I Kickstart RPGs. Not a bunch but more than a few.
One of them was the 7th Sea Kickstarter. Over a year ago. And I'm still getting new stuff from it. This is by far the absolute best Kickstarter I've ever been a part of.
I'm disappointed that the 7th Sea Board Game didn't hit its (huge) $40k goal, but John Wick and the rest of his crew is absolutely owning this property in amazing ways.
@ashen-shugar said in New +txt/+email/etc code for TinyMUX:
I'd suggest having it as a config option
This.
Who do I stab in the ear with an icepick over this color scheme? Who? WHO?
@skew said in Quiet Room:
If you're using TinyMUX (which I know you are), there's no way to squelch the connect/disconnect (and the leave/arrive?) messages unless you have @Chime's fork. Which a certain cephalopod has just recently informed me has had a very minor update to handle some SSL something something something.
Because I broke her code.
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Again.
@roz said in Blood of Dragons:
@observer3000 MSB used to have downvotes.
I'm surprised that there were this few, in retrospect.
@peasoupling said in General Video Game Thread:
Merrill also has very little to do with DAO Merrill
DA:O Merrill was strong and quite violent against humans, so her character treatment was also pretty bad.
But she was Merrill. Anyone who doesn't adore Merrill is wrong. She can ruin the entire world for me any day. Tho of all the recurring characters, she needed to be tied into DA:O the least.
@aerianyx said in General Video Game Thread:
He so wasn't. Not at all. He was an Artist who got an awesome idea that became Mass Effect. He was Executive Producer of the franchise, but he wasn't involved in building the writing teams.
Then he can go blow for all I care. If the teams aren't cohesive and good, the game will suck. Y'know, like DA2. 
We shall agree to disagree!
Just as a random peeve, I hate this term because it presumes my attitude. We disagree, but if I agree to that is up to me. (So many times I haven't agreed to disagree. So. Many. For instance...
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@peasoupling said in General Video Game Thread:
I guess? I don't agree with everything, but I can see how someone would think that. I mean, I think the DA:O Isabella comparison is unfair, but other than that... sure, if you feel that way!
How is it unfair? Isabella and Anders were established characters. Saying it's unfair is like saying, "It's unfair to compare a Jean-Luc Picard on ST:TNG to a theoretical series where he's not commanding a starship, and is now played by Morgan Freeman as an alcoholic gambler and the reason for these changes is he contracted the Klingon Gene-Changing Flu." Whether or not I'm talking about the change in Isabella or the change in Anders is an exercise I leave up to the reader.
Motorcycles.
I don't care if you can accelerate very fast, if I'm in front of you on the on ramp I get first right of merging. No amount of "watch out for motorcycles" bumper stickers will make it my responsibility if I run into them while they're doing this.
@ixokai said in General Video Game Thread:
@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
Don't even get me started on how they absolutely ruined Anders. (Incidentally: They absolutely ruined Anders.)
If by ruined you mean he was always awful and they doubled down on him being awful.
Sure, in the same way that two completely different awful people are the same because they're both awful. By which I mean: No, don't be silly.
@peasoupling said in General Video Game Thread:
@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
Like DA2, I didnāt feel that ME:A was about anything. Itās story was stronger than DA2ās, but thatās like saying this sheet of paper is stronger than a used toilet wipe.
DA2 works as an exploration of character and place rather than plot.
Then the place should've been more than five rooms large.
Peebee was a more interesting Isabella. Hell, Isabella in DA:O was more interesting, more nuanced, and she was just an NPC in Bioware's nod to putting a brothel in all of their fantasy games. Don't even get me started on how they absolutely ruined Anders. (Incidentally: They absolutely ruined Anders.)
@aerianyx said in General Video Game Thread:
So. Are you suuuuuure you want him back in charge?
If he's responsible for the amazing writing teams like DA:O, DA:A, ME, ME2, ME2:Lair of the Shadow Broker, ME3, ME3:Fuckin' The Citadel Fuckin' best DLC of any game ever, then I don't care how big of a douchnozzle he is.
The ending of ME3 was dismissive and trite, but it was fine. The rest of ME3 was not as fantastic as its predecessors but it was good.
I can tell so many stories about the ins and outs of the drama behind the Mass Effect games.
The genius of Steve Jobs wasn't that he was an innovator, but that he created a teams that were. And the man was a drama-factory.
So no, as an end user I couldn't care less about the drama. This isn't to be dismissive to people who had to live through it; I truly sympathize with them. My goal, however, is to enjoy the games that I enjoy, and when something like ME:A or DA2 come around I'm going to speak out as a member of the audience.
For instance...
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@ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:
@thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:
Like DA2, I didnāt feel that ME:A was about anything. Itās story was stronger than DA2ās, but thatās like saying this sheet of paper is stronger than a used toilet wipe.
Andromeda was okay as a video game, but it failed as a Mass Effect game.
"I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
I liked Dragon Age 2 a lot. I liked Andromeda a lot. I liked Mass Effect 3 and its ending just fine. And you know this.
I liked ME3's ending just fine too. I liked it better when it destroyed the Universe.
***=Mass Effect 3 ending spoiler***
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addendum: I think Indoctrination Theory is terrible. To me, Mass Effect is a Space Opera, grande and personal. It's about the same level to me as finding out it was all a dream.
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@roz said in General Video Game Thread:
DRAGON AGE 2 IS THE BEST BIOWARE GAME FIGHT ME
Troll's gotta troll!
... Wait, you're serious aren't you. Should we make a new thread for this, so it could be me vs. you and Gany? 'Cause it's not. And I said so.
I didnāt like Andromeda because the story was bland. Even ME3ās story was strong and impactful, while ME:Aās story had enough plot holes to drive the Migrant Fleet through.
More specifically, they broached ideas that they didnāt seem to know how to follow through on. The one storyline that had teeth was the Krogan, but they were some kind of alternate universe Krogan with a homogenized culture.
Like DA2, I didnāt feel that ME:A was about anything. Itās story was stronger than DA2ās, but thatās like saying this sheet of paper is stronger than a used toilet wipe.
Andromeda was okay as a video game, but it failed as a Mass Effect game. The only hope I have is that the creator of the series says he would very much like to get back to it some day,
@bobotron said in Online character sheets?:
Yes, V5.
I didnāt know that V5 only refered to Vampire 5e. My bad.
(Edit: The sarcastic part of me said that this could be read as sarcastic. Itās not. Just like I didnāt know that 5e meant D&D. Yāall are weird.)
To follow-up @surreality: The moment when you see people realize how much you can say with very little.
I was just thinking about the sheet storage, not a full-featured 5e game-playing platform. You can do a lot with permissions and Dropbox (and a lot of tablet reader integration) which is why it was my second suggestion.
I just realized that between being a writer and an artist, a writer may have to live with a world for years, while an artist is often hired to do a thing, does the thing, and moves on.
I don't have any conclusion here, but it did make my brain "um...what?" because it doesn't really say anything about anything.
@auspice said in Cheap or Free Games!:
I know some people love Talisman. I hate it. >.>
I would enjoy it (bought it on the Steam Board Game Sale) but if someone gets dropped (and @EmmahSue always gets dropped) it's very, very difficult to get someone back in.
So I downvoted it. First game on Steam I downvoted. Pain in the ass.
@tinuviel said in Ganymede's Playlist:
@ganymede said in Ganymede's Playlist:
I am slipping into irrelevance
Slipping?
I think the three of us have taken a nosedive through irrelevance and straight down to the realms of myth and legend.
Who are you again?
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