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!

@Gashlycrumb said in New Sin dropped:

… how the killer will handle this one in the remake of Se7en, which will have to be called Ei8ht.

Obvs the exact same, just Empathy is the Goop-filled Gwen so her death is a two-fer.

@KarmaBum said in Game Development: Modern Gothic Storypath System:

@Raistlin Just curious if you’ve actually seen Dark City (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/)?

It’s always been in the back of my mind as “would make a cool MUSH.”

Hilariously, for a while now, I’ve had a hairbrained idea of Dark City crossed with City of 1,000 Planets crossed with Everworld but never had the energy to get it done.

Have you considered looking at Curseborn, the legally distinct WoD knockoff and recent kickstarter game by previous CoD writers after OP decided to kill CoD and 20th gamelines for daring to outperform V5?

@Solstice said in An Arx Peeve Thread:

the first book I picked up was “The Way of Kings

GOOD LUCK, be ready to join me in shouting into the void for a Cosmere MU

It’s always sending me to the top of the thread instead of the last post I read, but I could be doing the thing wrong.

Edit: okay so now that I’ve said that it’s stopped, maybe it’s only when there’s new post?

[Incomprehensible Wail]

@Jumpscare said in MU Peeves Thread:

I can typically identify descs written by AI by how they’re surprisingly un-specific to the reality of what they’re supposed to be describing.

Yes, her eyes may harken back to bygone timeless memories hidden within pools of mystery, but what color are they?

The color that gets the most TS, of course!

@Jumpscare Any time there is new Star Wars media, line go up. I know very little about the one other Star Wars game that exists, but I assume its different enough that the City of Hope effect is in play.

… which is to say, AoA offers players something other Star Wars games don’t, and rhose players are willing to put up with an amount of fuckery due to lack of options.

For City of Hope, this used to be sky’s the limit concepts… Mummies, Nephandi, Shadow Court/Thallain, Demon the Fallen, Possessed, Sabbat… but there was also a serious lack of alternative oWoD games around. Now there is simultaneously a decrease in playable spheres, in addition to competition from other games like Liberation, RetroMu, Fulcrum, Towers, and at least one, maybe more, in alpha… and that means logins are going to go down as people flock elsewhere.

Maybe it is Imperial PCs. Maybe it’s the playable Dark Side. Maybe it’s the ridiculous obsession with Mandalorians. Maybe it is the ability to customize stuff. Maybe it’s the fact that you just +attack and the game spits out success and damage for you without you needing to own a rulebook to understand what happened. Whatever the case, people who are logging in have decided that something outweighs the bad.

The trick is finding out what that something is and replicating it elsewhere, bereft of the bad, and people will flock to you.

Just remember some of us write purple prose that is so terrible, that you might mix it up with ChatGPT, or maybe think it’s even worse. This is not a ‘so let them use it instead of being trash’ … this is a ‘don’t ban my hot mess, I worked hard on it!’

I like the idea of rosters, because they come pre-baked with connections and stuff. But OCs can also join rosters… as long as you know if you idle out, your OC goes up on the roster and anyone else can grab them, per normal rules and junk.

And you can open up OCs in waves, as staff and game capacity allow for proper attention to be given to the new folks.

Also keep in mind chargen is a collaborative process, so new arrivals can fit into existent hooks.