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rpg.net refugee

Started by myleftnut, April 27, 2019, 06:46:09 PM

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Armchair Gamer

#285
May 14, 2019, 03:19:14 PM
To add my voice to the chorus, there can come a point where you have to take a hard look at a property and decide: is what attracted me to it something that was there but is no longer there, was only there as something superficial or ancillary to the main direction, or was only there in my imagination? If the first, one can very well hold on to the old material and build off it in a different direction, but in the latter cases, it's often healthier to let it go and do your own thing. Although there can be something satisfying about doing a massive deconstructionist farewell to the property first. :)

jeff37923

#286
May 14, 2019, 03:56:17 PM
Quote from: tenbones;1087793Doc,

They've already won. If you want to *really* resist - create a new game that will win the hearts and minds of people you want to play that game. I mean, sure you can play their game any way you want - you bought it. But they ultimately got what they want from you. You're not getting what you want from them. Nor will you ever.

Using their game in some unintended non-conventional manner isn't going to change that fact. You cannot remove the turd from the barrel of fine wine and pretend the wine is still "fine". It's not. Make a new barrel of wine and shop it around.

I read this in Emperor Palpatine's voice.....
"Meh."

Anon Adderlan

#287
May 14, 2019, 05:50:14 PM
Quote from: Theory of Games;1087343I see a lot of comedy here.

I see people joking about what's going on.

I would like to play with it but I keep in mind that the SJW crowd takes this very serious.

That take everything seriously. Which is the problem.

Quote from: Theory of Games;1087369I'll be honest; I do not trust storygamers. I don't trust Ron Edwards. I do not think people who put "story first" are being honest playing a game with dice and the varied expectations of people at the table.

I suspect you've never actually played with 'storygamers' let alone a 'storygame'.

Quote from: Theory of Games;1087369Can they? They lie about dice rolls if it violates their concept of story. They shift an adventure line if it fails their expectation of where they mean to go as "storytellers".

On the contrary, that's exactly what they don't do, and why they moved to systems which can reliably create the experience they want. At this point the only place I see this sort of thing in in 'traditional' RPGs like D&D.

Quote from: CarlD.;1087691They'll keep the closed account listed so it will count towards their membership, of course. Some of the account listed haven't been used in years so there's no telling how many real users there are and how many zombies fluff the numbers. Hell, I've heard some former users that have said they've gotten notices of activity on their abandoned 'banned' accounts from time to time, so maybe they have to be used to keep counting as active or there's some other shenanigans going on.

Innnteresting.

I suspected as much, but having confirmation is... useful.

tenbones

#288
May 15, 2019, 12:02:19 AM
Quote from: jeff37923;1087828I read this in Emperor Palpatine's voice.....

I went back and read that post in my mind as Palpatine. I can totally see it.

... I can do it like Kublai Khan from Marco Polo too.

soltakss

#289
May 17, 2019, 02:34:03 PM
Quote from: sureshot;1087720I would not piss on him either if he was on fire.

I played in a Freeform once and one of the other characters caught fire, so I did piss on him to put it out. Not literally, but in the game.
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tenbones

#290
May 17, 2019, 03:01:03 PM
Did it work?

It's *really* hard to put out a fire with piss unless you have a big tank.

I always laugh at the suggestion of peeing on someone that's on fire. For me that's like using a flame-thrower due to whiskey molecules floating around in my bloodstream.

nope

#291
May 17, 2019, 03:49:58 PM
Quote from: tenbones;1088344Did it work?

It's *really* hard to put out a fire with piss unless you have a big tank.

I always laugh at the suggestion of peeing on someone that's on fire. For me that's like using a flame-thrower due to whiskey molecules floating around in my bloodstream.

Well you know what they say about big tanks...

soltakss

#292
May 17, 2019, 04:06:20 PM
Quote from: tenbones;1088344Did it work?

In the game, yes. I think The Devil laughed so much he forgot to keep the fire going.
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HappyDaze

#293
May 17, 2019, 04:45:19 PM
Quote from: tenbones;1088344Did it work?

It's *really* hard to put out a fire with piss unless you have a big tank.

I always laugh at the suggestion of peeing on someone that's on fire. For me that's like using a flame-thrower due to whiskey molecules floating around in my bloodstream.

I had a game where a Efreet turned the saying around when he told another "I wouldn't piss on you if your fire waned."

Omega

#294
May 17, 2019, 09:22:20 PM
So how many more people are they going to run off before theres nothing left but mods and their chosen few? What happens then? They start turning on eachother? Or just get bored and leave?

I've been on no less than three MUDs where this happened and each one either is now empty, or close enough to qualify when your attendance can be counted on one hand. Same with forums and mailing lists and chat rooms.

Kiero

#295
May 18, 2019, 08:40:39 AM
Quote from: Omega;1088381So how many more people are they going to run off before theres nothing left but mods and their chosen few? What happens then? They start turning on eachother? Or just get bored and leave?

I've been on no less than three MUDs where this happened and each one either is now empty, or close enough to qualify when your attendance can be counted on one hand. Same with forums and mailing lists and chat rooms.

Revolutions always eat themselves. They've still got several thousand users to purge before they reach that stage.
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CarlD.

#296
May 18, 2019, 07:55:57 PM Last Edit: May 18, 2019, 08:12:25 PM by CarlD.
Quote from: Kiero;1088431Revolutions always eat themselves. They've still got several thousand users to purge before they reach that stage.

I doubt the number active, participating users is actually that high, allot of lurkers, ghost accounts, etc, most likely. All the forums have a circle of regulars that routinely post and very occasionally a new name will pop up. And even some of the regular spend time in different forums as regulars there. It all serves to give an impression of size to rpg.net but the majority of gamers I know online don't know it exists.

Given the attitude the Mods project "This is OUR spot and you're here by our leave." I don't know if they'd actually mind the described ultimate fate though. The lost ad revenue but summon the admin however,
"I once heard an evolutionary biologist talk about how violent simians are; they are horrifically violent. He then went on to add that he was really hopeful about humanity because "we\'re monkeys who manage *not* to kill each other most of the time.""

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CarlD.

#297
May 18, 2019, 09:49:33 PM
"I once heard an evolutionary biologist talk about how violent simians are; they are horrifically violent. He then went on to add that he was really hopeful about humanity because "we\'re monkeys who manage *not* to kill each other most of the time.""

Libertarianism: All the Freedom money can buy

Bunch

#298
May 18, 2019, 10:52:01 PM
Quote from: CarlD.;1088498I'm not sure which is worse: The mod 'tude of "Oh pity us for having do the job we created!" or the stream of ass kissing gratitude from their subjects.

There's been a few folks take the mods to task for snarky inappropriate behavior.

TJS

#299
May 18, 2019, 11:26:06 PM
Quote from: CarlD.;1088474I doubt the number active, participating users is actually that high, allot of lurkers, ghost accounts, etc, most likely. All the forums have a circle of regulars that routinely post and very occasionally a new name will pop up. And even some of the regular spend time in different forums as regulars there. It all serves to give an impression of size to rpg.net but the majority of gamers I know online don't know it exists.
It's definitely a lot lot smaller than it used to be.  I remember when if you posted something in the evening you had to often go back 2 or 3 pages to see if there had been a response overnight.  Nowadays threads linger on the first page for days without response.

I would say the D&D subforum feels like it's probably about equivalent size to this one in actual traffic.
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