure the transistor would be a closed book for a good long while, but fewer cars would be closed systems, CRTs are still around, more traditional methods of using paper to track shipments are very evident.

As for why the 20s? @coin was pondering Noir Witcher.

Fuck. Yes.

@ixokai

What about the 20s bugs you? If it's the social dynamics, they're wiped out with the human race.

A lot of people prefer Modern over Noir for their D&D Earth. I'll be honest, I'm rather surprised; are people Noir'd out?

@arkandel said in Do we need staff?:

One final request: Let's not romanticize the past. Yes, I'm sure we've all been in that special, unique moment in time where that one game achieved nirvana and barely needed staff at all. That's great - but how can that feat be replicated? How can we make it happen again? What lessons, mechanics, in-game functions can we reuse with a different crowd of people but expect similar results?

This seems to be the actual question of the post.

You will need:

• The creators and players to agree on setting and theme
• The creators and players to want it to succeed
• The players to accept the creator's ideas of success
• (if the creator's idea of success it to let players define their own success, this counts)
• The creators to enable the players who are helping their idea of success
• The players to enable the creators to engage with them more

Most of this has already been said by @Ganymede , as she and I have been going over this on these boards for over a decade now we are almost in confluence about these questions.

You can't easily create a good player base. You can try. There are things that you can do in order to get one, mainly:

• Build passion in the project

And that's how you do it. Simple.

@bobotron said in General Video Game Thread:

@insomnia

Or just get the DS version which has all the cutscenes and extended content, and has standard SNES controls.

This was what I’ll be trying, once I saw it and a description of the port. A++, thanks to everyone for input in these trying times.

@skew said in Unnecessary Messenger System - +txt code:

@auspice do we really think tums beats ums?

Uuummmmm idk I'll think about it.

She could have suggested "COMPLETELY" instead of "TOTALLY".

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I'll show myself out.

@ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:

@thenomain

The Final Fantasy VI port is much better.

The day I read that you could kill off the protagonist of Chrono Trigger and still complete the game was the day I decided: I Would Play This Game. I might even kill off the protagonist just for fun.

I started FF7 once and kind of got bored before the end of the intro cinematic. Maybe I need to give it an actual chance.

I finished what I'll call the "intro adventure" to CT and yeah, I'm hooked. Hooked in spite of the janky, terrible port.

I'm sure I could find the ROM somewhere, mind. Now that I paid for this crap port I won't feel a moment's guilt.

http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/

Always important.

I've been watching the "It's Lit" (har har puns!) series and I quite like it. Occasionally gets a bit socially heavy-handed, but hey, Lindsay Ellis.

As the creator of the Stupid Phone Code, I not only concur, but I might accidentally rename it to TUMS wherever I find it.

("Ums" is good, mind, as that's what I do when thinking what to text. I go "Um" multiple times. Ums.)

Started playing Chrono Trigger.

That is to say, I started to play Chrono Trigger with whatever they wish to call the noise coming out of my headphones, off to the side where I can vaguely hear it only, and swearing that the "wait" combat style is not actually waiting.

I can see why there's a lot of frustration about this port. This is a good game. This deserves a proper treatment.

@insomnia

Really? So far Netflix has gotten me far more reliable suggestions. Maybe I’m secretly a weeaboo and just don’t know it.

Mariko: Hot Nightlife

Since you wish for Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth

OH COME ON, STEAM. What is it about "Pillars of the Earth" that makes you think I want all the cheap anime games?!

... If it's anything it should be my interest in the "Fault" series. C'mon, Steam, get it right.

Reminds me of Nier: Automata, of worlds without humans or other post-human explorations.

They are always maudlin to me.

We need to get off this rock.

@mietze said in Um...What?:

What about the people who buy/sell/trade unwashed used underwear.

What about people who go to strip clubs?