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@bored said in Whatever Happened To Star Wars MU*s?:

Is it weird that it feels to me that base FS3 Ares would be better to use than the FFG thing? Primarily because among the short list of things it's actually designed for includes flying space fighters around and shooting each other?

FS3 isn't awful for Star Wars until you get into Force users, which it's not built for at all. In theory you could handle Force stuff via opposed rolls, though that feels kinda hacky. Or you could rip into the guts of it and code a Jedi system like Spirit Lake's done for a magic system but...that magic system was in development for a literal year and is still in beta after months, so.

It'd work quite nicely for a game that focused on the rebels who were pilots or Rogue One-style spies and soldiers, but idk how wide the appeal of a game like that would be. Jedi are what make that setting shiny. Admittedly, I'd probably play it.

@kestrel said in Good TV:

Killing Eve is the female-driven serial-killer show I never knew I wanted.

I never knew how badly these things were missing from my life. Do I sound like a crazy feminist? That's OK. I feel like I'm tasting fresh fruit for the first time in my life when all I've had before was fruit-flavoured wine-gums.

It's also just a great show, period. Sandra Oh and especially Jodie Comer as Villanelle are amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing.

@Monogram said in The 100: The Mush:

That all being said, I think the game is great and has a good playerbase and players that don't seem to be absolute jerkwads. But playing a Delinquent can be mentally exhausting at times, especially being around particular alts that seem to just want screw just about everything up. But hey, what game doesn't have that aspect of things?

I'll confess I'm less attracted - in general - to playing teenage characters and near-teenagers because...this is more or less what they are. It's an age where everything is emotionally heightened. You're a self-involved angst-bot. I'm enthused about Ground apps (and possibly other stuff in the future) because it can be something other than that.

The ad section is my only major complaint with the forum that I actually want to press for change on. I don't think it has any use at all as an advertising platform at the moment.

Various ideas for it have been tossed around. I definitely think the commentary on the games (which I still think should exist, it's not like I want people to stop being mean to games) should be clearly separated from the ads themselves and that separation should be enforced whenever it becomes a problem. I don't know exactly where the Yelp! stuff should go (maybe the Hog Pit, maybe its own subsection, idk).

And I agree these threads should be clearly linked so people can follow the conversation.

I've met plenty of coders who are kind of blocks of wood, so I don't think it's a red flag in and of itself. I still personally wouldn't work with him, but I don't accept that kind of help from people I don't know even if they seem likeable. They can play and I can get to know them and if things work out we can do something together.

My own take on Benioff and Weiss at this point is they are very good adapters of existing material (which is actually pretty difficult as the many creaky book-to-movie adaptations demonstrate, I think it'sa unique skill) but kinda eh writers when they don't have a road to follow anymore. Maybe they'll do better with something that's entirely their own from the beginning (there are MANY reasons why Game of Thrones in the past couple years presented unique challenges you aren't going to run into elsewhere) but I can't say I'm terribly interested in what they do after this, unless it's maybe an adaptation of...a book that's actually finished.

@Coin said in The 100: The Mush:

What this thread has taught me is that no matter what, "good game" and "bad game" are subjective and people will always find something to praise and something to damn about anything, and that someone will always rise up in defense and someone will always double-down on criticism when that happens.

This is also a new game, one that's gotten a decent influx of activity upfront, so it's kind of in what I think of as the NEW PUPPY stage. Which I'll admit is the reason I decided 'Not for me' after a couple weeks. I find the players at this stage of a game exhausting. In my experience, there's a tendency to over-hype new games they're enjoying as THE BEST GAME EVER, or declare they're doomed after two scenes.

This is helpful in generating momentum, and it makes me hopeful this place will be around in six months, but I can skip it. Also, like @lordbelh said, it means it feels like everything is happening SUPER FAST even though staff has made an effort to slow down the time ratio (I think it's 1 IC day for every 2 RL days right now).

I mean, it's all dice pools at the end of the day.

The things I think FS3 does to facilitate STing (and I think these are very important) are open +sheets, public and easily linkable documentation that's the same for everybody (nobody gets a mechanical advantage because they spent $30 on The Sniper Splat or some such). The chargen code is also very easy to customize and it's functional after install, whereas Random Homemade Chargen for even a simple system build around d6s/d8s/etc. is...often not functional.

The constant stream of wedding updates on Facebook I got in my late twenties has become a stream of divorce updates as I enter my thirties. For better or worse, this is just the circle of life.

@lordbelh said in The 100: The Mush:

I would very much hate a game where Staff went: 'please guys, make your characters nicer, we're getting a reputation.'

Yeah, this. If anything, hearing that there's some ongoing IC conflict makes me more interested to poke my head back in down the line, because it's so easy for environments like this to become overly hugtown-y.

The OOC side of this is trickier because, as stated earlier by many in the thread, most people play 'WOE AS ME I AM THE ANGSTIEST' stuff as just really boring and tedious after awhile. But that's a different problem, and one not unique to this game by any means.

I mean, 'constructive' is a really fuzzy line. I'm not sure there was any way to respond to the UH admins and whatever the f their white knight was in a constructive manner. I DO think you need to be able to talk about actual THINGS that are not good (spying on players, how sexual harassers are dealt with, and even questionable policies like the No Sex RP thing those Star Trek admins eventually decided to overturn) outside the Hog Pit, because those are important topics. And I think dealing with those things in a way that is...umm...not great is fair game to comment on. The line I was trying to walk is to talk about the bad thing without talking about the bad person but it does feel really nebulous right now.

@Misadventure
I was just rewatching that skit. It remains one of the funniest things SNL has produced in my lifetime.

Trebek hits me hard. Dude was a constant presence in my life for as long as I can remember through 'Jeopardy!' and somehow comforting through all strange times.

This tempts me more than I thought Pern MU*s were capable of tempting me at this point. It's been so long that one might be refreshing.

@auspice
Except, like @Ganymede said, mod voice isn't being used consistently, which is an issue being discussed in this thread, so it's not at all clear what's a slap from on high and what is just us slapping each other like normal.

Also here to proclaim my love for my Fitbit and put my link in if people want to add me. Always looking for more Challenges.

https://www.fitbit.com/user/3JB9QB

I'm a data obsessive (I work in fraud investigation IRL), so this thing is perfect for me. It's easy to quantify stuff like, "I should do 1,000 more steps a day if I have this many Cheetos," instead of stressing about exactly what kind of exercises I should be doing at the gym or whatever.

@DownWithOPP
Fara's bbpost on the latest plot explicitly said that the return to Canceron was due to the two top 'next' colony ideas being ones that she wanted to take some time to do up big. Idk. It hasn't felt particularly long to me (the last Canceron plot did, but this one's had a different feel, at least to me). Mileage, sir, it varies.

ETA: That being said, I'm REALLY excite about where the next plot might be. If it was either the thing I voted for or one of the things people were bandying around on channel most often, I want it done up proper.

@mietze said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I think most of the toxicity on games occurs because of private-ish eco chambers. Small restricted channels, off game chats, etc.

Yeah, this I agree with. This negativity still exists, and it's waaaaaaaaaaaay worse on Skype/Discord even if you aren't forced to acknowledge it. At least on a third-party forum, other posters can apply push-back to obvious BS.

I often wonder if there actually is more of a gender balance on MUs, or if the women are just more visible. By which I mean, on the average MU people talk, even if it's to a minimal degree, about who they are OOCly in ways that aren't really remarkable. It just comes up in casual conversation that's not directly related to me being a woman or feminist or whatever. Less so other places I've interacted online. It's easy to assume a forum is male-dominated if the loudest and most frequent posters are men, which creates a circle-jerk when topics like GamerGate come up that can make an environment really toxic to interact with if you're female, so you default to lurking because who the fuck wants to deal with the aggravation.

But this is just a theory I have no way to prove, because you can't measure non-participation or the reasons for it.

@miss-demeanor
See, I'd much rather have Joffrey Baratheon than Ramsey Bolton. I think the Joffrey vs Ramsey thing is actually a pretty good illustration of what makes a playable asshole and what doesn't. Joffrey was TERRIBLE, but he had reasons to interact with other characters without going full sadist 24/7. He was capable of having at least some shadings in his relationships from scene-to-scene. Ramsey's major sin for me was that he was BORING, one-note awful, all the time. Which is how MU edgelord characters tend to be played. It's very rare you get an entertaining asshole who's nice and fun to play with OOC or willing to give any nuance to their character.

I mean, I think it's legit to question how much data about ourselves we're giving to random companies every day through our phones. We have far less privacy than we ever bother to think about. In a way, I'm not sorry people are freaking out a little, because in general I think we don't spend enough time freaking out about this stuff.

But I'm far more concerned about what Google and Facebook are doing with my information (and how much money they're making off it) than Pokemon Go.