@Apu said in Realms - Sir Kay - Lotherio:
Ah. I think I know who you're being confused for as well as far as the medieval game and the dating/staff split thing goes. I am sorry if what I am assuming is correct.
Oh God, he's not being confused with the crazy person who ran 'Game of Kings', is he? Because that would be horrific.
I remember Strife in the Age of Steam. Sad it never took off (by the time I had the ability to sit down and make a character, its time had already passed).
There's a lot of staff/player-base incest (perhaps appropriately) in the Lords & Ladies genre of games that Realms Adventurous seems to have gotten lumped in with (maybe unfairly, from what I read it always seemed like you were at least trying to do something a little different). It's one of the things that made me cool on those games, I'll admit. Always felt like the same characters and drama just migrating around to new sites (this is not uncommon in genres of MU*s, I know).
This bs is never fun. Hope the back-talk ceases.
I got to 20k steps on my Fitbit for the first time ever last week largely because of this dumb game. I feel both accomplished and vaguely ashamed at the amount of time I'm dumping into the thing.
@tragedyjones said in Good TV:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably more amped for this than any of the Marvel Netflix shows. I was only Just OK on Daredevil, so the amount of investment I got in Jessica Jones was a pleasant surprise, and it set Luke Cage up wonderfully imo.
@ThatGuyThere said in Good or New Movies Review:
I like Will Smith as an actor but one thing I have never seen him play is an asshole
'Hancock' is, in many ways, not a very good movie, but I enjoyed it for the anti-superhero-ness of it all, and Will Smith does a pretty good asshole in it.
@ThugHeaven said in Good TV:
Still nobody for "The Night of" on HBO?
You guys are missing out.
It's on The List that exists in my brain. I want to get to it after I finish Stranger Things (which thus far I'm digging in an old school good Stephen King way).
Ugh. I'm hoping that she ends up better than she's been in the trailers, especially because Harley was originally created and written so smartly in Batman: TAS.
Everything was better in Batman: TAS. I have zero interest in Suicide Squad, but now I want to watch it all again.
@ThatGuyThere said in Fanbase entitlement:
I would consider the Bradley Cooper thing a whole special separate breed of stupidity, and that is thinking actors are necessarily anything like a character they have portrayed.
Maybe, though I think it comes from the same place of fanbase expectation. It's just a different arena of fanbase than a lot of us here typically engage with when we talk about this stuff. I find it useful not to disconnect them too much in my brain, at least in terms of how I view it. While I don't think 'entitlement' is wrong, I do think we should all be aware of what expectations and biases we bring to what we consume, and how pretty much everything we consume is filtered through them. It's useful for me to put that into perspective when I think about how I'm impacted by a piece of media.
@Arkandel said in Fanbase entitlement:
I don't even know if it counts as fanbase entitlement or just general inability to cope with the reality that actors aren't their characters but...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/entertainment/bradley-cooper-chris-kyle-dnc-trnd/
TL;DR: Bradley Cooper got booed for appearing at the DNC because how dare he when he played a conservative icon in American Sniper?
I think it's definitely a certain variety of what we're talking about in this thread, and it's probably instructive to consider it in the same context.
@surreality said in Making a MU* of your own:
I really think this is -- and this may just be a matter of terminology -- how I see an alpha/beta stage for a game. I may not be thinking of that in the same way as others do, or I might, I really couldn't say since I haven't been around on a game in alpha/beta.
This is how I see alpha/beta, too, and I've played a handful in open-beta or soft open stages. I also don't get how attempting to be prepared = sterile and wrong, but this is a knee-jerk reaction to terminology from which I will back away slowly. Save to say I...disagree with that terminology and think it worthy of having a knee-jerk reaction to.
It's a game I will be purchasing, is what it is.
It can't be a TV show because I don't particularly like the show, but I 
the games.
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.
@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go:
Hey folks, strap on your tinfoil hats and get ready for a ride through conspiracy theory land!
Wasn't there a South Park episode riffing on this like a decade ago?
Except then the game was a conspiracy to build a death army for Japan. At least this version is a death army for the CIA, I guess.
A buddy of mine was running an online TT for awhile through a combination of Roll20 for live sessions and a free wikidot site for character pages and posts and stuff. It didn't marry perfectly with what he was trying to do, mostly because Roll20 doesn't have a particularly effective text-logger, but it worked well enough for quick set-up and play.
@Swaggot said in Making a MU* of your own:
@Thenomain I fundamentally agree with this, the thing is, how does one go about getting such a playerbase?
Also, I'm primarily interested in weird, experimental games. You know, the ones who break all the normal expectations. Things that just change the rules outright. Shit like, "Oh, you don't have a character that's your character, we elect people into roles on a weekly basis" or something. Maybe "Yeah we just do one on one" or "actually this game is done entirely on a wiki," like Lexicon RPG.
Is there an audience for it?
If you've got a playgroup that'll do that, cool. If not, you probably won't get the trust/buy-in from strangers.
Something like this might be better off started as a private game with a handful of players you invite. Run it for a few months, see if it's workable, and see if you maintain an interest level in it. If it's not, that's fine. If it is, you can open it to a wider audience.
@Apu said in How Many Alts Would An Alt User Alt If An Alt User Could Use Alts:
I have seen people who have a lot of alts and I can't help but to think of one specific person who seems bad about it. This was a person who had 15 alts at one point on a game I am on. They seemed to drop alts (when relationships failed or whatever, I'm guessing) only to make more and more and... well, you see what I am getting at. Now I try not to be too judgemental, especially considering I've made characters only to then drop the alt(s) fairly quickly for whatever reason, but holy fuck. I can't even begin to understand why they'd think 15 alts was a good idea.
Yeah, This Guy type is the source of every single complaint I have about zero alt limits. I'm ambivalent about whether or not it should be policed. It's dumb as hell, but a lot of things are dumb as hell.
@Auspice said in There's Nothing to Do Here:
There has definitely been an increase over the last few years, in my experience, of people expecting Staff to entertain them constantly.
I've seen people leave games, citing that there's 'nothing to do,' when there's 1-2 Staff-run scenes a week and a few player-run +events beyond that.
Yeah, this is where I'm at. It's absolutely a shared responsibility, but there's been a shift in the last several years more toward 'entertain me, bitches!' that frustrates me. I think it's part of a wider trend in how people interact with the Internet and stuff like MMOs/mobile games, and for better or worse I don't see it changing. I think the best you can do it try to fight against this on a local level (encouraging player-run stuff and just generally doing shit as a player).
Show them your MSB account, that should settle any issues of shame or misconceptions about your adulthood.
UNFORTUNATELY I didn't read this until after I'd already been to court. Obviously this would have gotten the whole case thrown out!
I like the idea of using this hobby as proof I'm not liable for the adult world. I think it'd work!
That sounds like a dumb and awful ordeal, @Roz, but I'm glad it was sorted out.
@Griatch said in Evennia for MUSHers:
S/he replied to a thread about Evennia, being sad that our chatroom was inactive and thus not very useful . This in itself wouldn't annoy me if I didn't happen to remember that particular nickname in the logs. Before that post they joined the chatroom once, for all of ten minutes. On Christmas Eve.
This mentality really bothers me. I see it pretty consistently. 'X is inactive because nobody was on at 4am US Eastern Time on a Monday night.' I do not know wtf these people expect, other than sentient robots who cater them constantly everywhere online.
Anyway, the tutorial! It looks really neat, and I'll play around with the Tutorial World when I have a moment.
