@Anony-Mouse said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

How things change when people start abandoning your game because you actively support perverts. Well, most perverts.

This is not most perverts! This is my stand. My line in the sand. Being a pervert does not make you a sex pest. I am a pervert. I like the spicy typing and getting weird. I also always make sure that my partner is into it and comfortable and knows they can walk away at any time with no consequences or hard feelings.

Sex pests do none of these and are the bane of this hobby.

I’m just echoing some shit that’s been said already. Mostly in solidarity with the fact that this isn’t just me. I hate looking at +where and seeing people who are my friends doing stuff together without me. I know this is selfish, but my brain worms tell me ‘Of course they’re playing without you. You suck shit and should just go cry in a corner you pathetic waste of space.’

Then I go cry in a corner as a pathetic waste of space instead of doing the smart thing and asking to join in because I hate being a bother to people I like. Which just reinforces the brain worms. Which makes the cycle worse.

I gotta get better at asking for RP.

So my friend talked me into coming there to play with them. I have yet to be sex pested, there’s events and stuff going on, and besides being small and convoluted, I haven’t had much issue.

Except BOY is this game in need of catchup mechanics for new players. Badly. More XP or something. There’s a lot of dinosaurs on this game, and if you aren’t one, time to farm +noms for xp.

And do not get me started on the force user shit. Starting as a padawan is a great story, but holy shit do you suck ass at space wizardry.

Honestly the three big issues with HA are thus:

The cult of Vorpal, who is a piece of shit asshole who drove my good friend from the game for the crime of saying ‘Maybe don’t be toxic about shipping comic book characters?’ regarding that group’s apparently vile hatred of Beast Boy x Raven.

Chaucer in general, who is a shithead asshole AND a bad writer with terrible ideas about how things should work all the while being a condescending fuckwad.

Finally, somehow the least egregious of the three being the fact that NOTHING HAPPENS. There’s no metaplot, there’s capped scenes run for cliques and groups and if you’re not in on them fuck you, drink coffee with randos to keep your character.

(Edited 'cause I typoed Vorpal)

@GF Sounds like <Censored because I don’t support TERFS, but you know who I’m talking about>

@catzilla

The tl’dr is that my PC, the burn out gifted kid pure breed 5 shadow lord philodox was tasked to sit in on a meeting between a packmate ahroun black fury, and the douchebag, newly fostern shadow lord philodox regarding a black fury PC cub’s education. It went about as well as one could expect. (Poorly. There was some player drama from elsewhere involved. (I love my packmates from that game, the shit that player said is all of it lies and slander and I see them on this board. You fucking know who you are.)

So I put the +job in reporting, and Scylla demanded a scene over it with all of the parties save the cub. So we went, and this guy would not fucking sit down, demanding ‘due respect’ as a fostern from a bunch of cliath. Which, to those who don’t know, is basically the college freshman telling the high school seniors to shut up and do what he says. It doesn’t work like Scylla and that fuckwad think it does. Until someone’s ass gets beat, but that’s Werewolf.

The scene went, then we started talking and, like, trying to have a productive conversation with Scylla about, you know, how Werewolf works and why we think she adjudicated incorrectly. I put my whole ass on the line, having played an Elder Philodox in a goddamn NATIONAL LARP ORG, and never losing my seat, which means I know I was doing something right because my sheet was total ass. Things got a little heated, and I just was like ‘Fuck this. You have more interest in sucking the male PC’s dick rather than listening to sense from three female PCs’ in more polite terms, then logged off and never logged in again.

Also, her ideas about how Pure Breed worked were really eugenicist and creepy in hindsight.

So, hear me out.

A Lords and Ladies game set a few years after the end of the Wheel of Time.

You’ve got your nations and factions doing all of the politics and parties.

You get your Aes Sedai and Asha’man push and pull.

You’ve got a couple Forsaken and the dwindling bands of Shadowspan trundling about.

This is a great idea. Someone should make this.

I played there for a bit and just walked away recently. I played the most recent Jason Todd and a handful of others. My beefs are not massive, but they are many. Like how cliquey the game is, that the activity requirements exist and yet there is nothing to do but social rp on a game about superheroes. How you can’t do anything quote-unquote big without permission.

Oh, and also they have all these AU folks around but told me that Terry FUCKING McGinnis wasn’t viable for some bullshit answer. The real reason being it would hurt the Batman player and staff pet’s fee fees.

I might still be mad.

@Prototart said in Comic Games Are Fun!:

@renaveleigh said in Comic Games Are Fun!:

@Jennkryst

it’s for the best, because ‘weird and horny’ is cape games’ stock in trade.

like an even split between like housefraus who have never read anything but YA romance and comics, guys badly pretending to be lesbians w other guys badly pretending to be lesbians, guys with basic “alpha male” power fantasies

and then people who know the lyrics to every Genitorturers song by heart

sometimes a small group of gay guys, which used to bring a buuuuuuunch of fujoshis

I just want to play sad boys who can only show their emotions by punching dudes in clown makeup.

Wheel of Time. Fourth Age (post books). L&L

@labsunlimited Somehow my Get Philodox, son of Golgol Fangs-First, who decided ‘You know, kicking ass and being physically strong isn’t bad, but what about strength of character, including empathy, folks?’ not only hit Elder in play, but also helped run the tribe for most of an org larp chronicle, understood this. But, hey. What do I know, I just read the book.

@labsunlimited Like, they made me write in a whole ass breeding program into my background. When, you know, for most tribes Pure Breed will often just happen. Normal ass, no pure breed kin can drop a pure breed 5 kid, because sometimes that just happens, and they did not understand this. Because it’s not just genetic, it’s fucking spiritual too.

@catzilla

The tl’dr is that my PC, the burn out gifted kid pure breed 5 shadow lord philodox was tasked to sit in on a meeting between a packmate ahroun black fury, and the douchebag, newly fostern shadow lord philodox regarding a black fury PC cub’s education. It went about as well as one could expect. (Poorly. There was some player drama from elsewhere involved. (I love my packmates from that game, the shit that player said is all of it lies and slander and I see them on this board. You fucking know who you are.)

So I put the +job in reporting, and Scylla demanded a scene over it with all of the parties save the cub. So we went, and this guy would not fucking sit down, demanding ‘due respect’ as a fostern from a bunch of cliath. Which, to those who don’t know, is basically the college freshman telling the high school seniors to shut up and do what he says. It doesn’t work like Scylla and that fuckwad think it does. Until someone’s ass gets beat, but that’s Werewolf.

The scene went, then we started talking and, like, trying to have a productive conversation with Scylla about, you know, how Werewolf works and why we think she adjudicated incorrectly. I put my whole ass on the line, having played an Elder Philodox in a goddamn NATIONAL LARP ORG, and never losing my seat, which means I know I was doing something right because my sheet was total ass. Things got a little heated, and I just was like ‘Fuck this. You have more interest in sucking the male PC’s dick rather than listening to sense from three female PCs’ in more polite terms, then logged off and never logged in again.

Also, her ideas about how Pure Breed worked were really eugenicist and creepy in hindsight.

Then there was Scylla’s complete inability to, you know, understand Werewolf at all. Jesus christ her philodox npc made me cry at how bad at it she was. Though I’m pretty sure half of it was just how conflict averse the whole thing was. Especially since a scene with my pack, where we clearly were in the right, devolved into an ooc discussion that made me just quit the fucking game because of how badly she ran that shit.

So, uh, anyone want to join me and rule over the galaxy as headwiz and staff? I can’t pay you, but I can promise a sane environment, a good setting, and lightsabers without too many hoops.

@Roo

It’s 2025. No one under 18 is playing these games. Fuck it, make some private, lockable rooms and let people bone. It’s fine. No one cares.

@Hobbie said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

@Popes said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

In other news, anyone got an AoA DB dump, I want to make a revenge game.

Do not do this.

Not just for your mental health (some things are best left behind), but because the codebase is an absolute mess at the best of times. What remains of the good Yeti-code is bridged by unneeded hacks, badly implemented FOTM, and a #1 that had the VISUAL flag set for a number of years.

Okay so maybe it is just for your mental health.

@Roo said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

So, I heard Cujo went off and fired Maelstrom - not sure why, but sounds like new drama! Any details out there?

I have a sordid tale.

First off, I was one of the ones who said the game had changed for the better. I’m sorry, I was wrong, but not in the way you might think.

This tale goes way back. Way back to the days when United Heroes exploded due to the actions of, well Ruby. That crazy bitch is still around. Still on HAM as Rogue and Wonder Woman. She’s also on AoA as Rey. For a long time, she seemed fine. Wildly different from the crazy control beast she is over on the cape game. I was wrong.

I was in a scene with her and a handful of others, just hanging out in one of the Jedi enclaves. A little slice of life social thing to farm some XP and be low key. My Jedi, who is a former Sith who was brought out of it by some fantastic RP by the, now former, Ben Solo (who is an old friend of mine and a solid dude who features more in a little bit) who was functioning as her Jedi teacher. The question was ICly asked where he was, and a flippant joke was made about him being in the wilderness, flying a ship somewhere or with his girlfriend.

About twenty minutes later, Ben and said OC girlfriend (who was one of Mael’s alts) get paged by Cujo. A TWO AND A HALF HOUR rant about how FCs aren’t supposed to play with OCs one on one, where they should not be in romantic relationships with OCs. Where they in the name of all that is holy should not get MARRIED and have CHILDREN (which wasn’t even a THING with those two) because BY GOD that would give an ORIGINAL CHARACTER undue LEVERAGE over the PRECIOUS THEME.

The precious theme of foreverwar with the Sith who, despite having like maybe half the number of PCs as the Rebellion, aren’t allowed to actually permanantly lose. There was a couple board posts made, outlining the policy or whatever. And it calmed down for about a day.

Til Saturday when Cujo @newpassed Mael. Because she stressed him out.

At this point, Ben and Mael are walking, I’m walking, and it wouldn’t surprise me if others are gonna follow. Ben has been DRIVING some real good RP on that bit and showing up to stuff on his Mando. And people are gonna ask questions about why a handful of real active players just aren’t there anymore.

Adding on to this, Cujo is, apparently, trying to make Ruby and someone else staff. That someone else is the player of Jean Grey on HAM. Also a crazy fuckhead control freak. So that’s a good time.

In other news, anyone got an AoA DB dump, I want to make a revenge game. With plot, and staff that don’t treat it like it’s a Pern game from 1996.

@Jennkryst said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Pavel said in Numetal/Retromux:

L&L are Arx

L&L5R! L5Arx!

I would absolutely play a L&L game set in Rokugan. Someone do this. Now.