Posts made by WTFE

@FiranSurvivor said:

And here I was hoping for an Aldous Huxley based game!

That's … WHAT I FUCKING SAID!

Where do you think "orgy porgy" comes from?

I thought GoB was awesome … except for that pesky time zone issue that kills my ability to play pretty much any fringe MU*.

Orgy Porgy?

No, wait. Wrong Brave New World. Sorry.

@Shebakoby said:

@WTFE The chinese people value life? yeah. The chinese government? Not so much. Conflating the beliefs of a people with their non-democratic despotic government's beliefs is very deceptive. Which is why I suspect that the stuff about the russian people was going around during the cold war.

That's it exactly. Plus the fact that the western governments (both then and now) stood/stand to gain from dehumanizing the opposition.

This is one of my hot buttons.

Asinine questions like that simultaneously enrage me and depress me. They remind me of the bullshit I was fed as a teenager in the midst of the Cold War. "Russians just don't value life like we do. Russian mothers celebrate their children's death if it's in service to the state. Russian tanks have one-way radios: they can only receive, not transmit."

I'm at the point now that if I hear this kind of shit live (for any culture—even the hated Americans who are all uneducated, insular, violent, thuggish, and boorish) I have to mentally restrain myself from just reaching across and backhanding the fucking idiot who says it. When it's online like that question I am left with the far less viscerally satisfying solution of using words.

Those poor, poor capitalists!

I'm going to get a lot of use out of these.

@Ganymede said:

I don't like anonymous complaints. As an adjudicator, I want to know who the accuser is. But that does not mean I have any obligation to disclose this to the accused.

I didn't say that the accused should know who the accuser is necessarily. I said anonymous complaints are bullshit. On this we basically seem to agree.

It is far easier not to be an asshole.

This, of course, is the ideal solution.

A survey, where you presumably have specific questions to be answered, is not the same as an complaints box.

But even a survey I don't particularly see the need for anonymity. Of course I'm also not an abject moral coward, nor am I so attached to a game that leaving one because someone like Spider manipulated things so I was ousted is a paranoid fear of mine.

Yeah, I really hate to agree with @HelloRaptor.

I'm tempted to just leave it at that, but… I actually do agree with him. Anonymous complaints are the single worst way to reduce drama in a body of human beings that has ever been conceived.

@Admiral said:

It's easier to be an asshole and apologize later than to not be an asshole.

You know what's even easier? Recognizing that every human being who has ever lived and ever will live has been and/or will be an asshole at some point or another. Your message here being a case in point. (And mine, for that matter.)

As a teacher there's two ways to make me feel appreciated at the end of a lesson:

1. Standing ovation
2. A bottle of armagnac.

Guess who got both today!

@BigDaddyAmin said:

@Bobotron

State of Texas be whack <deleted>, yo.

Fixed that for you.

I got it by scouring Taobao for five or six … minutes. But most online places that have games have it. Amazon has it for sure, for example. Along with the full Mr. Jack, the Mr. Jack Expansion, Mr. Jack in New York, etc.

edited to add

• Mr. Jack Pocket
• Mr. Jack
• Mr. Jack Extension (needs Mr. Jack to play)
• Mr. Jack in New York

Of these I have (and thus can only vouch for) the first three. Mr. Jack Pocket has rapidly become my "quick pick-up game that still requires a few brain cells to play". Mr. Jack itself is a solid game, but a bit of a pain in the ass to set up. In game play I like it a bit better than the pocket version because it has more depth of choice, but the two have a very similar vibe. The extension just adds a few characters to the choices but doesn't otherwise much impact the actual play materially. It's OK, but since I got my extension bundled with my main game I can't really assess if it's worth the added cost to buy it separately.

The New York one gets good reviews, but I can't speak for it on my own behalf.

Hmmm... I have a few concepts I need fleshed out for Shangrila. Let's talk…

It feels weird putting this into the "less game-y" area, but ...

A Jeopardy! game specific to my house.

"In this portable board/card game one person plays as the detectives desperately searching for one of history's most notorious serial murderer of prostitutes while the other player plays said murderer's desperate attempt to escape justice."

"Alex, What is the most thematically inappropriate game I play with my seven year-old son?"

It's an absolutely spiffy game, but sometimes I'm worried what I'm teaching the boy…

Nah, don't play much myself these days. I hang around on MUSH and on an old-Trek game that nobody actually plays (more's the pity). I just thought it was funny you had about ten thousand characters listed with three current on one game.

For @TNP's thing, there's this song that may give you a clue. For @Thenomain's just read this article.

Which of these are actually current? You've only got three on one game listed as current. Is that all you play now?