Somehow, Kissinger is still alive…

BUT!

BRB making a few alt accounts to upvote all my own posts, since all you cowards refuse to give me enough microdoses of dopamine.

(:Public:) Ax (A) is curious what Kasia/Zephyr did that was bad enough to have not only her, but those people associated with her get their alts destroyed and their primary characters (some of who were on vacation) sent to the Old Guard Lounge and @passworded? Is that the new standard of dealing with people who investigate claims of sexual harassment here? Burn them and their associates? I’m just curious
(:Public:) Cujo says, “Ax, you don’t care about any of those things.”
(:Public:) Cujo says, “If you did, you’d put in a request to talk privately.”
(:Public:) Cujo says, “But you didn’t do that, you posted it publicly because you want to make a huge show of things.”
(:Public:) Cujo sayz, “So now you’re banned from this channel, well done.”

DO NOT SPEAK OUT, OR YOU WILL BE SILENCED, etc etc. Shocker.

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

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

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

The staff just imperiously announced ‘We’re skipping ahead fifteen years so that Rey and Ben Solo can have lots of babies! If you don’t like it, leave!’

Actually, it’s Rey and Poe’s babies on Age of Kora. Poe, played by Sumi’s player.

Still a better match IMHO.

POE IS MARRIED TO FINN, AND NOTHING JJ OR DISNEY SAYS WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.

Since Derp and Ghost keep bringing it up, I’ll repeat a point I’ve made before:

People are going to keep talking about the community being hijacked, because at the end of the day, before any of this happened, any of YOU who feel the need to talk about bullies being mean - YOU could have made your own board, and made it however you wanted.

Instead, you decided to change the rules of the board we were all on and throw anyone who disagreed out. Which is the root of it all. And you know it. Because you keep bringing up how we went somewhere else and made the rules we wanted.

And it’s pretty fucked up how you keep rewriting history to justify the decision.

Another person banned for person attacks, despite making fewer personal attacks than Ghost. Maybe it was the big words?

Of course, they had to ban @Kestrel. You showed up with receipts about their hypocrisy. 12/10. Would also upvote if I could.

@kalakh said in Bannings:

The new argument that this is merely the result of wanting more moderation and people are just mad that they are being moderated (because they’re super hypocrites and are now getting theirs), sure is a take.

People wanted moderation to fork threads or move them to different boards, and to ban the rapists or that one guy who sprouts up every couple months and tries to set everything on fire. So technically yes, more moderation was wanted.

But it is an extremely bad faith reading that the logical conclusion is ‘ban everyone who dares to speak out’. Pretty against the spirit of the job that was asked to be done, you might say.

@hobos said in Bannings:

I do care that VulgarKitten lied to those people, and I feel for them, particularly one who I personally admire who was really hurt by the lies. More importantly, she is sorry about it.

If she is actually sorry about it, perhaps she should admit that and apologize, and not pretend to be a totally different, literally new person, which fits the profile of the issues in the first place?

@helvetica said in Bannings:

@kalakh said in Bannings:

VK/Hella

I didn’t know who Hella was. lmaoooooo

Yeah, she literally changed her username and started pretending to be a new person right after the banning- spree, and nobody has called her out on it.

@Tat said in Bannings:

@Roadspike said in Bannings:

@farfalla Ares logs are system-created and (to my knowledge) can’t be edited. I would probably take a regular log too, but that would mean I was playing on a non-Ares game, and ain’t nobody got time to go technologically backwards.

Yeah, they can’t be edited unless you’re a coder, because they come straight from the database and not a player’s computer.

THAT JUST PROVES THE CODER IS IN ON THE CHEMTRAIL FLOURIDE CONSPIRACY TO MAKE PEOPLE LOOK BAD BECAUSE THEY ARE AN ENEMY OF THE CLIQUE!!!111!!1!ONE!!!111ELEVEN!

@Popes said in Numetal/Retromux:

@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.

@MisterBoring said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Popes said in Numetal/Retromux:

Someone do this. Now.

I think @Jennkryst is working on porting L5R to Ares for that very reason.

The decision paralysis is real, but it will use funky dice mechanics. As a treat.

@Hobbie said in Best Games with Roster Characters?:

alpha strike in a Nova.

Something something disco ball.

Anyway travel times alone means everyone is probably part of the same mercenary group, or it’s gotta be set on Solaris or something. To say nothing of potential ‘whoops, cockpit was hit, you died, re-roll’ occurrences.

@Pavel said in Numetal/Retromux:

L&L are Arx

L&L5R! L5Arx!

@MisterBoring Moon Knight and Co. if comic books, L5R can do it with blood magic, and Star Trek… something something Q and/or First Contact with the 80s Battlestar Galactica with all those ancient alien vibes? I dunno. I’m trying to brain L&L5R here.

Somebody poked me enough that in order to prove them wrong/get them to stop, I asked Chat GPT to write some Ares code for me, and it sort of looks like it could work? We’ll see, but now I have to get over this decision paralysis.

We are down to ‘all comic book games use free form powers, what if we add dice?’, L&L5R, and that Star Trek thing we talked about that one time. I thought about something something Battletech, but that way madness lies.

I’m sure I’ll bounce to another idea before anything gets finalized for these, its fine.

As it is written.

@Pavel said in Numetal/Retromux:

Hey @LeeRoyBatty, when can we run a FATAL game?

I have several better ideas, but gotta kidnap that coder…

@Pavel said in Numetal/Retromux:

@Alamias No excuse, please commit seppuku by dawn tomorrow, thank you.

I can only assume this means L5R, which is on the list, so go go go? A discussion to be had elsewhere.

@labsunlimited said in Numetal/Retromux:

We all have to share the spotlight on a MU* or this kind of thing happens. I sometimes wonder if WOD could have been better if the mechanics and narrative were better suited to that, like the 2013 MET LARP ruleset, since that’s designed for games of like 15-20 people over 3-5 in tabletop.

I’m on record somewhere agreeing with this, it could stand a test run somewhere if nobody has tried it yet.

@Jumpscare said in Numetal/Retromux:

@dvoraen said in Numetal/Retromux:

I couldn’t think of how to do an inverse to “Hog Pit.”

First you ban someone who replied to a do-not-interact request with “message received.” The rest just happens organically.

First, we need to foolishly hand over the keys to a robot cat lawyer.

Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell

Anyway, as for THE YOUTHS, I know a 20-something Lawyer who has recently joined places and is the most recent ‘youngest player on the game’. Another guy introduced his daughter and her boyfriend to a game and their ISP listed like 20 characters from their house when staff tried to +alt. So new blood does happen. Theres also r/MU*

A few of us have talked over the years about some sort of video essay to throw onto the YouTubes, that could be a potential way to introduce new players. An issue is MU takes extra hoops to jump through, which Ares solves to a degree, but purists are still frowny at it for whatever reason (its code. The reason is code).

@Third-Eye said in pvp vs pvp:

This is another one that doesn’t really read like Ghost’s MO to me, unless he’s decided to change his personality for like the fifth time.

Oh, but Ghost is a singular login for multiple users who want anonymity on these anonymous forums… or something…