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@Auspice said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Thenomain said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Auspice said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

'Get the Nobel Peace Prize'

Why is this a bad long-term Aspiration? You get Beats for it when you work toward it, which is the goal of a long-term Aspiration. That it's not good for a Mush is a different issue.

It's probably not great for a tabletop, but the ST will see this and plan around it. Or not. It's their funeral.

clearly you understand the point I was getting at

I didn't mean it as a nitpick, but rather explain. Once I understood that long-term Aspirations gave beats for moving toward them, then whether or not they're attainable becomes much more moot. Also how easy it is to drop an aspiration to pick up another is also a consideration.

What I'd look at in Aspirations is whether or not it's a reasonable motivator for the character at table. You might tell someone with Nobel Peace Prize, "Look, that's going to involve a lot of off-screen work. The game isn't about Mundane Politics or the World Stage. Plus, figuring out events that trigger this Aspiration could be vague at best."

If they still don't get it then as Gany said, shrug and move on.

@Auspice said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

'Get the Nobel Peace Prize'

Why is this a bad long-term Aspiration? You get Beats for it when you work toward it, which is the goal of a long-term Aspiration. That it's not good for a Mush is a different issue.

It's probably not great for a tabletop, but the ST will see this and plan around it. Or not. It's their funeral.

@Lisse24 said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

@Coin I've been playing with the idea of a peer-confirmed process. So you complete an asp, it publishes to the room, people then confirm that it happened or not.

This is brilliant.

I'd be happy to fold the functionality into my Asp code or help you work it out if that's the one you're using.

@SunnyJ

You're preaching to the choir, but in trying to read the room that's what people here seem to be saying and upvoting the most often. I do keep in mind that we--Soapbox--are a large but not majority population of the Mu* world right now, Soapbox is our audience for this discussion.

That's not to say that I don't think there are ways to make it happen:

• Staff must be clear as to the intent of the game.
• All of their actions should support that intent. (Within reason; even rational humans can create toxic situations.)

It helps if you already have a circle of people to start the game; people who will support the game culture so you don't have to build it from scratch.

But yes, it comes down to "I want to enjoy my time on this game", which is unhelpful but is also a truism. What you enjoy will dictate what kind of game you want to play, but there are not infinite choices and so threads like this one are put forth to get the temperature of the room.

Someone doesn't want to spend time making a character for a game that will have little chance integrating with the game might ask, "What character types are needed?" (Or check a census, or whatever.) This isn't usually to follow what's dictated, but to get a feel for things.

If you're going to spend a lot of time making a game for people you don't know, you're going to want to know what kind of things they want to play as a part of deciding if you want to put in the effort.

Because our time is also much more finite since we were kids. And so I'm going to rate "staff who maintain the game culture" as critical. Even if that culture is "steel-fisted wacky-ass".

@SunnyJ said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Isn't this basically Fallcoast? I don't think people want metaplot as much as they want stable, massive alt-friendly places they can just have their own thing going on and meet new people that suit their fancy. A WoD-flavored Second Life sorta thing, and I say that without any prejudice. Would.

This was what Dark Metal was, too. It was popular, I'll give it that. I'm not sure that this is the kind of popularity people want nowadays.

I think nowadays people want a game where the playerbase itself is curated by staffers, keeping out the killjoys and trolls.

I think @Coin starts hitting on what starts being required when you add the TTRPG elements to it. Minimal staffing is the goal that WoD games need to push toward that most other games never had to worry about.

@TheBigD

Possibly install a *NIX on VirtualBox?

https://www.virtualbox.org

@Cobaltasaurus

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GODDAMNIT.

@Auspice said in Random funny:

Today I saw a car with a sticker on it that said 'Actual Size'

That's funny.

@Grayson said in Any Fate free WOD games left?:

oWoD wise there's Sheltering Sky and GarouMUSH.

There’s always GarouMush. There will always be GarouMush. When mankind has passed and gone, the cockroaches will band together in a psychic compulsion to run GarouMush.

@Auspice said in Random funny:

For the teachers on msb:

Not for English teachers, though.

@Taika said in Any Fate free WOD games left?:

cityofshadowsmux.com - I'm guessing between 2-4 weeks once the last bit of tinkering for the changeling code is done until we open.

For those who are curious but don't know how to ask, the "Fate" was a consent system created for Dark METAL (edit, goddamnit) back in the day, where the level of what can affect you was also the level you could affect others or the game itself. I cannot remember the details too well, but it went from 0 to 5 and Black Dog (because of course it did) where 0 meant "I am on full consent and can affect nobody and nothing; I'm just here to chat". 5 meant "Can kill and be killed for any reason even just because it's Tuesday." And Black Dog was the "edgelord maximum extreme" for complete gore and F.A.T.A.L-approved situations; absolutely nothing was off-limits.

"1" was pretty much "can RP". I hovered between a 2 and 3.

As far as "active" is concerned, it's not something anyone but you can say; just ask people who want to RP outside of any game's usual active time-zones. I'm unaware of anything to the levels of Haunted Memories or The Reach.

@Lotherio

I doubt a direct link is illegal.

I don’t boycott Spotify, I just already use Apple Music. I already see what people playing games like. I read the music threads on Soapbox. YouTube also has a lot of stuff I can check out. There really is no dearth of discovering music these days and no right or wrong way to do it.

@Kestrel said in Do you care about other people's music?:

@Pandora said in Do you care about other people's music?:

Please never ask me to listen to anything though, I can't get those 2-5 minutes back so the answer will always be no, and I will resent you for making me crush your fleeting hope.

Hi please listen to this song it reminds me of you

I don't need these 2-5 minutes of my life back. That was a blast from the past.

@dvoraen

Fair enough, but I would like to have more time to learn the abilities of the attacks of different people. I need Baby's First Chrono Trigger.

@dvoraen

I thought I did. If the combat menu is a menu then yes? But it doesn't seem to wait while I decide which attack to use. I'll try again. Thanks.

n.b., I've never blogged, either. I don't have the mindset to share all this stuff in my head in any coherent manner. My opinion is if you want to get to know me, get to know me. Otherwise it feels like shouting into the void.

Mushes are a little different than 'the void', since a lot of people like this, but I've never learned the knack.

I tried playing Chrono Trigger. I was quite eager to experience one of the most loved JRPGs of all time, but the lack of pausing in their semi-turn-based combat turned me off. Not entirely, but just enough.

The only JRPG I tried that I immediately liked was Breath of Death VII: The Beginning.

@TNP said in Do you care about other people's music?:

@Thenomain I don't subscribe to, does that count?

Yes. I don't care to listen to/watch any service with ads, anymore, but that does mean at least that you are willing to create and listen to a playlist. You have an account.

I'm not saying Spotify is The Devil, but that I am probably of a quite small minority.