Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@tinuviel
I hope you're intimating you're apping a thinly-veiled Kirk analogue...

I'm just gonna confess I didn't hate the ending for ME3. Granted, I played it a couple years late after all the patches and DLC were out. I know it was one of many things about the game that was kinda fixed in post, as it were.

I suspect, conversely, that a lot of my frustration with Andromeda was due to buying it when it came out. Lesson learned!

@kanye-qwest
Yeah, I did technical writing for awhile, and it's very much workaday on a particular project, then move on. Wouldn't mind doing it again someday! Though I was contracting at the time and the erratic aspects of that got to me. Still, I liked having the freedom to pursue more side stuff.

@shincashay
The October Day series is the one I've had recc'd to me by people in the real life.

I never encountered Seiche in MUdom but I knew OF her, and the first time a non-MUing friend mentioned her books to me, I was pretty taken aback. It happens fairly often now. They're on my To Read list now, if behind many other things.

@wahoo
Speaking of, I am fucking LOVING this season of Better Call Saul so far. I've always been on for the ride with that show - its Swiss watch-level craftsmanship will keep me aboard even when the plotting drags - but the first two eps of the fourth season feel like they're heading toward something different and tighter/tenser than the past few seasons have been. I'm stoked to see where it goes.

Whoa. I didn't check their often anymore but it feels like the end of an era. They're still, for better or worse, one of the more complete listing services the community has.

She was tops. Really hope she comes back, either on Cass or in another context.

@ixokai
Indeed, I mistyped. The post shall be left for posterity, though.

@testament said in Dreamwalk MUSH:

Some people say their butt is awesome when really it's just a boat. In this case, it's a really nice butt. I think I'm using that old WORA analogy properly.

I am so happy this lives on.

Also, this game looks really cool. I don't know how much time I have for anything else right now, but I'm eager to peek at it and see how it's set up. I love to see admins doing more different things with FS3.

@botulism
Yeah that totally wasn't directed at you. Tho even the softer concept of 'seasons' where there are contained story campaigns and then you shift to another (with mostly the same characters) I've been on a handful of places that have done them to varying degrees of success/failure. I think there's more experimentation in smaller games than the not-so-vast masses see sometimes. This is a cool approach to it and its exciting to see it tried, tho.

I was curious how the 'you play the same archetype from interration to interration' thing worked, since one of the things I enjoyed about TGG was trying new personalities and roles from campaign to campaign. Might be the kind of thing that's too soon to comment on in the first 'story' though. Anyway, while I always dislike the idea that a game that's trying something different than the norm is the ONLY one who's ever done it, this is really interesting to me and I'll make a stab at apping now that more archetypes seem to have opened up.

@cura
Very interested (though will be more interested when stuff opens, I'm not one for pre game enthusiasm). That said it's an awesome setting and I think fs3 is well-suited for it. Good luck!

I don't even so much want downvotes back (dear God the wangsting, and I'm sure it'd create more mod problems) as I miss a mild form of 'this is incorrect' between just putting a user on ignore (which is what I've taken to doing when a poster makes the same nonsense asshole post over and over again) and joining in dogpiling.

@friendlybee
Yeah, I mean, if you look at the member list, the majority of users registered lurk and don't post a ton, which is most forums. I think it's interesting to read what someone uninvolved in the same fight 20 times thinks, because it's probably not wrapped up in petty grudges against that asshole who upvoted a post where somebody was mean about me that time or whatever.

This whole thing makes me miss the downvote yet again because there was a way to register that you thought something was stupid without posting (and I never liked it being anonymous I like when people know I think they're stupid). But posters could NOT deal with being downvoted so...idk.

@insomniac7809 said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Of course, the real point of 1984 is a socialist writing a sci-fi criticism of Stalin.

That's the clearest read of it that should be obvious to everybody who engages with the text, though I agree it's not wrong to dig into it and find aspects of the society it portrays and broaden it out to basically any kind of oppressive totalitarianism. The generalness of it is part of why it's enduring (even if it's hilariously maddening to see American white nationalists pull out the 1984 quotes with no context). It's interesting to watch how vastly different readers transform it to fit their own ideology, regardless of authorial intent.

(I will own that this is off topic but I'd much rather engage with it than the two or three other maddening off topic tangents.)

@tinuviel said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@insomniac7809 said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@deadculture said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

After all, that's what 1984 is about, the totalitarian point of view in which the potential of a word to hurt means it has to expunged from the lexicon outright.

That is not what 1984 is about.

It's a valid reading of the text. Anything that 'hurts' the governmental machine is removed. Emotions, words, people, etcetera.

I often wonder how Orwell would react to the wide spectrum of ideologies that want to coopt 1984 as a screed against The Other Side. Though it's not as lulzy as its iconography being used by corporations to sell computers and shit I guess.

@deadculture
I mean nobody's government is going to come to MSB and say we can't call each other nasty names (or, if they do, that'd be pretty amazing). I always cringe at the conflation of laws curtailing freedom of speech and the moderation private companies and groups like a bunch of fucks on a message board should or shouldn't engage in.

@mietze said in Open Sheets?:

Maybe that is why on the whole I have found a better caliber of ooc player behaviors on games with open sheets, they have all tended to be smaller with a better sense of ooc community.

I definitely think game size makes it easier to foster a certain type of game culture than anything else, since it's a lot easier to encourage/enforce the kind of environment you want on 20 players rather than 100+. I'm sorta curious how open sheets would play on a mega-game. They tend to be environments where player trust is harder to foster, since you can go months without interacting with a decent portion of the playerbase, and you get more niches of people holing up to play their own version of the game. I suspect it'd weird me out on a game like Arx, where stuff like your secrets are part of your sheet and are in some cases not things I terribly want randos to know, but I probably wouldn't care so much about sharing purely mechanical/non-magical stuff like the FS3 games tend to be.

@apos said in Open Sheets?:

I consider good players going too far and handicapping themselves as a more consistent but less noticeable problem than bad actors.

I came up on pure consent games and I confess this, along with the attitude of implied superiority "roleplay not ROLLplay" you got sometimes, was one of my frustrations with them. It's part of why I actively want some kind of arbitration mechanism so much now, even if it's just a coin-flip tool players can voluntarily run among themselves. They aren't good or bad, they're just different, and I think players who've been in environments with heavy OOC secrecy where everything has mechanical arbitration tend to over-correct and assume they're a utopia.