From a conversation with a few people I know IRL: When people create amazing story points for their character or for the world in general only to somehow completely draw a blank when you ask them to explore that further.
“I really like how you established your character was secretly undermining the Lord of the West Rivers, can we do some more undermining plot stuff with that?”
“Wait what? I have no idea what you are talking about and am not interested in that in the least.”
“Ok. Well… ugh.”
Tony Todd, 69, Legendary Actor in basically every horror movie made from 1990 to today.
I’m not, but it’s because for whatever reason, Dragon Age hasn’t captured my attention in any of the games in the series. Can’t explain it, the games are mostly solid and have a well written world, but playing them doesn’t trigger that part of my brain that makes me want to keep going. (Tangentially, that same part of my brain also requires 100% completion of a game when it triggers.)
I played the first game all the way to the Werewolf dungeon (which I believe is roughly halfway through the main plot), and have skipped the other games in the series altogether.
As good as Bioware games are, the last one I actually played to completion was Jade Empire. Bioware just never finds that magic thing my weird brain needs to actually play through them.
@Kestrel It’s always been my understanding that Jill never gets to the point of having an actual character anywhere, just making strange conversation OOC as a guest bit and then dipping. I might be wrong though.
@Pavel Is it an original Model-M, or one of the newer clones, like the Unicomp?
@Tez I got a Keychron C2 with brown switches. My old keyboard died when I was rearranging my office and I accidentally dropped my paperweight on it. If I had the money, I probably would have gone for something slightly more pricey, but the C2 will work for now. If I had the money, I might have gone for the Q6 or maybe a Unicomp New Model M.
My new peeve: buying a fancy new mechanical keyboard with nice clicky keys and not having the free time or energy to actually sit down and put it through it’s paces on a MU.
When I read Cujo’s post there, my brain forced me to read it in Donald Trump’s voice for some reason.
Atsuko Tanaka, Legendary Anime voice actress known for voicing characters such as: Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell), Bayonetta (Bayonetta), and Lisa Lisa (Jo Jo’s Bizarre Adventure).
@Jax said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Hadrix is sexual harassing a couch.
Are you implying that Hadrix is JD Vance?
If so…
Shelley Duvall, 70, Actress in The Shining, Annie Hall, and other films.
Shifty Shellshock, 49, Singer for one-hit wonders Crazy Town
I was only aware of Liberation and CoG. What’s Fulcrum?
I know there’s a person out there monkeying around with starting another one, but I’ve been asked not to say much more than that. (It’s not me. I don’t have the time or the know-how to start a new game from scratch.)
@Tez Because VPNs are disposable connections and the icky individual can just swap to another VPN server or use their normal IP to reconnect and start over on a new bit, or claim their old roster bit again and start over.
I’ve been on a few games that tried to deal with that by just wide-banning entire domains and it caused multiple players who weren’t icky at all to suddenly be unable to connect.
I’m all for online privacy, but too much online privacy can protect people with bad intentions. It’s a tenuous balance at best dealing with icky folks while still being respectful of good players’ privacy.
@Testament My inability to enjoy async is the primary reason I’m not playing much of anything outside of in person tabletop groups once or twice a month. I can kind of sympathize with your frustration.
I wonder if games would accept a photo of a mashed potato sculpture of my PB?
Weirdly I can’t wrap my head around PBs or descs. I’m terrible at writing character or build descs, and don’t actually like using PBs either, so I end up with characters that are something along the lines of:
Bob has short black hair and usually wears a t-shirt and jeans.
Which is about as descriptive as:
A snickerdoodle is a cookie.
The most hilarious part of this is that I can write flowing descriptions of action without issue.
Steve Albini, 61 - Legendary producer of hundreds of bands such as Nirvana, The Pixies, Mogwai, and Sunn O))) in addition to singing for the bands Shellac and Big Black.
@Roadspike Would it be better if an episodic game had episodes with little to no downtime? So like, the game tells a specific story in Episode 1, then takes maybe 1-2 days at most to set up for the next episode and we’re off?
While I have yet to play in one, I do like the idea of games being episodic, or even just having a set runtime so to speak.
The way I feel about it, downtime should be downtime. If you’re doing interactive story-driven stuff, it’s not downtime. There should be a clear separation. I feel like downtime shouldn’t just be a downtime for story driven interactive play, but a downtime for anything outside of OOC clerical stuff and getting set up for the next episode.
I had a thought where PCs earn XP during the uptime, but spending it is only allowed during the downtime windows. The downtime can represent training montages, buying new things, and other types of logistical stuff that’s important to the PCs.
I have more thoughts on this, but have to get back to work.