What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?
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I know of one player who’s apparently notoriously been following the same MO (spending his whole time trying to persuade players of female characters to let him get them pregnant) for many years, so you may well be right. And then there’s the legendary Jill the Guest…
One thing I’ve noticed in my time in this hobby is that there’s a common reluctance amongst staff to act until they really have to, and a common reluctance on the part of players to actually put in a complaint and let staff know there’s a problem. I get it, most people are fundamentally conflict-averse and getting in someone’s face isn’t the fun time anyone’s signed up for. Unfortunately that encourages a ‘let’s make absolutely sure before we say anything’ culture which makes it far too easy for these people to hide their misdeeds. There needs to be a greater willingness to observe a clear pattern rather than await a slam-dunk, and more staff who are willing to bite the bullet and demand a change of behavior – or simply to tell someone to gtfo.
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@catzilla said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Prototart said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
the guy behind every giant desc with cut and paste names and giant ass cheeks grinding together and tits so big they have to “enter a room sideways,”
I’m not even joking, I have one of them saved somewhere. At his peak like 80% of female comic characters on Shang were using one of his goofy descs. For years it was impossible to make anybody he’d heard of there without pagelocking him because he’d page you ever five or ten minutes without pause.
Shang has a rule where you can’t post more than once in a 24-hour period on their request board. Why? Because he would make a post, wait fifteen minutes, delete it, and repost it.
Shang has a rule where you can’t advertise looking for characters from media. Why? Because all of his posts would be a grocery list of superheroines he wanted to see with bean bag size tits and 2L nipples.
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It’s not that hard to ban sex pests. Most gamesystems come with some form of the ban command, and you just tell them good luck with their future endeavors and hit that puppy.
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@hellfrog Some of these weirdos are amazingly persistent. There was one player on HAM who attempted to sneak back about half a dozen times after being banned.
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@Colette yeah but you can just ban them again and make more mocking additions to their banning post, and eventually - probably after they send some unhinged email to your coder about exposing his girlfriend on facebook - they will get bored and go do something else. Ask me how I know!
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@hellfrog 100%. Let’s just say I’m happier staffing somewhere I can ensure that’s policy.
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@hellfrog said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Colette yeah but you can just ban them again and make more mocking additions to their banning post, and eventually - probably after they send some unhinged email to your coder about exposing his girlfriend on facebook - they will get bored and go do something else. Ask me how I know!
A game I was playing on around 2013 had a problem with a ban dodger so persistent they temporarily blocked all Comcast connections except the IPs of players known to behave.
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@Starr-Saphyre It’s nothing more than a reboot of L&L.
@Prototart said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
On comic games? Not so much. When Claremont and Ditko were first outed on UH, maybe 20 people left total and most of those - including Chaucer - eventually just went back.
Just to expand a little, even though I know you know:
Notably, Chaucer took the lead on trying to construct the theme for an alternative game, with these people as the seed playerbase. After a few months of putting together a sprawling multipublisher comic book theme animated primarily by hubris (fine, it’s a mush), a lack of knowledge of the constituent parts, an innate loathing for most of those parts, and a little bit of random cultural stereotyping, he started receiving feedback on his masterpiece. Prospective players noted that his theme would probably be confusing and inaccessible to most players looking to play a comic book game, because - again - the theme was constructed from the ground up by someone who both did not know and did not care for most of the material he was working with. This included needing to be told that rewriting Wakanda to be the result of an Ancient Aliens-style uplift and interbreeding program via predominantly white space aliens (instead of ongoing, conscious effort on the part of its native peoples to utilize miraculous extraterrestrial materials) would be wildly unacceptable.
His response to being criticized was to go back to the game which he knew was run by sex pests, buddy up with some of those sex pests’ friends, and - once the depraved Eye of Sauron turned to those sex pest friends - push his Jenga’d together theme onto them while they were getting HAM together.
I’ve met worse people and worse administrators in this hobby, but I wouldn’t trust this guy as a head administrator anymore than I would any of them.
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@helvetica said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Anyway, I do miss the originality of OC-centered superhero games that were going for a couple years. I love marvel comics/x-men verse, but these everything-and-the-kitchen-sink mu*s…~
yeah, even if i did rp, you’d never catch me on the ‘fuck it let’s have gotham and new york city in the same MU*’ game. it bothers me, because canonically, batman and tony stark exist in entirely different worlds.
and my brain just doesn’t jive with the kind of fuckery you have to do to make the games exist, nevermind powerscaling issues.
no offense if you like them, but i’d rather sleep on a hot pillow.
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@Meg I just think it lacks narrative direction. Offense.
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@helvetica because you don’t want to make choices and deny people their favorite characters!*
- i will take this back if someone proves that there is some form of perma-death that happened either on HAM or on these successors. like, actually dead. no one gets to play that character again.
** yes i am taking big jumps to my land of conclusion. get out of my tollbooth.
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@Meg said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@helvetica said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Anyway, I do miss the originality of OC-centered superhero games that were going for a couple years. I love marvel comics/x-men verse, but these everything-and-the-kitchen-sink mu*s…~
yeah, even if i did rp, you’d never catch me on the ‘fuck it let’s have gotham and new york city in the same MU*’ game. it bothers me, because canonically, batman and tony stark exist in entirely different worlds.
i hate them so much that someone once yelled at me to stop calling them potpourri games even tho they are literally just a bunch of shit in a bowl
Rena and I did a massive amount of theme and background work for a San Francisco-based Marvel game set immediately prior to Secret War that was intended to feature the formation of a PC Illuminati and then we never did anything with it, like the true artists that we are
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@Prototart said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
the guy behind every giant desc with cut and paste names and giant ass cheeks grinding together and tits so big they have to “enter a room sideways,”
I’m still stuck on this. Wouldn’t turning sideways make things worse after a certain point???
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People like OC only/focused superhero games?
So like…
- Totally original (but inspired by X, Y, Z) ideas?
- Set in a known universe but OCs are allowed along with canon characters?
- Set in known universe, only OCs and canon characters (these are FC right?) are only NPC?
I have so many ideas…
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@Juniper You just have to do some manner of limbo to get through the door. Side-limbo
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@Purplelamia said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Juniper You just have to do some manner of limbo to get through the door. Side-limbo
You put one huge boob in, you take one huge boob out, you put one huge boob in… but you don’t shake 'em because they weigh more than your ability to lift…
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@MisterBoring This sounds dangerously close to caring for and protecting the player base. Is that even allowed?
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@EyeofProvidence said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Purplelamia said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Juniper You just have to do some manner of limbo to get through the door. Side-limbo
You put one huge boob in, you take one huge boob out, you put one huge boob in… but you don’t shake 'em because they weigh more than your ability to lift…
This is incredibly close.
You boob the first through the door breastily, give the door. Then get confused because there is something hard between them, so brain default to trying to get it off before you realize it is a door frame and it is unimpressed with your mad lewd skillz.
The next step is important - don’t go back in. Instead, you must…
… with the frame as your pivot-point.
Finally, you must breast boobily (like when you boob breastily, but in reverse) to finally free yourself from the door.
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@catzilla said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@Coin said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
@catzilla said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
Maybe one day we’ll have a superhero game not run by abusers.
Damn, why am I catching strays over here?
Which one is yours?
Excelsior, specifically. I also helped with Better Tomorrow (who were not abusive) and With Great Power (again, not abusive).
