Best posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@faraday
All I expect staff to do is to keep the complaint saved somewhere, remember it happened, and look at the player complained about in a different light if other stuff comes in. And very, very often, it will.

@Arkandel
Lois and Clark was one of my favorite shows as a kid and I've rewatched bits of it here and there over the years, so I can say pretty confidently...the answer is, yes. Yes, Dean Cain was always a bad actor. It might belong in the 'shows you don't want to rewatch' thread, but it was still fun in an occasionally doofy 90s way.

@Tinuviel said in Picking the community's brain...:

@GamerNGeek said in Picking the community's brain...:

It also doesn't help that my first and main exposure to it has been through Arx

Arx uses Evennia, not Ares.

Yeah, Ares and Evennia are totally different/done by different programmers. They seemingly share similar goals of 'a codebase that MUs only more modern' but have different approaches to it. I've played on a fair few of the Ares games and Arx and the experiences were pretty different in terms of the RP experience the games were trying to offer. I enjoyed both Arx and the Ares games, but I don't find them comparable (in large part due to the more simulationist Arx experience you describe).

@Sunny said in RL Anger:

@Misadventure
Because it's actually all the same guy and he identifies himself as having come from 4chan. It's not multiple invading trolls, it's a single 4chan dude.

Yeah, this poster (and these posters, when they come in packs occasionally) consistently mention 4chan and identity themselves as being an active 4channer. They are not ambiguous about this. This is just calling a thing what the thing is.

I also want more shame & context of this ultra bizarre insta-ban because whaaaaaaaat?

@zombiegenesis
Though Enterprise always had consistently higher ratings and budget than BSG since it was on network (such as you can call UPN a network). That's kind of an apples to oranges comparison. BSG was never a "hit" for Sci-Fi, but it was doing OK by cable standards and was supported in part by a cost-sharing distribution deal with the British broadcaster Sky One (this is why episodes actually aired in the UK prior to them airing in the US, it was part of the deal). Enterprise had to meet pseudo-broadcast ratings expectations, which were higher at the time than they are now. I always saw its problem as that it wasn't pulling in what Voyager had pulled in (and Voyager hadn't been the flagship to a launch a new channel UPN had hoped for to begin with).

This has been my tangent about TV shows from 10 years ago.

I guess I probably find Discovery and The Orville incomparable for the same reasons. Very different funding models and expectations, very different creative goals. More TV sci-fi that's not totally ghettoized on Syffy is definitely good for everyone.

ETA: It was Sky One that co-financed BSG's first season, not the BBC. Because I need to correct my tangent about TV shows from 10 years ago.

I also feel like I was kinda raised to it. I watched Star Trek (both TOS and TNG as it aired) with my dad, and the Narnia books were the first 'real' novels I can remember reading, so I was on the road to sci-fi/fantasy fandom early. I was never really into tabletop games in high school, though I did play Magic: The Gathering (used to play a lot with my first boyfriend, our second date was to a Ren Faire, we were of a kind). I got into MUDs and then eventually MUSHes because I was blindly searching for Wheel of Time games and stumbled across the old Tales of Ta'Veren. The rest is the rest!

Same. Bourdain was still so out there and prolific and producing awesome, often challenging and thoughtful, content. He was wonderfully human and humanist. This hit me harder than I've been hit by a celebrity death since Prince, probably. There was just so much more he could've done and so many people who loved his work (and clearly loved him personally).

@thesuntsar
Oh man Might and Magic. I used to play those with my dad all the time. I got him the collection on GoG for Christmas last year (he has still been using the old disks) and I think it converted him to downloadable games in a way Steam never did.

@Luna said:

@silentsophia I've had huge boobs my whole life. Bra less was never an option. I'd like to wear strapless stuff sometime.

I am always baffled by my friends who are like OH I NEVER WEAR A BRA AROUND THE HOUSE SIGH SO COMFORTABLE. I need a sports bra for my lounging.

Idk if it's even untrue on large games. I feel like I have to work pretty hard on Arx to get the kind of RP I want (random bar RP is a different matter but...do not so much always want that).

I think we kind of forget how much financial risk mitigation was going on in Game of Thrones' first season. Even on HBO money, the talky scenes and offscreen battles kept costs contained in case it didn't work out. It very well could've been something like Rome or Deadwood which, while not failures, became prohibitively expensive relative to their success level at a certain point. I think HBO thought it was a good bet for a number of reasons, but doing fantasy at its scale and quality level was a not-insubstantial creative risk.

It's funny that it's the thing everybody's chasing now (probably with the expectation that it'll be an out-of-the-box blockbuster hit, whereas GoT took awhile to build). I'm morbidly curious which of these series in development will be the biggest boondoggle. Not that I want them to fail but it seems inevitable.

I think the randomscenes on Arx work pretty well for what they're intended to do. The players who abuse it (hello person who was mass-paging the entire newbie list, I still see you) need to be reported but there will always be players who abuse anything and they're the minority.

I don't think it's portable as-is to every game but it seems to generally do the thing it's designed to.

@wretched
Black cats best cats.

I mean, all cats are best cats, but I have a black cat, so I'm partial.

Yep. I try to be quick to cut the parts of it I'm not enjoying at any given time.

@kanye-qwest said in RL Anger:

@thenomain some people think the word bitch should bother me, but it doesn't. IDK, I just can't get mad about it.

Same. I've tried to stop using it but "work, bitch" and "Imma cut a bitch" will always make me smile a lil.

@mietze said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

I think I enjoy the hobby a lot more now than I have in the past, in part because I no longer feel as compelled to do a lot of emotional labor for others. Or solve every problem that I see.

For better or worse, letting this shit go is a lot of why I'm still able to enjoy it. I'm probably less engaged than I was 10 years ago but also less frustrated by the things/components of players that I cannot change.

Ugh, this is awful. For those of us who knew him better, echoing the 'keep us posted on memorials/stuff we can do to donate, if anything' sentiment.

Eh, while I don't know if it's thousands, the openings at Spirit Lake and Gray Harbor recently (Ares games) lead me to believe it's way above anything like 200. There are different pools of players in different genres that seem to rarely touch each other and it can be dramatic when they do.

@sockmonkey
I LOVE THE GOOD PLACE SO MUCH.

It might have supplanted Parks & Rec in my heart, as sacrilege as that is to say.