@ganymede said in oWoD - Is there such thing as a good one?:
@sunnyj said in oWoD - Is there such thing as a good one?:
We need the game first!
sigh We could ask @Thenomain really nicely, I suppose.
Thenomain rubs his thumb against his forefingers in a knowing gesture.
For current games. And @surreality could design it! And you could code it! And we would have kittens and cake and dancing nudes of all stripes! And I'm sure it would never, ever be out of date.
Would a Wiki devoted to this be useful?
So right now I'm floating the idea of having women read the mansplain lines. @Insomnia is afraid that she doesn't know enough women who would do this, so I'm looking for volunteers to read lines like:
So is this your boyfriend's channel?
And:
Oh good, we need a healer.
PM me and/or Insomnia if you're a woman who wants to be a mansplainer for the irony and luls. Thanks.
Credible villains are the best antagonists. While the villains in the newest iteration of CoD Mage are still a bit crazypants, they are credible and relatable. (Imagine if the Koch brothers were manipulating the world for real godlike masters instead of themselves.)
Even the Technocracy in oMage was understandable, and come from a noble origin: Help the Sleepers. If it weren't for the cartoonish stereotyping of oWoD, a Mage game where sometimes Technocracy members and Tradition members worked together in a "enemy of my enemy" sense would be great.
The Anarchs are an antagonist group by oVampire standards, and yet Bloodlines has them as equals in a more political war than violent one.
It's probably easier to find players to properly play this level of almost-brotherly antagonists than the wackadoo-antagonists of Nephandi, Black Spiral Dancers or, yes, Sabbat.
@insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:
the only thing saving me so far has been my voice
You know people who can read these things for you.
It might even be hilarious to have a man reading your anti-mansplaining script.
The command pulls text from another attribute so that it may be run in order by the command queue, "in-line".
We are nerding it up by disagreeing on terms but still conferring an understanding. That's one thing I love (both seriously and sarcastically) about coders: There is a great deal of time where a certain level of understanding is not enough. There is always more technical level to go. I remember a fight on Soapbox about the difference between Tiny's mod() and true modulus, and another about the reason math co-processors need extra help doing "9+9" math and how that deeply affects the way iter() works.
Whomever came up with the phrase "technically correct is the best kind of correct" is a liar on the highest order.
Which is my ultimate reason for this response.
Anyway.
Yes.
Why is this important? If you timestamp the recorded log tightly enough (though I did timestamp + originating dbref), then there won't be any race conditions. If the system takes a moment longer to record the log because the command is sitting at the end of the queue, where's the harm?
This is more for Ash because he brought it up, but I'm not seeing the need.
edit: I just caught the use. You didn't mean inline for the command queue, you meant to pull @command-based code from one attribute to another and still properly run it.
Yeah, that would be nice.
To get this to work on Mux, a simple @edit as part of the install would be easy.
Annoying to maintain, but easy to install.
@livia said in Vampire 5E Games?:
@thenomain The TV talking to you was kind of neat, but arguing with a stop sign was pretty blah.
NO, YOU STOP!
(I would never say that V:tM-B is great writing, but sometimes it's okay to be twelve years old again.)
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@Lithium: Yeah, but the Malkavian Madness Network is an absolute deus ex machina. I go for Ravnos because she never indicated any form of insanity or quirkiness, just getting overwhelmed with The Sight.
Mind you, I just used "overwhelmed" as explaining the PC Malk's behavior. Both Jeanette and Grout's madnesses were extensions of their lives, which is a lot of what made them great. PC Malk had no life before embrace, so anything I can use to justify their behavior is going to be subjective. Because of this I think any behavior portrayed by the writers were going to either be not-Malkavian or Fishmalk.
I'm glad the writers err'd on the side of Perkygoth. I thought the PC Malk was great for the game because all the rest of the characters were pretty much the same.
Except perhaps the PC Nosferatu. I heard that described as "Hard Mode" and have never seen a play-through with it.
Sorry about that. So yea, with MUX you're pretty much SOL without recoding it all to be in-line
Why? I can't find the code Ix is using so I can't comment on it, and I don't know what @include does.
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@skew said in Mux Logger Objects:
@derp @Thenomain
I don't have a logger code myself, but we do have one on Fate's Harvest. I could see if Annapurna is okay sharing, or knows where it originally came from?
The logger is mine.
The POSE-logger was, I thought, yours. A logger is a logger.
I am pretty sure Rosa is thin-blood Ravnos. Her demeanor suggests it more, but at that point it could go either way.
Velvet Velour is almost the worst kind of Toreador, but she's so bland that I guess nobody remembers her to comment. I'd rather a wide variety of Malkavians to include "bouncy goth" than to try and make them as flat as Ventrue. Ngh.
@bobotron said in Vampire 5E Games?:
the Bloodlines Malk is the worst example of a fishmalk ever
Which one? The party girl, the psychiatrist, or the PC?
The PC Malk was just fun, and you could see the Malkavian Madness Network working behind the scenes to make it a drastically different game than any other PC. There's a point in the game where the newscaster on your apartment's TV is accusing you of being a vampire, but the game never showcases it. (Unlike the fish joke. Which was hilarious.)
Sure, PC Malk was more fishmalky than the others (tho I never got the impression it was wacky to be wacky, but wacky because can't focus), but the others are the absolute best portrayals of a Malkavian I have ever seen. So two out of three is pretty good.
@insomnia said in Good or New Movies Review:
There's a lot of things they had to change, mostly for the licensing I would guess.
And because the target audience would simply not understand why the beginning riff to Dead Man's Party is so iconic to us 80s pop culture nerds.
Hell, I had to search harder to find a version with the trumpet sting intro that is described as pretty much the first thing.
If they did this in the movie, good on them, but I just cringed my way into not wanting to read/listen to the book by how it was described HOW COOL IT WAS (omg)!
Blech.
I adored Bloodlines so much that I want to absorb the Anarch aspect as the best way to showcase monsters vs. other monsters before adding in shovelheads. Even "fixed" (Revised) Sabbat did nothing for me, but I accept that people accept that they were essentially Black Dog gore-porn because...well, Black Dog.
Bloodlines made Malkavians far more than fishmalks (the two best sections in the game were Malkavian), so it's possible to make Sabbat credible.
I suppose.
Maybe.
I have no plans on designing code for 5e, but you never know.
@insomnia said in Good or New Movies Review:
Didn't know where to put this, but Ready Player One released digitally today, and it was a good movie?
Was it? I listened to Wil Wheaton reading the first chapter and it was so cringe worthy that I wanted to stab scissors into my ears. I gave it to the end of the chapter but I was turned off pretty much immediately.
Oh, and also I don’t find Wil’s voice very easy to listen to. He’s okay I guess, but it wasn’t comfortable.
If the movie is very much different than the book then I’ll give it a shot for images of Our Cyberpunk Future.
The one you see in the OOC room for The Reach/Fallcoast/Fate’s Harvest is mine.
The pose logger belongs to @skew.
I have not seen Ix’s.
Is there an advance copy of the PDF out there that could be used for this?
@roz said in Why did you pick your username?:
@ganymede said in Why did you pick your username?:
Ganymede is the identity Rosalind adopts when living in the Forest of Arden in As You Like It.
So basically you're my alt.
Does that mean you have one alts or two?
(ducks)
This begs the question (modern definition): What about the theme do you adore? oWoD's theme could be all over the place, and each game line rather had their own.
