so total shocker, Scott and Ruby reacted to these posts the way that like anyone who had to deal w them at literally any point as players or staffers would expect: trying to figure out who posts under what name, smearing them to anybody who’ll listen, probably agitating to get ppl banned, and from what i’ve heard getting super paranoid about who i could be there to keep some rando from getting sacrificed on the altar of their personality disorders, the last time i logged in to HAM except as a guest was when i claimed raven then got kicked off for a combination of making Chaucer mad and outing a sexual predator years ago, and the last time i logged in as a guest is in this thread believe it or not it’s just that basically nobody likes either of you or enjoys tiptoeing around your explosive tempers and fragile egos, so shit gets around

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@Raeras Thank you! And I agree, I’ve been spoiled by Ares as well, especially with async scenes. I’ve spent a lot of time and effort developing systems that I hope will be respectful of your time in a traditional public scene pace. And if something isn’t working as I hoped, I’ll always be open to suggestions on how to improve it.

Kavinsky, French DJ and music producer, famous for the song Nightcall. https://youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY

@Herja @kalakh @sao @Evilgrayson Encouraging me to be the evil character I dream of being, in their own ways, and listening to me scream as I struggle. It’s a small thing to anyone else maybe but I appreciate you guys because it’s really really really difficult for me. Maybe one day I’ll graduate to stealing food from babies and mixing skittles, m&ms, and reeses in the same candy bowl. it’s so hard guys

@Jumpscare Yes please! I’m really interested in what you’ve been doing.

there, @Snackness, I said it.

@junipersky Kids in high school you lowkey had a squish on?

I have a character who runs a bar, and I agreed to it (three characters in total donated to get the place up and running) simply because it has a lot of potential to generate RP. Yeah, it can get out of hand, and what do you do when everyone on grid tries to show up? But so far, it’s been a positive experience.

Hey all. we appreciate all the feedback we got on this thread and the interest expressed by folks. We’ve been refining the game and building our initial content, and while we are anticipating announcing a soft open within the week on the Advertising thread, we are looking to get a few people who would be interested in coming in before then to look over and offer some feedback. If you’d be interested, shoot me a PM and I’ll give you the address. We’re looking to get some thoughts on specific mechanics and systems, as well as overall feedback on the game itself. As a thank you for early interest and offer feedback, you’d get a bit of an earlier crack at a character. We’ll be adding roster of characters shortly, but for now you could choose to create one of the soon-to-be rosters or create your own concept. We also support OCs, if that is more of your interest. PM me if interested. Otherwise, look for our real ad to come out probably Thursday or Friday (unless the feedback is all catastrophic, haha!) Thanks!

@Pavel right and i think it’s better to focus on creating culture/implementing rules that determine how those systems are utilized rather than scrapping a nice thing

My previous post is made even more sad by my discovery of current events via finally logging into the Wyrdhold site. [image: minions-sneeze.gif]

Because this is topical for me today with the final part of Wind and Truth coming out (yay, finally, I can start it!) … Cannot possibly recommend the company Graphic Audio enough as an audiobook experience. It was my gateway drug back into reading after an embarrassingly long stretch of fractured attention span. Their tagline is ‘A Movie in Your Mind’, which it pretty well succeeds at. They make everything a full Radio Play experience, with sound effects and music and a sprawling cast of voice actors for each book. The only downside is that they do tend to retain the same voice talent, so if you bounce around between some series, you’ll be like, “Hey wait, why’s Wit here? Oh, no, he’s not. Just the same voice.” Either way, cannot recommend it highly enough. The actors really swing for the fences, and when it lands, it lands so well.

@Tez said in Prove Tez Wrong: @Jennkryst That explains a lot about my household, including the faking coughing and ‘boo, you whore’ earlier today. aheh aheh i’m sick

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@Griatch Cool, thanks for the explanation. Yeah, I haven’t really come across any need for that in the kinds of games Ares is geared towards (more freeform, less immersive), but I can see where that could come in handy in other game types. Even in Ares, you could do it with some custom code in the desc plugin to dynamically adjust descs based on dynamic criteria, it’s just not built in.

@tsar said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama: @dvoraen I’m about to have so many snails. Does this mean you’re playing this game and are going to catch a lot of croblings snails?

@Pavel said in Liberation Drama!?: This is a joke. [image: you-sit-on-a-throne-of-lies-throne.gif]

@Testament said in Plagiarism: @Rathenhope [image: 1704150660759-431129ad-d5fa-42c9-8598-5dd2111d1d73-image.png] Clearly you haven’t seen my Grindr matches.

@MisterBoring I could be wrong, but there’s no indication in the forum post that it was continuing after the initial ban.