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@renaveleigh Of course it’s not unique, nor did my question imply that it was. It’s still an important question for one to think about when this much hassle comes from simply trying to take a character from a roster.
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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)
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<Questions> Chaucer says, “This all circles back to one of the core concepts in the game, how ‘harmony’ works and how the mortal soul is the purest force of creation. It takes a soul to make a soul. Elf lords have fallen in love with mortals and if they love, and are loved in return, a soul can come from that. This is how you end up with demigods and half-fae and all those other interesting permutations. Also the unasked question is, ‘what becomes of a half-blood that never knows love’ and I am sure that’s how you end up making Old Gods, but I might save that for a story arc.”
would you ever guess that this is a Marvel/DC superhero game
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@Prototart “What becomes of a half-blood that never knows love” is maybe the yikesiest sentence I’ve read.
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@GF Sounds like <Censored because I don’t support TERFS, but you know who I’m talking about>
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oh, hi
ok, short story:
some people I know were like, “you should join us on HAM”
i was like, “yeah they’ll ban me within twelve hours, it’s entirely The Chaucer Show now”
some people I know are like, “oh you’re being paranoid”
i was like, “well, maybe it’ll be funny”anyway,
Shakespeare (S) pages: Hey there. See from your IP that you’re the player who went by ProtoTart. There was past acrimony, including issues from games that predate HAM, that came up last time. Ending with you deciding to leave. I think that clean break was the right call for everyone. It’s a game and pastime and should be fun for all. Given the longstanding feelings I think a repeat is likely enough we’d best stick with that call and all move on our separate ways. So going to go ahead and formalize it on our part. Wish you well wherever the future takes you.
[21:12] Idle message sent to Shakespeare.
You are politely shown to the door.
Thank you for visiting.
Please return soon.
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@Prototart Guess that means there’s plenty of time for Exalted shenaniganz?
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@Prototart said in Comic Games Are Fun!:
You are politely shown to the door.
Thank you for visiting.
Please return soon.Someone needs to work on this message. I’m getting mixed signals.
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@Jennkryst There’s an Exalted game?
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Admittedly, the wiki could use a makeover, and the character list could use an update (a bunch of them aren’t on +census… and +census has folks not on the wiki, I think)
But! It is totally there, and I totally have semi-regular arguments about how the chargen is dumb and I hate it, while they mostly tolerate my presence. FOR NOW.
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Huh. I never thought there’d be such a thing. Thanks, you two.
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@junipersky said in Comic Games Are Fun!:
@Prototart said in Comic Games Are Fun!:
You are politely shown to the door.
Thank you for visiting.
Please return soon.Someone needs to work on this message. I’m getting mixed signals.
“Please leave immediately. We love you.”
I think it’s pretty clear!
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@Pavel said in Comic Games Are Fun!:
So the game is shit, run by people who are shit, and played (not exclusively) by people who are shit.
Why d’you wanna play there, again?
I wish we had a gentler way of saying this.
Quitting a game is HARD. If you’re the kind of person who’s on a lot, having that window there, talking to people, thinking about the game, working on your character(s), playing, it becomes a part of your life.
Leaving a game leaves a gigantic hole in your life. It’s a loss. And I’m pretty sure it on some level works psychologically like any other loss.
So I wish there was a very, very gentle way to suggest that a person quit a game, that doesn’t come off cold and a little condescending. Because I’ve done that, and I hate how I sound when I say it.
I’ve managed to do it, quit a game. And it’s hard. It hurts.
But in the end it’s often the right thing, if a game has soured.
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@Polk said in Comic Games Are Fun!:
So I wish there was a very, very gentle way to suggest that a person quit a game, that doesn’t come off cold and a little condescending. Because I’ve done that, and I hate how I sound when I say it.
Polk pages: Don’t contact me in nay way. GEt out of my life.
If only there were a better way. /sarcasm
You giant, performative, insincere phony.
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@Polk said in Comic Games Are Fun!:
And I’m pretty sure it on some level works psychologically like any other loss.
I imagine it’s similar to leaving an abusive relationship. It doesn’t really matter what we say or how we say it, it’s entirely up to the person involved.
That said, sometimes a splash of cold water helps. Sometimes it doesn’t.
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@Polk said in Comic Games Are Fun!:
Quitting a game is HARD. If you’re the kind of person who’s on a lot, having that window there, talking to people, thinking about the game, working on your character(s), playing, it becomes a part of your life.
Also, aside from the sunk costs factor over your character’s achievements, there is also the cold reality that just because you have had enough, and you want to leave, that doesn’t mean your friends are quite there yet.
So you’re also dealing with fear of missing out and the social exclusion from your tribe of buddies. Hell even if they were to leave (and that’s never a given) who’s to say they’d all go to the same game, or that your new PCs would be associated again?
Once you’re gone, all that is gone too.
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So are there any good superhero games at all?
love that perfect frown
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@Vulgar-Boy Might be a DC game in the works but I haven’t been following it too closely. Ready to yeet Carol Ferris at the roster once it’s ready.
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@Vulgar-Boy said in Comic Games Are Fun!:
So are there any good superhero games at all?
HA is a GOMO sandbox by and for the people chiefly responsible for UH being what it was - they had no problem whatsoever with any of it, the stalking or harassment or anything else, until Ruby finally got splashback from the stuff she’d spent years enabling and attacking people for questioning. It now has the added bonus of now being run entirely by a guy who openly hates comics and insults people who want to do comic things, who multiple people have been quietly banned after formally complaining about his behavior, and who’s mostly interested in adding another hundred pages to his epic theme nobody reads. The one my friend and I had to yell at him to not include white space gods civilizing savage Wakanda in. Oh, and Jubilation Lee from Shang, one of their most infamous sexpests, is protected by staff despite having - shock! - harassed multiple people.
UH is mostly empty but allegedly the two people left running it learned their lesson in a way HA absolutely did not.
80s, if it’s still even around, is run by Macha.
IA was the last one I would call GOOD.
