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  • This is mostly for maintenance and board-wide stuff from admin.

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    juniperskyJ
    And they are gone forever now. Edit: Our troll would be appaled I decided gender neutral is better.

  • This is a place for game runners to post about their games. Discussion on those games will happen elsewhere. Please respect this!

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    DapperPenguinD
    We have officially been open for a week, and the game is booming! MoT has welcomed 21 new players to the grid already with a few more considering their character concepts. There are plots on-going and some on the horizon. Tensions on Daiyu are heating up as the sector’s Moff has gotten impatient and there is notable activity from the Imperial garrison. A devastating “accident” on Daiyu’s mag-rails has scatted metal and debris throughout the Ashhollow Expanse. Scavengers are looking to find riches to sell in the Scrapfield markets. How brave are they, now, to slip past Imperial patrols while the wreck is being slowly cleaned up? Rumors of a missing rebel cell leader is trickling out among the Coalition and Daiyu Partisans. Last seen heading to Beldarone which had a cell of its own that has gone quiet on the back channels. All four factions (Coalition, Partisans, Independent, and Underground) have plenty of members to mingle with and ample room for more. Come and say hello!

  • Conversations and questions about current, upcoming, and advertised games and the hobby as a whole.

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    D
    Well, I think I know how to filter some player temperament through using my knowledge of the English language. It certainly gave me some application question ideas to send to Staff if there is a Player Helper application for Arx 2.

  • When you want to talk about HOW to do something when running a game, bring it here: Code, Theme, Policies, Game Design.

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    SockMonkeyS
    @Gashlycrumb Also, chances are most of the people you (general not specific) have a problem with have a similar opinion of you so 1) Why would they care? 2) Why would they be surprised? People are allowed to avoid games because of Staff (whether your own issue or in support of someone else) so it seems hypocritical to not allow Staff the same option especially when they’re the one putting in the effort to run the game.

  • Please post a playlist if you feel comfortable doing so, and if you are looking for old friends – try here! If you are looking for old enemies, consider a nap.

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    ThionoxialT
    So I doubt anyone will know who I am but I figured I’d introduce myself. I used to be Thionoxial on MCM (I left like 18 years ago or something like that, maybe 15? LONG TIME AGO) - I was the fachead for their evil faction and plotstaff. I used to be Einara (Zelosian idealist working for the CIS who secretly helped the Jedi alot) on Star Wars: Generations I used to play Ioanna on a VTM Dark Ages game set in Iberia. I played (until I had a nervous breakdown over my gender) a daeva lawyer based on Elle from Legally Blonde on some VTM Revised game, but only for a few months, about 5-6 years ago during COVID. pronouns are she/her if your cis and straight, she/they if your cis and queer, or they/she if your trans. (yes its complicated so am I). I have a B.S. in Physics with minors in astrophysics and mathematics. I’m 43 and I’ve been mushing since I was ~9. I’ve been trying to be on computers less the past year so I can live life instead of writing about it, life is too short. Other facts about me: My mom died 3 weeks ago and the last thing she ever said to me was (she was transphobic) that she spent her whole life fighting her urge to be a boy and never realized other girls didn’t feel that way. I used to be a buddhist but I’ve been an atheist for ~3 weeks now. There is nothing else interesting about me. I just wanted to introduce myself. Musical tastes: punk/post-punk Reading: scifi/fantasy Favorite Authors: Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, Elizabeth Moon, Ursula K. LeGuin I play a LOT of online tabletop. I’m currently in a VTM Dark Ages campaign and an Exalted vs WOD campaign.

  • Gloves off, but don’t be a total asshole.

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    xCroakerX
    @Yam said: A few years ago I was so desperate to run an ares CoD game for my pals that I went the google sheets route. I think I had it so they’d be locked or versioned or something. [image: 1782180796775-882d9d20-15e5-4b93-9514-258874662fae-image.png] [image: 1782180835473-f05c6d7c-fdcc-44e1-afc6-44ad553b215e-image.png] [image: 1782180921491-9a04a51c-d9ce-4bb4-aae4-33c0308a6915-image.png] Then coder pal went ahead and coded an entire CoD plugin, so I ended up pivoting away from this idea. It would’ve been a lot of work managing everything like this, but hey, it’s possible! The sheets were styled using some free resources, then altered to handle the formulas. Speaking of CoD sheets in Ares, I went this route (screenshot below) with the plugin I’ve been working on. My two cents on this topic is I hate emailing and doing Google Sheets. I know it’s really no different, but email and shares just feel too personal vs creating a character/profile in a game that’s just for that game/system. [image: 1787426478843-045c7b78-2d94-42d1-8c36-542203617abd-image.jpeg]

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    juniperskyJ
    I did go and edit most of their things because they are nonsense.

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    A10 RockwellA
    @Faraday A better question is why are you spending this much effort trying to detect LLM usage in the first place? If you can’t actually tell the difference between what some idiot romantasy author wrote and what some less-censored chat gippity clone spat out then it really speaks ill of said romantasy author. Maybe xir needs to just git gud? Has she considered applying to Panda Express? I heard they’re hiring lately. You can even get a job there if you’re a White man.

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    looks at Among Us update with the Judge role looks at @meg and @tez, drops off below Innersloth video that says everything necessary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqX21F0c_w0