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I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but Steam has the Mega Man Legacy Collection for $15. It includes Mega Man 1-6 so it works out to $2.50 a game. Not bad for a little bit of retro gaming fun.

The host company said it was something to do with their servers. I am assuming this is the same issue that caused the first three-day downtime the mu* had. But hey! At least the wiki's up this time. smh

@Sunny

Of course we're trying to pin motivation to what happens, because it's human nature to want to make something more understandable.

Bastion is awesome. I got a quad kill with his ult today, clearing the point and winning it for our team.

For those MOBA fans who happen to also be comic fans, Infinite Crisis is finally live. Can download it via Steam.

@redjellybean

Yes. It's been down for a couple hours.

I have been on and even helped start a few of these 'yes-first' games. In theory, it's a lovely idea, never saying no. Makes the players happy and happy players means a happy staff. But this has been my experience with such games:

1. Players on game x become unhappy with the heavy handedness of staff.

2. Players decide to make a game of their own, a game where they'll never say no and always say yes, wanting to cater to the needs and wants of the players.

3. Game opens and for a while the 'never say no' thing works and everyone is happy but over time staff comes to realize that it doesn't really work, mostly due to unrealistic demands/expectation of the players, and they really do need to say 'no' more often. Thus the policy changes and saying no becomes more common.

4. Players become unhappy, citing the heavy handedness of staff as the reason why, make their own game...

And the cycle repeats itself, over and over and over again.

In other words, works great in theory, doesn't work so much in practice.

@bobotron

Ah! Never heard of that.

@tek

That is such a pretty shade of red. I love it!

@23quarius

Holy crap! These pictures are freaking awesome! I love them!

@arkandel

No, the downtime was related to some piece of code going wonky or something. Don't read too much in that.

@Arkandel said:

I don't know why "yes-first" means "never-say-no".

I think for a lot of people, there's an assumption that if you put saying yes ahead of everything else then how can you possibly say no?

@Nein

I like that comic.

Alaric! I played Jas. Was so much fun RPing with you. Sorry for disappearing on you like I did.

@tek

Please let me know how that goes.

@ZombieGenesis

Don't forget to let me know when this game's live!

Okay... since the subject of ganging up on people came up, I feel like I should clarify what I wrote earlier. I do not condone mob mentality/ganging up on people and I realize that my original response might have made it come across like I do. I apologize to anyone who might have gotten that impression from what I said.

And here I was, thinking he was a character who had been lost to time, Thanks, guys.

@auspice

My cat Meshka was a very awesome, very nurturing cat like it sounds like your kitty is with you.

Meshka was the kitty who'd lay in bed with me while I was sick during the adjustment period to Zoloft. She'd lay right by my head so I wouldn't have to reach too far to pet her, she'd stay with me until I felt well enough to get out of bed and made sure I was okay.

I miss her.

@Jennkryst

I personally have a love/hate response to most rosters on mu*s. I love them because it can give me a chance to dive into a game (assuming it's a roster you can just pick from and hop IC immediately and not have to do anything CG related with them) and give things a try. I also hate them because you're stuck with all the past history unless the game has some kind of reboot policy that allows you to ignore all the past RP and all that. Yes, I know that you can technically take the rostered character in another direction from that point on, but yeah.

I was telling @Jim-Nanban a while back about how this thread was making me feel kind of old. Man, how long has it been?