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You have a death wish then, do you? (I think one bottle would kill.)

One disappointing thing in China is beer. Chinese beer ranges from tolerable (the better ones from Qingdao) to stuff that barely manages to exceed even American beer in flavour. It's because of this that I have to keep scanning Taobao for bargains on imports. Like this:

That's 48 half-liter tins of German beer. It's exported German beer, so pretty much the worst of the breed. Still, worst of breed from Germany exceeds best of breed in China so that's fine by me!

Mad Mao? Happy Mao? It's a matter of perspective!

@Seraphim73 said in The 100: The Mush:

@WTFE @GirlCalledBlu and I never actually played on The Fifth Wave, let alone staffed (I don't know that I'd ever heard of it, in fact). We did run The 100, The Fifth World, and staffed on a couple of Star Wars and Wheel of Time games between us back in the day.

I stand corrected then.

It's official: I have no fucking idea who these two are. I only know that their critics sound unhinged and delusional. This is not a good way to get your point across if they really are as bad as you appear to think they are. It kind of must makes, well, you, well, seem kind of unhinged. And, well, delusional.

As for @Ghost's variant of "I'm only doing it for my own amusement": bottoms up!

Shine on you crazy diamond!

Remember that video about how it's OK to not like things?

I think it's time for "It's OK to like things" as a counterpart.

Holy fuck, the crazy of the fans is infecting this very thread now.

This ice cream is showing potential!

@surreality said in The 100: The Mush:

I'mma just go on record and say that having spoken to both of them generally on and off, both @Ghost and @tek are both pretty cool people, explosions or not.

Surr, you know I love you like a sister (and I mean that Kentucky style!), but I'mma gonna go on record and say that I'mma have to disagree with you on @Ghost. Literally 100% of the time that I've seen him here he's been a twat. I'm not even falling back to the Chambers Constant here (99.44%). 100%.

If you think Diplomacy is a game that ends friendships and families, never, ever look at Republic of Rome.

I watched a deep friendship, the kind that involved having each other's backs in a foxhole, brutally murdered at the hands of that game.

Presumably because he is:

1. A sick fuck.
2. The Devil.
3. A freak.

And presumably because he needs to find Jesus.

I mean it's pretty clear from his message, no?

Harping again on my favourite hobby horse: how, precisely, with details, do you plan to reward those who play other lines of conflict than the religious ones? Talks of banning X and forbidding Y are counter-productive. Punishment is a terrible motivator. What do you plan to do to reward those who keep to the theme you want to establish? Show your work.

@Meg said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

They have an easy application

They want an email for application. That's an instant "nope!" here. On two grounds:

1. I don't know them from a hole in the ground. I'm not going to hand them my email.
2. If(f) they think this somehow "secures" things they're too stupid to staff.

I don't know (or care) if #2 is true or not. #1 is sufficient grounds for turning and walking away.

If you get lost and find yourself in the middle of China for some reason, you've got a place to stay. For two nights, even, if you like.

You're now facing the tripled-edged sword of Star Wars games. On the one hand if you let everybody who wants to make a Force-based character, everybody will make a Force-based character to the point that your single planet will have more Jedi on it than canonically exist post-prequels. If, however, you don't permit Force-based characters at all, your setting won't be of much interest to the player base because at this point it's not really Star Wars, just sub-standard space opera. This leaves the third option (the one you chose) which will lead to endless shitfits over favouritism.

@GentlemanJack said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@WTFE

I don't think Custodius destroyed that Fading Suns game... it was more about bad staffers. Like the main staffer Paulus would set a battle for Saturday at 2 PM. He'd log on, then say, "I need to go bake a cake..." and then not respond to pages for 5 hours.

He strongly contributed to its death.

In no game can you point to a single person and say "that person is the one who shivved it". Castle Marrach was a clusterfuck from the get-go. Morte (and his subsequent elevation to staff) was a symptom. The same applies to games "killed" by Seiche or VASpider or any other WORA/SWOFA/MSB Grand Villains.

But…

When you see the same names featuring prominently in the deaths of game after game, it becomes pretty clear that they're part of the problems that kill those games. Sure the games involved had structural problems, staff problems, theme problems, etc. But, you know, I've never seen a game that didn't have these. There's three games I play off and on right now that have all of these … and aren't festering shitholes. Of course they don't have people like Custodius, Seiche, VASpider, etc. on them either abusing and exploiting these flaws.

If you do that, I'll give you THREE nights!

Am I smelling 4chan again?

@TNP said in Sensitive cultural/political/religious aspects of game themes.:

However, that's not the case on the Shadowhunter game.

Isn't it fortunate, then, that I didn't post this in the Shadowhunter thread but in a thread about general sensitive aspects of game themes that was explicitly REMOVED from that thread for PRECISELY this reason?

@Aria said in RL things I love:

Day drinking.

There's another kind?

@Glitch said:

As a heads up, however, the forums will be upgraded on a periodic basis.

Why? Why the fucking fuck do you have to constantly change what works? This is the single most maddening fucking thing about the whole move to web apps: every fucking DAY some dumbass somewhere has decided to change the entire UX of a site I use just because, hey, it's been the same for two months. Time for change.

Fix bugs, sure. Add features, sure. BY WHY THE FLYING FUCK DO YOU FEEL THIS UTTER NEED TO CHANGE THE ENTIRE USER EXPERIENCE EACH TIME YOU HAVE A FUCKING BRAIN FART!

This most recent change is STILL fucking up every second page I visit on it. It looks hideous half the time (and yes, precisely half), but hey, at least the new forum software is a third the speed!

Welcome to the fucking age of fucking progress.

@Gingerlily said in An Apology Regarding Kushiel's Debut:

There wasn't really a mass exodus per say…

<peeve type="pet">Se. Per se.</peeve>