Posts made by Thenomain

I'm not getting a notification circle next to my bell when someone replies to one of my posts, nor are they in the notifications list. Just upvotes and personal messages now.

Perhaps this is a new notification folded into 'when someone mentions you: <action>' in settings. Trying turning it on, but it appeared to have turned itself off. Or @Arkandel's messing with me. Odds are 50/50 either way.

edit: That was it. It's possible that I turned it off for my own sanity, but that doesn't sound like me.

@ganymede said in Experienced Tiers or How much is too much?:

@thenomain said in Experienced Tiers or How much is too much?:

It's possible that the way FH is doing it means that you're playing five distinct types of characters (one per power level). I don't know the long-term effect of it so I don't know if it's good or not, but this is the closest I can be to being optimistic about them.

It means you can do that, yes. It also means that no one person can have more than one alt starting at the highest tier. That's in stark contrast with The Reach and Fallcoast, where you could have a slew of PCs at the highest XP level.

What is the goal of either method? That is, what is it you think that makes one method better than another?

@jaded

Now to see if Bethesda can write a storyline to save their life. FO3 wasn't bad, I suppose.

(Elder Scrolls shields up, Mr. Sulu!)

@coin said in @Arx: Anonymous Messengers (Answered):

So the OOC process of my writing bad stuff for his character to say became MY CHARACTER writing bad stuff for his character to say, and vice-versa, and it was just the best.

OMG METAPOSING, EVIL!

(The absolute best kind of RP: Playing together instead of against one another.)

@ganymede said in Experienced Tiers or How much is too much?:

@thenomain said in Experienced Tiers or How much is too much?:

This is what I honestly think about Tiers:

They're stupid.

Look, give everyone 300xp (or whatever) and then go back to the slower-xp system that WoD/CoD expects.

Throwing people all over the map for what they can and can't get involved in just tweaks me the wrong way. I can elucidate, but for the moment it's just a knee-jerk reaction of "barf".

If you're referring to Fate's Harvest, the Tier system is there to allow people to have alts. You don't have to apply to become a Tier-5 PC, but you can only have one of them.

I wasn't talking about any particular game (though I admit with some irony that I forgot that Fate's Harvest has them). I was lamenting that tiers don't really do anything for a game.

It's possible that the way FH is doing it means that you're playing five distinct types of characters (one per power level). I don't know the long-term effect of it so I don't know if it's good or not, but this is the closest I can be to being optimistic about them.

My general problem with Beast is that the system talks about synergy with other supernaturals, but gives only a few examples in the core book. Perhaps they were planning (or have released) a book or books based on Beast + (Game Line of Choice).

Best of luck, of course. I'm looking forward to see the implementation.

I am continuing my astonishment at how modern and relevant CD Projekt Red has made CP2077, without losing what made CP2020 outrageous and colorful in the 1990s.

@jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

On another note I am looking forward to Starfire.

Do you mean Starfield? Because I'm looking forward to that, yes.

Especially since EA has (temporarily?) given up on the genre after its failed ME:A attempt.

@roz

I could, but I don't think that it's worthwhile at this point. Really, this tangent is about three posts longer than any use, and has broken down to questioning one another, a personal discussion that we really don't need to bore anyone with. You know where I chat if you want to.

Pax.

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@Sunny : +1, I also apologize for the strongly worded retort.

This is what I honestly think about Tiers:

They're stupid.

Look, give everyone 300xp (or whatever) and then go back to the slower-xp system that WoD/CoD expects.

Throwing people all over the map for what they can and can't get involved in just tweaks me the wrong way. I can elucidate, but for the moment it's just a knee-jerk reaction of "barf".

@sunny said in @Arx: Anonymous Messengers (Answered):

@thenomain said in @Arx: Anonymous Messengers (Answered):

You don't have to agree with my point, or even disagree with it for both our points to be valid.

Or for your point to be invalid, either.

Yes, but so far nobody had offered a counter, just "other people disagree". Okay? Five people saying the same thing does give it some weight, but not as much as, for instance, what @Roz has done and given more information about them.

What you're doing is what a dog-pile looks like.

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@Roz

I do want to know that I have repeatedly said that 'if x then y' and been clear that the only evidence I have is what has been posted here. Your reading of events may be more informed than mine, and I do appreciate it, but I've been trying to keep a civil and open-minded language and did feel that you were attacking it simply because you disagreed. With that? That's more than what was said before, and I can form a more informed opinion on it.

I have no horse in this race. (I have one jockey, but he lost his horse some time ago.) My point has always been: Based on what's been said here, there's been a bit of hyperbole. I do think a little hyperbole is justified, but the way code works and how people react to it is absolutely Number One on what I look at in code systems.

Again, thanks for adding more deets.

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@Sunny's Edited Post:

I got snarkier than I should have because I'm frustrated. I really think that if you're going to weigh in on this with such a firm opinion, you should probably take some more time to make yourself more familiar with the situation. It's hard to have a conversation with you about this.

I'm resistant to people telling me off when I'm open about when and where I'm adding guesswork. If you want to talk, I'm down. If you want to tell me where and when I'm wrong when I said it first? Get in the line behind me; I have more right to abuse myself than you do, and do, openly, repeatedly.

@roz said in @Arx: Anonymous Messengers (Answered):

multiple posters have already talked about why it wasn't really a situation where staff could start taking people aside

That doesn't mean staff could do nothing more than remove the tool.

Which I said. And clarified. They reportedly chose not to do anything more. Their motives were made very clear, and my opinion changes none of that.

So let's please not get into the "you missed the point of x". It's a game not much better than "he-said/she-said". I saw the "point of x" and I am questioning it, disagreeing with one aspect of it.

You don't have to agree with my point, or even disagree with it for both our points to be valid.

@roz

I said:

I cannot really imagine that 40 people individually decided that Dawn needed reamed.

If you can tell me this is exactly what happened, then so be it. With a sample size this large with the same opinion, it's hard to believe that there wasn't collusion, subconscious or otherwise. I'm not calling for a conspiracy, and certainly not across the entire set, but 40 people? Yeah, not buying it was a statistical fluke.

edit: Let me put it this way: If one-fifth of the game's active population all individually decided that Dawn needed condemned, then maybe it wasn't a dog-piling. Maybe it was a real, if visceral, opinion of the game's population.

Staff decided that it wasn't, that one-fifth of the game's population was hatin'. That's...a huge chunk of the game's population, on any size game, to decide are abusive. Without comment to them about their actions.

Can you take a hater and make them play nice? I don't know. I wasn't given that choice. One-fifth of the game's population was. Call it good or call it bad, I'll call it a thing that adds into the overall staff culture. It is what it is.

My personal application of Occam's Razor in what I know of this situation (i.e., what's been posted here) make the 'small conspiracies' make a hell of a lot more sense.

(i'm done, i swear)

@tehom said in @Arx: Anonymous Messengers (Answered):

Like a dogpile isn't all that obvious unless you're on the receiving end of it.

A dogpile is super easy to spot if you're not the one piling on. If you are one of the people piling on, taking a step back and paying attention to those around you will also cue you in. I cannot really imagine that 40 people individually decided that Dawn needed reamed. I have no idea how I would break it down, but in my experience it happens in groups that agree with one another and do it to support their colleagues, because they agree or at least have only part of the story.

By the time you have the whole story, congratulations! You're part of the problem!

How many people are willing, at that point, to stop? Let alone to apologize, knowing that even if they are sincere they are inviting retribution. (Especially if that retribution might come from staff.)

Nope, it's far more human at that point to double down and stick to your beliefs, out of fear or out of stubbornness. If you can convince people that you're not wrong, then if you get punished the punisher is acting unethical.

(edit: I've found it likely at this point that both sides believe the other is being unethical, furthering deadlock. yay.)

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At this point in my staffing career, I would have no problem mailing one-fifth of my game's active population and telling them it's not cool and to cut it the fuck out. I also would remove the code, knowing that even if they did, someone else wouldn't.

This is too bad, because PvP between trusting people is pretty goddamn fun.

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For the pedantic: I don't know the tools that people can use instead, or whatever, but I do know that if there's a way that something can be done, then there's a thousand ways to end up with the same result. This part isn't up to me, but I can already see the shape of how it might work.

Because making systems is fun.

And I'm insane.

The next time someone throws “ICA=ICC” my way, I’m going to link them to this thread. We play games for OOC reasons, and make limitations for OOC reasons. We try to be IC as much as we can, because that’s what we do, but at the end of the day we are players and nothing is going to stop that from being true. Short of a full scale psychotic break.

Looking at you, person in the mirror.

@insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:

@thenomain IT's not buried so much as it was announced earlier in the week.

My Steam store page absolutely buried it, regardless of who else heard or read what.

(edit: which makes me sad. telltale's the walking dead is on my 'shut up and take my money' list.)

The Walking Dead: The Final Season is out for pre-order.

Steam, I'm disappointed in you for burying it.

Very, very disappointed.

@wretched said in Experienced Tiers or How much is too much?:

He is referring to the currently in development Miami game.

He's also referring to the currently in development Open Beta SF game, whether or not he knows it. Will be interested to see how it works for both of you.

From this article:

"I would say a majority of the people at BioWare are working on Anthem, but we do have people who are figuring out what a next Dragon Age would look like,” Hudson says. When asked about Mass Effect, Hudson said: "It’s my baby. I helped start Mass Effect from the beginning. Of course we intend to get back to it at some point."

PHEW!

@vulgarkitten said in @Arx: Anonymous Messengers:

I think something similar is in the works with Crime when it comes it. But if there was an anonymous messenger function, there would have to be a way for the receiving PC to track it, if they wanted, and it would have to cost a proportional amount to send it.

Plus or minus skill. So if I am CrimeBot 2000, Joe Cobbler (mmm, cobblers) shouldn't be able to spend as many points to reveal the name, unless he's a spy for the people who used to own the space station.

Er, sorry, got off on a tangent. (Mmm, Dukat.)

So, Anthem. Is it more Halo + Battlefield, or Destiny?