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I waited on watching season 2 of What We Do In The Shadows and holy fuck am I glad I did. I really, really needed to laugh this hard.

@Mr-Johnson said in Spitballing for a supers Mush:

Honestly another one of those things I've always wanted to do is Earth-2 where it's set at the late phase of the golden age. So 1960's or so, but you've got the Earth-2 continuity and characters and that feel, but over and over I get told the same thing.
We don't want historical settings we didn't LIVE in historical settings we don't want to learn. And that really breaks my heart.
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Nothing else 'sells' DC only games even with an active Dev team don't sell. Marvel only doesn't sell. The market has shown over and over that people don't REALLY want anything new.

Honestly man? At this point in time, with the current events IRL especially but also the general decline of interest in the hobby over the last...decade, you might not ever get this magical self-sustaining number you want no matter what you do. That's just a risk you face in putting effort into opening a game.

In that case, I would suggest you stop focusing so hard on what other people want from a game and just make the game YOU would want to play in. Your passion for it will shine through, and other people who like the vibe will come play, and you'll wind up having a much better time and a lot more fun than if you were forcing yourself to just slog through some generic blah that has already existed a bajillion times and draws the same nasty, boring players playing the same characters.

Will it last? Maybe not? But again, there's just no guarantee it would anyway.

Just my two cents.

Just slap a new coat of paint on a copy of Arx for Helladies and Hellords. Call it Hell-Arx, or Hlarx for short.

I would personally wanna make combat a little crunchier, but honestly every other system would fit that kinda game really, really well imho.

I dunno if y'all had seen this already but uh, warp drives are this much closer to being an actual thing now

I HAVE TOO MUCH EXCITE FOR MY BODY

Would people be more interested in a MU* revolving around a dark fantasy mercenary company or a scifi Mecha-operating mercenary company?

If you absolutely had to choose one or the other?

@lotherio

Just an honest suggestion, but looking for a playgroup of only about ten people who you expect to pull double duty as storytellers on a single-crew ship is probably a call I'd put out among friends, rather than opening to the public and complete strangers.

That kinda seems like a recipe for some bizarre dynamics at least and disaster at worst.

If this were a truly public game, IMO you'd be better off coordinating multiple ships so that at least people could have some space to find a group that suits their timezone, playstyle, personalities, etc.

Maybe mandate that each new ship is obligated to have at least one primary storyteller and one backup, if they can't manage/don't want to Round Robin it.

@solstice

Big sympathy oofs re: revisiting old favorites.

This year I've been going back to a few shows (anime and otherwise) that meant a lot to me when I was younger, and discovering they aged poorly or even horribly is a real gutpunch.

It's 2021, I doubt anyone (especially here) is going to say online friends aren't "real."

@arkandel said in Online friends:

Where do you draw the line, if you do?

This the more interesting question to me. I've definitely gone too far in online friendships, and I strongly suspect most of us could say they relate.

I tend to be more reserved now, but I still don't know exactly where the line should be. There does seem to be a point where you're giving and accepting so little that I would personally find it really difficult to call that relationship what I consider friendship -- instead of just like, an acquaintance I guess? Gaming buddy? -- and it seems like that arm's length is actually where I've found most MU people keep most other MU people.

What factors make y'all decide to move further? Is it solely just time and trust?

@ifrit

Even with as much fondness as I have had for Dr. Who, I think the question posed was more likely "what if actually good?" Lol.

@devrex said in GMs and Players:

I believe that most of the time, these asshats are just not that clever, that the trail is there if people will just share it.

Then you are underestimating abusers who have literally had decades to perfect their MO in an extremely specific medium and in the process you are doing an enormous disservice to vulnerable players.

I'm not saying there aren't idiots among them, there obviously are. But in assuming that's somehow the majority you are being arrogant and also showing us a really disappointing contempt for the people they hurt.

If I see one more dating profile about a married polyamorous woman just seeking a "belaytionship" or a TRUE THIN BLUE LINE patriot who just wants to square dance and sneers about vaccinations and masks I am going to hurl my phone into the sun and surrender to my fate of being a wild mountain hermit.

God, the dating scene is miserable out here.

@Arkandel said:

@silentsophia said:

I'm on board if I get to app Blade Bella.

FTFY.

Some motherfuckers always trying to ice-skate uphill.

My youngest sister -- about a 14 year age gap, who at times in our lives actually has felt more like my daughter than my little sister -- decided spontaneously that she had to get married to this guy that she's been seeing for a little less than three months. Three months.

I've met him all of twice, and on the day of their "civil ceremony" (not what they consider their "actual" wedding for a long list of reasons that are all related to ultra-religious Mormon stuff too impenetrable to dive into here) I had a near-panic attack when I realized that a) if you lined up a bunch of blonde twenty year old dudes, I would not be able to pick him out and b) moments before I was going to greet them I literally could not remember his name.

I am trying my best to be a good big brother and show my love and support, and I absolutely did openly express my honest concern and doubts about this whirlwind marriage to her (along with our other sibs), but she pulled the trigger anyway and boy oh boy do I feel like she's made an enormous mistake, and it really hurts. I feel like there's going to be a lot of pain and regret in their future, especially because we've already seen some big shiny red flags with this dude, but I have to just smile through it right now.

I hate this a lot, but...people have to live their own lives, I guess.

I've known sane people who actually enjoy & thrive on it, so...no it doesn't?

Let's give it at least a week before we start shitting all over the change, huh?

Thanks @Ganymede and @Auspice for stepping up, and @Arkandel for being willing to listen and implement changes, it's nice to feel heard!

Holy fuck, Shang-Chi was great. My kiddo gave it "100 out of 5."

"We've got moderators, but we don't want to moderate, but there's a still a problem" is the conversation that is still happening like five months after I went back to occasional lurking?

I'm not sure what you all expect. I'm still of the opinion that sometimes, you do have to come down like the fist of a vengeful god and not worry when people (edit: sorry, the people you are reprimanding) complain about it, that's just the nature of the role you all accepted. It's not something that can be fixed with a widget or putting "THIS IS THE SUBFORUM WHERE YOU CAN ALL BE SHITTY TO EACH OTHER" in bold across the top of the page, it's not something that can be fixed by deleting the forum's backlog, if you want to see a certain shitty attitude disappear, you have to disappear it.

IMHO.

Like, that's not a fun "job" to have, but in most forum communities and especially in this one, I just think you're going to find it's necessary.

Worst part of single parenting: getting sick at the same time as your kiddo.

It's just game over, man. Everything takes so much more effort and requires so much more attention, and before you know it there goes an entire week spent mostly exhausted, frustrated, and behind in nearly everything. I hate it so much.

@demiurge said in Dreamwalk MUSH:

I jus don't want to run a game where the first time a player who comes in as something to the effect of a space marine and calls a homosexual man "degenerate," which is a pretty reasonably in character thing for such a character to do, and have to deal with a massive meltdown from my playerbase.

And you are more than free to have your space be that place, no one is contesting that. Just understand that that is not OK to spring on people, if those are the kinds of themes and the kind of environment you are apparently at the very least OK with if not actively encouraging -- players should be giving their informed consent that that is the kind of arena they are about to enter.

Like, had we not all had this conversation, no one would have been aware that this is your vision of the game and that sensitive content is going to go largely unfiltered. That's an important warning to a lot of people!

For the love of god man, if you don't want a meltdown, then put up a disclaimer.

One of my own personal favorite tales is Shameful Shitter Lady.

I was working in the electronics department of a K-Mart (which, o god, perhaps should tell you everything already, it is/was a Cursed Chain) and had a family who came in once a week like clockwork to work out their domestic issues in front of our DVD bargain bin.

I don't really know what the deal was with them, I tried to stay as far outside their orbit as possible, but I am not kidding. Mom, Dad, and Teenage Daughter would come in mid-argument and just stress out for a good thirty minutes or so, and then wander to another department.

That was mildly weird, but the moment I still think about to this day was when Mom came in alone, in such a blind panic that I thought someone was actually chasing her. She ran up to me and I braced myself for trouble, but she just breathlessly asked me where the bathrooms were. A bit flabbergasted -- she'd had to have gone past the cashiers at the front registers and the customer service desk to the far end of the store specifically to ask me -- I pointed out that it was in the opposite corner of the store.

I had never actually seen a fully grown woman run the way she did in the direction I pointed, so I just stared after her for a long moment until my manager called for assistance maybe five minutes later, and asked me to bring a mop to the customer service desk. DUN DUN DUNNN

anyway she had left a trail of little poops, all down the aisle, to the women's clothing department. Totally not where I had told her the bathrooms were, but what took the cake was the FUCKING ENORMOUS pile of shit she'd left us on the carpet. Under a pile of clothes she'd pulled off the rack to cover it up in shame, like she was a fucking cat without a litterbox or something.

Nobody could find her, so I could only assume she had dropped her load and just...left.

We literally never saw that family again.

@shaggy said in Games:

I just wondered if I'm the only one. And I am. And I'm okay with that, too.

You're not the only one, but before the Great Ares War starts again can we just not, everybody? Every single time this subject gets brought up the same extremely bitter and extremely vocal sides get involved and it's pretty tiresome, y'all.

It's OK To Not Like Things. (Just, as we all know the song goes, don't be a dick about it.)