@tsar said in Anime recs?:
@NotSanni said in Anime recs?:
I MAY HAVE BLOCKED THE TRAUMA OUT.
I guess I’m a glutton for trauma. To the list!
jokes and bits aside - there’s definitely some sad stuff in Dandadan, but (so far at least, I haven’t read the manga so I can’t speak to the future) it feels overall wholesome to me, and the sad/trauma related and adjacent stuff feels poignant and impactful.
@Tez said in Anime recs?:
@NotSanni You out here reccing dandadan to heal someone’s soul when THAT ONE EP just hits out of nowhere?!
I MAY HAVE BLOCKED THE TRAUMA OUT.
My rec still stands. Sometimes you gotta get a lil hurt to enjoy the good even more. They do a good job of following the hurt up with the healing. 
I’m confused. Is genAI a fun, harmless tool to be more efficient at creating art, or is it the catalyst for the race to the bottom, a “painful and violent” future for humanity? I feel like the original argument deviated a bit.
Because it has. Red rocket is just gish galloping and moving goalposts. Very little reason to engage them seriously, as they don’t seem interested in anything besides bad faith contrarianism (see: their other posts). Walls of weird, miserable nonsense.
@RedRocket said in pvp vs pvp:
@NotSanni
I’m not throwing a tantrum. I’m just telling you the truth as I see it. I watched these games that I loved go down the toilet because staff chose to coddle a few troublemakers and change the rules so that they would whine less.The damage may be irreversible but if it’s not, it’s certainly going to take a drastic and revolutionary new approach. That’s all I’m saying. What people are doing now isn’t working. Try something else. Hell, try anything else. Just stop making the same mistakes over and over and over. That’s all I ask. Stop listening to people who are clearly leading you down the wrong path. Do something new. Do something different.
Look at what worked in the past and what didn’t. Be objective. Don’t listen to people who want to make everything about them. Ask yourself, what can we do differently to attract and retain new players?
Surprise me! Please!
I want the hobby I used to love to be worth playing again.
You continue to mount your weird defense in favor of using slurs and being politically incorrect.
Reevaluate your life.
@RedRocket said in pvp vs pvp:
@NotSanni
I’m not saying that games are dying because they aren’t being run the way I want them to be played. I’m saying that they are dying because they are being run the way a small hand full of whiny forever-victims who instigate the problems they then complain about want.The more generic and baby proofed the games became the more the player base dwindled away. What is happening now isn’t working. What people did then was working. Back in the day there were hundreds of active players on at a time. Now you’re lucky to see five.
Maybe, just maybe, you might want to think about why it worked back then instead of just dismissing the only time the medium was actually successful at retaining a large player base because it hurt the feelings of a few bad actors who just want to stir up shit and make drama.
Every year your player bases shrinks because people don’t find the games engaging and every year you double down on doing the same things that don’t work.
How many times are you going to make the same mistakes? Creating a new game with a different setting that is basically the same thing as the last game that collapsed with a slightly different coat of paint on it is never going to work in the long run.
You need to do something that works and the only thing with a proven track record of working is letting people play what they want to play. It’s probably too late now anyway. Even if you did stop trying to shoehorn everyone into the same bland box I doubt you will be able to entice enough players to try the text only format.
The whiny bitches won. They got what they wanted. The games are exactly the way they wanted them - and that’s why no one is playing them any more.
What a deeply unpleasant way you choose to navigate through life. I can’t imagine going onto a forum, and then having the audacity to throw a tantrum because “The whiny bitches won”.
@RedRocket said in pvp vs pvp:
Lame is not a slur when it is used to describe a thing, only when it is used to describe a person.
It’s a synonym for disappointing, weak or unsatisfying that has been used for most of human history dating back to the early Germanic tribes that first used it to describe an animal with a non-functional of overly weak leg. You would put down your horse because it had a lame leg and couldn’t plow a field anymore.
It’s only considered a slur if you say a person is lame because you are advocating for them to be killed.
I’m very clearly not advocating for the murder of the people who run boring games.
Absolutely wild and inappropriate when someone says “please don’t use a slur” to go on a weird tirade.
All the red flags (no surprise, given your “GAMES ARE DYING BC THEY DON’T PLAY THE WAY I WANT THEM TO” attitude tho).
@NotSanni Ten bucks says this is the same guy who did this sad display a few weeks ago. This is totally alpha job-having behavior.
probably, yes. just a loser troll w/ nothing better to do on a friday night. probably got kicked off of one of the RPIs that showed up after Armageddon shut down tbh. best to just report and move on at this point.
Pretending that commercial generative AI models aren’t walking databases of art theft is just disingenuous at this point. Like I think most of us have at least poked at them at this point, myself included, and I am not going to hate on people for yielding to the temptation to use the convenient and available thing, but let’s not engage in reality distortion about what this is.
Why do you leftists insist on having such retarded opinions? Generative AI models aren’t databases at all and characterizing them as such is factually wrong. Running matrix algebra on a bunch of image/caption pairs is not theft, you’re just unoriginal and nobody wants to pay for your CalArts genderblobs.
Your post is why only people who got real educations (your PhD on Gramsci’s foreskin doesn’t count) that require them to take Calc III should get to have an opinion on this topic.
lol, snowflake behavior
@Perfect-Paz said in What happened, man?:
Yo, so I decided to dodge your ban for fun. Turns out, my thread is the only that’s been posted in in just over a week. Before that? Three weeks ago. Even on other boards of this forum, like Rough and Rowdy, you have one thread that’s been posted in recently, and the rest are literally three weeks old at a minimum since being touched. The last time Game Ads got touched was literally months ago.
Your forum is dead, and the only posts it gets are desperate, cockamamie attempts to discredit my (correct) view that you tried to take a hobby and hollow it out, but in reality you ceded it to the people you hate most without realizing it. Oh no, you didn’t like MAP13 from 30yrs ago? LOL!
I’ve been banned for days and you can’t help but cope, seethe, and dilate about how your ilk has been gatekept from everything worthwhile, and pointing it out does brighten my day a little bit considering how fundamentally malignant you lot have proven yourselves to be over the last 15yrs.
lol chill out snowflake
@Trashcan said in What happened, man?:
@OT-The-Real
I know this guy is banned but I was sat here looking at this wondering who tf the people mentioned even are, and for posterity’s sake, here’s the “cool shit” we’re “missing out on”.Corpse Kings
Not a creator, but a game. Corpse Kings is print-on-demand RPG rules set created by Wade K. Savage. The art is AI.
The text is… probably also AI.
I struggle to understand what would ever incense a person to be proud that they completed a single Udemy course on how to use chatGPT let alone three, lmfao.
Andor season 2 was excellent, and I’m both sad it’s over, and glad that we got a complete story without unnecessary filler. A stark, poignant reminder that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it certainly does rhyme.
The common thread I see with people who support and use LLMs casually makes a whole lot of sense - they consistently aren’t willing to put in the work.
@RedRocket said in AI Megathread:
So the next time you are thinking about trying out a new game, ask ChatGPT about it. You might find something interesting.
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@Gashlycrumb said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
I wonder if anyone still cares about The Magicians.
I think about The Magicians as a setting for a TTRPG quite a bit - but I also think that the most people who say they want a setting like the Magicians really just mean they want a slice-of-life urban fantasy game. There’s nothing wrong with this, it just isn’t really what the Magicians is about at the end of the day, and I tend to think that most of the most important themes just don’t translate very well to what most people want out of an RP game.
I also think that there probably needs to be room for (if not a focus on) interpersonal conflicts within the characters of the player-base, which requires both a very mature/responsible p-base and a well curated and moderated community with very little tolerance for people that are taking advantage of the social-conflict heavy nature of the setting. Which is probably why…
@bear_necessities said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
I do but it has made for an awful MUSH every time
The MU attempts have largely been unsuccessful. People, it turns out, don’t tend to want to play in an ironic, “magic actually can’t fix your problems you have to deal with your shit” game that’s high in drama and social conflict. And many of of the people that do end up kind of sucking (or being willing to put up with people who suck, because they have limited options for this particular scope of RP).
@kalakh said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
@NotSanni said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
@Kestrel said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
One side is accidentally doing Nazi salutes twice
And the other side suddenly cares now that it’s not their side’s cause du jour doing it
I’m stressed. I’m concerned.
lol “accidentally”
Look, sometimes you just caught up in the moment and invade Poland.
sometimes one does a lil nazi salute with one’s whole chest, by accident. many such cases. a lil uh oh whoopsy.
@Kestrel said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
One side is accidentally doing Nazi salutes twice
And the other side suddenly cares now that it’s not their side’s cause du jour doing it
I’m stressed. I’m concerned.
lol “accidentally”
@Meg Very unfortunate 
I started the process for myself back in Spring, and both my brother and my aunt dragged their feet. Only the recent election results have been sufficient to light a fire under my brother, at least, with regards to getting this done.
if nothing else, maybe it would help to try to sell it to your mom as being able to more freely travel Europe?? that’s the only reason my aunt got kind of interested, when I brought it up to her most recently.
If you don’t feel comfortable or safe living in the US and you’re lucky enough to have a parent (or possibly grandparent) that migrated here from another country - look up their country of origin, and see if they have Citizenship By Descent Laws. I was born in the US, but because my mom was born in Germany (and was a German citizen when I was born), I was able to get a German passport.
Obviously this won’t help EVERYONE out - but for the folks that are unaware that it is an option to them, it might be useful.
I’m not sure about RL information or not but my understanding is that there’s (at least) one staffer that’s been leaking things to player cliques, and the ARM staff have been trying to figure out who. No one came forward, so they made the decision to shutter the game. The only CONFIRMED leaks I’ve seen myself have been related to their back end storytelling documents, so players getting access to information they wouldn’t otherwise have access to, that was pertinent to the plot. I’ve heard that sensitive player information was shared, but not given any specifics. Lots of hearsay, and lots of REAL angry ARM players that might be muddying the waters with conspiratorial thinking.
I don’t play, myself. But as someone that plays in the MUD space side of RP games traditionally, I like to be apprised of nonsense from certain spaces - one of the reasons I’m here, in case some new predatory nonsense pops back up!
My less good reason (both for watching ARM and being in this space): my absolute guilty pleasure is other people’s drama that doesn’t impact me, it’s like my version of a reality TV/trash TV fix.
So when ARM drama began to really explode onto r/mud last year, I started checking out the arm official boards (the “GDB”) and the “shadow boards” that are run by a group of disgruntled people that range the gamut from “serious problems to levy” and “angry, sweaty grognard”.
Watching both of those spaces, I think the truth is that the ARM community is just poisoned beyond a point where it can be healed, from 20(?) or more years of just… Unhealthy game design and poor community management.
Like, the staff there? Probably pretty crummy overall. But the actual playerbase is also just absolutely a burning garbage pile - very similar to the vibes of Haven RPG, on a much smaller scale.
I am not, at all, surprised that the game runners decided they didn’t wanna deal with it anymore.
