But Why
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So umm…
What’s the anime from the first post? Asking for a friend.
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But why would anybody want to play Star Trek, where so few people in the Federation setting are ever at risk of anything, and the pain of a stubbed toe can be erased in seconds?
But why does anybody like cake when I prefer pie?
Non-rhetorical question: But why did somebody fork a thread without a link to the thread it was forked from at the top?
"This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
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People Sometimes Play Stuff I’m Not Into. I sometimes play stuff other people aren’t into. The people who aren’t into stuff impact games about that stuff very little (unless they get weird about it, but that seems like a waste of their energy).
I want something else to get me through this
Semi-charmed kinda life, baby, baby
I want something else, I'm not listening when you say good-byeShe/Her or They/Them
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@Evilgrayson said in But Why:
You can’t rely on Disney for anything. If you’ve ever read Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, you’ll know exactly what I mean.
Wait, you mean the farting gargoyles weren’t real?!
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@Third-Eye Well, there was that business a couple years ago in MSB where it was “But WHYYY should I ever run a game if it’s not possible to completely avoid criticism?” Though that was more in response to me saying that you’re always going to have people playing who don’t like every single thing about the game and say so, not that you’ll have people playing who dislike the core premise of the game.
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@Gashlycrumb
Oh yeah, doing pretty much anything sometimes feels like it’s setting you up to get shit on for…daring to do a thing in not precisely the way some rando wants. This is just the first time I’ve seen ‘Fantasy, why?’ and idk it was a hell of a ride. -
Fact: If somebody throws shit at you, you don’t have to catch it.
I am pretty unsurprised “fantasy, why?” and yeah, I think it’s pretty reasonable to expect that just about anything will draw some critical remark from somewhere. I am kinda puzzled that people take it so very to heart so very often.
I like opera, sardines, and licorice. (not necessarily all at the same time, but hey) Many people, annoyingly, seem to think I give a fuck that they don’t like those things and that I am interested in hearing them expound upon their dislike at length. I’ve liked opera, sardines and licorice since childhood and it now occurs to me that this may have been excellent training for side-stepping that particular brand of shit-slinging.
ETA: I’m on about randos. My ex commenting about his dislike of sardines and Doctor Who every fucking time I tried to enjoy either of those things is another matter. People who are close to you who insist on yukking your yum all the damn time are up to no good and need a kick.
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@Evilgrayson said in But Why:
You can’t rely on Disney for anything. If you’ve ever read Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, you’ll know exactly what I mean.
Wait, you mean the farting gargoyles weren’t real?!
I’m losin’ to a bird!
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@Aria surely there’s a farting gargoyle somewhere!! don’t they pee and barf on some buildings? if there are no farting gargoyles i’m so sad.
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@mietze I’m no expert, but this one is definitely farting.
Though I can’t tell if it’s a gargoyle or a grotesque.
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yay! sadness abated.
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@Gashlycrumb
The thread was forked because it was a topic started in a thread it added no value to (imo) and so there isn’t a reason for a link to return to the OG thread. -
@junipersky Yeah. Well, the only reason is that people who’ve not read the original thread are bound to wonder.
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I actually didn’t think about it. I am not in the habit of editing threads to add a link to the top, and I would not do so. I post on the original thread most of the time when I do fork content off, though, indicating I have done so and linking to it.
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@Tez
I’ve always wondered why no one ever created a Disney’s Robinhood MUSH. You know you would get players! It’s furry, it’s knights and bandits, it’s cartoons so it has the childhood nostalgia angle. Set it in a town near the coast where Robinhood the cartoon takes place. That way you can have sea related characters and all the traditional Robinhood types.Set it in the same Disney world, have some local nobles being greedy and some rebels trying to stop them. A church trying to keep the peace. It would be a simple, fun little game.
Heck, I would build it myself if I had the money but I have to work for a living.
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@Duke-Whisky said in But Why:
What’s the anime from the first post?
Sword Art Online (The Abridged version)
It’s a fan made parody of the anime series Sword Art Online.
It’s much better than the original and you can watch it for free.
Here is a playlist of the episodes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kJKxvbgZ0&list=PLuAOJfsMefuej06Q3n4QrSSC7qYjQ-FlU -
@De-Villefort Probably because furries? I’d totally groove on a game where the PCs are heroic bandits supporting a suffering overtaxed populace, but would probably skip one that introduced all the awkwardness of the PCs being anthropomorphic cartoon animals, cause you know a weasel is gonna get a chicken pregnant and… for me, so much but why can’t we just be humans?
Nottingham and Sherwood Forest are real places and are not near the coast, at least not in England-scale. Not that this would matter at all.
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@Gashlycrumb
“Blahblahblah reasoned, structured, and logical statement, blah!”Counter argument: Playing as pirates.
Re: Furries.
Given the dwindling size of the player base for text games in general, can you really afford to ostracize a large fan base like them?It’s much more likely that people will play an active game in spite of it having furries than furries will play a game that doesn’t at least partially cater to their fetish.
Look at what happens to WoD games that don’t allow shape shifter. They are practically stillborn right out of the gate because the lack of part-time-furries drives away those players who want to get their fuzzy freak on in private.
What was that game that recently shut down because of drama that had shifters? The Pack? It was popular because it was part-time-furry. Even if they don’t use the furry stuff very often, I think a lot of them will avoid any game that doesn’t give them the option.
