Posts made by Thenomain

@coin said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

Also, I mean, space marine werewolves.

Give me a different RPG system than CoD and we can go to town.

No, Amazon, 1 Business-Day Delivery Is Not December Twenty-Fucking-Seventh!

@rook said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Fuck cancer.

Fuck. Cancer.

@zombiegenesis

Well I'm also the kind of person who when they go watch a movie based on a book I love, I'm not looking for that book in a movie. I could have liked the Star Trek reboot, but it was nothing I hadn't seen before. Maybe if I'd seen it with fresh eyes I could've enjoyed it. Too much was going on with too little linking it together. This was my problem with The Force Awakens. This is what I fear about Infinity Wars. Character creep is a very real problem, and I feel that The Last Jedi solved that while also not reducing things to A New Hope's level of incipit Joseph Campbell Hero's Journey blah blah blah.

I say that even though I am still very starry-eyed about A New Hope. It's a beautiful mark of our cinema history, and I think it's still very watchable. "Too simple" works very well for it.

I'm pretty sure that The Last Jedi was not going for that. I think it 90% succeeded in its goal, even if some of the beats wore very thin to me as well. But I still enjoyed watching it, and in the end of the day that's why we watch movies. And we're disagreeing about what's wrong with it, so it can't have done that bad.

I loved The Last Jedi's complex emotional themes, and the little puffin whatever animals that I've heard people complaining about. It was a bit too long, a bit forceful on the theme of hope, but I didn't regret setting through one minute of it. I even got caught up in one or two of the movie's gotchas and actually spoke out loud when I saw the reveal. I forgot that I was at a movie and that's what I go to a movie for.

Sure, I can spend time complaining about quite a lot of it, but I put The Last Jedi well within the quality of the original three movies. Solid 'A' grade from yours truly. Would watch again...albeit at home where I can pause and stretch and get some snacks.

@skew said in The Mush Hackathon:

So you just want me to start a new code project and see how badly I can break everything?

I would buy you a week's worth of coffee (er, one coffee a day for a week) to watch this beautiful trainwreck unfold.

My core problem with WoD is the players play the monsters, but rarely monstrously. What in Mars is a threat to Werewolves, Vampires and Mages?

@hedgehog

I think I read that once, but imagine the Summer Court fighting over who gets to run the mall, the Autumn Court crown working in the Hot Topic....

Makes me laugh. We all need a good laugh,

I will some day make my Changeling game where all the characters work at some kind of Mall Of America, and many of them live there overnight.

For Dark Metal I got rid of the Void Engineers by having them defect to the Moon, and I thought a game about them would be interesting.

Someone had a game about a Freehold or Arcadian group which was all circus freaks. That caught my interest, too.

@rook

Well yeah, all grid and game owned spaces should be owned by the same bit, no question. But because you can write your own security check, a user-defined function would be a more global fix.

It does, however, answer why everything was working fine until the ownership changed. Tres bizarre, but strange question solved.

@rook

Some games prefer to have player builds on different builder bits.

Mind you, while I’m not a fan of making user functions for every little technical issue, this may be the case for one.

@arkandel

Can you see the notes on it yet, or are you still left guessing why something was flagged even though there’s a fantastic and large comment box. You know, in case there’s a joke in there. Or clarification. Or pictures of bunnies.

Or in other words, you get that comment area in the Report Post fixed yet?

@rook said in How do you construct your characters?:

@thenomain
I am coming to you, sir, to critique and make recommendations if/when I get ready to open.

You called this down on yourself.

I don’t mind helping, but this is the kind of thing that should be done by multiple people trying to make a character without help from you or anyone else. They do have to treat the testing honestly at first; you can test against people deliberately trying to break or misinterpret the systems some other time, like from game open to game close.

Every published board game goes through this; the developer gets people who have never seen the game before in a room, gives them the rules and components, and sits back to watch and take notes. We don’t normally have the time or ability to cold test like this, especially after the game has opened, but if we’re fortunate we will get enough players so we can read the temperature in the room.

But yes, I can criticize. Boy howdy can I criticize. The hard part is using my power for good, not whining.

@cobaltasaurus

If you are noting merits that affect social stats, then persisting powers that do so should also be noted, yeah. I don’t know if “Wyrd 6” should be spelled out, but maybe “unearthly”. In the case of Changeling, high Mantle should be spelled out with the exception of Winter, which should be reversed. Etc.

@arkandel said in Do you buy your RPG books?:

Digital files, when downloaded, don't take away anything from someone's inventory.

But it reduces the potential market pool by one: You. Each 'one' reduces the market pool, which reduces the selling power of that item. If they were following elementary market rules, they would respond to a decrease in demand (people paying for it) with a decrease in price. This has worked for the music industry and briefly for the TV industry, though I think as the streaming platforms fracture the number of people willing to pirate will rise again.

Atoms are easy to count, but those things that can be converted to bits are being converted to bits and the atomic-based economics can't be applied wholesale anymore. The movie industry is trying to hold on with both hands and their teeth to their control, and that content providers are also access providers (or strong-arming them, vis a vis Youtube) will certainly help the businesses charge what they believe is right rather than let market forces dictate.

Apple and Spotify are making money hand over fist (tho one is only now crawling into the black) because that's what the market wants. If video wasn't so expensive to make then maybe the same could happen there, though I should reiterate just how much I'm enjoying The Good Place and that can't be expensive at all.

Anyway, most writers don't get paid much. Most of us don't get paid much, but still, buy things from writers you especially like.

@auspice said in Random links:

@thenomain said in Random links:

@shelbeast said in Random links:

@insomnia Fine. You can buy me a chocolate butthole, then.

If someone has had their butthole bleached, would you use white chocolate?

I'm asking for a friend.

White chocolate is a lie.

Well so is bleaching your butthole.

So I'm told.

@shelbeast said in Random links:

@insomnia Fine. You can buy me a chocolate butthole, then.

If someone has had their butthole bleached, would you use white chocolate?

I'm asking for a friend.

I've been trying to make a character recently.

The amount that I have to do my own finding of answers that are referenced on the website is wearing down my teeth.

People who make games, if you're using a wiki please remember that the web was designed to link information for easy reference. It's not an information dump, and if you want people to go to your wiki for information—especially if it's not available on the game—then it must be useful.

No, let me generalize that further: If you're not writing your files for easy reference, you're doing it wrong.

This is my personal #1 hurdle to starting a new game; just trying to figure out what the game is about.

Fix that, people. Thanks.

@sparks said in Mass Effect MU*?:

@ganymede said in Mass Effect MU*?:

Because I really can't stop laughing about your idea. I mean, could you imagine a Hanar Maury Povich show?

I think you meant Elcor, but yes, that's brilliant.

This one suspects the babydaddy of disrespecting the Enkindlers.

@ganymede

You don't need PC Hanar to have Drell, tho. Mind you, there are a bunch of non-Council races so I don't blame you.