@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:

I think he tends to lean heavily into the parody of “sassy gay friend serving,”

If he were the only queer character, I’d agree. But I think, at least to me and in my opinion only, he simply is a sassy gay friend/foe serving. But perhaps that’s my view only because I am the sassy gay friend who occasionally serves…

Enemies to besties, 40,000 words, slow burn…

ETA: After seeing the date of the original post is 2023… very slow burn.

@Ashkuri There are some posts in this thread that could certainly be read as if the poster is advocating for such rules. Though, I believe that @RightMeow indicated that they realise they’re possibly misreading the other posters’ intentions, but want to make their opinion clear regardless.

@Ashkuri said in RPing with Everybody (or not):

Nobody in this thread has advocated for even any hypothetical game policy in which “interaction rules” are enforced.

To be honest, I would argue that any game runner is entitled to set such a policy, even while I’d also argue that such a policy is the stupidest thing since quinoa.

@MeToo said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

a SW game run by sane staff

Good, sane, active. Pick two.

@Juniper Lubuntu is apparently quite good, and if you’re into tinkering then I can highly recommend a lightweight Arch install – but you do have to contend with people who smugly proclaim their particular strain (like a virus) of Arch is the best whenever you’re out there seeking help.

@MisterBoring And because Microsoft is… well… Microsoft, you may have to check/update this setting every few updates or so. I’ve definitely had to chase up stupid settings changes that updates have made counter to my desires.

While I’m very much in a similar boat and 99.9% of my time is spent on Linux of some description, I do want to offer a warning to those who are tempted to make the switch:

Many games with an online multiplayer component rely on kernel-based anti-cheating software, which often doesn’t work on Linux (it could, but many devs don’t bother enabling it… it’s a big discussion point on Linux reddit). So if you’re big into your online multiplayer games, double check whether it’ll work before you go to the effort of moving everything over.

ETA: If you want to check compatibility between your steam library and Linux’s Proton, you can link your steam (or simply enter your steam id) here: https://www.protondb.com/profile and it’ll spurt out your Steam library and ratings of compatibility (including those impacted by the aforementioned anticheat problems).

Drew Struzan, the artist who created some of the most recognizable posters for movies including “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Blade Runner” and “Back to the Future,” has died. He was 78.

@InkGolem People like me but older and somehow worse.

There’s a lot of hearsay and more than a few stories that are difficult to substantiate from that particular group around that particular time. Practically, any bad thing that could be attributed to them eventually was.

Whether Spider was or wasn’t a member, they certainly took the blueprint and ran with it in later years.

Those who RPed with Seanan McGuire don’t tend to speak of it.

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

Cognitive reframing around running MUSHes.

I don’t think you can CBT yourself into better MU design.

@Noraaa I don’t have the ST ADHD but I definitely have the character concept ADHD, wherein a character concept kicks down my door at three am and screams in my half-awoken face “HELLO YOU ARE NOW OBSESSED WITH BRIAN FUCKING BLESSED FOR NO REASON HERE MAKE A CHARACTER AND MAKE IT FIT WOD.”

@RightMeow said in Your first game?:

Castle D’Image

I vaguely recall poking my head in on this game at some point, but I can’t remember an iota of what it was about. D’you have much recollection?

I’m largely in agreement with Pyrephox, surprising nobody, but I also have to acknowledge that I just don’t have the time nor the capacity for the level of moderation a historically authentic game would probably require. And if I don’t have the time, I can hardly make demands of others to have such time or spend such effort.

So I’ll most likely content myself with playing pseudo-historical dress-up on a MU instead of anything even remotely verisimilitudinous.

@MisterBoring The first step would be finding or making tweezers so we can all have our generally attractive PBs.

@Raistlin said in Missed Settings:

Star Trek. Though after putting some serious thought into running a Star Trek game, I think I can see why there aren’t more of them.

Time was that you couldn’t spit without hitting a Trek MU of some kind. There was a resurgence, of a kind, when the first of the Chris Pine Trek films came about but then nothin’. I think ATS might still be bumpin’ along, but I haven’t even looked at it in years.

@KDraygo said in Your first game?:

I had finished reading the Heir to the Empire Trilogy

Oh man, I have to re-read these.

@Aria I never did play the DigiChats, at least not for any length of time that made them stick in my memory, but I’ve heard that they were a layer of hell all unto their own.