@sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
ETA: Like seriously. Why else would I? more importantly, WTF is it a reason to freak out for?
As a lark I took the Donald J. Trump "How Am I Doing?" survey, and wouldn't you know it, the "Do You Think English Should Be The Official And Only Language in USA?" question was there.
Sigh.
That's legit Blizzard artwork though? Maybe I'm confused at what this is, but I don't see how they won't get in trouble and fast.
Imagine how much directly copied text your average World of Darkness game uses.
No, we're all on the verge of extinction with just one person giving enough of a damn.
On the other hand, I don't want @Fantom to think we're dogpiling, and am curious what he has to say.
@misadventure said in Mudkraft:
The interesting thing is that you can pretty much duplicate the way things work, you just can't use the names.
In US law, it's been determined that a single game mechanic (i.e., "Tapping") cannot be copyrighted, so while the entire assemblage ("work of art") may be, a lot of game companies don't fight it too hard until it becomes a complete copy. This is half of why PUBG never had a chance using "frying pan as a weapon" as a reason to sue another company. The other half was a gratuitous amount of prior art for games of its ilk doing just this. Not that a single item would mean they didn't have a chance, but the THIRD half is the gaming community was laughing them down from their high horse.
What would be good reading/watching/playing for the game world I'm trying to design?
Shadowrun.
Cyberpunk (2020 or the 2077 teasers).
Exalted 3rd Edition's images.
Anything related to Kids On Bikes. (Stranger Things being the most popular.)
I want a modern-day re-imagining of Shadowrun, and I've been feeling around for what our modern day culture wants outside the Superhero genre, or looking at how the movies are getting more nuanced even inside the Superhero genre.
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Micro Center is where you go if you have an idea of what you're looking for.
Last I was in, I overheard a conversation about wireless, educating the customer between range extenders, ethernet-over-powerline, and mesh networking.
I would send someone who doesn't know a damn thing to Micro Center first.
I would send someone who doesn't care to Best Buy.
(I do have bad things to say about MC, but compared to BB it's like comparing a poor sculpture to a bronzed turd.)
@rdc
My write-in vote: No Beast.
I gave up coding the Best system because it's one part incomplete and one part the powers depend entirely on what other supers are part of your group. I trust you can code or find someone to code this aspect, but I gave up on it pretty quickly.
I personally don't like the "powers come from other supers" aspect that just makes me think Kumbaya/Super-Friends. The game system also doesn't feel polished. Promethean and Mummy, tho staged as stand-alone games, feel like complete games. Beast felt like it was written without playtesting or focus.
Tho as @Ganymede says, you're good for game development, so you're on the short list of people who'd make Beast work. It'd be an interesting experiment.
Page 115.
MOON GIFTS
CRESCENT MOON’S GIFT
This Gift is only available to Ithaeur
This is what she's talking about, the specific Auspice gifts.
While you're "technically" correct, there's space for both of you to be in the right when expectations are clarified.
Here's the current state of things:
If you buy a TV or computer on sale (or iPad on sale) and don't buy anything else, the company you're buying from is probably losing money, or coming close.
If you are buying cables, paper, ink, insurance (and there is good reason to buy the insurance, but be very careful about it), then buy from a store you like. Especially if you are buying stuff with a low-margin item (c.f. TV, computer, iPad). They are okay on the returns if you are this kind of purchaser; you will be back and they will make the money to stay in business.
This commentary is specifically for tech stores.
Micro Center carries so much stuff that they often look like a warehouse more than a high-class store. As much as this could make them look junky, I find that this is in their favor; Best Buy looks like a 90s mall outlet with, as you say, about 3 things in any given category. And while BB is turning things around, their customer service is still largely shit.
@misadventure said in Mudkraft:
And a lot of ads.
Ahhhh, I bet the glitched serving of the page hit my adblocker funner so I saw the ad templates in plaintext and mistook them as part of the main page.
Still, allowing somewhere with SEO text on a non-product on your page for the click-through revenue is...not a good start.
Yeah, but Best Buy?
Then again, I have the great fortune to be within a stone's throw of Fry's-With-a-Soul. Well, at least my local version is supremely good, and makes Best Buy a laughable second.
@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Just go your local Best Buy
Why do you hate @Packrat?
What would be good reading for the game I'm currently on?
http://www.mushcode.com/Manuals
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-ruby
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python
I tried playing again recently.
I couldn't get past chargen.
Strange. I clicked it again and yes, that's what I get. A whole lot of nothing, but pretty nothing.
It originally pushed me to a site called GodLike, where it was non-stop Lorem Ipsum, broken CSS, broken images, and the "you're ordering this t-shirt and this hoodie". I curiously clicked on the "hoodie" link and the previous description and placeholder image were there.
I think that makes your question, "What is this?" even more prevalent.
What is this?
Just how much spam is this?
I clicked on the link and all I got was all the spam.
I apparently was ordering a men's hoodie for $130 (on sale even!) with the following description:
Men Hoodie
And gathering. Form for, gathering, female you'll blessed appear day us cattle
hath be moving face he Whales fruitful is spirit Beginning. Abundantly good
living Thing isn't stars saw over and earth dry rule herb bring image night, fowl
their, third set saw for.
I can't tell you what it looked like, except for a 400x600 placeholder called "400x600".
All the spam.
@auspice said in Video Dump:
@insomnia said in Video Dump:
@auspice I hate you right now. Why did I click that right before bed?
I'm sorry.
I counter your (very nice) ear worm with this eye worm.
Best not introduce them to old classic and camp cowboy serialized dramas.
Then they'd be Triggered.
(edit a few days later: Trigger? The horse? Get it? No? Oh well. Back to the code mines.)
@misadventure said in RL Anger:
@jibberthehut Well at least it wasn't human planning/malice/laziness.
Humanity vs nature instead of humanity vs humanity.
RL PvE
Good point on the nitpick.
Have you looked into the Kickstarter for any changes or modernizations that someone who might just kickstart it (me or others but mostly me and also others) should note?
So Kickstarter has on it a new OTE RPG. The original had a cult following; how about this new version? Does it still hold a place? Anyone know anything fun and interesting about it?