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@Pandora Could possibly be SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder.?

I wondered about that myself. Seems Anders was separated from Justice and pardoned.

@surreality Is this some kind of emergency that it has to be done NOW? Cause otherwise, this is not a 'Seriously hoping we can see someone else.' situation. This is a 'I refuse to see him again. I want someone else now. If that's not possible, schedule it."

And you should.

@Caggles said in Good or New Movies Review:

Cats occupies a weird place somewhere between dance and musical and doesn't quite hit the spot for me as either.

I saw the stage show and didn't really like it. I don't consider it a musical. It's just a series of vaguely related cat themed songs without anything to really tie it together as a whole. The lack of a story can be argued but I did say vaguely related which is all I consider it to be.

I like DA2 as well. It was a very different game than DAO. Smaller, more focused, but enjoyable. It had its issues. Reusing so many maps was just outright lazy. And the Templar position was so very over the top. A little bit of nuance would have been nice, especially in the part of the game before you know who was affected by you know what. It wouldn't have been hard to improve the game drastically by just taking a little extra time to tighten things up. That being said, it was fun.

@Ghost Now if they just don't pull an American Gods. (Which I never watched and am now glad I don't pay for Starz.)

@Roz said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

@TNP said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

Reusing so many maps was just outright lazy.

Or desperately necessary because they were being rushed through production by EA and forced to produce a finished product much earlier than they wanted to.

Is that the reason? It shows. So it's EA's fault then.

@Auspice Hopefully you'll find one that you can manage. Good luck on the interview.

@Sunny said in The 100: The Mush:

@GirlCalledBlu said in The 100: The Mush:

I adore being part of this community, but the impression I am getting here is that I am not a good Staffer, so there's that. I'm not going to turn into that person that people don't RP with or interact with because I made poor decisions, or thought I was doing a good job and I wasn't.

Hold up. Let me say something here very clearly, because I have put forth firmly worded negative opinions. You are not a bad staffer. You are an incredible storyteller, you have good intentions, you treat people with respect, and you're reasonable. I could probably think of a dozen other things that you excel at, where staffing is concerned.

Also, staffing - especially being headstaff - has a learning curve. If you've only started 2 games total? I think you're on the right track. There's been plenty of utterly horrid staffers and even more bad ones.

@Roz said in Separating Art From Artist:

Eh, I think discrimination of protected classes doesn't have requirements based on size the way some other federal requirements do (like FMLA). But my point was that LGBT employees are often not protected in the US because their sexuality and/or gender identity are not federally protected (explicitly, in any case, but I understand it's an ongoing argument), so it'll depend if they're in a state that's passed laws protecting the classes. tl;dr we don't protect all the classes of people that ought to be protected, which makes certain classes of people extremely vulnerable in an at-will employment situation.

The Trump Administration Is Fighting at the Supreme Court to Let Employers Fire Queer and Trans Workers

Why haven't you all apped on WC yet?

You don't need to like Anita Blake. You just need to like urban fantasy (such as WoD). You don't need to have read Anita Blake, just have an idea of what it's about (such as WoD). You don't have to like FAE. You just need to plow through CGEN then forget about it all other than the RP. And unlike some place who offer a helping of urban fantasy, we're mostly sane.

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Coin I could never do Dragonball in any form. Their Hellsing is just... ohgod.

Plus you get to see people (and non-people) blow holes in Nazis. Always a bonus.

You can get that with Dragonball Z too.

I think a big issue is that harmful stereotypes are often in the eye of the beholder. One man's 'flaming faggot' is another man's mirror.

@mietze I tried an Impossible Whopper and would never have guessed it wasn't real meat. It makes me very happy that we are headed in the direction of not having to kill animals in order to be omnivores. One day...

@Akurel said in Star Wars: Insurgency:

@Ganymede Also Diego Luna. Which no one will judge you for.

I'll definitely judge her for it. Just remember: judgements can be in someone's favor as well.

@Ganymede said in [Real World Peeves,

... and we forgot to actually file a notice of appearance for you so you cannot raise any legal arguments in defense of the appeal we filed or inquire of any witnesses. Godspeed.*

Sounds like they conveniently 'forgot' to do what was needed to present a successful case in an abominable situation that they should feel horrible about doing?

Speaking only for myself, I was expecting critique when I suggested a couple weeks ago that we post an ad here even before we were ready to give out the address. Players here have a larger combined history of game play than many RPG companies and a Star Wars Fate game is not something that's been made into a Mu* before to my knowledge. In fact, while someone did take the Star Wars setting and 'Fate-ized' it,we felt it didn't really handle the Force sufficiently so we're making up the mechanics ourselves. So other perspective can be useful, though not necessarily agreed with.

Re: Fate. I agree. But some people love it for some reason.

Re: FCs. I agree. But some people love them. We'll try to make sure everyone are the stars and not just the canon characters.

Re: Rebels Run. I think this is a good point. To me, and I do intend on bringing it up just to verify my assumptions, I always thought of the Rebel presence on Corellia as more of an administrative/recruiting center. Dangerous, yes but the Rebellion is very much in the early David vs Goliath stages and they need backers and funding. There are no squadrons of X-Wings being launched from Crescent City. There are instead seemingly unaligned freighters and transports taking the rebels on and off planet. So 'Rebel Base' does not mean something like what was seen on Hoth in Empire. That is elsewhere.

Edited to add: From news theme:

Our story takes place primarily on the planet of Corellia during the height of the Rebellion. The Alliance has sent a platoon of spies to the strategic core world in hopes of inciting a revolt against Imperial rule.

@Jennkryst I'm a horrible, horrible person. I laughed.

@Ghost said in Star Wars: Insurgency:

The answer:
FCs come prepackaged with guaranteed roleplay opportunities and "main character" time in plots. FCs are automatically roped into game metaplot, whereas OCs need to find their own roleplay and means to being roped into (and more importantly, relevance in) metaplot

This would be wrong. Why FCs? Because some people want to play Luke or Leia or Han. Some people want to play Superman or Spiderman or Thor. I never have. That doesn't make those who do want to wrong.

Plots focused on the Rebellion will be for Rebel PCs, not Rebel FCs and others. If someone apps an OC X-Wing pilot who survived the assault on the Death Star alongside Luke, then that is what he shall be and that is what game 'history' shall be. The OC will have just as many opportunities as Luke to get involved. All OCs will.

Now, you can believe that or not. We're going to do our best to make sure that's the case. If you don't believe that, I'm not going to argue. Don't come play. Please, don't come play. But don't call us liars either. Go make a thread in the Hog Pit to do that but at least wait till you have evidence. Don't be Trump.