Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

@Miss-Demeanor said in The 100: The Mush:

But most people are capable of enjoying more than just one sphere.

This wasn't a game with spheres in the way they exist in WoD, though. There was a factional split between the delinquents and grounders, and maybe you could argue they should've had dedicated admins to each, but it's not really the same thing (I don't think, in this case, it would've really solved the problem).

I'm not a WoD player and I've logged a lot of time on single-faction games where this isn't really an applicable solution.

@Auspice said in The 100: The Mush:

I know a Staffer who I used to praise for keeping their characters more on the sidelines, but over the past few months... they began putting one of their PCs as the lynchpin in scenes more and more. And it's been kind of depressing to see.

I think this is another thing that can be solved by having more eyes/hands running a game (and thereby running plots), but it's one of those things that's really exacerbated on solo projects. Also, ideally, if you have someone looking over your shoulder, you have a check who can say, 'Dude, back this the fuck up' when you start to do dumb/show-boaty shit. This circles back to why I think the biggest problem the folks running The 100/Fifth World had was a lack of additional staff, not something specific to them per se.

@Arkandel said in Downvotes:

@Three-Eyed-Crow I think downvotes would have worked better if their source was visible.

Yeah. It's hard to tell, because they weren't visible to everyone for very long, but I did prefer it that way.

As much as I enjoyed serial-downvoting @Anonymous (no regrets, every post of theirs was some damn nonsense) I will not miss them.

@surreality
Me too! Though, for serious, they are a handy for 'This is sensible and articulate but I don't have anything further to add'.

I don't think they're 'needed,' per se, but people are way less weird about them than downvotes, so they seem harmless, whereas downvotes were at times annoying.

@Sunny said in The 100: The Mush:

They tried. It was a good shot, and I hope they learned about pacing for their next project, if they have one. I'd play under them again, provided they demonstrated that lessons were learned.

This is about how I feel. I can understand the urge to open a game in the theme you want to play (there's no other way to play in some themes), but even in my super-brief time on The 100 I couldn't figure how this could run with just two staffers (married or otherwise). I think they'd benefit from another pair of eyes and hands on anything they do in the future, mostly just for the sake of sustainability but in part because of the focus-on-your-own-PCs thing people have mentioned. I wouldn't compare these folks to Brooke/Brice, though, and I wouldn't avoid their future projects.

@GangOfDolls said in The 100: The Mush:

The game runners have elected to close The 100. The last day for the game will be this coming Friday, September 16th.

Bummer. It's a theme there was obviously a lot of enthusiasm for, though I can see why it'd be difficult to pull off long-term in RP.

I find public +sheets insanely helpful. This isn't something all games do or that every genre considers workable, but when it's there I find it to be a wonderful tool.

Maybe players could voluntarily list some stuff they want STs to have access to on games where this is less common, idk.

@Insomnia said in General Video Game Thread:

If you want a plug and play controller that will work with anything, go with the XBox One controller. Plus most of the games you play on the PC will recognize it and tell you to press A already. Cheaper too.

This is probably the direction I'm going. I'm a little concerned with how the Steam controller would work with non-Steam games (like the ones I've bought off GoG, or that EA has forced me to buy on Origin, etc.).

Does the Steam controller have any advantages over getting an X-Box controller for PC use? I've been meaning to get a controller for my PC forever and have occasionally eyed the one Steam is selling, but idk.

@Ganymede said in Fanbase entitlement:

But, yeah, if you're wearing a Nirvana t-shirt, and not know anything about the band, I will get judge-y. I've met more than one person who didn't realize that Kurt Cobain died.

I feel like the Nirvana thing is generational, and it's one of those touch-points that drives home that I am getting old. I was in junior high when Nirvana was coming up, and I'll admit it's weird to see teens and college students in Nirvana t-shirts now. I don't really care if they're a True Fan or not (music snobs are maybe my least favorite kind of snobs), but it's weird.

The Get Off My Lawn mentality combines with the geek bully mentality in many cases and spirals into...deeply unpleasant people, basically.

Phoenix is lousy with Abras for some reason.

I've never seen a Squirtle, and the other water types are also super-rare.

@lordbelh said in Good TV:

By the way, what do people think about Stranger Things? I just caught the first episode. Blast from Seven Spielberg style 80s sci-fi past, eh? Im gonna have to try the second episode.

Enjoyed it very much. I found it less Spielberg than Stephen King as it went along (though Spielberg is definitely also an influence). It's definitely a pastiche, but not the bad kind, at least not for me. It uses familiar touch-points to tell its own story.

Finally started 'The Night Of' this weekend. I may be caught up before the finale. First impression: Naz is a moron, but it's engrossing through the first three.

@Roz said in RL Anger:

Like, part of me wonders if this is me being petty or something, but god it just feels like "I owe you a ton of money but can you do me this favor?"

This is absolutely not petty. I have friends I love but will not loan money to anymore, because it's a never-ending cycle.

The short version is: BS Orion was recruiting staff as part of a late-period effort to jump start the game (people had their frustrations with its staffers which I think are legit, but I'm not going to touch that, except that I think there's a pretty big difference between personality conflicts/disagreements with how someone is running something, and actual, legit malfeasance). Ares Player was a pretty active PrP runner for the Marines at the time and offered to take on a bit. And this is the part I want to stress: HE WAS WORKING ON HIS OWN GOMO-BSG GAME DURING THIS TIME AND CONTINUED TO WORK ON IT AFTER BECOMING STAFF. I don't know how much 'db theft' there actually was, but he definitely used his bit to peek at how the FS3 code there was customized and how the grid was set up and copy it (and a lot of wiki stuff was heavily borrowed from it in the beginning as well, but this is wikidot and he did not per se need a staff bit to steal that). From this came BS Pegasus (after that opened he stopped being staff at Orion, obviously). I had a pretty low opinion of Ares by this point and did not stick around Pegasus, so other people can talk about how he ran it into the ground.

There was a giant WORA thread on Game of Kings, another game I didn't play, and I'm pretty sad it's gone (the WORA thread, I am not sad this game is gone). But that's all drama I heard second-hand, never actually played there.

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@Auspice
Jesus fucking Christ I didn't know the half of it. Fuck that guy. People like him are the biggest argument around for a good use boards like this serve. HE IS A FUCK DON'T PLAY ON HIS GAMES I MUST TELL THE PEEEEEEEEEEEEEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!111111ONEONEONEELEVEN.

@Auspice said in Realms - Sir Kay - Lotherio:

@Apu - seriously, don't feel bad. I wholly blame the guy who started the place, not people who came later. I was in a similar boat for a BSG game a couple years ago. Got invited on to Staff and once I saw 'behind the scenes,' I learned that the guy who started it (the guy, btw, that Lotherio has been mistaken for I believe!) stole the DB from Orion.

I KNEW ARES @ PEGASUS WAS THE ASSHOLE FROM 'GAME OF KINGS' I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT.

Ahem. Sorry. But that fucking guy, seriously.

Anyone accusing @Lotherio of being him owes some deep apologies.

It baffles me that game-runners do this, especially with all the documentation of past games that still exists online (iirc, 'Game of Kings' copied stuff from the old Crossroads MU* wholesale, too). And given that the same players migrate to games in the same theme...you're gonna be found out.

It's such a basic show of disrespect.

I think you have to accept that the audience for historical games will be small, but small isn't terrible if it's sustainable. I played Chicago MUSH for a bit and TGG did well enough for stretches (though it had the added draw of being a war game). These games were never sprawling, 100+ connect behemoths, but they worked for enough time to be worthwhile.

It won't be huge but if the game-runner and players calibrate their expectations, that's not the worst thing in the world.

@Apu
Hahaha, same. The sad part is, I actually do have like two or three options on who he could be being mistaken for, and I'm sure there are others I did not personally experience.

@Godot said in Mass Effect MU*?:

Mass Effect: Legends is still up, but I can't tell if anything is really happening now or ever.

I know of no others, but I'm also vaguely curious how much play it gets, or if it's structured differently in terms of RP than a standard MU*. I've peeked in a couple times and it seems very quiet, but it's still around after years.

@Apu
There are so many semi-cray L&L headwizzes I can barely keep track. @Lotherio is not someone I count among them, though.