Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@Pandora said in MSB: The meta-discussion:

A game is 'doing it right' when it doesn't wind up on WORA/MSB. That said, I think games that voluntarily advertise on MSB are very brave and open-minded, though they should keep in mind that they'll be attracting a specific sort of crowd that is heavily biased toward 'The Way We Do Things Just Because It's How We Do It'.

Are they?

This board is full of people who don't post very much, and even fuller of lurkers, and I suspect those are actually the audience for a lot of the advertising threads.

Which brings up something that does actually bug me. I have no issue with games that advertise here being bitched about. But I have this knee-jerk 'This is Bullshit' reaction to that bitching happening in their ad threads. Make a thread in the Hog Pit! Or a slightly veiled thread in the Constructive area. Link it in the ad thread (I don't actually think bitching about these games should be difficult to find), but it always rubs me the wrong way when these threads get taken over. Often times by bitches only tangentially related to the game that seem to boil down to slap-fights between players or about games from the Long Long Ago, or sprawling MU fights from the peeves thread that've spilled over.

Maybe I'm wrong about this, and maybe this is in the spirit of what MSB is designed for, but it Mehs me out whenever it happens.

It's not MSB that makes me not want to staff anymore. It's players. But THAT'S a whole different topic and one that just leads to me hating on people for behavior that's down to the unavoidable price tag of dealing with humans.

Anyway.

I like that there's a place where people who MU can discuss MUing. The community is very fragmented. WoD players don't talk to non-WoD players. You get even smaller splinter factions, like people who are ALL transformers/mech games. Or people who only play MUX and don't play other codebases. I'm not sure MSB does as good a job as could be done to be an open forum for all different types of M* gamers (like, there's active MOO RP that's not that different than the game we talk about, but doesn't touch here at all), but it's what we got and I appreciate it for that.

@Catsmeow said in RL Anger:

@Three-Eyed-Crow

Mall walk - I admit that I did this when I lived in Phoenix. You get to people walk and suck up the air conditioning. Also, depending on when you go, you feel REALLY young.

I do, and I Walmart/Target walk. It's fine a day or so a week but when I'm trying to grind out steps/miles every day, it doesn't always fit into my schedule. I've yet to find a home treadmill that really works for me, though that's an option I'm exploring again this year.

@Meg said in RL Anger:

apparently cancelling a gym membership is like mission impossible.

I had to buy the damn thing out when I was moving to another city. It was the single most difficult thing to get out of during that move.

And I do miss having a gym membership. I live in the desert hellscape that is Phoenix, and there's a solid three or four months out of the year when going to the park to walk or jog is not feasible. But it was such a bad experience I'm still in Never Again mode.

@Insomnia said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

I know it wasn't an early access game, I was commenting on TNP's comment about beta testing, and that being the reason I avoid them, generally.

ME:A is the first game I've ever pre-ordered. This was after not pre-ordering DA:I and feeling like I got no benefit from waiting a handful of months to play it.

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I don't know if I regret it, exactly. I don't feel like I'm playing a broken game, so much as one that won't be optimized for another six months. But I won't be pre-ordering again.

Really glad you can skip those fucking planet animations now. That, more than anything, was making me just want to quit.

Many of the articles that are coming out about this talk about how rushed the production was. That's probably more at fault for the lackluster fight choreography than anything else. After getting farther into it, I guess I get it. This seems more like metaplot set-up for The Defenders than an Iron Fist series in places, and I suspect that robbed it of time that the other Marvel Netflix entries had. But it really hurt the final product.

@Roz said in How do you keep OOC lounges from becoming trash?:

The Public channel is bad for finding RP, true. A dedicated RolePlay channel or something similar isn't. (And when I've been staffing games with one, we would actively nudge people off if they started using the RP channel for chatter, as we wanted to specifically protect it as a non-spammy channel just for finding RP.)

I'd never experienced a dedicated Roleplay channel prior to one of @Roz's games, and my experience with it was overwhelmingly positive. It was strictly policed so it didn't devolve into chit-chat and was only used for finding RP or responding to requests for RP. I really wish more games did this. Public channels are wastelands where RP requests go to die, and there's no way to tell when a player tips a 'looking for RP' flag like Arx has unless you're constantly spamming yourself with +where. I'm pretty aggressive about paging specific people when I want a specific scene, but sometimes I do just want general RP and idling in public or sending out a request that'll get lost in spam isn't the ideal way to get it.

As for OOC Rooms, I very rarely use them as a place to chat. When I idle in them, I treat them like they are a Quiet Room (if I'm not in the Quiet Room it's because I was too lazy to take the extra step to go there, heh). I guess I'm agnostic about them. I appreciate places to idle when I'm working, prepping, or occupied with other stuff and can't RP, but I'd just as soon it be a private space or a designated quiet space where there's not a ton of chatter.

Whatever a game does, they need to be upfront about it. It's like a consent/non-consent policy. This shit is important for players who're deciding whether or not they want to play somewhere. I strongly dislike PvP to the point where I'll generally avoid games that emphasize it, but I can tailor the design of my PC to minimize my need to engage in it (and generally prepare myself for something I'm eh on) if I'm aware it's a thing. If I'm not aware OOC, I can't do this.

Original theme sci-fi. Though I'd also just like to see some not-overdone sci-fi, like something based off Star Trek or a newer property like The Expanse.

I have a preference for sci-fi and historical games. I've played Battlestar and original themed games the most out of anything on that list, I guess, but feel like that's more what's out there than what I'm necessarily looking for. And Star Wars, though I generally have issues with the 'grid includes a thousand planets and is split into dark and light side factions' that Star Wars games seem to favor (there are a couple out there right now not doing this that I'm interested in).

I do Lords and Ladies on occasion (trying Arx now). I genre-hop a lot, I think, though I have no interest in WoD, which is the 200 lb. MU* gorilla.

@mietze
She could be mightier than a sword! And also have a tendency to wilt in embarrassing situations.

I assumed it was a carry-over from certain Romance languages tendency to use grammatical gender (though the only one I've studied is Spanish). All goes back to Latin, and the why was lost long ago.

I think I can accept the 4chan army not having their works of great internet literature preserved (thank you!).

@ixokai said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

• I don't know why people have issue with the facial animations and stuff, I don't. But the Uncanny Valley is something that affects different people differently. I have noticed some glitches in animation/camera placement, but.

Default Female Ryder is pretty bad for me. BioWare Face does not bother me on basically any other game but her...I just could not do it. Genuine weird, and once I saw it I couldn't unsee it.

Male Ryder and the alternate faces you can turn Female Ryder into were less bothersome.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in RL Anger:

@Shiggy
Is there a reason you aren't in the political section of the board?

I am almost certain this is one of our neighborhood trolls trying to rustle jimmies.

Oh, yeah, it's obviously a 4chan troll. But...there is another forum where they could be trolling with the politics stuff. They can troll with other stuff here until they're banned that isn't endless Trumpisms.

@Shiggy
Is there a reason you aren't in the political section of the board?

I had to take a solid night of pouting when it hit me I couldn't play as an alien. I wants me a turian Mass Effect protagonist one day.

Getting back into it now. Don't feel like I've played enough to form an opinion. It's huge.

Daredevil is a case where I do find the supporting characters generally more interesting than the protagonist. But even there, the protagonist is still well-done enough and can carry his own arcs (and, as mentioned above, either Charlie Cox or his stunt double is awesome in the fight scenes, which are the meat of that show).

Iron Fist is making me like Daredevil more, I guess is my main take-away so far. I'd still put it behind Jessica Jones and Luke Cage for me personally, but I appreciate how well it does what it sets out to do.

@Arkandel
I'm not all the way done yet (not that I care about spoilers, clearly) but it's the lack of specificity that's bothering me maybe more than anything else. And the lack of...idk exactly how to put this, but why is Iron Fist here at all?

Daredevil covers the martial arts angle, and is also probably the most recognizable Marvel character in the Netflix series. Also, while I found the Catholic guilt stuff at times a bit 'Whatever, Matt,' it at least gives the show a distinctive feel.

Jessica Jones has a distinct power-set and was very clearly her own thing. Same with Luke Cage. I get why they're interesting characters to throw into this mix. I also get why Punisher was added when he popped so much in Daredevil. It's a very different character than the others, and he clearly adds something.

Iron Fist is...also a martial artist but played by a less good actor with less good writing than Daredevil (and also less good stunt doubling. I don't know how much Charlie Cox actually does in DD in terms of stunt work, but either him or his stunt people deserve major props because that is some of the best choreography you'll get on TV)? I don't know why THIS guy, out of all the Marvel bench-warmers that could've shone in their own show.